Empirical investigation of the relationship between public external debt sustainability, foreign reserves and fixed exchange rate by Fatima-Ezzahra Rafie, Mostafa Lekhal

“…Additionally, foreign reserves significantly influence debt positions, and the exchange rate arrangements adopted in Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia reduce currency depreciation risks. …”
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Estimating the Contribution of the Summer Traffic Peak to PM_2.5, NO_x, and NMVOCs by Petra Dolšak Lavrič, Andreja Kukec

“…Air quality is becoming an important asset of modern society. Europe is adopting regulations that will enable better air quality for residents and encourage detailed study of emissions sources. …”
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Identification of Psychological Crisis Signals of College Students Based on the Dufferin Equation by Jianping Zhao, Haitao Song

“…The geometric features of the phase trajectory are adopted as the basis for judging the system state, which greatly reduces the computational effort. …”
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Mode I stress intensity factor with various crack types by Ehab Samir Mohamed Mohamed Soliman

“…., single edge crack, center crack and double edge crack. 2D numerical models of cases of cracked plate are established in finite element analysis (FEA), ANSYS software by adopting PLANE 183 element. Values of FEA mode I stress intensity factor SIF and Von-Mises stress at crack apex are determined for cases of cracked plate under tensile stress with different values. …”
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Research on the Technology of Plugging Gushing Water in the Vertical Shaft under Complicated Conditions by Chuanyang Jia, Hailong Wang, Haiquan Liu, Guibin Zhang, Kaihua Sheng

“…Combining with geological data to analyze the conditions of the aquifers and water-blocking layer in the shaft, adopting the multifunctional digital electrical method and digital flow measuring instrument can accurately grasp the flow direction and flow velocity and further obtain the aquifer parameters of the main and auxiliary shafts. …”
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The effect of the Ayas model to learning individual fast attack and high-order thinking skills of handball for students by Ali Radhi Abdul Hussein

“…The experimental method was adopted, involving a sample of 64 third-year students from the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at the University of Babylon. …”
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Complexity to Forecast Flood: Problem Definition and Spatiotemporal Attention LSTM Solution by Yirui Wu, Yukai Ding, Yuelong Zhu, Jun Feng, Sifeng Wang

“…To reduce impacts induced by floods, hydrological factors acquired from physical space and data-driven models in cyber space have been adopted to accurately forecast floods. Considering the significance of modeling attention capability among hydrology factors, we believe extraction of discriminative hydrology factors not only reflect natural rules in physical space, but also optimally model iterations of factors to forecast run-off values in cyber space. …”
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Challenges in data collection for enhancing productivity in Brazilian industrial processes by Haroldo Lhou Hasegawa, Rafael Sene de Lima, Vidal Dias da Mota Junior, Ricardo Luiz Perez Teixeira

“…Design / Methodology / Approach: The research adopted an exploratory design, employing both qualitative and quantitative methods. …”
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TRANSFORMATION OF THE UKRAINE’S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR IN CONDITIONS OF OVERCOMING DEINDUSTRIALIZATION by Lyubov H. Kvasniі, Anna V. Voloshanska

“…It is substantiated that Ukraine has adopted an inverse industrial development model, characterized by export and raw material orientation, which is closely linked to the country’s deindustrialization process. …”
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Acceptance and affordability of malaria vaccines: issues relating to hesitancy and willingness to pay amongst Nigerian parents of under-five children by Obi Peter Adigwe, Godspower Onavbavba

“…Abstract Background With the recent approval of the malaria vaccine by the World Health Organization, it is expected that global acceptance and subsequent uptake of the intervention can help to reduce the burden of the disease in Africa. This study adopted a proactive approach in assessing parents' acceptance of the malaria vaccine, alongside their willingness to pay for the novel public health intervention. …”
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Vehicle Emission Factors for Particulate and Gaseous Pollutants in an Urban Tunnel in Xi’an, China by Danting Zhao, Hong Chen, Haipeng Shao, Xiaoke Sun

“…A mass balance model and linear regression analysis were adopted to derive pollutant EFs for mixed vehicles, cars, and taxis, respectively. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Spur Dikes in Beijiang River and Its Influence on Navigation Safety by WANG Longwei, LU Zhuoyin, ZHU Dantong, ZENG Jiaxing, CHENG Xiangju, HUANG Dong

“…In order to deeply explore the influence of spur dikes in Beijiang River on navigation safety, this study adopted the calculation model of unstructured-grid finite volume coastal Dcean model (FVCOM), took the mainstream reach of 23 km of Beijiang River in Yingde section as the research area, constructed a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model, and verified the effectiveness of the model through measured data. …”
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Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, Postcolonialism and Hybridity in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and August Wilson’s Radio Golf by Olfa Gandouz

“…Contemporary black citizens have achieved their American dreams of collecting lucre, but they are still grappling between keeping faithful to their African heritage and cultural repertoire or adopting the Western way of life and distance themselves from their roots. …”
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CONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN TO LAND SUSTAINABILITY IN NORTH REGION OF CAMEROON : CASE STUDY OF THE LAGDO AND NGONG’S SUBDIVISIONS by JOLIE CLAIE NOUDEM, HAROLD GAEL NJOUONANG DJOMO, Chanceline NANFACK TCHATCHOUANG

“…However, although they are at the heart of agricultural production, they are often marginalized in political and economic decisions, which hinders their ability to adopt effective conservation strategies (Moussa, 2019). …”
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Deformation Characterisation and Distress Diagnosis of a Metro Shield Tunnel by Adjacent Constructions by Ting-jin Liu, Si-wei Chen, Hong-yuan Liu

“…Finally, on the basis of the analyses and discussions above, counteracting corrective measures, including compensation grouting soil strengthening and bonded steel plates, are adopted as exterior and interior strengthening methods, respectively, to eliminate further tunnel distresses and ensure safe operation. …”
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Factors affecting private sector engagement in achieving universal health coverage: a scoping review by Naser Derakhshani, Ramin Rezapour, Saber Azami-Aghdash, Hamideh Nafar, Samira Soleimanpour, Emir Tahmazi Aghdam, Mohammadreza Maleki

“…Background Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is one of the most important strategies adopted by countries in achieving goals of sustainable development. …”
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Distributed user privacy preserving adjustable personalized QoS prediction model for cloud services by Jianlong XU, Jian LIN, Yusen LI, Zhi XIONG

“…Personalized quality of service （QoS） prediction is crucial for developing high-quality cloud service system.However, the traditional collaborative filtering method, based on centralized training, presents challenges in protecting user privacy.In order to effectively protect user privacy while obtaining highly accurate prediction effect, a distributed user privacy adjustable personalized QoS prediction model for cloud services （DUPPA） was proposed.The model adopted a “server-multi-user” architecture, in which the server coordinated multiple users, handled multiple users’ requests for uploading model gradients and downloading global model, and maintained global model parameters.To further protect user privacy, a user privacy adjustment strategy was proposed to balance privacy and prediction accuracy by adjusting the initialization proportion of local model parameters and gradient upload proportion.In the local model initialization stage, the user calculated the difference matrix between the local model and the global model, and selected the global model parameters corresponding to the larger elements in the difference matrix to initialize the local model parameters.In the gradient upload stage, the user can select some important gradients to upload to the server to meet the privacy protection requirements of different application scenarios.To evaluate the privacy degree of DUPPA, a data reconstruction attack method was proposed for the distributed matrix factorization model gradient sharing scheme.The experimental results show that when DUPPA sets the gradient upload proportion to 0.1 and the local model parameter initialization proportion to 0.5, the predicted MAE and RMSE are reduced by 1.27% and 0.91%, respectively, compared with the traditional centralized matrix factorization model.Besides, when DUPPA sets the gradient upload proportion to 0.1, the privacy degree is 5 times higher than when the gradient upload proportion is 1.And when DUPPA sets the local model parameter initialization proportion to 0.5, the privacy degree is 3.44 times higher than when the local model parameter initialization proportion is 1.…”
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CryJ-LAMP DNA Vaccines for Japanese Red Cedar Allergy Induce Robust Th1-Type Immune Responses in Murine Model by Yan Su, Michael Connolly, Anthony Marketon, Teri Heiland

“…We also isolated different T cell populations from immunized mice and adoptively transferred them into naïve mice followed by CryJ1/CryJ2 protein boosts. …”
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Exploring socio-demographic determinants of obesity in Jordanian women of reproductive age: insights from a nationwide survey by Mahmoud Shaaban Abdelgalil, Sara Hosny El-Farargy, Mohamed Adel Dowidar, Mohamed Abd-ElGawad

“…Conclusion Appropriate and targeted interventions should be developed for Jordanian women to address obesity and its related health issues. Policymakers should adopt a multilevel approach that focuses on high-risk subgroups, including older women, and those living in Tafilh. …”
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Humanitarian aid under sanctions: From the problem statement to the search for solutions by L. D. Oganisyan L.D.

“…In this context, particular attention is paid to the UN Security Council Resolution 2664, adopted in December 2022, which mandates the inclusion of standardized exemptions in UN sanctions regimes in order to minimize the impact of restrictive measures on the provision of assistance and to alleviate the suffering of those in need. …”
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