ENHANCING THE ACCESSIBILITY OF RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES by Paulina GAJEWSKA, Irena SZEWCZYK, Georgios KOULOURIS

“…The purpose of public mass transport is the general accessibility for all of its users. The lack of (or insufficient adjustment of) the tourist transport infrastructure to the needs of persons with disabilities and seniors is an obstacle to their free movement. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 on the quality of higher education in Pakistan: students’ perspective by Maham Khalid, Aamir Sarwar, Sardar Ahmad, Bushra Rehman

“…Multi group analysis (MGA) involving male and female students from public and private institutions showed statistically significant findings in all groups, with partial mediation between the independent and dependent variables. …”
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Two-Parametric Immunological Score Development for Assessing Renal Involvement and Disease Activity in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Christopher Sjӧwall, Chelsea Bentow, Mary Ann Aure, Michael Mahler

“…Of these SLE patients, 26.4% had lupus nephritis (LN) at the time of blood draw or had a history of LN, and modified SLE disease activity index-2K (SLEDAI) scores were used to assess disease activity. Results. All three antibodies demonstrated higher prevalence and higher antibody levels in active versus inactive SLE patients and in LN versus non-LN patients. …”
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Kinetics of oil palm empty fruit bunch fiber pyrolysis by Bashar Abdullahi Hadi, Abdullahi Muhammad Sokoto, Aminu Bayawa Muhammad, Yahaya Alhassan, Chika Muhammad

“…The reaction is diffusion regulated by nucleation and nuclei growth models, according to the Zhuravlev-Lasokin-Tempelman model, which produced the highest regression value and the best acceptable fit. Out of all the model-free methods, FD showed the greatest apparent activation energy levels when compared to the iso-conversion methods KAS and FWO. …”
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Issues of education management in modern conditions by I. I. Kokhanovskaya, E. E. Naumov, A. L. Fatykhova

“…Despite the constant development of forms and methods of informatization of education, this process is associated with a number of problems that require the active participation of the state and all participants in the educational process. As before, the processes of informatization require further scientific study in various fields, a thorough study of the social and cultural aspects, the specifics of their introduction and application in different spheres of people’s activities, including in the educational system, as well as an analysis of their positive and negative consequences.…”
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How endocrine disruptors affect fish reproduction on multiple levels: A review by Socha Magdalena, Chyb Jarosław, Suder Aleksandra, Bojarski Bartosz

“…Early-life exposure to these substances not only affects embryonic development, resulting in increased mortality and body malformations, but this also induces genetic changes in newly hatched larvae. All these observations underscore the need for monitoring the aquatic environment for EDCs and implementing protective measures to preserve the health and welfare of fishes and safeguard water ecosystems.…”
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Could Selectively Skipping of the Repetitive Thinking Questionnaire among a Series of Self-Report Scales in a Study Be a Coping Strategy? by İ. Volkan GÜLÜM, İhsan DAĞ

“…Participants were divided into three groups according to their repetitive thinking conditions (ignorance, high and low score). All participants have completed the Experiences in Close Relationships – Revised Inventory, Repetitive Thinking Questionnaire, Cognitive Flexibility Inventory and Brief Symptom Inventory.Results: To test our hypothesis series of ANOVA, MANOVA and discriminant analysis were conducted. …”
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Scale-Dependent Signal Identification in Low-Dimensional Subspace: Motor Imagery Task Classification by Qingshan She, Haitao Gan, Yuliang Ma, Zhizeng Luo, Tom Potter, Yingchun Zhang

“…While the noise-assisted multivariate empirical mode decomposition (NA-MEMD) algorithm has been utilized to extract task-specific frequency bands from all channels in the same scale as the intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), identifying and extracting the specific IMFs that contain significant information remain difficult. …”
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Directions for the development of socially oriented taxation of income of Russians by S. N. Rukina, K. A. Gerasimova, A. S. Takmazyan, K. N. Samoylova

“…The purpose of the study is to propose a gradual improvement of the mechanisms for providing standard and social tax deductions by increasing their sizes, introducing a subsistence minimum as a non-taxable income for all categories of payers, expanding the scope of application with consideration to the results of the ongoing socio-economic policy. …”
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The Nexus between CDS Premiums and Exchange Rates: Evidence from BRICS Countries and Türkiye by Fatih Güzel, Yüksel İltaş

“…The findings indicate a long-term relationship between CDS premiums and exchange rates in all countries except Turkey. As the relationship is positive, it can be interpreted that an increase in the exchange rate will increase the CDS premium of countries. …”
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Fast approximation of the top‐k items in data streams using FPGAs by Ali Ebrahim, Jalal Khalifat

“…The proposed architecture retains all the properties of this algorithm, which works even if the stream size is unknown at run time. …”
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Elucidation of peptide screen for targeted identification of Yersinia pestis by nano-liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry by Priya Rani, Syed Imteyaz Alam, Sandeep Singh, Subodh Kumar

“…Y. pestis could be identified in all samples except un-spiked negative control soil sample. …”
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Research on the influence of anchor characteristics on consumer purchase intention—a case study of selected anchors on Dong Yuhui’s “With Hui” Live-stream account by Ruiqiang Li, Yaoyuan Cui, Xue Mei

“…Results show that anchor characteristics significantly and positively influence purchase intention; professionalism, high interactivity, fame, and attractiveness all have a notable positive impact on purchase intention. …”
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Effect of intervertebral foramen area and width on postoperative pain relief in patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy by Shuang Liu, Peng Pu, Qing Xiang, Jie Chen, Guangye Wang, Xiangling Pu

“…Results Significant differences were observed in preoperative WIVF, AIVF, duration of symptoms, preoperative NDI scores, and the ratio of disc space distraction between the two groups (all P < 0.05). Regression models indicated that symptom duration, preoperative NDI score and ratio of disc space distraction were negatively associated with pain relief, whereas preoperative WIVF and AIVF were positively associated with pain relief. …”
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Becoming Charles Darwin: Travel Experiences, Personal Writings, and the Genesis of a Method by Shadia Uteem

“…His impressions of the overwhelming diversity yet commonness of all life forms moulded the manners he explained, questioned, and answered science. …”
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Anti-immigration Agenda of Populist Parties in Switzerland by E. P. Shavlay, M. I. Sigachev, E. S. Sleptsov

“…A discursive analysis of the programs shows that the anti-immigrant program is an essential part of the identity of right-wing populists. All of them are opposed to European integration and globalization, linking them to increased ethnic and religious tensions, unemployment and increased crime. …”
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Comparison of behind-the-ear vs. off-the-ear speech processors in cochlear implants: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. by Muhammed Ayas, Jameel Muzaffar, Veronica Phillips, Manohar Bance

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>OTE processors may offer comparable performance to BTE processors in certain conditions, though not universally across all audiological outcomes. Interpretation depends on settings, processor generation, and testing paradigms. …”
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Enhanced Landslide Susceptibility Assessment in Western Sichuan Utilizing DCGAN-Generated Samples by Yuanxin Tong, Hongxia Luo, Zili Qin, Hua Xia, Xinyao Zhou

“…Experimental results present substantial enhancements across all three models, with accuracy improved by 2.18%, 2.57%, and 5.28%, respectively. …”
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Effect of extraction conditions on antioxidant activities of Xanthium strumarium L. sprouts extracts by Chanakul Waraporn, Maitip Jakkrawut, Bootdee Susira

“…The % inhibition of ABTS radicals is higher than that of DPPH radicals in all experiments, and it can be relied on that the active components in this extract are more polar and favorable to solute in water than EtOH.…”
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Influential Control Parameters for Autonomous Vehicles in a Mixed Environment by Hossam M. Abdelghaffar, Monica Menendez

“…The research findings reveal that the time gap, standstill distance, acceleration from a standstill, and the following distance oscillation are all influential parameters affecting the performance metrics of the network, the merging road, and the main road at various levels of AV penetration rate.…”
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