Classifying Sunn Pest Damaged and Healthy Wheat Grains Across Different Species with YOLOV8 and Vision Transformers by Melike Çolak, Özgü Özkan, Ali Berkol, Nergis Pervan Akman, Murat Ardıç, Okan Sezer, Nazife Gözde Ayter Arpacıoğlu, Zekiye Budak Başçiftçi, Murat Olgun

“…Sunn pest damage is one of the most crucial types of agricultural damage. Authorities and farmers are working together to find a cost-effective solution for separating the damaged crops from the healthy ones. …”
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He effectivness and expedicency of the International Court of Justice interim measures by Bjelica-Vlajić Iris N.

“…The result of the research shows that the International Court of Justice has the authority to order the parties to the dispute to undertake or refrain from undertaking certain activities, and that the successful implementation of the measures largely depends on the support provided by the Security Council and the United Nations General Assembly to the provisional measures of that Court.…”
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Robust ensemble of handcrafted and learned approaches for DNA-binding proteins by Loris Nanni, Sheryl Brahnam

“…Originality/value – Most DNA-BP methods proposed in the literature are only validated on one (rarely two) datasets/tasks. In this work, the authors report the performance of our general-purpose DNA-BP system on four datasets representing different DNA-BP classification tasks. …”
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Energy Management for Energy Harvesting-Based Embedded Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study by Xingyu Miao, Yongqi Ge

“…We have completed the system mapping research from five aspects, namely, (1) research type (validation research, evaluation research, solution proposal, philosophical paper, opinion, and experience), (2) research goals (application or theory), (3) application scenarios, (4) tools or methods, and (5) paper distribution, such as publication year and authors’ nationality. The results showed that the major research type of the EHES papers is validation research, accounting for 65%, which indicated research is still in the theoretical stage and many researchers focus on how to improve the efficiency of harvesting energy, develop a reasonable energy supply plan, and adapt EHES for real-world requirements. …”
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Reform or transform? A spectrum of stances towards the economic status quo within ‘new economics’ discourses by Sam J. Buckton, Jasper O. Kenter, Nibedita Mukherjee, Sandra Waddock, Annela Anger-Kraavi, Simone Martino, Ioan Fazey, Adam P. Hejnowicz, Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Jordan O. Lafayette, Kristen Locy, Chris Scarr

“…Here, we conduct a qualitative systematised review of new economics literature in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic to analyse stances towards the economic status quo and the depth of change advocated in it, such as fundamental and systemic transformation or more superficial reformist or accepting types of change that mostly maintain current economic systems. We interpreted authors’ stances towards six key status quo themes: capitalism; neoliberalism; GDP-based economic growth; debt-based money; globalisation; and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). …”
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Protocol for a first-in-human feasibility study of T regulatory cells (TR004) for inflammatory bowel disease using (ex vivo) Treg expansion (TRIBUTE) by Jennifer Clough, Peter Irving, A Toby Prevost, Graham M Lord, Joana Vasconcelos, James B Canavan, Beverley Rodger, D Macallan

“…The primary endpoint is defined as the occurrence of dose-limiting toxicity occurring within 5 weeks post-infusion.Ethics and dissemination The study protocol and related documents have been approved by a NHS Research Ethics Committee, the Health Research Authority and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for Clinical Trial Authorisation. …”
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The Moderating Influence of Project Scope on Leadership Skills, Stakeholder Management, and Execution of Fibre Optic Infrastructure by James Konya Akhwaba

“…Census was used to select 187 respondents from a target population of 187 functional members of staff in fibre optic infrastructure departments of two mobile telecommunication, four Internet service companies, and two policy-making and regularity authorities in Nairobi County in Kenya. Quantitative data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics while qualitative data was analyzed by content analysis. …”
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Échange généralisé : consistance et métamorphoses contemporaines d’un carrefour social (confins himalayens de Birmanie) by François Robinne

“…In the first half of the twentieth century, the range of the Himalayan highlands bordering Burma/China/India gave rise to a series of monographic studies of the “tribes” and “groups”—the dominant terminology at the time—known as Chin, Naga, Kachin, etc. Their authors highlighted a recurring feature of a social organization based on asymmetrical exchange between “wife-givers” and “wife-takers” clans. …”
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CAPITAL WITHOUT STATEHOOD: EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN STARAYA LADOGA, KASIMOV AND MYSHKIN by I. Y. Okunev, D. V. Basova

“…There are three cases - of Staraya Ladoga, Myshkin and Kasimov - which interpret differently the peculiarities of geographical space. Besides, the authors give illustrative examples of the construction of the myth about "stolichnost" and describe the instruments of symbolic politics.…”
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Systematic literature review on Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition (CPPD) nomenclature: condition elements and clinical states— A Gout, Hyperuricaemia and Crystal-Associated Disease... by Georgios Filippou, Antonella Adinolfi, Emilio Filippucci, Nicola Dalbeth, Robert Terkeltaub, Tristan Pascart, Edoardo Cipolletta, Silvia Sirotti, Charlotte Jauffret, Sara Tedeschi, Daniele Cirillo, Luca Ingrao, Alessandro Lucia

“…Eight reviewers independently and manually extracted labels related to CPPD concepts, according to an a priori list generated by the authors: pathogenic conditions and pathogenic crystal labels, elementary imaging condition elements and asymptomatic and symptomatic condition states. …”
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Design and Implementation of a Smart Campus Flexible Internet of Things Architecture on a Brazilian University by Bruno Oliveira Zarpellon, Luis de Oro Arenas, Eduardo Paciencia Godoy, Fernando Pinhabel Marafao, Helmo K. Morales Paredes

“…Additionally to presenting the proposal for a flexible and comprehensive architecture for a smart campus, this paper also demonstrates its interpretation for implementation on a Brazilian campus transitioning to become smart, the Institute of Science and Technology, Sorocaba (ICTS) - campus of the São Paulo State University (Unesp) in Sorocaba, Brazil. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there is a scarcity of existing works which address this level of detail when proposing an IoT architecture for a smart campus. …”
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THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM IN THE MIDDLE EAST POLICY OF THE USSR / RUSSIA by T. V. Nosenko, V. A. Isaev, E. S. Melkumyan

“…Special relations with the Palestinian national liberation movement have always been an advantage of Soviet and then Russian diplomacy. The authors believe that this advantage should be used more actively to strengthen Russia’s positions in the region.…”
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Developing and using a School Menu Healthiness Assessment Tool to analyse school food provision in Wales by Alice Gilmour, Ruth Fairchild

“…This comprised local authority catering for primary (n 22) and secondary (n 19) schools and school-organised catering for primary (n 5) and secondary (n 36) schools. …”
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Antimicrobial resistance of <I>Salmonella</I> isolates recovered from animal products by N. B. Shadrova, O. V. Pruntova, E. A. Korchagina

“…Isolates of S. enteritidis (n = 37) and S. virchow (n = 9) serovariants dominated among the typed cultures of Salmonella, which is consistent with the data from other authors. Antimicrobial susceptibility of the microorganisms was determined in a disk diffusion test in accordance with the recommendations of the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing. …”
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The relationship between the real effective exchange rate and non-hydrocarbon export growth by Darine Mehenna, Faiza Bouzemlal, Ali Nabil Belouard

“…In the first step, the authors have performed the augmented Dickey-Fuller tests to check the stationarity of the three variables of interest. …”
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Acute Rheumatic Fever: Findings of a Hospital-Based Study and an Overview of Reported Outbreaks by Upton D Allen, Michael Braudo, Stanley E Read

“…To review the characteristics of reported outbreaks of acute rheumatic fever in the United States, and to determine if there is an increase in the incidence of acute rheumatic fever in the population served by the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, the authors conducted a literature search and a retrospective review of inpatients and outpatients, satisfying the revised Jones criteria for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever, from 1972 to 1988. …”
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Social smart city research: interconnections between participatory governance, data privacy, artificial intelligence and ethical sustainable development by Samad Rasoulzadeh Aghdam, Samad Rasoulzadeh Aghdam, Behnaz Bababei Morad, Behnam Ghasemzadeh, Behnam Ghasemzadeh, Behnam Ghasemzadeh, Mazdak Irani, Aapo Huovila

“…A bibliometric review was performed to pinpoint publication trends, influential authors, their institutions, and prevalent subject areas within the literature since 2000. …”
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Method for Monitoring the Stator Core of a Powerful Turbo Generator by A. S. Levitskyi, Ie. O Zaitsev, M. V. Panchik

“…The method proposed by the authors for detecting places with weakened solidity is based on automatic measurement of the specific pressure of pressing during deformation of special control samples. …”
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Immersion in the Profession: Experience of Career Guidance Work at Medical University by P. V. Tkachenko, S. V. Cherney, E. А. Kovaleva

“…Modern requirements to the preparation of medical personnel put forward the need to improve the methods of career guidance and close interaction of universities with the population, authorities and health management. The purpose of career guidance at medical university is the formation of good-quality contingent of students for the preparation of qualified medical personnel taking account of the needs of the regions. …”
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Qualitative findings from North America's first drug compassion club. by Jeanette Bowles, Eris Nyx, Jeremy Kalicum, Thomas Kerr

“…No overdoses reported from CC-sourced drugs suggests that authorizing, expanding and continually evaluating the CC model is warranted.…”
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