Death and disappearance: Measuring racial disparities in mortality and life expectancy among people in state prisons, United States 2000-2014. by Bryan L Sykes, Ernest K Chavez, Justin D Strong

“…In this paper, we explore changes in mortality and life-expectancy among different demographic groups, before and after the Great Recession, across forty-four states that reported deaths in custody to the federal government between 2000 and 2014.…”
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Community case study: an academia-industry-government partnership that monitors and predicts outbreaks in Tri-County Detroit area since 2017 by Irene Xagoraraki, Liang Zhao, Yabing Li, Brijen Miyani, John Norton, James Broz, Andrew Kaye, Anna Mehrotra, Anil Gosine, Scott Withington, Stacey McFarlane, Russell A. Faust

“…Since 2017, a project team including the College of Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU), the City of Detroit, the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), industry, and local government and health departments, has been testing municipal wastewater from the TCDA to survey and predict surges in communicable diseases in the area. …”
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Determination of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Craft Villages and Industrial Environments of Vietnam by Thi Vi Phung, Thuy Ngoc Nguyen, Lan-Anh Phan Thi, Hung Viet Pham, Hong Anh Duong

“…Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have attracted great concern because of their great recalcitrant nature and harmful environmental health effects. …”
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Factors associated with risk analysis for asymptomatic left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in nondialysis patients with chronic kidney disease by Yajuan Gao, Shengnan Chen, Jiani Fu, Cui Wang, Yali Tang, Yongbai Luo, Xiaozhen Zhuo, Xueying Chen, Yan Shen

“…Therefore, exploring and intervention of the factors associated with risk for LVDD is of great importance in reducing the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease (CVD) complications in CKD patients. …”
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Study on the evolution of the spatial patterns and driving factors of national agricultural cultural heritage in China. by Lifei Xu, Yuyu Liao, Jun Liu

“…The types of national agricultural cultural heritage are diverse and rich, involving farmland landscapes, composite systems, crop varieties, vegetables and melons, tea, forest fruits, special products, farmland irrigation, and animal breeding, in which forest and fruit class heritage site dominate. ②From a regional perspective, the spatial distribution of China's national agricultural cultural heritage varies greatly, with strong national and regional characteristics. …”
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Study on Anaerobic Digestion and the Treatment of Livestock and Poultry Waste Liquid by Nanoparticles and Antibiotics in the Context of Carbon Neutrality and Microbial Ecosystems by Xiaofei Zhen, Han Zhan, Ke Li, Ruonan Jiao, Lei Feng, Tie Du

“…The results of the study can provide data support for the stable operation of biogas projects, which is of great significance in promoting the sustainable development of ecological agriculture.…”
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Variations of microbiota and metabolites in rhizosphere soil of Carmona microphylla at the co-contaminated site with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals by Ying Zhang, Fanghan Qian, Yanyu Bao

“…Co-contamination with organic/inorganic compounds is common in industrial area and poses a great risk to local soil ecological environment. …”
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Impact of weather and climate on seed protein and oil content of soybean in the North Сaucasus by L. Yu. Novikova, I. V. Seferova, A. Yu. Nekrasov, I. N. Perchuk, T. V. Shelenga, M. G. Samsonova, M. A. Vishnyakova

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The Influence of Digital Talent Development and Green Innovation and The Use of Green Innovation As Mediation To Measure Data Centre Performance by Rifa Herdian, Mohammad Syamsul Maarif, Anggraini Sukmawati, Irman Hermandi

“…Findings/Result: By increasing energy efficiency and reducing negative impacts on the environment, green innovation greatly impacts data centre performance. Data centres can significantly reduce their energy consumption and carbon emissions by implementing renewable energy and efficient cooling systems. …”
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Studying formation of <I>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</I> biofilms grown under different cultivation conditions by T. E. Mironova, V. S. Сherepushkina, V. N. Afonyushkin, N. V. Davydova, V. Yu. Koptev, A. S. Dimova

“…The purpose of the present study is to assess how cultivation conditions influence growth and formation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. The topic is of great importance due to high incidence of P. aeruginosa-caused infections and P. aeruginosa resistance associated with its ability to form biofilms. …”
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Effect of Multimodal App-Based Interventions on Glycemic Control in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Emma Bodner, Lena Roth, Kathleen Wiencke, Christian Bischoff, Peter EH Schwarz

“… BackgroundDigital technologies for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) care hold great potential to improve patients’ health in the long term. …”
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Editorial by Christian Gütl

“…Dear Readers,&amp;nbsp;I would like to wish you all the best for the new year! It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to our first regular issue in 2025 with a pleasant new achievement. …”
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Passenger car market and regional price discriminations for new cars: Case study and empirical analysis for Poland 2004–2021 by Bielig Andreas

“…However, applied discrimination proves in observed market environments not sufficient to achieve a great car market transition in near future.…”
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Energy-efficient and intelligent cooperative spectrum sensing algorithm in cognitive radio networks by Tangsen Huang, Xiangdong Yin, Xiaowu Li

“…The experimental results show that compared with the traditional algorithm, the proposed algorithm has a great improvement in the two indicators of sensing performance and energy efficiency.…”
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De la voix au théâtre au théâtre de la voix : l’envers du décor poétique de Robert Browning by Yann Tholoniat

“…The scenes are midway between both text and stage directions, between the text and what is beyond the text, and they display a great variety of expression to such an extent that they constitute Browning’s poetics workshop for Dramatic Lyrics (1842) and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845).…”
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How the approach to the Epoch of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is changing in the Lithuanian Historiography today? by Vytautas Jarutis

“…The receptions and transformations of this paradigmic model have been continuing until now in the transition from the political history to the history of society and everyday life, from an ethnolinguistically monoperspective to the liberal multicultural great narrative. Ideologically, the developments in the Lithuanian historiography of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania are analyzed on the basis of nowadays' comparative studies of nationalism. …”
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Walter Xaver z Dietrichsteina na kavalírské cestě (1683–1688) a jeho boj proti předurčené budoucnosti by Lenka Maršálková

“…By the time he started his journey, Walter Xaver was already the ordained clergyman and his parents supposed that after having completed a demanding educational program, a great spiritual career awaits him. With that, however, this young man had never reconciled and just during his grand tour there was a major turnaround: on his father he gradually acquired not only directing of his education to be more secular but also the promise that in the future he will be allowed to leave the clergy. …”
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The Liberal Political Realism of Bernard Williams by Annamária Csornay

“…Even though Williams’s text had a great impact on contemporary political theory, understanding its philosophical foundations is unfairly neglected in academic discourse. …”
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Economic Benefit Evaluation and Analysis Based on Intelligent Agriculture Internet of Things by Shu Liu, Yuting Wu

“…There has been a consensus on the development of ecological agriculture to promote the leap from traditional agriculture to ecological agriculture, but the unavoidable fact is that the development of ecological agriculture is still relatively slow at the present stage and has not formed a major climate and great influence. The rise of the Internet is a technology that has promoted the transformation and upgrading of modern agriculture, changed the traditional agricultural production mode, and accelerated the scientific and technological integration of information. …”
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Testing Data Cloning as the Basis of an Estimator for the Stochastic Volatility in Mean Model by E. Romero, E. Ropero-Moriones

“…The key contribution this paper makes is that it proposes an estimator for the SVM model, one that uses Bayesian algorithms to approximate the maximum likelihood estimate with great effect. Notably, the estimates it provides yield superior outcomes than those derived from the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method in terms of standard errors, all while being unaffected by the selection of prior distributions.…”
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