The association between personality traits and transphobia among university students: a cross-sectional study in northwestern Iran by Ali Reza Shafiee-Kandjani, Behzad Shalchi, Asal Raeisnia, Sara Tajlil, Elham Davtalab-Esmaeili

“…Therefore, to promote medical service it is of great importance to address negative attitudes among healthcare providers. …”
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Landscape Transformations (1987–2022): Analyzing Spatial Changes Driven by Mining Activities in Ayapel, Colombia by Juan David Pérez-Aristizábal, Oscar Puerta-Avilés, Juan Jiménez-Caldera, Andrés Caballero-Calvo

“…Gold mining is an activity that has developed in Colombia due to the great availability of mineral resources geographically distributed throughout the territory. …”
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L’École de journalisme d’Alger (1964-1990) : les défis d’une formation professionnelle by Chloé Nejma Rondeleux

“…With the evolution of this university institute, the only place in Algeria for training in the information trades, there emerge different visions of the figure of the journalist and the great transformations of higher education in Algeria, of which the most striking is Arabisation.By considering, on the one hand, ministerial supervision and, on the other, the socialist and Third World positions adopted by Algerian political managers from 1962, this article favours an internal view of the institute. …”
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Advanced Algorithmic Model for Real-Time Multi-Level Crop Disease Detection Using Neural Architecture Search by Slimani Hicham, El Mhamdi Jamal, Jilbab Abdelilah

“…Efficient crop disease management shows great promise in optimizing the agricultural industry. …”
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Understanding the Operational Efficiency of Bicycle-Sharing Based on the Influencing Factor Analyses: A Case Study in Nanjing, China by Beibei Hu, Yunfeng Gao, Jiechen Yan, Yue Sun, Yang Ding, Ji Bian, Xianlei Dong, Huijun Sun

“…With the expansion of urban scale and the growth of urban population, the bicycle-sharing system has been greatly helping grease the wheels of convenience and diversity of citizens' travel. …”
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Securitization of China in the NATO discourse in the late 2010s— early 2020s: Towards a global collective identity by Yu. Yu. Melnikova

“…The shift in the perception of the PRC in the NATO’s official discourse took place in the second half of the 2010s — early 2020s and stemmed from the apparent difficulties in asserting the global identity of the alliance and the growing great-power rivalry in the international arena. From this perspective, increasing efforts to securitize the PRC could be ascribed to the continuous evolution of the alliance’s collective identity and the desire of its leaders to close ranks in the face of new strategic challenges. …”
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N-acetylated sugars in clownfish and damselfish skin mucus as messengers involved in chemical recognition by anemone host by Sara Heim, Tony Teav, Fabio Cortesi, Hector Gallart-Ayala, Julijana Ivanisevic, Nicolas Salamin

“…Abstract The clownfish - sea anemone system is a great example of symbiotic mutualism where host «toxicity» does not impact its symbiont partner, although the underlying protection mechanism remains unclear. …”
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A brief history of formation of the kalmyk collection in the oriental section of the saint petersburg university scientific library by Vladimir L. Uspensky

“…Petersburg State University, is of great importance for the study of the history and culture of the Oirats, especially the Kalmyks. …”
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The Prediction of Metro Shield Construction Cost Based on a Backpropagation Neural Network Improved by Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization by Lanjun Liu, Denghui Liu, Han Wu, Xinyu Wang

“…The prediction of construction cost of metro shield engineering is of great significance to project management. In this study, we used the rough set theory, a backpropagation (BP) neural network, and quantum particle swarm optimization (QPSO) to establish a prediction model for predicting the metro shield construction costs. …”
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Bond Strength of Fiber-Reinforced Mortar and Concrete Interface under Pre-Stress by Ali Saberi Varzaneh, Mahmoud Naderi

“…In addition to their mechanical effect, the indirect effect of fibers on the chemical properties of the mortars reduces shrinkage and augments adhesion. Moreover, given the great relationship among the conclusion of “pull-off” and “twist-off” methods, the cost-efficient and available twist-off apparatus can be used for adhesion measurement instead of the costly and import pull-off apparatus. …”
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Efficient Authentication Mechanism For Defending Against Reflection-Based Attacks on Domain Name System by Dana Hasan, Rebeen R. Hama Amin, Masnida Hussin

“…Recent incidents revealed how harsh DNS could be when it is abused with great complexity by attackers. Moreover, these events had proven that any defense mechanism with single point deployment couldn’t accurately and efficiently overcome an attack volume with high dynamicity. …”
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Fine Particle pH and its Impact on PM2.5 Control in a Megacity of Central China by Mingming Zheng, Ke Xu, Lianxin Yuan, Nan Chen, Menghua Cao

“…Abstract Fine particle (PM2.5) acidity greatly affects the formation of secondary aerosol, and the drivers of PM2.5 pH variation are vital in understanding its effects. …”
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Conflits armés et environnement by Al–Hamandou Dorsouma, Michel-André Bouchard

“…This paper discusses the applicability and usefulness of well established environmental assessment processes in various phases of conflict with emphasis on prevention, anticipation and attenuation of possible impacts.The analysis shows that environmental assessment may play a great role in situation of conflict, both at the pre- and post-conflict stage, and in some degree during the syn-conflict phases. …”
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Generative Adversarial Networks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Object Detection with Fusion Technology by Nageswara Guptha M, Y. K. Guruprasad, Yuvaraja Teekaraman, Ramya Kuppusamy, Amruth Ramesh Thelkar

“…When many sensors are deployed, both thermal and electro-optro cameras have great clustering capabilities as well as accurate localization and ranging. …”
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Evaluation of the Yttrium Oxide Effect on Some Mechanical Properties of (Type III) Dental Stone by Najwah Yousuf Hameed, Fatima Kadhim Ghadeer, Maytham Jalil Fadheel

“…Additionally, the use of additives such as gum arabic, ferric oxide, calcium oxide, and calcium carbonate has greatly improved the compressive strength of gypsum products. …”
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Machine Learning Model for Imbalanced Cholera Dataset in Tanzania by Judith Leo, Edith Luhanga, Kisangiri Michael

“…Over the past decades, there have been great achievements in developing epidemic models for the proper prediction of cholera. …”
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International Business and the Crisis of Globalization by A. Yu. Borisov

“…The author’s focal point is the interconnection and interdependence of geopolitics and business and corporate interests of modern states, primarily great powers in the new post globalized political and economic world order. …”
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PECULIARITIES OF THE LATENT PERIOD OF PRUNUS MONGOLICA MAXIM. AND P. PEDUNCULATA (PALL.) MAXIM. by K. G. Tkachenko

“…Species of the genus Prunus (Rosaceae) collected in the  province of Inner Mongolia (China), which are used for introduction into the Peter the Great Botanical Garden.Materials and methods. Stone fruit of these species were collected  in 2015 and 2016 from wild plants in the province of Inner  Mongolia, China (70 km northeast of the city of Baotou). …”
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Quality Evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescription in Naolingsu Capsule Based on Combinative Method of Fingerprint, Quantitative Determination, and Chemometrics by Lili Xu, Yang Jiao, Weiliang Cui, Bing Wang, Dongxiao Guo, Fei Xue, Xiangrong Mu, Huifen Li, Yongqiang Lin, Huibin Lin

“…Principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) models accomplished the great classification of the samples from the five enterprises, respectively. …”
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Philosophy and Sociology Studies by S. A. Kravchenko, A. V. Shestopal

“…The former belonged to one of the best schools of antic history studies of the Petersburg (Leningrad) University. Frantsev made a great contribution to the restoration of Russian social and political science after World War II. …”
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