Local Policies in the Fight Against the Covid-19 Pandemic: Ankara and Rome Municipal Councils’ Decisions by Hicran Hamza Çelikyay, Hülya Küçük Bayraktar

“…Findings: According to the analyses, the Ankara Metropolitan Municipal Council intensified its decisions on economic support, social assistance, cleaning, public health, and local diplomacy, while the Rome Metropolitan Municipality’s policies focused on security, education, economic support, social assistance, cleaning, and transportation services. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Blockchain in Enhancing the Drug Traceability in Edible Foods Using Multiple Regression Analysis by K. Suresh Kumar, Vinay Kumar Nassa, Dipesh Uike, Ashima kalra, Ajay Kumar Sahu, Vijay Anant Athavale, V. Saravanan

“…These approaches leverage the usage of smart contracts and decentralize the storage of information in a secure manner for enhanced product traceability in the F&B industry. …”
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Socio-economic and environmental factors affecting breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices among Batwa and Bakiga communities in south-western Uganda. by Giulia Scarpa, Lea Berrang-Ford, Sabastian Twesigomwe, Paul Kakwangire, Maria Galazoula, Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo, Kaitlin Patterson, Didacus B Namanya, Shuaib Lwasa, Ester Nowembabazi, Charity Kesande, IHACC Research Team, Janet E Cade

“…Specifically, we highlight the need to engage with local and national authorities to improve breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices, and work on food security, distribution of lands, and the food environment. …”
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Complex links between the energy trilemma dimensions in top 25 energy trilemma performers: The role of the UN plan of action for 2030 by Masoud Shirazi

“…., energy equity, energy security, and environmental sustainability, influencing the policy pathfinding for balanced growth of ET. …”
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Influence of digital rural construction on farmland transfer contract extension of transfer-out households and mechanism by SI Ruishi, ZHOU Shilei

“…[Objective] Digital rural construction provides a new opportunity for maintaining the stability and development of the farmland transfer market, and it is of great significance to explore its impact on farmland transfer contract extension of transfer-out households and its mechanism for securing the stability of farmland management right, promoting land management at appropriate scales, and accelerating the modernization of agriculture and the countryside. …”
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1941 (pre-war half-year period): changes in the NKVD structure of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic by V. A. Grechenko

“…One of them had to deal directly with state security, and the creation of appropriate departments in the regions and districts. …”
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Photobiomodulation Can Enhance Stem Cell Viability in Cochlea with Auditory Neuropathy but Does Not Restore Hearing by So-Young Chang, Eunjeong Kim, Nathaniel T. Carpena, Jae-Hun Lee, Doo Hee Kim, Min Young Lee

“…However, the prognosis remains very poor if sufficient auditory nerve cells are not secured. In this study, the effect of mouse embryonic stem cells (mESC) and photobiomodulation (PBM) combined treatment on auditory function and auditory nerve cells in a secondary neuropathy animal model was investigated. …”
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Estimating Biomass Carbon Stocks of Inner Mongolia Grasslands Using Multi-Source Data by Yong Liu, Shaobo Sun, Xiaolei Yang, Xufeng Wang, Kai Liu, Haibo Dong

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Multi-Relational Graph Representation Learning for Financial Statement Fraud Detection by Chenxu Wang, Mengqin Wang, Xiaoguang Wang, Luyue Zhang, Yi Long

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Mapping Abandoned Cultivated Land in China: Implications for Grain Yield Improvement by Guanghui Jiang, Wenqiu Ma, Yuling Li, Dingyang Zhou, Tao Zhou

“…The abandonment of cultivated land has profoundly affected the agroecological landscape, national food security, and farmer livelihoods, especially in China. …”
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IDENTIFIKASI FAKTOR PREFERENSI POSISI RUANG TIDUR ORANG TUA DAN ANAK DI RUMAH TINGGAL by Asta Juliarman Hatta, Hanson E Kusuma, Dara Fitriani

“…The result of the analysis revealed nine criteria of respondent’s preferences in choosing the three positions of parents and children bedroom, namely accessibility, desire, privacy, comfortability, proximity, interaction, security, controllability, and tradition. Keywords: Bedroom; Home; Preference. …”
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1-Bit/2-Level Analog-to-Digital Conversion Based on Comparator and FPGA for Aperture Synthesis Passive Millimeter-Wave Imager by Xiangzhou Guo, Ghulam Mehdi, Muhammad Asif, Anyong Hu, Jungang Miao

“…Interferometric aperture synthesis is a proven technique in radio astronomy and earth remote sensing, which also shows great potentials in security screening. An aperture synthesis passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) imager is under development at Beihang University, which is designed for concealed contraband detection on the human body in an indoor environment. …”
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Long-Term Trends and Ecological Risks of Heavy Metal Accumulation in Cultivated Land of Songnen Plain, China by Zonglai Liu, Jinying Li, Yanan Chen, Fengjun Zhang, Wei Feng

“…Heavy metal pollution in agricultural soils poses a serious threat to food security. Therefore, it is crucial to conduct risk assessments and issue early warnings about high levels of metal contamination for the sustained prosperity of agriculture. …”
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Presentation of Religious Tourism Pattern Based on Foundation Data Theory in International Borders by Ali Rostami, Mohammad Aidi, Alireaza slambolchi, Mohammadreza Rabiee Mandejin

“…Having determining the sample size qualitatively via snowball method, 14 experts of religious tourism including academics and trustees of religious tourism were recognized and they were interviewed directly and the research findings showed that religious tourism pattern in Mehran International Border has six main components including casual conditions (religious and tribal communities, provincial infrastructures, common border of Iraq and vicinity to The Holy of Holies, advertisements) categories (tourism and its subcategories, religious places in Iran and Iraq, security) grounds (commercial free zone in Mehran welfare and health services, economic part of religious tourism), interferer factors (political factors, conveying affairs to non-governmental sector, weather changes), strategies (cooperating with educational centers and universities, increasing governmental investing, using capacities of religious days) consequences & results (income and creating jobs, people’s persistence in border and non-immigration, cultural development of province, destruction of environmental, road and jungles of province) which could be introduced as a proper pattern for religious tourism in Mehran International Border according to the opinion of experts. …”
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Coupling effect of landscape patterns on the spatial and temporal distribution of ecosystem services: a case study in Harbin City, Northeast China by Yuxin Qi, Peixin Shen, Shu Ren, Tianyi Chen, Yuandong Hu

“…Abstract To secure the enduring the long-term growth of ecosystem services, the city of Harbin in northeastern China must prioritize the optimization of its landscape pattern. …”
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Nearly One in Three Lactating Mothers Is Suffering from Inadequate Dietary Diversity in Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia by Netsanet Fentahun, Elisabeth Alemu

“…Adequate dietary diversity was significantly associated with mobile phone usage (OR: 2.3; 95% CI: 1.15–4.55); practice of home gardening (OR: 4.1; 95% CI: 1.71–9.87); pulses production (OR: 4.8; 95% CI: 2.50–9.32); delivery in health center (OR: 4.7; 95% CI: 1.80–12.25); food secured household (OR: 2.4; 95% CI: 1.25–4.62); three meals per day within the previous seven days (OR: 11.12; 95% CI: 2.74–45.24); and practice of income generating activity (OR: 4.00; 95% CI: 2–8.33). …”
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Advanced deep learning techniques for recognition of dental implants by Veena Benakatti, Ramesh P. Nayakar, Mallikarjun Anandhalli, Rohit sukhasare

“…After augmentation, a dataset of 1744 images was secured and then split into training, validation and test datasets for the model. …”
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Crop wild relatives conservation in the Chechen Republic by L. V. Bagmet, M. A. Taisumov

“…Plant genetic resources (PGR) conservation is an indispensable condition for ensuring the country's economic and environmental security. The most important component of the PGR status assessment is the study of crop wild relatives in a particular region. …”
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Multiplex Community Detection in Social Networks Using a Chaos-Based Hybrid Evolutionary Approach by Bagher Zarei, Bahman Arasteh, Mehdi Asadi, Vahid Majidnezhad, Saeid Taghavi Afshord, Asgarali Bouyer

“…This knowledge is valuable across various disciplines like marketing, management, epidemiology, homeland security, and psychology. An essential task within network analysis is deciphering the structure of complex networks including technological, informational, biological, and social networks. …”
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Conceptualizing a model for the use of software as a service to improve the dynamic capabilities of small and medium enterprises in healthcare sector by P. Makelana, R. Kekwaletswe, M. A. Segooa

“…Results: The study results show that customer service (β=0.125, p<0.05), sharing information (β=0.132, p<0.05), internet access (β=0.057, p<0.05), data security (β=0.022, p<0.05), top management support (β=0.427, p<0.05), competitive pressure (β=0.178, p<0.05), viability (β=0.325, p<0.05) and task-technology fit (β=0.032, p<0.05) are highly significant on the use of SaaS to improve the DCs of healthcare SMEs. …”
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