Assessing Land Cover Changes Using the LUCAS Database and Sentinel Imagery: A Comparative Analysis of Accuracy Metrics by Beata Hejmanowska, Piotr Kramarczyk

“…Collecting this data is both labor-intensive and time-consuming. In this study, the effectiveness of using pre-existing reference data on land cover gathered as part of the Land Use–Land Cover Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) database of the Copernicus program was analyzed. …”
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ULTIMA RATIO DEORUM by Alexis V. Halapsis

“…And these installations are formed by social institutions, which in this age and at this time have a weight sufficient to impose their views to all the congregation or the greater part. …”
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Modulation and Multiple Access for Beyond 6G Electromagnetic Nanonetworks in the Terahertz Band by Pankaj Singh, Sung-Yoon Jung

“…Unlike previous surveys, our focus is on the physical layer, emphasizing rate-division and time-hopping strategies, including pulse position and pulse amplitude modulation techniques. …”
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Walking Gait Phase Detection Based on Acceleration Signals Using Voting-Weighted Integrated Neural Network by Lei Yan, Tao Zhen, Jian-Lei Kong, Lian-Ming Wang, Xiao-Lei Zhou

“…Then, with dimensionality reduction and four-phase division preprocessing, key features are selected and merged as unified vectors to learn common and domain knowledge in time domain. Next, multiple refined DNNs are transferred to design a multistream integrated neural network, which utilizes the mixture-granularity information to exploit high-dimensional feature representative. …”
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Application of indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) enhances agronomic, physiological and antioxidant traits of Salvia fruticosa under saline conditions: a practical approach by Uğur Tan

“…Results The results show that as salinity doses increased, all parameters showed a decline. However, with a one-time IBA application to the plant cuttings before the rooting stage, particularly at a concentration of 2 g/L, was effective for mitigating the negative effects of salinity stress. …”
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Research on cost and carbon reduction using the optimization of composite slabs modules based on bim technology by Huo Haie, Liu Mingrong, Zhou Juncen

“…The modular optimization process developed in this paper is applied to an actual engineering project, the results show that the types of composite slabs molds after optimization are reduced from 9 to 4, and the mold cost is reduced by 69.60%. At the same time, the carbon emissions of the optimized composite slabs in the production stage are reduced by 7.03% compared with those before optimization. …”
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INVESTIGATION OF RATIONAL BUBBLES AND VOLATILITY SPILLOVERS IN COMMODITY MARKETS: EVIDENCES FROM PRECIOUS METALS by İsmail Çelik, Hilmi Tunahan Akkuş, Nazlıgül Gülcan

“…Findings regarding thepresence of price bubbles in the precious metal markets are crucial for tradersin terms of trading timing. However, the findings related to the volatilityspillover among precious metals are also important in terms of considering theeffect of this spillover for the investors who provide hedging by preciousmetals.…”
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Role of Interleukin-28B in clearance of HCV in acute and chronic hepatitis patients in Kirkuk city by Muhannad Abdullah Alazzawy

“…The control group who were matched to the patients studied, included 30 individuals who admitted to blood bank for blood donation, for molecular test of HCV Real-time quantitative test and serum IL-28B ELISA. The study exhibited that 81.48 % of acute HCV patient who positive by ELISA were positive by PCR and 82.86 % of chronic HCV patients were positive by PCR with highly significant relation between them. …”
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Design of a 128‐channel transceiver hardware for medical ultrasound imaging systems by Jayaraj Kidav, Perumal M. Pillai, Deepak V, Sreejeesh S. G

“…The proposed hardware solution integrates the analog front‐end (AFE) sections, high voltage transmit pulser sections, field programmable gate array (FPGA)‐based transmit beamforming and control logic, time gain compensation (TGC) and continuous (CW) Doppler functional circuits, and the necessary power supplies (high voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV)) into a single board. …”
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Analysis of Treated Wastewater Produced from Al-Lajoun Wastewater Treatment Plant, Jordan by Waleed Manasreh, Atef S. Alzaydien, Malahmeh .M

“…Soil samples were collected from Al-Lajoun valley where the treated wastewater drained, to determine the heavy metal and total organic carbon concentrations at same time. The study showed that the treated wastewater was low in its heavy metals contents during both winter and summer seasons, which was attributed to high pH value enhancing their precipitations. …”
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Primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the prostate: Histopathological diagnosis of a rare entity in the prostate by Richa Sharma, Sumit Bansal, Aparna Gangoli

“…Hence, keeping the differential in mind while evaluating prostate biopsy is beneficial in a timely diagnosis of the entity as the management of prostatic carcinoma and lymphoma is different.…”
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Loneliness, lack of support, and educational challenges: teachers’ experiences working with refugee children by Simona Lunina, Vaida Jurgilė

“…For the first time, Lithuania has faced such a flow of refugee families with children, and it is natural that until now there is not enough experience and research in the education of refugee children in Lithuania. …”
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Effect of Tetrahydrofuran Extraction on Surface Functional Groups of Coking Coal and Its Wettability by Jian Yao, Huaijun Ji, Huazhang Lu, Tongtong Gao

“…The results were obtained as the following: after extraction with tetrahydrofuran, hydroxyl, ether oxygen, and carbonyl in the coal structure were dissolved, the content of hydrophilic functional groups reduced, and then the hydrophobicity of coal enhanced. At the same time, part of aliphatic hydrocarbon dissolved, the length of aliphatic chains (I2) decreased from 3.961 of raw coal to 3.636 of residual coal, the length of aliphatic chains became shorter, aliphatic CH2 side-chains decreased and aliphatic CH3 side-chains increased, and hydrophobic functional groups content increased. …”
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Autumn Solid Waste Characterization in the Seyitler Campus of Artvin Çoruh University by Kazım Onur Demirarslan, Emre Aydın, Mehmet Ali Aydın

“…The aim of the study is to provide a general benefit on how the characteristics of time, quantity and waste can be evaluated in carrying out waste management plans in the future by focusing on recycling.…”
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Searching relevant papers for software engineering secondary studies: Semantic Scholar coverage and identification role by Abdelhakim Hannousse

“…This task is known to be tedious and time‐consuming when it is made manually, especially with the presence of several academic repositories. …”
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Possible Interrelations of the Proto-slavic Concept of “Fool” with Initiation Rites and Magic Fairy Tales by Olena Masliy

“…This is evidenced by the overlap of core and peripheral conceptual meanings with key moments of the initiation rite. Over time, the ritual is captured in initiation myths and other cultural texts, such as fairy tales. …”
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Preparation and Stability of Monascus Pigment Microcapsules by Complex Coacervation by CHEN Shiyun, SONG Chang, CHEN Yiling, HOU Siwen, LIANG Zihua, LI Wenlong, LÜ Xucong, NI Li

“…Furthermore, using response surface methodology, the optimal process conditions that provide maximum microencapsulation efficiency (85.06%) were established as follows: wall material concentration of 1.5%, core-to-wall ratio of 2.89:1, and coacervation time of 42 min. The solubility, storage stability, photostability and in vitro release characteristics of the microcapsules were characterized. …”
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Theoretical Study on the Photoelectric Properties of a Class of Copolymers Based on Benzodithiophene for Solar Cells by Xiao-Hua Xie, Xin-Wei Zhao, Ming Li

“…Periodic boundary conditions method is employed to simulate the polymer block and calculate effective charge mass from the band structure calculation to describe charge transport properties. Moreover, both time-dependent density functional theory and a set of multidimensional visualization techniques are used to characterize the exciton dissociation ability in the PCBM: PBDTTBT interface. …”
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Androgenesis and gynogenesis in tomato (<I>Solanum lycopersicum</I> L.) <I>in vitro</I> by A. A. Shergina, A. B. Kurina

“…The high demand and the need to enhance tomato production call for new improved cultivars and F1 hybrids.Biotechnological methods reduce the time for source material development and the labor intensity of breeding efforts. …”
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Endoscopic Management Using Novel Haemostatic Agents for Immediate Bleeding during Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography by Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Sharon Sandra, Maria Satya Paramitha, Rino Alvani Gani, Laurentius A. Lesmana

“…Post-ES immediate bleeding is defined as the onset of bleeding at the time of sphincterotomy. Treatment groups for post-ES bleeding are divided into (1) standard haemostatic methods and (2) novel haemostatic agents. …”
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