Hayekian Hurdles: Challenges to Cryptocurrency as a Viable Basis for a New Monetary Order by Luís Pedro Freitas, Jorge Cerdeira, Diogo Lourenço

“…The rise of cryptocurrencies over the past decade has promised to challenge the dominance of fiat money systems and reshape monetary policy. …”
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Transforming Novosibirsk into the capital of Siberia in the early 1920s by S. A. Papkov

“…But these measures had only a minor effect — the housing crisis and the shortage of office space persisted for decades. …”
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Comparative Empathy Levels Among Medical Students at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences by Nasrollah Noori Koohani, Narges Motamedi, Neda Yavari

“…Methods: The assessment of the relationship between empathy and its related variables has been the subject of various studies over the last decades. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the degree of empathy among medical students of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. …”
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Twitter Sentiment Analysis on Worldwide COVID-19 Outbreaks by Kamaran H. Manguri, Rebaz N. Ramadhan, Pshko R. Mohammed Amin

“…In the past two decades, the growth of social data on the web has rapidly increased. …”
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Forest fires under the lens: needleleaf index - a novel tool for satellite image analysis by Afshin Amiri, Keyvan Soltani, Silvio Jose Gumiere, Hossein Bonakdari

“…Our analysis revealed that 25% of the total area of coniferous forests burned over the past two decades was destroyed in the 2023 wildfires. Remotely sensed observations showed that the coniferous forest area in the 2018–2023 period increased by 5.62% compared with the 1984–1991 period and decreased by 4.85% since its peak in 1992–2001. …”
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Invasive macroalgae shape chemical and microbial waterscapes on coral reefs by Chloé Pozas-Schacre, Hugo Bischoff, Delphine Raviglione, Slimane Chaib, Camille Clerissi, Isabelle Bonnard, M. Nugues Maggy

“…Abstract Over the past decades, human impacts have changed the structure of tropical benthic reef communities towards coral depletion and macroalgal proliferation. …”
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Maximizing tuberculosis services through private provider engagement – A case study from Pakistan by Aamna Rashid, Surbhi Sheokand, Razia Fatima, Hammad Habib, Adeel Tahir, Asim Saleem, Poshan Thapa, Petra Heitkamp

“…Aligning with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) patient-centered approach, the private provider engagement program led by Mercy Corps (MC) and supported by the Global Fund has been actively engaging the private sector for over a decade in strengthening Pakistan’s TB services through innovative interventions. …”
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Finding solutions to problems that never existed: a case study of co-creation in the municipality of the future by Anja K. Ruess, Ruth Müller

“…Over the past decade, co-creation, i.e. practices bringing together diverse actors to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes, has emerged as a broadly desired approach to innovation governance. …”
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Marine Nature Reserve: The Starting Point of Marine Ecological Environment Protection in China? by Quansheng Wang, Guoqing Han, Qi Zhang

“…The construction of China’s marine protected areas can be traced back to establishing the Snake Island Nature Reserve in 1963. Over the past six decades, China has established a network of marine protected areas, including marine nature reserves and marine specially protected areas (including marine parks), which have played a pivotal role in safeguarding the marine environment and biodiversity, promoting the integration of land and sea, and defending the country’s maritime rights and interests. …”
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From fairy rings to fairy chemicals: The story from nature phenomenon to commercial application by Shaolong Liu, Chanjuan Ye, Jie Guo, Da‐gang Chen, Juan Liu, Xin‐qiao Zhou, Bin Jia, Yixiong Zheng, Jing Wu, Hirokazu Kawagishi, Ke Chen, Chuan‐guang Liu

“…Abstract Fairy rings are naturally occurring phenomena that are circular or curved clusters of mushrooms that appear in meadows, forests, and other places. In recent decades, significant progress has been made in deciphering fairy chemicals (FCs) involved in the intricate crosstalk between mushrooms and plants. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Principles of Parthian History by Farshid Naderi

“…Our awareness of Parthian Iran has been growing in recent decades. The concise but prolific book Principles of Parthian History by German archaeologist Klaus Schipmann was published in 1980. …”
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STUDY ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND FLOWERING OF COMMON RAGWEED IN CLIMATIC ZONE OF BIHOR COUNTY by Șipoș Monica, Raț Ioana, Pop Adina Nicoleta

“…Due to climatic changes feminine flowers appear two weeks later than two decades ago. These appear in mid-August at the level of the last two ramifications. …”
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Hydroclimatic extremes threaten groundwater quality and stability by Simon A. Schroeter, Alice May Orme, Katharina Lehmann, Robert Lehmann, Narendrakumar M. Chaudhari, Kirsten Küsel, He Wang, Anke Hildebrandt, Kai Uwe Totsche, Susan Trumbore, Gerd Gleixner

“…Over the course of the past decade, we have documented changes in the composition of dissolved organic matter in groundwater. …”
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A Case of Acute Motor Sensory Axonal Neuropathy: A Variant of Guillain-Barré Syndrome, with Possible Syndrome of Irreversible Lithium-Effectuated Neurotoxicity by David Y. Liu, Jessica R. Hollenbach, Jason A. Gregorin, Jonathan H. Wynbrandt

“…We present a unique case of a 38-year-old female patient with decade-long use of lithium for bipolar disorder that presented with acute lithium toxicity. …”
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The Impact of Transposable Elements in Genome Evolution and Genetic Instability and Their Implications in Various Diseases by Selvam Ayarpadikannan, Heui-Soo Kim

“…The effects of TE insertion in the genome varies from negligible to disease conditions. For the past two decades, many studies have shown that TEs are the causative factors of various genetic disorders and cancer. …”
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Regional-specific trends of PM2.5 and O3 temperature sensitivity in the United States by Lifei Yin, Bin Bai, Bingqing Zhang, Qiao Zhu, Qian Di, Weeberb J. Requia, Joel D. Schwartz, Liuhua Shi, Pengfei Liu

“…Here, we examined the sensitivity of surface-level fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) to summer temperature anomalies in the contiguous US as well as their decadal changes using high-resolution datasets generated by machine learning. …”
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Fiabilité de l’enneigement et disponibilité des ressources en eau pour la production de neige dans les domaines skiables du Département de l’Isère (France), en conditions climatiqu... by Martin Gerbaux, Pierre Spandre, Hugues François, Emmanuelle George, Samuel Morin

“…This study presents the evolution of the snow reliability in the 24 alpine ski resorts of the Isère département (Northern French Alps, around Grenoble) over the last decades and its projection into the 21st century, taking into account grooming and snowmaking. …”
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(Mesenchymal) Stem Cell-Based Therapy in Cisplatin-Induced Acute Kidney Injury Animal Model: Risk of Immunogenicity and Tumorigenicity by Ž. Večerić-Haler, A. Cerar, M. Perše

“…Despite intensive investigations there is still no pharmacological agent that could provide complete protection against cisplatin nephrotoxicity. In the last decade mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been proposed as a potentially useful therapeutic strategy in various diseases, including acute kidney injury. …”
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Comparative Metabolomics Study Revealed Difference in Central Carbon Metabolism between Sika Deer and Red Deer Antler by Hang Su, Chonghui Yang, Chenrong Jin, He Zhang, Chengcheng Yin, Yang Yang, Haoyuan Chen, Li Jing, Bin Qi, Daqing Zhao, Xueyuan Bai, Li Liu

“…The antler regeneration has been well studied for the past two decades and adopted in the regenerative medicine model for studying on developmental biology. …”
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From Spectra to Signatures: Detecting Fentanyl in Human Nails with ATR–FTIR and Machine Learning by Aubrey Barney, Václav Trojan, Radovan Hrib, Ashley Newland, Jan Halámek, Lenka Halámková

“…The analyte of interest in this study is fentanyl, a highly dangerous and abused drug in recent decades. In this proof-of-concept study, ATR–FTIR was combined with machine learning methods, which are effective in detecting and differentiating fentanyl in samples, to explore whether nail samples are distinguishable from individuals who have used fentanyl and those who have not. …”
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