Development of a PM2.5 Forecasting System Integrating Low-cost Sensors for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by Nguyen Ky Phung, Nguyen Quang Long, Nguyen Van Tin, Dang Thi Thanh Le

“…In this study, the models of Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF), Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emission (SMOKE), and Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) were integrated to develop an air quality forecasting system. Drawing input data from transportation and industrial emission inventories, the forecasting system was calibrated and configured using local parameters to deliver hourly forecasts for HCMC. …”
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Autocratización a fuego lento: el caso de Nicaragua (2000-2024) by Macià Serra, Daniel Rodríguez Suárez, Salvador Martí i Puig

“…Objective/context: This article dissects the process of democratic regression that has taken place in Nicaragua from 2000 to the present day (2024), drawing primarily on the analytical framework developed by Javier Corrales in his 2022 work, Rising Authoritarianism. …”
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Breastfeeding impact on kidney health : updated evidence by Hakim RAHMOUNE, Nada BOUTRID, Hala BOUTRID

“…This article synthesizes contemporary evidence regarding the influence of breastfeeding on renal function and health, drawing from a diverse array of international studies. …”
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Meconium aspiration syndrome, fetal heart rate, and stillbirth. Literature review by Jésser M. Herrera-Salgado, Luis E. Reyes-Mendoza, Jesús C. Briones-Garduño

“…Babies with MAS may have symptoms such as rapid breathing, grunting, bluish or grayish skin color (cyanosis), and chest retractions (drawing in of the chest wall with each breath). Severe cases of MAS may require treatment in a neonatal intensive care unit. …”
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Heritage Impact Assessment Index Within Urban Development Context: The Case of Masjed-e Jame of Isfahan in Iran by Baharak Ashrafi, Michael Kloos, Christa Reicher

“…The methodology is applied to the World Heritage property of Masjed-e Jame of Isfahan in Iran. In drawing upon this example, a systematic and integrated impact assessment procedure is developed to capture a broad category of potential impacts and their significance that is crucial for determining site-specific mitigation strategies and informed decision-making within the context of heritage management and sustainable urban development.…”
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Applying equity principles leads to higher carbon removal obligations in Canada by Kasra Motlaghzadeh, Neil Craik, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Vanessa Schweizer, Jay Fuhrman, Keith W. Hipel

“…The projected average CDR growth rates, 2.8%-16%/year, align with the historical adoption rates of ammonia synthesis and biomass consumption in Canada, underscoring the importance of drawing lessons from past successes. Socio-economic and technological sensitivity analysis highlights that, despite variations in the role of individual CDR technologies, CDR remains essential for Canada’s post-net-zero commitments.…”
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Environmental penalties and corporate carbon disclosure in China: divergent effects of resource availability and the role of social media pressure by Jing Shao, Wenjie Li, Lingtong Huang, Yuanhao Tian

“…This study investigates the impact of environmental penalties on corporate carbon disclosure practices among Chinese-listed firms from 2009 to 2019, drawing on organizational legitimacy theory.MethodUsing data from publicly available corporate reports, we employed multivariate regression analysis to examine how environmental penalties influence carbon disclosure. …”
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A non-associated constitutive model based on yld2004-18p yield criterion and its applications on sheet metal forming analysis by Honghao Wang, Changxiang Fan, Akira Yoshimura, Sai Xu, Guangjun Qiu, Xin Liang, Jun Yanagimoto

“…Finite element analysis results of circular cup drawing and hole expansion demonstrate the capability of the yld2004-18p-based non-associated constitutive model in more accurately describing both the deformation and stress anisotropies of sheet metals.…”
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Spatially Explicit Assessment of Ecosystem Resilience: An Approach to Adapt to Climate Changes by Haiming Yan, Jinyan Zhan, Bing Liu, Wei Huang, Zhihui Li

“…The ecosystem resilience plays a key role in maintaining a steady flow of ecosystem services and enables quick and flexible responses to climate changes, and maintaining or restoring the ecosystem resilience of forests is a necessary societal adaptation to climate change; however, there is a great lack of spatially explicit ecosystem resilience assessments. Drawing on principles of the ecosystem resilience highlighted in the literature, we built on the theory of dissipative structures to develop a conceptual model of the ecosystem resilience of forests. …”
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Teacher's Personality Competence in Improving Student Learning Manners by Singgih Kusworo, Zulham Zulham

“…All of this data was analyzed using qualitative methods using the Miles and Huberman interactive model, which includes collecting, reducing, presenting data, and drawing conclusions to understand the teacher's personality competence on student learning manners. …”
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The predictors of behavioral intention to use ChatGPT for academic purposes: evidence from higher education in Somalia by Ahmed-Nor Mohamed Abdi, Abukar Mukhtar Omar, Mohamed Hassan Ahmed, Abdullahi Abdulkadir Ahmed

“…Despite its benefits in personalized learning, academic assistance, and task automation, concerns remain regarding its impact on students’ logical reasoning and academic integrity. Drawing on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this study explored the predictors of behavioral intention to use the ChatGPT (BIU) for academic purposes among university students in Mogadishu, Somalia. …”
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O nieprzedstawieniach i twórczości. Raport z wstępnych badań nad abstrakcją w aktualizowaniu i stymulowaniu twórczego myślenia u dzieci w wieku wczesnoszkolnym by Iwona Tomas

“…In the research project presented and described below, abstraction has been treated as a potential factor stimulating creative thinking, the level of which has been identified by using Drawing Creative Thinking Test by K.K. Urban and H.G. …”
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Current State of Logistics Development and Its Role in the China’s Regional Economy by Xiaomei Sun, Amangeldi Zhumadilov, Madina Myrzalieva, Avaz Kazakov, Aigerim Akmatova

“…The study investigated the role of logistics in regional development, drawing on the experience of Kyrgyzstan and China. …”
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Application of Extrapolation Capability of Vector Fitting for Out-of-Band Dominant Modal Synthesis of Voltage-Source Converters by Weihua Zhou, Jef Beerten

“…Black box-based state-space model identification method using the terminal admittance/impedance frequency responses has thus been drawing increasing research attentions recently. However, the estimation of out-of-band modes commonly suffers from narrow bandwidth of frequency responses. …”
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The Coronation of the Virgin: Alice Meynell’s Typological Critique of Modern Bodies by Ashley Faulkner

“…What if Meynell’s pious rhetoric—and even the figurations of herself which she cultivated in the works of others—were part of a similar enterprise? Drawing on Meynell’s unpublished letters at Boston College’s Burns Library, her little-known late works, and Merry England, one of the publications which Meynell co-edited with her husband, I show that her use and defense of religious rhetoric was part of a strategic response to the emerging empiricist narratives of human being. …”
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Structural shifts in the Baltic States’ foreign trade by Vladimir G. Varnavskii

“…The study covers the period from 2004 to 2024, drawing on annual statistics from 2004—2023 and more granular quarterly and monthly data for 2021—2024, sourced from UN/UNCTAD, Eurostat, WTO, and the World Bank. …”
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Brief Coping Scale TCS-9: Optimising the Assessment of Coping Strategies. The case of Health Care Workers. by Basant K. Puri, Anastasia Miari, Maria Theodoratou

“… # Methods We conducted an unbiased exploratory factor analysis on the Toulouse Coping Scale's 54 items, drawing from a sample of 144 healthcare workers, adhering to strict methodological criteria…”
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Automatic Recognition of Seismic Intensity Based on RS and GIS: A Case Study in Wenchuan Ms8.0 Earthquake of China by Qiuwen Zhang, Yan Zhang, Xiaohong Yang, Bin Su

“…Compared with traditional methods of drawing seismic intensity map, which require many investigations in the field of earthquake area or are too dependent on the empirical formulas, spatial information technologies such as Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) can provide fast and economical way to automatically recognize the seismic intensity. …”
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Legal Transplants, Legal Survivals, and Legal Revivals: Towards a Reconceptualisation of The Circulation of Legal Forms in Time and Space by Rafał Mańko

“…In this vein, the present paper – drawing on Theo Mayer-Maly’s concept of “return of juridical figures” and Tomasz Giaro’s concept of a legal “resurrection” or “borrowing from the past” – proposes to introduce a new notion of “legal revivals” and carefully delimits them from legal transplants, on the one hand, and legal survivals, on the other. …”
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Inclusion of children with disabilities in qualitative health research: A scoping review. by Janet Njelesani, Vongai Mlambo, Vongai Mlambo, Tsedenia Denekew, Jean Hunleth

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Further effort should be made by health researchers to incorporate children with a broad range of impairments drawing on theory and methodology from disability and childhood studies and collaborating with people who have expertise in these areas. …”
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