Trends and Spatial Patterns of Oral Cancer Mortality in Ecuador, 2001–2016 by Solange Núñez-González, J. Andrés Delgado-Ron, Christopher Gault, Daniel Simancas-Racines

“…The second cluster included 38 cantons, in the years 2014 to 2016. The Global Moran I index for the study period showed a negative spatial autocorrelation (−0.067; p=0.37). …”
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Design of CubeSat-Based Multi-Regional Positioning Navigation and Timing System in Low Earth Orbit by Georgios Tzanoulinos, Nori Ait-Mohammed, Vaios Lappas

“…The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) provides critical positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services worldwide, enabling a wide range of applications from everyday use to advanced scientific and military operations. …”
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Numerically pricing American and European options using a time fractional Black–Scholes model in financial decision-making by Omid Nikan, Jalil Rashidinia, Hossein Jafari

“…A main disadvantage of global RBF-based (GRBF) methods is high computational burden required to solve large linear systems. …”
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Defense Stability and Ecosystem Sustainability in the Strait of Malacca: Maritime Security Challenges from an International Relations Perspective by Awal Syahrul, Sumadinata R. Widya Setiabudi, Yani Yanyan Mochamad, Sudirman Arfin

“…The strait plays a crucial role in global trade and geopolitics; however, the high volume of maritime traffic has led to issues such as maritime security threats, including piracy, smuggling, and geopolitical tensions, as well as environmental threats like marine pollution and ecosystem degradation. …”
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Fog Harvesting Via Multistage Edge‐Effect Condensation by Ahmad Illahie, Kowsar Majid, Saifullah Lone

“…Abstract The escalating global population and rapid industrialization have precipitated a severe freshwater scarcity crisis. …”
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Limitations of Smoothening Functions for Automotive Vibro-Impact Problems by Zhiwei Zhang, Rajendra Singh, Ashley R. Crowther

“…Each function is assessed via a global convergence metric across an excitation map (a design of experiment). …”
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Green Chemistry Within the Circular Bioeconomy to Harness Chestnut Burr Extract’s Synergistic Antimicrobial Activity Against <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> by Maria Lucia Schiavone, Roberta Barletta, Alfonso Trezza, Michela Geminiani, Lia Millucci, Natale Figura, Annalisa Santucci

“…The findings underscore the transformative potential of green chemistry in developing effective, eco-conscious antimicrobial therapies that align with global sustainability goals.…”
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Enhancing Electric Vehicle Autonomy With Solar Energy: A Case Study of the “Takai Urban” in Northern Chile by Fernando Castro-Gallardo, Jorge Rabanal-Arabach, Sebastián Rodríguez-Romero, Douglas Olivares, Edward Fuentealba

“… The global transition towards electromobility presents unique challenges, particularly in regions with limited infrastructure. …”
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An Operational Geomagnetic Baseline Derivation Method for Magnetic Observatories Located in Mid‐Latitudes by Veronika Haberle, Aurélie Marchaudon, Aude Chambodut, Pierre‐Louis Blelly

“…Abstract Ground magnetic field measurements are an important tool to determine the strength of space weather events in the terrestrial environment on local and global scales. For that purpose, geomagnetic baselines play a vital role as they describe typical quiet variations within geomagnetic data which allows the successive isolation of magnetic storm contributions. …”
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Repellents against Aedes aegypti bites: synthetic and natural origins by Melissa Noguera-Gahona, Cindy Peña-Moreno, Natalia Quiñones-Sobarzo, Natalia Quiñones-Sobarzo, Caroline Weinstein-Oppenheimer, Caroline Weinstein-Oppenheimer, María Guerra-Zúñiga, Ximena Collao-Ferrada, Ximena Collao-Ferrada

“…The present review explores the current state of the art on topical mosquito repellents, both synthetic and natural, used globally, especially in regions where dengue is endemic. …”
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Topology-Aware Bus Routing in Complex Networks of Very-Large-Scale Integration with Nonuniform Track Configurations and Obstacles by Ziran Zhu, Zhipeng Huang, Jianli Chen, Longkun Guo

“…Then, we formulate the topology-aware single bus routing as an unsplittable flow problem (UFP), which is integrated into a negotiation-based global routing to determine the desired routing regions for each bus. …”
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SHoes for Adolescent PatEllofemoral pain: study protocol for the SHAPE Australian community-based, randomised clinical trial by Kim L Bennell, Kade L Paterson, Rana S Hinman, Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, Adam Bryant, Karen Elaine Lamb, Peixuan Li, Sam Shearer, Anurika P De Silva

“…The secondary outcomes include changes in other parameters of knee pain, symptoms, function in daily activities, health-related and knee-related quality of life, global improvement and fear of movement. Other measures include cointervention use, adherence, adverse events, shoe comfort, descriptive characteristics, physical activity levels, footwear characteristics and objective foot measures.Ethics and dissemination This study has been approved by the University of Melbourne Greater than Low Risk Human Research Ethics Committee (reference: 2022-25470-35344-4). …”
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Increasing the meaningful involvement of women in HIV cure-related research: a qualitative interview study in the United States by Karine Dubé, Elizabeth Barr, Morgan Philbin, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Brian Minalga, Beth Peterson, Dawn Averitt, Bridgette Picou, Krista Martel, Cecilia Chung, María Mejía, Martha Cameron, Gail Graham, Lynda Dee, Dázon Dixon Diallo, Ebony Gordon, Anastasia Korolkova, Typhanye Dyer, Judith D. Auerbach, Eileen Scully, Krista L. Dong, Sara Gianella

“…Background Cisgender women represent over half of people living with HIV globally. However, current research efforts toward a cure for HIV focus predominantly on cisgender men. …”
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Perceived usefulness of trauma audit filters in urban India: a mixed-methods multicentre Delphi study comparing filters from the WHO and low and middle-income countries by Max Petzold, Lovenish Bains, Ulf Ekelund, Kapil Dev Soni, Nobhojit Roy, Martin Gerdin Wärnberg, Swati Gupta, Monty Khajanchi, Anurag Mishra, Jyoti Kamble, Helle Mølsted Alvesson, Johanna Berg, Shamita Chatterjee, Siddarth David, Rajdeep Singh, Prosanta Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pawanindra Lal, Vikas Malhotra, Ravi Meher, Lakshmeswar Nagaraj Mohan, Ritu Saxena, Prabhat Shrivastava, Sumit Sural

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Lyme disease associated neurological and musculoskeletal symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Ganesh Bushi, Ashok Kumar Balaraman, Shilpa Gaidhane, Suhas Ballal, Sanjay Kumar, Mahakshit Bhat, Shilpa Sharma, M Ravi Kumar, Aashna Sinha, Mahalaqua Nazli Khatib, Nishant Rai, Sanjit Sah, Ambanna Yappalparvi, Shailesh Kumar Samal, Doddolla Lingamaiah, Muhammed Shabil

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A Review of the Intrinsic Heavy Quark Content of the Nucleon by S. J. Brodsky, A. Kusina, F. Lyonnet, I. Schienbein, H. Spiesberger, R. Vogt

“…We discuss theoretical calculations, constraints from global analyses, and collider observables sensitive to the intrinsic heavy quark distributions. …”
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the Elderly by Michael P. Philpot, Sube Banerjee

“…Neuropsychological assessment demonstrated impairments in verbal fluency and visuo-spatial tasks. No case exhibited global intellectual impairment. The two patients who complied with appropriate treatment became asymptomatic after 4–6 months.…”
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Mesh-based interpolation on 2-manifolds by Kevin Scully

“…This paper presents a global L1-estimate for the convergence of mesh-based interpolants on 2-manifolds defined over multiple coordinate systems and analyzes the convergence of an integral on a triangulated approximate manifold to the desired integral on the manifold being approximated. …”
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Moving Forward, Looking Back: On the Frontlines of Dietary Shift in Rural Ecuador by Joan Gross, Carla Guerrón Montero, Peter Berti, Michaela Hammer

“…Within the broader context of the global nutritional transition, in this article we examine local dietary practices in the northern highlands of Ecuador drawing on ethnographic research. …”
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Corporate investment in artificial intelligence: The role of GDP, ICT exports, and patents by Rahman Md. Shanur, Golder Uttam, Ghosh Prosenjeet

“…This study investigates the drivers influencing corporate investment in AI using global data from 2013 to 2022, focusing on the relationship between GDP growth, ICT goods exports, AI patent applications (AIPA), and regulatory quality with corporate AI investments.…”
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