Tobacco prevention and control interventions in humanitarian settings: a scoping review protocol by Muralidhar M Kulkarni, Sanjay Zodpey, Nachiket Gudi, Ansuman Swain, Sanjay Pattanshetty

“…Introduction Tobacco has been a complex global problem that has adversely affected almost all the sectors of society. …”
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The Role of Iran’s «Soft Power» in Confronting Iranophobia by S. M. Mirmohammad Sadeghi, R. Hajimineh

“…Considering the public diplomacy and soft power of the Islamic Republic of Iran as a deliberate and conscious approach can be of great importance in the country's grand strategies that will strengthen national interests in the domestic sphere and influence them at regional and global levels. The article analyzes the role of Iran’s soft power in confronting Iranophobia. …”
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A Combined Model for Simulating the Spatial Dynamics of Epidemic Spread: Integrating Stochastic Compartmentalization and Cellular Automata Approach by Murad Bashabsheh

“…This research focuses on a combined simulation model for analyzing the spatial distribution of epidemics by combining the global mixing assumption of individuals with two-dimensional probabilistic cellular automata (CA). …”
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Positive Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Health Measures on Healthcare by Hung Eun Hoo, Hong Chuan Loh, Alan Swee Hock Ch’ng, Fan Kee Hoo, Irene Looi

“…The world has seen an unprecedented global race in healthcare innovation and technology development in tackling the same global issue. …”
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Application of Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia on Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Shaheen E. Lakhan, Fabricio Pamplona

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Antibiotics Profile, Prevalence of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL), and Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae from Different Clinical Samples in Khartoum State, Sudan by Ehssan H. Moglad

“…One of the global requirements for controlling the occurrence of resistance to antimicrobial drugs is to understanding the resistivity profile of various clinical isolates. …”
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Effect of Intervention of Vaccination and Treatment on the Transmission Dynamics of HBV Disease: A Mathematical Model Analysis by Firaol Asfaw Wodajo, Temesgen Tibebu Mekonnen

“…Hepatitis B is a globally infectious disease. It is pretty contagious and can be transmitted by blood or bodily fluids, through things like sharing razors and toothbrushes. …”
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Medical Education and Social Accountability by İskender Sayek, A. Hilal Batı

“…One of these, the 2010 Global Compact, identified ten areas of action related to a medical school’s responsibility to society. …”
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Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics with Vaccination: A Case Study in Ethiopia by Sileshi Sintayehu Sharbayta, Henok Desalegn Desta, Tadesse Abdi

“…From these analyses, for the full model (model with vaccination), we found that the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable for Rv<1 and is unstable for Rv>1. …”
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Characteristics and Emerging Trends in International City Negotiations by M. I. Kolykhalov

“…In today’s world, where the global political system is undergoing epochal change, the international activities of non-governmental and subnational actors, including their participation in international negotiations, have intensified. …”
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Economic valuation of the thermal inertization of asbestos waste—an Italian case study by Silvia Ferrini, Filippo Pampaloni, Francesco Delogu, Giulia Goffetti, Cecilia Viti, Giancarlo Capitani

“…These findings underscore the imperative for further exploration and substantial financial commitments to make asbestos treatment options a global reality.…”
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An Analysis of Indonesia’s Free and Active COVID-19 Vaccine Diplomacy by Raden Mas Try Ananto Djoko Wicaksono, Fajar Bambang Hirawan, Safendrri Komara Ragamustari

“…Amid a global rush for vaccines, Indonesia has had to compete with other countries to secure vaccines to protect its people from the infection of COVID-19. …”
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Development of financial performance of food retailers as an attribute behind the increase of food insecurity in selected Central and Eastern European Countries by Oksana Dubanych, Jan Vavřina, Josef Polák

“…Food insecurity is not a new phenomenon even in leading European economies, but this complex problem area is facing new global challenges. This article traces the research gap in addressing food insecurity by focusing on the role of food retail chains in the former “Eastern Bloc” in light of unprecedented food price inflation and the resulting scale of demand for the services of food banks. …”
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Inter-agency collaboration in building urban fire resilience in Indonesia: how do metropolitan cities address it? by Ahmad Harakan, Yusuf Adam Hilman, A. Junaedi Karso, Awaluddin Awaluddin, Nurhalijah Nurhalijah, Indah Sidrawaty Muin, Aldy Nurdiansyah B, Arfan Fadillah, Rudi Hardi

“…IntroductionUrban fire disasters pose a significant challenge to city resilience and sustainability, particularly in the Global South, where rapid urbanization exacerbates existing vulnerabilities. …”
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Enhancing concealed object detection in active THz security images with adaptation-YOLO by Aiguo Cheng, Shiyou Wu, Xiaodong Liu, Hangyu Lu

“…To address this task, this paper first proposes an adaptive context-aware attention network (ACAN), which models global contextual association features in both spatial and channel dimensions. …”
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Proteomic Characterization of Liver Cancer Cells Treated with Clinical Targeted Drugs for Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Hezhou Long, Jiafu Zhou, Changxia Zhou, Shuyu Xie, Jingling Wang, Minjia Tan, Junyu Xu

“…<b>Background/Objectives</b>: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a significant global health concern, primarily due to the limited efficacy of targeted therapies, which are often compromised by drug resistance and adverse side effects. …”
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Multispecies occupancy models unravel reduced colonization probabilities in plants from the unique Amazonian cangas by Rafael de Fraga, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues Oliveira Santos, Valeria da Cunha Tavares, Leonardo Carreira Trevelin, Maurício Takashi Coutinho Watanabe, Leandro Maioli, Samir Rolim, Carolina da Silva Carvalho

“…Species extinction rates have surpassed background rates in the contemporary times, triggering a sixth global mass extinction event. Failure to prevent massive extinctions may be related to the lack of efficient tools to estimate local and regional population decline and to identify where declining species likely occur. …”
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A Hybrid Dynamic Path-Planning Method for Obstacle Avoidance in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Power Inspection by Zheng Huang, Chengling Jiang, Chao Shen, Bin Liu, Tao Huang, Minghui Zhang

“…The proposed method includes key components such as sampling-point search, random tree growth, global path-node optimization, and local dynamic obstacle avoidance. …”
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DGFEG: Dynamic Gate Fusion and Edge Graph Perception Network for Remote Sensing Change Detection by Shengning Zhou, Genji Yuan, Zhen Hua, Jinjiang Li

“…Numerous networks combining CNN and transformer architectures have emerged, yet effectively balancing local detail and global context features remains a topic of ongoing discussion. …”
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Impact of Severe Obesity and Weight Loss on Systolic Left Ventricular Function and Morphology: Assessment by 2-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography by Sevda Karimian, Jürgen Stein, Boris Bauer, Claudius Teupe

“…Also, no significant change in global radial strain after weight loss was noted (41.1±22.0 versus 43.9±23.3, p=0.09). …”
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