USING COAL AS A PRESSURE INSTRUMENT OR ENERGY WEAPON by Teodora LAZAR, Mila Ilieva OBRETENOVA, Marius Daniel MARCU, Adina TATAR, Nicolae Daniel FITA, Dragos PASCULESCU

“…In this context, the energy security of a state becomes an important pillar of national, regional and global security, bringing safety, stability and well-being to consumers, as well as a cause of civil and/or armed conflicts. …”
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Ensuring patient access to gene therapies for rare diseases: Navigating reimbursement and coverage challenges by Diane Berry, Carolyn Hickey, Lisa Kahlman, James Long, Christina Markus, Caitlin K. McCombs

“…With over 10,000 identified rare diseases globally, 80% of which are genetic, the current therapeutic landscape indicates that only 5% of these conditions have FDA-approved treatments. …”
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Achieving Fair Spectrum Allocation and Reduced Spectrum Handoff in Wireless Sensor Networks: Modeling via Biobjective Optimization by Sang-Seon Byun, Kimmo Kansanen, Ilangko Balasingham, Joon-Min Gil

“…We cast this problem into a multiobjective mixed integer nonconvex nonlinear programming that is definitely difficult to solve at least globally without any aid of conversion or approximation. …”
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Schedulability Analysis for Rate Monotonic Algorithm-Shortest Job First Using UML-RT by S. Ewins Pon Pushpa, Manamalli Devasikamani

“…This paper presents a unified modeling approach for a newly proposed rate monotonic scheduling algorithm-shortest job first (RMA-SJF) for partitioned, semipartitioned and global scheduling strategies in multiprocessor architecture using UML-RT for different system loads. …”
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Robust Optimal Sliding-Mode Tracking Control for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear MIMO Systems by Haiping Pang, Xiuqin Yang

“…As a result, the original system exhibits global robustness to the uncertainties, and the tracking dynamics is the same as that of LQRTC for the nominal system. …”
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Periconceptional Folate Deficiency and Implications in Neural Tube Defects by J. Safi, L. Joyeux, G. E. Chalouhi

“…Since strategies to modify women’s dietary habits and vitamin use have achieved little progress, scientific as well as political effort is mandatory in order to implement global preventive public health strategies aimed at improving the alimentation of women in reproductive age, especially folic acid supplementation. …”
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Coal to graphene-based materials: Evaluating coal as a potential feedstock to pave way for large scale production of graphene and related materials, a review by Boitshepho Ivy Marakalala, Victor K. Manisa, Tumeletso Lekgoba, Freeman Ntuli, Vepika Kandjou

“…Considering the abundance of coal reserves globally, using coal as a feedstock in the production of graphene-based materials offers potential in large scale production and paving a way towards the realisation of industrial application of these versatile nanomaterials. …”
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Laboratory and Centrifuge Model Tests on Influence of Swelling Rock with Drying-Wetting Cycles on Stability of Canal Slope by Chen Zhang, Zheng-yin Cai, Ying-hao Huang, Hao Chen

“…The monitoring results suggested that a global slope failure has occurred after total cycle of 4th corresponding to 4 years. …”
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Interprofessional Collaboration in the Detection of and Early Intervention in Child Maltreatment: Employees' Experiences by Jaana Inkilä, Aune Flinck, Tiina Luukkaala, Päivi Åstedt-Kurki, Eija Paavilainen

“…Child maltreatment is a global problem and a multidimensional phenomenon occurring in all social classes. …”
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Political economics in health and implications for neurosurgery diseases by Yi Han, Yutao Huang

“…In this review, we examine the global influence of political economics on health outcomes and delineate the impact of prevalent neurosurgical conditions on individual and collective healthcare resources. …”
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BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT STATE OF RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN LOGISTICS by Anna HORZELA-MIŚ, Mariusz KMIECIK

“…Using data from the Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus, the research examines how knowledge in this field has evolved, focusing on global knowledge exchange and emerging research trends. …”
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The EDI Multi-Modal Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Dataset (EDI-SLAM) by Peteris Racinskis, Gustavs Krasnikovs, Janis Arents, Modris Greitans

“…This paper accompanies the initial public release of the EDI multi-modal SLAM dataset, a collection of long tracks recorded with a portable sensor package. These include two global shutter RGB camera feeds, LiDAR scans, as well as inertial and GNSS data from an RTK-enabled IMU-GNSS positioning module—both as satellite fixes and internally fused interpolated pose estimates. …”
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The Health Monitoring Method of Concrete Dams Based on Ambient Vibration Testing and Kernel Principle Analysis by Lin Cheng, Jie Yang, Dongjian Zheng, Bo Li, Jie Ren

“…The identified modal parameters, which can provide the global damage information or the damage location information of structure, can be used as the basis of structure health monitoring. …”
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Drone Video Anomaly Detection by Future Segmentation Prediction and Spatio- Temporal Relational Modeling by Ahmed Fakhry, Janghoon Lee, Jong Taek Lee

“…The approach is further validated on the CUHK Avenue dataset, underscoring its global applicability and effectiveness in diverse traffic scenarios. …”
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HighDimMixedModels.jl: Robust high-dimensional mixed-effects models across omics data. by Evan Gorstein, Rosa Aghdam, Claudia Solís-Lemus

“…The penalized likelihood approach to fitting these models relies on a coordinate descent algorithm that lacks guarantees of convergence to a global optimum. Here, we empirically study the behavior of this algorithm on simulated and real examples of three types of data that are common in modern biology: transcriptome, genome-wide association, and microbiome data. …”
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Associations between handedness and brain functional connectivity patterns in children by Dardo Tomasi, Nora D. Volkow

“…Compared to right-handers, left-handers had increased global functional connectivity density in the left-hand motor area and decreased it in the right-hand motor area. …”
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El derecho social y la comunicación de ideas jurídicas en el Atlántico a fines del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX by ANDRÉS BOTERO-BERNAL

“…Además, este escrito se propone demostrar que, si bien existió una circulación global de ideas sociales en el derecho, no puede perderse de vista cómo fueron recibidas esas ideas localmente, de manera tal que no puede estudiarse lo uno sin lo otro, aspecto que este artículo denomina la "glocalización" del derecho social.…”
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Arts and Humanities Research in the Innovation System: The UK Example by Bakhshi Hasan, Schneider Philippe, Walker Christopher

“…This application of new ideas is essential in creating and maintaining high-value products and services which are prized within global markets. Policymakers increasingly recognise that their ability to address urgent social issues also rests on a wholesale commitment to innovation. …”
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Valuation of local coastal community willingness to participate in marine debris adaptation within Nusa Penida marine protected area by Zahra Sakinah, Suhardono Sapta, Suryawan I Wayan Koko

“…The study highlights the importance of demographic considerations in designing effective community-based environmental initiatives and provides a framework that can be adapted for similar conservation efforts globally.…”
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Salutogenic Effects of Greenspace Exposure: An Integrated Biopsychological Perspective on Stress Regulation, Mental and Physical Health in the Urban Population by Varadarajan Suchithra, Herchet Marilisa, Mack Matthias, Hofmann Mathias, Bisle Ellen, Sayer Emma, Kolassa Iris-Tatjana

“…Globally, urbanization is associated with increased risk for physical and mental diseases. …”
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