New Insight into Laboratory Tests and Imaging Modalities for Fast and Accurate Diagnosis of COVID-19: Alternative Suggestions for Routine RT-PCR and CT—A Literature Review by Amir Khorasani, Amir Chegini, Arezoo Mirzaei

“…The globally inimitable and unremitting outbreak of COVID-19 infection confirmed the emergency need for critical detection of human coronavirus infections. …”
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Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases by Eman M. Alissa, Gordon A. Ferns

“…Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is now the leading cause of death globally and is a growing health concern. Dietary factors are important in the pathogenesis of CVD and may to a large degree determine CVD risk, but have been less extensively investigated. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Algorithm for Optimum Performance-Based Seismic Designs (PBSDs) of Steel Shear Walls (SSWs) by Behzad Eftekhar, omid rezayfar

“…The UBS was employed to reduce computational time, while the HS was used for global optimization. The MDVC-UHS algorithm was applied to optimize the dimensions of the steel shear wall in accordance with high performance-based seismic design principles. …”
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Optimal Scheduling of Multi-Energy Complementary Systems Based on an Improved Pelican Algorithm by Hongbo Zou, Jiehao Chen, Fushuan Wen, Yuhong Luo, Jinlong Yang, Changhua Yang

“…In recent years, the global power industry has experienced rapid development, with significant advancements in the source, network, load sectors, and energy storage technologies. …”
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Study on Stability Control of Retained Gob-Side Entry by Blasting Fracturing Roof Technology in Thick Immediate Roof by Jingang Guo, Yaohui Li, Fulian He, GuangSheng Fu, Sheng Gao

“…To study the fracturing roof parameters, a global model with thick immediate roof considering strain-soft and double-yield constitution was built. …”
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Evaluador inteligente de daño fenológico en la planta de trigo by Silvia Soledad Moreno Gutiérrez, Alfredo Toriz Palacios, Sócrates López Pérez, Jorge Alberto Ruiz Vanoye

“…Considerando la importancia de este cereal como alimento de la dieta básica de los seres humanos, se propone una nueva forma de evaluación del cultivo que permita pronosticar el daño probable por etapa fenológica por medio de una red neuronal artificial entrenada con datos históricos del comportamiento climático global e impacto fenológico. Un sistema de resultados interpreta la salida y constituye la interfaz de usuario. …”
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A New Local Descriptor Based on Strings for Face Recognition by Hicham Zaaraoui, Abderrahim Saaidi, Rachid El Alami, Mustapha Abarkan

“…Therefore, the information of the local and global properties of an object is obtained. The recognition is performed by using the nearest neighbor classifier with the Hellinger distance (HD) as a comparison between feature vectors. …”
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Human trafficking in the Andean region: Socio-spatial dynamics in the Peruvian borders by Manuel Dammert Guardia, Lucia Dammert, Katherine Sarmiento

“…The article argues that borders constitute a strategic site for human trafficking in four different ways: i) they allow the formation of circuits, stages and itineraries that: ii) facilitate the incorporation of this criminal activity as a part of local life iii) they increase the dangers and vulnerabilities of cross-border migration and iv) they reveal the systemic connections of this illegal market to global processes.…”
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Basin dependencies of tropical cyclone genesis environment and possible future changes revealed by machine learning methods by QiFeng Qian, YeFeng Chen, XiaoJing Jia, Hao Ma, Wei Dong

“…A multivariate environmental similarity analysis indicates significant climate change impacts on TC genesis environments globally, with the weakest changes in the NA. These findings underscore the critical role of absolute vorticity in TC genesis and highlight basin-specific differences in future environmental changes.…”
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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Conditional Dependence between China and U.S. Stock Markets by Xinyu Wu, Meng Zhang, Mengqi Wu, Hao Cui

“…In the case of EPU, we consider the global EPU (GEPU), the American EPU (AEPU), and the China EPU (CEPU). …”
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Parallel Swarms Oriented Particle Swarm Optimization by Tad Gonsalves, Akira Egashira

“…In the multi-stage of evolution, individual subswarms evolve independently in parallel, and in the single stage of evolution, the sub-swarms exchange information to search for the global-best. The two interweaved stages of evolution demonstrate better performance on test functions, especially of higher dimensions. …”
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Development of the accounting system in the digital economy by Zh. M. Korzovatykh

“…The article is devoted to the analysis of domestic and global trends in the accounting system development under the conditions of digitalisation of the processes of collection, consolidation and analysis of information on the activities of economic entities. …”
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Reviewing the current treatment approaches for bullous pemphigoid – analysis of literature by Julia Nowak, Agnieszka Najdek, Daria Oleksy, Dawid Komada, Urszula Kaczmarska, Aleksandra Woźniak, Michał Jakub Cioch, Marcin Mycyk, Kamil Hermanowicz, Katarzyna Doman

“…Advanced age is a significant risk factor for BP, with additional associations identified, including certain medications—such as dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors and aldosterone antagonists—and neurological disorders like Parkinson’s disease. The global annual cumulative incidence of BP is estimated at 8.2 cases per 1,000,000 individuals, with Europe reporting higher incidence rates than other regions. …”
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A Modified Eigenstructure Assignment Technique for Finite Element Model Updating by S. Ziaei-Rad, M. Imregun

“…The performance of the CEAM was evaluated systematically for both the purpose of error location and the global correction of the initial model. The same cases were also studied using another model updating approach, namely the response function method (RFM). …”
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Development communications through forum in participation and motivation of village communities in Indonesia by Dwinarko Dwinarko, Tabrani Sjafrizal, Aan Widodo, Pagi Muhamad

“…The public's perception of development in the era of digitalization and the current global village provides a motivational meaning for the participation of citizens as a whole and government administrators. …”
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Rivers help us to quantify the socio-ecological functioning of their basin at the Anthropocene: the Seine example (1850–2020) by Meybeck, Michel, Bouleau, Gabrielle, Carré, Catherine, Garnier, Josette, Lestel, Laurence

“…Fifty years ago, important riverine changes attributed to human impacts started to be studied at the global scale, an evolution which has been the foundation for Anthropocene studies in hydrosystems since 2000. …”
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Empirical mode decomposition analysis of climate changes with special reference to rainfall data by Md. Khademul Islam Molla, M. Sayedur Rahman, Akimasa Sumi, Pabitra Banik

“…This study suggested that the recent global warming along with decadal climate variability contributes not only to the more extreme warm events, but also to more frequent, long lasting drought and flood.…”
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Two-layer homolog network approach for PFAS nontarget screening and retrospective data mining by Zhaoyu Jiao, Sachi Taniyasu, Nanyang Yu, Xuebing Wang, Nobuyoshi Yamashita, Si Wei

“…Here, we reveal the historic and global presence of novel PFAS, providing guidance for the management and policy-making concerning persistent chemicals.…”
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Additional Vocational Education During Realization of Federal Projects by V. V. Shekhovtsov, A. S. Plotnikov, O. V. Fetisova

“…Breakthrough development of the Russian economy is the global goal which is continuously mentioned by the President in his speeches. …”
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Insolvent Local Government: German Approaches to Prevention by Thomas Duve, Wolfgang Drechsler

“…The global financial crisis is affecting local governments particularly strongly. …”
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