Ranking Executive Actions of Technology Roadmap with the Emphasis on Resources and Technology Acquisition (A Case Study of Two International Roadmaps) by Kiarash Fartash, Mostafa Mohseni Kiasari

“…Originality/Value: The results of this research can be used to increase global competitiveness, used by domestic car manufacturers, and as a guideline to determine the priorities of the executive actions that need to be undertaken by Iranian firms.…”
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A multi-omics spatial framework for host-microbiome dissection within the intestinal tissue microenvironment by Bokai Zhu, Yunhao Bai, Yao Yu Yeo, Xiaowei Lu, Xavier Rovira-Clavé, Han Chen, Jason Yeung, Dingani Nkosi, Jonathan Glickman, Antonio Delgado-Gonzalez, Georg K. Gerber, Mike Angelo, Alex K. Shalek, Garry P. Nolan, Sizun Jiang

“…Our findings reveal a global but systematic transformation in tissue immune responses, encompassing tissue-level remodeling in response to host immune and epithelial cell state perturbations, bacterial population shifts, localized inflammatory responses, and metabolic process alterations during colitis. …”
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Confined and mined: anthropogenic river modification as a driver of flood risk change by Laura Quick, R. D. Williams, R. J. Boothroyd, T. B. Hoey, P. L. M. Tolentino, C. MacDonell, E. Guardian, J. Reyes, C. Sabillo, J. Perez, C. P. C. David

“…Sediment deprivation also increases bed shear stress that can induce scour, infrastructure damage and increased flood impacts. Rising global floodplain populations and increasing demand for aggregate ensure that sustainably managing geomorphologically dynamic rivers to support floodplain development and mitigate flood impacts remains a pertinent challenge.…”
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Research Progress and Governance Prospect of Marine Biodiversity Conservation Synergistic Response to Climate Change by LIN Ruijuan, JIANG Yuhuan, CHEN Fenggui, TAN Hongjian, ZHANG Jiwei

“…Climate change and loss of marine biodiversity are the two interrelated global crises. The paths, methods and policies of the synergies between them have attracted the increasing attention of the international community and have become a hot topic of current scientific research. …”
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THE EFFECTS OF EXCESS PRECIPITATION FALLEN IN THE CURVATURE SUBCARPATHIANS (ROMANIA) DURING THE WARM PERIOD OF THE YEAR. CASE-STUDY: SĂRĂŢEL AND BĂLĂNEASA DRAINAGE BASINS by ANDUŢA GROFU, CARMEN-SOFIA DRAGOTĂ

“…The period analysed (1961–2007) is statistically relevant in terms of climatology, covering the standard climatological period (1961–1990), the last decade of the twentieth century and the early years of the current decade which are characterized by major extreme pluvial events on a global, regional and local scale. The distribution of precipitation quantities presents value differences on various time-scales. …”
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Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization Based on Ideal Distance by Shihua Wang, Yanmin Liu, Kangge Zou, Nana Li, Yaowei Wu

“…In IDMOPSO, the adaptive grid and ideal distance are used to optimize and improve the selection method of global learning samples and the size control strategy of the external archive, and the fine-tuning parameters are introduced to adjust particle flight in the swarm dynamically. …”
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Climate Change and Sugarcane Production: Potential Impact and Mitigation Strategies by Duli Zhao, Yang-Rui Li

“…The increasing greenhouse gas emission and global warming during climate change result in the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. …”
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Bullying as a social phenomenon in the modern world by E. A. Danilova, E. V. Shchanina

“…It is emphasized that regular aggressive behavior towards one or a group of persons is a global problem, that is common for all countries of the world. …”
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The Mathematical Modeling Approach for the Wastewater Treatment Process in Saudi Arabia during COVID-19 Pandemic by Abdullah Ahmadini, Ahmed Msmali, Zico Mutum, Yashpal Singh Raghav

“…The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had devastating effects on healthcare systems and the global economy. Moreover, coronavirus has been found in human feces, sewage, and in wastewater treatment plants. …”
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Two Strategies to Improve the Differential Evolution Algorithm for Optimizing Design of Truss Structures by Ching-Yun Kao, Shih-Lin Hung, Budy Setiawan

“…The adaptive mutation factor strategy systematically adapts the mutation factor from a large value to a small value to avoid premature convergence in the early searching period and to increase convergence to the global optimum solution in the later searching period. …”
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OPTIMIZATION OF MEDICAL EVALUATION STRATEGIES IN VACCINATED WOMEN ANTI COVID-19, IN ROMANIA, TO IMPROVE THE LEVEL OF HESITATION AGAINST THE BENEFIT OF VACCINATION by Andreea Roxana Luca, Ramona Elena Teiu, Tudor Florin Ursuleanu, Roxana Grigorovici, Hlescu Cristian Stefan, Maria Paula Comanescu, Alina Ionela Calin, Alexandru Grigorovici

“…Clarification about the safety, efficacy, and low rate of adverse reactions of COVID-19 vaccines was not sufficient to alleviate the level of hesitation against vaccination in the global community. Materials and methods. In medical practice in Romania, patients who presented to the gynecological consultation have blamed changes in the duration, appearance of menstruation and menstruation cycle, along with other new symptoms that they considered to be post-vaccination anti COVID-19. …”
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Promoting HIV/AIDS Prevention through Soap Operas by William Brown, Steven Kiruswa, Steven Kiruswa, Benson P. Fraser Benson P. Fraser

“…One of the most critical global health issues of today is the need to reduce HIV/AIDS infection, particularly on the continent of Africa. …”
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Beyond the perception of wind only as a meteorological hazard: importance of mechanobiology for biomass allocation, forest ecology and management by Jana Dlouhá, Bruno Moulia, Meriem Fournier, Eric Badel, Thiéry Constant

“…Abstract Key message Although global changes are expected to intensify the impact of wind as a hazard, recent studies have emphasized the critical role wind plays in tree growth and development. …”
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Role of Environmental Factors in Legume-<i>Rhizobium</i> Symbiosis: A Review by Liudmyla Yeremko, Katarzyna Czopek, Mariola Staniak, Mykola Marenych, Volodymyr Hanhur

“…Legumes play a pivotal role in addressing global challenges of food and nutrition security by offering a sustainable source of protein and bioactive compounds. …”
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Semi-Supervised Hybrid Local Kernel Regression for Soft Sensor Modelling of Rubber-Mixing Process by Haiqing Yu, Jun Ji, Ping Li, Fengjing Shao, Shunyao Wu, Yi Sui, Shujing Li, Fengjiao He, Jinming Liu

“…Meanwhile, traditional global learning algorithms suffer from the outdated samples while online learning algorithms lack practicality since too many labelled samples of current batch are required to build the soft sensor. …”
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Assessing the main determinants of entrepreneurship in Portugal by Vanessa Figueiredo, Ana Oliveira Brochado

“…The goal of this research is to determine what triggers individuals to be actively involved in entrepreneurial activity in the initial phases, based on a survey by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor conducted in Portugal, in 2012. …”
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Hacia una crí(p)tica de la razón autista: especismo-capacitismo (y resistencia animalista) by Berenice Vargas García

“…Desde los estudios críticos animales, los estudios críticos latinoamericanos en discapacidad, las antropologías crip-lisiadas y el paradigma de la neurodiversidad en/desde el sur global, analizaré las imbricaciones del capacitismo y el especismo que están presentes en la fabricación de los cuerpos autistas como animal(izabl)es; así como las posibilidades de giro y subversión en la politización y la resistencia autista-animalista.…”
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New Record of <i>Encarsia protransvena</i> and Confirmed Occurrence of <i>Encarsia hispida</i> (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) as Parasitoids of <i>Singhiella simplex</i> (Hemiptera: Al... by Giuliano Cerasa, Luigi Tomasello, Gianluca Melone, Elia Russo, Gaetano Siscaro, Carmelo Cavallaro, Annamaria Ienco, Francesca Laudani, Vincenzo Palmeri, Orlando Campolo, Francesca Garganese, Francesco Porcelli, Paolo A. Pedata, Vittorio Farina, Giovanni Gugliuzza, Roberto Rizzo, Stefania Laudonia, Gabriella Lo Verde

“…<i>Singhiella simplex,</i> originating from the Oriental region, has established a global presence. Monitoring of the whitefly and its parasitoids was conducted in the southern areas of Italy, providing crucial insights into their distribution and interactions. …”
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Quinoline and Quinazoline Alkaloids against COVID-19: An In Silico Multitarget Approach by Esraa M. O. A. Ismail, Shaza W. Shantier, Mona S. Mohammed, Hassan H. Musa, Wadah Osman, Ramzi A. Mothana

“…The recent outbreak of the highly contagious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has created a global health crisis with socioeconomic impacts. Although, recently, vaccines have been approved for the prevention of COVID-19, there is still an urgent need for the discovery of more efficacious and safer drugs especially from natural sources. …”
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Proton internal pressure from deeply virtual Compton scattering on collider kinematics by H. Dutrieux, T. Meisgny, C. Mezrag, H. Moutarde

“…In this paper we address this issue by providing a next-to-leading order formalism allowing a reanalysis of global fits with genuine gluonic degrees of freedom. …”
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