Effect of Pandemic COVID-19 on Tropical Forest Cover in Small Island: Case Mansinam Island Papua using Google Earth Imagery by Francine Hematang, Denisa Taran, Mutakim, Semuel Erari, Alfando Luas, Descarlo Worabai, Matheus Beljai

“… Covid-19 became a global pandemic in 2020 and has multiple impacts on the economy, social, culture, food systems, and also the environment, especially on tropical forest cover in small island. …”
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Tomato rot by Rhizopus microsporus alters native fungal community composition and secondary metabolite production by Mmanoko Napo, Alicia Kock, Kazeem A. Alayande, Michael Sulyok, Michael Sulyok, Chibundu N. Ezekiel, Jessie Uehling, Teresa E. Pawlowska, Rasheed A. Adeleke

“…Rhizopus rot is considered one of the most common diseases influencing global production and yield of horticulture commodities. …”
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Vitamin D Status and Associated Factors in Neonates in a Resource Constrained Setting by Khadija Murtaza Bhimji, Helga Naburi, Said Aboud, Karim Manji

“…Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is emerging as a serious public health problem globally; however due to lack of resources, vitamin D levels are not routinely measured among neonates. …”
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A multimodal characterization of low-dimensional thalamocortical structural connectivity patterns by Alexandra John, Meike D. Hettwer, H. Lina Schaare, Amin Saberi, Şeyma Bayrak, Bin Wan, Jessica Royer, Boris C. Bernhardt, Sofie L. Valk

“…Lastly, exploring multimodal associations globally, we observe the principal axis consistently differentiating limbic, frontoparietal, and default mode network nodes from dorsal and ventral attention networks across modalities. …”
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Entrepreneurial Framework Conditions and Economic Growth: Insights from Middle-Income Economies by Frank Ranganai Matenda, Justin Chirima, Mabutho Sibanda

“…The implemented panel data set for EFCs is unearthed from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor website and that for gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, a surrogate for economic growth, is extracted from the World Bank website over the observation period 2001 – 2021. …”
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Evaluation of combat effectiveness of unmanned aerial vehicle group in uncertain situations by SUN Pengyao, HUANG Yanyan, WANG Kaisheng, WU Kui

“…Secondly, design a combat method calculation module based on the various steps of the closed-loop combat environment, and combine the designed parameter setting module, battlefield situation generation and recording module, global progress controller, and combat data recording module to form a complete simulation system for unmanned aerial vehicle group observation and combat process. …”
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Performance evaluation of lightweight and secure protocol for wireless sensor networks: A protocol to enable Web services in IPv6 over low-power wireless personal area networks by Patricia E Figueroa, Jesús A Pérez, Ismael Amezcua

“…We believe that lightweight and secure protocol for wireless sensor network will allow the expansion of the Internet of Things at a global scale.…”
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Enabling Digital Capabilities with Technologies: A Multiple Case Study of Manufacturing Supply Chains in Disruptive Times by Marco Ardolino, Anna Bino, Maria Pia Ciano, Andrea Bacchetti

“…The case studies provide practical insights into the application of these technologies and their impact on organizational resilience and competitiveness, particularly in response to global disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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“Somos o que comemos!”: Uma reflexão da política de cuidado ecofeminista plasmada na prática da agroecologia by Luísa de Pinho Valle

“…Parto da revisão de literatura, interdisciplinar e pluriepistemológica, que enfrenta os valores andro-antropocêntricos que constituem a base do capitalismo-financeiro global. Este sistema econômico, que perpetua lógicas de poder, sociopolítico e econômico, originadas no sistema patriarcal e na ideologia colonial, está a levar-nos à destruição irreversível na escala planetária. …”
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Optimal transmission for scalable video coded streaming in cellular wireless networks with the cooperation of local peer-to-peer network by Guangsheng Feng, Junyu Lin, Qian Zhao, Huiqiang Wang, Hongwu Lv, Bingyang Li, DongDong Su

“…We study the problem of transmitting scalable video coded streams in a hybrid scenario including a global cellular network and a local peer-to-peer network. …”
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The Transcriptional Network Structure of a Myeloid Cell: A Computational Approach by Jesús Espinal-Enríquez, Daniel González-Terán, Enrique Hernández-Lemus

“…We present the topological parameters which define the network as well as some global structural features and introduce a relative inuence parameter to quantify the relevance of a transcription factor in the context of induction of a phenotype. …”
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Bioacumulación de metales tóxicos en aletas de tiburón: Un peligro invisible para los consumidores by Elmer Horna, Jhon Gutierrez

“…Se enfatiza la necesidad urgente de fortalecer las regulaciones internacionales y promover prácticas pesqueras sostenibles para mitigar los impactos ambientales y garantizar la conservación a largo plazo de los tiburones como componentes clave de los ecosistemas marinos globales.…”
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A review on current and future advancements for commercialized microalgae species by Jia Fei Wong, Hui Jing Hong, Su Chern Foo, Michelle Khai Khun Yap, Ji Wei Tan

“…With the increasing occurrence of global health threats such as antimicrobial resistance and cancer, this has resulted in considerable attention for microalgae study especially in the medicinal field. …”
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Unveiling patterns: a data-driven exploration of overseas residents' views on Qingdao's tourism development by Sahand Abdinematabad, Roghaye Ebadikhah, Mehdi Pourabdollah, Reza Rasinojehdehi

“…The results have broader implications for understanding the role of foreign residents in shaping the tourism landscape in global destinations.…”
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An improved spatially downscaled solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence dataset from the TROPOMI product by Siyuan Chen, Liangyun Liu, Lichun Sui, Xinjie Liu, Yan Ma

“…Nonetheless, we believe TroDSIF is anticipated to be beneficial to conducting global vegetation photosynthesis and climate change studies at precise scales.…”
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Comprehensive reviews on technological and life cycle environmental aspects of solar–thermal adsorption refrigerator by Jun-Ki Choi, Anup Paudel, Bipin Karki, Katie Bradley, Natalie Quinn, Amy Ciric

“…Refrigeration has significantly enhanced human well-being but comes with notable environmental impacts, particularly due to ozone-depleting substances and hydrofluorocarbons with high global warming potential. Solar Thermal Adsorption Refrigeration (STAR) has emerged as a promising alternative, especially in rural and off-grid regions where conventional refrigeration systems face energy limitations. …”
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A Low-Complexity GA-WSF Algorithm for Narrow-Band DOA Estimation by Haihua Chen, Jialiang Hu, Hui Tian, Shibao Li, Jianhang Liu, Masakiyo Suzuki

“…The Genetic Algorithm (GA) is considered as an effective algorithm for finding the global solution of WSF. However, conventional GA usually needs a big population size to cover the whole searching space and a large number of generations for convergence, which means that the computational complexity is still high. …”
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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease-Related Chronic Kidney Disease by Camelia Cojocariu, Ana-Maria Singeap, Irina Girleanu, Stefan Chiriac, Cristina M. Muzica, Catalin Victor Sfarti, Tudor Cuciureanu, Laura Huiban, Carol Stanciu, Anca Trifan

“…The upward trend in the incidence and prevalence of the disease in recent decades raises concern over a possible global epidemic, especially as the disease is still underestimated and underdiagnosed. …”
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Revisiting Key Entry Routes of Human Epidemic Arboviruses into the Mainland Americas through Large-Scale Phylogenomics by Túlio De Lima Campos, Ricardo Durães-Carvalho, Antonio Mauro Rezende, Otávio Valério de Carvalho, Alain Kohl, Gabriel Luz Wallau, Lindomar José Pena

“…Epidemics caused by arboviruses continue to cause socioeconomic burden globally, particularly in countries where vector control is difficult due to climatic or infrastructure factors. …”
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Bio-Inspired Jumping Spider Optimization for Controller Tuning/Parameter Estimation of an Uncertain Aerodynamic MIMO System by Ravi Samikannu, Oduetse Matsebe, David Ezekiel

“…The convergence of the gains values to the local or global solutions occur with ease. In designing controllers for the Twin-Rotor MIMO System (TRMS), Jumping Spider Optimization Algorithm (JSOA), a novel neoteric population-based bio-inspired metaheuristic approach is used to obtain optimum values for the Proportional, Integral and Derivative (PID) controllers. …”
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