Trade Liberalization Policy and Competitiveness of Cocoa Beans Exports in Nigeria (1961-2017) by Ogheneruemu Obi-Egbedi, Jamiu Hussayn, Isaac Oluwatayo

“…The cocoa sector in Nigeria has experienced decline in production, yield, exports coupled with its inability to attain global standards and targets and, gradual loss of competitiveness at the world market. …”
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Reactive Power Optimization of Distribution Network Considering the Reactive Power Output of Doubly Fed Induction Generator by Cheng ZHANG, Yu CHEN, Can LI, Liangshuai LU, Zhenglong XIA

“…[Result] Taking the improved IEEE33 node distribution network as an example, the improved whale optimization algorithm can improve the global search ability and convergence speed comparing the particle swarm optimization and gray wolf optimizer. …”
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Autonomous Real-Time Smoothness Control for Reliable DDQN-Based UAV Navigation Using Cellular Networks by Ghada Afifi, Yasser Gadallah

“…Reliable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation in urban environments is a crucial prerequisite for major civilian and military applications. Many existing Global Positioning System (GPS)-based UAV navigation solutions do not meet the performance requirements given their unreliability in urban environments. …”
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Cultural Sustainability Tourism Lessons from the Amazon to the Mediterranean by Sharon Jackson, Rosa Espinoza, Stella Diomantaraki

“… Increasing global sustainability crises and climate-change are impacting on biodiversity loss. …”
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Aluminum Poisoning with Emphasis on Its Mechanism and Treatment of Intoxication by Mehrdad Rafati Rahimzadeh, Mehravar Rafati Rahimzadeh, Sohrab Kazemi, Roghayeh Jafarian Amiri, Marzieh Pirzadeh, Ali Akbar Moghadamnia

“…Aluminum poisoning has been reported in some parts of the world. It is one of the global health problems that affect many organs. Aluminum is widely used daily by humans and industries. …”
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Multiobjective Optimization of Turning Cutting Parameters for J-Steel Material by Adel T. Abbas, Karim Hamza, Mohamed F. Aly, Essam A. Al-Bahkali

“…An alternative approach for identifying the trade-off frontier was also tested via multiobjective implementation of the Efficient Global Optimization (m-EGO) algorithm. The m-EGO algorithm was successful in identifying two points within the good range of the trade-off frontier with 36% fewer experimental samples.…”
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Temporal changes in regional variations in cancer survival rates in Osaka, Japan (1997–2015) by Mizuki Shimadzu Kato, Toshitaka Morishima, Ryoto Sakaniwa, Kayo Nakata, Yoshihiro Kuwabara, Toshiki Ikawa, Yoko Iwaki, Isao Miyashiro

“…Abstract The variation in survival rates among patients with cancer based on residential areas has become a significant concern globally. Japan’s Basic Plan to Promote Cancer Control Programs (BPPCCP), implemented in 2007, aimed to reduce this variation by designating cancer care hospitals in each cancer medical area (CMA) where patients resided. …”
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Tracking over 30 years of coral reef infrastructure degradation in Barbados by Aliyah Griffith, Max Buglisi, Sandra Lee, Karl Castillo

“…Abstract Coral reefs face escalating threats from global and local stressors, and these challenges are exacerbated in the Caribbean. …”
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Ultrastructural Analysis of Leishmania infantum chagasi Promastigotes Forms Treated In Vitro with Usnic Acid by João S. B. da Luz, Erwelly B. de Oliveira, Monica C. B. Martins, Nicácio H. da Silva, Luiz C. Alves, Fábio A. B. dos Santos, Luiz L. S. da Silva, Eliete C. Silva, Paloma L. de Medeiros

“…Leishmaniasis is considered by the World Health Organization as one of the infectious parasitic diseases endemic of great relevance and a global public health problem. Pentavalent antimonials used for treatment of this disease are limited and new phytochemicals emerge as an alternative to existing treatments, due to the low toxicity and cost reduction. …”
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Reducing the risk of visual disability for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis uveitis through disease surveillance: past and future challenges by Ameenat Lola Solebo, Ivan Foeldvari

“…In this commentary on the MIWGUC surveillance proposal, we also address the implementation of such surveillance. A global shortage of ophthalmologists threatens the sustainability of these surveillance programs. …”
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Adaptive period decomposition network with muti-scale temporal variation learning for water level prediction by Hui Wang, LiPing Wang, QiCang Qiu, Yuyan Gao, WenJuan Li, QiuShun Wang

“…The model incorporates a 2D overlap patch attention mechanism and separable dilation causal convolution to effectively capture local and global temporal variations. Additionally, DLGNet utilizes multiscale 2D separable convolutions to capture temporal variations among period components and employs a novel aggregation strategy for feature interaction analysis, ultimately enhancing prediction accuracy through direct decoding. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Oil Jet Lubrication for High Speed Gears by Tommaso Fondelli, Antonio Andreini, Riccardo Da Soghe, Bruno Facchini, Lorenzo Cipolla

“…URANS calculations have been performed using an adaptive meshing approach, as a way of significantly reducing the simulation costs. A global sensitivity analysis of adopted models has been carried out and a numerical setup has been defined.…”
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Efeito da pandemia COVID-19 no desempenho financeiro das empresas de capital aberto do setor de shopping centers na América Latina by Daniele Muniz do Nascimento, Fabiana Lopes da Silva, George André Willrich Sales, Rodolfo Leandro de Faria Olivo

“… Diante da crise vivenciada decorrente da pandemia da Covid-19, o estudo teve por finalidade investigar o efeito da COVID-19 no desempenho financeiro das empresas de capital aberto do setor de shopping centers na América Latina, buscando compreender o comportamento do setor frente à crise financeira global em razão das medidas de restrição impostas pela pandemia. …”
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Implementation of Portable Ultrasound for Heart Disease Detection Using Cloud Computing-Based Machine Learning by Riyanto Sigit, Rika Rokhana, Setiawardhana, Taufiq Hidayat, Anwar, Jovan Josafat Jaenputra

“… Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death globally, including in Indonesia. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, resulting in a significant number of fatalities. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variations of Water Pollution-Intensive Enterprises and Influencing Factors in China’s “Two Control Zone” Policy Using Spatial Statistics and Spatial Autoregressive... by Fuqiang Dai, Xia Zhang, Qing Li, Hao Liu

“…This study used nearest-neighbor index analysis, global spatial autocorrelation analysis, hot spot analysis, and spatial regression to investigate spatial distribution changes in WPIEs. …”
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Periódicos científicos do sul epistemológico: desafios decoloniais e desobediências epistêmicas by Adriana Aparecida de Oliveira, Frederico Braida

“…O objetivo do artigo é apresentar desafios impostos pelo colonialismo e decolonialismo à produção científica nesses países, especialmente aos periódicos científicos, em busca de espaço, visibilidade, reconhecimento e impacto, diante do monopólio epistêmico do Norte global. O artigo é fruto de uma pesquisa exploratória e bibliográfica, bem como de pesquisa documental junto ao ISSN Portal, Journal of Citation Reports (JCR), Ethnologue Languages of the World e IBGE Países para traçar um panorama dos desafios enfrentados por periódicos científicos no Sul epistemológico. …”
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Accessibility of COVID-19 Vaccines in African Countries: A System Dynamics Model Examining Income, Logistics, and Governance by Oya Öztürk, Muhammed Çelik

“…After this stage, widespread and effective vaccination on a global scale has become the most crucial aspect in the fight against the pandemic. …”
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Exacerbation of Subthreshold PTSD Symptoms in a Great East Japan Earthquake Survivor in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Arinobu Hori, Toyoaki Sawano, Akihiko Ozaki, Masaharu Tsubokura

“…Its residents are experiencing a second global disaster, a COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Objective. …”
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Unseen Enemy: Mechanisms of Multidrug Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-Negative ESKAPE Pathogens by Giedrė Valdonė Sakalauskienė, Lina Malcienė, Edgaras Stankevičius, Aurelija Radzevičienė

“…The declining effectiveness of current treatments against these pathogens has led to an increased disease burden and an increase in mortality rates globally. This review explores the sophisticated mechanisms driving AMR in gram-negative ESKAPE bacteria, focusing on <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>, <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>, <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>, and <i>Enterobacter</i> spp. …”
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Transcriptome responses to Ralstonia solanacearum infection in tetraploid potato by Zhuo Chen, Shunwei Shao, Xi Zhu, Yu Zhang, Zhendong Lan, Hui Jin

“…Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an important global food source, the growth of which can be severely impacted by Ralstonia solanacearum bacterial infection. …”
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