GEORGIA'S ECONOMY IN THE SPACE OF CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN REGIONAL POWERS by A. S. Degtev, A. Margoev, A. A. Tokarev

“…The authors focus their attention on regional analysis and, for comparison, give figures on Georgia's relations with three global players: the USA, the EU, and the PRC. The authors postulate at least three challenges to Russia’s interests in Georgia. …”
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A cohort-based assessment of drug use trends during the COVID-19 pandemic: relationship with mood and sociodemographic factors in Brazil by Nubia Heidrich, Nubia Heidrich, Maurício Schüler Nin, Felipe Borges Almeida, Felipe Borges Almeida, Hilda M. R. M. Constant, Luana Freese, Helena M. T. Barros, Helena M. T. Barros

“…Such knowledge is essential to inform public health strategies and prepare health systems to face future global crises.…”
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Inversión pericéntrica del cromosoma 1. Presentación de un caso by Elodia Rivas Alpízar, Práxedes Rojas Quintana, Aimé Reyes Pérez

“…Entre pacientes con infertilidad se ha descrito una incidencia global del 2,1 % y 6 % en mujeres y varones respectivamente, la mayor incidencia se observa en varones con azoospermia entre los que se alcanza hasta un 16 %. …”
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Lessons from COVID-19 and Seoul: Effects of Reduced Human Activity from Social Distancing on Urban CO2 Concentration and Air Quality by Hayoung Park, Sujong Jeong, Ja-Ho Koo, Sojung Sim, Yeon Bae, Yeonsoo Kim, Chaerin Park, Jeongyeon Bang

“…Despite the rise in background CO2 concentration, urban contributions of CO2 show a decline of −12.6%, indicating that cities with high emissions have the potential to reduce urban CO2 enhancements and air pollutant concentrations, and ultimately impact the global atmosphere.…”
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Identification and Prioritization of Challenges and Development Technologies in One of Iran's Oil Fields in a Well-based Approach by Yasin Khalili, Mohammadreza Akbari, Hossein Heirani, Mohammad Ahmadi

“…The development and production of oil and gas reservoirs in Iran, possessing one of the largest oil reserves globally, face significant challenges. To address these challenges effectively, this paper employs modern techniques, including the Technology Tree and Morin Model, to identify and prioritize the challenges and solutions for the technological advancement of an Iranian oil field. …”
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Impact of Land-Use Change on Atmospheric Environment Using Refined Land Surface Properties in the Pearl River Delta, China by Anqi Lai, Yiming Liu, Xiaoyang Chen, Ming Chang, Qi Fan, Pakwai Chan, Xuemei Wang, Jianing Dai

“…We replaced the outdated land-use of the Weather Research and Forecasting-Chemistry (WRF-Chem) model with a refined dataset, the Global Land Cover 2009 (GLC2009) dataset, to investigate the impact of land-use change on the regional atmospheric environment in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region. …”
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Immune-endocrine crossroads: the impact of nuclear receptors in Tuberculosis and Chagas disease by Ana R. Pérez, Ana R. Pérez, Oscar A. Bottasso, Oscar A. Bottasso, Oscar A. Bottasso, Natalia E. Santucci, Natalia E. Santucci

“…These diseases remain significant global health concerns, particularly in developing countries, highlighting the importance of understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying host-pathogen interactions mediated by NRs.…”
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JOB DESIGN IN THE FUNCTION OF IMPROVING THE JOB PERFORMANCE OF THE EMPLOYEES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINIAN COMPANIES by Alma Kovačević, Adisa Delić

“… Due to continuous and radical changes in the contemporary business environment, companies now need to search for new modalities for a strategic positioning in the global market. New ways are sought to build and preserve competitive advantages, thus recognising that knowledge and learning are the key factors of success in the new economy. …”
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UPL-SLAM: Unconstrained RGB-D SLAM With Accurate Point-Line Features for Visual Perception by Xianshuai Sun, Yuming Zhao, Yabiao Wang, Zhigang Li, Zhen He, Xiaohui Wang

“…Additionally, the point features are organized into a lattice structure and utilized to construct a global pointcloud map in a dedicated thread, aiming to enhance the semantic comprehension of environmental information. …”
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Identifying and prioritizing the factors affecting the increase of earthquake risk in worn-out urban areas with a combined approach of fuzzy Delphi technique and BMW model by Ehsan Arkani, Hossein Hatami Nejad, Soheil Qare

“…Today, the vulnerability of cities, especially the old and worn-out tissues to earthquakes, has become a global issue for experts in various fields. This situation has become more acute in countries with dangerous natural structures, including Iran, in recent decades. …”
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Soils and vegetation of the permafrost floodplain of the small river Tenyakha (Messoyakha basin, Western Siberia) by Sergey V. Loiko, Ivan V. Kriсkov, Nikita V. Shefer, Irina Nedyak, Rinat M. Manasypov, Sergey P. Kulizhskiy

“…The soils and vegetation of Arctic floodplains are vulnerable to global warming because, in addition to climate change, they are affected by the changing hydrological regime of rivers. …”
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Deciphering the Immune Subtypes and Signature Genes: A Novel Approach Towards Diagnosing and Prognosticating Severe Asthma Through Interpretable Machine Learning by Yue Hu, Yating Lin, Bo Peng, Chunyan Xiang, Wei Tang

“…Asthma, a pervasive pulmonary disorder, affects countless individuals globally. Characterized by chronic inflammation of the bronchial passages, its symptoms include cough, wheezing, dyspnea, and chest tightness. …”
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A Therapeutic Educational Program in Oral Health for Persons with Schizophrenia: A Qualitative Feasibility Study by Audrey Peteuil, Corinne Rat, Sahar Moussa-Badran, Maud Carpentier, Jean-François Pelletier, Frederic Denis

“…This TEPOH aimed at promoting a global health approach. Participants: Voluntary PWS and their caregivers were recruited during face-to-face interviews at “Les Boisseaux” (a psychiatric outpatient centre) in Auxerre (France) and were included in the study between November and December 2016. …”
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Trajectory Optimization of CAVs in Freeway Work Zone considering Car-Following Behaviors Using Online Multiagent Reinforcement Learning by Tong Zhu, Xiaohu Li, Wei Fan, Changshuai Wang, Haoxue Liu, Runqing Zhao

“…Uniting all agents, the coordination graph (CG) method is applied to seek the global optimum, overcoming the exponential growth problem in MARL. …”
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Cultivating Well-being, Community Cohesion, and Sense of Purpose through African Contemplative Practices by Lucy Draper-Clarke, Caryn Green

“…These findings are presented to support international dialog and illuminate relationships among Eastern, Western, and African wisdom traditions. The global decline in mental health provides increased relevance, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of perpetuated historical injustices that have rendered individuals and communities isolated and disconnected. …”
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Comparison of Clinical Trajectories before Initiation of Renal Replacement Therapy between Diabetic Nephropathy and Nephrosclerosis on the KDIGO Guidelines Heat Map by Masanori Abe, Kazuyoshi Okada, Noriaki Maruyama, Hiroyuki Takashima, Osamu Oikawa, Masayoshi Soma

“…This study investigated differences between the clinical trajectories of diabetic nephropathy and nephrosclerosis using the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) heat map and the clinical characteristics between the two diseases at RRT initiation. …”
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Predicting Changes of the Cultivation Areas for Astamaran and Berhi Cultivars in Iran in the 21st Century by Maryam Afzali, javad khoshhal dastjerdi, Aziz Torahi

“…Dates have different varieties; each of them has the potential to adapt to a region of arid regions and can have the most production and economic yield in its proper place. Global warming in the last century has led planners to design pre-awareness programs and algorithms due to future climatic conditions in order to choose long-lived durable plants that can survive in future environmental conditions and have good economic yield. …”
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Potential Piperolactam A Isolated From Piper betle as Natural Inhibitors of Brucella Species Aminoacyl‐tRNA Synthetase for Livestock Infections: In Silico Approach by Diding Latipudin, Sefren Geiner Tumilaar, Yoga Ramdani, Dudi Dudi, Dikdik Kurnia

“…ABSTRACT Brucellosis is an important global zoonosis caused by the bacterium Brucella sp. …”
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“Todos precisam despertar” by Bruna Leite, Arlindo Américo Tavares Martins Júnior, Gabriel Henrique Souza Maciel

“…O objetivo é demonstrar como a ecologia decolonial de Ferdinand, ao questionar o Antropoceno e problematizar os saberes do Sul Global, proporciona uma outra perspectiva para entender as interseções entre colonialismo e crise ecológica. …”
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Asymptomatic Hyperuricemia and the Kidney: Lessons from the URRAH Study by Cecilia Barnini, Elisa Russo, Giovanna Leoncini, Maria Carla Ghinatti, Lucia Macciò, Michela Piaggio, Francesca Viazzi, Roberto Pontremoli

“…Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a prevalent global health concern affecting approximately 850 million people worldwide, with a significant and rising mortality rate. …”
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