Providing QoS for Networked Peers in Distributed Haptic Virtual Environments by Alan Marshall, Kian Meng Yap, Wai Yu

“…Haptic information originates from a different human sense (touch), therefore the quality of service (QoS) required to support haptic traffic is significantly different from that used to support conventional real-time traffic such as voice or video. …”
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Postharvest Practices and Farmers’ Knowledge in Managing Maize Pests in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa by Bongumusa Charles Gumede, Simon Kamande Kuria

“…Most farmers (57%) cultivated maize for human consumption, income generation, and livestock feeding. …”
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Native Valve Streptococcus bovis Endocarditis and Refractory Transfusion Dependent Iron Deficiency Anaemia Associated with Concomitant Carcinoma of the Colon: A Case Report and Rev... by Abdul Azeez Ahamed Riyaaz, Randula Samarasinghe, Kolitha Sellahewa, Sabaratnam Sivakumaran, Manjula Sri Tampoe

“…Streptococcus bovis is found as a commensal organism in human gut and may become opportunistically pathogenic. …”
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Reporting Standards for Bayesian Network Modelling by Martine J. Barons, Anca M. Hanea, Steven Mascaro, Owen Woodberry

“…The ethical issues of relying on modelling that is biased, poorly constructed, constrained by heroic assumptions and not reproducible are multiplied when such models are used to underpin decisions impacting human and planetary well-being. Bayesian Network modelling is used in policy development and decision support across a wide range of domains. …”
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The water-agro-food system: upscaling from the Seine river basin to the global scale by Billen, Gilles, Garnier, Josette

“…Starting from the study of the major impacts of human activity in the Seine river basin on ground- and surface water quality, due to domestic and industrial wastewater and to intensive agricultural practices, a research framework was developed, combining the analysis of the agricultural systems, their connection to food requirement by local population and trade exchanges with other regions or countries, as well as the losses to the hydrosphere and atmosphere in terms of nitrogen, phosphorus, silica and carbon, and their associated environmental problems. …”
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Maternal Vitamin B12 in Pregnancy and Placental Development by Amrita Arcot, Rachel E. Walker, Kelly Gallagher, Kevin C. Klatt, Alison D. Gernand

“…Our literature search included preclinical model systems and human cohorts and interventions. Our review identified evidence of B12 deficiency resulting in impaired placental development, greater placental inflammation, and modulation of placental docosahexaenoic acid concentration, collectively suggestive of vitamin B12 deficiency as a determinant of both maternal and fetal health outcomes. …”
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A Review of Hybrid Process Development Based on Electrochemical and Advanced Oxidation Processes for the Treatment of Industrial Wastewater by Perumal Asaithambi, Mamuye Busier Yesuf, Rajendran Govindarajan, N.M. Hariharan, Perarasu Thangavelu, Esayas Alemayehu

“…Nowadays, increased human activity, industrialization, and urbanization result in the production of enormous quantities of wastewater. …”
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Iranian Migrants’ Perceptions of Turkish and Iranian Culture: A Comparative Analysis with ZMET Technique by Berfin Varışlı, Fatemeh Sarvari Kohnehshahri, Mikail Batu

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Air Quality over China: Links with Meteorological Factors and Energy Consumption by Pradeep Khatri, Tadahiro Hayasaka

“…Consistent with energy production and energy consumption statistics in different sectors, NTL data suggest that high human mobility within the residential sector and reduced activity in other sectors during the implementation of control measures explain small but significant decreases in black carbon and sulfate aerosols, respectively, during this period. …”
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The interrelationship between food security, climate change, and gender-based violence: A scoping review with system dynamics modeling. by Pooja Agrawal, Lori Ann Post, Janis Glover, Denise Hersey, Piya Oberoi, Brian Biroscak

“…Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global public health and human rights problem that is exacerbated by social and environmental stressors for a multitude of interpersonal, cultural, and economic reasons. …”
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A multiscale model of the bone marrow and hematopoiesis by Ariosto Silva, Alexander R. A. Anderson, Robert Gatenby

“…The bone marrow is necessary for renewal of all hematopoietic cells and critical for maintenance of a wide range of physiologic functions. Multiple human diseases result from bone marrow dysfunction. …”
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MODES OF SARS-COV-2 TRANSMISSION by Nilesh D. Patel, Kairavi J. Desai, Shirishkumar M. Patel

“…Background: On 12th December 2019, pneumonia of unknown etiology was reported in number of human cases from Wuhan, central China. On 11th February 2020, the WHO named the disease COVID-19, short for “COronaVIrus Disease 2019”. …”
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Artificial Intelligence’s (AI’s) Implications for Strategic Communication by Pay Shabangu

“…The research established that AI will continue to preoccupy academics and the public because of the increasing intermingling of smart technologies with different areas of human life. …”
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THE LANGUAGE OF THE “SECRET SENSE”: ON THE LINGUISTIC STUDY OF PROPRIOCEPTION by Alexandra V. Nagornaya

“…It further looks into the inner form of the term “proprioception” to reveal a link between this type of sensory experience, the formation of identity and the normal mode of human functioning as an integral bodily and spiritual being. …”
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Introduction of smart technologies in event-management: socio-cultural aspect by V. A. Shelginskaya

“…The specificity of creating this uniqueness is largely related to the socio-communicative and aesthetic-axiological aspects of human life. Therefore, for the sustainable development of an event organization, it is important not only to keep pace with advanced technological developments, but also to take into account anthropological specifics, the influence of “smart” processes on which has not been sufficiently studied, and potential risks need to be clarified.   …”
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ChatGPT-4.0 in oral and maxillofacial radiology: prediction of anatomical and pathological conditions from radiographic images by Shila Kahalian, Marieh Rajabzadeh, Melisa Öçbe, Mahmut Sabri Medisoglu

“…Introduction: ChatGPT has the ability to generate human-like text, analyze and understand medical images using natural Language processing (NLP) algorithms. …”
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Representing temporal concepts using redundant gestures in L2 ongoing interactions by Hiroki Hanamoto

“… Human conversational interaction is multimodal, involving both verbal and non-verbal modalities. …”
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Could Proteomic Research Deliver the Next Generation of Treatments for Pneumococcal Meningitis? by U. R. Goonetilleke, S. A. Ward, S. B. Gordon

“…The contribution of these pathways to human disease is unknown. Using proteomic techniques, neuronal death pathways could be described in CSF samples. …”
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A MINI-FACTOR HEALTH AND SAFETY COMPLIANCE: A MULTIVARIATE FACTORIAL ANALYSIS by Zakari MUSTAPHA, Clinton AIGVABOA, Wellington THWALA

“…These incidents have been attributed to conditions in which an employee is working or his actions that can result in human error or an unsafe action. Adherence to safety regulations features among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) contractors’ in Ghana were confirmed through the use of a confirmatory factor analysis. …”
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Contested local power in influencing regional development planning in Nabire Papua, Indonesia by Ch. M. Lewerissa, Edyanto Edyanto

“…However, Bappeda faces challenges including unprofessional human resource management, limited budget and infrastructure, poor administrative organization, and inadequate planning and implementation of community-focused development programs. …”
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