Thermal Analysis of Building Roofs with Latent Heat Storage for Reduction in Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions: An Experimental and Numerical Research by Erdem Cuce, Saboor Shaik, Abin Roy, Chelliah Arumugam, Asif Afzal, Pinar Mert Cuce, Aritra Ghosh, Tabish Alam, Sharmas Vali Shaik

“…In green energy buildings, air conditioning charges can be lowered through careful planning of the building’s envelope. This article investigates several strategically designed phase change material (PCM) roof envelopes for savings on air conditioning prices, CO2 emission abatement, and payback timeframes in hot–arid and warm-temperate climates, taking into account unsteady heat transfer characteristics, cooling, and heating degree–hours. …”
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Compound coastal flooding in San Francisco Bay under climate change by Zhenqiang Wang, Meredith Leung, Sudarshana Mukhopadhyay, Sai Veena Sunkara, Scott Steinschneider, Jonathan Herman, Marriah Abellera, John Kucharski, Peter Ruggiero

“…These findings are critical for informing climate adaptation and coastal resilience planning in San Francisco Bay.…”
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Coming of age in recovery: The prevalence and correlates of substance use recovery status among adolescents and emerging adults. by Douglas C Smith, Crystal A Reinhart, Shahana Begum, Janaka Kosgolla, John F Kelly, Brandon B Bergman, Marni Basic

“…This is necessary for planning and identifying the needs of youth with current and remitted substance use disorders. …”
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A scoping review of the residual barriers to skilled birth attendance in Ghana: A conceptual framework and a fish bone analysis. by Juliet Abredu, Catherine K Dwumfour, Boo Alipitio, Mawusi Alordey, Veronica Millicent Dzomeku, Sophie Witter

“…For Ghana to achieve the SDGs above and improve SBA, it is essential to enhance the quality of skilled delivery care by addressing the attitude and competencies of skilled birth professionals, while plans are put in place to expand and develop the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) strategy to help address the access barriers to SBA. …”
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Increasing Robustness by Reallocating the Margins in the Timetable by Lingyun Meng, Malik Muneeb Abid, Xinguo Jiang, Afaq Khattak, Muhammad Babar Khan

“…It is a common practice to improve the punctuality of a railway service by the addition of time margins during the planning process of a timetable. Due to the capacity constraints of the railway network, a limited amount of time margins can be inserted. …”
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Navigating the Dynamics: Modeling of Wave Propagation at Taiping Bay Port for Enhanced Design and Management by Dachuan He, Xi Zhang, Yakun Liu, Zhi Chen, Xiangjun Nie, Ke Wang

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Strategies for Enhancing Home Economics Teachers’ Service Delivery in Some Selected Public Secondary Schools in Lagos State by Kemi P. Ogbonna, Ukamaka G. Okwume, Francisca N. Onyeka, Temitope F. Ogabi

“…Findings revealed that some of the factors that have negative impacts on Home Economics teachers service delivery are obsolete curriculum that are not in tune with current realities, lack of meaningful job schedule, lack of proper planning and provision of needed technological tools, facilities and equipment needed foreffective teaching and learning of home economics, lack of proper procedures for measuring the growth of each individual teacher and student performance, inability to make result driven evaluation that would help teachers appreciate their roles as home economist and lack of clear understanding of the subject matter. …”
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Modified MobileNetV2 transfer learning model to detect road potholes by Neha Tanwar, Anil V. Turukmane

“…A thorough assessment of pavement conditions is required before planning any preventive repairs. Herein, we report the use of transfer learning and deep learning (DL) models to preprocess digital images of pavements for better pothole detection. …”
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Individual characteristics influencing the general population’s level of knowledge of end-of-life practices: a cross-sectional study by Diane Tapp, Gina Bravo, Catherine Filion, Vincent Couture, Sophie Dupéré, Marianne Beaulieu, Audrey Chouinard, Pauline Roos, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Anouk Bérubé, Ariane Plaisance

“…Having cared for someone who received palliative care, at a younger age, a higher level of education, and having participated in advance care planning were associated with better knowledge regarding end-of-life practices. …”
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A Framework to Assess the Seismic Resilience of Urban Hospitals by Peng Yu, Weiping Wen, Duofa Ji, Changhai Zhai, Lili Xie

“…The proposed framework provides the quantitative results of seismic resilience assessment in the preearthquake environment and can further support emergency response planning and seismic retrofits strategies.…”
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Nurse workforce change and metropolitan medically underserved areas in the United States by Diana Bowser, Kaili Mauricio, Brielle Ruscitti

“…The findings from this study suggest the need for careful planning in workforce policy and education to grow the nurse workforce needs to meet evolving healthcare needs effectively.…”
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Analysis of Iranian health workforce emigration based on a system dynamics approach: a study protocol by Hamideh Keyvani, Reza Majdzadeh, Esmaeil Khedmati Morasae, Leila Doshmangir

“…These phases involve realist review, document analysis, qualitative interviews, data integration, and policy scenario planning. The primary objective is to gain a profound understanding of the underlying causes, mechanisms, and consequences of migration, as well as assess the impact of policies, in order to prioritize effective interventions. …”
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Rural Indigenous entrepreneurship: Emerging Field in Iranian Rural Research by Ali Akbar Anabestani, Mehrshad Toulabi Nejad

“…Therefore, the present article, as an analytical assessment and with a variety of approaches based on richness and conceptual diversity in the fields of social sciences, economic, planning and rural development, uses a systematic approach, while introducing entrepreneurship while introducing entrepreneurship. …”
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Modelling Socio-Environmental Sensitivities: How Public Responses to Low Carbon Energy Technologies Could Shape the UK Energy System by Brighid Moran Jay, David Howard, Nick Hughes, Jeanette Whitaker, Gabrial Anandarajah

“…However, the role of the public’s socio-environmental sensitivities to low carbon energy technologies and their responses to energy deployments does not receive much serious attention in planning decarbonisation pathways to 2050. Resistance to certain resources and technologies based on particular socio-environmental sensitivities would alter the portfolio of options available which could shape how the energy system achieves decarbonisation (the decarbonisation pathway) as well as affecting the cost and achievability of decarbonisation. …”
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The features and factors influencing the effectiveness of advertising activities and TV companies of Sughd region of the Republic of Tajikistan by A. A. Urunov, M. X. Kosimova

“…A methodology for calculating indicators characterizing the main factors affecting the efficiency of advertising activities of companies in the Sughd region of the Republic of Tajikistan has been developed.The results of the study can be used in the processes of planning and developing the broadcasting network of TV channels, as well as with success can be applied by players in the market to obtain the best effect of advertising on their products. …”
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Promoting Geoheritage Through a Field Based Geo-education Event, a Case Study of the Hungarian Geotope Day in the Bükk Region Geopark by László Sütő, Zsuzsanna Ésik, Roland Nagy, Erika Homoki, Tibor Novák, János Szepesi

“…These results represent an important source of information for planning these outdoor educational activities.…”
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Analysis of Age Appropriate Measles Immunisation among the Eligible Children in India: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of National Family Health Survey–5 by Avijit Debnath, Niranjan Roy, Dipankar Roy, Munmi Sarma, Dipanjan Roy, Kinnor Das, Deepmala Deb

“…Addressing the timeliness of measles immunization requires a comprehensive strategy that includes healthcare delivery, family planning, immunization perception, and general education. …”
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From Victorian Buildings to the Victorian Built Heritage: Victorian studies and the Re-interpretation of 19th-century architecture by Isabelle Cases

“…Not only many famous buildings, churches, stations, but also whole streets, districts or aspects of urban planning date back to the Victorian period. Studying Victorian architecture therefore necessarily implies engaging physically with the Victorian architectural and industrial heritage and, as a consequence, with its interpretation, renovation and possibly its adaptive reuse. …”
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From threats to solutions: A literature review of climate adaptation in anadromous salmon and trout by Lisa G. Crozier, Jared E. Siegel

“…Abstract Understanding the evolutionary responses of anadromous salmon and trout to climate change is critical for effective conservation planning. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive review of literature published from 2010 to 2020 to synthesize current knowledge on climate impacts to these fish populations. …”
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A Decomposed-Ensemble Prediction Framework for Gate-In Operations at Container Terminals by Yifan Shen, Beng Xuan, Hongtao Hu, Yansong Wu, Ning Zhao, Zhen Yang

“…The introduction of this method is expected to enhance the accuracy and flexibility of terminal production planning, optimizing resource utilization. Contributions of this paper include the proposal of predictive models, a shipping route-based decomposed-ensemble framework, and confirmation of the superiority of Long Short-Term Memory in prediction through comparative analysis. …”
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