Tree Species Diversity and Composition of Miombo Woodlands in South-Central Angola: A Chronosequence of Forest Recovery after Shifting Cultivation by Francisco M. P. Gonçalves, Rasmus Revermann, Amândio L. Gomes, Marcos P. M. Aidar, Manfred Finckh, Norbert Juergens

“…This study shows potential pathways of forest recovery in terms of faster regeneration after agricultural abandonment and, thus, the results presented here can be used in future conservation and management plans in order to reduce the pressure on mature forests.…”
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Submerged Groundwater Discharges as Source of Fecal Material in Protected Karstic Coastal Areas by Cristian Kantun Manzano, Flor Arcega-Cabrera, Morgane Derrien, Elsa Noreña-Barroso, Jorge Herrera-Silveira

“…Thus, it is vitally important that inland anthropogenic materials transported in groundwater and released in the coastal environment by submerged groundwater discharges be considered in protection plans, like protection perimeters, for coastal zones.…”
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3D Clay Printing: A Taguchi Approach To Rheological Properties And Printability Assessment by Rihani Nadir, Oulkhir Fatima-Zahra, Igwe Nnamdi C., Akhrif Iatimad, El Jai Mostapha

“…This study investigates the rheology of Benjellik clay using Taguchi Design plan, focusing on the effects of particle size and water content on the related fresh paste properties. …”
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Decoding the brain-machine interaction for upper limb assistive technologies: advances and challenges by Sutirtha Ghosh, Rohit Kumar Yadav, Sunaina Soni, Shivangi Giri, Shivangi Giri, Suriya Prakash Muthukrishnan, Lalan Kumar, Lalan Kumar, Shubhendu Bhasin, Sitikantha Roy

“…While EEG-based BMIs show potential for decoding motor intention and kinematics, studies indicate inconsistent correlations with actual or planned movements, posing challenges for achieving precise and reliable prosthesis control. …”
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Socially Responsible Investment Sukuk: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Literature by Reza Yarmohammadi, Ali Salehabadi, Mohammad Tahidi, Adel Azar

“…The present study shows that the literature of SRI Sukuk is mainly in 10 areas: (1)definition of SRI Sukuk, (2)competitiveness, (3)types, (4)nature of risk and return, (5)terms and characteristics of plans and projects Eligible, (6)Defines strategies for selecting eligible projects, (7)Measures and indicators of effectiveness, (8)Potential actors, (9)Motivational policies and (10)Monitoring and reporting methods. …”
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Experimental Design and Validation of an Accelerated Random Vibration Fatigue Testing Methodology by Yu Jiang, Gun Jin Yun, Li Zhao, Junyong Tao

“…Novel accelerated random vibration fatigue test methodology and strategy are proposed, which can generate a design of the experimental test plan significantly reducing the test time and the sample size. …”
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Lay Health Trainers Supporting Self-Management amongst Those with Low Heath Literacy and Diabetes: Lessons from a Mixed Methods Pilot, Feasibility Study by Bernadette Bartlam, Trishna Rathod, Gillian Rowlands, Joanne Protheroe

“…Set in a deprived area in the UK, this research explores patient and health care practitioner (HCP) views on whether a structured interview between a patient and a Lay Health Trainer (LHT), for the purpose of developing a tailored self-management plan for patients, is acceptable and likely to change health behaviours. …”
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Forecasting the Number of Visitors of the Museums and Ruins by Using Time Series Analysis: The Case of Turkey by Mustafa Agah Tekindal, Semanur Öztemiz

“…It is precisely for these reasons that the interest shown to museums and ruins can give clue for future plans of the cultural institutions in a country. …”
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Assessing the Impacts of Climatic and Water Management Scenarios in a Small Mountainous Greek River by Angeliki Mentzafou, Anastasios Papadopoulos, Elias Dimitriou

“…In order to contribute to the better understanding of climate change effects on the water resources of the mountainous and transboundary Prespa Lakes basin, a hydrological model of the Agios Germanos River, one of the main rivers discharging to Great Prespa Lake, was developed, and two water management plans under two different climate scenarios were examined. …”
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Evaluating Company’s Readiness for Adopting Product Line Engineering: a Second Evaluation Round by Luisa Rincón, Raúl Mazo, Camille Salinesi

“…Product lines have emerged in the software industry as an attractive approach to perform planned reuse of code. Nevertheless, a product line solution is not appropriate in all cases and also requires some conditions to be implemented successfully. …”
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Methodology for evaluation of entrepreneurial training by Krstić Milan, Skorup Ana, Lapčević Goran

“…As a rule, the program of entrepreneurial training includes motivational training, training for the development of creative ideas, training in the preparation of a business plan, as well as training for its successful presentation. …”
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Human Trajectory Imputation Model: A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for Pedestrian Trajectory Imputation by Deb Kanti Barua, Mithun Halder, Shayanta Shopnil, Md. Motaharul Islam

“…Pedestrian trajectories are crucial for self-driving cars to plan their paths effectively. The sensors implanted in these self-driving vehicles, despite being state-of-the-art ones, often face inaccuracies in the perception of surrounding environments due to technical challenges in adverse weather conditions, interference from other vehicles’ sensors and electronic devices, and signal reception failure, leading to incompleteness in the trajectory data. …”
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It’s the Social Interaction That Matters: Exploring Residents’ Motivation to Invest in the Community-Shared Charging Post Co-Construction Project by Junchao Yang, Ziyang Peng

“…This study, grounded in the theory of planned behavior (TPB) from social psychology, incorporated factors such as community identity, perceived green value, economic benefit, uncivil behaviors, and perceived risk to construct a structural model explaining community residents’ intention to invest in the CSCP co-construction project. …”
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Decision Processes about Condom Use among Shelter-Homeless LGBT Youth in Manhattan by Geoffrey L. Ream, Kate F. Barnhart, Kevin V. Lotz

“…Health behavior interventions based on Theory of Planned Behavior address participants’ personally-held beliefs, perceived social norms, and control over the behavior. …”
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Preparation of the New Military Units for the Front (the Experience of the Siberian Military District) by A. G. Bayer

“…In view of the fact that the mobilization plan did not provide for the formation of new compounds, it had to solve the problem from scratch. …”
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A Systematic Review of Research on Autism Spectrum Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa by Amina Abubakar, Derrick Ssewanyana, Charles R. Newton

“…Put together, our findings suggest that current evidence base is too scanty to provide the required information to plan adequately for effective intervention strategies for children with ASD in Africa.…”
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Examination of Physicians’ Perception of the Indications of Colorectal Stents in the Management of Malignant Large Bowel Obstruction: A Provincial Survey by Jean-Frédéric LeBlanc, Myriam Martel, Alan N. Barkun

“…Future studies should attempt to identify possible barriers responsible for this impaired knowledge translation and tailored educational initiatives planned accordingly.…”
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The Question of Baltic States in the Policy of the Great Westem Powers in 1944-1945 by Ramojus Kraujelis

“…Participation of the Soviet Union in these postwar plans was an essential condition. In that period of World War II, the question of Baltic states had no significant and independent role in the entire international balance of power. …”
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Is the throne still for the people? A sociocultural linguistic analysis of Menanam adalah Melawan by Raden Safrina, Nita Novianti, Lina Meilinawati Rahayu

“…The article explores the activist book, which contains the notes of an activist farmer who reflected on and wrote about his journeys and experiences as a farmer-turned-activist after the village where he farmed was claimed by the authorities, including the sultanate, and was planned to be made into a mining site. Fairclough’s sociocultural linguistics frames the analysis, and more specifically through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). …”
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Social risks of educational space digitalization in regional universities: identification and institutionalization problems by Ya. I. Serkina

“…The author’s definition of the social risks of the educational space digitalization in a regional university is given as the awareness of its actors of the probability of events that determine the deviation from their goals due to the introduction of digital technologies and encouraging subjects to take actions that do not guarantee the achievement of the planned result. The necessity of risk genesis management as a regulatory influence combining administrative regulation and self-regulation of subjects and counterparties of the educational space of universities in order to identify and use positive opportunities of social risks of digitalization and exclude negative consequences is substantiated. …”
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