Comparative Population Studies at Fifty: Views on the Past, Present, and Future by Heike Trappe, Roland Rau, Katrin Schiefer, C. Katharina Spieß

“…The 50th volume of Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) is a significant milestone in the journal’s history, offering us the opportunity to reflect on its development into a key platform for population research, major achievements, and future aspirations. …”
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Digital Marketing Contribution On Performance Of Commercial Banks In Rwanda: A Case Study Of Bank Of Kigali by Eliab Mpora, Byamukama, Justin, Ngenzi Gatovu, Boaz, Kagabika

“…As recommendation, the commercial banks in Rwanda should invest in digital platforms so as to be in a position to take full advantage of the digital marketing potential.…”
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Food bags, silent squares: Changes in the actions of state agents and social activists in Buenos Aires by Sofia Silva, María Fernanda Alonso, Stella Maris García

“…In order to document these changes, the text is based on an ethnography, based on observations and interviews, and on the analysis of documents found in state offices and digital platforms. As a result of fieldwork, interdependencies and tensions between redistributive and recognition public policies aimed at migrant and Indigenous organizations have been identified. …”
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Digital competences and collaborative skills among university students by Sandra Salazar Palomino, Yersi-Luis Huamán-Romaní, Carlos Alfredo Bocanegra García, Zany Sigrid Frisancho Triveño, Yajhayda Bellido Ascarza, Alexis León Ramírez, Calixto Cañari Otero

“… Digital competences as the use of ICT after the COVID-19 era had a very significant effect, especially in the education sector, with which university students learned to use and collaborate academically through digital platforms or media. This research work aims to analyze and describe digital competences and their collaborative attitudes in university students. …”
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Examination of Molecular Effects of MYLK Deletion in a Patient with Extensive Aortic, Carotid, and Abdominal Dissections That Underlie the Genetic Dysfunction by Sarah K. Macklin, Katelyn A. Bruno, Charitha Vadlamudi, Haytham Helmi, Ayesha Samreen, Ahmed N. Mohammad, Stephanie Hines, Paldeep S. Atwal, Thomas R. Caulfield

“…Through a combined multiomic approach of clinical, functional, and protein informatics, we arrive at a data fusion for determination of pathogenicity embedded within the genetic code for this particular genetic variant, which, as a platform, continues to broaden its scope across the field of variants of uncertain significance classification.…”
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Research and Implementation of SVDU Simulator Based on Emulation Technology by Yanqun Wu, Mingxing Liu, Qi Chen, Xu Zhang, Xufeng Tian, Yu Zhang, Meiyuan Chen

“…In order to meet the needs of nuclear power safety-level digital control system (DCS), like designing verification, operator training, and accidental drills, for the SVDU in the NASPIC platform developed independently by China National Nuclear Corporation, a virtual embedded system technology based on the micro x86 industrial host is proposed to make software simulation to the SVDU physical controller with exactly the same hardware appearance of the original one. …”
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Multi-level agent architecture for war games by YU Xiaohan, YUAN Duo, YAO Changhua

“…Finally, through multi-round adversarial experiments with various benchmark AI on a war gaming platform, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed architecture are validated.…”
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Engineering artificial photosynthetic life-forms through endosymbiosis by Jay Cournoyer, Sarah D. Altman, Yang-le Gao, Catherine L. Wallace, Dianwen Zhang, Guo-Hsuen Lo, Noah T. Haskin, Angad P. Mehta

“…We anticipate that these genetically tractable endosymbiotic platforms can be used for evolutionary studies, particularly related to organelle evolution, and also for synthetic biology applications.…”
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Evolution of a Technology Standard Alliance Based on an Echo Model Developed through Complex Adaptive System Theory by Hong Jiang, Chen Chen, Shukuan Zhao, Yuhao Wu

“…Taking TSA as a dynamic CAS, an echo model is constructed to depict the mechanism of its evolution, and a model is simulated on the NetLogo platform. The echo model includes a basic model, an extended model, and a three-layer echo model. …”
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Advancing pancreatic cancer research and therapeutics: the transformative role of organoid technology by Jihao Xu, Minh Duc Pham, Vincenzo Corbo, Mariano Ponz-Sarvise, Tobiloba Oni, Daniel Öhlund, Chang-Il Hwang

“…Abstract Research on pancreatic cancer has transformed with the advent of organoid technology, providing a better platform that closely mimics cancer biology in vivo. …”
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Multidimensional library for the improved identification of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by Kara M. Joseph, Anna K. Boatman, James N. Dodds, Kaylie I. Kirkwood-Donelson, Jack P. Ryan, Jian Zhang, Paul A. Thiessen, Evan E. Bolton, Alan Valdiviezo, Yelena Sapozhnikova, Ivan Rusyn, Emma L. Schymanski, Erin S. Baker

“…Here, we aim to increase this knowledge by providing the scientific community with multidimensional characteristics for 175 PFAS and their resulting 281 ion types. Using a platform coupling reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC), electrospray ionization (ESI) or atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI), drift tube ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), and mass spectrometry (MS), the retention times, collision cross section (CCS) values, and m/z ratios were determined for all analytes and assembled into an openly available multidimensional dataset. …”
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Dynamically reconfigurable acoustofluidic metasurface for subwavelength particle manipulation and assembly by Sushruta Surappa, Suraj Pavagada, Fernando Soto, Demir Akin, Charles Wei, F. Levent Degertekin, Utkan Demirci

“…Our versatile and biocompatible particle manipulation platform is suitable for applications ranging from the assembly of colloidal particles to enrichment of rare cells.…”
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Fully automated in vivo screening system for multi-organ imaging and pharmaceutical evaluation by Junhan Duan, Guanming Lin, Kangjian Jiao, Xiaohui Hong, Xudong Lin

“…Via precise fluidic control, the AISS allows automatic loading, encapsulation, transportation and immobilization of single-larva in droplets for multi-organ imaging and chemical gradients generation inaccessible in previous systems. Using this platform, we examine the cardiac sensitivity of an antipsychotic drug with multiple concentration gradients, and reveal dramatic diversity and complexity in the accurate chemical regulation of cardiac functions in vivo. …”
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Variational Estimation of Optimal Signal States for Quantum Channels by Leonardo Oleynik, Junaid Ur Rehman, Hayder Al-Hraishawi, Symeon Chatzinotas

“…Furthermore, since the channel knowledge is not required at the transmitter or at the receiver, these results can be employed in arbitrary quantum communication systems, including satellite-based communication systems, a particularly relevant platform for the quantum Internet.…”
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Identifying the Impacts of Social Movement Mobilization on YouTube: Social Network Analysis by Norhayatun Syamilah Osman, Jae-Hun Kim, Jae-Hong Park, Han-Woo Park

“…Using the theoretical framework of resource mobilization and methods such as social network analysis (SNA) and bipartite networks, it examines how effective deployment of resources such as information, social capital, and organizational capabilities can help in the progression of collective movements. Social media platforms, particularly YouTube, significantly influences network structures by facilitating resource mobilization and driving essential engagement. …”
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Nanoparticles and Inflammation by Ross Stevenson, Axel J. Hueber, Alan Hutton, Iain B. McInnes, Duncan Graham

“…Nanoparticles offer robust platforms capable of sensitive detection, and early research has indicated their suitability for the detection of vascular activation and cellular recruitment at subclinical levels. …”
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Molecular Profiling: A Case of ZBTB16-RARA Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia by Stephen E. Langabeer, Lisa Preston, Johanna Kelly, Matt Goodyer, Ezzat Elhassadi, Amjad Hayat

“…Molecular profiling of additional mutations may provide a platform to individualise therapeutic management in patients with this rare form of APL.…”
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An Effective GTO Algorithm-Based Cost-Benefit Analysis of DISCOs by Optimal Allocation of DG and DSTATCOM in a Radial Distribution Network by RAM PRASAD KANNEMADUGU, V. Adhimoorthy, A. Lakshmi Devi

“…The proposed GTO is applied to a 33-node test system and simulations are carried out using MATLAB platform and results show the applicability of the GTO in the DISCOs. …”
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Unified Registration Model for Both Stationary and Mobile 3D Radar Alignment by Lei Chen, G. H. Wang, Ilir F. Progri

“…Attitude biases generated from the errors of the inertial navigation system (INS) of the platform can be converted into equivalent radar measurement errors by three analytical expressions (range, azimuth, and elevation, resp.). …”
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The unexpected role of the STING protein in lipid metabolism by Vila, Isabelle K., Laguette, Nadine

“…In the past decade, the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) adaptor protein has emerged as a central platform enabling the activation of inflammatory responses in the presence of cytosolic DNAs. …”
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