Vegetation growth improvement Inadequately represents the ecological restoration of the Populus euphratica forests in Xinjiang, China by Xuefei Guo, Junli Li, Jiudan Zhang, Chunxia Wei, Zhijun Li

“…The Populus euphratica Oliv (P. euphratica) is a representative tree species in the riparian forests of arid regions, which acts as a barrier to prevent desert invasion and provides various ecosystem services for biodiversity conservation and ecological security. However, the community of P. euphratica has experienced significant shrinkage and ecological degradation over the past centuries due to natural and anthropogenic factors, particularly in the arid regions of Xinjiang, China. …”
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Learning deep forest for face anti-spoofing: An alternative to the neural network against adversarial attacks by Rizhao Cai, Liepiao Zhang, Changsheng Chen, Yongjian Hu, Alex Kot

“…Face anti-spoofing (FAS) is significant for the security of face recognition systems. neural networks (NNs), including convolutional neural network (CNN) and vision transformer (ViT), have been dominating the field of the FAS. …”
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Research Progress in Small-Molecule Detection Using Aptamer-Based SERS Techniques by Li Zheng, Qingdan Ye, Mengmeng Wang, Fan Sun, Qiang Chen, Xiaoping Yu, Yufeng Wang, Pei Liang

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Analyzing, Modeling, and Simulation for Human Dynamics in Social Network by Yunpeng Xiao, Bai Wang, Yanbing Liu, Zhixian Yan, Xian Chen, Bin Wu, Guangxia Xu, Yuanni Liu

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Fortifying IoT Infrastructure Using Machine Learning for DDoS Attack within Distributed Computing-based Routing in Networks by Sharaf Aldeen Abdulkadhum Abbas, Abdullahi Abdu Ibrahim

“…On the other hand, if we consider the conventional security approaches, these security devices mostly use traditional security protocols such as password encryption and user authentication respectively. …”
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Complementary Feeding Practices and Household Food Insecurity Status of Children Aged 6–23 Months in Shashemene City West Arsi Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia by Junayde Abdurahmen Ahmed, Kebede Kumsa Sadeta, Kelil Hussen Lembo

“…Household socioeconomic status (wealth index, food security status, household income) and child age were found to be among the factors statistically significantly associated with complementary feeding practices indicators.…”
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A Framework for Fourth Industrial Revolution Adoption by Small-Scale Rural Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Literature Review by Willard Munyoka, Nkhangweni Lawrence Mashau, Modimowabarwa Kanyane

“…This is a major global threat to agriculture and food security, especially for rural farmers. Small-scale rural-based farmers contribute immensely to local communities’ socio-economic well-being and food security. …”
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Special Features of the Crime’s Subject Under the Article 330 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine by V. Yu. Boichuk

“…As a result, the author has come to the conclusion that a special subject of the crime under the Art. 330 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine may be officers of the departments of the National Police of Ukraine, the State Investigation Bureau, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, the Office of State Security, the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, the State Penal Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine, officials of the President’s Administration of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Supreme High Command General Headquarters of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine, the unions, military units and units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the State Special Transport Service, the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, regional, district, city and district in the cities, state administrations and local self-government agencies, as well as officials of enterprises, institutions and organizations that carry out state defense orders, conduct research and perform development in the defense area, etc.…”
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Interaction of the National Police of Ukraine and civil society institutions: concept and legal framework by V. V. Pylyp

“…The introduction of martial law on the territory of Ukraine and the existence of real threats to national security have led to dramatic changes in the usual order of public administration, in particular in the activities of the security and defence sector, law enforcement agencies, local self-government, etc. …”
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Activities of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR Pavlo Yakovlevych Meshyk (1953) by V. A. Grechenko

“…At the same time, a policy was implemented to rid the state security agencies of their dependence on the influence of the Communist Party. …”
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The formula for Peace as a result of a future without war in Ukraine by M. Pyvovar

“…Since 2014, attempts at peaceful resolution, including the Minsk Contact Group and the Normandy Format, failed to secure a ceasefire or reintegration of Donbas, nor did they avert russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. …”
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Physical One‐Way Functions for Decentralized Consensus Via Proof of Physical Work by Marvin Winkler, Catharina Peither, Simon Petrick, Lothar Seidemann, Holger Jelich, Frank Kleine Jäger, Jörn Müller‐Quade, Alexander Colsmann, Hermann Nirschl, Frank Rhein

“…Boundary conditions for the security requirements are established and discussed as well as experimentally investigated for a specific setup based on printing and optical analysis of pigment‐carrier composites. …”
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Cross-Chain Identity Authentication Method Based on Relay Chain by Qipeng Huang, Minsheng Tan, Wenlong Tian

“…Therefore, our method demonstrates superior security and performance in cross-chain privacy protection.…”
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Practical Employment of Granular Computing to Complex Application Layer Cyberattack Detection by Rafał Kozik, Marek Pawlicki, Michał Choraś, Witold Pedrycz

“…Network and information security are regarded as some of the most pressing problems of contemporary economy, affecting both individual citizens and entire societies, making them a highlight for homeland security. …”
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The influence of service quality on the Aceh government SIGAP website by Irham Maulida, Ulung Pribadi

“…The influence of Responsiveness, Reliability, and Security on service quality has a positive but not significant effect. …”
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A Two-Layer Architecture for Failure Prediction Based on High-Dimension Monitoring Sequences by Xue Wang, Fan Liu, Yixin Feng, Jiabao Zhao

“…In recent years, the distributed architecture has been widely adopted by security companies with the rapid expansion of their business. …”
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Explaining the Role of Geopolitical Components Affecting spatial planning of border regions (Case Study: West Azarbaijan Province) by Ahmad Aftab, Ali Majnoony, Akbar Houshmand

“…Therefore, according to the findings of the research, it is suggested that security and security measures are implemented with economic, political, and socio-cultural approaches.…”
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An authentication and key agreement mechanism for OPC Unified Architecture in industrial Internet of Things by Min Wei, Shuaidong Zhang, Ping Wang, Keecheon Kim

“…It establishes the secure channel and provides a guarantee for secure session for the OPC Unified Architecture server and client. …”
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Adversarial Attack Detection in Smart Grids Using Deep Learning Architectures by Stephanie Ness

“…The suggested framework strengthens smart grid immunity to cyber threats such as DoS attacks, back door injections, and adversarial perturbations while increasing energy distribution stability and security. For enhancing smart grid security, our results emphasize the importance of integration of ML and DL techniques and provide such an understanding of threat environment for future research and development on threat identification.…”
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Militarised Safety: Politics of Exclusion by Ayesha Sarfraz, Arsalan Rafique

“…This paper looks at urban space in the developing world as a dual site of the threat and the threatened while questioning the effectivity of security apparatus that have become the foundations for design of the contemporary city.…”
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