Advising parents when their child has a fever: a phenomenographic analysis of nurses’ perceptions when working at a telephone helpline, at primary care or at a paediatric emergency... by Carina Elmqvist, Anders Svensson, Marta Sund-Levander, Emma Westin, Ingrid L Gustafsson

“…What dominates are the nurses’ perceptions of the inner qualities required to achieve a balance in the process, for example, the importance of experience and security in their professional role, while it is also necessary to get support from colleagues.…”
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Cultivating a thriving agricultural sector: Unveiling the drivers of farmer participation in agricultural development interventions in Ghana by Magdalene Aidoo, Stephen Prah, Irene Serwaa Asante, Charles Kwame Sackey, Bright Owusu Asante

“…Strategies for increasing participation in agricultural programmes such as the SIPMA interventions for enhancing productivity, income, and food security of farmers should target experienced and educated farmers who already belong to innovation platforms or farmer groups, having extension contact, and own their farmlands.…”
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Adaptation to climate change in pastoral communities: a systematic review through a social-ecological lens by Matilda Azong Cho, Onisimo Mutanga, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi

“…These limitations may potentially affect pastoral livelihoods adversely, with severe consequences for food security and poverty levels in Africa. Social implications – A comprehensive understanding of the challenges pastoralists face in Africa to adapt to climate change will assist in defining high-level policies and interventions to improve pastoral communities’ adaptation actions. …”
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THE PROBLEM OF TERRITORIAL ZONING OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS by V. A. Gorbanyov, B. I. Kochurov

“…It is shown that Ukraine, Kazakhstan and China represent the greatest environmental danger for Russia.Efficient geographical zoning is a necessary condition for improving the regional economy, and ultimately ensuring national security of the country.…”
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Analysis of Spatial Distribution Pattern and Driving Factors of Nature Reserves in Xinjiang by Yue Yang, Zhaoping Yang, Fang Han

“…Establishing nature reserves is fundamental to promoting ecological civilization and ensuring the ecological security of sustainable development, as well as a key strategy for maintaining the integrity of the national ecosystem. …”
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Cybersecurity of the municipal infrastructure by S. V. Kaliakin, Yu. M. Onishchenko, V. V. Nosov

“…The impact of the latest information technologies (such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain) on the development of municipal infrastructure, the use of these technologies to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, their advantages and disadvantages compared to classical security technologies have been considered. Particular attention has been paid to the problems of safe automation of modern city management processes such as automation of traffic control systems, environmental monitoring systems, financial systems, power grids, water and gas supply systems, communication systems, and control systems for wastewater treatment plants. …”
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Cascading Failures Analysis Considering Extreme Virus Propagation of Cyber-Physical Systems in Smart Grids by Tao Wang, Xiaoguang Wei, Tao Huang, Jun Wang, Luis Valencia-Cabrera, Zhennan Fan, Mario J. Pérez-Jiménez

“…This paper focuses on cascading failures in interdependent systems from the perspective of cyber-physical security. In the interdependent fault propagation model, the complex network-based virus propagation model is used to describe virus infection in the scale-free and small-world topologically structured communication networks. …”
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School Leadership and Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Recent Developments and Future Prospects by Turgut Karakose, Tijen Tülübaş

“…These technologies have also proven their capacity to help school leaders manage various technical tasks ranging from the management of food/transportation services, supply of instructional materials, human resource management, security, and student information processing. AI also enables learning analytics, or educational data mining, which allows for taking preventive actions and providing customized education by obtaining comprehensive data from students’ educational activities across a period. …”

Nutritional value and antioxidant activity of ora-pro-nobis, tamarillo and green banana biomasses by Renata de Souza Ferreira, Jucenir dos Santos, Lívya Alves de Oliveira, Ceres Mattos Della Lucia, Márcia Cristina Teixeira Ribeiro Vidigal

“… The consumption of unconventional food plants (UFP) can be a strategy to promote food and nutritional security, for which it is necessary to know their nutritional composition. …”
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Dual graph-embedded fusion network for predicting potential microbe-disease associations with sequence learning by Junlong Wu, Liqi Xiao, Liu Fan, Lei Wang, Xianyou Zhu, Xianyou Zhu

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The Impact of Protective Policies on Farmers’ Black Soil Conservation Behaviors: Empirical Insights from Sanjiang Plain, China by Tianyi Wang, Linghui Liu, Shanlin Huang, Wanting Jiang

“…Understanding the logic of farmers’ black soil conservation behaviors and promoting these actions are crucial measures for enhancing soil quality and ensuring national food security. This article uses survey data from 676 farmers in typical black soil areas of the Sanjiang Plain, China, employing binary logistic regression and mediation effect models to empirically examine the impact of protective policies on farmers’ black soil conservation behaviors and the mediating effect of their perceptions. …”
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Who is Responsible for Instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo? by G. M. Sidorova

“…Due to governmental weakness, economic backwardness, chronical lack of finance resources, interethnic conflicts, all-round and widely spread corruption of the authorities, the Congolese government at the moment is not able to overcome scores of problems including the problem of security. Assistanceprovided to the DRC by itspartnerssuch as, first of all, the former metropolitan country Belgium, as well as the USA, Great Britain, the Europe Union and China works only in favourof these country-donors. …”
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LoRaWAN-based smart water management IoT applications: a review by Enas F. Khairullah, Atheer M. Alghamdi, Mohammad M. Al mojamed, Sherali Zeadally

“…We also discuss scalability, simulation, security, and applications of LoRaWAN in water-management systems. …”
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THE PROBLEMS OF BRINGING RUSSIAN TRADE POLICY IN LINE WITH WTO REQUIREMENTS by M. A. Petrova

“…The article analyzes the role of trade policy in ensuring the competitiveness of the automotive industry – one of the most sensitive to the changes of economic conditions and important for providing national economic security – and finding a balance between the need to regulate the internal market and the implementation of the commitments under WTO. …”
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Relationship of Maternal Hemoglobin and the Intergenic Period with Birth Weight by Carlos Alberto Llerena Gómez, Evelyn Carolina Betancourt Rubio, Karen Aracelly Tobar Almendariz

“…<br /><strong>Method:</strong> a descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out on pregnant women treated at a hospital of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute during the first semester of 2023. …”
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‘Health Camp’ model: a unique approach for child vaccination in non-state armed actor controlled, inaccessible geographies in Somalia by Mohamed Hussein Kahow, Salad Ahmed Halane, Asma Ali, Rashed Shah

“…The project underscores the critical role of local community-based organizations and clan elders in reaching inaccessible populations through humanitarian negotiation amidst security challenges. The project has achieved significant milestones aligned with national health strategic plans, including progress towards universal health coverage and improved immunization access in Somalia’s most challenging regions.…”
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Physics-Informed Denoising Model for Dynamic Data Recovery of Power Systems by Jian Li, Guoqiang Lu, Yongbin Li, Dongning Zhao, Huaiyuan Wang, Yucheng Ouyang

“…However, the actual data may be corrupted by noise in the process of measurement or transmission, and the accuracy of dynamic security assessment (DSA) will be affected. In light of the poor interpretability exhibited by traditional machine learning (ML) methods in denoising, a physics-informed denoising model (PIDM) for dynamic data recovery is proposed. …”
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A Cryptographic Scheme for Construction of Substitution Boxes Using Quantic Fractional Transformation by Abid Mahboob, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Nadeem, Aysha Saleem, Sayed M. Eldin, Imran Siddique

“…In the new era of cryptography, Substitution Boxes (S-Boxes) are very important to raise confusion in cipher text and the security of encryption directly depends on the algebraic strength of S-box. …”
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Application of Sustainable Education Innovation in the Integrated Teaching of Theory and Practice Adopted in the Auto Chassis Course by Tzu-Chia Chen, Jiuqi Yu, Amir-Mohammad Golmohammadi

“…After surveying and collecting the security incidents, which occurred in the integrated teaching of theory and practice adopted in the automobile chassis course, the presented reality that teachers were reluctant to accept the integrated teaching of theory and practice, and the deficiencies sensed in the school-enterprise engagement; the researcher firstly obtained the risk priority number (RPN) of each deficiency above via fuzzy failure mode and effect analysis (FFMEA) and accordingly expounded how TRIZ was applied under this circumstance. …”
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Modifications of the maximum expiratory flow in bronchial asthma treatment using Intal and Ketotifeno. by Belkis M. Vicente Sánchez, Nallelys Villanueva Bravo, Luis M. Padrón Velásquez, Marylin Aroche Quintana

“…<strong><br />Results</strong>: They in our patient prevailed the ages of 15- 24 years and of 25- 34 years and the feminine sex, the Salbutamol was the more utilized in the previous treatments, initially the greater number of asthmatic they were classified like moderates and upon concluding the 12mo month the 72.9% they of the total of the pattern behaved like light; they with both treatments improved the courages of FEM, although the group of patient that you received treatment with Intal you showed an improvement in statements security much more rapid. <strong><br />Conclusions:</strong> That patient that they utilized Intal had a more rapid elevation of the FEM.…”
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