Cytogenetic impact of gamma radiation and its effects on growth, yield and drought tolerance of maize (Zea mays L.) by Walaa M. Al-Sayed, Hanaa H. El-Shazly, Awatif I. El-Nahas, Ahmed A. A. Omran

“…Abstract Maize is the third most important grain crop worldwide after wheat and rice; it is a vital global crop, serving as a key source of food, animal feed, and industrial products, making it essential for food security and economic stability in many countries. …”
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Automated Bitcoin Trading dApp Using Price Prediction from a Deep Learning Model by Zhi Zhan Lua, Chee Kiat Seow, Raymond Ching Bon Chan, Yiyu Cai, Qi Cao

“…The integration of smart contracts and on-chain oracles ensures transparency and security, allowing real-time verification of portfolio management. …”
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Local Policies in the Fight Against the Covid-19 Pandemic: Ankara and Rome Municipal Councils’ Decisions by Hicran Hamza Çelikyay, Hülya Küçük Bayraktar

“…Findings: According to the analyses, the Ankara Metropolitan Municipal Council intensified its decisions on economic support, social assistance, cleaning, public health, and local diplomacy, while the Rome Metropolitan Municipality’s policies focused on security, education, economic support, social assistance, cleaning, and transportation services. …”
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Socio-economic and environmental factors affecting breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices among Batwa and Bakiga communities in south-western Uganda. by Giulia Scarpa, Lea Berrang-Ford, Sabastian Twesigomwe, Paul Kakwangire, Maria Galazoula, Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo, Kaitlin Patterson, Didacus B Namanya, Shuaib Lwasa, Ester Nowembabazi, Charity Kesande, IHACC Research Team, Janet E Cade

“…Specifically, we highlight the need to engage with local and national authorities to improve breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices, and work on food security, distribution of lands, and the food environment. …”
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1941 (pre-war half-year period): changes in the NKVD structure of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic by V. A. Grechenko

“…One of them had to deal directly with state security, and the creation of appropriate departments in the regions and districts. …”
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Multi-Relational Graph Representation Learning for Financial Statement Fraud Detection by Chenxu Wang, Mengqin Wang, Xiaoguang Wang, Luyue Zhang, Yi Long

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Applying Big Data Based Deep Learning System to Intrusion Detection by Wei Zhong, Ning Yu, Chunyu Ai

“…With vast amounts of data being generated daily and the ever increasing interconnectivity of the world’s internet infrastructures, a machine learning based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) has become a vital component to protect our economic and national security. Previous shallow learning and deep learning strategies adopt the single learning model approach for intrusion detection. …”
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1-Bit/2-Level Analog-to-Digital Conversion Based on Comparator and FPGA for Aperture Synthesis Passive Millimeter-Wave Imager by Xiangzhou Guo, Ghulam Mehdi, Muhammad Asif, Anyong Hu, Jungang Miao

“…Interferometric aperture synthesis is a proven technique in radio astronomy and earth remote sensing, which also shows great potentials in security screening. An aperture synthesis passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) imager is under development at Beihang University, which is designed for concealed contraband detection on the human body in an indoor environment. …”
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Long-Term Trends and Ecological Risks of Heavy Metal Accumulation in Cultivated Land of Songnen Plain, China by Zonglai Liu, Jinying Li, Yanan Chen, Fengjun Zhang, Wei Feng

“…Heavy metal pollution in agricultural soils poses a serious threat to food security. Therefore, it is crucial to conduct risk assessments and issue early warnings about high levels of metal contamination for the sustained prosperity of agriculture. …”
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Presentation of Religious Tourism Pattern Based on Foundation Data Theory in International Borders by Ali Rostami, Mohammad Aidi, Alireaza slambolchi, Mohammadreza Rabiee Mandejin

“…Having determining the sample size qualitatively via snowball method, 14 experts of religious tourism including academics and trustees of religious tourism were recognized and they were interviewed directly and the research findings showed that religious tourism pattern in Mehran International Border has six main components including casual conditions (religious and tribal communities, provincial infrastructures, common border of Iraq and vicinity to The Holy of Holies, advertisements) categories (tourism and its subcategories, religious places in Iran and Iraq, security) grounds (commercial free zone in Mehran welfare and health services, economic part of religious tourism), interferer factors (political factors, conveying affairs to non-governmental sector, weather changes), strategies (cooperating with educational centers and universities, increasing governmental investing, using capacities of religious days) consequences & results (income and creating jobs, people’s persistence in border and non-immigration, cultural development of province, destruction of environmental, road and jungles of province) which could be introduced as a proper pattern for religious tourism in Mehran International Border according to the opinion of experts. …”
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Juvenile resistance of barleys from the East Asian center of crop origin and domestication to powdery mildew by R. A. Abdullaev, I. N. Anisimova, O. N. Kovaleva, E. E. Radchenko

“…Including genotypes protected by previously unused resistance genes into breeding practice is necessary to ensure the national food security. Barley landraces could become a fairly rich source of replenishment for the bank of effective pathogen resistance genes.Materials and methods. …”
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Life-history adaptation under climate warming magnifies the agricultural footprint of a cosmopolitan insect pest by Estelle Burc, Camille Girard-Tercieux, Moa Metz, Elise Cazaux, Julian Baur, Mareike Koppik, Alexandre Rêgo, Alex F Hart, David Berger

“…Abstract Climate change is affecting population growth rates of ectothermic pests with potentially dire consequences for agriculture and global food security. However, current projection models of pest impact typically overlook the potential for rapid genetic adaptation, making current forecasts uncertain. …”
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Analysis of a No Equilibrium Linear Resistive-Capacitive-Inductance Shunted Junction Model, Dynamics, Synchronization, and Application to Digital Cryptography in Its Fractional-Ord... by Sifeu Takougang Kingni, Gaetan Fautso Kuiate, Romanic Kengne, Robert Tchitnga, Paul Woafo

“…Finally, a cryptographic encryption scheme with the help of the finite-time synchronization of fractional-order chaotic no equilibrium LRCLSJ models is illustrated through a numerical example, showing that a high level security device can be produced using this system.…”
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Crop wild relatives conservation in the Chechen Republic by L. V. Bagmet, M. A. Taisumov

“…Plant genetic resources (PGR) conservation is an indispensable condition for ensuring the country's economic and environmental security. The most important component of the PGR status assessment is the study of crop wild relatives in a particular region. …”
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Multiplex Community Detection in Social Networks Using a Chaos-Based Hybrid Evolutionary Approach by Bagher Zarei, Bahman Arasteh, Mehdi Asadi, Vahid Majidnezhad, Saeid Taghavi Afshord, Asgarali Bouyer

“…This knowledge is valuable across various disciplines like marketing, management, epidemiology, homeland security, and psychology. An essential task within network analysis is deciphering the structure of complex networks including technological, informational, biological, and social networks. …”
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Conceptualizing a model for the use of software as a service to improve the dynamic capabilities of small and medium enterprises in healthcare sector by P. Makelana, R. Kekwaletswe, M. A. Segooa

“…Results: The study results show that customer service (β=0.125, p<0.05), sharing information (β=0.132, p<0.05), internet access (β=0.057, p<0.05), data security (β=0.022, p<0.05), top management support (β=0.427, p<0.05), competitive pressure (β=0.178, p<0.05), viability (β=0.325, p<0.05) and task-technology fit (β=0.032, p<0.05) are highly significant on the use of SaaS to improve the DCs of healthcare SMEs. …”
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How Do Climate and Nonclimatic Variables Influence the Production of Agricultural Staple Crops in Vulnerable Rural Communities in the Bawku Municipality of Northern Ghana? by Rashida Ayumah, Felix Asante, Lawrence Guodaar, Gabriel Eshun

“…Also, policy on climate adaptation should take into account the interaction of external drivers of climate and nonclimatic variables to better build farmers’ resilience for food security at the local level.…”
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Home care program for high-risk pregnancies: a qualitative study of care providers perspectives from Iran by Masoumeh sayahi, Shahrbanoo Salehin, Mehrnoosh Zakerkish, Afsaneh Keramat, Shahrbanoo Goli

“…The main categories and subcategories were “support dimension (family and community support for high-risk pregnant women),” “education dimension (empowerment of high-risk pregnant women and care providers),” and “infrastructures of the program (acculturalization, provision of program budget and care tariff, means and equipment, security and ethical issues, manpower, and the necessary arrangements for the home care).” …”
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Design of an Integrated Model for Video Summarization Using Multimodal Fusion and YOLO for Crime Scene Analysis by Sai Babu Veesam, Aravapalli Rama Satish

“…Real-time learning through RL-HITL ensures model refinement and hereby gives long-term benefits in security and surveillance application, hence analysis at a crime scene for different scenarios.…”
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Interactive Influence Analysis of Tunnel Lateral Clearance on Driving Behavior Using Expressway Field Data by Li Wan, Mo Zhou, Ge Liu, Chang-An Zhang, Ying Yan

“…Changes in lateral clearance are prone to drastic changes in the driving environment at the entrance and exit of the tunnel, which can cause a driver to become psychologically stressed and deviate from the center of a lane, thus creating a greater security risk. However, most of the existing regulations and studies only focus on the horizontal and vertical alignment of the tunnel entrances and exits, and there are few studies on the influence of lateral clearance on driving behavior. …”
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