Challenges in nature-based health and therapy research and critical considerations for application in musculoskeletal health by Richard Doran-Sherlock, Payal Sood, Nicole Anne Struthers, Filip Maric

“…Nature-based health and therapy (NBHT) is a term incorporating a broad suite of practices that focus on engagement with the natural world and nature-rich spaces for potential physical and mental health benefits. …”
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ANNUAL GROWTH OF MOSSES IN MIDDLE-TAIGA PINE FORESTS WITH UNDERGROWTH IN THE REPUBLIC OF KARELIA by N. V. Genikova, A. Ju. Karpechko, R. P. Obabko, V. L. Mironov, S. A. Kutenkov

“…In blueberry pine forests on sandy soils, the annual production of Pleurozium schreberi under pine canopies was twice as high compared to open spaces between canopies (61.2±11.8 and 29.9±9.3 g/m², respectively).…”
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Class III Orthodontic Camouflage: Is the “Ideal” Treatment Always the Best Option? A Documented Case Report by Lorenzo Rustico, Vincenzo Ronsivalle, Flavia Iaculli, Gianrico Spagnuolo, Gaetano Isola, Antonino Lo Giudice

“…This case report describes a borderline nongrowing patient with skeletal class III malocclusion, upper incisor proclination and spacing, lower crowding, and arch width discrepancy, which has already undergone previous orthodontic treatment. …”
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Joint security and performance improvement in multilevel shared caches by Amin Sarihi, Ahmad Patooghy, Mahdi Amininasab, Mohammad Shokrolah Shirazi, Abdel‐Hameed A. Badawy

“…The proposed attack prolongs the execution time of the victim threads by inducing intentional race conditions in shared memory spaces. Then, a thread‐mapping algorithm to detect such race conditions between a group of threads and resolve them as a countermeasure against the attack is proposed. …”
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Refined photovoltaic parameters estimation via an improved Sinh Cosh Optimizer with trigonometric operators by Ala Saleh Alluhaidan, Diaa Salama AbdElminaam, Taraggy M. Ghanim, Sahar A. El-Rahman, Ibrahim Shawky Farahat, Arar Al Tawil, Yasmin Alkady, Walaa H. Elashmawi

“…This integration improves the algorithm’s ability to navigate complex search spaces, avoid local optima, and expedite convergence. …”
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Affective economies of racism on social media by Rodwell Makombe, Bright Sinyonce, Mpitseng Tladi, Saneliso Thambo

“… New media technologies and social networks have not only opened up spaces for civic engagement and democratic participation, but have also offered alternative sites for the proliferation and circulation of racist, homophobic and xenophobic sentiment. …”
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Large-Scale Atmospheric Step-and-Repeat UV Nanoimprinting by Kentaro Ishibashi, Hiroshi Goto, Jun Mizuno, Shuichi Shoji

“…Nanostructures with widths and spacing patterns from 80 nm to 3 μm and 200 nm depth were formed using a quartz mold. …”
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Dynamic Characteristics and Seismic Response of Multi-Story Wooden Tower Considering the Influence of a High Stylobate by Hao Xue, Jianyang Xue, Dejun Song, Mengjie Li, Bowen Xue, Chenwei Wu, Yan Sui

“…The seismic response results indicate that the overall structure model exhibits a low natural vibration frequency with closely spaced modal frequencies. As the peak seismic wave acceleration increases, both models exhibit increased acceleration, displacement, and shear responses. …”
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Algorithm for estimating Cr coating thickness for accident tolerant fuel cladding using a pancake ECT sensor by Jeong Won Park, Daegyun Ko, Hun Jang, Hoyoung Kim, Jaebeom Lee, Wonjae Choi

“…A pancake ECT sensor was designed and fabricated to conduct thickness measurements in the confined spaces of multiple fuel assemblies. Nuclear fuel rods of various thicknesses were manufactured, and the thicknesses of the nuclear fuel rods were measured using a destructive method to provide the standard thickness for ECT measurement. …”
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Microclimate land surface temperatures across urban land use/ land cover forms by S. Ali, S. Patnaik, O. Madguni

“…The objective of the study was to understand how the surface temperature varies with the spatial characteristics of the landscape. The green spaces had the lowest surface temperature that reaches to about 30.5 °C in parks with dense tree cover and highest mean normalized difference vegetation index value of about 0.5. …”
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A Recurrent Nonsense Mutation in NECTIN4 Underlying Ectodermal Dysplasia-Syndactyly Syndrome with a Novel Phenotype in a Consanguineous Kashmiri Family by Ghazanfar Ali, Sadia Sadia, Syeda Ain-ul- Batool, Zahid Azeem, Naheed Bashir Awan, Syed Akif Raza Kazmi, Zia- Ur- Rehman, Zeeshan Anjum, Fazal- Ur- Rehman, Abdul Wali, Kafaitullah Khan, Nasib Zaman, Muhammad Ayub, Muhammad Sajid, Noor Hassan

“…Clinical manifestations of the syndrome include defective nail plate, sparse to absent scalp and body hair, spaced teeth with enamel hypoplasia, and bilateral cutaneous syndactyly in the fingers and toes. …”
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Outcomes of Geriatric Hip Fractures Treated with AFFIXUS Hip Fracture Nail by Ahmed Mabrouk, Mysore Madhusudan, Mohammed Waseem, Steven Kershaw, Jochen Fischer

“…The unique design of the lag screw and its thread spacing had effectively reduced cut-out rate.…”
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HHO–LSSVM prediction model of blast casting muck pile morphology based on Gaussian distribution by Ning MA, Li MA, Yinda LI, Tianxiang LI, Sen YANG, Fuming LIU, You ZHOU, Xiaomin WANG, Qifeng ZHANG, Mengbo LI

“…The correlation between hole spacing, section width and the evaluation indicators of blast casting effect is relatively low. …”
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Elections to the European Parliament as a form of civic expression by Anatoly A. Kanunnikov

“…The author shows that the European Union has created quite effective mechanisms that encourage the transformation of public spaces into civic self-expression, such as «Public Consultations», «Open Requests» and «European Citizens’ Initiatives». …”
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Immune infiltrate populations within distinct tumor immune microenvironments predictive of immune checkpoint treatment outcome by Brian Z Ring, Catherine T. Cronister, Huijun Z. Ring, Douglas T. Ross, Robert S. Seitz

“…Here we use twenty tumor types (7162 samples) to identify potentially conserved immune biology within these TIME spaces, genes co-expressed across distinct cell types involved these immune processes, and the association of these signatures with ICI response. …”
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The Behavior of RC Beams Strengthened with Steel Fiber Concrete Layer by ANSYS Simulation by Thanh Quang Khai Lam, Thi My Dung Do

“…This study investigated the following six cases: how the addition of SFs affects the properties of concrete, the spacing of the stirrups at the ends of the beam should be looked into to see what effects it might have, how the number of tensile steel bars in the beam affects its properties, how the diameter of tensile steel bars affects their properties, how the diameter of compressed steel bars affects the results, and how the thickness of the SFC layer affects the properties of the material. …”
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Face and Voice Recognition-Based Emotion Analysis System (EAS) to Minimize Heterogeneity in the Metaverse by Surak Son, Yina Jeong

“…While technologies like eye-tracking and hand-tracking transfer physical movements into virtual spaces, accurate emotion detection remains challenging. …”
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Modeling Microscopic Car-Following Strategy of Mixed Traffic to Identify Optimal Platoon Configurations for Multiobjective Decision-Making by Mudasser Seraj, Jiangchen Li, Zhijun Qiu

“…Both mobility and environmental improvements can be realized by forming long, closely spaced ADS vehicles at the cost of reduced safety. …”
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Starting with the Digital Doesn’t Make it Easier by Amanda Boczar

“…Intertwined within this discussion is an additional discourse over the need to carefully curate our digital spaces not only for practical cost reasons, but due to the environmental costs of massive data storage solutions. …”
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L’ethnographie militaire aux origines de la « politique berbère » du protectorat français au Maroc (1912-1915) by Mathieu Marly

“…These archives of military ethnography were spaces of experimentation and uncertainty, in which officers analyzed information collected on “indigenous” populations, developed often contradictory hypotheses, and selected and forgot data, before their observations were fixed by the “Berber policy” of the French Protectorate in Morocco.This article first focuses on the prejudices that officers had toward the political legitimacy of the Maghzen, the “religious lukewarmness” of Berber populations, and the political role of the tribal framework in Morocco. …”
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