An Overview on the Role of Relative Humidity in Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Indoor Environments by Ajit Ahlawat, Alfred Wiedensohler, Sumit Kumar Mishra

“…Abstract COVID-19 disease is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which originated in Wuhan, China and spread with an astonishing rate across the world. The transmission routes of SARS-CoV-2 are still debated, but recent evidence strongly suggests that COVID-19 could be transmitted via air in poorly ventilated places. …”
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Elemental Analysis and Mapping of Some Natural Waters in Eastern Black Sea Region and Investigation of Their Effects on Environment and Human Health by Yaşar Kobya, Cafer Mert Yeşilkanat

“…The results were generally consistent with the permissible limits of World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkish. …”
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Obscene beasts: the stage behind the scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mathilde La Cassagnère

“…Mimesis, the art of imitating the real world on the stage, is all the more difficult if this real world consists of a beast—a wild, dangerous, supposedly “obscene” animal in the Latin sense: literally off-stage. …”
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Maximum Butterfly Generators Search in Bipartite Networks by Jianrong Huang, Guangyao Pang, Fei Hao

“…Bipartite graphs are widely used for modelling various real-world scenarios characterized with binary relations, such as, scholarly articles recommendation with author-paper relations, and product recommendation with user-product relations. …”
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Integrating Guidance and Counseling into Islamic Education: A Framework for Holistic Student Development by Fitra Herlinda, Munir Munir, Sariah Sariah

“…This study positions Islamic education as a model for cultivating insan kamil—holistic individuals capable of thriving in a complex, interconnected world while upholding strong moral and ethical values. …”
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Transformations of Medical and Vaccine Diplomacies in the COVID-19 Era by I. I. Arsentyeva

“…COVID-19 vaccines are becoming a strategic asset that affects the country’s position on the world stage and generates a new field of geopolitical rivalry. …”
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Development of a multiaxial fatigue damage parameter and life prediction methodology for non-proportional loading by Sandip Suman, Alan Kallmeye, John Smith

“…Most of the prior studies on the prediction of fatigue lives have been limited to uniaxial loading cases, whereas real world loading scenarios are often multiaxial, and the prediction of fatigue life based upon uniaxial fatigue properties may lead to inaccurate results. …”
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Physician Kitasato Shibasaburō: Achievements and posthumous veneration in Shintō by V. A. Gorshkov-Cantacuzene

“…His services to Japanese and world medicine are truly immense. No less interesting is his posthumous veneration in Shinto, which was combined with the veneration of the German physician Robert Koch (1843–1910), a teacher and senior friend of Kitasato Shibasaburō. …”
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Tourism and Erotic Imaginaries in Wartime Paris: French and Germans during the Occupation, 1940-1944 by Bertram M. Gordon

“…This essay focuses on the intersections of tourism, war, and erotics in occupied Paris during the Second World War. Too frequently, tourism is considered a only peacetime phenomenon. …”
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Hard and soft climate-smart investments in aquaculture in Bangladesh: Conditioning factors and decision space by T.S. Amjath-Babu, Peerzadi Rumana Hossain, Sanzida Akhter Anee, Essam Yassin Mohammed, Timothy J. Krupnik

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Leaders' Degree of Strategic Improvisation Practice from Education Employees' Perspective by Rahmeh Abbaas B. Alhameedyeen, Ola Mahmoud K. Alhamaidah

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Sugar Profile, Mineral Content, and Rheological and Thermal Properties of an Isomerized Sweet Potato Starch Syrup by Brunson Dominque, Peter N. Gichuhi, Vijay Rangari, Adelia C. Bovell-Benjamin

“…Currently, corn is used to produce more than 85% of the world’s high fructose syrup (HFS). There is a search for alternative HFS substrates because of increased food demand and shrinking economies, especially in the developing world. …”
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A Logical Hierarchical Hidden Semi-Markov Model for Team Intention Recognition by Shi-guang Yue, Peng Jiao, Ya-bing Zha, Quan-jun Yin

“…To model the team intention as well as the world state and observation, we propose a Logical Hierarchical Hidden Semi-Markov Model (LHHSMM), which has advantages of conducting statistical relational learning and can present a complex mission hierarchically. …”
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Sex, Gore and Provocation: the Influence of Exploitation in John Waters’s Early Films by Elise Pereira Nunes

“…Likewise, Waters’s emulations of the mondo films, pseudo-documentaries depicting sensational topics and supposedly real barbaric human behaviors all around the world, have also contributed to gross out his audiences. …”
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A Science of Diplomacy by T. V. Zonova

“…Information revolution, abandonment of a mind frame of bipolar world - all this has created very favorable conditions for reaching a qualitatively higher level of analysis of diplomatic institutions, structures and methods. …”
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Reimagining Geoscience Education for Sustainability by Ellen P. Metzger

“…The poor quality of Earth science education in schools around the world reverberates throughout society to perpetuate low levels of awareness of geoscience and misperceptions about its relevance and problem-solving potential. …”
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Global competitiveness research by Anđelić Slavica, Trišić Marko, Petrović Jovana

“…In order to identify as many indicators (variables) that are essential to the concept of competition, and get more reliable results when measuring the international competitiveness of countries, most commonly used and most accurate ones are three models: IMD model, the World Economic Forum model and the World Bank model. …”
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The Women’s Land Army (1944): Vita Sackville-West’s Non-Fictional Wartime Writing by Christine REYNIER

“…The Women’s Land Army draws our attention to the lives of the women who joined the WLA during the Second World War. The status of this book is discussed here: is it mere propaganda, a historical document, or a piece of modernist writing? …”
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Multi-modal framework for battery state of health evaluation using open-source electric vehicle data by Hongao Liu, Chang Li, Xiaosong Hu, Jinwen Li, Kai Zhang, Yang Xie, Ranglei Wu, Ziyou Song

“…Furthermore, we make the field data of these electric vehicles publicly available aiming to promote further research on the development of effective and reliable battery management systems for real-world vehicles.…”
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Crisscross Moss Growth Optimization: An Enhanced Bio-Inspired Algorithm for Global Production and Optimization by Tong Yue, Tao Li

“…Furthermore, in a real-world application to a three-channel reservoir production optimization problem, CCMGO achieves a significantly higher net present value (NPV) compared to benchmark algorithms. …”
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