Integrating taxonomic, genetic and ecological data to explore the species richness of wild bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila) of the Culuccia Peninsula (NE Sardinia, Italy) by Matteo Annessi, Alessandra Riccieri, Marilena Marconi, Sabrina Rossi, Andrea Di Giulio

“…Conservation efforts are hindered by insufficient data, especially in the Mediterranean basin, which hosts some of the most diverse pollinator communities in the world. Particularly in Sardinia, the second largest island in the Mediterranean, information on the bee fauna is still limited. …”
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Online foreign language teaching: challenges and solutions by Inessa K. Batenina, Yuliya M. Orekhova

“…The unfavorable epidemiological situation, modern political and economic transformations in the world have also had an impact on the sphere of education: online learning has received a powerful impetus for rapid development. …”
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Population aging: a look from nursing practice based on the Nola J. Pender model by María de los Ángeles Villegas Dorticós, Zenia Tamara Sánchez García, Omayda Urbina Laza, Noel Alberto Pardillo Mustelier, Jacquelin Cordero Odery, Maydelis Gómez Valdivia

“…The theoretical aspects expressed by her, her main assumptions and her relationship with population aging are analyzed, in addition to exposing her theoretical contributions, the importance of her application for the family, the community and her contribution to the development of nursing not only in Cuba but in the world; if we start from the fact that Cuba is among the oldest countries in Latin America. …”
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Inferred Industrial and Agricultural Activities Impact on Groundwater Quality of Skhira Coastal Phreatic Aquifer in Southeast of Tunisia (Mediterranean Region) by Samira Melki, Amina Mabrouk El Asmi, Moncef Gueddari

“…Overall, most analyzed samples do not meet the World Health Organization norms and therefore are not suitable as drinking waters. …”
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Machine learning for medical image classification by Gazi Husain, Jonathan Mayer, Molly Bekbolatova, Prince Vathappallil, Mihir Matalia, Milan Toma

“…It highlights the intricate process involved in selecting the most suitable ML algorithm for predicting specific medical conditions, emphasizing the critical role of real-world data in testing and validation. It navigates through various ML methods utilized in healthcare, including Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Self-Supervised Learning, Deep Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, and Ensemble Methods. …”
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Identifying and thematically analyzing the challenges of the health sector in managing the local press in Iran: a qualitative study by Masoomeh Ghasemi Gorbandi, Hamideh Molaei, Akbar Nasrollahi

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Strong reciprocal dependencies as exceptions when correlations are weak by M. M. Basimov

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Banana residue could be a viable rice straw alternative for Pleurotus mushroom production by Hend Hamed, Mohamed Mohamed, Khalid elshaikh, Maher Hosseney

“…This has the potential to improve the livelihoods of rural agricultural communities in Egypt, as well as those in other parts of the world.Method For two successive trials, three sole substrates (BR, SS, and RS) and six various combinations of SS and BR each with rice straw at 1:1, 1:2, and 2:1 ratio were tested. …”
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Peer support workers in co-production and co-creation in public mental health and addiction services: Protocol for a scoping review. by Kristina Bakke Aakerblom, Ottar Ness

“…Literature searches are conducted in Medline, PsycINFO, Embase, Oria, WorldCat, Google Scholar, Scopus, Academic Search Elite, Cinahl, and Web of Science, from the inception of each database to January 4, 2021. …”
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Carte, autor şi model uman în Predosloviile vechi româneşti by Laura Lazăr Zăvăleanu

“…On such premises it is our intention to recompose a panoramic image of the axiological system of a world in which the relationship with the divinity and the ‘neighbor near by’ are facing the challenge of a deep reconfiguration as a consequence to the direct access to the book written in their own language.…”
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Assessing the Rise in Papillary Thyroid Cancer Incidence: A 38-Year Australian Study Investigating WHO Classification Influence by Steven Weller, Cordia Chu, Alfred King-yin Lam

“…This study investigated how the incidence of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) subtypes and World Health Organisation (WHO) endocrine tumour classification changes have affected overall thyroid cancer incidence recorded in Australia. …”
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A Comparison of Evolutionary Computation Techniques for IIR Model Identification by Erik Cuevas, Jorge Gálvez, Salvador Hinojosa, Omar Avalos, Daniel Zaldívar, Marco Pérez-Cisneros

“…In particular, the use of infinite impulse response (IIR) models for identification is preferred over their equivalent FIR (finite impulse response) models since the former yield more accurate models of physical plants for real world applications. However, IIR structures tend to produce multimodal error surfaces whose cost functions are significantly difficult to minimize. …”
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Some Complex Picture Fuzzy Aggregation Operators Based on Frank t-norm and t-conorm: An Application to Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) Process by Faisal Mehmood, Heng Liu

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Features of studying a communicative discourse within a competence approach by Elena V. Maksimyuk

“…The inclusion in the educational and methodological complexes for teaching a foreign language of tasks aimed at analyzing an external context that is close to real will contribute to the implementation of new approaches to teaching foreign languages in higher education, the further implementation of new federal state standards, and contribute to the achievement of the main goal of teaching foreign languages - the formation of a secondary linguistic personality, ready for foreign language communication in a multicultural world in a pandemic circumstances.…”
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Resting-State fMRI Whole Brain Network Function Plasticity Analysis in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder by Yi Tang, Shuxing Zheng, Yin Tian

“…The results found that the ADHD group showed stronger economic small-world network property, while the clustering coefficient was significantly lower than the normal group; the frontal and occipital lobes showed smaller node degree and global efficiency between disease statuses. …”
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Spiritual intelligence: a scoping review on the gateway to mental health by Cristina Teixeira Pinto, Lúcia Guedes, Sara Pinto, Rui Nunes

“…These findings prompt a discussion regarding the integration of the SI concept into a revised definition of health by the World Health Organization and underscore the significance of SI training as a preventative health measure.…”
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The Value of Preemptive Pick-Up Services in Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Last-Mile Delivery: Space-Time Network-Based Formulation and Solution Algorithms by Weiran Meng, Lingyun Meng, Guoshuai Han, Xiaotian Zhuang, Lu Carol Tong, Shengnan Wu

“…Finally, the validity and effectiveness of the proposed methods are evaluated on an illustrative network and a real-world last-mile delivery network operated by a logistics company.…”
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Stability of Watch-Based Blood Pressure Measurements Analyzed by Pre-Post Calibration Differences by Youngro Lee, Jongae Park, Sungjoon Park, Jongmo Seo, Hae-Young Lee

“…However, concerns about accuracy and validation for clinical use persist. This study uses real-world data from a Samsung Galaxy Watch campaign to assess smartwatch-based BP measurements. …”
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An Enhanced Semisteady-State Jaya Algorithm With a Control Coefficient and a Self-Adaptive Multipopulation Strategy by Joshua Churchill Ankrah, Francis Boafo Effah, Elvis Twumasi

“…When compared with the Snow Geese Algorithm (SGA), Big Bang–Big Crunch Algorithm (BBBCA), firefly algorithm (FA), bat algorithm (BA), cuckoo search algorithm (CSA), and flower pollination algorithm (FPA), the ESJaya algorithm gives competitive results in terms of obtaining optimum values, mean accuracy, and stability. Using four real-world engineering problems, the ESJaya algorithm is compared with the recently proposed piranha predation optimization algorithm (PPOA) and four state-of-the-art algorithms, namely, the COLSHADE algorithm, the sCMAgES algorithm, the SASS algorithm, and the EnMODE algorithm. …”
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A Parasite That Should not be Neglected in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis: Entamoeba histolytica by Murat Soylu, Abdurrahman Ekici, Selahattin Aydemir, Şehriban Yürektürk, Önder Akkaş

“…Objective: To determine the prevalence of amoebiasis, which has been neglected in recent years according to the World Health Organization, in ulcerative colitis patients and investigate the relationship between amoebiasis and ulcerative colitis. …”
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