Selection of Sustainable Building Material Using Multicriteria Decision-Making Model: A Case of Masonry Work in Lideta Subcity, Addis Ababa by Diriba Tegegne, Mebratu Abera, Esayas Alemayehu

“…In today’s world, where the need for construction projects is increasing from time to time, especially in developing countries such as Ethiopia, sustainability issues and principles were not exercised by construction professionals during the material selection process. …”
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Association Between ABO Blood Groups and Malaria Severity in a Regional Referral Hospital in Jayapura Papua, Indonesia by Andreas Pekey, Leonard Nainggolan, Cosphiadi Irawan, Kuntjoro Harimurti

“…Diagnosis of malaria was determined using World Health Organization criteria and classified into severe and uncomplicated malaria. …”
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Effects of Pickleball Intervention on the Self-Esteem and Symptoms of Patients with Schizophrenia by Tsai-Chieh Chien, Chao-Chien Chen

“…<i>Background:</i> Schizophrenia is classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the top ten diseases contributing to the global medical economic burden. …”
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Regulacje służące ochronie genius loci jako spoiwa łączącego dziedzictwo materialne i niematerialne by Lena Gryz

“…In both international and Polish law, numerous acts and documents can be leveraged for protecting genius loci, notably: Quebec Declaration on the Preservation of the Spirit of Place, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Nature Conservation Act and the Spatial Planning and Development Act. …”
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Evaluation of Protective Effects of Aqueous Extract of S. Maydis on Liver Cytoarchitecture of Wistar Rats Induced with Carbonated Herbal Alcoholic Beverages (Orijin Bitters) by A. Agbortai, G. I. Eze, S. B. Olukayode, S. O. Innih

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The Effects of Storage on Sachet Water Quality in Ogun State, Nigeria by ZO Ajekunle, VO Ojekunle, AO Eruola, FF Oyebanji, KA Olatunde, BT Amujo, OR Sangowusi, AA Adekttan, AG Taiwo

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Immunotherapy with IgY Antibodies toward Outer Membrane Protein F Protects Burned Mice against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection by Fatemeh Norouzi, Bahador Behrouz, Mahya Ranjbar, Seyed Latif Mousavi Gargari

“…Burn patients with multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections commonly suffer from high morbidity and mortality, which present a major challenge to healthcare systems throughout the world. Outer membrane protein F (OprF), as a main outer membrane porin, is required for full virulence expression of P. aeruginosa. …”
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Diffusion Partition Consensus: Diffusion-Aided Time-of-Flight Estimates, Anomaly Detection, and Localization for Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation Data by Nick Torenvliet, John S. Zelek

“…Testing and evaluation are performed on a series of progressively information rich synthetic datasets, and on real-world ultrasonic NDE datasets taken from a Canada Deuterium Uranium nuclear reactor pressure tube and calibration fixture. …”
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From Bestial to Human: Neo-Mythological Reinterpretations of the Image of Delilah in Russian Literature at the Turn of the 20th-21st Centuries by Nataļja Šroma

“…The article examines one of the eternal images of the world culture in a diachronic aspect, namely the interpretation and reinterpretation of the image of Delilah in Russian literature, primarily in poetry, from the 19th century to the present day. …”
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A Review of the Self-Adaptive Traffic Signal Control System Based on Future Traffic Environment by Yizhe Wang, Xiaoguang Yang, Hailun Liang, Yangdong Liu

“…The article investigates the development of commonly used self-adaptive signal control systems in the world, their technical characteristics, the current research status of self-adaptive control methods, and the signal control methods for heterogeneous traffic flow composed of connected vehicles and autonomous vehicles. …”
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The Pollyanna Effect: The role of positive personal and group identity defense mechanisms by T.A. Nestik

“…</strong> In the context of increasing hard-to-control climatic, military, economic and technological threats, research aimed at identifying the psychological mechanisms underlying the willingness of individuals and groups to positively evaluate themselves, their group and the world is becoming increasingly important. One of the results of such mechanisms is the Pollyanna effect &ndash; the tendency of people to give preference to positive information, manifested in assessments of the present, memories of the past and expectations about the future, and reflected in the prevalence of positive words over negative in the vocabulary of the language.…”
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Converting the cigarette butts into valuable products using the pyrolysis process by M. Hazbehiean, N. Mokhtarian, A. Hallajisani

“…These cigarette butts are considered as one of the most hazardous wastes and environmental threats in the world. Thermochemical techniques can be used to turn biomass and solid wastes into valuable final products. …”
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Fast and Deterministic Underwater Point Cloud Registration for Multibeam Echo Sounder Data by Liang Zhao, Lan Cheng, Tingfeng Tan, Chun Cao, Feihu Zhang

“…Experiments conducted on both public and real-world lake datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a favorable balance between speed and accuracy, outperforming other tested methods and meeting the demands of contemporary research.…”
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Digital Tools and Decision Support Systems in Agroecology: Benefits, Challenges, and Practical Implementations by Dimitra Petraki, Ioannis Gazoulis, Metaxia Kokkini, Marios Danaskos, Panagiotis Kanatas, Andreas Rekkas, Ilias Travlos

“…The findings indicate that while digital solutions offer significant potential to enhance productivity and improve environmental outcomes, their adoption remains limited due to barriers such as low digital literacy, lack of infrastructure, and concerns about effectiveness in real-world farming conditions. Despite these challenges, digital solutions offer significant potential to enhance productivity, improve environmental outcomes, and support farmers’ decision-making. …”
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Long-Term Effect of Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (Anti-VEGF) Injections in Choroidal Neovascularization Secondary to Angioid Streaks by Sónia Torres-Costa, João Bernardes, Sofia Sousa Mano, Joana Medeiros-Pinto, Ana Carolina Abreu, Maria João Furtado, Rufino Silva, Carlos Marques-Neves, Fernando Falcão-Reis, Ângela Carneiro, Luísa Colaço, Manuel Falcão

“…Conclusion. This real-world study suggests that the functional and morphologic response to anti-VEGF therapy for CNV related to angioid streaks is generally satisfactory and maintained in the long term.…”
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SÖZLÜ TARİH/SÖZLÜ GELENEK VE HADİS KİTAPLARI-Sahîh-i Müslim Örneği- by M. Hanefi Palabıyık

“…The event explained in the text certainly loses the liveliness and meaningfulness in the world of first relaters. The hadiths we have as a written text now comprise all the weakness of a written text. …”
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Acceptance and affordability of malaria vaccines: issues relating to hesitancy and willingness to pay amongst Nigerian parents of under-five children by Obi Peter Adigwe, Godspower Onavbavba

“…Abstract Background With the recent approval of the malaria vaccine by the World Health Organization, it is expected that global acceptance and subsequent uptake of the intervention can help to reduce the burden of the disease in Africa. …”
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Permeability Effect of Green Roof Drainage Board by Pelin Sertyeşilışık, Tayfun Uygunoğlu

“…One of the environmentally friendly ways to collect rainwater is to install green roofs, and there are examples of this all over the world. Using the green roof system helps lessen flash floods and sewage floods in cities, which are today's most significant issues. …”
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Optimisation of sparse deep autoencoders for dynamic network embedding by Huimei Tang, Yutao Zhang, Lijia Ma, Qiuzhen Lin, Liping Huang, Jianqiang Li, Maoguo Gong

“…The performance of SPDNE over three dynamical NE models (i.e. sparse architecture‐based deep autoencoder method, DynGEM, and ElvDNE) is evaluated on three well‐known benchmark networks and five real‐world networks. The experimental results demonstrate that SPDNE can reduce about 70% of weight parameters of the architecture for the deep autoencoder during the training process while preserving the performance of these dynamical NE models. …”
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Factors Affecting The Frequency and Amount of Purchase Value in Online Food Delivery Apps by Salman Fauzan Shidqi, Ujang Sumarwan, Popong Nurhayati

“…Indonesia itself has become one of the countries with the highest number of internet users utilizing online food delivery applications in the world. Purpose: This research aims to determine the factors that influence repeat purchase decisions on online food delivery applications, which are based on purchase frequency and total purchase value. …”
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