COVID-19 and the food system: unpacking lessons from food traders’ responses in Tanzania by Luitfred Kissoly, Rose Qamara, Daniel Mbisso

“…In response to these disruptive effects, food traders employed a variety of strategies, including altering their sources of produce and credit arrangements, relying on social networks, engaging in collective purchasing and transportation of products, and utilizing digital platforms for customer interaction, ordering, payments, and delivery. …”
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Natural Hydroxybenzoic and Hydroxycinnamic Acids Derivatives: Mechanisms of Action and Therapeutic Applications by Sergio López-Herrador, Julia Corral-Sarasa, Pilar González-García, Yaco Morillas-Morota, Enrica Olivieri, Laura Jiménez-Sánchez, María Elena Díaz-Casado

“…Their biological properties are distinctive, as they combine antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and metabolic functions, which can be utilized for therapeutic purposes in humans. …”
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Defects in Silicon Carbide as Quantum Qubits: Recent Advances in Defect Engineering by Ivana Capan

“…A key challenge in utilizing these defects for quantum applications is their precise and controllable creation. …”
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Photocatalytic performance of Se-modified TiO2 prepared with triethanolamine or iminodiacetic acid as hydrolysis inhibitors by Xia Zhang, Jinyu Yang, Junjie Xu, Shizhong Zhou, Yanglin Zhang, Xuan Liu, Yanqing Zhang, Yuesheng Li, Jun Guo

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Greener solvents in extraction of proteins and peptides by Katarína Maráková

“…The sample pretreatment still represents a fundamental aspect of any analytical workflow, and the implementation of sustainable and efficient extraction of proteins is essential to satisfy the increasing requirements for high-quality extraction of proteins from their natural sources. Proteins, with their unique structural and functional characteristics, are utilized in several industries such as pharmaceuticals, biomedicine, cosmetics, and food. …”
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Association between early initiation of anti-herpesvirus therapy and outcomes in herpesvirus encephalitis: A Nationwide Retrospective Propensity Score Analysis in Japan by Satoshi Kutsuna, Hiroyuki Ohbe, Yuya Kimura, Keito Shinmoto, Yuichiro Matsuo, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideo Yasunaga

“…Conclusion: Early anti-herpesvirus therapy was associated with improved survival, functional outcomes, and lower resource utilization in HSE.…”
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Advanced Suspension Techniques in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors: An Overview by Vishnu G. Nair

“…It discusses the rationale behind each design, the materials utilized, and other relevant details, serving as a useful resource for the gravitational wave detector community.…”
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Mathematical modeling of heat and mass transfer processes in a reciprocating engine of a vehicle with a hybrid powertrain by Fedіr Abramchuk, Vitaliy Krivda, Olha Sakno, Valentyna Olishevska, Kostyantyn Kornilenko, Olena Sakno

“…Automotive transport plays a crucial role in the functioning and development of any country's economy. …”
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Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Two-Phase Hybrid Optimization for Scheduling Agile Earth Observation Satellites by Guanghui Zhou, Zhicheng Jin, Dongning Liu

“…To mitigate problem complexity, the action space is decomposed into two interdependent decision layers: task sequencing and resource allocation. Given the resource occupation constraints during action execution, a novel reward function is designed by integrating resource occupation utility into the immediate reward mechanism. …”
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Experimental study on solution possibilities of multiextremal optimization problems through heuristic methods by Rudolf A. Neydorf, Ivan V. Chernogorov, Orkhan Takhir Yarakhmedov, Victor V. Polyakh

“…Each method can provide any desired accuracy of the extremum problem solution, and it utilizes an acceptable time resource.…”
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Solid State Transformers: A Review—Part I: Stages of Conversion and Topologies by Dragoș-Mihail Predescu, Ștefan-George Roșu

“…In addition to magnetic circuit reduction, SSTs provide enhanced functionalities such as power factor correction, voltage regulation, and the capability to interface with various sources and loads. …”
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Life After Invasive Meningococcal Disease: Insights from Survivors and Their Caregivers by Oscar Herrera-Restrepo, Nuzhat Afroz, Eliazar Sabater Cabrera, Matthew Reaney, France Ginchereau Sowell, Ramiya Kumar, Alicia Stillman, Patti Wukovits, Mariana Rodrigues, Sofia B. Pinto, Zeki Kocaata, Obinna Onwude

“…Long-term financial challenges related to healthcare resource utilization were substantial, with specialized care and rehabilitation therapy expenses (11/11), insurance challenges (8/11), and high out-of-pocket costs (6/11) for survivors. …”
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Uncertainty-Aware Active Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Text Classification by Sanghyun Seo, Hiskias Dingeto, Juntae Kim

“…Our findings suggest that this methodology can be effectively utilized in a wider range of application areas, opening new avenues for future research in low-resource natural language understanding.…”
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Segmental Renal Ischemia following Transplantation of Horseshoe Kidney as Separate Allografts by J. T. Foster, P. E. Morrissey

“…Technical descriptions in the literature of successful back-table preparation strategies should help more transplant surgeons to begin to utilize this resource. Conclusion. This study concludes that horseshoe kidneys can be successfully used for transplantation and provides a technical strategy to salvage the transplant after a unique complication associated with these donor kidneys.…”
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A simple but effective method for Indonesian automatic text summarisation by Nankai Lin, Jinxian Li, Shengyi Jiang

“…Due to the scarcity of corpus, abstractive summarisation achieves poor performance for low-resource language ATS tasks. That’s why it is common for researchers to apply extractive summarisation to low-resource language instead of using abstractive summarisation. …”
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Inoculation of the fungi-static C. iranensis ZJW-6 accelerates compost maturation, enhances fertilizer efficiency, and increases the abundance of target microbes in spring and autu... by Dongchao Wang, Jingqi He, Liangdong Li, Gaoyuan Wu, Zixian Jiang, Baifeng Cang, Meikang Wu, Min Nuo, Zichen Liu, Jiaxuan Li, Shengbo Xu, Xintong Ma, Zhihai Wu, Meiying Yang

“…IntroductionStraw composting is an effective way of straw resource utilization, and inoculation of microorganisms can accelerate straw decomposition. …”
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A user-friendly NoSQL framework for managing agricultural field trial data by Steven H. Wu, Tristan A. Mueller

“…This framework includes functions for non-technical users, including importing and exporting data, data integration and manipulation, and performing statistical analysis. …”
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Cost-Effective Photoacoustic Imaging Using High-Power Light-Emitting Diodes Driven by an Avalanche Oscillator by Alberto Prud’homme, Frederic Nabki

“…While lasers have traditionally been the light source for PAI, their high cost and complexity drive interest towards alternative sources like light-emitting diodes (LEDs). …”
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Hybrid Deep Neural Network Optimization with Particle Swarm and Grey Wolf Algorithms for Sunburst Attack Detection by Mohammad Almseidin, Amjad Gawanmeh, Maen Alzubi, Jamil Al-Sawwa, Ashraf S. Mashaleh, Mouhammd Alkasassbeh

“…The strength of DNNs is derived from their ability to model complex functions and to improve detection engines through deeper architecture. …”
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Microwave-assisted Deep Eutectic Solvent Extraction of Xinjiang Wild Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. Polysaccharides and Analysis of Its Antioxidant and Antibacterial Activities by Linghe ZHANG, Hao XIE, Maimaiti NUER

“…These findings indicate the promising in vitro antioxidant and antibacterial properties of cherry plum polysaccharides and provide a theoretical foundation for their development and utilization as functional products.…”
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