Building Community Resilience to the Risks of Natural Disasters in Ensuring Societal Security - Case Studies of Floods in Germany and the Czech Republic in 2021-2024 by Marina A. Glaser, Varvara A. Gatskovskaya, Anton V. Poliachenkov

“…The authors argue that Germany and the Czech Republic vary not only in the amount of available social, economic, human, and physical capital but also in how these resources are utilized. The presence of resources alone is not sufficient to guarantee effective crisis resolution or societal security in the face of natural hazards. …”
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Evaluation and Optimization of Traditional Mountain Village Spatial Environment Performance Using Genetic and XGBoost Algorithms in the Early Design Stage—A Case Study in the Cold... by Zhixin Xu, Xiaoming Li, Bo Sun, Yueming Wen, Peipei Tang

“…As urbanization advances, rural construction and resource development in China encounter significant challenges, leading to the widespread adoption of standardized planning and design methods to manage increasing population pressure. …”
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The Hydrodynamic Performance of a Vertical-Axis Hydro Turbine with an Airfoil Designed Based on the Outline of a Sailfish by Aiping Wu, Shiming Wang, Chenglin Ding

“…This study investigates an aerodynamic optimization framework inspired by marine biological morphology, utilizing the sailfish profile as a basis for airfoil configuration. …”
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Electrolysis of Liquefied Biomass for Sustainable Hydrogen and Organic Compound Production: A Biorefinery Approach by Ana P. R. A. Ferreira, M. Margarida Mateus, Diogo M. F. Santos

“…FTIR analysis revealed no significant functional group changes in the electrolyte post-electrolysis. …”
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FSSA: A Fully Serial and Mixed-Precision Systolic Array for Vision Transformer Acceleration on Edge by Iraj Moghaddasi, Byeong-Gyu Nam

“…Leading-edge studies often utilize approximate computing to improve efficiency with minimal loss of accuracy. …”
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Role of community health workers in type 2 diabetes mellitus self-management: A scoping review. by Bonaventure Amandi Egbujie, Peter Arthur Delobelle, Naomi Levitt, Thandi Puoane, David Sanders, Brian van Wyk

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>This study aimed to examine how CHW have been utilized to support T2DM self-management globally, their preparation for and supervision to perform their functions.…”
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Estimating fish stock biomass using a Bayesian state-space model: accounting for catchability change due to technological progress by Makoto Nishimoto, Yoshinori Aoki, Naoto Matsubara, Paul Hamer, Yuichi Tsuda

“…This model allows for the flexible integration of the timing and functional form of the uptake of technological innovations that are assumed to influence catchability. …”
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Oral immunization of grouper with recombinant Chlamydomonas to prevent viral nervous necrosis and the effect of which on intestinal microbiota by Xiaodong Deng, Dequan Guo, Xiansong Cheng, Peng Hong, Zhijie Li, Sihang Liu, Xiaowen Fei

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Carbon-carbon triple bond cleavage and reconstitution to achieve aryl amidation using nitrous acid esters by Zi-Ying Wang, Shoujun Wang, Nan-Nan Dai, Yao Xiao, Yu Zhou, Wen-Chan Tian, Dongru Sun, Qiang Li, Yong Wang, Wen-Ting Wei

“…Nitrous acid ester serves as both a radical source and a hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reagent to functionalize and utilize the two carbon atoms of the C–C triple bond. …”
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From rings to regions: modeling and mapping climate-driven timber production zones for Cyclocarya paliurus by integrating niche models and growth traits by Zijie Zhang, Zijie Zhang, Zhengyang Ye, Xulan Shang, Xulan Shang, Wanxia Yang, Wanxia Yang, Tongli Wang, Shengzuo Fang, Shengzuo Fang

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The Intelligent Infectious Disease Active Surveillance and early warning system in China: An application of dengue prevention and control by Liangyu Kang, Jian Hu, Kangning Cai, Wenzhan Jing, Min Liu, Wannian Liang

“…The system comprises four functional modules including multi-channel active surveillance, intelligent early warning, data-driven risk assessment, and smart emergency response. …”
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Development of Al-Menia City Waterfront Towards a Sustainable Environmental Development تطوير الواجهة المائية لمدينة المنيا كدراسة حالة نحو تحقيق تنمية بيئية مستدامة... by Nady Moustafa Abdel Kareem, Rasha Maher Abd El Wahab, Doha Mohamed Safwat Abd El Aziz

“…This is expected to achieve optimal utilization of the site's visual and functional features in order to maximize economic returns. …”
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An innovative approach to post-occupancy evaluation of architectural heritages in the Peking-Mukden railway by Fuying Liu, Zuliang Lu, Wei Qiang

“…When it no longer serves its original function, finding a new way for reuse becomes a trend. …”
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The New Industrial Revolution: Finding life for the buildings left behind by Dawn Bilobran

“…Efforts to achieve global goals of carbon-neutrality paired with advancements in infrastructure, utility distribution and alternative energies now forces the reconsideration of many unique historic resources. …”
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An Extenics-TRIZ integrated RFPS model for different object of design requirements. by Fangzhi Gui, Jing Zhou, Xiangdong Sun, Jianfei Lu, Sheng Cao

“…There are two design strategies: the extension analysis methods are utilized to map the top-level requirements to functions, principles, and structures requirements, and then the TRIZ is used to handle the design problems according to the objects on different levels. …”
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Method for suppressing range sidelobes of bistatic integrated sensing and communication signal based on LFM by JI Chenxing, LI Peng, ZHANG Tianxiang, GAO Yulong

“…Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology aims to alleviate the conflict between communication systems and radar systems over frequency band resources, presenting broad prospects in future 6G. …”
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Genome assembly of an endemic butterfly (Minois aurata) shed light on the genetic mechanisms underlying ecological adaptation to arid valley habitat by Wenqian Hu, Yi Wang, Xiaoxiao Chen, Jialong Huang, Jingge Kuang, Lei Wang, Kangshan Mao, Liang Dou

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Soil and climate factors affect the nutrient resorption characteristics of desert shrub roots in Xinjiang, China by Yan Luo, Yan Luo, Yan Luo, Wenya Wei, Yaxuan Wang, Tianai Xue, Kaijuan Du

“…This provides theoretical support for understanding how plants in desert ecosystems efficiently utilize limited nutrient resources under extreme drought conditions.…”
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Fintech’s Help to Rural Revitalization of commercial Banks-a Aase Study of Agricultural Bank of China by Huang Xin

“…The rapid development of global fintech has changed the traditional financial mode and accelerated the change of the traditional credit intermediary function of commercial banks. Fintech not only brings challenges to commercial banks but also provides new opportunities for commercial banks to develop new business models and innovative businesses and products. …”
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Genomic and transcriptomic insights into vertebrate host-specific Lactobacillus johnsonii adaptation in the gastrointestinal tract by Keerthikka Ravi, Nicole R. Falkowski, Gary B. Huffnagle

“…There was significant heterogeneity among strains, in both genome sequence and content, with phylogenetic clustering of strains into distinct clades associated with rodent or avian sources. There were not sufficient genomes to identify whether porcine isolates formed their own genetic clade. …”
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