Does city-county merger improve urban carbon emission efficiency? An empirical analysis based on the difference-in-differences model by Xuechen Fan, Shuhua Xu

“…The administrative boundary adjustment (ABA) functions as an effective instrument for hierarchical network governance in China, possessing the capacity to accomplish this objective through its redistributive impact on urban spatial resources. …”
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A quantum inspired machine learning approach for multimodal Parkinson’s disease screening by Diya Vatsavai, Anya Iyer, Ashwin A. Nair

“…As disease progression impairs speech, memory, and motor functions over time, early diagnosis is crucial for preserving patients’ quality of life. …”
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Analysis of national health accounts in Iran (2002–2020) by Abdoreza Mousavi, Mahdi Mokhtari-Payam, Aliakbar Fazaeli, Mohammad Bakhtiari Aliabad

“…Methods: This descriptive study utilizes data from Iran’s national health accounts to examine health expenditures across various dimensions, including health functions, healthcare service providers, financing agents, and funding sources, covering the period from 2002 to 2020. …”
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Techno-structural and 3-D geometric morphometric analysis applied for investigating the variability of Holocene unifacial tools in tropical Central Brazil. by Marina González-Varas, Antoine Lourdeau, Letícia Gonçalves, Rafael Lemos de Souza, Diego Teixeira Mendes, Tatyana Beltrão de Oliveira, Gustavo Furlaneto Silva, Hubert Forestier, Rolando Romero, Antonio Pérez-Balarezo

“…Lithic technology during this period was mainly marked by localized sourcing of raw materials, the use of multifunctional tools, a variety of projectile point designs, and the frequently utilization of unifacial shaping technology. …”
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High-performance nanostructured SiO2 from Ethiopian pumice: synthesis and characterization by Agraw Mulat Muhammud, Gemechu Deressa Edossa, Fedlu Kedir Sabir

“…The increasing demand for high-performance, cost-effective nanomaterials has driven significant interest in utilizing natural resources for advanced material production. …”
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Nonlinearity of optoacoustic signals and a new contrast mechanism for imaging by Jaber Malekzadeh-Najafabadi, Jaya Prakash, Daniel Razansky, Jorge Ripoll, Vipul Gujrati, Vasilis Ntziachristos

“…These findings may have far-reaching implications for improving the accuracy of optoacoustics and utilizing the proposed new contrast mechanism would advance our understanding of cellular and tissue functionality.…”
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The Circular Kitchen by Bas Jansen

“…The Circular Economy (CE) presents a viable approach for achieving a sustainable built environment by minimizing resource use, environmental impacts, and waste. Geissdoerfer et al. (2017, p. 759) state that the CE is “a regenerative system in which resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimized by slowing, narrowing, and closing material and energy loops”. …”
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Personalized-Template-Guided Intelligent Evolutionary Algorithm by Dongni Hu, Xuming Han, Minghan Gao, Yali Chu, Ting Zhou

“…Existing heuristic algorithms are based on inspiration sources and have not yet done a good job of basing themselves on optimization principles to minimize and utilize historical information, which may lead to low efficiency, accuracy, and stability of the algorithm. …”
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Promoting data-driven decision-making in Jordan: strengthening national health information system and achieving consensus on core set of health system indicators by Fadi El-Jardali, Racha Fadlallah, Raeda Abu AlRub, Diana Jamal, Najla Daher

“…Abstract Background A well-functioning health information system (HIS) is foundational for strong health systems and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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From Radioactive Effluent to Drinking Water: Efficient Removal of Trace 99TcO4−/ReO4− by Cationic Porous Aromatic Framework by Long‐Sheng Pang, Xiangjun Liao, Chao‐Yue Zhao, Cheng‐Peng Li, Zhong Liu, Shengqian Ma

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Optimizing brain tumor detection in MRI scans through InceptionResNetV2 and deep stacked Autoencoders with SwiGLU activation and sparsity regularization by Vishal Awasthi, Mamta Tiwari, Amit Yadav, Gesu Thakur, Mamata Mayee Panda, Hemant Kumar, Shivneet Tripathi

“…Despite its success, limitations include the model's dependency on pre-trained weights and significant computational resources. Future studies should address these limitations by enhancing interpretability, exploring domain-specific transfer learning, and validating on diverse datasets to strengthen the model's utility in real-world settings. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Chestnut Quality Based on Principal Component and Cluster Analysis by Yanqi YU, Mingyuan YANG, Chunmao LÜ, Shaoci BAI, Qunfang ZHANG, Chenyang ZOU, Han JIANG

“…This study provides valuable insights for selecting superior resources and breeding high-quality chestnut varieties, while also laying a theoretical foundation for the comprehensive utilization of each type of chestnut.…”
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EZSCAN for undiagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz, Andrea Ruiz-Alejos, J Jaime Miranda, Rohini Mathur, Pablo Perel, Liam Smeeth

“…OVID (Medline, Embase, Global Health), CINAHL and SCOPUS databases, plus secondary resources, were searched until March 29, 2017. The following keywords were utilized for the systematic searching: type 2 diabetes mellitus, hyperglycemia, EZSCAN, SUDOSCAN, and sudomotor function. …”
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Chromosome-level genome assembly with telomeric repeats at scaffold ends for Rhabdosargus sarba by Mudagandur S. Shekhar, Vinaya Kumar Katneni, Ashok Kumar Jangam, Karthic Krishnan, Sudheesh K. Prabhudas, Jesudhas Jani Angel Raymond, Kuldeep K. Lal

“…This genome is an excellent resource for future research on genetic improvement and molecular breeding programmes for R. sarba.…”
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The tenure and management of perdikan land: a comparative study of South Korea and Indonesia, 1900–1946 by Nur Aini Setiawati, Nayelli Lopez Rocha, Youen Kim, Wasino

“…Employing a historical method and utilizing primary sources from archives, this study investigates the reasons behind the comparable patterns of land tenure and management in South Korea and Indonesia. …”
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Hydro- and deutero-deamination of primary amines using O-diphenylphosphinylhydroxylamine by Panpan Ma, Ting Guo, Hongjian Lu

“…By synergizing with site-selective C–H functionalization of primary aliphatic amines, our method reveals synthetic strategies utilizing nitrogen atom as a traceless directing group, encompassing deaminative alkylation, 1,1-deuteroalkylation, 1,1-dialkylation, 1,1,1-deuterodialkylation, C–H arylation, and 1,3-deuteroarylation. …”
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Fabrication of Wood-Derived Carbon Aerogel/Mg(OH)₂ Bio-Composite and Its High Performance for Adsorption and Separation of Cadmium Ions by Ran An, Jinyue Liu, Haomiao Ma, Yuqing Yan, Yuanru Guo, Qingjiang Pan, Shujun Li

“…To address the need for reducing carbon emissions and enhancing the sustainable utilization of non-fossil resources, a one-step calcination strategy has been developed to fabricate hierarchical carbon aerogels from balsa wood. …”
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Study on the Feasibility and Performance Evaluation of High-Orbit Spacecraft Orbit Determination Based on GNSS/SLR/VLBI by Zhengcheng Wu, Shaojie Ni, Wei Xiao, Zongnan Li, Huicui Liu

“…Deep space exploration utilizing high-orbit vehicles is a vital approach for extending beyond near-Earth space, with orbit information serving as the foundation for all functional capabilities. …”
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Inferring regulatory networks by combining perturbation screens and steady state gene expression profiles. by Ali Shojaie, Alexandra Jauhiainen, Michael Kallitsis, George Michailidis

“…We develop a computational approach to appropriately utilize both data sources for estimating a regulatory network. …”
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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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