Digital Competences in the Economy 4.0 and Their Determinants by Małgorzata Ćwiek, Katarzyna Maj-Serwatka

“…Implications / Recommendations: Reducing digital competence deficits is possible by participating in the education process. While competence gaps among young people can be reduced through formal education, in the case of professionally active people this is possible mainly through participation in informal and non-formal education. …”
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Modification of a pencil graphite electrode with halloysite and gold–palladium bimetallic nanoparticles for diclofenac sodium determination by Mahdi Ozgoli, Behjat Deiminiat, Ehsan Moradi, Gholam Hossein Rounaghi

“…Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) were used to study the surface changes of the pencil graphite electrode during the modification process. The electrochemical behavior of the fabricated Au–PdNPs/halloysite/PGE was evaluated for diclofenac sodium determination using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) techniques. …”
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Fusing Events and Frames with Coordinate Attention Gated Recurrent Unit for Monocular Depth Estimation by Huimei Duan, Chenggang Guo, Yuan Ou

“…Based on this, the CAGRU can enhance the information density of the sparse events in the spatial domain in the recursive process of temporal information, thereby achieving more effective feature screening and fusion. …”
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Probabilistic slope stability analysis on marine clay seabed considering spatial variability of soil parameters by Long Yu, Yang Bao, Kunming Ma, Yunrui Han, Yibin Yan, Bin Xu, Zhongtao Wang, Rui Pang

“…The combination of traditional deterministic slope analysis and probabilistic assessments will be beneficial to slope engineering practice and will improve the decision-making process.…”
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Experimental Study on Double-Walled Copper and Carbon/Epoxy Composite Tubes under the Axial Loading by Abbas Niknejad, Iman Kharaman-Nia

“…This paper investigates axial compression process of multi-layered tubes with circular cross-section under the axial loading in the quasi-static condition using experimental method. …”
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Deepfake detection method based on patch-wise lighting inconsistency by Wenxuan WU, Wenbo ZHOU, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…The rapid development and widespread dissemination of deepfake techniques has caused increased concern.The malicious application of deepfake techniques also poses a potential threat to the society.Therefore, how to detect deepfake content has become a popular research topic.Most of the previous deepfake detection algorithms focused on capturing subtle forgery traces at pixel level and have achieved some results.However, most of the deepfake algorithms ignore the lighting information before and after generation, resulting in some lighting inconsistency between the original face and the forged face, which provided the possibility of using lighting inconsistency to detect deepfake.A corresponding algorithm was designed from two perspectives: introducing lighting inconsistency information and designing a network structure module for a specific task.For the introduction of lighting task, a new network structure was derived by designing the corresponding channel fusion method to provide more lighting inconsistency information to the network feature extraction layer.In order to ensure the portability of the network structure, the process of feature channel fusion was placed before the network extraction information, so that the proposed method can be fully planted to common deepfake detection networks.For the design of the network structure, a deepfake detection method was proposed for lighting inconsistency based on patch-similarity from two perspectives: network structure and loss function design.For the network structure, based on the characteristic of inconsistency between the forged image tampering region and the background region, the extracted features were chunked in the network feature layer and the feature layer similarity matrix was obtained by comparing the patch-wise cosine similarity to make the network focus more on the lighting inconsistency.On this basis, based on the feature layer similarity matching scheme, an independent ground truth and loss function was designed for this task in a targeted manner by comparing the input image with the untampered image of this image for patch-wise authenticity.It is demonstrated experimentally that the accuracy of the proposed method is significantly improved for deepfake detection compared with the baseline method.…”
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The Current Development and Outlook of China Certified Emission Reduction Trading Scheme by Lei ZHU, Mou WANG, Desheng HUANG, Yunqi LU

“…It should be also noted that, in the early stage of its start-up, the market still faces problems such as insufficient market supply, uncertain integration with international schemes, and relatively lagging behind in capacity building, which need to be gradually addressed in the development process. On that basis, this paper gives an outlook.…”
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Optimization of fermented kombucha from black-aged garlic using response surface design and aroma-active compounds identification by Arranee Chotiko, Janejira Phakawan, Waleewan Changpasert, Napapan Chokumnoyporn, Kittikoon Wannasawad

“…This study demonstrated the development of a functional beverage derived from black-aged garlic, which was achieved through investigating the kombucha process.…”
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Drivers of the Integration of Virtual Reality into Construction Safety Training in Ghana by Hutton Addy, Clinton Aigbavboa, Simon Ofori Ametepey, Rexford Henaku Aboagye, Wellington Didibhuku Thwala

“…Technological advancements facilitate the creation of realistic simulation and training environments, significantly enhancing the learning process. The improvement in safety culture is facilitated by VR-based training, which renders safety proactive and enables a higher level of knowledge retention through frequent safety-free simulations. …”
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Hearing Problems Common in Immigrants: Association With Self‐Rated Health by Nina Pauli, Radoslava Jönsson, Jennie Stubbe, Ylva Dahlin Redfors

“…ABSTRACT Aims Immigrants face various challenges in the process of becoming established in a new country, one of which is language acquisition. …”
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Carbohydrates in action: influencing infection and amplification of Staphylococcus aureus bacteriophages by Poniatovskyi Vadym, Shyrobokov Volodymyr

“…Despite their exceptional properties, the self-replication process of phages depends on multiple factors that may lead to a decrease in phage concentration during production and storage. …”
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NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF MAGMA MINGLING (CASE OF BAYANKOL GABBRO‐GRANITE SERIES, SANGILEN, TUVA) by O. P. Polyansky, A. N. Semenov, V. G. Vladimirov, I. V. Karmysheva, A. G. Vladimirov, V. A. Yakovlev

“…A new numerical model has been developed that makes it possible to describe the process of formation of a dyke of a combined composition on the basis of the dynamics of a viscous compressible fluid. …”
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The Imaging Appearance of 'EWSR1::PATZ1' Gene Fusion Central Nervous System Tumors by Cedric Vanmarcke, Lukas Marcelis, Isabelle Vanden Bempt, Raf Sciot, Johannes Devos

“…Recognition of these features can be valuable in the diagnostic process, as radiologists can be the first to suggest the diagnosis.…”
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Exploring the predictor of innovative teaching using the job demands-resources model by M. A. Rafsanjani, L. Hakim, N. Laily, P. A. Wijaya, M. R. Irwansyah

“…To keep in pace and remain competitive in today's environment, the lecturer must do innovation in educational process. However, encouraging lecturers' willingness to do innovative teaching is challenging in higher education due to the dual roles as teachers and researchers, which makes the excessive workload and leads to the teacher-researcher role conflict (TRC). …”
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Patient reported outcome measure applicability in clinical oncology by Alessandra Menezes Morelle, Fernando Castilho Venero, Rommel Fabricio Pereira da Silva, Rafael Dal Ponte Ferreira, Pedro Tofani Santanna

“…The term includes a range of constructions and methodology and can cover concepts such as symptoms to physical assessment, well-being and social involvement. The process can be described as a measure of patient reported outcome (Patient Reported Outcome Measure - PROM). …”
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Individual and familial factors influencing women’s reluctance to childbearing: A qualitative study by Leili Borimnejad, Saeideh Bazzazian, Fatemeh Barkhordari, Nasrin Rezaiee

“…Conclusion: This qualitative study sheds light on the complexity of the decision-making process regarding childlessness in this age group and highlights the need to address individual and familial factors alongside others, in population growth policies.…”
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Update on the Use of Nanocarriers and Drug Delivery Systems and Future Directions in Cervical Cancer by Loredana Maria Himiniuc, Bogdan Florin Toma, Razvan Popovici, Ana Maria Grigore, Alexandru Hamod, Constantin Volovat, Simona Volovat, Irina Nica, Decebal Vasincu, Maricel Agop, Mihaela Tirnovanu, Lacramioara Ochiuz, Anca Negura, Mihaela Grigore

“…As any hologram functions as a deep learning process, the artificial intelligence can be proposed as a new analyzing method in cervical cancer.…”
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On the Use of Forward Body Biasing Technique for Low Power Ultra-Wideband Low Noise Amplifiers Design and Implementation by Mohammed Adel, Usama Sayed Mohammed, Khalil Yousef

“…These low power ultra-wideband LNAs are designed and simulated in CMOS 130nm process.…”
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Legal Reform the Meaning of Final and Binding Decisions of the Consumer Dispute Resolution Agency (Review of the Consumer Protection Act and Supreme Court Cassation Decision) by Nayila Rehman, M. Hamidi Masykur, Setiawan Wicaksono

“…The urgency of this research is underscored by the ongoing legal ambiguity surrounding BPSK decisions, which undermines public confidence and the effectiveness of the dispute resolution process. The findings reveal that despite regulatory attempts, the current legal framework fails to provide the necessary clarity and consistency. …”
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Potential for application of hydroxyapatite-based bone grafting materials in spine surgery by U. F. Mukhametov, S. V. Lyulin, D. Yu. Borzunov

“…Both functions must be clinically validated during the registration process as a Class III medical device. Currently, only a few combination products are available on the market. …”
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