Two Years in Crisis — Municipal Finances Remain Sustainable Nonetheless by Florian Boettcher, Ronny Freier

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Adaptive Streaming of Scalable Videos over P2PTV by Youssef Lahbabi, El Hassan Ibn Elhaj, Ahmed Hammouch

“…In this paper, we propose a new Scalable Video Coding (SVC) quality-adaptive peer-to-peer television (P2PTV) system executed at the peers and at the network. …”
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Investigating the Implications of COVID-19 on PM2.5 in Pakistan by Hassaan Sipra, Faheem Aslam, Jabir Hussain Syed, Tahir Mumtaz Awan

“…Intuitively, this is accurate, given that hourly PM2.5 concentrations change with economic activity, which oscillates in daily cycles of high and low PM2.5 concentrations. …”
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Functional Cereal Products in the Diet for Type 2 Diabetes Patients by Ada Krawęcka, Aldona Sobota, Emilia Sykut-Domańska

“…Type 2 diabetes has become one of the major health problems of the modern world. …”
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H-2A Workers in Demand in the Ornamental Horticulture Industry by Xuan Wei, Benjamin L. Campbell, Hayk Khachatryan, Robin G. Brumfield

“…It guides industry stakeholders to monitor changes in immigration policies and labor regulations, including the H-2A program and to adjust labor management practices accordingly. …”
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Joint effects of temperature and humidity with PM2.5 on COPD by Huan Minh Tran, Feng-Jen Tsai, Yuan-Hung Wang, Kang-Yun Lee, Jer-Hwa Chang, Chi-Li Chung, Chien-Hua Tseng, Chien-Ling Su, Yuan-Chien Lin, Tzu-Tao Chen, Kuan-Yuan Chen, Shu-Chuan Ho, Feng-Ming Yang, Sheng-Ming Wu, Kian Fan Chung, Kin-Fai Ho, Kai-Jen Chuang, Hsiao-Chi Chuang

“…Furthermore, climate change exacerbates these impacts, as extreme temperatures and relative humidity (RH) levels can intensify the effects of PM2.5. …”
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Photocatalytic Degradation of Using Ni-Containing TiO2 by Yao-Hsuan Tseng, Bo-Kai Huang

“…A nickel-modified titania photocatalyst was prepared by photodeposition method with using Degussa-P25 TiO2 particle and nickel chloride as raw materials, respectively. …”
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Phase Behavior Analysis of CO2 and Formation Oil System by Lei Tang, Tongyao Zhang, Baogang Li, Lu Zhang, Dong Han

“…According to the experimental results of early nine oil samples of swelling tests, in high temperature and high pressure conditions, characteristics and changing rules of properties of formation oil, including bubble point pressure, volume expansion coefficient, viscosity, density, and average molecular weight, composition of gas and liquid phase, and asphalt sediment, were evaluated and analyzed at different CO2 injection rate systematically. …”
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Application of Modified NSGA-II to the Transit Network Design Problem by Jie Yang, Yangsheng Jiang

“…A novel initial route set generation algorithm and a route set size alternating heuristic are embedded into a nondominated sorting genetic algorithm-II- (NSGA-II-) based solution framework to produce the approximate Pareto front. …”
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Neurofibromatosis Type 2 Presenting with Oculomotor Ophthalmoplegia and Distal Myopathy by Jessica Mani Penny Tevaraj, Evelyn Tai Li Min, Raja Azmi Mohd Noor, Azhany Yaakub, Wan Hazabbah Wan Hitam

“…It was associated with right-sided body weakness, change in voice, and hearing disturbance in the right ear for the past 2 years. …”
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Two-Stage Robust Counterpart Model for Humanitarian Logistics Management by Feng Yang

“…Based on the actual situation of insufficient supply during the humanitarian logistics management, this paper using optimization theory establishes a two-stage stochastic chance constrained (TS-SCC) model. …”
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An optimisation for a two‐round good‐case latency protocol by Kexin Hu, Zhenfeng Zhang, Kaiwen Guo, Weiyu Jiang, Xiaoman Li, Jiang Han

“…(PODC’21), which achieves optimal good‐case latency of two rounds and optimal resilience of n ≥ 5f − 1 in this setting. …”
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Chemokine Expression in Human Astrocytes in Response to Shiga Toxin 2 by Naomi Kioka, Koichi Minami, Akira Tamura, Norishige Yoshikawa

“…Expression of both interleukin-8 (IL-8) and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) mRNA in HASTs was significantly upregulated by Stx2. These results suggest that Stx2 induces inflammatory responses, particularly through expression of chemokines, in HASTs expressing Gb3 and may, thus, affect brain glial cells, playing a key role in the pathogenesis of CNS manifestations associated with HUS.…”
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The Prevalence and Severity of Tooth Wear in Type 2 Diabetic Patients by Patcharawan Srisilapanan, Matee Jindarat, Jeffrey Roseman

“…To assess the prevalence and severity of tooth wear in type 2 diabetic patients. Methods. Attendees at a diabetic clinic at Wiang Pa Pao Hospital in Chiang Rai province, Thailand, were invited to take part in this cross-sectional study. …”
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Two-Stage Optimization Method for the Bearing Layout of Isolated Structure by Yu Dang, GenXiong Zhao, HongTu Tian, Guobao Li

“…The proposed method is demonstrated in a typical isolated building in China. The optimum bearing layout of the isolated building effectively suppresses the structural seismic responses, but the cost of the isolated layer might slightly increase.…”
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Reduction of NOx and SO2 Emissions by Shore Power Adoption by Duy-Hieu Nguyen, Chitsan Lin, Nicholas Kiprotich Cheruiyot, Jen-Yu Hsu, Ming-Yuan Cho, Shih-Hsien Hsu, Chin-Ko Yeh

“…The reduction was assessed in two scenarios, S1 and S2, with a capacity to provide shore power to 342 and 780 ships at berth, respectively. …”
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SARS-CоV-2 spread in humans and animals by T. P. Akimiva, V. P. Semakina, M. N. Mitrofanova, M. V. Zhiltsova, E. S. Vystavkina, D. G. Isakova, D. B. Andreychuk, A. K. Karaulov, I. A. Chvala, A. E. Metlin

“…The latest recently discovered coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is an agent ofCOVID-19. The first human cases were reported in Wuhan (People’s Republic of China) in December2019. …”
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Two-Echelon Multidepot Logistics Network Design with Resource Sharing by Siyu Luo, Yong Wang, Jinjun Tang, Xiangyang Guan, Maozeng Xu

“…Finally, a case study of 2E-CMDPDTW in Chongqing China is conducted to validate the feasibility. …”
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Characteristics and Sources of Organic Aerosol Markers in PM2.5 by Zheng Li, Ruiwen Zhou, Yuanyuan Li, Min Chen, Yachen Wang, Tonglin Huang, Yanan Yi, Zhanfang Hou, Jingjing Meng, Li Yan

“…Abstract To investigate the molecular compositions, sources, and evolution processes of organic aerosols (OAs), PM2.5 samples in wintertime were collected in Jinan, a typically polluted city in the North China Plain (NCP). …”
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Sexual Dysfunction in Asian Males with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Vurmila Venggadasamy, Loon Shin Ho, Badariah Ahmad, Khalid Abdul Kadir

“… In 2021, 537 million people were diagnosed with diabetes globally, where over 90% of these cases were type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In the top 10 countries for many adults with diabetes in 2021, Asia accounted for six spots in the rankings, with China (140.9 million), India (74.2 million), and Pakistan (33 million) sitting at the top three. …”
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