Review: The need for holistic, sector-tailored sustainability assessments for milk− and plant-based beverages by E. Maree, J.N. Blignaut, C.J.L. Du Toit, H.H. Meissner, P. Ederer

“…Environmentally, the life cycle analysis approach forms a detailed basis for environmental footprint assessment, although the practical application thereof in modern agriculture may be cumbersome and may warrant the use of simpler metrics. However, the complexity of sustainability assessments due to differing production methods and system boundaries makes comparisons difficult, which justifies either standardised or contextualised indices. …”
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Folklore et écriture vernaculaire dans The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

“…Le récit est ancré dans la culture de la Louisiane, une culture complexe où maîtres blancs et esclaves puis métayers noirs traversent des tragédies communes, et écrivent ensemble leur Histoire commune dans une langue vernaculaire qu’ils partagent aussi, ainsi que l’illustre le drame de Tee Bob et Mary Agnes, et surtout le récit à deux voix qu’en font Jane et Jules Raynard (« speculatin » p. 205).…”
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Agent-Based Intelligent Fuzzy Traffic Signal Control System for Multiple Road Intersection Systems by Tamrat D. Chala, László T. Kóczy

“…This emergent feature suggests that fuzzy controllers have the potential to evolve and adapt to traffic complexity issues in urban environments when operating in an autonomous agent-based mode. …”
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User and Developer Views on Using AI Technologies to Facilitate the Early Detection of Skin Cancers in Primary Care Settings: Qualitative Semistructured Interview Study by Owain Tudor Jones, Natalia Calanzani, Suzanne E Scott, Rubeta N Matin, Jon Emery, Fiona M Walter

“…The framework for the Nonadoption, Abandonment, and Challenges to Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability was used to guide the analysis to help understand the complexity of implementing diagnostic technologies in clinical settings. …”
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Barriers and Facilitators of User Engagement With Digital Mental Health Interventions for People With Psychosis or Bipolar Disorder: Systematic Review and Best-Fit Framework Synthe... by Emily Eisner, Sophie Faulkner, Stephanie Allan, Hannah Ball, Daniela Di Basilio, Jennifer Nicholas, Aansha Priyam, Paul Wilson, Xiaolong Zhang, Sandra Bucci

“…Barriers included intervention complexity, perceived risks, user motivation, discomfort with self-reflection, digital poverty, symptoms of psychosis, poor compatibility with existing clinical workflows, staff and patient fears that DMHIs would replace traditional face-to-face care, infrastructure limitations, and limited financial support for delivery. …”
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Challenges and opportunities for assessing trends of amphibians with heterogeneous data – a call for better metadata reporting by Klaus Henle, Reinhard A. Klenke, M. Benjamin Barth, Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, Diana E. Bowler

“…While heterogeneous data have proved useful for other taxa, our results highlight the complexity of using them for amphibians. We strongly recommend better harmonisation of data collection and metadata documentation, including explicit absence data and, if available, abundance data, to enable more robust trend assessments in the future.…”
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An Efficient K-Best MIMO Detector for Large Modulation Constellations by Yu-Xin Liu, Shih-Jie Jihang, Yeong-Luh Ueng

“…A bisection-based search algorithm is used to obtain the locations of the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$K$ </tex-math></inline-formula> surviving candidates. A low-complexity fully-pipelined architecture is devised in order to implement the proposed MIMO detection without the need to use any dividers. …”
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Variations in the physicochemical properties of soil, enzyme activities, and the characteristics of bacterial communities within algal biocrusts and subsoils across different plant... by Haonian Li, Zhongju Meng, Xiaomen Ren, Yanlong Han

“…Specifically, the ABSCs positively promote relationships between soil bacterial genera yet reduce the complexity of bacterial communities. Among them, the ABSCs in the community of H. scoparium are not conducive to forming bacterial network modularity (Modularity= 0.336 < 0.4). …”
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Analyzing Land Use/Land Cover Changes Using Google Earth Engine and Random Forest Algorithm and Their Implications to the Management of Land Degradation in the Upper Tekeze Basin,... by Alemu Eshetu Fentaw, Assefa Abegaz

“…The OpenLand R package was used to map the LULC transition and intensity of changes across the study period. Despite the complexity of the topographic and climatic features of the study area, the RF algorithm achieved high accuracy with 0.83 and 0.75 overall accuracy and Kappa values, respectively. …”
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Kurganless Cemetery of the Sarmatian Times on the Maloe Storozhevoe Hillfort in the Middle Don Basin by Yuriy D. Razuvaev, Aleksandr N. Merkulov, Sergey A. Nelyubov, Yuliya A. Neretina

“…Ethnical, cultural and chronological attribution of the complexes is based on the ritual and material analogies. …”
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Digital 3D reconstructions of synagogues for an innovative approach on Jewish architectural heritage in East Central Europe by Jan Lutteroth, Piotr Kuroczyński, Igor Piotr Bajena

“…The reconstruction process highlights the complexity of preserving Jewish architectural heritage in East Central Europe, where shifting political borders and a lack of comprehensive documentation complicate efforts. …”
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A Rare Case of Spontaneous Heterotopic Pregnancy at 12&nbsp;weeks of Gestation Following Natural Conception With Literature Review by Wang F, Xu Y, Dong X, Jiang P, Yu QQ

“…Its incidence is approximately 1 in 30,000 natural pregnancies, posing significant threats to maternal health. The complexity of clinical and laboratory findings complicates its diagnosis, necessitating a high index of suspicion for prompt intervention.Case Presentation: We reported the case of a 36-year-old woman diagnosed with heterotopic pregnancy at 12 weeks of gestation following spontaneous conception, who presented with severe abdominal pain. …”
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Smart Manufacturing Application in Precision Manufacturing by Amr T. Sufian, Badr M. Abdullah, Oliver J. Miller

“…The technical architecture can serve as a guide for the practical implementation of smart manufacturing applications to reduce the complexity of development. This work also bridges the gap in academia and in industry by showcasing a real-world actual business benefits realized from smart manufacturing, as well as showcasing the practical implementations, limitations, and opportunities of smart manufacturing applications in the precision manufacturing industry, all of which reduce the internal barriers and challenges facing smart manufacturing and industry 4.0 adoption. …”
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Multimodality Imaging Probe for Positron Emission Tomography and Fluorescence Imaging Studies by Suresh K. Pandey, Jasmeet Kaur, Balu Easwaramoorthy, Ankur Shah, Robert Coleman, Jogeshwar Mukherjee

“…For this purpose, bovine serum albumin (BSA) was complexed with biotin (histologic studies), 5(6)- carboxyfluorescein, succinimidyl ester (FAM SE) (OI studies), and diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA) for chelating gallium 68 (PET studies). …”
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“It's a good idea, but…”: a qualitative evaluation of the GoldiCare intervention in Norwegian home care services by Heike Fischer, Fredrik Klæboe Lohne, Fredrik Klæboe Lohne, Marius Steiro Fimland, Skender Elez Redzovic

“…Further synthesis of these findings resulted in four core issues that need to be addressed if the GoldiCare intervention is to be successfully implemented in comparable Norwegian home care settings: proxy issues; complexity and unpredictability; organization-level issues; and operational autonomy.ConclusionThe findings provide valuable insights for future attempts to implement GoldiCare interventions in home care settings, highlighting the need to further integrate GoldiCare and other comparable types of intervention into the political, economic, sociocultural, professional, and technological context of home care services. …”
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The optimal treatment of invasive ductal and lobular carcinoma occurring at the same time needs to be established by Supriya Peshin, Rafi Iftekher, Rabia Iqbal, Shagun Singh, Moka Nagaishwarya

“…Both tumours in this patient were hormone receptor-positive (ER/PR-positive) and HER2-negative, warranting targeted endocrine therapies. The complexity of this case was further heightened by a significant family history of breast and colon cancers, and comorbid conditions including borderline diabetes, hypertension and coronary artery disease (CAD), which required careful therapeutic consideration to balance efficacy and tolerability. …”
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Application of amorphous zirconium (hydr)oxide/MgFe layered double hydroxides composite in fixed-bed column for phosphate removal from water by A. Nuryadin, T. Imai

“…The high phosphate adsorption capacity of the composite involves three main adsorption mechanisms, which are electrostatic attraction, inner-sphere complexation, and anion exchange, where the amorphous zirconium hydr(oxide) on the surface of the layered double hydroxides likely increased the number of active binding sites and surface area for adsorption.  …”
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A methodology to compile multi-hazard interrelationships in a data-scarce setting: an application to the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal by H. E. Thompson, J. C. Gill, R. Šakić Trogrlić, F. E. Taylor, B. D. Malamud

“…The results illustrate the complexity of the hazardscape, with many single hazard types and multi-hazard interrelationships potentially influencing the Kathmandu Valley. …”
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Expression of CSTF2 in oral squamous cell carcinoma and its relationship with immune infiltration and poor prognosis by Zumulaiti Aierken, Muertiza Muhetaer, Zhang Lei, Ainiwaerjiang Abudourousuli, Ainiwaerjiang Abudourousuli

“…Functional enrichment analysis indicated that CSTF2 plays a role in epidermal development and differentiation, immunoglobulin complexes, peptidases and endopeptidase inhibitor activity, and cytochrome P450 metabolic processes. …”
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Chitinase-3-like-1: a multifaceted player in neuroinflammation and degenerative pathologies with therapeutic implications by Pharaoh Fellow Mwale, Cheng-Ta Hsieh, Ting-Lin Yen, Jing-Shiun Jan, Rajeev Taliyan, Chih-Hao Yang, Wen-Bin Yang

“…This review addresses the complexities of targeting CHI3L1, highlights its potential in precision medicine, and outlines future research directions aimed at unlocking its full therapeutic potential in treating neurodegenerative diseases and brain pathologies.…”
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