Bi-decadal trends in land cover and ecological dynamics across the Korean Peninsula with implications for sustainable development by Geba Jisung Chang

“…Key results include a 4% increase in urban areas, a 1.1% rise in forest coverage, and a 3.1% decrease in cropland. Population trends show a 7.44% growth in urban regions and a 1.22% decline in rural areas, while SDG indices reveal a 10.56% increase in the Urban Green Space Index in some areas. …”
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Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in Sub Saharan Africa: The Role of Government and External Health Expenditures by Tewa Papy Voto, Nicholas Ngepah

“…To achieve SDG 3, policymakers should focus on increasing GHE for sustained improvements while leveraging EHE to address short-term challenges. …”
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THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 60 AND OVER THE AGE OF 60 IN COVID-19 VACCINATION RATES AND VACCINE BRAND PERCEPTION by Denis Tomše, Rok Strašek, Jani Toroš

“…For the group of people under the age of 60, the duration of protection is more important (39%), while the brand of vaccine is less important (25%). …”
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District Information Areas: A Distributed Decision-Making Approach for Urban Water Systems by Manuel Herrera, Carlo Giudicianni, Enrico Creaco

“…DIAs operate semi-autonomously, making local decisions based on data analysis and coordinating with neighbouring areas. While traditional methods still play a role in maintenance, DIAs aim to enhance sensor coverage and support future digital twin development. …”
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How does the built environment affect transit use by train, tram and bus? by Chris De Gruyter, Tayebeh Saghapour, Liang Ma, Jago Dodson

“…Commuting by tram was found to have the strongest association with the explanatory variables, while bus had the weakest explanatory power. Differences in the geographical coverage of public transport services in Melbourne play a key role in explaining the influence of the built environment. …”
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Policy agendas of the American state legislatures by Ethan Dee, Alex Garlick

“…Validation exercises show our method compares favorably with hand-coded estimates of bill policy areas while offering far greater coverage than legacy human-supervised “dictionary” methods. …”
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Discovering Open Access Engineering Journals by James Bierman

“…The four-year interval was a critical component to the methodology, in that it provided sufficient time for these open journals to establish themselves in the research marketplace and earn the attention of leading indexers. The study found that while no single database provided excellent coverage of the open access content, in aggregate, the four databases indexed journals currently listed by the DOAJ reasonably well. …”
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Leveraging Faithfulness in Abstractive Text Summarization with Elementary Discourse Units by Narjes Delpisheh, Yllias Chali

“… Abstractive text summarization uses the summarizer's own words to capture the main information of a source document in a summary. While it is more challenging to automate than extractive text summarization, recent advancements in deep learning approaches and pre-trained language models have improved its performance. …”
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Competing Partisan Regimes and the Transformation of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-2015 by Jesse H. Rhodes

“…On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court struck down the coverage formula enabling federal preclearance of proposed voting changes in jurisdictions with documented histories of racial discrimination. …”
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Contributors to this edition by Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-African scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. …”
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A Privacy-Preserving Reauthentication Scheme for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks by Shunrong Jiang, Jiapeng Zhang, JingJun Miao, Conghua Zhou

“…MWSN has advantages over static WSN in the aspect of better energy efficiency, improved coverage, and superior channel capacity. However, mobile nodes also bring some security problems. …”
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Research on the process of non-terrestrial networks for 5G by Zhou Shuqi, Chen Fatang

“…The emergence of non-terrestrial networks (NTN) marks a major breakthrough in communication technology. It expands the coverage of terrestrial networks by using satellites and high-altitude platforms, thus providing new solutions for global communications. …”
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HPV vaccination, screening disparities, and the shifting landscape of cervical cancer burden: a global analysis of trends, inequalities, and policy implications by Yingxin Zhang, Zhe Fan, Jiankang Wang, Bing Guan, Fengyi Zhou, Zihan Tang, Wentao Wu, Aimin Huang

“…HPV and screening rates diverged by SDI, highlighting coverage gaps. Screening and vaccination inversely linked to disease burden, underscoring critical efficacy. …”
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Economic evaluation of short message service intervention for HIV prevention among men who have sex with men in China: a modelling study by Rui-Qi Fan, Jun-Tao Shu, Hao Huang, Ling-Yi Shi, Qi-Wei Ge, Xun Zhuang, Mei-Yin Zou, Gang Qin

“…We assessed three intervention strategies: (1) routine strategy with standard health information; (2) SMS strategy with customized messages based on individual high-risk behaviors, with 50.1% efficacy and 50% coverage; (3) LEN-LA (lenacapavir long-acting) strategy as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), with 100% efficacy lasting for 0.5-year and 50% coverage. …”
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Media Reports and Knowledge of e-Cigarette or Vaping Use-Associated Lung Injury Among Adolescents in California: Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Jijiang Wang, John Ayers, Eric Leas, Anthony Gamst, Shu-Hong Zhu

“…Most students, 55%, believed nicotine was the cause of EVALI, while only 11% thought it was related to cannabis in vapes. …”
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Spatially Explicit Evaluation of the Suitability and Quality Improvement Potential of Forest and Grassland Habitat in the Yanhe River Basin by Zhihong Yao, Xiaoyang Sun, Peiqing Xiao, Zhuangzhuang Liu, Menghao Yang, Peng Jiao

“…For grasslands, the dominant factors include photosynthetically active radiation, annual average temperature, elevation, and annual precipitation. (2) In the watershed, forestland and grassland areas classified as moderately suitable or higher cover 1064.9 km² and 4196.9 km², accounting for 91.9% and 94.7% of their total respective areas, indicating a generally rational spatial allocation of forest and grassland ecosystems. (3) The improvable area for forests measures 366 km² (34.4% of moderately or higher suitability zones), with most already meeting coverage thresholds. In contrast, grasslands have an improvable area of 2491.6 km² (59.4% of moderately or higher suitability zones), where over half of the area remains below coverage thresholds corresponding to their habitat conditions. (4) Forests can adopt natural restoration-focused low-intensity interventions through strengthened closure management, while grasslands require spatially tailored measures—such as precipitation interception and enhanced stewardship—targeting suitability-based potential grades, collectively achieving overall improvement in grassland vegetation coverage. …”
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Dosimetry of automatic non-coplanar volumetric-modulated arc therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma by Kaiqiang Chen, Jihong Chen, Yanming Cheng, Danni Hong, Cairong Hu, Penggang Bai, Jinyong Lin, Yang Yang, Xiuchun Zhang

“…Dosimetric parameters and verification passing rates were collected to assess the dosimetric quality of target coverage and organ-at-risk (OAR) sparing in both sets of plans. …”
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Provider readiness and implementation barriers for lung cancer screening in a safety-net system by Maria C. Mejia, Yu-Heng Hilary Ma, Lisa M. Lowenstein, Kiara K. Spooner, Gabrielle Duhon, Elisa E. Douglas, Viola Leal, Robert J. Volk

“…Most were physicians (63 %), with specialties in family (45 %) and pulmonary medicine (20 %). While 77 % were familiar with CMS coverage, only 50 % were aware of SDM visit reimbursement, and 15 % knew the billing codes. …”
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Exploring cortical excitability in children with cerebral palsy through lower limb robot training based on MI-BCI by Weihang Qi, Yi Zhang, Yuwei Su, Zhichong Hui, ShaoQing Li, HaoChong Wang, Jiamei Zhang, Kaili Shi, Mingmei Wang, Liang Zhou, Dengna Zhu

“…Compared to REST, the average duration and coverage rate of microstate D under MI and MI-BCI significantly increased (P < 0.05), while their frequency and the coverage rate and frequency of microstate A decreased. …”
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Deep Learning-Driven Multi-Temporal Detection: Leveraging DeeplabV3+/Efficientnet-B08 Semantic Segmentation for Deforestation and Forest Fire Detection by Joe Soundararajan, Andrew Kalukin, Jordan Malof, Dong Xu

“…Deforestation and forest fires are escalating global threats that require timely, scalable, and cost-effective monitoring systems. While UAV and ground-based solutions offer fine-grained data, they are often constrained by limited spatial coverage, high operational costs, and logistical challenges. …”
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