Risk and Resilience in Tourism: How Political Instability and Social Conditions Influence Destination Choices by Panagiotis Grigoriadis, Asimenia Salepaki, Ioannis Angelou, Dimitris Kourkouridis

“…Our findings indicate that political instability, safety concerns, and negative media coverage deter travelers, while effective crisis communication, strong governance, and high-quality public services can enhance a destination’s appeal. …”
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A Smart Testing Model Based on Mining Semantic Relations by Alaa A. Qaffas, Amira M. Idrees, Ayman E. Khedr, Sherif A. Kholeif

“…Engaging personalization in the education process is considered one of the success factors for raising the educational process quality by altering the educational institutions’ vision for gaining more flexibility while attaining the institution’s objectives. …”
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Pertactin deficiency of Bordetella pertussis: Insights into epidemiology, and perspectives on surveillance and public health impact by Ulrich Heininger, Helena Martini, Jennifer Eeuwijk, Ivana Prokić, Adrienne P. Guignard, Elisa Turriani, Maurine Duchenne, Valérie Berlaimont

“…An increase in the proportion of PRN-negative isolates was observed in countries where aP vaccines were used, while such isolates seem to be absent in countries using whole-cell pertussis vaccination. …”
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Audio-Language Datasets of Scenes and Events: A Survey by Gijs Wijngaard, Elia Formisano, Michele Esposito, Michel Dumontier

“…Finally, the survey identifies key challenges in developing large, diverse datasets to enhance ALM performance, including dataset overlap, biases, accessibility barriers, and the predominance of English-language content, while highlighting specific areas requiring attention: multilingual dataset development, specialized domain coverage and improved dataset accessibility.…”
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High-throughput bioprinting of spheroids for scalable tissue fabrication by Myoung Hwan Kim, Yogendra Pratap Singh, Nazmiye Celik, Miji Yeo, Elias Rizk, Daniel J. Hayes, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat

“…HITS-Bio achieves an unprecedented speed, ten times faster compared to existing techniques while maintaining high cell viability ( > 90%). The utility of HITS-Bio was exemplified in multiple applications, including intraoperative bioprinting with microRNA transfected human adipose-derived stem cell spheroids for calvarial bone regeneration ( ~ 30 mm3) in a rat model achieving a near-complete defect closure (bone coverage area of ~ 91% in 3 weeks and ~96% in 6 weeks). …”
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Vegetation Pattern and Terrestrial Carbon Variation in Past Warm and Cold Climates by Zhengyao Lu, Paul A. Miller, Qiong Zhang, David Wårlind, Lars Nieradzik, Jesper Sjolte, Qiang Li, Benjamin Smith

“…Results are consistent with proxy reconstructions and reveal that the vegetation extent is mainly determined by temperature anomalies, especially in a cold climate, while precipitation forcing effects on global‐scale vegetation patterns are marginal. …”
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Low-Power Wake-Up Receivers for Resilient Cellular Internet of Things by Siyu Wang, Trevor J. Odelberg, Peter W. Crary, Mason P. Obery, David D. Wentzloff

“…In these cases, wake-up receivers (WURs) are a promising solution: while the high-power main radio (MR) is turned off/idle, a lightweight WUR is continuously monitoring the RF channel; when it detects a wake-up sequence, the WUR will turn on the MR for subsequent communications. …”
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Ecological Transition in Spain: Political Polarization Through Institutions and Media by Reinald Besalú, Arantxa Capdevila, Carlota M. Moragas-Fernández

“…While most Spanish citizens recognize the urgency of climate change, opinions differ on the specific measures to mitigate it, which are grouped under the concept of ecological transition. …”
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Media trend match by Clive Corder

“…Most of these factors can be expressed in quantitative terms, for example circulation figures, incidence of radio and TV sets, coverage, cumulative reach and frequency over a stated time period, and audience composition in terms of demographics and user group categories. …”
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Performance Analysis of Sensing-Assisted Communications in Aerial-to-Ground Networks by Petros S. Bithas, Athanasios G. Kanatas, Konstantinos Maliatsos

“…Analytical expressions are derived for the statistics of the received signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR), for both sensing and communication functionalities, while simpler expressions for special cases and asymptotic results are also obtained. …”
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Semiparametric Transformation Models with a Change Point for Interval-Censored Failure Time Data by Junyao Ren, Shishun Zhao, Dianliang Deng, Tianshu You, Hui Huang

“…These threshold effects represent critical points at which the relationship between biomarkers or risk factors and disease risk shifts, often reflecting underlying biological mechanisms or clinically relevant intervention points. While most existing methods focus on right-censored data, interval censoring is common in large-scale clinical trials and follow-up studies, where the exact event times are not observed but are known to fall within time intervals. …”
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Evaluating PurpleAir Sensors: Do They Accurately Reflect Ambient Air Temperature? by Justin Tse, Lu Liang

“…While widely used for particulate matter, PA sensors’ temperature data remain underutilized and lack thorough validation. …”
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The Effect of Telehealth Applications on Cost in Health Management: A Systematic Review by Yusuf Sarı, Özgül Örsal, Özlem Örsal

“…Method: All articles were taken from the databases of Pubmed, Cochrane, ScienceDirect, ProQuest Central, Dergipark, Ebscohost without any year coverage. A total of 11 results with English and Turkish keywords that meet the PICOS criteria were included in the evaluation. …”
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Topographic Independent Component Analysis reveals random scrambling of orientation in visual space. by Marina Martinez-Garcia, Luis M Martinez, Jesús Malo

“…There is an active debate on the origin of these locally continuous maps. While most of the existing descriptions take purely geometric/mechanistic approaches which disregard the network function, a clear exception to this trend in the literature is the original approach of Hyvärinen and Hoyer based on infomax and Topographic Independent Component Analysis (TICA). …”
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A Review of the Application of Hemispherical Photography in Urban Outdoor Thermal Comfort Studies by Lei Sima, Yisha Liu, Xiaowei Shang, Qi Yuan, Yunming Zhang

“…In recent years, advancements in mobile measurement tools and techniques have enhanced the richness and versatility of acquired information while leveraging the image specificity inherent to hemispherical photography, which continues to play a pivotal role in subjective assessments related to human perception of outdoor thermal comfort.…”
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Efficiency of Packaging Design as a Marketing Tool: A Case Study Of Elite Bakery Limited Kabale Branch. by Muhweezi, Moses

“…The findings of the study concluded that apart from the packaging which affects the market volume, but there are other factors such as research and development, good customer care, price reduction, good after sales service and wide coverage which also influence consumption behavior of customers in the market. …”
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Factors influencing incomplete immunization among under five years old children at CHUK hospital, Nyarugenge district, Rwanda by Mercy Nwankwo, Chinenye, Elizabeth, Orua

“…Background: Low-income countries still have challenges with vaccine-preventable diseases, despite improvement in immunization coverage in Rwanda, cases of drop out and incomplete immunization persists. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Variability of Near-Surface CO₂ and Influencing Factors in Urban Communities by Yueyue Wu, Yi Zheng, Jialei Liu, Qingxin Yang, Beixiang Shi, Chenghe Guan, Wanxin Deng

“…Meanwhile, external traffic contributed 18–39% to concentration variability, while internal traffic and energy consumption drove localized peaks. …”
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Projecting the long-term impact of school- or community-based mass-treatment interventions for control of Schistosoma infection. by Xiaoxia Wang, David Gurarie, Peter L Mungai, Eric M Muchiri, Uriel Kitron, Charles H King

“…Variations in drug schedules involving increased population coverage and/or treatment frequency are now undergoing field trials. …”
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PSNet: Patch-Based Self-Attention Network for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation by Hong Yi, Yaru Liu, Ming Wang

“…Experimental results on the S3DIS dataset show that PSNet attains competitive mIoU accuracy (71.2%) while maintaining lower inference latency (7.03 s). …”
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