Media Representation of the Ethical Issues Pertaining to Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) Technology by Savannah Beck, Yuliya Liberman, Veljko Dubljević

“…Conclusions: Current discussion of ethical issues reflects growing news coverage of companies such as Neuralink, and reveals a mounting distrust of BCI technology. …”
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Directly synthesized cobalt oxyhydroxide as an oxygen evolution catalyst in proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers by Jinzhen Huang, Zheyu Zhang, Chiara Spezzati, Adam H. Clark, Natasha Hales, Nina S. Genz, Niéli Daffé, Radim Skoupy, Lorenz Gubler, Ivano E. Castelli, Thomas J. Schmidt, Emiliana Fabbri

“…Here, we show that the CoOOH is active across the whole pH range, while its redox features are pH dependent. Operando hard X-ray absorption spectroscopy characterizations show a pH-induced change in Co oxidation onset, but no change in the coverage of redox-active Co species before the oxygen evolution reaction. …”
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Design and performance analysis of all-dielectric reflective, metalens for LWIR applications by Sani Mukhtar, Jaime Viegas

“…All the examined configurations provide nearly complete $$0-2\pi$$ phase coverage, yielding diffraction-limited focal spot sizes ranging from $$\:\:0.96\lambda\:$$ to $$\:1.02\lambda$$ . …”
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A Novel Monitoring Method of Wind-Induced Vibration and Stability of Long-Span Bridges Based on Permanent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Technology by Jiayue Ma, Xiaojun Xue, Guoliang Zhi, Haoyang Zheng, Hanqing Zhu

“…It also provides comprehensive coverage under various conditions, enhancing the safety of long-span bridges through advanced predictive analytics.…”
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Financial security of tutors in Ghanaian colleges of education; a pre-retirement and post-retirement analysis by Bernice Oteng, Ronald Osei Mensah, Agyemang Frimpong

“…The study also found that all participants had some form of healthcare insurance coverage, with the majority subscribing to the public healthcare scheme – the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). …”
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Advanced ENF Region Classification Using UniTS-SinSpec: A Novel Approach Integrating Sinusoidal Activation Function and Spectral Attention by Yujin Li, Tianliang Lu, Gaojun Zeng, Kai Zhao, Shufan Peng

“…Future research will focus on expanding dataset coverage and diversity to verify the model’s generality and robustness across different regions, time spans, and data sources. …”
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Routine Immunization Microplanning Challenges and Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Mixed-Method Landscape Analysis by Nicole Salisbury, Iqbal Hossain, Parysa Oskouipour, Audry Hong, Elan Ebeling, Jessica C. Shearer, Emily Grapa

“…Background: Microplanning is widely recognized as a critical tool for improving immunization coverage and equity and is considered a core component of routine immunization. …”
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Tree stand diameter and shrub cover are major determinants of bird abundance in urban sacred groves of Kathmandu Valley by Devendra Chapagain, Chandramani Aryal, Prakash Chandra Aryal, Tej Bahadur Thapa

“…The mean diameter of trees had a positive influence on bird abundance (β = 0.21, z = 3.25, p = 0.001), while shrub cover had a negative influence (β1 = − 0.17, z = − 2.18, p = 0.029). …”
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Nowcasting Solar Irradiance Components Using a Vision Transformer and Multimodal Data from All-Sky Images and Meteorological Observations by Onon Bayasgalan, Atsushi Akisawa

“…Due to its capability of understanding the overall characteristics of the image through self-attention, a vision transformer is utilized for the image branch while normal dense layers process the tabular meteorological data. …”
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Indigenous Environmental Activism and Media Depiction by Raphaela G O Pavlakos

“…The purpose of this article is to elucidate media bias as a way of informing our individual teaching and learning practice, as well as shaping how we engage with and talk about Indigenous issues. While all public activism engages with some levels of performance, the performance itself and larger narrative being told by the activists is filtered through who is able to tell the story. …”
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An AI Agent-Based System for Retrieving Compound Information in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Feifan Zhao, Qianjin Li, Meng Wang, Xingchuang Xiong

“…Ablation studies further reveal that removing either the hybrid RAG or multi-source knowledge module leads to a notable accuracy decline, while the full system outperforms typical RAG baselines by over 25%. …”
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The quality of service assessment of eMBB and mMTC traffic in a clustered 5G ecosystem of a smart factory by Viacheslav Kovtun, Oksana Kovtun, Krzysztof Grochla, Oleh Yasniy

“…The scenario with isolation does not allow channel reassignment between requests of different types or originating zones (handover or from the coverage area of the target 5G cluster), while the virtual scenario allows such reassignment. …”
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A Rough Surface-Aided Non-Line-of-Sight Joint Sensing and Communication System for THz Band by Saira Rafique, Huseyin Arslan

“…Simulation results illustrate the impact of surface roughness, antenna array size, and specular point misalignment on target detection, while communication performance is assessed by analyzing the effects of surface roughness and antenna array size on channel capacity, highlighting significant performance gains for intermediate/medium RS.…”
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Anti-epidemic effectiveness of sanitary and educational work with contingents at risk of plague infection in the Gorno-Altai high-mountain natural plague center by E. V. Kuklev, V. P. Toporkov, A. I. Mischenko, V. A. Safronov, A. V. Ivanova, A. N. Matrosov, M. V. Pospelov, I. G. Karnauhov

“…Work was carried out with risk contingents with coverage of 1652 people (81% of the total number of people living in livestock camps).Results. …”
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SISTEMAS FISIOGRÁFICOS DEL ÁREA NATURAL PROTEGIDA “VALLE CRETÁCICO”, PROVINCIA DE RÍO NEGRO by Romina Solorza, Marcos D. Mare

“…The natural vegetation, as a consequence of its physiognomic characteristics adapted to semiarid and mesothermal climate and of the historical social land use overloading , currently presents a low coverage, associated with low levels of soil aggregation. …”
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Indoor Localization and Tracking in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided mmWave Systems by Kunlun Li, Mohammed El-Hajjar, Chao Xu, Lajos Hanzo

“…However, the limited coverage due to severe path loss and line-of-sight (LoS) blockage are considered to be major challenges in mmWave. …”
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Adjusting ITE’s Trip Generation Handbook for urban context by Kelly J. Clifton, Kristina M. Currans, Christopher D. Muhs

“…For convenience markets and drinking places, the adjustment models were an improvement to the ITE’s handbook method, while adjustments for restaurants tended to perform similarly to those from ITE’s estimation. …”
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Urban Change Detection in Tirana, Albania (2000–2025) Using Remote Sensing and Open Geospatial Data by L. Haxhiu, B. Aliaj

“…These findings provide important insights for urban planning and sustainable development in Tirana, while also demonstrating the value of open geospatial data and free software tools for monitoring urban change in rapidly transforming cities.…”
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Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Impact of Chemical-Based Mollusciciding for Control of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium Transmission. by Charles H King, Laura J Sutherland, David Bertsch

“…<h4>Conclusion/significance</h4>While there are hurdles to implementing molluscicide control, its impact on local transmission is typically strong, albeit incomplete. …”
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Vegetation restoration effectiveness with main factors in the Beijing-Tianjin sandstorm source region during 2000-2020, China. by Xingshuo Zhang, Jingfang Yuan, Xiaoman Liu, Cheng Zong

“…First, we evaluated the vegetation restoration effectiveness in the BTSSR using an index that combined Fractional Vegetation Coverage (FVC) and Net Primary Productivity (NPP). …”
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