Survivors’ Narratives of the Oklahoma City Bombing Retold Seven Years Post-Disaster by Elizabeth W. Pollio, Samir Abu-Hamad, Jennifer Wang, Carol S. North, David E. Pollio

“…Qualitative narratives of surviving a disaster may provide insight into individual experiences of it and efforts to derive meaning from it. <b>Methods:</b> From an initial random sample of 182 survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing, narrative descriptions of this experience were collected 7 years after the bomb blast from 116 of the original sample, for the purpose of examining persistent as well as newly evolving content through qualitative analysis. …”
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Unveiling the impacts of eWOM on tourist revisit intention from a cognitive perspective: the moderating role of trade-offs by Thong Van Pham, Tam Duc Le, Kim Thoa Dang Thi, Thuy Linh Nguyen, Thi Nguyen Thao Tran

“…Despite the efforts of the government and managers to promote tourism in the context of the economic downturn, tourism recovery has been slow. …”
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Genetic Algorithms in Antennas and Smart Antennas Design Overview: Two Novel Antenna Systems for Triband GNSS Applications and a Circular Switched Parasitic Array for WiMax Applic... by Stylianos C. Panagiotou, Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos, Christos N. Capsalis

“…In this paper, extensive reference to literature related antenna design efforts employing genetic algorithms is taking place and subsequently, three novel antenna systems are designed in order to provide realistic implementations of a genetic algorithm. …”
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Congenital Anomalies and Termination of Pregnancy in Iran by Bahram Samadirad, Zhila Khamnian, Mohammad Bager Hosseini, Saeed Dastgiri

“…Although the rate of termination of pregnancy for birth defects is acceptable at the current situation in the country, more efforts should still be made to convince the community authorities to give more possibility and ease for the termination of pregnancy for congenital anomalies.…”
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Achieving Equity via Transfer Learning With Fairness Optimization by Xiaoyang Wang, Chia-Hsuan Chang, Christopher C. Yang

“…This can lead to increased discriminatory outcomes and hinder efforts to develop truly fair AI systems. This paper proposes Transfer Learning with Fairness Optimization (TLFO), a novel framework that serially optimizes predictive performance and fairness in machine learning models. …”
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Leveraging International Health Regulations (2005) to enhance health security in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a retrospective analysis from 2016 to 2023 by Dalia Samhouri, Mohamed Elhakim, Amgad Elkholy, Mahgoub Hamid

“…This study aims to assess the efforts to enhance health security in the EMR from 2016 to 2023 through the implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) core capacities.Methods A narrative review was conducted using IHR Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (MEF) tools, such as the State Party Self-Assessment Annual Report (SPAR) and the Joint External Evaluation (JEE), to evaluate the region’s preparedness and response capabilities. …”
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Quantifying Fractal Dimension in Integrated Experimental Data of Tight Sandstones by Dazhong Ren, Rongxi Li, Dengke Liu, Yuhong Li, Na Liu, Fu Yang

“…Determining the microscopic pore structures of tight sandstones is becoming one of the most challenging efforts, and the strong heterogeneity makes the accurate assessment still a problem. …”
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Evaluating the Nexus Between Exports, Imports, GDP, and Gross Capital Formation in South Africa by Ahmed Oluwatobi Adekunle

“…The government must provide stronger support for domestic industries to translate these efforts into economic growth and development. …”
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Multi-step multivariate forecasting of transmission power in NPPs using operational and meteorological data by Jaeseok Yoo, Young-jin Oh, Nam-hyun Kim, Soo-ill Lee, Jaepil Ko

“…As the proportion of renewable energy has increased in the national power grid of Republic of Korea, various efforts are needed to maintain the stability of total power generation. …”
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Mid‐Infrared Optoelectronic Waveguide Devices with 2D Materials by Liqiang Qi, Tianping Xu, Zhengkun Xing, Si Chen, Zunyue Zhang, Tiegen Liu, Zhenzhou Cheng

“…Specifically, the authors focus on the research efforts of developing passive photonic devices, modulators, photodetectors, and light sources. …”
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The circular economy model as a promising path towards regional ecological and economic balance by M. Yu. Dyakov

“…The findings conclude that it is important to continue research into the various aspects of the transition to a circular economy, as well as continued coordinated efforts are needed to implement it.…”
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Application of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Models in Chemical Risk Assessment by Moiz Mumtaz, Jeffrey Fisher, Benjamin Blount, Patricia Ruiz

“…During the past two decades, through cooperative agreements and contracts at several research and higher education institutions, ATSDR funded translational research has encouraged the use of various types of models. Such collaborative efforts have led to the development and use of transparent and user-friendly models. …”
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Obscene beasts: the stage behind the scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mathilde La Cassagnère

“…Such is the challenge faced by the amateur company of mechanicals who are producing the love tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s play within the play featuring a fearful lion. For all the efforts the mechanicals have engaged in the project, their rendition of the lion is such a failure that it has the on-stage spectators roar with laughter. …”
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Multiaircraft Optimal 4D Trajectory Planning Using Logical Constraints by Dinesh B. Seenivasan, Alberto Olivares, Ernesto Staffetti

“…Enforcing separation between aircraft, passage through waypoints, and obstacle avoidance is especially demanding in terms of modeling efforts. Indeed, in general, separation constraints require the introduction of auxiliary integer variables in the model; for passage constraints, a multiphase optimal control approach is used, and for obstacle avoidance constraints, geometric approximations of the obstacles are introduced. …”
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Marital adjustment and quality of life among HIV discordant couples by Subhasis Bhadra, Nupur Tayal

“…HIV is still a glo­bal epidemic with number of treatment module, yet there is no vaccine to prevent. Number of efforts made by the World Health Organization, National Governments and humanitarian organizations to spread awareness and provide support. …”
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الميتاداتا : تحليل لاحق للانتاج الفکرى by رحاب محمد ابو الغار

“…Meta-analysis is considered a research style in the field of libraries andinformation, one of the efforts of registering Literature. this style is remarkablewith three features that cannot stand without which fusion (collecting orintegration) between previous results of the study and summarizing these results,meeting and comparing them with each other, using some statistical methods inthis summary to perform bibliometric analysis, of previous studies. this study triesto apply Meta-analysis style on one of the topics " metadata" with analyzing itwith qualitative, quantative, time and linguistic analysis and clarifying scientifictrends of the topic, in this study, the researcher tried to analysis previous studiesaccording to objective elements of the study, this is to recognize common andgeneral results that studies of this topic had reached to.The intellectual production that dealt with the subject of metadata in itsbranches, which amounted to 61 studies, was presented and analyzed to identifyits objective, temporal, qualitative, formal and syntactic features andcharacteristics, and the methodology used.The most important recommendations, proposals or future researchdirections regarding metadata are the following: Conducting some applied studies dealing with metadata of museumgroups and metadata of multimedia. Study the quality of the metadata of media, especially news websites, onthe Internet. Conducting many studies on the topic of "Big Metadata" and "LinkedMetadata" Methods used to describe metadata between Arab and foreign indexes(that use correlated data): a comparative study. Future directions for describing metadata of indexes in the environment oflinked data: an exploratory study. …”
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Digital Twins and Road Construction Using Secondary Raw Materials by Sebastjan Meža, Alenka Mauko Pranjić, Rok Vezočnik, Igor Osmokrović, Stanislav Lenart

“…The first part of the paper is devoted to the theoretical justification of efforts and ways of establishing the monitoring systems, followed by a DT case study where an integrated data environment synthesizing a Building Information Model and monitored data is presented. …”
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A Study of the anthrax transmission model in herbivorous animals involving vaccination and harvesting by Anita Triska, Mona Zevika

“…This research focuses on the transmission of anthrax to herbivorous animals, particularly livestock, by examining animal harvesting practices and efforts to prevent its spread through vaccination. …”
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A Protective Role of Canonical Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway in Pathogenic Bacteria-Induced Inflammatory Responses by Zhongjia Jiang, Weiping Zhou, Xing Tian, Peng Zou, Ning Li, Chunmeng Zhang, Yanting Li, Guangyan Liu

“…This review gathers the recent efforts to elucidate the mechanistic details through how Wnt/β-catenin signaling modulates anti-inflammatory responses in response to bacterial infection and its interactions with other inflammatory signals, which warrants further study for the development of specific interventions for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. …”
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The JN.1 variant of COVID-19: immune evasion, transmissibility, and implications for global health by Araj Naveed Siddiqui, Imshaal Musharaf, Bashar Haruna Gulumbe

“…However, vaccination rates remain low. Monitoring efforts include genomic assessments, wastewater surveillance, and digital tracking to contain the variant’s spread. …”
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