Potential application areas and benefits of blockchain-enabled smart contracts adoption in infrastructure Public-private partnership (PPP) projects by Emmanuel Chidiebere Eze, Ernest Effah Ameyaw

“…The snowball sampling technique and questionnaire were used to gather data from experts across countries. Data analysis was done using means analysis, normalisation value, coefficient of variation, Kendall's coefficient of concordance, Kruskal-Wallis test and partial least square-structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). …”
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Enhancing breast cancer prediction through stacking ensemble and deep learning integration by Fatih Gurcan

“…To achieve this, the efficacy of ensemble methods such as Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, ExtraTrees, HistGradientBoosting, AdaBoost, GradientBoosting, and CatBoost in modeling breast cancer diagnosis was comprehensively evaluated. …”
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Personality and education: associations between personality dimensions, academic field of study, and performance in upper secondary school and higher education by Mikkel M. Thørrisen, Talieh Sadeghi

“…Data were collected in 2019, approximately three years after participants had graduated. …”
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Marine species and assemblage change foreshadowed by their thermal bias over Early Jurassic warming by Carl J. Reddin, Jan P. Landwehrs, Gregor H. Mathes, Clemens V. Ullmann, Georg Feulner, Martin Aberhan

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Investigation of the effects of Afyonkarahisar Region hot springs water on blood calcium and some hormon levels in experimentally-created osteoporosis in rats by Bülent Elitok, Tolgahan Saygin, Yavuz Ulusoy, Bahadir Kilinç

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Identification of degradation risk areas and delineation of key ecological function areas in Qinling region by Xiaojuan Xu, Dayi Lin, Yue Yang, Jing Liu, Changxin Zou, Naifeng Lin, Fusheng Jiao, Qian Wu, Jie Qiu, Kun Zhang

“…Moreover, key ecological function and degradation risk zones were identified, and future development paths were proposed for the Qinling region. The findings indicate that: (1) Urban area expansion was the most rapid, increasing by about 1800 km², with an average yearly growth rate of 2.43%. …”
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Breast cancer classification based on hybrid CNN with LSTM model by Mourad Kaddes, Yasser M. Ayid, Ahmed M. Elshewey, Yasser Fouad

“…We compared the proposed model with other DL models, such as CNN, LSTM, Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), VGG-16, and RESNET-50. …”
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‘Health Camp’ model: a unique approach for child vaccination in non-state armed actor controlled, inaccessible geographies in Somalia by Mohamed Hussein Kahow, Salad Ahmed Halane, Asma Ali, Rashed Shah

“…Decades of conflict, political instability, and limited infrastructure left Somalia facing significant challenges to offer consistent and equitable health services, especially for child vaccination. Recent data reveals alarming vaccination gaps, with 60% of children receiving no vaccinations, and only 11% completing required vaccines. …”
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Determinants of COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate in the United States: Spatial Analysis Over One Year of the Pandemic by Niranjan J. Kathe, Rajvi J. Wani

“…**Objectives:** The objective of this study was to assess the ecological factors (policy, health behaviors, socio-economic, physical environment, and clinical care) associated with COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) in the United States. **Methods:** Data from the New York Times’ COVID-19 repository and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data (01/21/2020 - 02/27/2021) were used. …”
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Feline mastocytoma. Case report by G. A. Delgado-López, C. A. Moreno-Babilonia

“…Los mastocitomas son tumores originarios de los mastocitos que usualmente afectan a los perros y los gatos. Pueden llegar a tener un comportamiento benigno, sin embargo, esto dependerá del grado de la neoplasia y su estadiaje. …”
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Frecuencia de la leucemia felina (ViLeF) en un refugio municipal de Rionegro, Colombia, durante 2020 by V. M. Molina, M. Orjuela

“…Fueron muestreados 92 gatos, a los cuales se les efectuó una prueba p27 por inmunoensayo comercial Elisa (Idexx©, Snap Combo Plus®, Maine, EE. …”
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International Experience of Innovative Development of the Forest Industry in the Post-War Period and Its Adaptation for Ukraine by Petrashchuk Mykola V.

“…The forest industry is one of the most promising in the economy of Ukraine, but in the context of the ongoing full-scale invasion, the industry has acutely faced both the problems that existed before, including forest fires, illegal deforestation, pests, etc., and the problems that became relevant during the period of hostilities, namely, demining of forest areas. …”
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Inferring 3D displacement time series through InSAR measurements and potential field theory in volcanic areas by Andrea Barone, Maurizio Fedi, Antonio Pepe, Pietro Mastro, Pietro Tizzani, Raffaele Castaldo

“…Moreover, InSAR can discriminate the ground deformations along the Up-Down and East-West by combining information gathered through ascending and descending paths. Conversely, the LOS-projected ground displacements remain less sensitive to the North-South components because almost all modern satellites fly along near-polar orbits. …”
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Cooperative game scheduling and revenue sharing strategy for virtual power plants considering scenery uncertainty by SONG Duoyang, XUE Tianliang, LI Yipu, TU Jintong, BI Yuhao, WANG Mankang

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Partnership between teachers and parents to improve students' English communication skills by Stevanović Nenad J., Trajković Anđelija M.

“…The obtained results show positive attitudes towards the development of partnership in both groups of respondents, but also the existence of a statistically significant difference between both groups, whereby the attitudes of parents are significantly more positive. …”
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Deviation from the balanced time perspective and depression and anxiety symptoms: the mediating roles of cognitive-behavioral emotion regulation in a cross-cultural model by Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar, Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar, Ayse Altan-Atalay, Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad, Bulent Turan, Mehmet Eskin

“…The model accounted for cultural variations in the paths as a moderator.ResultsSignificant associations were found between DBTP, ER strategies, depression, and anxiety symptoms. …”
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Glucagon-like peptide-1 and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide agonists for the treatment of obesity and diabetes mellitus by Alexander C. Martins, Beatriz G. de la Torre, Fernando Albericio

“…Diabetes mellitus (DM), the incidence of which is also rising, is closely related to obesity. The annual rate of DM cases has increased significantly, mirroring trends in obesity. …”
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The Impact of High Labour Turnover on Students Performance in Private Higher Institutions of Learning in Kabale District: A Case Study of African College of Commerce and Technology... by Kemigisha, Maryshivan

“…The study employed a cross-sectional research design with both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Data was collected from 73 respondents, including top administrators, lecturers, and students, using questionnaires and interview guides. …”
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Systems science and systems thinking for public health: a systematic review of the field by Gemma Carey, Brad Crammond, Eleanor Malbon, Nicole Carey, Andrew Joyce, Alan Carey

“…These were then organised according to theme (ie, commonalities between studies within each category), in order to provide an overview of the state of the field as a whole. …”
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Physicochemical and melissopalynological profiles of Citrus limon honey from Tucumán- Argentina. Hesperidin as a suitable marker of floral origin by Luis María Maldonado, K. Marcinkevicius, V. Salomón, A.C. Sánchez, A. Álvarez, L. Lupo, E. Bedascarrasbure

“…Esta miel es de color muy claro (≤ 30 mm Pfund), ligeramente ácida (≤ 20 meq.kg-1), con valores de humedad de 15 a 19 g/100 g, baja actividad diastásica (≤ 27 unidades Gothe), HMF (≤ 3,0 mg.kg-1) y conductividad eléctrica (≤ 0,32 mS.cm-1). …”
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