A Superposed Epoch Analysis of Auroral Oval Coverage During Substorms Using Deep Learning‐Based Segmentation Models by Jia‐Nan Jiang, Zi‐Ming Zou, Yang Lu, Jia Zhong, Yong Wang, Yu‐Zhang Ma, Bian‐Long Zhao

“…A new aurora segmentation model, HrSeg, is then developed to obtain auroral ovals more efficiently and accurately. …”
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IKEChecker: grammar-guided stateful fuzzer for IKE protocol implementions by ZHENG Yonghui, ZHAO Dongliang, GU Chunxiang, ZHANG Xieli

“…The internet key exchange (IKE) protocol, integral to the authentication and key negotiation process within the Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) framework, has been utilized for the protection of IP communications. …”
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Taxonomic status and nomenclature of Tanacetum clusii (Asteraceae, Asteroideae, Anthemideae), with comments on its distribution by Viktor O. Nachychko, Clemens Pachschwöll, Mihai Puşcaş, Ghizela Vonica, Gergely Király

“…Additionally, the presence of T. clusii in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Montenegro and Turkey has not been confirmed and recorded mistakenly in different sources.…”
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The development of preterm infants from low socio-economic status families: The combined effects of melatonin, autonomic nervous system maturation and psychosocial factors (ProMote... by Theano Kokkinaki, Nicole Anagnostatou, Maria Markodimitraki, Theano Roumeliotaki, Manolis Tzatzarakis, Elena Vakonaki, Giorgos Giannakakis, Aristidis Tsatsakis, Eleftheria Hatzidaki

“…We will collect data from preterm neonates (<37 weeks gestational age) hospitalized in the Department of Neonatology/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the University General Hospital of Heraklion, Greece, and their mothers. Data collection of psychosocial and biological factors will be carried out at birth, and at the corrected age of 6 and 9 months, while preterm infants' cognitive and social development will be assessed at 9 months corrected age. …”
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Students’ attitudes toward euthanasia and abortion: a cross-cultural study in three Mediterranean countries by Ivana Tutić Grokša, Ana Depope, Tijana Trako Poljak, Igor Eterović, Toni Buterin, Robert Doričić, Mariana Gensabella, Maria Laura Giacobello, Josip Guć, Eleni Kalokairinou, Željko Kaluđerović, Iva Rinčić, Ivana Zagorac, Miltiadis Vantsos, Amir Muzur

“…Methods A pen-to-paper survey was conducted on a convenient sample of students (N = 1097) from five universities and four fields of study (Medicine, Law, Theology and Philosophy) in Croatia, Greece and Italy to investigate their attitudes towards abortion and euthanasia. …”
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FORMATION OF ANTIQUE RHETORIC: CHRONOLOGY OF RHETORICAL METHODS AND STYLES (PLATO, ARISTOTLE) by Irina A. Pantelyeyeva

“…Practical value of article consists in development of insufficiently studied object "Antique declamation discourse" where Plato and Aristotle's two central rhetorical concepts appear as the intermediate stage in development of a declamation discourse of Ancient Greece and, subsequently, and Ancient Rome. Conclusions. …”
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Very High Energy Solar Energetic Particle Events and Ground Level Enhancement Events: Forecasting and Alerts by N. Crosby, H. Mavromichalaki, O. Malandraki, M. Gerontidou, M. Karavolos, D. Lingri, P. Makrantoni, M. Papailiou, P. Paschalis, A. Tezari

“…From the space‐based approach, the HESPERIA UMASEP‐500 product, jointly developed within the framework of the EU HORIZON2020 HESPERIA project by the Universidad de Malaga, Spain and National Observatory of Athens, Greece, provides forecasts of GLE events and >500 MeV protons relying on GOES satellite Soft X‐Ray and high energy proton observations. …”
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Assessing Seismic Vulnerability and Pollution Risks of Wastewater Treatment Plants by Spyridon K. Golfinopoulos, Ploutarchos N. Kerpelis, Dimitrios E. Alexakis

“…The present study discusses previous research results using a questionnaire to gather experts’ judgments on technical issues and potential pollution related to the vulnerability of Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) in Greece. The questionnaire included 44 closed-type questions based on the Likert Scale. …”
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A Comparative Spatiotemporal Analysis for Long-Term Trends of Hydrometeorological Variables in Maritsa River Basin by Mehmet Seren Korkmaz, Kevser Merkür Başkesen, Ertuğrul Sunan

“…The aim of this study is to examine the changes in monthly and annual total precipitation and evapotranspiration values in the Maritsa River Basin, a transboundary water basin between Bulgaria, Greece, and Türkiye. For this, precipitation values for the 1982-2023 water years were taken from the Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) data set, and evapotranspiration values for the 1982-2023 water years were taken from the European Reanalysis 5th Generation-Land (ERA5-Land) data set. …”
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Stakeholders’ Views on Factors Influencing Nutrition Policy: a Qualitative Study Across Ten European Countries by Jeruszka-Bielak Marta, Sicińska Ewa, Wit Liesbeth de, Ruprich Jiří, Řehůřková Irena, Brown Kerry A., Timotijevic Lada, Sonne Anne-Mette, Haugaard Pernille, Guzzon Antonella, Garcia Noé Brito, Alevritou Eleni, Hermoso Maria, Sarmant Yuliya, Lähteenmäki Liisa, Roszkowski Wojciech, Raats Monique M.

“…Study was carried out during Jan-Nov 2010 in European countries: the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Spain. …”
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Rapid Landslide Detection Following an Extreme Rainfall Event Using Remote Sensing Indices, Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery, and Probabilistic Methods by Aikaterini-Alexandra Chrysafi, Paraskevas Tsangaratos, Ioanna Ilia, Wei Chen

“…The developed methodology was utilized in a case study of Storm Daniel, which struck central Greece in September 2023, with a focus on the Mount Pelion region on the Pelion Peninsula. …”
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Understanding the factors that shape vaccination ecosystem resilience: a qualitative assessment of international expert experiences and perspectives by Suepattra May, Meaghan Roach, Melissa Maravic, Rachel Mitrovich, Rozanne Wilson, Nadya Prood, Amanda L Eiden

“…This study sought to describe components that contribute to resilience in national immunisation programmes.Methods Mixed-methods study comprising in-depth interviews and surveys with n=30 vaccination programme experts in eight countries (Brazil, Costa Rica, Greece, Japan, Nigeria, Philippines, Spain and the USA). …”
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Flow cytometry sorting of cells infected with African swine fever virus by A. S. Pershin, I. V. Shevchenko, T. N. Komova, A. Mazloum, N. N. Vlasova, E. O. Morozova, A. S. Igolkin, K. N. Gruzdev

“…In particular, India, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Greece and Bhutan joined the list of ASF infected countries in 2020–2021. …”
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Lithuanian Conceptual Colour–Emotion Associations in the Global Context of 37 Nations by Domicelė Jonauskaitė

“…., Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States) and analysed Lithuanian (n = 217) associations between colour terms and emotion concepts. …”
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Effect of triage training on nurses with Emergency severity index and Australian triage scale: Α quasi-experimental study by George Pontisidis, Thalia Bellali, Petros Galanis, Nikolaos Polyzos

“…However, data on the effectiveness of triage training on nurses with two different triage scales is limited.ObjectiveThis study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of a triage training program in Emergency Departments (EDs), as well as the effect on the accuracy, knowledge, and skills of nurses working in the National Health System of Greece.MethodsΑ quasi-experimental study was carried out, with measurements taken pre-, post-, and three months after implementing the education program. …”
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Brief Coping Scale TCS-9: Optimising the Assessment of Coping Strategies. The case of Health Care Workers. by Basant K. Puri, Anastasia Miari, Maria Theodoratou

“… # Setting The setting for this study was amongst healthcare workers in Greece, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period marked by significant psychological demands on medical staff…”
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High nature value farming systems in Europe: A dataset encompassing the environmental impact assessment of farms and extensive ruminant food productsFigshare by M. Torres-Miralles, P. Jeanneret, M. Lamminen, F. Joly, B. Dumont, H. Tuomisto, I. Herzon

“…Our dataset includes 41 farms and covers five European countries—Spain, France, Greece, Estonia, and Finland—spanning three bioregions of Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Boreal. …”
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Air Quality Assessment by Moss Biomonitoring and Trace Metals Atmospheric Deposition by Pranvera Lazo, Alda Kika, Flora Qarri, Lirim Bekteshi, Shaniko Allajbeu, Trajce Stafilov

“…Fe, Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn were mostly higher between a few regions with few obvious anomalies positioned in the center of the country with high industrial activity, in the areas with heavy traffic, and in the cross-borders of Albania with Monte Negro and Greece mostly emerging from the local contribution of anthropogenic activities, local lithology, and transboundary pollution sources. …”
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Swarm learning with weak supervision enables automatic breast cancer detection in magnetic resonance imaging by Oliver Lester Saldanha, Jiefu Zhu, Gustav Müller-Franzes, Zunamys I. Carrero, Nicholas R. Payne, Lorena Escudero Sánchez, Paul Christophe Varoutas, Sreenath Kyathanahally, Narmin Ghaffari Laleh, Kevin Pfeiffer, Marta Ligero, Jakob Behner, Kamarul A. Abdullah, Georgios Apostolakos, Chrysafoula Kolofousi, Antri Kleanthous, Michail Kalogeropoulos, Cristina Rossi, Sylwia Nowakowska, Alexandra Athanasiou, Raquel Perez-Lopez, Ritse Mann, Wouter Veldhuis, Julia Camps, Volkmar Schulz, Markus Wenzel, Sergey Morozov, Alexander Ciritsis, Christiane Kuhl, Fiona J. Gilbert, Daniel Truhn, Jakob Nikolas Kather

“…These models were then validated on two external datasets consisting of 649 bilateral breast MRI exams from Germany and Greece. Results Upon systematically benchmarking various weakly supervised two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) deep learning (DL) methods, we find that the 3D-ResNet-101 demonstrates superior performance. …”
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Influence of graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) and aluminum-carbon layered double hydroxides (Al-C LDH) in polypropylene matrix of hybrid composite structures on the microstructure and... by R. Daulath Banu, R. Karunanithi, S. Sivasankaran, B. Subramanian, Abdullah A. Alhomidan

“…The developed hybrid composites were characterized using high-resolution scanning electron microscopy (HRSEM) for microstructural analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD) for phase identification, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) for compositional analysis, and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) for functional group identification. …”
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