Bengal: From a Periphery to the Heartland of South Asia by Csaba M. KOVÁCS

“…Though West Bengal and especially the great urban agglomeration of Kolkata remains one of India’s most important industrial and commercial zones and is quickly developing today, the region was for decades lagging behind other states, while Kolkata lost its primacy (behind Delhi and Mumbai) among the great cities of India. …”
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Development and Operation of the Dalian Cruise Port in China by Lina Gong

“…China's cruise industry has developed rapidly in the past ten years, and China's cruise port construction has flourished. A total of 20 cities along the coast of mainland China have built or planned to build cruise terminals. …”
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Juegos intertextuales en “Respiración artificial” de Ricardo Piglia by Juan Diego González Rúa

“…Esta escritura experimental formada primordialmente de citas pone abiertamente en juego una serie de procedimientos que entremezclan los géneros literarios, fragmentan y reelaboran una variedad de obras que, llevadas a distintos planos narrativos, terminan por disolver los límites fijados entre los ámbitos de la crítica y la creación literaria.…”
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Graph-based service recommendation in Social Internet of Things by Yuanyi Chen, Yanyun Tao, Zengwei Zheng, Dan Chen

“…In this study, we focus on the problem of service recommendation in Social Internet of Things, which is very important for many applications such as urban computing, smart cities, and health care. We propose a graph-based service recommendation framework by jointly considering social relationships of heterogeneous objects in Social Internet of Things and user’s preferences. …”
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MAC Layer Energy Consumption and Routing Protocol Optimization Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by Yaohua Chen, Waixi Liu

“…Due to its fast-networking ability, it is widely used in smart cities, car networking, military, agriculture, medicine, and other fields. …”
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Facilitators’ perspective towards implementation of Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) in a Government Medical College in Delhi: a cross-sectional study by Ghurumourthy Dhandapani, Sanjeev Kumar, Sunanda Gupta, Shveta Lukhmana

“…Integrated teaching (62%) and early clinical exposure (55%) were identified as the most anticipated benefits. Faculty members cited infrastructural deficits (93%) and competing time demands and priorities (85%) as major barriers to implementation. …”
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The Target Recovery Strategy for Preventing Avalanche Breakdown on Interdependent Community Networks by Kai Gong, Yu Huang, Xiao-long Chen, Qing Li, Ming Tang

“…Many real infrastructure systems such as power grids and communication networks across cities not only depend on each other but also have community structures. …”
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Measuring and Ranking the Physical Resilience of Urban Areas Against Earthquakes: A Case Study of the Metropolis of Tabriz by yaser nazaryan, amane haghzad, laila ebrahimi, Kia bozorgmehr

“…Urban management has initiated a range of programs to address these crises, with a contemporary focus on enhancing the resilience of cities. The concept of resilience can be examined across various dimensions, including physical, economic, social, and environmental aspects. …”
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Botulinum Therapy for Pain Caused by Spasticity in Advanced Stages of Brain Tumor in Adolescents: A Case Report by Tomoo Mano, Toshiharu Murakami, Haruki Mori, Takashi Masuda

“…Despite experiencing pain-induced insomnia and restlessness, she was reluctant to use drugs, citing concerns about respiratory depression. She received botulinum therapy for her extremities 3 times (200, 300, and 500 U), with pain improvement after repeated treatments (Numerical rating scale from 7.5 to 1 and Short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire-2 score from 78 to 16). …”
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Normalized difference spectral indices and urban land cover as indicators of urban heat island effect: a case study of Patna Municipal Corporation by Manal Ahmad, Mohd Saqib, Syed Naushad Ahmad, Saleha Jamal, Aakib Yaqoob Mir

“…Alteration in Land use land cover over time have demonstrated their significant role in shaping the patterns of UHI observed across cities worldwide. This research endeavours to examine alterations in LULC, and Land surface temperature (LST) in the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC), Bihar. …”
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Video classes for adolescent nursing consultations: development and validation by Franciéli Hollas Rosalem, Edlamar Kátia Adamy, Rafael Gué Martini, Teresa Martins, Elisangela Argenta Zanatta

“…Results: The exploratory stage revealed that 85.5% of nurses carry out consultations with adolescents and 44.6% face difficulties. The most cited topics of interest were legal aspects of care, adolescent consultation, pregnancy and risk assessment in adolescence. …”
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Prostate Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Barbados, West Indies by Anselm J. M. Hennis, Ian R. Hambleton, Suh-Yuh Wu, Desiree H.-A. Skeete, Barbara Nemesure, M. Cristina Leske

“…We ascertained all histologically confirmed cases of prostate cancer during the period July 2002 to December 2008 and reviewed each death registration citing prostate cancer over a 14-year period commencing January 1995. …”
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Direct measurement of the critical cooling rate for the vitrification of water by Nathan J. Mowry, Constantin R. Krüger, Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich J. Lorenz

“…For judging the feasibility of a vitrification experiment, the critical cooling rate of pure water is a frequently cited reference quantity. However, an accurate determination has remained elusive, with estimates varying by several orders of magnitude. …”
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Le discours parlementaire sur l’emploi et les droits des femmes en temps de guerre (1939-1945) by Martine Stirling

“…Right from the beginning of the Second World War, the government called upon women: first of all by asking them to house mothers and their children from large cities during the evacuation period; then, by calling upon volunteers for war work and later by enlisting first single women and later married women. …”
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The role of artificial intelligence in aortic valve stenosis: a bibliometric analysis by Shanshan Chen, Shanshan Chen, Changde Wu, Zhaojie Zhang, Lingjuan Liu, Yike Zhu, Dingji Hu, Chenhui Jin, Haoya Fu, Jing Wu, Songqiao Liu, Songqiao Liu, Songqiao Liu

“…Articles were analyzed with bibliometric tools such as CiteSpace and VOSviewer to identify key research trends, core authors, institutions, and research hotspots in AI applications for AVS.ResultsA total of 118 articles were analyzed, showing a significant increase in publications from 2014 onwards. …”
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A Systematic Literature Review on Defense Techniques Against Routing Attacks in Internet of Things by Lanka Chris Sejaphala, Vusimuzi Malele, Francis Lugayizi

“…The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted different sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, smart cities, transportation, etc. to adopt these technologies. …”
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Nature’s Song under the Bombs: Pastoral Echoes in some Scottish War Poems by Stéphanie NOIRARD

“…It then focuses on anti-pastoral and the impact the idea of a waste-land had on World War II poetry, considering how the sounds of nature can still be heard in a ruined world of bombed cities and human atrocities. A last part is dedicated to the new poetic forms authors try to create in order to struggle against silence and destruction, as well as to pastoral as a subversive form and the use of sonic “carnivalesque” and resistance.…”
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Advances in genetic diagnosis and therapy of hereditary heart disease: a bibliometric review from 2004 to 2024 by Huixi Ma, Yun Wang, Yang Jia, Linjun Xie, Lini Liu, Dingyi Zhang, Xinyue Ma, Yingkun Guo, Rong Xu

“…Bibliometric analysis software (CiteSpace 6.3.R1, VOSviewer 1.6.18, and Scimago Graphica) was used to analyze the general information, trends, and emerging foci of HHD in the past 20 years, including author, country, institution, keyword, and so on. …”
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A Study of the Solid Waste Chain in Benin Metropolis, Nigeria by Dennis Iyeke Igbinomwanhia, Ejovo Nena Ohwovoriole

“…Benin metropolis like other fast urbanizing towns and cities in Nigeria is faces with a solid waste management problem. …”
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Exploring the Coupling of Land Development Intensity and Green Economy Development in the Pearl River Delta: Patterns, Challenges, and Strategic Pathways by Huiming Huang, Shuangyu Xu, Kailun Fang

“…This study investigates the spatiotemporal patterns of land development intensity and green economy development at the district and county level in nine cities within the Pearl River Delta (PRD). A comprehensive evaluation framework is developed using a coupling coordination degree model and panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model to explore the spatial and temporal evolution of their relationship. …”
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