Mobility, ICT, and health: a built environment investigation of older Chinese migrants’ social isolation and loneliness by Amber DeJohn, Bochu Liu, Xinlin Ma, Michael J. Widener, Zhilin Liu

“…Specifically, we use a structural equation model to test a theoretical framework of older adult social isolation. Results Our model demonstrates the importance of community mobility for reducing feelings of loneliness, while ICT use is significantly related to better physical health. …”
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Virtual Cities: From Digital Twins to Autonomous AI Societies by Andrey Nechesov, Ivan Dorokhov, Janne Ruponen

“…Virtual Cities (VCs) transcend simple digital replicas of real-world systems, emerging as complex socio-technical ecosystems where autonomous AI entities function as citizens. …”
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Spectral enhancement of PlanetScope using Sentinel-2 images to estimate soybean yield and seed composition by Supria Sarkar, Vasit Sagan, Sourav Bhadra, Felix B. Fritschi

“…Abstract Soybean is an essential crop to fight global food insecurity and is of great economic importance around the world. Along with genetic improvements aimed at boosting yield, soybean seed composition also changed. …”
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Impacts of data consistency levels in cloud-based NoSQL for data-intensive applications by Saulo Ferreira, Júlio Mendonça, Bruno Nogueira, Willy Tiengo, Ermeson Andrade

“…The analysis is based on real-world experiments in which DBMS nodes are deployed on cloud platforms in different locations, considering single and multiple region deployments. …”
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Variational Methods in Optical Quantum Machine Learning by Marco Simonetti, Damiano Perri, Osvaldo Gervasi

“…The computing world is rapidly evolving and advancing, with new ground-breaking technologies emerging. …”
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DMR: disentangled and denoised learning for multi-behavior recommendation by Yijia Zhang, Wanyu Chen, Fei Cai, Zhenkun Shi, Feng Qi

“…Extensive experiments also demonstrate our model’s competitive performance for fine-grained preference learning and denoised learning.…”
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Current Practices in Growth Chart Utilization among Healthcare Practitioners in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Abeer M. Aljaadi, Rana H. Mosli, Ruba H. Eid, Dania H. Bin-Ali, Essra A. Noorwali, Reem O. Basaqr, Hala Al-Otaibi

“…Growth charts (GCs) are essential tools for monitoring children’s growth and overall health status. …”
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Some Complex Picture Fuzzy Aggregation Operators Based on Frank t-norm and t-conorm: An Application to Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) Process by Faisal Mehmood, Heng Liu

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The Value of Preemptive Pick-Up Services in Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Last-Mile Delivery: Space-Time Network-Based Formulation and Solution Algorithms by Weiran Meng, Lingyun Meng, Guoshuai Han, Xiaotian Zhuang, Lu Carol Tong, Shengnan Wu

“…This framework jointly integrates the processes of updating request information and obtaining optimal routes. Finally, the validity and effectiveness of the proposed methods are evaluated on an illustrative network and a real-world last-mile delivery network operated by a logistics company.…”
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Aligning CEO compensation with sustainability performance: the role of CEO duality, board size, and compensation committees by Muhammad Farooq Shabbir, Jalal Rajeh Hanaysha, Elaine Yen Nee Oon, Muhammad Asif, Hassan Danial Aslam

“…Conclusively, this investigation suggests that the inconclusive evidence on CEO compensation around the world should be studied with governance mechanisms. …”
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Assessment of Polypharmacy, Drug Use Patterns, and Associated Factors at the Edna Adan University Hospital, Hargeisa, Somaliland by Temesgen Sidamo, Alemu Deboch, Mohamed Abdi, Fikru Debebe, Khalid Dayib, Tamrat Balcha Balla

“…Polypharmacy is the use of multiple drugs by a patient at the same time and is common in the elderly. To our knowledge, drug use patterns in Somaliland are rarely studied. …”
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Tolerance of high-yielding corn hybrids to drought stress during the early growth stage by Jiovana Kamila Vilas-Boas, Fábio Steiner, Alan Mario Zuffo, Jorge González Aguilera, Charline Zaratin Alves

“…Corn hybrids have distinct degrees of drought tolerance, and exploiting this characteristic is important to enhance agricultural production in many tropical regions of the world. …”
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Receptor Status Differences in Prognosis for Breast Cancer by Yelda Deligöz Bildacı, Deniz Yamaç, Uğur Coşkun

“…It is the most common cancer type in the world after lung cancer. The prognosis of the disease mostly depends on the type and stage of cancer. …”
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Carbon utilization and storage through rehabilitation of groundwater wells by Vivek V. Patil, Gabriella Basso, Steven Catania, Christopher Catania, Timothy Ostapuk, Robert Vince

“…With almost every major corporation around the world working towards their “net-zero goals”, it is becoming increasingly important to have more technologies that can help reduce carbon footprint. …”
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Examining spatiotemporal dynamics of CO2 emission at multiscale based on nighttime light data by Binbin Zhang, Zongzheng Liang, Wenru Guo, Zhanyou Cui, Deguang Li

“…Carbon emissions have increasingly been the focus of all governments as countries throughout the world choose carbon neutrality as a national development strategy. …”
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMPREHENSION OF A WOMAN-AUTHOR AS THE SUBJECT OF CULTURE THROUGH THE PRISM OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (GENDER ASPECT) by I. A. Koliieva, T. A. Kuptsova

“…It was revealed that women’s philosophical and literary conceptions have created a unique woman’s world of being and an image of "a new woman", thus leading the way towards the new stereotypes based on comprehension that sex differences should not be determining factors both in cultural and social coexistence.…”
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Parallelizing Quantum Simulation With Decision Diagrams by Shaowen Li, Yusuke Kimura, Hiroyuki Sato, Masahiro Fujita

“…Since people became aware of the power of quantum phenomena in the domain of traditional computation, a great number of complex problems that were once considered intractable in the classical world have been tackled. The downsides of quantum supremacy are its high cost and unpredictability. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 Genome-Based Severity Predictions Correspond to Lower qPCR Values and Higher Viral Load by Martin Skarzynski, Erin M. McAuley, Ezekiel J. Maier, Anthony C. Fries, Jameson D. Voss, Richard R. Chapleau

“…Here, we used PCR as a surrogate for viral load and consequent severity to evaluate the real-world capabilities of a genome-based clinical severity predictive algorithm. …”
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CIRCADIAN RHYTHM AND INDICATORS OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION IN PATIENTS WITH PSORIASIS AND CONCOMITANT ALIMENTARY OBESITY by Ya.O. Yemchenko, K.Ye. Ishcheikin, I.P. Kaidashev

“…Psoriasis is one of the most common dermatoses, affecting from 2% to 4% of the world's population, according to the statistics from WHO. …”
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The Role of Modern Artistic Media in Cultural Discourse with Emphasis on Globalization by Sara Jahangiri, Mohammadreza Sharifzadeh, MohammadKazem Hassanvand

“…Objective: The contemporary world is characterized by the emergence of new media, marking an era in which media has become an indispensable component of human existence. …”
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