Travel Matrix Enabled Delta-Based Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Case of Kigali City by Evariste Twahirwa, Moyukh Laha, James Rwigema, Raja Datta

“…Our intention is to seek an approach that reduces the required number of RSUs and ensures greater network performance effectiveness in terms of packets delivery ratio, throughput, message delay, and jitter; from our study, travel matrix delta-based placement of RSUs becomes the best in our case study scenario. …”
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Baltic States in NATO: Results of the Decade by V. V. Vorotnikov

“…They have acquired "specialization" within NATO by establishing centers of excellence. In terms of euro-atlantic solidarity, the participation in the International Security Assistance Force in Afganistan has become the most important international project for the Baltic states. …”
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Japan in the Russia - U.S. Relations by S. V. Volkov

“…The author concludes that the long-term interests of Russia and Japan dictate both sides to move closer, but the policy of the U.S. administration towards Russia on the Ukranian question blocks this possibility.…”
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Use of Extra-judicial Technical Surveillance in Criminal Decision-making: European Limitations and National Challenges by Andrei Zarafiu

“…Beyond the essential issue of the admissibility of the use of information obtained by officers (bodies) specializing in national security activities as evidence in criminal proceedings, the analysis aims to identify controversies and offer solutions on other issues of interest: the ability of non-judicial bodies to become involved in the conduct of criminal investigations, the effectiveness of the mechanisms for controlling these intrusive methods, the conformity with the European law of national regulations allowing such participation, the way in which information gathered by extrajudicial bodies can influence the criminal decision-making process. …”
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Adaptive Image Denoising Method Based on Diffusion Equation and Deep Learning by Shaobin Ma, Lan Li, Chengwen Zhang

“…Effective noise removal has become a hot topic in image denoising research while preserving important details of an image. …”
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Soil polluted system shapes endophytic fungi communities associated with Arundo donax: a field experiment by Xiaohui Wang, Yao Wang, Yingqiang Sun, Keyi Wang, Junbo Yang, Danjuan Zeng, Ling Mo, Jianxiong Liao, Qianshu Peng, Yu Yao, Gaozhong Pu

“…With the expansion of the mining industry, environmental pollution from microelements (MP) and red mud (RM) has become a pressing issue. While bioremediation offers a cost-effective and sustainable solution, plant growth in these polluted environments remains difficult. …”
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Increasing the level of formation of educational motivation and cognitive independence in the study of natural sciences by Larisa A. Filipovich, Irina G. Kondaurova

“…If students understand how they can practically apply the theoretical knowledge gained in the classroom in their professional activities, then the study of complex material becomes more understandable and interesting. We distinguish two personal qualities of students, which prevail over others when considering the learning process educational motivation and cognitive independence. …”
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Multidimensional Scientometric Analysis for the Gig Economy by Sergen Gürsoy

“…Thus, an increase in the trends of research on the structure of working life in terms of social sustainability in the changing world order has been observed. …”
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Case studies in open access publishing. Number one. The Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon): an open access journal using an un-paid, volunteer-bas... by Bo-Christer Bjoerk, Ziga Turk

“…The journal publishes articles as they become ready, but creates virtual issues through alerting messages to “subscribers”. …”
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Monster or Missing Link? The Mermaid and the Victorian Imagination by Béatrice Laurent

“…While the evolutionist hypothesis was gaining ground in the early decades of the nineteenth century and paleontology showed that species had existed and become extinct, many natural scientists were led to think that the fantastic animals which peopled classical mythologies maybe were not the fantasies of creative minds but lost species. …”
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A Cloud-based Sales and Stock Control System for Superstores under Non-zero Constant Lead Time Constraint by Fidelis Ikechukwu Onah, Jacinta Chioma Onuoha

“…And as investors strive to achieve profitability and growth through smart solutions, the use of cloud-based tools has now become more crucial for businesses than ever before. …”
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Spatial conflict resolution in marine spatial plans and permitting procedures for offshore wind energy: an analysis of measures adopted in Denmark, England and the Netherlands by Juul E. H. Kusters, Ferry M. G. van Kann, Christian Zuidema

“…As activities in the North Sea are steadily increasing in both size and number, spatial conflicts are becoming increasingly inevitable. Marine Spatial Planning is widely adopted as an area-based planning approach to manage competing claims for maritime space, but spatial conflicts are also managed through permitting procedures for maritime activities. …”
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La double invisibilisation du care réalisé par les femmes en situation de post-catastrophe climatique : l’exemple de la vallée de la Roya. by Anouk Migeon

“…Following situations referred to as natural disaster (caused or not by humans), the concept of care (Tronto, 2008, 2012) is concrete because care activities become the main concern of everyone in order to ensure the vital needs of populations and of their immediate environment. …”
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Guest Editorial: The Gig Economy and Women Workers in the Middle East by Stella Morgana

“…How are ordinary women gig workers re-imagining their tech lives and challenging unwritten rules, patriarchy and lack of access to the labour market? …”
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Spinal Cord Lesion: Effects of and Perspectives for Treatment by V. Dietz

“…Therefore, overall leg muscle activity becomes reduced and less well modulated in patients with spasticity. …”
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PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR LEAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CONSTRUCTION by Ayman Othman, Alaa Hosny Shaaban El-Gendawy

“… Sustainability of construction projects has become a major issue facing decision-makers, developers, city and urban planners as well as designers worldwide. …”
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Management aspect of tax planning in conditions of uncertainty by Natalia Tluchkevych, Oksana Nuzhna, Tetyana Pisarenko

“…The relevance of solving this scientific problem lies in the fact that today, in conditions of uncertainty, the process of making managerial decisions in tax planning becomes more complicated, so tax planning issues require constant study. …”
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Comparative use of different AI methods for the prediction of concrete compressive strength by Mouhamadou Amar

“…Recently, artificial intelligence has become a powerful resource that enables machine learning-based forecasting using available data. …”
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Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014) by Geoffrey Supran, Naomi Oreskes

“…In all four cases, we find that as documents become more publicly accessible, they increasingly communicate doubt. …”
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General Approach to Identifying Potential Targets for Cancer Imaging by Integrated Bioinformatics Analysis of Publicly Available Genomic Profiles by Yongliang Yang, S. James Adelstein, Amin I. Kassis

“…The identification of appropriate imaging targets has become the touchstone for the accurate diagnosis and prognosis of human cancer. …”
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