Advancing Sustainable Development Goals through Earth Observation Satellite Data: Current Insights and Future Directions by Qiang Zhao, Le Yu

“…Earth observation (EO) satellites have become essential tools in advancing these goals, providing high-frequency, extensive data for tracking environmental changes, assessing ecosystem health, and supporting resource management. …”
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Quando as ruas abrigam a arte: a cena hip hop no Recife (1980-2014) by Cristiano Nunes Alves

“…One can notice that, through the actions of a group of subjects, mostly peripheral individuals, hip hop has become a constitutive element of the city. It is more a question of practices aimed at artistic satisfaction and vindication of essential citizen rights than at economic gains.…”
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Contemporary manifestations of patriotism with particular information on social media by Julia Nowicka

“…The need to monitor the state of attitudes (also in social media) and education become particularly important here.…”
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THE ROLE OF INFORMANTS IN THE ACCENTUATION OF ARMED BANDITRY IN NORTH-WESTERN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF ZAMFARA STATE by TUKUR ABDULKADIR, ABDULNASIR UMAR

“…These events have created a climate of uncertainty that has become a cause for concern for the government and the citizenry.Government at the local, state and federal levels have been making efforts to tackle the menace of armed banditry in the north-western region since it assumed a national dimension. …”
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Survey on RDMA protocol applications and security protection technologies by LIU Yumeng, TANG Zhengliang, LU Songfeng, ZHU Jianxin, LIU Yunqu

“…With the expansion of RDMA applications from dedicated network environments to general Ethernet networks, the need to address the security risks faced by these applications has become imperative. A set of protective measures were established to ensure security without compromising transmission efficiency. …”
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Cyclophotocoagulation in Neovascular Glaucoma with Near-Total Synechial Angle Closure by Jessie Wang, Lindsay Y. Chun, Mary Qiu

“…Prompt primary slow-burn CPC with prior or concurrent anti-VEGF may be an effective strategy to immediately lower IOP in acute NVG eyes with active anterior segment NV and near-total synechial angle closure. If IOP becomes uncontrolled later, an aqueous shunt can be implanted in a controlled setting after active anterior segment NV has regressed.…”
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Seismic Performance and Flexural Capacity Analysis of Embedded Steel Plate Composite Shear Wall Structure with Fiber-Reinforced Concrete in the Plastic Hinge Zone by Junlong Li, Guoqiang He, Jianbo Tian

“…Due to its high axial bearing capacity and good ductility, the embedded steel plate composite shear wall structure has become one of the most widely used lateral force-resisting structural members in building construction. …”
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A Model for a Multistage Fractured Horizontal Well with Rectangular SRV in a Shale Gas Reservoir by Jianfa Wu, Jian Zhang, Cheng Chang, Weiyang Xie, Tianpeng Wu

“…Long horizontal wells coupling with mass hydraulic fracturing has become a necessary technique to extract shale gas efficiently. …”
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A Survey of Wild Indigenous <i>Cryptostylis ovata</i> Orchid Populations in Western Australia Reveals Spillover of Exotic Viruses by Stephen Wylie, Hua Li, Shu Hui Koh

“…This suggests that the source of OrMV in <i>C. ovata</i> may be one or more bulbous iridaceous flowering plants of southern African origin that were introduced to Western Australia as ornamentals and that have since become invasive weeds. One BYMV isolate from <i>C. ovata</i> also exhibited 99% nucleotide identity with strains isolated from the exotic leguminous crop <i>Lupinus angustifolius</i> in Western Australia, suggesting possible spillover to indigenous species from this source. …”
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Vibration Effect Produced by Raised Pavement Markers on the Exit Ramp of an Expressway by Guohua Liang, Yujie Yin, Dong Zhang, Rui Li, Yan Wu, Yu Li

“…In addition, the vibration warning effect for cars and semi-trailer trucks initially increases with an increase in the speed; then, after reaching a certain peak speed, the effect decreases with an increase in the speed, and finally, it tends to become gentle at speeds exceeding 100 km/h. The vibration warning effect for a semi-trailer truck is better than that for a car under the same spacing and speed.…”
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Synthesis of Calcium Phosphate by Microwave Hydrothermal Method by Ana Elisa Vilicev Italiano, Ricardo Luis Tranquilin, Danny Omar Mendoza Marin, Márcio Luiz dos Santos, Luís Geraldo Vaz

“…The results obtained showed the presence of more than one calcium phosphate biological interest phase, as hydroxyapatite (HA), tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP), and octacalcium phosphate (OCP), highlighting with increasing calcination temperature, the β-TCP phase becomes evident. The proposed synthesis method was efficient in obtaining a biomaterial with suitable physical and chemical characteristics, with an association of crystalline phases of biological interest related to the increase in synthesis temperature and calcination temperature.…”
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Dynamic Evolution Law of Overburden Rock in Shallow-Buried Super-High Fully Mechanized Working Face and Determination of Support Strength by Yingjie Liu, Haijun Wang, Qingjie Qi, Anhu Wang, Youxin Zhao

“…The large fractures observed near the working face are closely related to the underground pressure, relatively large fractures appear on the surface, and the fractures become narrower near the two pathways. Only caving and fissure zones exist in the thin bedrock overburden, and the bending subsidence zone changes with the bedrock thickness. …”
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Geochemical, Mineralogical, and Geomorphological Characterization of Ash Materials as a Tracer for the Origin of Shifting Sands near Oldupai Gorge, Ngorongoro, Tanzania by Mohamed Zengo Makongoro, Maheswara Rao Vegi, Said Ali Hamad Vuai, Michael Mwita Msabi

“…Shifting sand (SS) is a single dune-shaped mass of black ash material moving across western Ngorongoro in northern Tanzania. The moving sand has become an important tourist destination for several decades. …”
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Development of self-assessment scale of Public health nursing Art to enhance “Strength of Community” (PASC) by Miho Tanaka, Reiko Okamoto, Keiko Koide, Misaki Kiya

“…Abstract Background In recent years, health needs have become more complex and serious in Japan, and technologies that enhance local strengths to solve problems are essential. …”
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Condition Monitoring of Marine Diesel Lubrication System Based on an Optimized Random Singular Value Decomposition Model by Shuxia Ye, Bin Da, Liang Qi, Han Xiao, Shankai Li

“…As modern marine diesel engine systems become increasingly complex, effective condition monitoring methods are essential for ensuring optimal performance and preventing anomalies. …”
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Treatment Challenges in a Tourette Syndrome Patient with Self-Injurious Behaviour: Case Report and Literature Review by G. Asadauskaitė, G. Jasionytė, M. Karnickas

“…In most cases, the symptoms resolve or become less severe in early adulthood. Nevertheless, there are some cases where the syndrome does not follow its typical clinical course.Case report. …”
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Impact of hopelessness on migration intentions of nursing students: a path analysis by Soner Berşe, Emine Karacan, Pelin Zivdir Yeşılyurt, Zeynep Güngörmüş

“…Abstract Background Brain drain refers to the migration of qualified professionals to developed countries in search of better living and working conditions, and has become a global concern, particularly in the healthcare sector. …”
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Taxing data when the United States disagrees by Tarcísio Diniz Magalhães, Allison Christians

“…We first review the events that led countries to avoid the income tax in favour of standalone taxes only to become embroiled in domestic U.S. trade policies. …”
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Case Study: Analyzing CFTR Mutations and SNPs in Pulmonary Fibrosis Patients with Unclear Symptoms by Sahar Yousaf, null Sumaira, Iqbal Bano, Atia Rehman, Samra Kousar, Muhammad Usman Ghani, Mariam Shahid

“…In younger patients and children, diagnosis becomes difficult due to overlapping symptoms with other diseases such as CF which is a rare genetic disease in our population. …”
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Deepfake detection method based on patch-wise lighting inconsistency by Wenxuan WU, Wenbo ZHOU, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…The rapid development and widespread dissemination of deepfake techniques has caused increased concern.The malicious application of deepfake techniques also poses a potential threat to the society.Therefore, how to detect deepfake content has become a popular research topic.Most of the previous deepfake detection algorithms focused on capturing subtle forgery traces at pixel level and have achieved some results.However, most of the deepfake algorithms ignore the lighting information before and after generation, resulting in some lighting inconsistency between the original face and the forged face, which provided the possibility of using lighting inconsistency to detect deepfake.A corresponding algorithm was designed from two perspectives: introducing lighting inconsistency information and designing a network structure module for a specific task.For the introduction of lighting task, a new network structure was derived by designing the corresponding channel fusion method to provide more lighting inconsistency information to the network feature extraction layer.In order to ensure the portability of the network structure, the process of feature channel fusion was placed before the network extraction information, so that the proposed method can be fully planted to common deepfake detection networks.For the design of the network structure, a deepfake detection method was proposed for lighting inconsistency based on patch-similarity from two perspectives: network structure and loss function design.For the network structure, based on the characteristic of inconsistency between the forged image tampering region and the background region, the extracted features were chunked in the network feature layer and the feature layer similarity matrix was obtained by comparing the patch-wise cosine similarity to make the network focus more on the lighting inconsistency.On this basis, based on the feature layer similarity matching scheme, an independent ground truth and loss function was designed for this task in a targeted manner by comparing the input image with the untampered image of this image for patch-wise authenticity.It is demonstrated experimentally that the accuracy of the proposed method is significantly improved for deepfake detection compared with the baseline method.…”
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