Agriculture and rural development in Romania: navigating the challenges and demands of sustainable development goals by Bianca-Florentina Nistoroiu, Iuliana Nicolae, Ovidiu Condeianu

“…Crop production per hectare and water usage efficiency are the two main variables used in the study to evaluate resource management and agricultural performance.The yields of rapeseed and wheat have somewhat improved, but the production of barley has remained unchanged. Because of changing irrigation needs and rainfall, water usage efficiency has changed. …”
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Neoadjuvant immunotherapy for DNA mismatch repair proficient/microsatellite stable non-metastatic rectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Huan Zhang, Jing Huang, Huanji Xu, Nanhao Yin, Nanhao Yin, Liyan Zhou, Liyan Zhou, Jianxin Xue, Jianxin Xue, Jianxin Xue, Min Ren

“…The risk of publication bias was assessed by Begg or Egger tests and in cases of publication bias, the trim and fill method was applied. …”
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Intellectualized forensic technique for Android pattern locks by Jiahao QIU, Weidong QIU, Yangde WANG, Yan ZHA, Yuming XIE, Yan LI

“…In the field of digital forensics, how to unlock mobile devices such as phones has always been an urgent problem to overcome.As a special kind of password, pattern lock is widely used in mobile phone screen unlock and software access authorization.Existing pattern lock cracking techniques have several non-negligible disadvantages, such as poor concealment, low practicability, non-intelligence and single application scenario.Two basic threat models were abstracted from shoulder surfing, surveillance camera, and real-time forensics, and a multi-scenario side channel attack on pattern locks was proposed.Based on the data of surveillance camera or manual video, intelligent vision recognition algorithms were adopted to identify, select and track the target device and biological key points in the video dynamically.Then, discrete tracking points were integrated by spatial mapping and pruning algorithm.The denoising algorithm was used to eliminate redundancy and optimize the trajectory.Through procedures above, the original trajectory was simplified into regular polylines defined by several key turning points.Finally, the simplified pattern was compared and matched with the rules of legal pattern locks to inference and retort its actual pattern.Possible candidates will be sorted in the output according to their confidences.Results show that in the surveillance camera scenario, where the device screen is always visible, the cracking success rate of our technique is 89% for 10 attempts and 99.3% for 20 attempts.In the face-to-face scenario, where the subject consciously blocks the screen and his drawing finger, the success rate was 82% after 10 attempts and 89.3% after 20 attempts.In the surveillance camera scenario, the increase of shooting horizontal distance can significantly decrease the cracking success rate.But this effect diminishes with the increase of the number of attempts.Results show that the cracking success rate of the complex password is always higher than that of the simple password during 20 attempts, which means a complex pattern lock cannot play a better protection role if the proposed technique is applied.Shooting angle deflection within 5° has little effect on the success rate of cracking.…”
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Editörden by Tolga Çakmak

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“Pre-wedding” photos and the coastline for young Chinese couples: the staging of an imagination from the Western world? by Meng Li

“…The evolution of the consumption behavior of young Chinese couples is one of the signs of the opening of China and its economy. …”
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Ensuring the Sustainable and High-Quality Development of Aquaculture Through Biosecurity: A Review and Prospects by Xuan DONG, Jie HUANG

“…This article elaborates on the concept and historical development of biosecurity, distinguishing it from biosafety, disease prevention, aquaculture, and animal health while exploring the connections and differences between these concepts. The authors proposed that animal health needs three approaches, including biosecurity, animal welfare, and ecological intervention. …”
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Micro-Defects-Related Low Cycle Fatigue Mechanical Model of the Nuclear-Grade S30408 Stainless Steel by Huiping Liu, Mingkun Xiao, Jiannan Hao, Xinjie Ma, Ni Jiang, Qing Peng, Chao Ye

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Calcifying Ghost Cell Odontogenic Cyst: Report of a Case and Review of Literature by Archana Sonone, V. S. Sabane, Rajeev Desai

“…Therefore a proper categorization of the cases is needed for better understanding of the pathogenesis of each variant. …”
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On one type of pedagogical situations: classification and practical aspects by Victoria V. Dobrova

“…The goal-oriented principle of analysis opens up the prospect of establishing relationships between all the parameters of the situation and the personal characteristics of its participants. …”
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Speech Perception as a Function of the Number of Channels and Channel Interaction in Cochlear Implant Simulation by Mustafa YUKSEL, Sultan Nur KAYA

“…The number of vocoder channels significantly affected WRS, with significant differences observed in all conditions except between the 12-channel and 16-channels (p<0.01). …”
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KING'S ENGLISH AND THE ARISTOCRATIC CODE OF COMMUNICATION IN MODERN BRITAIN by T. A. Ivushkina

“…Heffer's book allows to clearly see the demarcation line between the English of the media and the English of the upper classes of Great Britain based on play upon words and various implications to express individuality and sense of humour, intellect and social exclusiveness.…”
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Grain refinement and improved mechanical properties of as-cast Mg-3Gd alloy by Zr addition by Mohammadreza Maghzi, Hamed Mirzadeh, Reza Mahmudi

“…Hall-Petch plots revealed that the grain size strengthening mechanism can adequately describe the change in the mechanical properties according to USS = 85 + 154/√d and HV = 27 + 69/√d. Correlation between the USS, HV, and ultimate tensile strength (UTS) was established, based on the von Mises criterion from the plasticity theory, providing a reliable method for predicting the mechanical behavior by SPT according to USS = 1.919 × HV and UTS = √3 × USS. …”
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Jan van Eyck, Alonso de Cartagena y la Fuente de la Gracia by Manuel Parada López de Corselas, Jesús R. Folgado García

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A Study of Ordered Ag-Groupoids in terms of Semilattices via Smallest (Fuzzy) Ideals by Venus Amjid, Faisal Yousafzai, Kostaq Hila

“…An ordered AG-groupoid can be referred to as an ordered left almost semigroup, as the main difference between an ordered semigroup and an ordered AG-groupoid is the switching of an associative law. …”
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A new species of woodlouse (Isopoda, Oniscidea) from the Canarian laurel forest by Raúl Orihuela-Rivero, Carmen Balibrea, Víctor Noguerales, Heriberto López, Pedro Oromí

“…The affinity of Porcellio aguerensis Orihuela-Rivero, sp. nov. with the morphologically closest members of the genus is discussed, both with continental and insular species, hypothesizing a relationship between the Canarian species of Porcellio and the “primitive” continental lineages of the genus. …”
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Editorial by Sarah Maitland

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Inside the impulsive brain: a narrative review on the role of neurobiological, hormonal and genetic factors influencing impulsivity in psychiatric disorders by Hannah Raji, Susha Dinesh, Sameer Sharma

“…Interconnections between stress, impulsivity, and decision-making are accentuated, particularly in mood disorders. …”
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Les Navajo en transition : la difficile maîtrise d’un nouvel espace-temps by Gérard Selbach

“…What happens when a society like that of the Navajo is faced with a Euro-American concept of space and time exerting tension and pressure on its way of thinking, its beliefs and its traditional way of life? The Navajo tetragram made of spirituality, limited space (the land of their ancestors) and present time (continuity) is faced with another: secularity, unlimited space and just-in-time, typical of the free-market and consumer society. …”
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Application of integrated service mode of Traditional Chinese Medicine and health care in "One Syndrome and One product" ward (中医医护一体化服务模式在“一证一品”专科病房中的应用)... by ZHANG Yuan (张媛), MA Hongxia (马洪霞), GUO Ning (郭宁), KANG Jingfan (康静璠), Zhu Chunzi (竺春子)

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Thermodynamic calculation of phase equilibria in stainless steels by Klančnik G., Petrovič Steiner D., Medved J.

“…In spite of the complexity of both selected real alloy systems a relative good agreement was obtained between the thermodynamic calculations and experimental results.…”
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