AGENDA 5.0: CITIZEN JOURNALISM IN SHAPING THE AGENDA by Oksana Pochapska

“…The spread of fakes, manipulative coverage of events, and attempts to create alternative realities are all components of an information war in which citizen journalists play both a positive and a negative role. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Travel Speed Estimation in Mixed Traffic Conditions: A Probe Vehicle-Based Approach With Autonomous Vehicle Sensor Integration by Hyungjoo Kim, Seongeun Na, Jongho Kim, Sangsoo Lee, Jiho Yeo

“…Traditional traffic detection methods, relying on fixed-point sensors, face inherent limitations, including high installation costs, limited spatial coverage, and accuracy degradation in congested conditions. …”
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A systematic review of the burden of hypertension, access to services and patient views of hypertension in humanitarian crisis settings by Oyinlola Oyebode, James Keasley, Saran Shantikumar, William Proto, Amar Sabouni, Farah Kidy

“…Most of the studies had a high risk of bias due to methods used in the diagnosis of hypertension and in the selection of study populations.Conclusion Hypertension is seen in a range of humanitarian settings and the burden can be considerable. …”
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VEGF dose regulates vascular stabilization through Semaphorin3A and the Neuropilin‐1+ monocyte/TGF‐β1 paracrine axis by Elena Groppa, Sime Brkic, Emmanuela Bovo, Silvia Reginato, Veronica Sacchi, Nunzia Di Maggio, Manuele G Muraro, Diego Calabrese, Michael Heberer, Roberto Gianni‐Barrera, Andrea Banfi

“…Monoclonal populations of transduced myoblasts were used to homogeneously express specific VEGF doses in SCID mouse muscles. …”
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Coordination mechanisms applied to logistical systems for local disaster preparedness: a Latin American case by Juan Camilo López-Vargas, José D. Meisel, Diana María Cárdenas-Aguirre, Pablo Medina

“…Three coordination mechanisms (centralized, decentralized and cluster-type) have been evaluated using three performance indicators: effectiveness, efficiency and flexibility. …”
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Gen-SynDi: Leveraging Knowledge-Guided Generative AI for Dual Education of Syndrome Differentiation and Disease Diagnosis by Won-Yung Lee, Sang-Yun Han, Ji-Hwan Kim, Byung-Wook Lee, Yejin Han, Seungho Lee

“…A built-in scoring module supplies quantitative measures of inquiry coverage and diagnostic precision, plus brief explanations of overlooked clues. …”
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High levels of species' extirpation in an urban environment—A case study from Berlin, Germany, covering 1700–2023 by Silvia Keinath, Shenya De Silva, Nike Sommerwerk, Jörg Freyhof

“…We analysed spatio‐temporal patterns of species' extirpation on a multitaxonomic level using Berlin, the capital city of Germany. Berlin is one of the largest cities in Europe and has experienced a strong urbanisation trend since the late nineteenth century. …”
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Evaluation of agricultural products e-commerce logistics service capabilities in Heilongjiang Province based on entropy weight TOPSIS method. by Wei Chen, Huan Chen, Jianhui Yin, Weinan Sun

“…The main constraints include insufficient cold chain coverage, unreasonable layout of urban and rural logistics networks, and low technical integration. …”
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Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine uptake and hesitancy among healthcare workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. by Michel K Nzaji, Jean de Dieu Kamenga, Christophe Luhata Lungayo, Aime Cikomola Mwana Bene, Shanice Fezeu Meyou, Anselme Manyong Kapit, Alanna S Fogarty, Dana Sessoms, Pia D M MacDonald, Claire J Standley, Kristen B Stolka

“…These types of messages may further be useful when planning future immunization campaigns with new vaccines.…”
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Urban landscape thresholds for bird diversity in China’s major cities by Yueteng Chi, Zhenhuan Liu, Yi Zhou, Fan Yang

“…Bird diversity is affected by multi-dimensional landscape and environmental factors; however, it is still unclear which variables play a major role and under what threshold conditions different variables increase or decrease bird diversity. This study used public datasets and citizen science bird records to quantify bird diversity and landscape patterns across China’s 43 major cities. …”
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The effectiveness of community-wide screening for pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review by Susanna S. van Wyk, Ntombifuthi Blose, Lester Kapanda-Phiri, Mareli Claassens, Taryn Young

“…Certainty of the evidence was assessed using GRADE. PROSPERO: CRD42023453356. We included six cluster-RCTs after screening 2460 titles/abstracts and 86 full-text articles. …”
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On the added value of sequential deep learning for the upscaling of evapotranspiration by B. Kraft, B. Kraft, B. Kraft, J. A. Nelson, S. Walther, F. Gans, U. Weber, G. Duveiller, M. Reichstein, W. Zhang, M. Rußwurm, D. Tuia, M. Körner, Z. Hamdi, M. Jung

“…The sequential models better capture the temporal dynamics of ET when upscaled to global coverage, especially when using<span id="page3966"/> precipitation as additional input, and they seem to be more robust to covariate setups, particularly the LSTM model. …”
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The Effect of Landscape Pattern on Urban Temperature Changes in Hamadan by Marziye Shojaei, Kamran Shayesteh, Behnaz Attaeian

“…The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of landscape pattern changes and the efficiency of landscape metrics in analyzing surface urban thermal variations in Hamadan using Landsat 8 satellite images. Having calculated land surface temperature (LST), the SUHI and SUHS regions were identified, the existing land uses in these areas were classified and finally landscape metrics at class and landscape levels were extracted using FRAGSTATS software. …”
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A MODEL OF THE ENGLISH-UKRAINIAN SUB-CORPUS OF TEXTS OF NATO, UN AND WTO OFFICIAL AND BUSINESS DOCUMENTS by Yuliya I. Demyanchuk

“…The practical value of the research lies in a possibility to use the EUS for texts parallel translation and terminological phrases separation on the basis of such texts. …”
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Impact of strategic public health interventions to reduce tuberculosis incidence in Brazil: a Bayesian structural time-series scenario analysisResearch in context by Klauss Villalva-Serra, Beatriz Barreto-Duarte, Moreno M. Rodrigues, Artur T.L. Queiroz, Leonardo Martinez, Julio Croda, Valeria C. Rolla, Afrânio L. Kritski, Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos, Timothy R. Sterling, Mariana Araújo-Pereira, Bruno B. Andrade

“…In 2023, TB incidence was 39.8 cases per 100,000 population, far above the WHO’s target of 6.7 cases per 100,000. Using national-level datasets, we investigated and forecasted the potential impact of proposed public health interventions aimed at reducing TB incidence in Brazil. …”
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Dosimetric evaluation of a novel automated noncoplanar volumetric modulated arc therapy technique for treating optic nerve sheath meningiomas by Zhenyu Xiong, Zhenyu Xiong, Zhenyu Xiong, Chingyun Cheng, Lili Zhou, Brett Eckroate, Brett Eckroate, Brett Eckroate, Loren Bell, Fredrick Warburton, David Huang, Sabin B. Motwani, Sabin B. Motwani, Charles S. Cathcart, Ke Nie, Ke Nie, Ke Nie, Ning Yue, Ning Yue, Ning Yue, Yin Zhang, Yin Zhang, Yin Zhang

“…These results indicated superior target coverage and a more homogeneous dose distribution. …”
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Physical wedge as a tool for radiochromic film calibration by Stevan Pecić, Miloš Vićić, Ivan Belča, Strahinja Stojadinović, Borko Nidžović, Ljubomir Kurij, Slobodan Dević

“…Furthermore, the PW calibration can be extrapolated or extended by using multiple gradients for the optimal coverage of the desired calibration dose range. …”
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Low dose Adenoviral Vammin gene transfer induces myocardial angiogenesis and increases left ventricular ejection fraction in ischemic porcine heart by Niko Järveläinen, Paavo J. Halonen, Jussi Nurro, Antti Kuivanen, Juho Pajula, Miikka Tarkia, Maria Grönman, Antti Saraste, Johanna Laakkonen, Pyry Toivanen, Tiina Nieminen, Tuomas T. Rissanen, Juhani Knuuti, Seppo Ylä-Herttuala

“…The porcine model of chronic myocardial ischemia was used in the ischemic studies. The AdVammin enlarged the mean capillary area and stimulated pericyte coverage in the target area 6 days after the gene transfers. …”
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Automated satellite remote sensing of giant kelp at the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). by Henry F Houskeeper, Isaac S Rosenthal, Katherine C Cavanaugh, Camille Pawlak, Laura Trouille, Jarrett E K Byrnes, Tom W Bell, Kyle C Cavanaugh

“…Our results indicate that giant kelp classifications using citizen science are approximately consistent with classifications based on a state-of-the-art automated spectral approach. …”
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Estimation of induced abortions in Brazil: review of the indirect method calculation based on hospital admissions due to abortion complications by Rosa Maria Soares Madeira Domingues, Agatha Sacramento Rodrigues, Marcos Augusto Bastos Dias, Valéria Saraceni, Rejane Sobrinho Pinheiro, Cláudia Medina Coeli, Alberto Pereira Madeiro

“…Correction factors were used to exclude hospital admissions due to miscarriage by the woman’s age group, and data from the 2016 National Abortion Survey (PNA, acronym in Portuguese) were used to review the correction factor for complications that did not require hospitalization, based on the simulation of scenarios with different parameters of population coverage of healthcare plans and frequency of induced abortions in SUS and supplementary health patients. …”
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