Immigrant workers in the meat industry during COVID-19: comparing governmental protection in Germany, the Netherlands, and the USA by Nora Gottlieb, Ingrid Jungwirth, Marius Glassner, Tesseltje de Lange, Sandra Mantu, Linda Forst

“…Using case-studies in three country contexts – Illinois/USA, the Netherlands, and North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany – we analyzed policy documents, investigative reports, publicly available data, and informal expert consultation to examine structural causes of protection gaps for workers in the meat industry as well as facilitators and barriers to improving occupational safety and health. The Framework Method was applied to systematize and compare the overall data. …”
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Heroic Discourse in the Context of Translating English-Language Fairy Tales into Russian (J.R. Kipling’s Works Used as the Example) by O. V. Atamanova

“…The method of comparative analysis is the main tool used hereafter. …”
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Numerical analysis of magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection and entropy generation in a curvelinear lid-driven cavity with carbon nanotubes and an adiabatic cylinder by Mohammed Azeez Alomari, Qusay H. Al-Salami, Farah Q. A. Alyousuf, Faris Alqurashi, Mujtaba A. Flayyih

“…The numerical analysis was carried out using finite element method; the variables are Reynolds number (40–200), Richardson number (0.01–10), Hartmann number (0–62), inclined magnetohydrodynamic angle (0–60), volume concentration (0–0.08) while Prandtl number has kept constant at 6.2. …”
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Functional and phylogenetic β diversities and their link with clustering/overdispersion and uniqueness/redundancy by Sandrine Pavoine, Carlo Ricotta

“…Here, we develop a new method for partitioning FP β diversity into elementary components to determine how and why FP β diversity differs from species β diversity, with the latter reflecting only differences in species' abundances between communities. …”
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In search of inspiration: Psychoactive substances in jazz history by V. Yu. Skryabin

“…The lives of the most famous of them, from Louis Armstrong and Milton Mezzrow to Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and Chet Baker, attest to the significant place of psychoactive substances in jazz folklore.The aim of the work: to conduct a narrative review of the available literature on the influence of SAW on the lives and work of jazz musicians.Method: this article presents a narrative review of the foreign literature on the place of psychoactive substances in the history of jazz music. …”
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Efficient Identification and Classification of Pear Varieties Based on Leaf Appearance with YOLOv10 Model by Niman Li, Yongqing Wu, Zhengyu Jiang, Yulu Mou, Xiaohao Ji, Hongliang Huo, Xingguang Dong

“…The efficacy of the YOLOv10 method was validated by assessing important metrics such as precision, recall, F1-score, and mAP value, which yielded results of 99.6%, 99.4%, 0.99, and 99.5%, respectively. …”
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Factorial structure, validity, and gender invariance of the UCLA-R loneliness scale in ecuadorian adolescents. by Wilson Guillermo Siguenza Campoverde, Katy Maricela Chamba Leiva

“…<h4>Method</h4>The sample consisted of 718 school-aged adolescents (288 males and 430 females) aged 14-17 years (M = 15.72, SD = 0.747), selected through probabilistic sampling. …”
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Exploring medical educators’ perspectives on teaching effectiveness and student learning by Adnan Sukkurwalla, Syed Jaffar Abbas Zaidi, Muhammad Taqi, Zubia Waqar, Ambrina Qureshi

“…Qualitative analysis identified themes: (1) teachers as catalysts for student transformation, emphasising mentorship and practical learning; (2) curriculum challenges and the need for faculty development, highlighting dissatisfaction with outdated curricula and assessments focused on rote memorisation; and (3) teaching practices advocating for interactive methods and continuous assessment aligned with practical clinical skills. …”
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Comparison of Obama’s and Trump’s Discourse on Illegal Migration through the Prism of Securitisation by А.А. Воропай, Э. Варпаховскис

“…The methodology is presented by a mixed-method approach that combines content and sentiment analysis. …”
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A Guide to Integrating Expert Opinion and Fuzzy AHP When Generating Weights for Composite Indices by Mohammad Tariq Al Fozaie, Hairunnizam Wahid

“…One of the most reliable weighting systems is the expert weighting system, where experts on the topic being studied are delegated the weight selection process, and the average of their responses are then transformed into weights. The limitation of this method, however, is the high subjectivity, uncertainty, and inconsistency of the expert responses. …”
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Analysis of Reciprocal Thermal Conductivity on Free Convection Flow along a Wavy Vertical Surface by Tinni Saha, Nazma Parveen, Tarikul Islam

“…The boundary layer equations with the associated boundary conditions that govern the flow are converted into a nondimensional form by using an appropriate transformation. In the domain of a vertical plate that is flat, the resulting method of nonlinear PDEs is mapped and then worked out numerically by applying the implicit central finite difference technique with Newton’s quasilinearization method, and the block Thomas algorithm is well known as the Keller-box method. …”
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Spatial Analysis of Bioclimatic Vulnerability of Kermanshah Facing Heat Wave by Hossein Yavari, Mstafa Karampour, Dariush Yarahmadi

“…To distinguish days with extreme air temperature, we used the method of (Fumiaki et al., 2007) that is called normalized temperature deviation or Fumiaki index. …”
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Longitudinal Comparison of Geographic Atrophy Enlargement Using Manual, Semiautomated, and Deep Learning Approaches by Jacob Bogost, Rachel E. Linderman, PhD, Robert Slater, PhD, Thomas F. Saunders, OD, Caleb Pacheco, Jeong Pak, PhD, Rick Voland, PhD, Barbara Blodi, MD, Amitha Domalpally, MD, PhD

“…The mean GA growth rate (mm2/year) and square root transformation of GA size were compared across methods. …”
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A Comprehensive Survey on Detection of Ocular and Non-Ocular Diseases Using Color Fundus Images by Megha Gupta, Sneha Gupta, Gopinath Palanisamy, J. S. Nisha, Veerapu Goutham, S. Arun Kumar, K. Gavaskar, Ganesh R. Naik

“…The study also incorporates a dataset comparison table, evaluating the attributes and suitability of different datasets for specific diagnostic tasks. EfficientNetB0 is highlighted as a top performer for diabetic retinopathy detection, while methods like CNN-LSTM combinations, Grad-CAM, and Swin Transformers show promise in detecting AMD, glaucoma, and RVO, respectively. …”
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Synthesis and properties of S-alkyl 4-amino-5-(5-(3-fluorophenyl)-pyrazol-3-yl)-1,2,4-triazole-3-thiol derivatives by S. O. Fedotov, A. S. Hotsulia

“…The aim of the work was to create a number of S-alkyl derivatives of 4-amino-5-(5-(3-fluorophenyl)pyrazol-3-yl)-1,2,4-triazole-3-thiol and study their properties, as well as preliminary selective establishment biological potential of these compounds. Materials and methods. The synthesis of the target products of chemical transformation was successfully implemented by the step-by-step use of well-known methods of organic synthesis. …”
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Comparison of Deep Learning Approaches Using Chest Radiographs for Predicting Clinical Deterioration: Retrospective Observational Study by Mahmudur Rahman, Jifan Gao, Kyle A Carey, Dana P Edelson, Askar Afshar, John W Garrett, Guanhua Chen, Majid Afshar, Matthew M Churpek

“…Five computer vision model architectures (VGG16, DenseNet121, Vision Transformer, ResNet50, and Inception V3) and four data augmentation methods (histogram normalization, random flip, random Gaussian noise, and random rotate) were compared using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) and the area under the precision-recall curve (AUPRC) for predicting clinical deterioration (ie, ICU transfer or ward death in the following 24 hours). …”
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On the issue of the modern interpretation of the meaning of the concept of «energy» and its properties by O. S. Sirotkin, R. O. Sirotkin

“…Within the framework of the fourth integral-differential stage of scientific knowledge development, the modern interpretation of matter as a set of mass and energy components, the paradigm of its multilevel organization (fields, substances, material bodies and megamaterial systems) and the features of «particle-wave dualism», an attempt was made to concretize the material essence of energy.METHODS. The method of solving the problem was to establish a causal relationship between the characteristic properties of «energy» and their carrier in the form of a specific kind of matter. …”
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Live Leaf-Section Imaging for Visualizing Intracellular Chloroplast Movement and Analyzing Cell–Cell Interactions by Yuta Kato, Takao Oi, Yoshikatsu Sato, Mitsutaka Taniguchi

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Phases with layered (AB) and “defective” (A2B3) structures in AIII–BVI systems. Part 2. Phase diagrams and approaches to some problems of reproducible synthesis in AIII– BVI system... by Alexander Y. Zavrazhnov, Nikolay Y. Brezhnev, Ivan N. Nekrylov, Andrew V. Kosyakov

“…For polymorphic (or close to them) transformations, the nature of the occurring structural transformations was described and the temperature stability of various modifications of similar composition was analyzed. …”
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Understanding carbon footprint: An evaluation criterion for achieving sustainable development by Fang Yu, Qian Yuan, Xuerou Sheng, Mengyue Liu, Leping Chen, Xueliang Yuan, Dantong Zhang, Shuqi Dai, Zhinan Hou, Qingsong Wang, Qiao Ma

“…In addition, a cluster analysis of the keywords of all publications shows seven categories, encompassing carbon footprint accounting methods and research priorities. Furthermore, a qualitative analysis of the research methods and subjects related to carbon footprint reveals the need to increase communication and collaboration among different disciplines and countries/regions to strengthen the construction of carbon footprint systems. …”
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