Capture the wealth of heritage in a Holy City of Islam : the problem of developing tourism in Djenné in Mali by Diama Cissouma Togola, Soufian Al Karjousli

“…Since then, various development programmes have been proposed with the aim of preserving the architectural heritage of the mosque and traditional homes. These now form the links to intangible heritage which add to the richness of Djenné, including its relationship to Islam. …”
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Calibration of Low-cost Gas Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring by Dimitris Margaritis, Christos Keramydas, Ioannis Papachristos, Dimitra Lambropoulou

“…Three widely used calibration approaches were investigated, namely uni- and multi-variate linear regression analysis and the random forest algorithm. Two identical commercial AQMesh platforms (monitoring NO, NO2, O3, and SO2) were installed on a fixed municipal station for 4 consecutive weeks. …”
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Investigating Low Latency Communications With Link-Layer Rate of NOMA Under Nakagami-<italic>m</italic> Fading Channel in Finite Blocklength Regime by Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Amjad, Muhammad Khalil Afzal, Muhammad Usman, Byung-Seo Kim

“…We also perform Monte-Carlo simulations to validate our proposed closed-form expressions of two-user downlink NOMA.…”
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US State Public Health Agencies' Use of Twitter From 2012 to 2022: Observational Study by Samuel R Mendez, Sebastian Munoz-Najar, Karen M Emmons, Kasisomayajula Viswanath

“…ConclusionsOverall, we observed a more fragmented approach to state health agency communication on Twitter during the pandemic, prioritizing volume over searchability, formally replicating existing messages, and leaving traces of interactions with other accounts.…”
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Euro-Latin-American Cooperation Against Corruption and its Impact on Human Rights by Rosana Garciandia

“…Los países de América Latina y Europa han venido fortaleciendo sus esfuerzos contra la corrupción en el marco de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra la Corrupción, así como de instrumentos regionales contra la corrupción, entre otras medidas consolidando la cooperación internacional. …”
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A positive spin: large language models can help directors evaluate programs through their patients' own words by Leah Russell Flaherty, Kendra H. Oliver

“…Reliance on only quantitative data runs the risk of losing the lived patient experience, forcing their outcomes to fit into our predefined objectives. …”
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GPU-Accelerated Finite Element Method for Modelling Light Transport in Diffuse Optical Tomography by Martin Schweiger

“…The GPU forward solver uses a CUDA implementation that evaluates on the graphics hardware the sparse linear system arising in the finite element formulation of the diffusion equation. …”
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Evolution of the Danube River's islands on the Bulgaria-Romania border over the last century. by Gabriela Ioana-Toroimac, Marina Vîrghileanu

“…The trajectory of the other half of the islands can be redrawn over the last half of the century. The form and dimensions of islands did not statistically change at any time scale. …”
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Analysis of Key Technologies and Applications of Meteorological Service for Offshore Wind Power by Boni WANG, Feng WANG, Hangcheng GE, Fang HUANG, Xiaozhuo SANG, Min ZHANG

“…The lead time for forecasting significant wave height and storm surge water level has increased to 72 hours, with an 85% accuracy rate for 6-hour forecasts. …”
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The rhetorical aspects of the syntactic element of interjection in the poems of Akhavan_sales by Nasser Alizadeh Khayyat, Azam Roohi Kyasar

“…Because semantic science can be adapted to various disciplines of linguistics, in particular, formalism and functionalism, in many respects, the tools of these sciences have also been used in the analysis of this paper. …”
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Abyssal deposit feeders are secondary consumers of detritus and rely on nutrition derived from microbial communities in their guts by Sonia Romero-Romero, Lee C. Miller, Jesse A. Black, Brian N. Popp, Jeffrey C. Drazen

“…Our results suggest that detritus forms the base of the food web and gut contents of deposit feeders have a trophic position consistent with primary consumers and are largely composed of a living biomass of heterotrophic prokaryotes. …”
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Clinical features and factors associated with short-term prognosis in patients with pulmonary embolism by V.Y. Tseluyko, L.M. Yakovleva, S.M. Sukhova, O.V. Radchenko, T.V. Pylova, A.S. Vnukova, K.Yu. Kinoshenko

“…For further analysis, a comparison group (group II) was formed and included 106 (56.7 %) patients who survived within 30 days of the onset of an acute episode of PE: 54 (50.9 %) patients belonged to high risk, 52 (49.1 %) – to intermediate high risk. …”
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Spatial Structure of Modern Moscow by D. V. Goloukhova

“…Furthermore, significant part of the city area is occupied by former industrials zones which are not used anymore and need to be reconstructed. …”
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Comparative Population Studies at Fifty: Views on the Past, Present, and Future by Heike Trappe, Roland Rau, Katrin Schiefer, C. Katharina Spieß

“…Besides a retrospective, we present a forward-looking perspective, outlining our vision for the journal’s trajectory in an ever-changing scientific landscape. …”
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Occurrence and assessment of chronic pain fatigue and sleep disturbance in axial spondyloarthritis patients by Eman Abdel Ghani Sayed, Samer Samy, Faruk Ali Abdi, Anna Abou-Raya

“…Fatigue and sleep disturbance induced by inflammatory pain affect the health-related quality of life.Objectives To determine the occurrence of chronic pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance in axSpA, and their influence on the health-related quality of life.Patients Forty patients with axSpA were diagnosed according to Spondyloarthritis International Society (ASAS) classification criteria. …”
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Participant Compliance With Ecological Momentary Assessment in Movement Behavior Research Among Adolescents and Emerging Adults: Systematic Review by Shirlene Wang, Chih-Hsiang Yang, Denver Brown, Alan Cheng, Matthew Y W Kwan

“…The platform used for EMA studies could affect compliance and data quality in that studies using smartphones or apps might lessen additional burdens associated with delivering EMAs, yet most studies used web-based formats (n=18, 35%). Study length was not found to affect EMA compliance rates, but the timing and frequency of prompts may be critical factors associated with missingness. …”
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Increasing Physical Activity Efficiently: An Experimental Pilot Study of a Website and Mobile Phone Intervention by Kjærsti Thorsteinsen, Joar Vittersø, Gunnvald Bendix Svendsen

“…Both groups reported physical activity using daily report forms in four registration weeks during the three-month study: only the experiment condition received access to the intervention. …”
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Multidimensional bandwagon effect and dual-process decision making: An integrated model of the theory of planned behavior from the perspective of American millennials’ travel inten... by Roannayutt Oan-Oon, Therdchai Choibamroong

“…By integrating the bandwagon effect with the theory of planned behavior (TPB), the study aims to gain deeper insights into the intention-forming processes of American millennials during the pre-trip stage when considering a visit to Thailand. …”
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Evaluation of Corrosion Potential Stability of Stainless Steels in Dilute Electrolyte Solution for Application to a Quasi-Reference Electrode Used in Electrochemical Sensing System by Kyosuke Sawada, Shinji Okazaki, Tatsuki Inaba, Motohiro Sakuma, Koichi Azuma

“…The stability was increased by pre-immersion in an acidic solution but was reduced by a passivation treatment. The formation of iron oxides on the SS surface stabilized the potential, whereas surface enrichment with Cr led to instability. …”
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Partager l’action paysagère avec des enfants pour interpeller le projet de paysage by Roxane Wormser

“…In this context, the doctoral research takes the form of ‘experimental in-situ research’ (Nicolas-Le Strat, 2018) and engages within the processes of landscape projects in Lille designed with children to question ways of doing things as well as professional approaches. …”
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