Design and Application of an Elephant Trunk-like Spiral Deployable Mechanism by Wang Rugui, Jin Cong, Yang Zehui

“…The 3D models of the solar wing and gripper applications are given, and the appropriate driving method is briefly described for each application. …”
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Constraints to agricultural finance in underdeveloped and developing countries: a systematic literature review by Farman Ullah Khan, Muhammad Nouman, Lucia Negrut, Junaid Abban, Laura Mariana Cismas, Muhammad Fahad Siddiqi

“…Consequently, farmers often grapple with inadequate access to formal credit sources and essential productive assets due to diverse constraints. …”
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Materiality in reporting integration in South Africa: A natural language processing analysis by Cornelis T. van der Lugt, Hans-Peter Bakker, Nadia Mans-Kemp

“…Background: The concept of materiality has evolved as companies grapple with non-financial reporting. One result of this is greater diversity in terminology used in reporting narrative. …”
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Protest Wave and Countermeasures of Fear: Lebanese Act of a Global Drama by A. V. Sarabiev

“…The author stresses that from the very beginning socio-economic demands of protestors addressed to the executive power (particularly, to grapple with the rising income inequality) were accompanied by calls for democratization on the secular principles and elimination of political confessionalism. …”
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Intergroup Dialogue Empowering Action for Transforming Equity in Higher Education by Manpreet Dhillon Brar, Jessica Morales-Chicas, Stacy Morris, Imalay Rivera, Rebecca Cannara

“…As universities grapple with contentious socio-political climates, promoting intergroup relations efforts remains critical in mitigating these conflicts. …”
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D2CBDAMAttUnet: Dual-Decoder Convolution Block Dual Attention Unet for Accurate Retinal Vessel Segmentation From Fundus Images by Vo Trong Quang Huy, Chih-Min Lin

“…However, these methods often grapple with challenges such as loss of vital information during pooling and insufficient handling of local context in skip connections, leading to less than optimal results. …”
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Achievement emotions in kindergarten: the association of solution accuracy with discrete joy, sadness, and surprise by Traci Shizu Kutaka, Pavel Chernyavskiy, Tara Hofkens

“…This study serves as a critical first step in clarifying how emotions contribute to problem-solving behavior as we grapple with how to respond to the sometimes intense, but always present emotions of young learners in ways that are affirming, as well as mathematically productive and generative.…”
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MRCNN: Multi-input residual convolution neural network for three-dimensional reconstruction of bubble flows from light field images by Heng Zhang, Jiayi Li, Niujia Sun, Hua Li, Qin Hang

“…Nevertheless, conventional bubble measurement techniques grapple with challenges encompassing system intricacy, limited real-time capabilities, and inaccuracies stemming from their inherent two-dimensional (2-D) nature. …”
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A dataset of annotated free comments on the sensory perception of madeleines for benchmarking text mining techniquesRecherche.Data.Gouv by Michel Visalli, Ronan Symoneaux, Cécile Mursic, Margaux Touret, Flore Lourtioux, Kipédène Coulibaly, Benjamin Mahieu

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Skriftlig peer feedback imellem studerende i projektgrupper by Dennis Jim Frederiksen

“…Artiklen bidrager til forståelsen af, hvordan studerende i grupper samarbejder om at forbedre skriftlige tekster gennem peer feedback især i en dansk universitetskontekst. …”
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Multilayered Pipe Cutting Test for Remote Handling Maintenance by Haibin Chen, Jianwen Guo, Zhenzhong Sun, Xuejun Jia, Hong Tang

“…In this study, the results were obtained from different cutting directions and supporting intensities of pipe baseplates comparisons: When enough power was provided and the blade gripper did not slip, the cutting direction had little impact on the cutting capacity but more on the fault surface; the clearance between the blades caused the rotating torque; for remote handling maintenance, good horizontal support of the long-handled lever of the hydraulic cutter was required. …”
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Homocentric sphere model: a novel network architecture supporting 6G dense deployment and high-speed mobility scenarios by LI Guoqing, WANG Peibo, CHEN Li, HU Bo, CHEN Shanzhi

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Ethiopia's Potato Seed System: Regulatory Challenges, Quality Assurance Issues, and Pathways for Improvement ─ A mini review [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Ebrahim Seid, Lemma Tessema

“…Although potatoes play a crucial role in global food security by providing high yields compared to other staple crops, the sector grapples with significant challenges due to bureaucratic inefficiencies, limited technical expertise, and the widespread presence of counterfeit seeds throughout the value chain. …”
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Exploring the perspectives of new-in-practice specialists about the Health Advocate role: “I didn’t even know where to start” by Jacqueline Dorothy Cochrane, Nancy Dudek, Kelsey Crawford, Lindsay Cowley, Kori A LaDonna

“…In turn, participants grappled with lack of preparation, waning motivation, feelings of futility, lack of value for advocacy and need for self-preservation. …”
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Urban Green Spaces in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Romero Gomes Pereira da Silva, Cláudia Lins Lima, Sterling D. Quinn, Aneta Afelt, Anne-Elisabeth Laques, Carlos Hiroo Saito

“…The One Health concept advocated by health organizations worldwide supports the idea that the well-being of urban residents is strongly linked with physical activity in green areas. As the world grapples with the physical and mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes clearer that access to urban green spaces is a human rights issue. …”
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Nipah Virus: A Zoonotic Threat Re-Emerging in the Wake of Global Public Health Challenges by Francesco Branda, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Marta Giovanetti, Mattia Albanese, Erica Binetti, Massimo Ciccozzi, Fabio Scarpa

“…As the global community grapples with an increasing number of emerging infectious diseases, the Nipah virus stands as a stark reminder of the importance of coordinated surveillance, rapid containment measures, and the urgent development of novel strategies to mitigate the impact of this re-emerging threat.…”
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Ethiopia's Potato Seed System: Regulatory Challenges, Quality Assurance Issues, and Pathways for Improvement ─ A mini review [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Ebrahim Seid, Lemma Tessema

“…Although potatoes play a crucial role in global food security by providing high yields compared to other staple crops, the sector grapples with significant challenges due to bureaucratic inefficiencies, limited technical expertise, and the widespread presence of counterfeit seeds throughout the value chain. …”
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Uncertainty Quantification for the Transient Response of Human Equivalent Antenna Using the Stochastic Collocation Approach by Anna Šušnjara, Dragan Poljak

“…The stochastic approach is entirely nonintrusive and serves as a wrapper around the deterministic code. The numerical deterministic model is based on the time domain Hallen integral equation solved by means of the Galerkin-Bubnov indirect boundary element method (GB-IBEM). …”
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Design of FDM-printable tendon-driven continuum robots using a serial S-shaped backbone structure by Kaidi Zhu, Tim C. Lueth, Yilun Sun

“…Finally, A three-finger gripper is fabricated to demonstrate a possible application of the proposed TDCR structure.…”
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“Anão de jardim”: o “conto total” de Lygia Fagundes Telles by Nilton Resende

“…En este artículo, valiéndose principalmente de la teorización de Kayser (2003) sobre “lo grotesco”, de los estudios de Kappler (1994) sobre “los monstruos” y, aún de las interpretaciones simbólicas de Chevalier & Gheerbrant (2005), se defiende “Anão de jardín” como un “cuento total”, siendo Kobold (el narrador del texto) un ser diabólico / escindido en el que se condensan los personajes lygianos y sus dramas. …”
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