Respiratory and Rehabilitation Expert Consensus on Full-Cycle Rehabilitation Assessment and Treatment for Elderly Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by CHEN Xin, JIA Jie, DING Yipeng, YE Xujun, DONG Anqin, HE Jing, LIAO Weijing, ZHENG Jiejiao, YU Binbin, CHEN Zuobing, FANG Yuan, YAO Liqing, ZHU Yiping, FU Jianghong, WANG Siyuan, ZHANG Yangxian

“…Rehabilitation treatment process was divided into phase Ⅰ, phase Ⅱ and phase Ⅲ of pulmonary rehabilitation based on the different stages of elderly patients with COPD in this expert consensus. …”
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Perceptions regarding the multidisciplinary treatment of patients with severe trauma in Korea: a survey of trauma specialists by Shin Ae Lee, Yeon Jin Joo, Ye Rim Chang

“…Conclusions This survey showed that medical staff specializing in trauma care perceive several issues stemming from the absence of a multidisciplinary system for patient-centered care in Korea. …”
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GAPO: A Graph Attention-Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Congestion-Aware Task Offloading in Multi-Hop Vehicular Edge Computing by Hongwei Zhao, Xuyan Li, Chengrui Li, Lu Yao

“…Efficient task offloading for delay-sensitive applications, such as autonomous driving, presents a significant challenge in multi-hop Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) networks, primarily due to high vehicle mobility, dynamic network topologies, and complex end-to-end congestion problems. To address these issues, this paper proposes a graph attention-based reinforcement learning algorithm, named GAPO. …”
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Privacy‐preserving speaker verification system based on binary I‐vectors by Aymen Mtibaa, Dijana Petrovska‐Delacrétaz, Jérôme Boudy, Ahmed Ben Hamida

“…These applications usually require users to transmit their recordings, features, or models from their voices over untrusted public networks which stored and processed them on cloud‐based infrastructure. Furthermore, the voice signal contains a great deal of the speaker's personal and private information which raises several privacy issues. …”
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The use of qualitative research in security sciences. Part I by Andrzej Czupryński, Małgorzata Such-Pyrgiel

“…The authors argue that in the research process, we do not test specific epistemological assumptions, but through the diversity of their application, we strive to achieve the most probable result.…”
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Wildlife biology, big data, and reproducible research by Keith P. Lewis, Eric Vander Wal, David A. Fifield

“…These practices often depend heavily on computer scripting languages, and are often hidden from the peer‐review process despite their influence on the final results. …”
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A new human embryonic cell type associated with activity of young transposable elements allows definition of the inner cell mass. by Manvendra Singh, Aleksandra M Kondrashkina, Thomas J Widmann, Jose L Cortes, Vikas Bansal, Jichang Wang, Christine Römer, Marta Garcia-Canadas, Jose L Garcia-Perez, Laurence D Hurst, Zsuzsanna Izsvák

“…Here, we provide a multi-method analysis of the early human embryo to resolve these issues. Single-cell analysis (on multiple independent datasets), supported by embryo visualisation, uncovers a common previously uncharacterised class of cells lacking commitment markers that segregates after embryonic gene activation (EGA) and shortly after undergo apoptosis. …”
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Back to basics: pre-service early childhood teachers’ challenges in questioning to elicit children’s ideas in science by Vasilia Christidou, Maria Birbili, Glykeria Fragkiadaki, Georgia Spyridonos

“…These findings shed light on the issues that science education training programmes for pre-service early childhood teachers preparing to work with children aged 4 to 6, should emphasise to scaffold them throughout the complex and demanding process of developing effective questioning practices.…”
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The Use of Videoconferencing at Trial and Its Effects on the Rights of the Defense: A Study of the Future Regulation in The Netherlands by Marianne Hirsch Ballin, Tess Castelijn

“…Specific fair trial rights such as the right to counsel, the right to examine witnesses, the equality of arms, and the right to a public hearing may be impacted by using videoconferencing in the criminal process. Technical and practical issues also significantly affect the right to a fair trial. …”
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On Evaluation of Data Stream Clustering Algorithms: A Survey by Christian Nordahl, Veselka Boeva, Hakan Grahn, Marie Persson-Netz

“…We also identify that issues in the conventional clustering domain are present in the data stream clustering. …”
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System-Level Optimization in Switched Reluctance Machine Design—Current Trends, Methodologies, and Future Directions by Aristotelis Tzouvaras, Georgios Falekas, Athanasios Karlis

“…In response to these challenges, the paper discusses complementary techniques used to enhance the optimization process, such as search space and computational time reduction strategies, along with the associated challenges and potential solutions. …”
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How perceived discrimination and trust dynamics influence social integration in acculturation and reacculturation: the case of Chinese international student returnees by Tam-Tri Le, Ruining Jin, Ruining Jin

“…The Chinese international student returnees in the post-COVID-19 era present a special case where they experienced considerable discrimination issues during both the processes of acculturation in the host countries as well as reacculturation after returning to China. …”
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Existentialist Ideas in Luchino Visconti’s Films: Intertextual and Contextual Perspectives by Ivanchenko Inna I.

“…In this perspective, the appeal to film adaptations of outstanding philosophical and literary works is relevant, suggesting the use of interdisciplinary approaches in the process of their theoretical analysis. At the same time, the intertextual and contextual approaches to Visconti’s work allow us to identify new important details in the evolution of the artistic style, the visual, sound and editing techniques of the director in the aspect of existentialist issues.…”
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Strategic planning of urban neighborhoods (case study: Abshar neighborhood of Tehran City) by Zeinab Adeli, Hamed Mohammadibeyragh, Minoo Baghbani

“…Also, the list of assets and funds of the neighborhood was extracted. By prioritizing the issues and problems of this neighborhood, based on this table and the results obtained from focused discussions and interviews, the perspective of the neighborhood was defined. …”
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Sustainable urban transitions in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era: insights from Saudi urban leaders by Muhammad Ahmad Al-Rashid, Marie Zweynert, Sameeh Alarabi

“…This study claims that competing objectives within the sustainability discourse, which may be viewed as spatial conflicts, will accompany urban transition processes. The research findings also offer valuable insights for policymakers to advance sustainable urban transitions in the post-pandemic times.…”
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Beyond the Grid: GLRT-Based TomoSAR Fast Detection for Retrieving Height and Thermal Dilation by Nabil Haddad, Karima Hadj-Rabah, Alessandra Budillon, Gilda Schirinzi

“…To overcome these drawbacks, we propose an approach that combines a quick initialization process using Fast-Sup GLRT with local descent optimization. …”
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Making room for meaningful inclusion of Indigenous and local knowledge in global assessments: our experiences in the values assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platf... by Mariaelena Huambachano, Gabriel R Nemogá Soto, Tuyeni H Mwampamba

“…It also examines the extent to which these values are integrated into decision-making structures and processes. We are a group of Indigenous scholars and ILK experts from the Global South who participated in the VA, specifically in Chapter 3’s “ILK Team.” …”
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Do the Islamic Social Finance Institution Programs Realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Analysis of Dompet Dhuafa Program by Abdullah Sahroni, Siti Mardiah, Erdah Litriani

“…Data analysis was conducted qualitatively, supported by the Analytic Network Process (ANP) model. The impact of Dompet Dhuafa’s program on community development was measured based on targets established by Dompet Dhuafa. …”
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Improvement of Wild Horse Optimizer Algorithm with Random Walk Strategy (IWHO), and Appointment as MLP Supervisor for Solving Energy Efficiency Problem by Şahiner Güler, Erdal Eker, Nejat Yumuşak

“…This paper aims to enhance the success of the Wild Horse Optimization (WHO) algorithm in optimization processes by developing strategies to overcome the issues of stuckness and early convergence in local spaces. …”
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Information and methodological support of activities in the field of continuing library education by E. B. Artemyeva, I. G. Lakizo

“…The database «Library Education Institutions» generated by SPSTL SB RAS is regarded to be a base of the unified information-educational space in the field of continuous library education, which information should be used to support the educational process of specialized institutions of all levels of education training and forms in the country. …”
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