Fiscal federalism, inter-governmental transfers and public health– The case of Urban Local Bodies in India by Samik Chowdhury

“…Public policy in India has historically ignored the potential of urban local bodies (ULBs), a constitutionally mandated third tier of Government, in addressing urban health issues. Constituted against the backdrop of an overwhelming pandemic, the Fifteenth Finance Commission (FFC) of India went beyond its conventional domain of recommending revenue sharing principles across different levels of Government, to make certain novel financial recommendations around decentralized provision of health services. …”
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The Disappearing Winners: An MAS Study of Community-Type Rivalry in Construction Markets by Keda Chen, Xiaowei Wang, Zhenhua Guo, Weidan Liu

“…Despite many existing empirical studies on communities, they weaken competitive interactions and have limited applicability to the dynamic issues of community formation and evolution. To address the gaps identified in the literature on bidding competition dynamics, this study constructs a multi-agent system (MAS) model. …”
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Gentle Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for High-School Students Using Scratch by Julian Estevez, Gorka Garate, Manuel Grana

“…We aim to achieve widespread public understanding of these issues in an experiential learning framework. Following a design based research approach, we propose to implement program coding scaffoldings to teach and experiment some basic mechanisms of AI systems. …”
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Development and validation of a nursing care protocol for pregnant women and newborns in Brazil by Eny Dorea, Luana de Almeida Juca, Clisangela Lago Santos, Valdecyr Herdy Alves, Sheley Borges Gadelha de Lima

“…This study aims to develop and validate a clinical protocol modeled on the nursing process for implementation in a Normal Birth Center (NBC) in Brazil. …”
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Bibliometric analysis of physical education learning in inclusive schools: trends, contributions, and research impact by Deswita Supriyatni, Soni Nopembri, Hari Yuliarto, Sandey Tantra Paramitha, Muhammad Gilang Ramadhan, Eko Purnomo

“…Therefore, this study strongly recommends further research that examines all issues related to physical education in inclusive schools as well as other critical aspects in gaining sustainable knowledge. …”
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The Effect of Battery Manufacturing under Different Conditions and Its Contribution to CO Emissions by Mufti Reza Aulia Putra, Muhammad Nizam, Bagas Setiawan, Henry Probo Santoso

“…Suboptimal welding of nickel strips results in safety issues, evidenced by gas leaks from the battery. This research aims to explore the impact of welding defects on battery performance, considering the role of gas sensors in enhancing safety. …”
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Unveiling challenges and insights in cloud Enterprise Resource Planning systems adoption: A case study of the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP by Rîndaşu Sînziana-Maria, Ionescu-Feleagă Liliana, Ionescu Bogdan-Ștefan, Barbu Alexandra Mihaela

“…Although developers and vendors aim to ease the adoption process, significant challenges persist and can lead to potential disruptions to business operations and affect the organisations’ reputation. …”
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ARRANGEMENT OF POSTGRADUATES WORK IN AN INITIAL PERIOD OF DISSERTATION RESEARCHES by Ihor Rozum, Ihor Hyrenko, Lev Sakovych, Yana Nebesna

“…Special attention in solving these problems is paid to the issues of the scientific development of a graduate student while studying in graduate school. …”
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Bridging the Gap in Facial Age Progression: An Attention Mechanism Approach by Taoli Liu, Yubin Liang, Wenchen Wu, Yize Tang

“…These attention-enhanced feature maps are then processed through a pyramid feature fusion architecture to facilitate multi-scale feature extraction. …”
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Leveraging dual‐blockchain collaboration for logistics supply chain supervision by Licheng Lin, Senshan Pan, Pujie Jing, Xiangmei Song

“…However, the dual‐blockchain collaboration restricts supervision due to its cross‐chain privacy and efficiency. To address these issues, a logistics supply chain supervision scheme based on dual‐blockchain collaboration (DBC) is proposed. …”
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A Hybrid of Box-Jenkins ARIMA Model and Neural Networks for Forecasting South African Crude Oil Prices by Johannes Tshepiso Tsoku, Daniel Metsileng, Tshegofatso Botlhoko

“…The formal stationarity test confirmed that the crude oil price series is integrated of order one, <i>I(1)</i>. For the linear process, the ARIMA (2,1,2) model was identified as the best fit for the series and successfully passed all diagnostic tests. …”
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Systematic review of the value-driven attentional capture paradigm in visual attention studies: Evidence from 52 experiments by Miloš Stanković

“…Human visual attention is strongly influenced by rewards, affecting both top-down and bottom-up attentional processes. The value-driven attentional capture (VDAC) paradigm, introduced by Anderson et al. (2011b), has had a significant impact on the field of visual attention. …”
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Codesigning enhanced models of care for Northern Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth with type 2 diabetes: study protocol by Louise Maple-Brown, Alex Brown, Peter Azzopardi, Natasha Freeman, Jonathan E Shaw, Vicki O'Donnell, Christine Connors, Elizabeth Davis, Angela Titmuss, Renae Kirkham, John Boffa, Elna Ellis, Sian Graham, Stefanie Puszka, Emma Weaver, Jade Morris, Shiree Mack, James Dowler, Sumaria Corpus, Lydia Scott, Ashim K Sinha, Brandy Wicklow

“…Introduction Premature onset of type 2 diabetes and excess mortality are critical issues internationally, particularly in Indigenous populations. …”
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Altered Expression of Thyroid- and Calcium Ion Channels-Related Genes in Rat Testes by Short-Term Exposure to Commercial Herbicides Paraquat or 2,4-D by Enoch Luis, Vanessa Conde-Maldonado, Edelmira García-Nieto, Libertad Juárez-Santacruz, Mayvi Alvarado, Arely Anaya-Hernández

“…The thyroid axis and Ca²⁺-permeable ion channels play a key role in these processes, and their disruption can lead to reproductive issues and even infertility. …”
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Indonesian Nursing Educators’ Experiences with Developing Student-Centered Learning Methods by Vigdis Abrahamsen Grøndahl, Kirsti Lauvli Andersen, Ann Karin Helgesen, Asniar Asniar, Randi Martinsen, Riza Septiani, Dharina Baharuddin, Signe Rasch Woersaa, Anna Willman, Liv Berit Olsen

“…The current study used a qualitative, descriptive design with a questionnaire containing four open-ended questions focusing on the educators’ experiences with developing student-active methods and conditions affecting this process. Data were collected between January and November 2022 and analyzed using qualitative content analysis. …”
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Leveraging pre-trained models within a semi-supervised and explainable AI RealTime framework: A pioneering paradigm for betel leaf disease detection by Md Tahsin, Maksura Binte Rabbani Nuha, Sumaiya Akter, Al Hossain, Mohammad Rifat Ahmmad Rashid, Raiha Ul Islam, Mohammad Shahadat Hossain

“…The incorporation of semi-supervised and XAI with the best pre-trained model insinuates that the classification process of the healthy leaves from diseased ones can have meticulous consequences without over-fitting issues with less amount of labeled data.…”
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A person-centred primary care pharmacist-led osteoporosis review for optimising medicines (PHORM): a protocol for the development and co-design of a model consultation intervention by Andrew Sturrock, Robert Horne, Emma Clark, Toby Helliwell, Tracy Finch, Ian Maidment, Zoe Paskins, Shona Haining, Laurna Bullock, Robin Hyde, Meaghan Grabrovaz, Claire Pryor, Louise Statham

“…Framework analysis will identify and prioritise salient themes, followed by mapping codes to the theoretical domains framework and normalisation process theory to understand integration and implementation issues.We will further develop the content and model of care for the new consultation intervention through co-design workshops with stakeholder and patient and public involvement and engagement group members. …”
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Fish keypoint detection for offshore aquaculture: a robust deep learning approach with PCA-based shape constraint by Gen Li, Gen Li, Anji Lian, Zidan Yao, Yu Hu, Yu Hu, Guoliang Pang, Guoliang Pang, Taiping Yuan, Taiping Yuan, Zhenhua Li, Xiaohua Huang, Xiaohua Huang, Gang Wang

“…Traditional keypoint detection networks typically employ coordinate regression methods, which do not impose any constraints on the output of the regression head or the training process of the neural network. As a result, output keypoints of such networks do not always conform to the shape of a fish and the training process can be affected by incorrect labels, leading to errors in subsequent tasks.MethodsTo address these issues, this paper proposes a robust deep learning approach characterized by three improvements. 1) A shape model of fish that includes the average shape of fish, principal components of fish keypoints, and corresponding eigenvalues is constructed using principal component analysis (PCA) and unscented transform. 2) A customized version of anchor boxes is introduced and referred to as “anchor fish”, which along with the shape model, can be used to encode and decode fish keypoints. 3) Shape variation loss, calculated based on the eigenvalues in the shape model, is added as part of the loss function to constrain the output of the regression head. …”
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Relationship between continuous or discontinuous of controlling factors and landslide susceptibility in the high-cold mountainous areas, China by Heping Shu, Shi Qi, Xingrong Liu, Xianxian Shao, Xingkun Wang, Dongyuan Sun, Sangjie Yang, Jiale He

“…The continuity, discontinuity, and combination conditions of landslide triggering factors are critical issues that must be addressed in the process of calculating landslide susceptibility (LS). …”
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Assessing socioeconomic status through dental and associated tissue characteristics: A cross-sectional study for human identification [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Srikant Natarajan, Shwetha Yellapurkar, Amita Juanita Lewis, CEENA DENNY, Nandita KP, Jasmine Jophy

“…Studies show that individuals from lower SES backgrounds report more severe periodontal issues, such as gingival swelling, while higher SES groups report milder symptoms like gingival bleeding, indicating earlier intervention. …”
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