The role of social actors in building sustainable cities in the Global South by Bongekile Yvonne Charlotte Mvuyana

“…Active participation in public policy processes is not just beneficial but essential for these community members, enabling them to secure improvements that would be unattainable without their engaged involvement. …”
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Stable Multipoint Flux Approximation (MPFA) Saturation Solution for Two-Phase Flow on Non-K-Orthogonal Anisotropic Porous Media by Pijus Makauskas, Mayur Pal

“…Existing stability-enhancing techniques, such as optimal quadrature schemes and flux-splitting methods, mitigate these issues but are computationally expensive and do not always ensure monotonicity or oscillation-free solutions. …”
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A deep learning approach: Physics-informed neural networks for solving the 2D nonlinear Sine–Gordon equation by Alemayehu Tamirie Deresse, Tamirat Temesgen Dufera

“…To include all the physical information of a PDE in to the learning process, we considered a multi-objective loss function that takes into account the problem PDE residual, the initial condition residual, and the boundary condition residual. …”
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Evaluation of in-vessel co-composting of yard waste and development of kinetic models for co-composting by K. M. Sangamithirai, J. Jayapriya, J. Hema, Ravi Manoj

“…In addition to that, kinetic models were developed to predict the decomposition rate constant of the process.…”
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The Role of the Executive and Legislative Branch in the Preparation of Bills in Türkiye Following the 2017 Constitutional Amendments by N. Betül Haliloğlu Pakdil

“…The study identifies uncertainties and problematic issues in the aftermath of the 2017 Amendments, and within this framework examines the advantages of the executive branch in terms of the services regarding the preparation of bills, the contribution of the executive to the process, the need to clearly regulate the power of recommendation, and the limits such regulations bear. …”
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TRADE UNIONS FOR THE SELF-EMPLOYED AND PLATFORM WORKERS: EXPERIENCE OF RUSSIA AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES by MIRONOVA S.M., LITVINENKO Z.G.

“…In the context of the gig economy, platform economy, digitalization of all processes, the structure of employment is changing and the forms of labor relations are changing, nonstandard forms of employment are emerging, and instead of concluding employment contracts with employees, companies prefer to enter into civil contracts. …”
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Causal Inference-Based Self-Supervised Cross-Domain Fundus Image Segmentation by Qiang Li, Qiyi Zhang, Zheqi Zhang, Hengxin Liu, Weizhi Nie

“…However, despite the development of numerous automatic segmentation models, the lack of annotations in the target domain and domain shift among datasets continue to limit their segmentation performance. To address these issues, we propose a Causal Self-Supervised Network (CSSN) that leverages self-supervised learning to enhance model performance. …”
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Restructuring of mines: technological and economical aspects by Iryna Sapytska

“…The present paper covers technological changes in the coal mining process. Coal is the main domestic energy resource in Ukraine. …”
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Sustainability indicator evaluation for biomass feedstock in the biojet supply chain using Fuzzy Delphi method by Hasibuan Sawarni, Nazir Novizar, Kandasani Jayakhrisna

“…The Indonesian government issued a government instruction through ESDM regarding the target for blending bio-based fuel for aviation fuel 5 by 2025. …”
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Harnessing self-supervised learning to boost malicious traffic detection with enhanced attention by SUN Jianwen, ZHANG Bin, LI Hongyu, CHANG Heyu

“…The existing deep learning-based malicious traffic detection methods generally suffered from three main problems: labeled sample scarcity, inadequate representation of malicious behavior traffic features, and a high false positive rate due to ineffective integration of behavioral association patterns during detection. To address these issues, an end-to-end malicious traffic detection method named MTAttention was proposed. …”
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Enhancing Planning for Autonomous Driving via an Iterative Optimization Framework Incorporating Safety-Critical Trajectory Generation by Zhen Liu, Hang Gao, Yeting Lin, Xun Gong

“…This framework decomposes the optimization process into stages, initially addressing normal trajectories and progressively tackling more safety-critical and collision trajectories. …”
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The antimicrobial potential of plant-based natural dyes for textile dyeing: A systematic review using prisma by Mao Dan, Xu Huiya

“…Dyeing plays a vital role in the textile industry, however, associated health and environmental issues have raised significant concerns regarding the types of dyes used. …”
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Control of Cognitive Errors in Sports Managers: Identifying Influencing Factors by Zohre Sharei, Alireza Zare

“…Analysis utilized the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) via Super Decisions software to weigh criteria, and TOPSIS, executed with BT Top Sis Solver software, to rank factors. …”
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Newcomer youth's access to contraception care in Canada: A scoping review of qualitative evidence. by Zeba Khan, Bimbola Olure, Victoria Paller, Sarah Munro

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Literature that qualitatively describes newcomer youth's experiences with contraception is scarce, and existing literatures only mentioned contraception in the context of broader SRH-related issues. Further research that specifically focuses on contraception experiences, involves newcomer youth in the research process and explores the roles of peers in contraception access of newcomer youth is required to better understand their experiences.…”
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Nomads’ Settlement: A perspective of settlers Talkhab settlement (Ilam Province) by Alireza Gholami, Eskandar Seidaie, Ahmad Taghdisi

“…Nowadays, various factors such as collapse of tribal structures and systems, deterioration of grasslands, lack of decent educational system for the children, and shortage of healthcare facilities have caused tribal living extremely challenging. To help avert the process, experts have proposed different approaches among which settlement plan rendered as most appropriate. …”
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Nature of antimicrobial resistance of pathogens causing urinary tract infection in Bangladesh: age and gender profiles by Ferdous Jahan, Mohammed Anwer

“…This research attempts to address these issues.…”
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Memory versus logic: two models of organizing information and their influences on web retrieval strategies by Teresa Numerico

“…We will discuss the issues raised by these two “visions” of information management and the influences of the philosophical tradition of the theory of knowledge on the hypertextual organization of content. …”
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Branch Drift: A Visually Explainable Metric for Consistency Monitoring in Collaborative Software Development by Karl Kegel, Sebastian Gotz, Uwe Assmann

“…Depending on the development process, a branch exists for a few hours or up to several months. …”
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Appraisal tools for clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review. by Ulrich Siering, Michaela Eikermann, Elke Hausner, Wiebke Hoffmann-Eßer, Edmund A Neugebauer

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Clinical practice guidelines can improve healthcare processes and patient outcomes, but are often of low quality. …”
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Pilot study to understand and compare challenges being faced in reporting of transfusion reactions in various types of blood banks enrolled under Haemovigilance Programme of India by Rayaz Ahmad Bhat, Vishal Tiwari, Satyajeet Singh, Ruchi Rao, Akash Chaudhary, Akanksha Bisht

“…BACKGROUND: Hemovigilance has become one of the important quality check systems of blood transfusion process, but under/non-reporting of transfusion-associated adverse reactions despite the presence of reporting systems emphasize the need to understand the challenges being faced in active reporting of adverse transfusion reactions. …”
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