Would the CBAM promote greener African-EU agri-food trade? Insights from a joint economic—legal assessment by Christian Häberli, Bodo Steiner, Mari Carlson

“…African policymakers and value chain operators, as well as stakeholders with social and environment concerns, will want to adapt production, processing and export standards to maintain market access and profitability.…”
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Psychological support for an adolescent awaiting heart transplantation: A case report on psychological intervention using the Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transp... by Kosuke Takano, Junko Tsutsui, Hidehiro Oshibuchi, Sayaka Kobayashi, Rie Akaho, Katsuji Nishimura

“…Conclusion This case highlights the effectiveness of early SIPAT‐guided psychological support and multidisciplinary interventions in addressing complex psychosocial issues in adolescents during the VAD waiting period. …”
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Enhancing stroke risk prediction through class balancing and data augmentation with CBDA-ResNet50 by Muhammad Asim Saleem, Ashir Javeed, Wasan Akarathanawat, Aurauma Chutinet, Nijasri Charnnarong Suwanwela, Pasu Kaewplung, Surachai Chaitusaney, Watit Benjapolakul

“…In most cases, these problems lead to biased or less reliable predictions. To address these issues, the proposed model assures that the predictions are still accurate even when some stroke risk factors are absent in the data. …”
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Current methods of non-invasive fetal heart rate surveillance by A. Theodoridou, A. Athanasiadis, G. Tsakmakidis, Ι. Tsakiridis, A. Pilavidi, C. Vosnakis, T. Dagklis, G. Mavromatidis, A. Mamopoulos

“…Discussion: Non-invasive monitoring technology is making progress but there are still issues with signal acquisition and quality that stem from the newfound mobility of the monitored pregnant women. …”
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Geometric Modeling of Disc Furrow Profile by Petro Yablonskyi, Ivan Rogovskii, Gennadii Virchenko, Kinga Borek, Mykola Volokha, Olga Golova

“…One of the main approaches to successfully solving these critical issues is to improve agriculture and its technical tools, particularly tillage discs. …”
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Deep-Learning-Based Automated Building Construction Progress Monitoring for Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction by Wei Png Chua, Chien Chern Cheah

“…Lastly, a progress estimation module checks the processed detections for missing or excess information before performing building construction progress estimation. …”
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A systematic literature review: exploring the challenges of ensemble model for medical imaging by Muhamad Rodhi Supriyadi, Azurah Bte A. Samah, Jemie Muliadi, Raja Azman Raja Awang, Noor Huda Ismail, Hairudin Abdul Majid, Mohd Shahizan Bin Othman, Siti Zaiton Binti Mohd Hashim

“…However, it takes a lot of memory and processing resources to train and maintain several ensemble models. …”
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A Study on Non-Contact Multi-Sensor Fusion Online Monitoring of Circuit Breaker Contact Resistance for Operational State Awareness by Zheng Wang, Hua Zhang, Yiyang Zhang, Haoyong Zhang, Jing Chen, Shuting Feng, Jie Guo, Yanpeng Lv

“…The method integrates Hall effect current sensors, infrared temperature sensors, and electric field sensors to extract multiple sensing signals, combined with high-precision signal processing algorithms to enable the real-time identification and evaluation of circuit resistance changes. …”
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Printing photonic-based thermal barrier coatings onto metal alloy by Alberto Gomez-Gomez, Diego Ribas Gomes, Benedikt F. Winhard, Laura G. Maragno, Antoine E. Jimenez, Marie Thibaudet, Julia Brandt, Alexander Petrov, Manfred Eich, Kaline P. Furlan

“…Abstract Reflective coatings based on photonic crystals and photonic glasses are usually produced by traditional colloidal self-assembly techniques characterised by limited control over the deposition surface and lengthy processing times. The emergence of Additive Manufacturing combined with Colloidal Assembly (AMCA) has enabled fast and precise deposition of homogeneous photonic structures, whilst circumventing issues such as the undesired coffee-ring effect. …”
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Using Large Language Models to Assess Burnout Among Health Care Workers in the Context of COVID-19 Vaccine Decisions and Health Beliefs: Retrospective Cohort Study by Samaneh Omranian, Lu He, AkkeNeel Talsma, Arielle A J Scoglio, Susan McRoy, Janet W Rich-Edwards

“…We aim to leverage natural language processing techniques to automatically identify theoretically grounded burnout symptoms from comments authored by nurses in a large-scale, national survey and assess their associations with vaccine hesitancy and health beliefs. …”
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Experiences and practices of people categorised as being ‘at risk’ based on age during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study in the UK and Germany by Susannah Mayhew, Stephanie Drössler, Katharina Wabnitz

“…Negotiating identities is an inevitable process accompanying sense-making of (new) risks. …”
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Parallel lightweight Block Cipher algorithm for Multicore CPUs by Hawraa J. Hamiza, Ahmed Fanfakh

“… Data protection has become one of the top issues despite major advancements in communications and technology. …”
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Effect of Ionising Irradiation on Wheat Flour by Aleksandr S. Romanov, Aleksandr S. Markov, Irina Yu. Sergeeva, Lyudmila A. Kozubaeva, Dmitry N. Protopopov

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Internet of Things and Distributed Computing Systems in Business Models by Albérico Travassos Rosário, Ricardo Raimundo

“…In particular, overall, the integration of both IoT and Distributed Systems in business models augments its numerous advantages: it develops smart infrastructures e.g., smart grids; edge computing that allows data processing closer to the data source e.g., autonomous vehicles; predictive analytics, by helping businesses anticipate issues e.g., to foresee equipment failures; personalized services e.g., through e-commerce platforms of personalized recommendations to users; enhanced security, while reducing the risk of centralized attacks e.g., blockchain technology, in how IoT and Distributed Computing Systems altogether impact business models. …”
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Efficient Urban Tree Species Classification via Multirepresentation Fusion of Mobile Laser Scanning Data by Yinchi Ma, Peng Luan, Yujie Zhang, Bo Liu, Lijie Zhang

“…The proposed workflow achieves a balance between classification accuracy and processing efficiency, making it suitable for large-scale urban tree inventory applications.…”
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A high-precision edge detection technique for magnetic anomaly signals based on a self-attention mechanism by Ju Haihua, Wang Li, Yang Jie, Liu Gaochuan, Xia Zhong, Jiao Jian, Zhang Le, Dai Bo

“…Magnetic data boundary detection is a key technology in potential field data processing, providing an effective basis for the division of geological units and fault structures. …”
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Methodology for determining actual threats to information security in medical information system by V. A. Maystrenko, O. A. Bezrodnykh, R. A. Dorokhin

“…The issues of determining the actual UBI when creating MIS that process personal data using a specific technology of expert assessment are considered. …”
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LIoTning: A Peer-Supervised Payment Channel Approach for Secure Micropayments in IoT Ecosystem by Erfan Bahrami, Amir M. Aghapour, Morteza Amini

“…While payment channel networks (PCNs) propose an innovative off-chain solution to bypass blockchain bottlenecks, they remain impractical for resource-constrained IoT devices, where stringent storage, memory, and processing restrictions make PCN architectures infeasible. …”
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Effect of Essential Microelements on Proteomic Profile of Lamb Muscle Tissue Protein by Tatiana M. Giro, Andrey V. Kulikovsky, Anna V. Giro

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The impact of modern geographic information systems (GIS) on improving the energy efficiency of maritime transportation by Anna A. Ananeva, Maksim E. Stepanov, Oleksandr A. Korostin, Maria S. Korneva

“…Further integration of GIS with artificial intelligence and real-time data processing systems may lead to even greater sustainability and efficiency in the shipping industry.…”
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