Quantifying Soil Erosion in Drought-Impacted Central Odisha, India, through Geospatial Mapping with RUSLE by Asit Kumar Dandapat, Prafulla Kumar Panda, Sovan Sankalp, Muralitharan Jothimani

“…The erosion computation process entails utilizing the digital elevation model (DEM), Landsat-9 imagery, and soil data from several sources accessible in different forms and scales. …”
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Assessment of the Scope of Work for Operational Control of Steel Underground Gas Pipelines, Taking Into Account the Organizational and Logistical Factor by N. V. Strutsky, V. N. Romaniuk

“…At the same time, it is quite difficult to ensure the required adequacy of operational control planning and maintenance of engineering facilities in practice, since the maintenance process itself combines regulated and unregulated components and has significant inertia of management. …”
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Revolutionizing concrete through sustainable Practices: a performance study on strength variation under acidic environments by B. Narendra Kumar, P. Sai Vineela, Dhanalakshmi Kiran Bhat

“…Abstract The construction sector continues to draw excessive natural resources for raw materials through extraction processes which leads to environmental concerns about its waste disposal of Construction and Demolition materials. …”
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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES MARKET IN RUSSIA by S. E. Dyba, I. V. Chernova

“…The opinion of experts on a number of professional issues was also taken into account. Conclusions: as a result of the study, it was possible to determine that the market of geoinformation products and services is undergoing a major transformation today. …”
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The latest trends of the European regulation of hydrogen energy in the context of ensuring Russian interests by D. K. Chugunov, R. A. Kasyanov

“…At the same time, there is a growing interest in hydrogen projects, which are facing the problem of absence of large-scale regulation and the difficulty of resolving financing issues. In contrast to neighboring countries, the German experience in hydrogen regulation has proved to be successful and closest to Russian interests. …”
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BO-CLAHE enhancing neonatal chest X-ray image quality for improved lesion classification by Jiwon Han, Byungmin Choi, Jae Young Kim, Yeonjoon Lee

“…However, despite extensive research, the process of setting CLAHE’s hyperparameters still relies on a brute force, manual approach, making it inefficient. …”
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Research ethics: Overcoming the exploitative dynamic through ethical research by Tanvir C Turin, Mohammad Raihan, Meriem Aroua, Nashit Chowdhury

“…Academic institutions must bolster ethics infrastructures — streamlining review processes, providing ongoing ethics training, facilitating genuine community engagement, and fostering a culture that rewards ethical conduct. …”
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A NEW APPROACH IN IMMOVABLE ASSET MANAGEMENT USING 3D SPATIAL SPACE by Uznir Ujang, Glory Annabelle Stephen, Suhaibah Azri, Nurfairunnajiha Ridzuan

“…The findings demonstrate that 3D visualization significantly improves asset location tracking and reduces reliance on paper-based processes, thus promoting continuous asset updates. …”
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Design, coverage and utilisation of maternity conditional cash programmes in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review by Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Chetana Chaudhuri, Sruti Mohanty, Urvashi Kaushik

“…Challenges highlighted include poor awareness and low community participation and lack of agency among women in decisions about use of cash among demand-side constraints. Supply-side issues range from lack of role clarity and ownership among service providers, inefficient fund flow, and inadequate staff and infrastructure provision to tackle increased service utilisation.Conclusion CCTs have the potential to improve access to maternal and child health services, but need effective design and operational processes, which should be closely monitored. …”
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RETRACTED: Financial Risk, Renewable Energy Technology Budgets, and Environmental Sustainability: Is Going Green Possible? by Mahmood Ahmad, Zahoor Ahmed, Zahoor Ahmed, Beata Gavurova, Judit Oláh, Judit Oláh

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MEFA-Net: Multilevel Feature Extraction and Fusion Attention Network for Infrared Small-Target Detection by Jingcui Ma, Nian Pan, Dengyu Yin, Di Wang, Jin Zhou

“…Infrared small-target detection encounters significant challenges due to a low image signal-to-noise ratio, limited target size, and complex background noise. To address the issues of sparse feature loss for small targets during the down-sampling phase of the traditional U-Net network and the semantic gap in the feature fusion process, a multilevel feature extraction and fusion attention network (MEFA-Net) is designed. …”
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TPACK Skills of Pre-service Teachers in Technology Integration: A Study in Microteaching Class by Pipit Firmanti, Fauzi Yuberta, Yoppy Wahyu Purnomo, Fery Muhamad Firdaus

“…The challenges faced included paid software and issues operating the software on different laptops. …”
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Systematic Literature Review on Security Risks and its Practices in Secure Software Development by Rafiq Ahmad Khan, Siffat Ullah Khan, Habib Ullah Khan, Muhammad Ilyas

“…Software development organizations treat security as an afterthought issue, and as a result, they continue to face security threats. …”
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Transforming liver transplant allocation with artificial intelligence and machine learning: a systematic review by Lisiane Pruinelli, Kiruthika Balakrishnan, Sisi Ma, Zhigang Li, Anji Wall, Jennifer C. Lai, Jesse D. Schold, Timothy Pruett, Gyorgy Simon

“…Abstract Background The principles of urgency, utility, and benefit are fundamental concepts guiding the ethical and practical decision-making process for organ allocation; however, LT allocation still follows an urgency model. …”
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Solidarity in Ethnically Diverse Contexts: Supportive Relations of First‐Generation Roma Graduates’ Social Mobility in Hungary by Judit Durst, Margit Feischmidt, Zsanna Nyírő

“…However, parallel to the main trend, a less visible process enables the social mobility of people of Roma origin born into marginalised, socio‐economically low‐status families. …”
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Multi-granularity feature intersection learning for visible-infrared person re-identification by Sixian Chan, Jie Wang, Jiaao Cui, Jie Hu, Zhuorong Li, Jiafa Mao

“…To address the above issues, MGFINet consists of three components: a hierarchical part pooling method (HPP), a hierarchical part restriction method (HPC), and a feature intersection (FI) loss. …”
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Aerodynamic Optimization Method for Propeller Airfoil Based on DBO-BP and NSWOA by Changjing Guo, Zhiling Xu, Xiaoyan Yang, Hao Li

“…To address the issues of tedious optimization processes, insufficient fitting accuracy of surrogate models, and low optimization efficiency in drone propeller airfoil design, this paper proposes an aerodynamic optimization method for propeller airfoils based on DBO-BP (Dum Beetle Optimizer-Back-Propagation) and NSWOA (Non-Dominated Sorting Whale Optimization Algorithm). …”
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The Manuscripts Oskar Rescher Sold to the Berlin State Library Between 1913-1936 by Güler Doğan Averbek

“…The current study draws attention to two issues. The first involves the 1,722 volumes sold to the Berlin State Library after Rescher’s death. …”
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Research on the rapid diagnosis method for hunting of high-speed trains by Wanru Xie, Yixin Zhao, Gang Zhao, Fei Yang, Zilong Wei, Jinzhao Liu

“…With a focus on practical engineering applications, a rapid screening index for identifying potential issues has been proposed, significantly enhancing the efficiency of diagnostic processes.…”
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A pan-crop metagenomic exploration of microbial communities linked to pesticide and xenobiotic degradation pathways in agricultural microbiomes by Ratna Prabha, Mahesh K. Samota, M. K. Verma, Shailendra Gupta, Anil Rai, S. C. Dubey, D. P. Singh

“…Regular application of such chemicals has raised the issues of environmental pollution and imposed severe risks on human beings. …”
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