Unaccompanied Minors in France and Inequalities in Care Provision under the Child Protection System by Isabelle Frechon, Lucy Marquet

“…The issue of unaccompanied minors (UAM) is frequently front-page news in France, against a background of economic recession and increasing flows of migrants through Europe. …”
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An Assistive System for Thermal Power Plant Management by Aleksa Stojic, Goran Kvascev, Zeljko Djurovic

“…To avoid compromising system stability, operators often operate the thermal unit below its full capacity. To address this issue, the aim of this paper is to facilitate the process of estimating the maximum active electrical power by applying an assistive system based on ANFIS (Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System), a method that combines the strengths of neural networks and fuzzy logic. …”
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A self-growth convolution network for thermal and mechanical fault detection with very limited engine data by Gou Xin, Zhu Xiaolong, Wang Xinwei, Wang Hui, Zhang Junhong, Lin Jiewei

“…Basic convolutional neural networks require a large number of samples to train, and widely used data augmentation methods are influenced by data quality, which can exacerbate overfitting. To address this issue, a self-growth convolution network (SGNet) is proposed to make the deep learning process a self-growing scheme in both depth and width dimensions. …”
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TAMC: Textual Alignment and Masked Consistency for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Understanding by Juan Wang, Zhijie Wang, Tomo Miyazaki, Yaohou Fan, Shinichiro Omachi

“…Specifically, during the alignment of 3D and 2D features, we mask some 3D features to force the model to understand the entire scene using only partial 3D features. For the second issue, we generate pseudo-text labels and align them with the 3D features during the training process. …”
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Cliff ecosystems: A critical yet uncharted frontier for research and conservation by Martí March-Salas, María Begoña García, Isaac H. Lichter-Marck, Juan Lorite, Manuel J. Steinbauer

“…Articles in this issue address a great variety of perspectives in cliff research such as: evaluating the potential loss of unique genetic diversity in endangered and rare cliff plants; understanding past, present and future distribution patterns, population dynamics, and evolutionary processes in cliffs in the context of climate change; examining abiotic and biotic feedbacks and interactions occurring in these habitats; assessing the current conservation status of cliff flora at global scale, and exploring new pathways to study and monitor the diversity of cliff habitats. …”
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Retracted: Self‐attention Bi‐RNN for developer emotion recognition based on EEG by Yingdong Wang, Yuhui Zheng, Lu Cao, Zhiling Zhang, Qunsehng Ruan, Qingfeng Wu

“…This article was published as part of a Guest Edited special issue. Following an investigation, the IET and the journal have determined that the article was not reviewed in line with the journal’s peer review standards and there is evidence that the peer review process of the special issue underwent systematic manipulation. …”
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Automated knowledge discovery and semantic annotation for network and web services by Szu-Yin Lin, Chia-Chen Chung, Wei-Che Hu, Chihli Hung, Shih-Lun Chen, Ting-Lan Lin

“…With the rise of the Internet of things, the smart environmental issue is becoming increasingly important. Sensor web is one of the best solutions to this issue and provides the advantages of sensor networks and web services. …”
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Retracted: Smart optimal path with blockchain modelling in internet of things using enhanced K‐means clustering and advance encryption standard by Inas Ismael Imran, Shymaa Mohammed Jameel, Refed Adnan Jaleel

“…This article was published as part of a Guest Edited special issue. Following an investigation, the IET and the journal have determined that the article was not reviewed in line with the journal’s peer review standards and there is evidence that the peer review process of the special issue underwent systematic manipulation. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Machinability of Filler Weld Applied to DIN 1.2379 Tool Steel by Milling Method by Yusuf Siyambaş

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Tissue expansion: Concepts, techniques and unfavourable results by Milind S Wagh, Varun Dixit

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Corrosion Resistance of Steel Pipelines under Various Thermal Insulation Materials by Zemlyanko A.S., Semenov V.S., Zhukov A.D., Shuvalova E.A.

“…The durability of insulation systems for pipelines is determined by the operational resistance of the pipeline material and the design of the insulation system. The issue of studying the corrosion processes of steel pipelines under various heat-insulating materials is relevant. …”
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Pharmacological mechanism of natural products to treat osteoporosis: a focus on the autophagy by Chenglong Xin, Guangheng Zhang, Zheng Shen, Weibiao Han, Ruifeng Fan, Jiakuo Ren, Jianyi Zhang, Yanke Hao, Jian Xin

“…Osteoporosis (OP) is a serious public health issue, and fragility fractures resulting from OP are a major cause of death in the elderly. …”
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Nonlinear Local Deformations of Erythrocyte Membranes: Normal Erythrocytes (Part 1) by A. M. Chernysh, E. K. Kozlova, V. V. Moroz, V. A. Sergunova, O. E. Gudkova, A. P. Kozlov, E. A. Manchenko

“…Investigation of mechanical properties of erythrocyte membranes is a pressing issue in practical reanimatology and rehabilitation, because erythrocyte's ability to deform determines the possibility of their passage through capillary network and blood rheology in general.The purpose of the work: to study the process of nonlinear deformation of membranes of normal erythrocytes by the method of atomic force spectroscopy.Materials and Methods. …”
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ALL-RUSSIAN CIVIL IDENTITY IN THE OFFICIAL DISCOURSE OF THE REPUBLICS OF NORTHERN CAUCASUS by E. S. Karsanova

“…The article considers the issue of formation of the all-Russian civil identity, actualized in the domestic political discourse. …”
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SUPERVISION OF FINANCIAL AUDIT ACTIVITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA - REFORMS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR MODERNIZATION by Anatolie IACHIMOVSCHI

“…In addition, this paper includes a study of professional qualifications in auditing and an analysis of the activities carried out by audit entities in recent years of monitoring the audit market by the supervisory authority. The issue of reforming the regulatory framework for the audit of financial statements in line with international good professional practice is considered. …”
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Qualitative analysis of family factors affecting emotion regulation in Iranian society: a qualitative content analysis by Peyman Hatamian, Kazem Rasoulzadeh Tabatabaei, Parviz Azadfallah, Jafar Hasani

“…Results: The analysis of findings led to two main categories of efficient communication processes in the family and dysfunctional communication processes in the family. …”
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The pivotal role of nursing personnel in burn care by Greenfield Elisabeth

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EDUCATION IN ECONOMIC THEORY by Jasmina Osmanković, Hatidža Jahić, Ensar Šehić

“…In order to find answers and to present a current issue why and how certain countries have made progress while others have regressed in the development process, many theories and models explaining processes of growth and development have emerged and developed. …”
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How chatbots influence marketing by Kaczorowska-Spychalska Dominika

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CHALLENGES, EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY: THE ADAPTATION OF A GEOGRAPHY DEGREE TO THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION ARE by Mireia BAYLINA, Maria VILLANUEVA

“…Although the short time that has elapsed since then makes it difficult to undertake a full evaluation of the process and reflect on its outcomes and impacts, the whole issue of reform is raising controversy leading to the reluctance to initiate further change, due mainly to the lack of internal debate about the process of change that apparently seems to be a response to global economic demands rather than academic ones. …”
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