Restorative Potential Assessment of Public Open Space in Old Urban Communities in the Context of Aging—A Case Study of Dabeizhuang Community in Maanshan, China by Jiaxin Huang, Yimin Song, Ying Sheng, Yuqing Zhang, Di Hu

“…In China, the proportion of elderly residents in aging urban communities is significantly higher than in newly constructed ones, making it essential to understand the restorative potential of public open spaces (POSs) in these settings to promote the development of aging-in-place models. To investigate this issue, we employed the Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to construct an evaluation system for the restorative potential of public open spaces. …”
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Secure Cooperative Spectrum Sensing and Allocation in Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks by Hui Lin, Jia Hu, Chuan Huang, Li Xu, Bin Wu

“…Despite their promising characteristics, CRNs also introduce new security threats, especially the internal attacks during the spectrum sensing and allocation process, which can degrade the efficiency of spectrum sensing and allocation. …”
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Regularization for Unconditional Image Diffusion Models via Shifted Data Augmentation by Kensuke Nakamura, Bong-Soo Sohn, Simon Korman, Byung-Woo Hong

“…While data augmentation such as image rotation can mitigate this issue, it often causes leakage, where augmented content appears in generated samples. …”
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دراسة سجل قيد مضابط الدعاوى الشرعية الفترة 1268 هـ / 1852 م - 1272 هـ / 1856 م بدار الوثائق القومية by ناهد السویفی

“…This research deals with studying the record of registering the proces –verbal of religious lawsuits during the period 1268 AH / 1852 AD - 1272 AH /1856 AD, archival and documentary in terms of defining the record and itsimportance, procedures for conducting lawsuits and issuing judgments therein,studying and publishing samples of the documents included in it, along withcreating archival description cards for these forms according to the internationalcodification of the Archival description (TADO).The National Archives House contains many documents and records ofthe Diwans that resulted from the activity of the Diwans and institutions in thenineteenth century, and many of them have not been discovered yet, and theyhave not been used to enrich the historical, documentary and archival studiesMy choice of this topic is due to several reasons, including: The record ofregistering the records of process-verbal of religious lawsuits in the KhediveDiwan or publishing any of its documents was not previously studied, sheddinglight on the juridical competencies of the Khedive Diwan and finally encouragingresearchers to study the documents and records of Diwans in the nineteenthcentury because they include very important archival, documentary and historicalinformation .…”
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Vaccination of children against COVID-19: foreign experience (literature review) by A. Bufetova, A. Vishnyakov, E. Gorelov, E. Leushina, E. Utenkova

“…The purpose of this literature review is to systematize objective data concerning the foreign experience of vaccination of children against COVID-19; arguments for and against vaccination, which complicate the decision-making on the issue under study at one level or another.…”
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Plastic Litter as Pollutant in the Aquatic Environment: A mini-review by Rifka Rimbi Anggraini, Yenny Risjani, Uun Yanuhar

“…Nowadays, the negative impact of plastic litter occurs on an ongoing basis through the food chain process which until now has not been well studied. …”
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Machine Learning Applications for Predicting Longitudinal Cracking in Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement by Ali Alnaqbi, Ghazi G. Al-Khateeb, Waleed Zeiada

“…This study addresses the critical issue of longitudinal cracking in Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement (CRCP), a paramount concern in pavement engineering due to its significant impact on infrastructure performance and longevity. methodology. …”
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Combined Effects of Unsteady River Discharges and Wave Conditions on River Mouth Bar Morphodynamics by Weilun Gao, Dongdong Shao, Zheng Bing Wang, William Nardin, Wei Yang, Tao Sun, Baoshan Cui

“…Abstract River mouth bar formation, a key process in fluvial‐deltaic morphodynamics, is subject to both river discharge and waves. …”
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Joint event extraction model based on dynamic attention matching and graph attention networks by Jiajun Cheng, Wenjie Liu, Zhifan Wang, Zhijie Ren, Xingwen Li

“…To address this issue, this study proposes a joint event extraction model that leverages dynamic attention matching and graph attention network. …”
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Adaptive integral sliding mode control strategy for vehicular platoon with prescribed performance by Yiguang Wang, Xubin Tang, Yongqiang Jiang, Xiaojie Li, Xiaoyan Zhan

“…Abstract This article studies the prescribed tracking performance control issue for vehicular platoon with external disturbances and unknown nonlinearities. …”
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Comparison of Deep Neural Networks and Random Forest Algorithms for Multiclass Stunting Prediction in Toddlers by Wulan Sri Lestari, Yuni Marlina Saragih, Caroline

“… Stunting in toddlers is a serious global health issue, with long-term impacts on physical growth and cognitive development. …”
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Towards the Concurrent Optimization of the Server: A Case Study on Sport Health Simulation by Nan Jia, Ruomei Wang, Mingliang Li, Yuhan Guan, Fan Zhou

“…As a result, the simulation process is usually time-consuming and simulation efficiency is low. …”
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Predicting anxiety using Google and Youtube digital traces by Joshua Rochotte, Aniket Sanap, Vincent Silenzio, Vivek K. Singh

“…Anxiety is a widespread and serious mental health issue that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and other stressors. …”
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Social Crises: Signatures of Complexity in a Fast-Growing Economy by Juan Pablo Cárdenas, Gerardo Vidal, Carolina Urbina, Gastón Olivares, Pablo Rodrigo, Miguel Fuentes

“…Social systems are always exposed to critical processes in which their organization, or part of it, is questioned by the society that demands solutions through different critical saliences. …”
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Nitrate Origin in the Zagreb Aquifer System by Zoran Kovač, Zoran Nakić, Jadranka Barešić, Jelena Parlov

“…The usage of molar ratios, especially NO3−/K+, helped to clarify this issue. Waste water has been defined as the main source of nitrate contamination. …”
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M. Gorky and the 1935 Discussion About the Writer in Cinematography by Anastasia G. Plotnikova

“…With the spread of sound cinema, the verbal part of the cinematographic action began to play a more significant role, which aggravated the issue of “scenario hunger” and the participation of writers in the film process. …”
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Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) as an Emerging Urban Stressor for Tree Phenology and Physiology: A Review by Luisa Friulla, Laura Varone

“…Artificial light at night (ALAN) is an expanding environmental issue, particularly in urban areas. This review aimed to present the state of the art regarding the impact of ALAN on specific and interrelated aspects related to physiological processes and life cycle events in tree species. …”
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Lysis Buffers for Detecting Pork Content in Food Products by Ulfah Lailatul Khoiriah, Pramudja Baydillah, Raden Darmawan, Nasori Nasori, Fadlilatul Taufany, Setiyo Gunawan

“…The increasing number of counterfeit processed food products with non-halal ingredients, such as pork, has caused public concern about the halalness of Indonesian food products, especially in the Muslim community. …”
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Selective flocculation-flotation of ultrafine hematite from clay minerals under asynchronous flocculation regulation by Fusheng Niu, Yuying Chen, Jinxia Zhang, Fei Liu, Ziye Wang

“…Enhancing the ability to separate clay minerals from target mineral surfaces is key to addressing this issue. In the flotation process of ultrafine hematite, sodium polyacrylate (PAAS) was used as a selective flocculant for hematite, polyaluminum chloride (PAC) as a flocculant for kaolinite and chlorite, and sodium oleate (NaOL) as the collector to achieve asynchronous flocculation flotation. …”
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Engineered anti-cancer nanomedicine for synergistic cuproptosis-immunotherapy by Jiaxin Li, Xinlong Pang, Zhongwei Xin, Liang Song, Xiangyan Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Zhe Yang

“…Cuproptosis is a newly identified form of regulated cell death that is characterized by the accumulation of intracellular copper ions, leading to lipoylated protein aggregation and subsequent metabolic dysfunction. This process is intricately linked with the tumor microenvironment. …”
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