Preventive measures against the spread of the plague and the importance of preserving public health in Serbia in the 18th and first half of the 19th century by Nedeljković Slaviša D., Đorđević Miloš Z., Pešić Miroslav D.

“…Knez Miloš Obrenović, taking care of the health condition in the principality, was involved in the process of opening quarantine, bringing in doctors, and procuring medicines. …”
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Validation of the early in-vessel phenomenon analysis model of the severe accident analysis code MOSAP by GUO Chao, WU Shihao, ZHAO Chuanqi, ZHANG Yapei, WEI Chao, WU Yingwei

“…BackgroundSevere accident is complex coupling processes involving multiple components, phases, and physical fields, and related research is a complex and challenging systematic engineering project. …”
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Research Progress on Dolomite Improving Acidified Farmland Soil by Lingli SUN, Haining CHEN, Qixuan WANG, Weihan WANG

“…Addressing the increasingly prominent issue of soil acidification in Chinese farmlands, this study systematically elucidates the significant role played by dolomite, an alkaline carbonate mineral material, in soil improvement. …”
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Proximal optical sensing for vineyard control and management: a review by Alessio Tugnolo, Hugo M. Oliveira, Valentina Giovenzana, Roberto Beghi, Davide Bianchi, Alessia Pampuri, Andrea Casson, Lucio Brancadoro, Joao Piteira, Natacha Fontes, Antonio Graca, Paulo Freitas, Riccardo Guidetti

“…Moreover, technological evolution is now driving the development of smart strategies to support winegrowers in the decision-making process. This comprehensive review delineates the utilization of non-invasive optical proximal sensing methodologies, encompassing spectroscopy, multispectral and hyperspectral imaging, and thermography. …”
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Flexible and Reliable Parylene‐C Resistive Random Access Memory Array with Graphene Barrier for Neuromorphic Systems by Seonjeong Lee, Sookyeong Kim, Boram Kim, Rayoung Park, Dong‐Wook Park, Yoon Kim

“…However, Negative‐SET has been a key factor contributing to reliability degradation by inducing the overgrowth of conductive filaments (CFs). To address this issue, this study fabricates a PPXC‐based RRAM crossbar array with a graphene barrier inserted between the inert electrode and the resistive switching layer. …”
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Scalability and Efficiency Analysis of Hyperledger Fabric and Private Ethereum in Smart Contract Execution by Maaz Muhammad Khan, Fahd Sikandar Khan, Muhammad Nadeem, Taimur Hayat Khan, Shahab Haider, Dani Daas

“…A benchmarking tool was developed in-house to assess the execution of key smart contract functions—QueryUser, CreateUser, TransferMoney, and IssueMoney—under varying transaction loads (10–1000 transactions) and network sizes (2–16 node count). …”
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Outlier Detection of Photovoltaic Power Generation System Data Based on GMM-IF Algorithm by Xin Li, Guoxin Du, Yuman Li, Zengqiang Ma, Lihu Liu, Minglong Jiang, Feiyu Liu, Tianming Mu

“…However, its modeling process relies on the assumption that data follows a Gaussian distribution. …”
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Vibration properties of full ceramic bearing under elastohydrodynamic fluid lubrication based on the energy approach by Yuhou Wu, Jiancheng Guo, Xiaochen Zhang, Peng Zhou, Weiying Meng, Xu Bai, He Lu

“…Addressing the issue of inadequate lubrication between the rolling element and raceway due to increased lubricating oil temperature, this study focuses on full-ceramic ball bearings. …”
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Multi-Source Reinforced Selective Domain Adaptation for Cross-Subject and Cross-Session EEG-Based Emotion Recognition by Xin Deng, Xinyi Hong, LiJiao Ai, Xingchen Li, Chenhui Li

“…The significant distribution disparity between source and target domains in transfer learning often leads to detrimental negative transfer phenomena. To mitigate this issue, the judicious selection of source domain data has proven to be an effective strategy. …”
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Methane in massive ice beds in Eastern Chukotka as an indicator of their origin by L. P. Кuziakin, A. A. Maslakova, P. B. Semenov, N. G. Belova, Yu. K. Vasil’chuk, A. O. Kil

“…For the third one, the issue of its genesis remained debatable, and in the fourth bed, the obtained results have thrown doubt on the previous hypothesis about the intra‑ground genesis of ice, since the recorded methane concentration was found to be close to the atmospheric one. …”
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A swin transformer and CNN fusion framework for accurate Parkinson disease classification in MRI by Sayyed Shahid Hussain, Pir Masoom Shah, Hussain Dawood, Xu Degang, Ahmad Alshamayleh, Muhammad Adnan Khan, Taher M. Ghazal

“…To mitigate the gradient vanishing issue in ViT, we used skipped connections and cosine attention mechanism in VIT that preserves the output distribution regardless of input magnitude variations. …”
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Farmers' adaptation behavior to water scarcity in Western Iran: Application of the values-identity-personal norms model by Yousof Azadi, Jafar Yaghoubi, Saeed Gholamrezai, Fatemeh Rahimi-Feyzabad

“…Among the most vulnerable groups are farmers, who are increasingly exposed to the adverse impacts of water Scarcity. Regarding this issue, farmers need to adapt to water scarcity. Thus, understanding the factors influencing farmers' adaptative behavior is important. …”
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Effect of C/N ratio on the denitrifying enzymes activity and global warming potential by Yin Zhou, Peifang Wang, Bin Hu, Dingxin Li, Tianming Zheng, Ting Chen

“…The greenhouse gases generated in the wastewater treatment process based on heterotrophic denitrification technology have become a dilemma between water environment protection and carbon emission reduction. …”
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Investigating the interactions between dyes and porous/composite materials: A comprehensive study by Muhammad Zeeshan, Tariq Javed, Chandresh Kumari, Anusha Thumma, Muhammad Wasim, Muhammad Babar Taj, Ishu Sharma, Muhammad Nouman Haider, Maryam Batool

“…The subject of pollution resulting from dyes has emerged as a significant global issue. Dyes adsorption analysis has gained more significance in the last several years. …”
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A Typical Cross-Border Metaverse Model as a Counteraction to Its Fragmentation by Oleksii Kostenko, Dmytro Zhuravlov, Volodymir Nikitin, Volodymyr Manhora, Tamila Manhora, Ivan Gabani

“… The paper addresses the issue of the Metaverse's territoriality and its connection with national and international law. …”
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Adaptive DC grid fault reclosing scheme using second-order TET-corrected Reconstructed-traveling-waves by Yu Wang, Zhiying Quan, Ziyi Tan, Jianqiao Zhang, Bing Chen, Ning Tong, Xiaomei Wu

“…To address the safety issue, this paper reveals the mechanism by which the operational sequence of the direct current circuit breaker (DCCB) transfer branch influences overcurrent. …”
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CD4C: Change Detection for Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning by Xiliang Li, Bin Sun, Zhenhua Wu, Shutao Li, Hu Guo

“…This ultimately limits the overall performance of the model. To address this issue, this study introduces change detection for remote sensing image change captioning (CD4C). …”
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Elucidating the distribution and characteristics of microplastics in water column of the northwestern South China Sea with a large-volume in situ filtration technology (plankton pu... by Changjun Li, Lixin Zhu, Xiaohui Wang, Daoji Li

“…Microplastic pollution has emerged as an undeniable marine environmental issue. While a distribution map of microplastics in the upper ocean has been established, the patterns of microplastics within the water column remain unclear. …”
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A Developed LSTM-Ladder-Network-Based Model for Sleep Stage Classification by Ruichen Li, Bei Wang, Tao Zhang, Takenao Sugi

“…The developed model is implemented based on a transductive learning scheme to avoid the issue of accuracy loss caused by individual differences. …”
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How prior spectacle prescriptions shape diagnostic behavior: evidence from a randomized field experiment on vision care in Western China by Jie Yang, Junhao Wu, Yuyang Xie, Yuchen Meng, Jun Chen, Jianmin Ai, Jingchun Nie, Caimei Bai, Yaojiang Shi

“…Diagnostic outcomes were evaluated against gold-standard prescriptions issued by an expert ophthalmologist. Results Exposure to prior prescriptions, especially inaccurate ones, significantly reduced diagnostic accuracy and process completeness. …”
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