CRISIS OF TRUST IN GOVERNMENT: THE ROLE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS IN ITS RESTORATION by Larysa Samoilenko, Viacheslav Sharyi, Alina Zahrebelna

“…It delves into the negative consequences stemming from a lack of trust, which can significantly affect the effectiveness of management decisions, the legitimacy of political processes, and the overall stability of society. …”
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Sparse Regularization-Based Reconstruction for Bioluminescence Tomography Using a Multilevel Adaptive Finite Element Method by Xiaowei He, Yanbin Hou, Duofang Chen, Yuchuan Jiang, Man Shen, Junting Liu, Qitan Zhang, Jie Tian

“…Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) is a promising tool for studying physiological and pathological processes at cellular and molecular levels. In most clinical or preclinical practices, fine discretization is needed for recovering sources with acceptable resolution when solving BLT with finite element method (FEM). …”
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Movement in the Shadow of Sadness: How Physical Activity Supports the Fight Against Depression by Agata Ossolińska, Patrycja Marta, Filip Huzarski, Gabriela Ferfecka, Klaudia Pawełek, Lucyna Stolarska, Magdalena Rosa-Bończak, Natalia Morawiecka, Olivier Carlton, Weronika Kłosowicz

“…Additionally, physical effort reduces inflammation and oxidative stress, supporting brain health and countering neurodegenerative processes. Regular moderate exercise is an effective method to prevent central fatigue and enhance the adaptability of the central nervous system. …”
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Getting more by asking for less: Linking species interactions to species co-distributions in metacommunities by Barbier, Matthieu, Bunin, Guy, Leibold, Mathew A.

“…Disentangling these effects can be difficult on at least two distinct levels. …”
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A digital leap in the evolution of continuous professional development for teachers by M. Ghobrini, R. E. A. Ghobrini, F. Benaicha

“…Results: The research provides a comprehensive overview of the CPD process and a cost-effective scalable CPD-centric system based on six key elements: e-platforms, e-meetings, archiving, certification, website and organization that orchestrates and streamlines the entire process. …”
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Numerical Simulations of the Impact and Spreading of a Particulate Drop on a Solid Substrate by Hyun Jun Jeong, Wook Ryol Hwang, Chongyoup Kim

“…We present two-dimensional numerical simulations of the impact and spreading of a droplet containing a number of small particles on a flat solid surface, just after hitting the solid surface, to understand particle effects on spreading dynamics of a particle-laden droplet for the application to the industrial inkjet printing process. …”
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Brown rice: a missing nutrient-rich health food by Xiuxiu Wu, Tianyi Guo, Feijun Luo, Qinlu Lin

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The Transcription Factor Creb is Involved in Sorafenib-Inhibited Renal Cancer Cell Proliferation, Migration and Invasion by Huang Shuaishuai, Cui Pinger, Lin Shuangxia, Yao Xuping, Wang Xue, Ren Yu, Weng Guobin

“…The MTT assay was used to study the cytotoxic effects of sorafenib. Cell invasion and migration were assayed in wound healing and transwell experiments, respectively. …”
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Functional Ginger Extracts from Supercritical Fluid Carbon Dioxide Extraction via In Vitro and In Vivo Assays: Antioxidation, Antimicroorganism, and Mice Xenografts Models by Chih-Chen Lee, Li-Yu Chiou, Jheng-Yang Wang, Sin-You Chou, John Chi-Wei Lan, Tsi-Shu Huang, Kuo-Chuan Huang, Hui-Min Wang

“…We found that ginger extracts processed moderate scavenging values, middle metal chelating levels, and slight ferric reducing powers. …”
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Landscape diversity promotes landscape functioning in North America by Sarah Mayor, Florian Altermatt, Thomas W. Crowther, Iris Hordijk, Simon Landauer, Jacqueline Oehri, Merin Reji Chacko, Michael E. Schaepman, Bernhard Schmid, Pascal A. Niklaus

“…At higher landscape diversity, productivity was temporally more stable, and 20-year greening trends were accelerated. These effects occurred independent of local species diversity, suggesting emergent mechanisms at hitherto neglected levels of biological organization. …”
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Risk Evaluation of Pyrolyzed Biochar from Multiple Wastes by Shem M. Ndirangu, Yanyan Liu, Kai Xu, Shaoxian Song

“…This paper aims at demonstrating the significance of biochar risk evaluation and reviewing risk evaluation from the aspects of pyrolysis process, feedstock, and sources of hazards in biochar and their potential effects and the methods used in risk evaluation. …”
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Presenting the model of portfolio management in investment funds based on behavioral financial variables by Seyed Mohammad Hadi Shahamat, Mahdi Mohammad Bagheri, Ali Raispour Rajabali, Mohsen Zayandeh Roudi

“…In the second level, the components influencing the first level, i.e. paying attention to self-control behaviors, having a written investment strategy, paying attention to the principles of mental accounting; and in the third level, the components influencing the second level, which include behavioral optimism and pessimism, Paying attention to risk-averse and risk-taking behaviors and, controlling mass behaviors; and the most effective component at the fourth level includes the effect of inclination. …”
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Joint Trajectory Planning of Space Modular Reconfigurable Satellites Based on Kinematic Model by Jiping An, Xinhong Li, Zhibin Zhang, Wanxin Man, Guohui Zhang

“…SMRS changes its configuration by joint motions to complete various space missions; its movement stability is affected by joints motions because of the dynamic coupling effect in space. To improve the movement stability in reconfiguration progress, this paper establishes the optimization object equation to characterize the movement stability of SMRS in its reconfiguration process. …”
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Association between HMGB1 and COPD: A Systematic Review by Sebastiano Gangemi, Marco Casciaro, Giovanni Trapani, Sebastiano Quartuccio, Michele Navarra, Giovanni Pioggia, Egidio Imbalzano

“…Current anti-inflammatory therapies are poorly effective in maintaining lung function and symptoms of COPD. …”
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Non-Enzymatic Electrochemical Glucose Sensors Based on Metal Oxides and Sulfides: Recent Progress and Perspectives by Haibing Zhu, Feng Shi, Maoying Peng, Ye Zhang, Sitian Long, Ruixin Liu, Juan Li, Zhanjun Yang

“…However, it is desirable to explore economic and effective nanomaterials with a high non-enzymatic catalysis performance toward glucose to modify electrodes. …”
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The impact of digital infrastructure on urban total factor carbon emission performance: evidence from enterprise production and household consumption in China by Yang Zhongxin, Yang Zhongxin, Huang Shanshan, Ma Jing, Song Ceyuan, Xu Shujing

“…The results demonstrate that (1) Digital infrastructure can enhances urban carbon performance by promoting green product innovation of enterprises and changing consumers’ consumption patterns (2) Heterogeneity analysis indicates that cities with higher income and educational levels among residents experience a more significant improvement in carbon performance, and digital infrastructure’s impact varies when combined with enterprise characteristics and technological capabilities, with non-state-owned enterprises and high-tech enterprises having relatively higher carbon-saving effects. …”
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Growth on Alpha-Ketoglutarate Increases Oxidative Stress Resistance in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Maria Bayliak, Nadia Burdyliuk, Volodymyr Lushchak

“…Alpha-ketoglutarate (AKG) is an important intermediate in cell metabolism, linking anabolic and catabolic processes. The effect of exogenous AKG on stress resistance in S. cerevisiae cells was studied. …”
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Overview of Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Natural Gas Hydrate at Nanoscale by Rongrong Qi, Xuwen Qin, Hang Bian, Cheng Lu, Lu Yu, Chao Ma

“…As a dynamic research method for molecular systems, molecular dynamic (MD) simulation can represent physical phenomena that cannot be realized by experimental means and discuss the microscopic reaction mechanism of things from the molecular level. In this paper, the previous research results were reviewed. …”
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Analysing the global workforce dynamics of the energy transition: main findings from the World Energy Employment report 2023 by M. Armiento, M. Lelli, C. Andrews, B. Idini, R. Ruff

“…Abstract This paper, which presents highlights of the World Energy Employment report 2023 published by the International Energy Agency with the support and analytical contribution of Enel Foundation, provides an overview of the impacts of decarbonization process on the energy workforce at a global level. …”
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Appling the Roulette Wheel Selection Approach to Address the Issues of Premature Convergence and Stagnation in the Discrete Differential Evolution Algorithm by Asaad Shakir Hameed, Haiffa Muhsan B. Alrikabi, Abeer A. Abdul–Razaq, Zakir Hussain Ahmed, Huda Karem Nasser, Modhi Lafta Mutar

“…However, like many other EAs, it still faces problems such as premature convergence and stagnation during the iterative process. To address these concerns in the DDE algorithm, this work aims to achieve the following objectives: (i) investigate the causes of premature convergence and stagnation in the DDE algorithm; (ii) propose techniques to prevent premature convergence and stagnation in DDE, including a quantitative measurement of premature convergence based on the level of mismatching between the population solutions and then divide the population into individual groups based on the level of mismatching between the population solutions and the best solution; and applying the roulette wheel selection (RWS) approach to determine whether a higher degree of nonmatching is more suitable for choosing a population of separate groups to be able to produce a new solution with more options to prevent the occurrence of premature convergence; (iii) evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed techniques through employing the DDE algorithm to solve the quadratic assignment problem (QAP) as a standard to evaluate our results and their effect on avoiding premature convergence and stagnation issues, which led to the enhancement of the algorithm’s accuracy. …”
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