Editorial by Christian Gütl

“…Hermann Maurer, who founded the journal and successfully managed it for many years, preparing the ground for it to become one of the longest-running open content journals in computer science. Starting with this issue in the new year, we are very pleased to be part of the KOALA Computer Science Cluster from TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library, Germany. …”
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Differences in dialysis modality choice between immigrant and native populations in Barcelona, Spain by María Dolores Arenas-Jiménez, Jose Luis Fernandez-Martin, Isabel Galcerán Herrera, Marisol Fernández-Chamarro, Guillermo Pedreira-Robles, Silvia Collado Nieto, Julia Farrera Núñez, Eva Rodríguez García, Alicia Moreno Rodríguez, Laura Morro Fernández, Marta Crespo Barrio, Julio Pascual Santos

“…Migrants more frequently chose HD at a center (79.5%) than PD (12.5%) compared to Spaniards (HD 55.5% and 25% PD) despite being younger and more independent in basic and instrumental activities of daily living. Immigrant patients started RRT with lower eGFR (8.1 vs. 9.1 mL/min/1.73 m3) and after a shorter follow-up time in the ACKD consultation than the Spaniards (22 vs. 32 months). …”
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Pattern of Professional Development of Human Resources of Knowledge-based Companies(Study case: Science and Technology Park of Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technol... by Bijan Abdollahi, Jafar Salemi, hasan zeinabadi, ghasem Ramezanpour nargesi

“…Another important point in these definitions is that start-up is usually the result of group activity and not an individual activity. …”
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Çin Siyasi Düşüncesi ve Siyasi Tarihi Bağlamında Çinli Siyasi Elitler by Tuğrul Keskin

“…Structured across multiple sections, the book explores various periods and transitions in China's political history. It starts by examining traditional Chinese elites before 1840, emphasizing the impact of Confucianism, meritocracy, and the patrimonial imperial system. …”
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A Meta-Synthesis of the Integrated Model of Customer Value co-Destruction and Value co-Creation by Zohreh Dehdashti Shahrokh, Vahid Nasehifar, Mohammad Reza Karimi Alavijeh, Yazdan Rahmatabadi

“…Introduction The main problem that is trying to be addressed is that these sharing economy platform companies with the hope of successfully co-creating value start processing different ideas and expect to receive appropriate feedback from this, which leads to co-destruction for different reasons. …”
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Information System Success Model untuk Evaluasi Sistem Informasi Penataan Ruang Kota berbasis Geographic Information System (GIS) by Heni Vidia Sari, Ismiarta Aknuranda, Fatwa Ramdani

“…Based on the average results of research variables based on quality, Sipetarung can be improved starting from service quality, system quality, and information quality. …”
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Investigating the Effects of Debt Convergence of Companies on the Speed of Capital Structure Adjustment Considering the Time Horizon by Sayed Mojtaba Ahmadi, Mehdi Agha Beik Zadeh, Afsaneh Soroushyar

“…Specifically, the adjustment tends to start off at a slower pace in the beginning and then accelerate in the later years of the adjustment process. …”
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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…And we are exploring something new: the publication of a FRFG policy paper. This policy paper starts off with a historical overview on how pandemics have afflicted humanity in the past. …”
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Bio-impedancemetry an essential tool in the obesity screening of patients with chronic renal failure [La bio-impédancemétrie un outil indispensable dans le dépistage de l’obésité c... by Samia BOUDANI, Faiza ZERDOUMI, Naouel FZ. BOUMANSOUR, Abbou KADDOUS, Bachir M. GUELLIL

“…To establish the prevalence of obesity in patients with CKD, before starting extra-renal purification, based on two anthropometric methods: body mass index (BMI) and bioelectrical impedance. …”
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Evaluating the role of environmental advertising on the use of eye movements towards the brand by Seyed Hamid Mir Motahari, Sina Nematizadeh, Seyed Abbas Heydari

“…The current research is applicable in terms of the goal and mixed (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of the method of data analysis. The statistical population in the qualitative section includes a group of restaurant chain experts (university professors, executive managers, and consultants), sampling continued with the purposeful method until reaching theoretical saturation (15 interviews). …”
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Designing a financial literacy development model for Farhangian University students by Mohsen Molapanah, Yousef Namvar, Azam Rastgoo, Majid Ahmadlu, Toran Soleimani

“…In the qualitative section, 21 experts were selected by purposeful selection; and in the quantitative section, 278 students were selected using statistical formulas as a non-random sampling method. …”
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Navigating Ethical Dilemmas Of Generative AI In Medical Writing by Qurrat Ulain Hamdan, Waleed Umar, Mahnoor Hasan

“…It may also be worthwhile to consider adding the use of AI generative tools in article writing as part of informed consent at the start of new scientific research. The settings section of the said tools needs to be simplified and easily accessible for researchers so that they can remove their data from the repository if they prefer to do so. …”
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Thesis Overview by Editor-in-Chief jCEC

“…The first line of each paragraph must start with a 1-cm tabulation from the left margin with fully-justified alignment. …”
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Editorial by Pieter Vanhuysse, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…The article shows that indicators of sustainability are based all too often on ad hoc partitioning of the life cycle, exemplified by the standard practice of letting adulthood start at 15 or 18, and old age at 65. Surveying significant advances in the measurement of ageing by Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov and others,[2] Gál and Monostori instead propose indicators that mitigate or eliminate the ad hoc nature of partitioning. …”
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Topographie et restitution du chantier de l’aqueduc d’Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) by Robert Fabre, Philippe Leveau, Vincent Dumas

“…To bypass the western part of the range while losing as little slope as possible, the aqueduct used bridges to enter and cross the valleys cut into the slopes, and crossed the interfluves via tunnels with a cumulative length of 950 m.In the terminal section, which starts at an altitude of 24 m NGF (general levelling of France), the pipe had to maintain sufficient altitude to supply the Roman colony. …”
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Effect of Sucrose Spray on some Phytochemical Characteristics of Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) under Field Conditions by Vahid Akbarpour, Hossein Aruei, Kambiz Mashayekhi, Majid Azizi Arani, Mohammad Ali Bahmanyar

“…Treatments were sprayed on plants at 10-day intervals until plants started the flowering stage. Some parameters, such as total chlorophyll, carotenoids, total phenol, total flavonoid, antioxidant activity, steviozide, and ribodiozide contents were measured at the beginning of flowering. …”
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Multi-cancer early detection tests for general population screening: a systematic literature review by Ros Wade, Sarah Nevitt, Yiwen Liu, Melissa Harden, Claire Khouja, Gary Raine, Rachel Churchill, Sofia Dias

“…Owing to the differences in the number of cancer types detected, study design and populations, statistical pooling of results was not considered appropriate. …”
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Révision de l’espèce Homo erectus (Dubois, 1893) by Valéry Zeitoun

“…Before taking measures and calculating indices, reference points must be guaranteed to be anatomically homologous.Statistical methods or descriptive analysis (correspondence analysis, factor analysis) are based on comparisons of individuals and parameters in relation to a barycenter obtained by the calculation of each specimen’s own values. …”
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Attitudes towards vaccines and intention to vaccinate against COVID-19: a cross-sectional analysis—implications for public health communications in Australia by Leslie Swartz, Jean Bourbeau, Naja Hulvej Rod, Colleen Norris, Molly Byrne, Samir Gupta, Juhee Cho, Amos Laar, Jacqueline Boyle, Eva Suarthana, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Bronwynè Coetzee, Susan Michie, Richard Fleet, Jason Bantjes, Beate Ditzen, Justin Presseau, Lucie Byrne-Davis, Claudia Gemme, Valeria Raparelli, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Sandra Peláez, Hannah Durand, Olivier Drouin, Sze Man Tse, Louise Pilote, Hagai Levine, Richard Ayah, Drieda Zaçe, Paul Poirier, Helena J Teede, Paula Griffiths, Elizabeth W Kimani-Murage, Lisa Kakinami, Angelos Kassianos, Chiwoza Bandawe, Ariane Belanger-Gravel, Lise Gauvin, Ilda Hoxhaj, Stefania Boccia, Jovana Stojanovic, Keven Joyal-Desmarais, Emily Petherick, Joanne Liu, Linda Booij, Joanne Enticott, Ahmed Abou-Setta, Kyle Warkentin, Roland Grad, Michael Vallis, Gary Garber, Mohsen Alyami, Johannes Thrul, Gregory Ninot, Susanne Fischer, Lauren Sherar, Paula Simão, Daniel Akunga, Jackim Nyamari, John Bosco Isunju, Michel Fournier, Francine Ducharme, Sarah Bernard, Shawn Aaron, Susan Bondy, Rizwana Roomaney, Jiyoung Lee, Violet Naanyu, Chris Noone, Abdhalah Ziraba, Eli Puterman, Jaskirath Singh Gill, Simon L. Bacon, Kim L. Lavoie, Daniel S. Epstein, Shrinkhala Dawadi, Zahir Vally, Analía Verónica Losada, Shajedur Rahman Shawon, Arobindu Dash, Marilia Estevam Cornelio, Darlan Lauricio Matte, Angela Alberga, Tracie Barnett, Silvana Barone, Lisa Maureen Birch, Roxane Borgès Da Silva, Rachel Burns, Tavis Campbell, Linda Carlson, Kim Corace, Mohsen Farhadloo, Carl Falk, Jennifer Gordon, Kim Hellemans, Catherine Herba, Heungsun Hwang, Jack Jedwab, Eric Kennedy, Sunmee Kim, Joshua Rash, Paula A B Ribeiro, Paramita Saha Chaudhuri, Nicolás Bronfman Caceres, Manuel Ortiz, Paula Beatriz Repetto, Mariantonia Lemos-Hoyos, Mathieu Beraneck, Thomas Kubiak, Sam Codjoe, Lily Kpobi, Naorem Kiranmala Devi, Sanjenbam Meitei, Suzanne Tanya Nethan, Lancelot Pinto, Kallur Nava Saraswathy, Dheeraj Tumu, Silviana Lestari, Grace Wangge, Jennifer McSharry, Oonagh Meade, Gerry Molloy, Anat Zaidman-Zait, Stefania Paduano, Ala'S Aburub, Chris Barasa, Pamela Miloya Godia, Nicholas Mutuku, Teresa Mwoma, Hildah Oburu, Joyce Olenja, Dismas Ongore, Loh Siew Yim, Andrea Herbert, Daniela Liggett, Ademola Ajuwon, Nisar Ahmed Shar, Bilal Ahmed Usmani, Rosario Mercedes Bartolini Martínez, Hilary Creed-Kanashiro, Pierre Claver Rutayisire, Abu Zeeshan Bari, Iveta Nagyova, Brendon Barnes, Ashraf Khagee, Tebogo Mothiba, Man-gyeong Lee, Anne Berman, Nouha Saleh Stattin, Debbie Hu, Yasin Kara, Ceprail Şimşek, Bilge Üzmezoğlu, James Mugisha, Joanne Hart, Will Johnson, Nicola Paine, Robert M Bilder, Matthew Burg, Susan Czajkowski, Ken Freedland, Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin, Alison Holman, Gilberto Lopez, Sylvie Naar, Michele Okun, Lynda Powell, Sarah Pressman, Tracey Revenson, John Ruiz, Sudha Sivaram, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Abehaw Yohannes, Rhea Navani, Kushnan Ranakombu, Daisuke Hayashi Neto, Tair Ben-Porat, Anda Dragomir, Amandine Gagnon-Hébert, Vincent Gosselin Boucher, Mahrukh Jamil, Lisa Maria Käfer, Ariany Marques Vieira, Tasfia Tasbih, Maegan Trottier, Robbie Woods, Reyhaneh Yousefi, Tamila Roslyakova, Lilli Priesterroth, Shirly Edelstein, Tanya Goldfrad, Ruth Snir, Yifat Uri, Comfort Sanuade, Olivia Crescenzi, Katya Grinko, Lalita Angne, Jigisha Jain, Nikita Mathur, Anagha Mithe, Sarah Nethan

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New Horizons In The Treatment Of Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer by Zein El Amir

“…Medical schools that previously removed cadaveric dissection from the curricula realized their folly and started reintroducing this age-old practice, most of them taking steps to inculcate it along the lines of vertical integration.  …”
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