Uncovering barriers to bilharzia prevention communication in Ugu district, South Africa by Lauren Dyll-Myklebust, Duduzile Zwane

“…Based in KwaZulu-Natal’s Ugu District (Port Shepstone), the FB Project sought to raise an awareness of, to treat and ultimately eradicate the FB threat. …”
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AC_ICAP: A Flexible High Speed ICAP Controller by Luis Andres Cardona, Carles Ferrer

“…The Internal Configuration Access Port (ICAP) is the core component of any dynamic partial reconfigurable system implemented in Xilinx SRAM-based Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). …”
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Cross-cultural communication challenges among pedicab drivers and vendors with foreign tourists in Aceh, Indonesia by Dian Fajrina, Andri Wardana, Diana Achmad, Laily Nurul Adnin

“…This study investigates the motivations, challenges, and efforts of pedicab drivers and vendors when communicating with foreign tourists at the Tsunami Museum and Ulee Lheue Port in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Utilizing a qualitative descriptive approach, data were gathered through interviews with eight respondents: four pedicab drivers and four vendors. …”
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Bodies in Pile: Osteological and Archaeological Analysis of Skeletal Remains from Phaselis Infrastucture by Tolga Karahan, Ahmet İhsan Aytek, Alper Yener Yavuz

“…Phaselis is located within the borders of Tekirova neighborhood of Kemer district. It is an important port city on the Mediterranean trade route. The ongoing excavations in the city reveal important features of the city. …”
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Hyperspectral Image-Based Identification of Maritime Objects Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Classifier Models by Dongmin Seo, Daekyeom Lee, Sekil Park, Sangwoo Oh

“…Hyperspectral data from six ports in South Korea were collected using airborne sensors and subsequently processed into spectral statistics and RGB images. …”
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Optimization Approach for Yard Crane Scheduling Problem with Uncertain Parameters in Container Terminals by Wenqian Liu, Xiaoning Zhu, Li Wang, Baicheng Yan, Xuewei Zhang

“…As the core operational issue in container terminals, yard crane scheduling problem directly affects the overall operation efficiency of port connecting highway or railway transportation and sea transportation. …”
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Tour-Based Truck Demand Modeling with Entropy Maximization Using GPS Data by Soyoung Iris You, Stephen G. Ritchie

“…This was done by implementing a revised form of entropy maximization based on truck tours to model and better understand drayage truck tour behavior at the San Pedro Bay Ports (SPBPs) complex in Southern California. The drayage trucks at the SPBPs have features that are distinct from other commercial trucks. …”
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Energy and Wake effects Optimization of Offshore Wind Farm using PSO algorithm by Ouhdan Mahmoud, Ait Madi Abdessalam, Hassoine Mohammed Amine

“…We introduce this problem with a sophisticated wake named the Bastankhah-Porté-Agel (BPA) model. To tackle this problem, the research has developed a multi-objective optimization framework in Python that shows the Pareto front, which illustrates the trade-off between wake effects and (AEP) by using a particle swarming optimization (PSO) algorithm. …”
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Shear Behaviors of the Intersurface between Rice Straw Rope and Dredger Fill Silt: Experimental and Mechanism Studies by Guizhong Xu, Ji Chen, Shenjie Shi, Angran Tian, Qiang Tang

“…The further development of land reclamation, port waterway, and wharf construction brings about proper treatments of dredger fill silt, while huge amounts of rice straw set aside in China argument rational disposal every year. …”
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Modeling Handover Signaling Messages in OpenFlow-Based Mobile Software-Defined Networks by Modhawi Alotaibi, Ahmed Helmy, Amiya Nayak

“…In this paper, in addition to the Packet-in message, we model Port-status messages. Following our analysis, we propose a novel solution to make handover more efficient and less interruptive. …”
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A Covid-19, os CREAS e as medidas socioeducativas nas calhas do Amazonas by Letícia Priscila de Almeida Borel, Maria Alcione Pereira Teles, Maria Nilvane Fernandes

“…Diante disso, verificamos que os desafios impostos à gestão pública desses municípios – quanto à execução das medidas em meio aberto –, que perpassam os portes dos municípios, a ausência de representação de atores do Judiciário e da Defensoria Pública ou, ainda, limitações em relação ao cofinanciamento foram agravados no período pandêmico, reduzindo o pequeno número de atendimentos realizados, em período normal, a algo praticamente inexistente durante o período pandêmico. …”
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Endoscopic Retroperitoneal Adrenalectomy for Adrenal Metastases by Gintaras Simutis, Givi Lengvenis, Virgilijus Beiša, Kęstutis Strupas

“…No patients presented with local tumor relapse or port-site metastases. Conclusions. This study shows that ERA is a safe and effective procedure for resection of AM and advances the surgical treatment of adrenal disease. …”
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Advances in adjuvant therapy for operable N2 non-small cell lung cancer: a narrative review by Lei Liu, Yilong Mao, Leilei Guo, Chencong Li, Yiqian Wang

“…For NSCLC under this stage, the current treatment options are: preoperative neoadjuvant therapy, surgical treatment, postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy, postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy (PORT), Postoperative adjuvant targeted therapy and postoperative adjuvant immunotherapy. …”
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GIS-based modeling and analytical approaches for groundwater quality suitability for different purposes in the Egyptian Nile Valley, a case study in Wadi Qena by Hanaa A. Megahed, Abd El-Hay A. Farrag, Amira A. Mohamed, Mahmoud H. Darwish, Mohamed A. E. AbdelRahman, Heba El-Bagoury, Paola D’Antonio, Antonio Scopa, Mansour A. A. Saad

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Que peut-on apprendre du développement locomoteur des catarrhiniens? Approche intégrative de la bipédie chez le babouin olive élevé en captivité by François Druelle, Gilles Berillon, Peter Aerts

“…L’étude initiée en 2013 porte sur un échantillon de babouins olive ("Papio anubis") captifs à la station de primatologie du CNRS (Rousset sur Arc, France), afin d'observer précisément la graduation des changements au cours des premiers stades du développement locomoteur. …”
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Aides à la navigation, pratique de la navigation et construction des paysages maritimes en Atlantique du Nord-Est : quelques éléments de réflexion by Pascal Arnaud

“…Alongside stepped constructions with a square plan, inspired by the Alexandrian lighthouse, which characterise the tallest towers, there are circular towers topped by a furnace and intended to guide ships safely into port. There are characterized by extremely small dimensions (5 m in diameter). …”
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Multi-decade northward shift of loggerhead sea turtle pelagic habitat as the eastern North Pacific Transition Zone becomes more oligotrophic by Dana K. Briscoe, Dana K. Briscoe, Larry B. Crowder, George H. Balazs, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Alberto Abreu, Catherine A. Lee Hing, Masanori Kurita, Masanori Mori, Denise M. Parker, Marc R. Rice, Tomomi Saito, Bianca S. Santos, Calandra N. Turner Tomaszewicz, Noah Yamaguchi, Jeffrey J. Polovina

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Perception auditive des effets de différents masques anti-COVID sur la parole conversationnelle, déclamée et le chant : étude de cas by Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Bernard Harmegnies

“… Quels sont les effets perceptifs, en environnement calme, du port de six types de masques anti-COVID sur l’identification et la discrimination de consonnes, celle de phrases parlées, déclamées et chantées en français produits par un homme et une femme ? …”
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Extração de Informação Aberta com LLM para a Língua Portuguesa by Bruno Cabral, Marlo Souza, Daniela Barreiro Claro

“…Além disso, refinamos e lançamos um LLM aberto para EIA, denominado PortOIE-Llama, que supera os LLMs comerciais em nossos experimentos. …”
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Unconventional monetary policy and the (Neo)Fisher effect: has the federal reserve misunderstood monetary policy? by Andrew Phiri

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