Barriers and trust: Perceptions of the healthcare system among Roma mothers in Serbia by Pantović Ljiljana, Đorđević Ivan

“…While pediatric services are generally perceived positively, significant infrastructural obstacles, especially in rural areas, hinder access to healthcare facilities. …”
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Le paysage périurbain, outil de coopération entre métropoles européennes alpines by Aurore Meyfroidt

“…This article provides feedback on a project for the creation of a network of metropolitan areas combining landscapes and green infrastructures. The diversity of terrains and the inter-cultural context raise questions about how public landscape policies are defined, in the sense that these are conditioned by the respective positions of stakeholders in an action research perspective. …”
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Static Testing of a Bridge Using an Interferometric Radar: The Case Study of “Ponte degli Alpini,” Belluno, Italy by Devis Dei, Daniele Mecatti, Massimiliano Pieraccini

“…Ground-based radar interferometry is an increasingly popular technique for monitoring civil infrastructures. In this paper, the static testing of a bridge is reported. …”
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Le paysagisme : source et ressource pour l’urbanisme ? by Benoît Romeyer

“…It successively identifies and defines the urban design practises predominantly influenced by the “plant” component, and which involve the notions of the embellishment, re-enchantment and "re-naturing" of open spaces, and the practises that specifically concern the landscape component of the parks, “green and blue” infrastructures, and “extra-urban” spaces of different neighbourhoods, suburbs and garden cities. …”
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Cholec80-Boxes: Bounding Box Labelling Data for Surgical Tools in Cholecystectomy Images by Tamer Abdulbaki Alshirbaji, Nour Aldeen Jalal, Herag Arabian, Alberto Battistel, Paul David Docherty, Hisham ElMoaqet, Thomas Neumuth, Knut Moeller

“…Acquiring surgical data is challenging due to ethical constraints and the complexity of establishing data recording infrastructures. For machine learning tasks, there is also the large burden of data labelling. …”
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Impediments for the Uptake of the Botswana Government's Male Circumcision Initiative for HIV Prevention by Motshedisi Sabone, Mabel Magowe, Lesego Busang, Jonathan Moalosi, Benjamin Binagwa, Janet Mwambona

“…The impediments were organized into sociocultural factors, knowledge/informational factors, and infrastructural and system factors.…”
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L’inadéquation entre l’offre et la demande d’éducation au Nord Cameroun : le cas du Département du Logone- et- Chari by Collins Etienne Kana

“…The objective is to address the infrastructural deficit, which is seen as the major cause of low school enrollment across the country, particularly in it northern part. …”
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Technology for Good? Tencent’s Corporate Social Responsibility, Institutional Chameleon, and the Future of Platform Economies by Luzhou Li, Zhian Zhang

“…However, while Tencent’s enhanced CSR initiatives have certainly yielded some social benefits, the SSV initiatives are increasingly emerging as a new business frontier for the company, leveraging its vast infrastructural capacities to capitalize on the very social fabric it purports to support. …”
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Ethical Reflections on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Construction of Smart Cities by Bingjie Wang

“…With the increasing reliance and demand for artificial intelligence in the construction of smart cities, AI has been embedded in various applications and infrastructures. However, uncertainties, concerns, and even fears about AI are constantly emerging. …”
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Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale by Paolo Gaibazzi

“…Firstly, viability hints at the infrastructural aspects, such as when Soninke speakers imagine kinship as a road or a network of roads connecting and channelling kinsfolk. …”
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Rating Agencies in Russia and their Influence on Subfederal Borrowing by O. I. Larina, N. V. Moryzhenkova

“…This article analyzes the infrastructural component of the market of subfederal and municipal borrowings - rating agencies in Russia. …”
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Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale by Paolo Gaibazzi

“…Firstly, viability hints at the infrastructural aspects, such as when Soninke speakers imagine kinship as a road or a network of roads connecting and channelling kinsfolk. …”
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Acque, fiumi e progetti utopici nel paesaggio veneto by Matteo Proto

“…This initiative failure raises today the issue of reutilization of the expropriated areas in the global context of environmental and infrastructural challenges, faced by the Veneto.…”
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Preserving Differential Privacy for Similarity Measurement in Smart Environments by Kok-Seng Wong, Myung Ho Kim

“…Advances in both sensor technologies and network infrastructures have encouraged the development of smart environments to enhance people’s life and living styles. …”
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A techno-economic study on the utilisation of airborne wind energy for reverse osmosis seawater desalination by Mahdi Ebrahimi Salari, Milad Zabihi, Jimmy Murphy

“…Airborne wind energy is an emerging technology that can harness stronger and more consistent winds in higher altitudes using less mechanical and civil infrastructures than conventional wind energy systems. …”
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Barriers and Enablers of AI Adoption in Human Resource Management: A Critical Analysis of Organizational and Technological Factors by Mitra Madanchian, Hamed Taherdoost

“…This paper presents a complex analysis that questions the common perception of AI as only disruptive by delving into the relationship between power dynamics, corporate culture, and technology infrastructures. In this paper, we bring together research from several fields to help scholars and practitioners understand the nuances of AI adoption in HRM, with an emphasis on the importance of inclusive methods and ethical frameworks.…”
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Borehole heat exchangers in coastal areas may reduce heatwave seagrass loss by Rotman Criollo, Víctor Vilarrasa, Alejandro Orfila, Núria Marbà, Angels Fernández-Mora

“…Borehole heat exchangers (BHE), a renewable heat source from the ground used for thermal regulation of infrastructures, could significantly reduce CO2 emissions. …”
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3D Limit Analysis of the Transient Stability of Slope during Pile Driving in Nonhomogeneous and Anisotropic Soil by Pingping Rao, Jian Wu, Zhihao Mo

“…In addition, these results highlight that the adverse effects of pile driving on slope stability should be highly concerned during the design of geotechnical infrastructures, rather than emphasizing the reinforcement effect of a pile only.…”
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A Model for the Analysis of Ultimate Capacity of RC and PC Corroded Beams by Antonino Recupero, Nino Spinella, Francesco Tondolo

“…Corrosion of steel in reinforced and prestressed concrete beams is very common for structures and infrastructures. It can drastically reduce the resisting section of rebar, modify the mechanical response of the steel rebar, and also determine cracking of the surrounding concrete because of the volume expansion effect of rust. …”
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Typologie des auréoles bocagères en milieu rural by Ion Lucian Ceapraz, Elisa Marraccini, Anne-Maïmiti Dulaurent-Mercadal, Antoine Lacheré, Marie-Cécile Lombart, Sylvane Rava, Anne Combaud

“…Their state of preservation can not be correlated with technical and economic trends, with typologies of municipalities, or with the presence of road infrastructures. The study reveals the importance of taking into account the historical background of the territory and the shortcomings of a statistical method which does not provide a sufficiently detailed picture of the local landscape.…”
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