Transformation of trading patterns in global agricultural markets by V. V. Stroev, E. N. Smirnov

“…The analysis of international trade is conducted in the context of the need to ensure food security and counteract various exogenous shocks (decreasing crop yields, escalating geopolitical conflicts, food crises). …”
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Participative Multilingual Identity Construction in Higher Education: Challenging Monolingual Ideologies and Practices by Angela M. Gayton, Michael Evans, Linda Fisher, Karen Forbes, Dieuwerke Rutgers

“…In establishing a rationale for applying this framework and its underpinning conceptualisation of multilingual identity to the (increasingly linguistically diverse) tertiary education sector, this current paper critically examines the literature on attitudes towards multilingualism in higher education; and on evidence for the value of identity-focused pedagogies. …”
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Modeling the Potential Distribution and Future Dynamics of Important Vector <i>Culex tritaeniorhynchus</i> Under Climate Change Scenarios in China by Boyang Liu, Li Li, Zhulin Zhang, Haoyu Ran, Mingwei Xing

“…In the context of global warming, there is an increasing risk of the emergence and re-emergence of vector-borne diseases (VBDs). …”
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Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte ratio as surrogate for JAK2V617F suppression and event-free survival in polycythemia vera by Tiziano Barbui, Arianna Ghirardi, Victoria Empson, Francesca Fenili, Giuseppe Gaetano Loscocco, Annalisa Condorelli, Alessandra Iurlo, Daniele Cattaneo, Elena Rossi, Valerio De Stefano, Paola Guglielmelli, Christoph Klade, Heinz Gisslinger, Alessandro Rambaldi, Joseph M. Scandura, Alessandro Maria Vannucchi

“…Abstract Chronic systemic inflammation is a key driver of polycythemia vera (PV) progression, but the immunomodulatory effects of current treatments remain poorly defined. The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is an accessible biomarker of systemic inflammation proven in other contexts, but its role in monitoring PV disease activity has not been established. …”
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Optimal management of crop pests in the presence of agritourism by Badriya Al Hinaai, Ibtisam Al Abri, Abdullah M. Al-Sadi, Slim Zekri, Kelly Grogan

“…The findings indicate that while pest management is crucial for reducing fruit damage and increasing yields, current practices fail to maximize economic returns. …”
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Urban green infrastructure and social cohesion in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria by Adedotun Dipeolu, Amos Taiwo, Temitope Adebara

“…Urbanisation has increasingly resulted in social fragmentation, insecurity, and health challenges in cities worldwide. …”
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Modern approaches to the prevention of actinobacillus pleuropneumonia in pigs by Nikolay V. Pimenov, Alexandra A. Shashkova, Alexander A. Kruglov

“…Information about the current situation with actinobacillus pleuropneumonia (APP) in the Russian Federation is quite limited, which makes it difficult to assess the effectiveness of current preventive measures and develop new strategies. …”
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Incorporating Biochar Into Biogeochemical Models: Achievements and Challenges by Amanda Ronix, Eduardo Carvalho daSilva Neto, Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri, Agnieszka Ewa Latawiec, João Luís Nunes Carvalho

“…In this context, the current state of research on biogeochemical models that include the entry of biochar into soil has been characterized. …”
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“Second Generations” and Identity in Andrea Cotti’s 'Luca Wu' Series: An Opportunity for a Fruitful Intercultural and Transnational Dialogue in Italian Crime Fiction by Marco Paoli

“…To this end, this article will discuss the representation of migration in Italian crime fiction over the last thirty years, and will then narrow down to the current Sino-Italian literary discourse. In particular, it focuses on Andrea Cotti’s crime novels Il cinese (2018) and L’impero di mezzo (2021), and the author’s attempt to provide a counter-narrative to a public Sino-Italian discourse in which cultural differences and distance have been essentially used to legitimise Italian superiority and justify the increasingly prevalent feeling of anxiety and paranoia towards the other in the Italian context. …”
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Management of business processes of a commercial enterprise in the conditions of digitalization by K.O. Buzhymska, I.M. Tsaruk

“…It has been proven that various means of digitization can be applied to individual business processes of a trading enterprise, increasing their efficiency and competitiveness. At the same time, only a comprehensive approach to the development of business process management systems in the context of digitalization is crucial for ensuring efficiency and flexibility in the retail trade sector. …”
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Place-Making or Place-Taking? Transformation of Danish Disadvantaged Housing Estates by Marie Stender, Lene Wiell Nordberg, Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen, Mette Mechlenborg, Claus Bech-Danielsen

“…Several Danish social housing estates are currently being transformed according to the Parallel Society Act. …”
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Advanced Persistent Threats and Wireless Local Area Network Security: An In-Depth Exploration of Attack Surfaces and Mitigation Techniques by Hosam Alamleh, Laura Estremera, Shadman Sakib Arnob, Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani

“…The findings underscore that while current WLAN implementations offer basic protections, they remain highly susceptible to well-resourced adversaries, necessitating a shift toward more robust, context-aware security architectures.…”
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Real-Time Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception in Edge-Enabled Vehicular Environments by Samuel Thornton, Nithin Santhanam, Rajeev Chhajer, Sujit Dey

“…To address these challenges, we propose a Heterogeneous Adaptive Collaborative Perception (HAdCoP) framework which utilizes a Context-aware Latency Prediction Network (CaLPeN) to intelligently select which vehicles should transmit their sensor data, the specific individual and collaborative perception tasks, and the amount of computational offloading that should be utilized given information about the current state of the environment. …”
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The Efficacy of Conversational AI in Rectifying the Theory-of-Mind and Autonomy Biases: Comparative Analysis by Marcin Rządeczka, Anna Sterna, Julia Stolińska, Paulina Kaczyńska, Marcin Moskalewicz

“… BackgroundThe increasing deployment of conversational artificial intelligence (AI) in mental health interventions necessitates an evaluation of their efficacy in rectifying cognitive biases and recognizing affect in human-AI interactions. …”
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FEMININE ROMANTIC DISCOURSE: STRATEGIC WAYS OF THE PRAGMATIC-INTERROGATIVE COMMUNICATIVE TACTIC REALISATION by Oleksandra S. Romaniuk

“…The research demonstrates the potential of the complex approach to the study of interpersonal communicative effectiveness, considering such interdependent variables as objective and subjective integrative features and the strategic ways of increasing the communicative effectiveness. The complex approach also involves the communicative-pragmatic sphere “the external context” and the cognitive sphere “the internal context”. …”
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Tendencia de las inversiones petroleras en la Argentina. Un caso más de las transformaciones del mercado petrolero mundial by MARÍA JIMENA SEGURA BORDENAVE-GASSEDAT

“…We consider relevant in the context of the preparation of the present paper, the development of the determinations of the capital investment in the energy sector at the end of the historically specific features of the current production. …”
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miR-34a-5p modulation of polycystic ovary syndrome via targeting the NOTCH signaling pathway by Kexin Zhang, Xiaomeng Wang, Fang Liu, Hong Lin, Yan Wang, Min Zhao, Xiaofei Wang, Yijing Chu, Lin Xu

“…Conversely, inhibiting miR-34a-5p resulted in an increase in cell growth and a decrease in programmed cell death. …”
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Conversational Systems for Social Care in Older Adults: Protocol for a Scoping Review by Rosiered Brownson-Smith, Ananya Ananthakrishnan, Oksana Hagen, Cen Cong, Amir Aly, Ray B Jones, Edward Meinert

“… BackgroundSocial care systems worldwide face increasing demographic and financial pressures. This necessitates exploring innovative technological solutions to enhance service delivery without substantially increasing costs. …”
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Infinity war: Trichomonas vaginalis and interactions with host immune response by Giulia Bongiorni Galego, Tiana Tasca

“…The incidence is 156 million cases worldwide. Due to the increasing resistance of isolates to approved drugs and clinical complications that include increased risk in the acquisition and transmission of HIV, cervi-cal and prostate cancer, and adverse outcomes during pregnancy, in-creasing our understanding of the pathogen’s interaction with the host immune response is essential. …”
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Optimized bio-signal reconstruction and watermarking via enhanced fractional orthogonal moments by Gaber Hassan, Khalid M. Hosny, Islam S. Fathi

“…The findings indicate that the proposed methodology exhibits significantly higher performance levels than current methodologies, with a 64.3% improvement in PSNR (reaching 147.08 dB compared to 89.74 dB in existing approaches), 89.7% reduction in MSE (0.0092 versus 0.09 average), and 84.1% decrease in bit error rate (0.25 versus 1.57) for watermarking applications. …”
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