Comparative Life Cycle Assessment and Costing of Biogas Direct Methanation and Water Scrubbing Upgrade by Giuseppe Piso, Erasmo Mancusi, Hamad H. Shah, Francesco Pepe, Piero Bareschino

“…By integrating biogas production with a methanation system, a net increase in biomethane yield and productivity can be achieved while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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“Sounding the Loneliness Alarm”: Loneliness Problematized in a Nordic Welfare State by Elian E. Jentoft, Julia Köhler-Olsen

“…The current paper utilizes the What is the Problem Represented to Be (WPR) approach with the aim of exploring problematizations of loneliness in policy and political speech. …”
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Metacognitive Online Reading Strategies among Pre-Service EFL Teachers in Indonesia by Heri Mudra

“…The most frequent levels of strategies included guessing the contents, scrolling through the texts, associating schemata and current information, using context clues, using tables or pictures, pausing and thinking about the contents, using printed texts, and translating the contents into Indonesian. …”
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The development of a Polish pre-literacy manual based on action research evidence by Edward Gillian, Bogna Ferensztajn, Bożena Franków-Czerwonko, Urszula Paradowska

“…The research described in this paper attempted to transfer to the Polish language context the knowledge developed in English speaking countries on pre-literacy developmental norms. …”
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR OF PRODUCTS OBTAINED FROM MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS: A SEGMENTATION BASED ON FREQUENCY AND PURPOSE OF THEIR USE by Roxana-Larisa CADAR, Antonio AMUZA, Diana Elena DUMITRAȘ, Cristina Bianca POCOL

“…The consumption behaviour for products obtained from medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) has been little studied, until nowadays, in Romania. In the current context, in which there can be noticed an accentuated increase of these products’ supply on the market and the consumers’ concern with a healthy lifestyle, this study has aimed at a segmentation of the consumers of MAPs products, according to their frequency, purpose of use and sociodemographic features. …”
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Determining Impacts on Non-Performing Loan Ratio in Romania by Adriana Daniela CIUREL, Tiberiu STOICA

“…This paper aims to investigate some of the determinants of non-performing loans in the Romanian banking sector by means of Vector Error Correction (VEC). The increase in non-performing loans is the most relevant factor that financial institutions face in order to maintain an adequate level of solvency in the context of current economic decline. …”
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Macroeconomic Modeling in Post-pandemic Times by Anton I. Votinov1, Julia A. Polshchikova, Karen A. Nersisyan

“…Finally, we point out to a multiscenario approach to analyzing fiscal sustainability through models in the context of the unprecedented increase of government burdens faced by many countries during crisis.…”
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Impact of demographic ageing on sustainability of public finance in Serbia by Zdravković Aleksandar, Domazet Ivana, Nikitović Vladimir

“…In this context, critical review of the current government approach to the pension growth dynamics was given from the perspective of medium-term sustainability of pension system, which resulted in appropriate recommendations. …”
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A Middleware for the Integration of Smart Grid Elements with WSN Based Solutions by Paulo Régis C. de Araújo, Raimir Holanda, Antonio Wendell de Oliveira Rodrigues, André Luiz Carneiro de Araújo, José de Aguiar Moraes Filho, João Paolo C. M. Oliveira

“…This automation enables the integration of elements such as Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) to the supervision of the distribution electrical system, but there is not an appropriate environment to increase the scale of these elements. In this context, the smart grid comes with specifications that allow adding new elements to the intelligence of the power grid operation. …”
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Sarcopenia in Urothelial Bladder Carcinoma: A Narrative Review by Constantin Radu Vrabie, Andreea Ioana Parosanu, Cornelia Nitipir

“…In the context of radical surgery, sarcopenia correlates with increased postoperative mortality and a higher rate of severe complications. …”
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Establishing foreign bookshelves in libraries around the world: a socio-cultural component of international cooperation by Demianiuk Liudmyla

“…The research has found that such projects are effective tools of cultural diplomacy that significantly enhance global cultural understanding. Conclusions. In the current geopolitical and cultural context, a pressing issue for Ukraine is the preservation of the identity of the Ukrainian nation and its cultural heritage for future generations. …”
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Financial assessment of the implementation of state policy measures in the field of environmental protection: macroeconomic aspect by N. N. Shkolnikova, E. A. Shkolnikov, M. A. Shkolnikov

“…The assessment of expenditures for environmental protection in Russia for 2017–2021 showed an annual stable growth with an almost twofold increase in the whole five years. A structural analysis in the context of environmental protection activities allowed us to identify the dominant cost items as the most significant in the implementation of state environmental policy. …”
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Reasons for shisha smoking: Findings from a mixed methods study among adult shisha smokers in Nigeria. by Noreen Dadirai Mdege, Ranti Ekpo, Sharon Ogolla, Seember Joy Ali, Aminata Camara, Esther Mugweni

“…Shisha smoking has increased significantly worldwide over the past decade including in developing countries such as Nigeria. …”
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Assessment of focal liver lesions in non-cirrhotic liver – expert opinion statement by the Swiss Association for the Study of the Liver and the Swiss Society of Gastroenterology by Mikael Sawatzki, Daniela B. Husarik, David Semela

“…Risk factors include age >40 years, known current or past malignancy, presence of liver cirrhosis or chronic liver disease (i.e. suspected by elevated liver elastography measurement ≥8 kPa or FIB-4 score ≥1.3), unintentional weight loss, fever or night sweats, newly detected focal liver lesions, documented growth of focal liver lesions, current or past use of androgens (e.g. testosterone, oxymetholone, danazol), increased serum tumour markers (i.e. alpha-fetoprotein, carbohydrate antigen 19-9 [CA19-9], carcinoembryonic antigen [CEA]) and family history of malignancy. …”
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2004-2014: Switzerland and languages

“…The editorial reflects on the current political climate, highlighting the tensions between national identity and language diversity. …”
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Design and Analysis of a Launcher Flight Control System Based on Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion by Pedro Simplício, Paul Acquatella, Samir Bennani

“…This paper investigates the application of Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI) for launch vehicle flight control, addressing the limited exploration of nonlinear control architectures and their potential benefits in the context of the current “New Space” era. In this context, this study aims to bridge the gap between the launcher’s traditional linear control practice and nonlinear methods, focusing on INDI, which offers the potential to enhance limits of performance while reducing mission preparation (“missionisation”) efforts. …”
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Prediction of potential habitat of Verbena officinalis in China under climate change based on optimized MaxEnt model by Shimao Chen, Zixuan Jiang, Jia Song, Tao Xie, Yu Xue, Qingshan Yang, Qingshan Yang, Qingshan Yang

“…Under future climate change scenarios (SSP1-2.6 and SSP5-8.5), the total suitable habitat area shows an overall increasing trend, reaching a maximum in the 2070s under the high-emission scenario (an increase of 3.6 × 105 km2 compared to the current distribution). …”
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Load Forecasting in Electrical Grids: Analysis of Methods and their Trends by Kyryk V.V., Shatalov Y.O.

“…The results show that, although increasingly complex models are being developed, their accuracy gain remains inconsistent in different application contexts, provided that a single-type architecture is used. …”
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Understanding Social Engineering Victimisation on Social Networking Sites: A Comprehensive Review of Factors Influencing User Susceptibility to Cyber-Attacks by Saad S. Alshammari, Ben Soh, Alice Li

“…By addressing these gaps, this study aims to advance mitigation strategies and provide actionable insights to reduce SEV in SNS contexts.…”
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Examining a teacher-led physically active mathematics intervention: teachers’ perceptions of the facilitators and barriers to implementation in UK primary schools by Nathan S. Wood, Simon B. Cooper, Karah J. Dring, Daniele Magistro, Ruth Boat

“…Key facilitators identified in this study included training, availability of ready-to-use resources, and increased teacher confidence. Furthermore, physically active lessons (PALs) were easier to implement in contexts where play-based learning approaches from the early years foundations stage could naturally extend into subsequent years. …”
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