A Systematic Literature Review of Cross-Cultural Studies on Interior Perception by Ayşen Özkan, Türkan Sultan Yaşar Ismail

“…Interior spaces can be seen as one of the main surroundings for people, especially in the context of the current century urban context we live in. …”
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Incorporating Family Function into Chronic Pain Disability: The Role of Catastrophizing by Fatemeh Akbari, Mohsen Dehghani, Ali Khatibi, Tine Vervoort

“…The current study provides further support for the notion that the impact of emotional and cognitive variables upon CP-related disability can be better understood when we consider the social context of pain patients and family function in particular.…”
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Early Detection of the Marathon Wall to Improve Pacing Strategies in Recreational Marathoners by Mohamad-Medhi El Dandachi, Veronique Billat, Florent Palacin, Vincent Vigneron

“…The individual marathon optimal pacing sparring the runner to hit the “wall” after 2 h of running remain unclear. In the current study we examined to what extent Deep neural Network contributes to identify the individual optimal pacing training a Variational Auto Encoder (VAE) with a small dataset of nine runners. …”
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Exploring the Impression of Irrigation Management Techniques on Crop Harvests and Water Habit Efficiency by Hussein Layth, Ramadan Ghazi Mohamad, Prakash Akula

“…The future scheme contains the enactment of a WUE procedure to estimate and associate the presentation of these irrigation methods. …”
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Simplified Design Procedure for RC Ribbed Slabs in Fire Based on Experimental and Numerical Thermal Analysis by Fabrício Longhi Bolina, Arthur S. Henn, Bruno Dal Lago

“…Ribbed slabs are a solution for increasing the bending capacity while reducing the total concrete consumption and the dead weight compared to conventional reinforced concrete slabs. …”
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The Effect of He on the Evolution of Radiation-Induced Dislocation Loops near W/Cu Interface by Huaqing Sang, Yifan Zhang, Jing Wang

“…In the current work, the distribution behaviors of irradiation-induced dislocation loops near the W-Cu interface (contains a thin W₂C transition layer) under self-interstitial atom diffusion-dominated conditions were investigated based on the comparative experiment of 3 MeV Fe ion and 100 keV He ion irradiation. …”
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THEORETICAL LEGAL CONTENT OF MASS MEDIA LEGISLATION CONCEPTS by A. A. Fatyanov, Yu. M. Saranchuk

“…In this connection, the legal regulation of electronic mass media, both registered in the law-prescribed manner and unregistered, containing most diverse information on political, social, entertainment or highly specialized issues for the unrestricted public domain, is becoming increasingly important. …”
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A Typology and Analysis of Russian Universities’ Performance in Education and Research by Irina Abankina, Fuad Aleskerov, Veronika Belousova, Leonid Gokhberg, Kirill Zinkovsky, Sofya Kiselgof, Sergey Shvydun

“…The focus of public support is shifting from funding current activities of universities towards rewarding outcomes. …”
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‘It was a joint plan we worked out together’. How the I-WOTCH programme enabled people with chronic non-malignant pain to taper their opioids: a process evaluation by Martin Underwood, Kate Seers, Charles Abraham, Harbinder Kaur Sandhu, Vivien P Nichols, Sam Eldabe, Alleyne Sharisse, Balasubramanian Shyam, Betteley Lauren, Booth Katie, Carnes Dawn, D Furlan Andrea, Haywood Kirstie, Iglesias Urrutia C Paola, Lall Ranjit, Manca Andrea, Mistry Dipesh, Noyes Jennifer, Rahman Anisur, Shaw Jane, KY Tang Nicole, Taylor Stephanie, Tysall Colin, Underwood Martin, J Withers Emma

“…Background The Improving the Wellbeing of people with Opioid Treated CHronic pain (I-WOTCH) randomised controlled trial found that a group-based educational intervention to support people using strong opioids for chronic non-malignant pain helped a significant proportion of people to stop or decrease opioid use with no increase in pain-related disability. …”
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Attention as a commodity in the world of disinformation and social media by Radoslav Ivančík, Pavel Nečas, Lucia Iľaščíková

“…Unfortunately, in many cases, it is also through the spread of disinformation. In this context, the authors, using relevant methods of scientific research, focused on attention as a commodity and the functioning of the attention economy in the context of the increasing extent of the spread of various disinformation (but also hoaxes and conspiracy theories) primarily through social networks, their susceptibility to the spread of unwanted content and efforts to regulate the spread of such content.…”
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A Barcoded ITS Primer-Based Nanopore Sequencing Protocol for Detection of <i>Alternaria</i> Species and Other Fungal Pathogens in Diverse Plant Hosts by Vladimer Baramidze, Luca Sella, Tamar Japaridze, Nino Dzotsenidze, Daviti Lamazoshvili, Nino Abashidze, Maka Basilidze, Giorgi Tomashvili

“…Rapid, scalable, and efficient methods of pathogen detection are crucial for managing plant diseases and ensuring agricultural productivity. Current amplicon sequencing protocols for <i>Alternaria</i> detection often require the enzymatic barcoding of amplicons, increasing hands-on time, cost, and contamination risk. …”
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The effectiveness of public health interventions against COVID-19: Lessons from the Singapore experience. by John P Ansah, David Bruce Matchar, Sean Lam Shao Wei, Jenny G Low, Ahmad Reza Pourghaderi, Fahad Javaid Siddiqui, Tessa Lui Shi Min, Aloysius Chia Wei-Yan, Marcus Eng Hock Ong

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Early public health measures in the context of targeted, aggressive containment including swift and effective contact tracing and quarantine, was likely responsible for suppressing the number of COVID-19 infections in Singapore.…”
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Immunisation of young children against influenza — evidence review by V. A. Bulgakova, L. R. Selimzyanova, T. E. Privalova, D. A. Yusupova

“…Influenza is a highly contagious viral infection and poses a serious burden, especially for children under 5 years of age due to an increased risk of severe illness and hospitalization. …”
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Influence of fruit stages on chemical compositions, phytochemicals, and antioxidant activity of wood apple (Feronia limonia (L.) Swingle) by Rashmi Srivastava, Neha Mishra, Arshi, Shraddha Tripathi, Smriti, Neha Taslim Fatima, Neetu Mishra

“…Swingle is an underappreciated tropical fruit, contains several vitamins, minerals, and bioactive substances, yet it has received significantly less attention. …”
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Lightweight GAN-Assisted Class Imbalance Mitigation for Apple Flower Bud Detection by Wenan Yuan, Peng Li

“…Generative adversarial networks (GANs), an emerging deep learning research topic, are able to learn from existing data distributions and generate similar synthetic data, which might serve as valid training data for improving object detectors. The current study investigated the utility of lightweight unconditional GAN in addressing weak object detector class performance by incorporating synthetic data into real data for model retraining, under an agricultural context. …”
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Gender differences in use of cigarette and non-cigarette tobacco products among adolescents aged 13–15 years in 20 African countries by Israel T. Agaku, Rose Sulentic, Adriana Dragicevic, Gibril Njie, Candace K. Jones, Satomi Odani, Tina Tsafa, Joy Gwar, Constantine I. Vardavas, Olalekan Ayo-Yusuf

“…Among girls, higher levels of reported exposure to tobacco advertisement were positively associated with shisha smoking whereas perceived tobacco harm was inversely associated with current cigarette and shisha smoking. Among boys, perceived social acceptability of smoking at parties was associated with an increased likelihood of cigarette smoking (APR=2.27; 95% Cl: 1.20–4.30). …”
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Inside CKD: Cost-Effectiveness of Multinational Screening for CKD by Navdeep Tangri, Kook-Hwan Oh, Jason C.J. Choo, Michel Jadoul, Johan Ärnlöv, Marcelo Costa Batista, Christian F. Christiansen, Gil Chernin, Lise Retat, Joshua Card-Gowers, Timothy Coker, Salvatore Barone, Stephen Nolan, Juan Jose Garcia Sanchez

“…Screening general populations aged ≥ 45 years increased projected CKD diagnosis rates per 100,000 persons eligible for screening from 459 by current practice to 7475 patients using 2 eGFR only, or 14,392 using 2 eGFR and 1 UACR. …”
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Leveraging green innovation from big data analytics: Examining the role of resource orchestration and green dynamic capabilities by Masood Nawaz Kalyar, Agata Pierscieniak, Muhammad Shafique

“…PURPOSE: The notion of big data analytics (BDA) has received increased attention from both researchers and managers. …”
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Femmes et transformation artisanale des poissons pélagiques au Sénégal : un secteur à bout de souffle by El Hadj Bara Dème, El Hadji Sow, Lovelie Licette, Nogaye Dia, Pierre Failler

“…All these elements seriously compromise the sustainability and the economy of the artisanal processing of pelagic fish. In the current context of promoting women's employment and their economic empowerment, the artisanal processing segment must be supported by strong public policies for the sustainability of the activity.…”
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EVOLUTION OF THE AGRICULTURAL LABOUR MARKET IN THE EUROPEAN UNION BETWEEN 2011-2020 by Cristina Vasilica ICOCIU, Ana-Maria IFRIM, Cătălin Ionuț SILVESTRU, Marius-Mihai MICU

“…In the current context, in which the pandemic crisis is wreaking havoc in all socio-economic fields, causing both loss of life and immeasurable economic losses, fundamental research conducted to identify directions for rapid and sustainable socio-economic recovery is of great importance. …”
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