Eggshell waste as a bioremoval agent for potentially toxic elements/metals and microbial contaminants from raw water of the Nile River in Egypt by Alaa Hosny, Nada Wael, Menna A. Hossam, Mariam Abdelmonem, Salwa M. El-Sayed, Samah H. Abu-Hussien, Basma T. Abd-Elhalim

“…Abstract Recently, microbial, and potentially toxic elements/metals (PTEs) contamination of aquatic ecosystems has been increasing in Egypt, owing to the bio-disposal of such pollutants in water effluents. …”
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A multi-faceted review of wind turbine optimization techniques: Metaheuristics and related issues by Hegazy Rezk, Abdul Ghani Olabi, Tabbi Wilberforce, Enas Taha Sayed

“…Their applications in the context of wind energy will be investigated in this paper. …”
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Nutritional Evaluation of Some Complementary Food Mixtures for Weaning Stage by El-Shahat, G. El-Dreny, Marwa, M. Shaheen, Hend, M. Saleh

“…In this context, the current experiment was conducted to form a weaning food (12 mixtures) for babies from six to twenty-four months of age that includes fruits, vegetables, and grains consisting of bananas, kiwi, and pumpkin mixed with beans, rice, date powder, and dried milk. …”
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Effect of cotton nanocrystals on corrosion resistance and properties of electrodeposited Cu-Sn coatings by Ana Luisa C. de Carvalho, Ferdinando M.R. Borges, Marcus V.B. do Nascimento, Isabel C. Rigoli, Daniel Véras Ribeiro, Carlos A.D. Rovere, Carlos A.C. de Souza

“…Current efficiency increased with 1 %v/v and 2.5 %v/v CNC, indicating reduced energy consumption during electrodeposition. …”
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People with Gender Diversity in Portugal: A Brief Insight into Psychological Welfare and Family and Social Environments by José Luís de Magalhães Guimarães, Carolina Luísa Cardoso Lemos, Zélia Maria Teixeira Brandão Figueiredo

“…Results: Regarding tolerance towards gender diversity, we found that it increased substantially from childhood and adolescence to current life; also, we ascertained that, when the trans person’s household is not tolerant, neither are the peers, and vice ‑versa (p=0.023). …”
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Improving spatial prediction of Schistosoma haematobium prevalence in southern Ghana through new remote sensors and local water access profiles. by Alexandra V Kulinkina, Yvonne Walz, Magaly Koch, Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum, Jürg Utzinger, Elena N Naumova

“…Specifically, unsatisfactory water quality in boreholes perpetuates reliance on surface water bodies, indirectly increasing schistosomiasis risk and resulting in rapid reinfection (up to 40% prevalence six months following preventive chemotherapy). …”
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Clinical activities of out-of-hospital Italian public geriatrics: a survey of members of the Italian Society of Geriatrics Hospital and Territory by Mariagiovanna Cozza, Ciro Manzo, Alberto Castagna, Maurizio Gallucci, Filippo Fimognari, Lorenzo Palleschi

“…To have an overview of the current state of activities outside the hospital, distributed across the national territory, we conducted an online survey addressed to all Italian Society of Geriatrics Hospital and Territory (SIGOT) out-of-hospital members by email and disseminated it using SIGOT social channels. …”
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Micro-screw extrusion 3D printing of multiscale ternary nanocomposite absorbers – Part II: Design and process simulation of the extrusion system by Jiahang Zhang, Dongsheng Li, Mingming Wang

“…Findings reveal that increasing the compression angle raises both peak pressure and temperature. …”
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Evaluation of deepseek, gemini, ChatGPT-4o, and perplexity in responding to salivary gland cancer by Ahmed Bashah, Abdulkhaleq Salem, Ali Al-waqeerah, Eslam Ghaleb, Natheer Wahan, Ahmed Awad, Omran Al-tos, Gang Chen

“…Abstract Background Artificial intelligence AI platforms, such as Gemini, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Perplexity, are increasingly utilized to support clinical decision-making, yet their accuracy in specific medical domains remains variable. …”
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Methylphenidate in Borderline Personality Disorder: Assessing Its Therapeutic Potential and Limitations by Simone Pardossi, Alessandro Cuomo, Despoina Koukouna, Mario Pinzi, Bernardo Firenzuoli, Andrea Fagiolini

“…Impulsivity is increasingly recognized as a transdiagnostic feature that spans multiple psychiatric disorders, including borderline personality disorder (BPD), bipolar disorder, and substance use disorders. …”
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Modeling Retail Buildings Within Renewable Energy Communities: Generation and Implementation of Reference Energy Use Profiles by Samuele Lozza, Matteo Caldera, Daniele Fava, Martina Ferrando, Francesco Causone

“…In a constantly evolving context where non-dispatchable renewable energy sources (RESs) are becoming increasingly widespread, the role of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) is gaining momentum as a way to promote distributed self-consumption. …”
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Detection-Driven Gaussian Mixture Probability Hypothesis Density Multi-Target Tracker for Airborne Infrared Platforms by Mingyu Hong, Jiarong Wang, Ming Zhu, Shenyi Cao, Haitao Nie, Xiangdong Xu

“…The findings from the experiments indicate that the proposed algorithm surpasses current methodologies regarding effectiveness, accuracy, and robustness in the context of infrared multi-target tracking tasks, thereby meeting the requirements associated with airborne infrared target tracking tasks.…”
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Advances of traditional Chinese medicine preclinical mechanisms and clinical studies on diabetic peripheral neuropathy by Yuna Zhang, Xianglong Wu, Wenhui Yao, Yadong Ni, Xuansheng Ding

“…Considering there is no specific drug for the management of DPN, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has increasingly drawn attention of clinicians and researchers around the world due to its characteristics of multiple targets, active components, and exemplary safety.Objective To summarize the current status of TCM in the treatment of DPN and provide directions for novel drug development, the clinical effects and potential mechanisms of TCM used in treating DPN were comprehensively reviewed.Methods Existing evidence on TCM interventions for DPN was screened from databases such as PubMed, the Cochrane Neuromuscular Disease Group Specialized Register (CENTRAL), and the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure Database (CNKI). …”
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Towards Therapeutic Delivery of Extracellular Vesicles: Strategies for In Vivo Tracking and Biodistribution Analysis by Giuliana Di Rocco, Silvia Baldari, Gabriele Toietta

“…Extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as microvesicles and exosomes, are membranous structures containing bioactive material released by several cells types, including mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs). Increasing lines of evidences point to EVs as paracrine mediators of the beneficial effects on tissue remodeling associated with cell therapy. …”
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AN AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF INNOVATION PRACTICES OF QUANTITY SURVEYING FIRMS IN GHANA by D. Owusu-Manu, A Torku, E Pärn, M.N Addy, D.J Edwards

“…A total of 43 questionnaires were administered to the entire population and 24 were retrieved. The current level of innovation practices amongst the Ghanaian QS firms was interpreted using Rogers’ innovation diffusion theory. …”
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“Cultural Code” of a Virtual Personality: Social Safety in the Digital Age by Andrey V. Ivanov, Vadim E. Kozlov, Rishat A. Guzeirov

“…The phenomenon of virtual identity is considered as a part of philosophical - anthropological paradigm, taking into account the current social context and possible prospects. Using the methodological principles of E. …”
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Expanding the CAR toolbox with high throughput screening strategies for CAR domain exploration: a comprehensive review by Sebastien Anguille, Eva Lion, Khloe S Gordon, Michael E Birnbaum, Gils Roex

“…High throughput screening methods facilitate simultaneous investigation of hundreds of thousands of CAR domain combinations, allowing discovery of novel domains and increasing our understanding of how they behave in the context of a CAR. …”
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“You are doomed!" Crisis-specific and Dynamic Use of Fear Speech in Protest and Extremist Radical Social Movements by Simon Greipl, Julian Hohner, Heidi Schulze, Patrick Schwabl, Diana Rieger

“…Despite the notion that FS and the resulting climate of threat can serve as a justification for radical attitudes and behavior toward outgroups, research on the prevalence, nature, and context of FS is still scarce. The current paper aims to close this gap and provides a definition of FS, its theoretical foundations, and a starting point for (automatically) detecting FS on social media. …”
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An ontology-driven knowledge graph for tourism information management [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Mayukh Bagchi, SUBHASHIS DAS

“…The modern ecosystem of tourism is extremely multi-faceted and multi-context dependent, so much so that tourists, planning on an excursion, have an entire range of queries from as basic as “Where to eat?” …”
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Collaborative Sensing-Aware Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Integrated Sensing-Communication- and Computation-Enabled Internet of Vehicles (IoV) by Bangzhen Huang, Xuwei Fan, Shaolong Zheng, Ning Chen, Yifeng Zhao, Lianfen Huang, Zhibin Gao, Han-Chieh Chao

“…Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Computation (ISCC) has become a key technology driving the development of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) by enabling real-time environmental sensing, low-latency communication, and collaborative computing. However, the increasing sensing data within the IoV leads to demands of fast data transmission in the context of limited communication resources. …”
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