Residential Buildings at Climate Crossroads: Insights from Portugal for South European Energy Performance by Alexandre Castro, Sandra Sorte, Vera Rodrigues, Nelson Martins

“…Results indicate substantial regional variations, with significant increases in cooling demands and corresponding reductions in heating needs, exposing limitations in the regulatory climate files currently used in energy certification processes. …”
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Perceptions of AI competence in social and healthcare services: Readiness, reliance and realism by Tuuli Turja, Outi Ahonen

“… Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the health and social service environment through increasingly advanced and autonomous digital solutions. …”
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PULSE: A modular framework for predictive energy efficiency in heterogeneous data centers by Daniel Flores-Martin, Felipe Lemus-Prieto, Juan A. Rico-Gallego

“…The platform fills a gap in current research by offering a user-friendly, modular, and adaptive solution that empowers operators to model, predict, and improve data center energy performance with minimal technical expertise. …”
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Document-Level Neural TTS Using Curriculum Learning and Attention Masking by Sung-Woong Hwang, Joon-Hyuk Chang

“…During synthesis, the document-level text is synthesized using only the necessary contexts of the current time step and masking the rest through an attention-masking mechanism. …”
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Advances in research on SATB2 and its role in tumor development by Ge Cheng, Chi Tian, Waner Wang, Yangyang Zhou, Xiaoqing Wang, Lei Zhang

“…Understanding its precise mechanisms in these contexts can pave the way for future advancements in therapeutic strategies. …”
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Bleomycin: A worthy alternative by Gursev Sandlas, Paras Kothari, Parag Karkera, Abhaya Gupta

“…Complications of the therapy were few and far between. 2 patients developed fever after injection, one patients reported a transient increase in size of swelling, 2 patients have developed discoloration of the overlying skin and are currently being followed up for final outcome. …”
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Meta-analysis on the effects of chemical stressors on freshwater ecosystem functions by Alexander Feckler, Ralf Schulz, Ralf B. Schäfer

“…Importantly, the shape and direction of the relationships identified here match those reported in field-based studies, indicating a decrease in functioning as chemical stress increases, strengthening the ecological relevance of our findings. …”
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Opportunities and practices supporting responsive health care for forced migrants: lessons from transnational practice and a mixed-methods systematic review by Amy Robinson, Protus Musotsi, Ziaur Rahman A Khan, Laura Nellums, Bayan Faiq, Kofi Broadhurst, Gisela Renolds, Michael Pritchard, Andrew Smith

“…Conclusion Our study poses important questions around local and national capacity to dismantle some of the structures, institutional behaviours and ideas that affirm the current experience of healthcare contexts for forced migrants. …”
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National Museums and Their Societal Roles: A Case Study of Finland and Japan by Shikoh Shiraiwa

“…In this article I focuses on museum professionals in Finnish and Japanese national museums within the context of current social and cultural sustainability discourses, who face an increased responsibility to democratize museum narratives and acknowledge inconvenient histories and the ongoing coloniality of the institutions and repatriation of cultural insignia. …”
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Security and Privacy Preservation in Smart Cities During Security Surveillance: A Mapping Study by Fatima Tariq, Ayesha Afzaal, Muhammad Junaid Anjum, Faria Kanwal, Komal Bashir, Momina Shaheen

“…This would not only enhance the provision of public services but also ensure increased safety measures. However, the extensive implementation of such systems has increased the concerns related to privacy and data protection. …”
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Development and biomechanical evaluation of a 3D printed analogue of the human lumbar spine by Siril Teja Dukkipati, Mark Driscoll

“…Moreover, there are increasing ethical concerns with human dissection practices. …”
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Building a Robust Scenario Library for Safety Assurance of Automated Driving Systems: A Review by Antonio A. Bruto da Costa, Patrick Irvine, Tudor Dodoiu, Siddartha Khastgir, Paul Jennings

“…This paper outlines the literature review methodology used and presents the current state of scenarios and scenario generation activities. …”
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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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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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CHAC1: a master regulator of oxidative stress and ferroptosis in human diseases and cancers by Jiasen Sun, Hui Ren, Jiawen Wang, Xiang Xiao, Lin Zhu, Yanyan Wang, Lili Yang

“…CHAC1, an essential regulator of oxidative stress and ferroptosis, is increasingly recognized for its significant roles in these cellular processes and its impact on various human diseases and cancers. …”
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Towards a Feminist Global Health Policy: Power, intersectionality, and transformation. by Hannah Eger, Shubha Chacko, Salma El-Gamal, Thomas Gerlinger, Alexandra Kaasch, Marie Meudec, Shehnaz Munshi, Awa Naghipour, Emma Rhule, Yatirajula Kanaka Sandhya, Oriana López Uribe

“…The qualitative content analysis revealed that a FGHP must be centred on considerations of intersectionality, power and knowledge paradigms to present meaningful alternatives to the current structures. By balancing guiding principles with sensitivity for context-specific adaptations, the framework is designed to be applicable locally and globally, whilst its adoption is intended to advance health equity and reproductive justice, with communities and policymakers identified as the main actors. …”
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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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The implementation of Safety Management Systems in healthcare: a systematic review and international comparison by Zhivko Zhelev, Sian de Bell, Alison Bethel, Maria Clarke, Rob Anderson, Jo Thompson Coon

“…Approaches to patient safety in all countries reflect increasing awareness that for an initiative to be successful, it needs to be context-specific. …”
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Two decades of cropland monitoring in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan city group: trends and future predictions by Wenbo Zhang, Dazhao Fan, Song Ji, Yang Dong, Dongzi Li, Ming Li

“…The results demonstrated that the cropland area in the CZTCG in the past 20 years has shown a two-stage trend of increasing (2000–2015, increase of 8.25%) and decreasing (2015–2020, decrease of 2.91%), and the main reasons for cropland loss in the whole process of change were forest and building, with serious loss of cropland area in Changsha County and Wangcheng District. …”
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Lithologically constrained velocity–density relationships and vertical stress gradients in the North Alpine Foreland Basin, SE Germany by P. Obermeier, F. Duschl, M. C. Drews

“…In SE Germany, the North Alpine Foreland Basin (NAFB) is a well-studied sedimentary basin, which was extensively explored for oil and gas in the last century and which is currently explored and exploited for deep geothermal energy. …”
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