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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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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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

“…As digital transformation accelerates, data centers have become critical infrastructure, supporting cloud services, artificial intelligence, and real-time applications. This increasing demand has led to significant growth in energy consumption, raising concerns about operational costs and environmental impact. …”
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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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Integrating Palliative Care and Heart Failure: the PalliatHeartSynthesis realist synthesis by Tracey McConnell, Carolyn Blair, Geoff Wong, Claire Duddy, Clare Howie, Loreena Hill, Joanne Reid

“…Our realist analysis developed and refined 6 overarching context–mechanism–outcome configurations and 30 sub context–mechanism–outcome configurations. …”
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Fostering global primary care research: a capacity-building approach by Amanda Howe, Felicity Goodyear-Smith, Michael Kidd, Sherina Mohd Sidik, Chris van Weel, David Ponka, Megan Coffman, Krystle Elizabeth Fraser-Barclay, Richard D W Fortier, Robert P Lennon, Jeremiah K A Madaki, Bob Mash, Kristina Zawaly

“…Our aim is to explore the current risks or barriers to primary care research capacity building, identify the ongoing tensions that need to be resolved and offer some solutions, focusing on emerging contexts. …”
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Navigating challenges and opportunities in Ukraine’s steel industry amidst political turmoil and decarbonization initiatives by Ivanna Harasymchuk, Vladimír Kočí, Olena Tsyplitska, Vitalii Venger, Oksana Kushnirenko, Nataliia Hakhovych

“…The study provides a comprehensive assessment of the Ukrainian steel industry, focusing on its historical significance, institutional institutional prerequisites, current potential, and prospects for sustainable development. …”
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Effects of fodder production on smallholder farmers’ household income in Homa Bay County, Kenya: An application of propensity score matching by Mary Stacey Ayuko, Job Kibiwot Lagat, Michael Hauser, Kevin Okoth Ouko, Dick Chune Midamba

“…The global feed production has increased in the past few years. Despite the growing trend, the current production does not meet the demand in Kenya. …”
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Examination of Impact of After-Hours Admissions on Hospital Resource Use, Patient Outcomes, and Costs by Charlenn Skead, Laura H. Thompson, Hanna Kuk, Ariel Hendin, Moosa Yasir Hamood Al Abri, Yasmeen Choudhri, Tim Ramsay, Brent Herritt, Kwadwo Kyeremanteng

“…Nighttime and weekends in hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) contexts are thought to present a greater risk for adverse events than daytime admissions. …”
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Specifics of Ensuring Russia’s Economic Security under Sanctions Pressure by N. A. Yagunova

“…The intensity of discussion of issues of ensuring economic security at the country level increases with the increasing impact of negative factors from both the external and internal environment. …”
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Multidimensional Scientometric Analysis for the Gig Economy by Sergen Gürsoy

“…In this context, it is important to be able to make scientometric analyzes within the scope of the literature on the gig economy in order to obtain systematic findings for future research on the current labor market. …”
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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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COVID-19: the new challenge for rheumatologists by B. S. Belov, A. E. Karateev

“…In addition, the role of vaccination mainly against influenza and pneumococcal infection is substantially increasing in modern conditions, since the risk of death from respiratory tract infections is quite high in patients with IMIRDs, which is very important in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic.The paper presents an update on the incidence of viral infections in patients with IMIRDs and also discusses whether antirheumatic drugs can be used to treat COVID-19.…”
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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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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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Students of Social Work in the Slipstream of the Politics of Activation: Results of Explorative Studies. by Bernd Dollinger, Nina Oelkers, Holger Ziegler

“…Social activation" concentrates and has a focus on a structure of negative sanctions, controlling clients and axiomatic aims - especially in relation to integrating people into the workforce. In this context, non-conditional support is increasingly discredited. …”
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Cognitive Reframing in Anticipation and Prevention of Multiplex Threats to Critical Infrastructure by Pavel A. Panilov

“… The article introduces a new cognitive reframing approach to anticipating and preventing multiplex threats to critical infrastructure. In the context of constantly evolving threats, the model may increase the effectiveness of incident prevention strategies. …”

Progress in Improving Photovoltaics Longevity by Tsampika Dimitriou, Nikolaos Skandalos, Dimitrios Karamanis

“…Understanding these degradation processes is crucial for improving the lifetime and sustainability of solar energy systems. In this context, this review summarizes the current knowledge on key degradation mechanisms (intrinsic, extrinsic, and specific) affecting PV modules, as well as on-site and remote sensing methods for detecting PV module defects and the mitigation strategies employed for enhancing their operational lifetime under different climatic conditions in the global environment.…”
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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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