Investigating the role of foreign aid, FDI, and remittance on the public health of selected South Asian countries by Md. Atik Hasan, Shabikunnahar Suborna, Afrida Jinnurain Urbee

“…Developing countries, especially South Asian countries still need research and policies to efficiently utilize the contributions of these external capital sources in their health sector. …”
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Toward a sustainable future: ESG as a mediator of innovation and performance under institutional contingencies by Li Xian Liu, Zhiyue Sun, Keren He

“…Where property rights are better protected and resources more efficiently allocated, non-SOEs gain legitimacy and utilize resources more effectively.These findings highlight ESG as a strategic channel for converting innovation into value, shaped by institutional and organizational contexts, and contribute to sustainability strategy literature by unpacking how institutional heterogeneity and ownership identity influence ESG-aligned innovation in emerging economies.…”
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Integration of MRMR algorithm with advanced neural networks for modeling long-term crop water demand in agricultural basins by Ahmed Elbeltagi, Abdullah A. Alsumaiei, Ali Raza, Mustafa Al-Mukhtar, Salim Heddam

“…Therefore, this study aims to achieve more accurate AET predictions through i) evaluating the performance of five artificial neural network (ANN) models optimized with the minimum redundancy maximum relevance (MRMR) algorithm to estimate monthly AET across diverse agroclimatic zones in China and ii) selecting the model with the highest accuracy based on performance metrics and minimal error between estimated and actual AET values. The analysis utilized weather data from Jinzhou, Anshan, Harbin, Shenyang, and Changchun from 1958 to 2021, with 75% of the data allocated for training and 25% for testing. …”
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The Smart city vision: The internet-of-postal-things (iopt) approach by Maria PAVLOVSKAYA, Olga KONONOVA

“…The main idea is to integrate urban information systems and the Postal services assets for more efficient and ubiquitous data collection, which entails additional quality in public services. …”
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Predicting Predisposition to Tropical Diseases in Female Adults Using Risk Factors: An Explainable-Machine Learning Approach by Kingsley Friday Attai, Constance Amannah, Moses Ekpenyong, Said Baadel, Okure Obot, Daniel Asuquo, Ekerette Attai, Faith-Valentine Uzoka, Emem Dan, Christie Akwaowo, Faith-Michael Uzoka

“…This study demonstrates the effectiveness of integrating XAI with ML in directing health interventions, providing a clearer understanding of risk factors, and efficiently allocating resources for disease prevention and treatment.…”
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Addressing Occupational Diseases; Integrating the Discipline at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University by Z. Bilous, N. Grechkivska, L. Kobak, N. Drobinska, M. Butynska

“…Materials and methods. The analysis of the number of hours allocated to the average statistical group of students during the period since 2005 till 2023 at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University has been conducted. …”
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Ambulance Commanders’ Reluctance to Enter Road Tunnels in Simulated Incidents and the Effects of a Tunnel-Specific e-Learning Course on Decision-Making: Web-Based Randomized Contro... by Johan Hylander, Lina Gyllencreutz, Michael Haney, Anton Westman

“… BackgroundThe optimal response to a major incident in a road tunnel involves efficient decision-making among the responding emergency services (fire and rescue services, police, and ambulances). …”
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Low‐head pumped hydro storage: An evaluation of energy balancing and frequency support by Justus Peter Hoffstaedt, Daan Truijen, Antonio Jarquin Laguna, Jeroen De Kooning, Kurt Stockman, Jonathan Fahlbeck, Hakan Nilsson

“…The results demonstrate that the low‐head pumped hydro storage system is a viable large‐scale energy storage solution, capable of round‐trip efficiencies above 70% across a wide operating range. …”
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Seroprevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B e antigen among childbearing-age women in Mianyang, China by Min Wang, Hong Li, Yulin Ji, Yuanji Ma, Liping Wang, Tao Ren, Fengsu Hou, Ping Yuan

“…Conclusions: These findings could provide scientific evidence for the Chinese government to plan efficient health care services and prevention initiatives, and to allocate health resources reasonably for this population. …”
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Comparing physiological and psychological effects of virtual reality vs. traditional high-intensity interval training in healthy individuals: results from a preliminary pilot rando... by Jonathan Robinson, Mohammad Haziq Bin Abdul Razak

“…High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is a time-efficient method for improving fitness, but its intensity may reduce motivation. …”
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R&D Expenditure and Innovation in the EU and Selected Member States by Radka MacGregor Pelikánová

“…Further and deeper research is needed and should help the EU to change its approach to innovations and make it more effective and efficient.…”
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A novel dilated weighted recurrent neural network (RNN)-based smart contract for secure sharing of big data in Ethereum blockchain using hybrid encryption schemes by Swetha S, Joe Prathap P M

“…This algorithm manages keys efficiently and securely, which improves data security during blockchain operations. …”
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State of health prediction of lithium-ion batteries in charging chambers based on multi-modal deep learning by ZHAO Yinghua, CHEN Anbi, ZHANG Zengyu, LI Wenzhong, HAN Yu

“…The Transformer layer dynamically allocated feature weights through a multi-head self-attention mechanism, focusing on key features of global degradation patterns. …”
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Effect of continuous infusion in alleviating pain during male urethral catheterization by Lijun Cao, Xin Qi, Dan Liu, Xincheng Mao, Liu Luo, Mengjiang Liu, Xinyi Wen, Chunhong Cui, Jia Qi, Junmei Xu, Yulong Cui

“…The primary outcome was the visual analogue scale (VAS) scores. Statistical analysis system (SAS) (version 9.4) was used to perform all the statistical analyses. …”
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Study protocol for a randomised-controlled study on emotion regulation training for adolescents with major depression: the KONNI study by Ellen Greimel, Lisa Feldmann, Charlotte Piechaczek, Frans Oort, Jürgen Bartling, Martin Schulte-Rüther, Gerd Schulte-Körne

“…Specifically, we will investigate whether the CR training improves the ability to downregulate negative affect in MD individuals as assessed by behavioural and neurobiological indices, and whether training effects generalise outside the laboratory.Methods and analysis Adolescents with MD will be randomly allocated to a group that either receives a task-based training in CR or a control training. …”
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Analgesic protocol for procedural pain treatment of second-degree burns in children by Komarčević Aleksandar, Jokić Radoica, Pajić Miloš, Jovanović Mladen, Milenković Marina

“…The objective of analgesic treatments for procedural pain is the safe and efficient management of pain and emotional stress, which requires a careful, balanced, and systematic approach. …”
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Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting low bone mineral density in male patients with ankylosing spondylitis by Xiaotong Yang, Qin Cheng, Yifan Li, Hao Tang, Hao Tang, Xin Chen, Lijun Ma, Jing Gao, Wei Ji

“…A total of 322 eligible patients were randomly allocated to training and validation cohorts at a 7:3 ratio. …”
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Impact of multi-strain probiotics supplementation on growth, immune responses and physiological traits in backyard poultry of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India by Neha Halder, Neha Halder, Siddhartha Narayan Joardar, Jai Sunder, Arun Kumar De, Debasis Bhattacharya, Ahmed Abd El Wahed, Rea Maja Kobialka, Madathiparambil Gopalakrishnan Madanan, Samiran Mondal

“…No prior research has been conducted in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India to elucidate the direct influence of probiotics on health and immunity of backyard poultry. To explore an efficient alternative to AGP, a commercial multi strain probiotics (BifilacR) was evaluated in Vanaraja, a popular backyard poultry breed reared in the islands. 120 newly hatched Vanaraja chicks were chosen, 30 chicks were randomly allocated into 4 different groups for 60 days. …”
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BEACON: JWST NIRCam Pure-parallel Imaging Survey. I. Survey Design and Initial Results by Takahiro Morishita, Charlotte A. Mason, Kimi C. Kreilgaard, Michele Trenti, Tommaso Treu, Benedetta Vulcani, Yechi Zhang, Abdurro’uf, Anahita Alavi, Hakim Atek, Yannick Bahé, Maruša Bradač, Larry D. Bradley, Andrew J. Bunker, Dan Coe, James Colbert, Viola Gelli, Matthew J. Hayes, Tucker Jones, Tadayuki Kodama, Nicha Leethochawalit, Zhaoran Liu, Matthew A. Malkan, Vihang Mehta, Benjamin Metha, Andrew B. Newman, Marc Rafelski, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Michael J. Rutkowski, Claudia Scarlata, Massimo Stiavelli, Ryo A. Sutanto, Kosuke Takahashi, Harry I. Teplitz, Xin Wang

“…We introduce the Bias-free Extragalactic Analysis for Cosmic Origins with NIRCam (BEACON) survey, a JWST Cycle 2 program allocated up to 600 pure-parallel hours of observations. …”
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