Population and Landslide Risk Evolution in Long Time Series: Case Study of the Valencian Community (1920–2021) by Isidro Cantarino Martí, Eric Gielen, José-Sergio Palencia-Jiménez, Miguel Ángel Carrión Carmona

“…Although much progress has been made in recent years in population geolocation by competent public bodies, gathering historical data beyond the present century to learn about the sequential evolution the affected population has experienced remains a difficult task. …”
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The WHO’s 75th anniversary: WHO at a pivotal moment in history by Lawrence O Gostin, Roojin Habibi, Benjamin Mason Meier, Helen Clark, K Srinath Reddy, Jemilah Mahmood, Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa, Björn Kümmel, Winnie Mpanju-Shumbusho, Attiya Waris, Miriam K Were

“…At this pivotal moment, WHO must learn critical lessons from its past and make fundamental reforms to become the Organisation it was meant to be. …”
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Expert advice from ResearchMatch volunteers: Recruitment Innovation Center use cases and innovation by Maeve Tischbein, Sarah K. Cook, Cathy Shyr, Katelyn Benhoff, Amna Baig, Kaysi Quarles, Leslie R. Boone, Loretta M. Byrne, Mariela Rodriguez, Terri Edwards, Consuelo H. Wilkins, Paul A. Harris

“…We describe early use cases that shaped the current Expert Advice Tool workflow, how results from this tool were incorporated and implemented by studies, and feedback from volunteers and study teams regarding the tool’s usefulness. Additionally, we present a set of lessons learned during the development of the Expert Advice Tool that can be used by other recruitment registries seeking to obtain volunteer feedback on study design and operations.…”
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Study on Nuclear Accident Precursors Using AHP and BBN by Sujin Park, Huichang Yang, Gyunyoung Heo, Muhammad Zubair, Rahman Khalil Ur

“…We tried to prioritize the lessons learned from Fukushima accident to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed methodology.…”
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A database of life history parameters for Pacific coral reef fish by Anela K. Akiona, Brian J. Zgliczynski, Marisa M. Agarwal, Beverly J. French, Nathaniel Hanna Holloway, Katie A. Lubarsky, McClaran E. Shirley, Christopher J. Sullivan, Stuart A. Sandin

“…In total, this database serves as a valuable tool for the academic community as well as for partners and managers desiring to learn more about coral reef fish assemblages.…”
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ColdstartCPI: Induced-fit theory-guided DTI predictive model with improved generalization performance by Qichang Zhao, Haochen Zhao, Linyuan Guo, Kai Zheng, Yajie Li, Qiao Ling, Jing Tang, Yaohang Li, Jianxin Wang

“…Overall, ColdstartCPI offers a perspective on sequence-based drug design, presenting a promising tool for drug discovery.…”
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Realizing nutrition equity in urban food systems by Darcy A. Freedman Darcy A. Freedman, Morgan Taggart, Michael Walton, Linea Webb, Ismail Samad, Don Gaddis, Carol White, Shirley Bell-Wheeler, Dawn Glasco, Owusua Yamoah, Emily Nelson

“…To address this gap, our research brief presents lessons learned from a community action research project about implementation mechanisms (i.e., series of linked actions) involved in community-led efforts to transform urban food systems to achieve goals of nutrition equity. …”
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Lentidão cognitiva e psicomotora em hemodialisados crônicos Cognitive and psychomotor slowing in chronic hemodialysis patients by Wagner Martignoni de Figueiredo, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Roberto Baptista de Figueiredo, Omar da Rosa Santos

“…RESULTS: (1a) cognitive and psychomotor performance were slowed in patients, (2a) one extra-day of uremia impaired performance further on Trail Making B, and (3a) CHD patients had a decreased ability to learn novel procedures even in the short-term. CONCLUSION: CHD patients may present with a "subclinical encephalopathy" whose detection may require the administration of sensible tests. …”
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Ready...go: Amplitude of the FMRI signal encodes expectation of cue arrival time. by Xu Cui, Chess Stetson, P Read Montague, David M Eagleman

“…The dependence of the signal on temporal expectation is present in "no-go" conditions, demonstrating that the effect is not a consequence of motor output. …”
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Air Pollution and Forest Health: Establishing Cause and Effect in the Forest by William J. Manning

“…Researchers from Canada, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the U.S. met to present their results from a three-year cooperative study of tree health and air quality monitoring in forests of the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe. …”
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La Fièvre Hémorragique à Virus Lassa au Bénin en 2014 en contexte d’Ebola : une épidémie révélatrice de la faiblesse du système sanitaire by Emmanuel N’koué Sambiéni, Nouratou Danko, Valéry Ridde

“…Regarding the people and even the health workers themselves, the observed, heard, or learned symptoms were interpreted according to local etiological models of the disease, mainly of magical-religious tendency. …”
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Paysage, pratiques « habitantes » et aménagement des interfaces ville-fleuve à N’Djamena (Tchad) by Mounsi Febo

“…Spatial planning and socio-economic development based on local practices." The lessons learned from this disaster could inspire new ways of managing areas where public policy, community action and the practices of inhabitants interact.…”
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At a Crossroads: Sex and Death Taboos in Child Development and Implications for Sesotho Education by Madira Thetso

“…The prohibition serves as a command, while a consequence is presented with an element of a fib to avoid confronting the deep meaning that is considered taboo. …”
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Challenges and Coping Strategies of Multi-Grade Teachers by Genesis Balongkit Naparan, Ivy Leigh P. Castañeda, MaEd

“…Multigrade classes in the Philippines are usually present in Elementary schools in remote areas where few students are in one-year level. …”
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The influence of a porn literacy intervention on explicit and implicit attitudes by Marina F. Thomas, Moniek Buijzen

“…Mainstream pornography presumably influences explicit and implicit attitudes. This study presents a media literacy intervention specifically for pornography in form of a short video (3 min.) highlighting that pornography is effortfully constructed. …”
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Rollenveränderungen bei der studentischen Textproduktion mit KI. Ergebnisse einer bundesweiten Studierendenbefragung by Nora Hoffmann, Helena Grünebaum, Sarah Schmidt

“… Since the release of ChatGPT, generative AI has significantly changed student academic writing and students’ role in the writing process. This article presents the results of a survey conducted in August/September 2023, including 3,997 evaluated questionnaires. …”
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Readers’ Response to a Korean Diaspora’s Webtoon by Eva Vučkovič

“…Through narrative analysis, we can learn that the ­author, the main character of the webtoon, adheres to an American way of living, but knows Korean culture and traditions thanks to her parents who migrated to the US as young adults. …”
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The language of No: Analysing failure to attract funding in entrepreneurial TV-pitches by Ana Maria Ducasse

“…While research on entrepreneurial pitches has predominantly focused on successful funded outcomes, new entrepreneurs must also learn about avoiding pitfalls. This innovative genre study shifts the focus by exploring the language used by entrepreneurs in unsuccessful funding bids on TV pitch shows. …”
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Star Classifier Head on Deformable Attention Vision Transformer for Small Datasets by Muhammad Izzah Alfatih, Suryo Adhi Wibowo

“…This study presents a dual approach to enhance the performance of Vision Transformers (ViT) on small datasets by implementing deformable attention mechanisms and a novel Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) head with star operations. …”
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Administrative policy of the Russian Empire in the Eastern Caucasus (the case of Dagestan) by Leila Bagautdinovna Salikhova

“…They help to identify negative and positive aspects in the history of the relationship between the Russian state and the peoples of the Eastern Caucasus, allow an objective look at the past, learn lessons and experience at the present stage. …”
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