HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: CONSTITUENT FEATURES AND LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES by Olga A. Leontovich, Anna A. Khanova

“…While historians extensively research narrative and use a significant number of concepts that linguists traditionally see as their own, the properties of historical narrative have not received sufficient coverage in linguistics yet. This article analyses the similarities and differences in the approach to narrative by historians and linguists, formulates the linguistic criteria of narrativity and discusses the relationship between factuality and fictionality. …”
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Tropospheric water vapor retrievals by Ground-Based GNSS in Africa: A systematic review by Tine Moustapha Gning, Bosser Pierre, Ndiaye Mapathé

“…From databases and several query strings, this study examines in different ways the evidence-based studies of water vapor retrieval from African Ground-Based GNSS using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol and specific criteria. 30 articles of empirical studies published between 2000 and June 2024 were analysed in depth vis-a-vis research questions. …”
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Landslide monitoring using PS-InSAR: a cost-effective approach for the Himalayas by Koshish Pangeni, Kishan Dhakal, Diwakar K.C., Bhim Kumar Dahal

“…To overcome the high cost and limited spatial coverage of in-situ instrumentation, this study applies Sentinel-1 C band imagery and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) for landslide monitoring and evaluation of the slow-moving Guthitar landslide along the Dharan-Dhankuta road in Nepal. …”
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Facilitators and barriers to supply-side maternal, newborn, and child health service availability in DRC: a systematic review and narrative synthesis by Rani Duff, Ffyona Patel, Alexandre Dumouza, Lisanne Brown, Narcisse Embeke, Joseph Fataki, Mignote Haile, Abigail Conners, Caleigh Pickett

“… # Methods Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, authors searched two databases and grey literature, using the Quality Assessment with Diverse Studies tool to assess quality. …”
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Planning a high-frequency transfer-based bus network: How do we get there? by Emily Grise, Anson Stewart, Ahmed El-Geneidy

“…A variety of data sources that capture regional travel behavior and network performance are overlaid using a GIS-based grid-cell model to identify priority bus corridors. A series of analyses to measure and quantify anticipated and actual improvements from the proposed bus network redesign are conducted, including coverage analysis, change in accessibility to jobs, and travel time analysis. …”
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Long-term care insurance and labor-force participation of adult children: an analysis of substitution and anticipation effects by Yang Yi, Jinghong Gu, Qinglin Xu, Hai Gu

“…To maximize workforce and social welfare benefits, policymakers should expand LTCI coverage, strengthen community care services, and focus support on high-burden caregiver groups.…”
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Economic evaluations of vaccines against respiratory infections in adults in Southeast Asia: A systematic review by Ba Khuong Cao, Rachmadianti Sukma Hanifa, Thi-Phuong-Lan Nguyen, Maarten J. Postma, Jurjen van der Schans

“…The most common parameters considered in sensitivity analyses were vaccine efficacy and discount rates. …”
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Exploring the urban gradient in population health: insights from satellite-derived urbanicity classes across multiple countries and years in sub-Saharan Africa by Lenka Benova, Peter M Macharia, Jessie Pinchoff, Cameron Taylor

“…The definitions used vary between countries and over time hindering analyses of the relationship between urbanisation and health outcomes, evaluation of policy actions and results in uncertainties in estimated differences. …”
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Russian Science and Technology Foresight – 2030: Key Features and First Results by Alexander Sokolov, Alexander Chulok

“…It concludes with a discussion of some barriers still to be overcome in Foresight studies: integration of sectoral visions, deeper analyses of some scientific disciplines, stronger integration into policy making, and spreading among business and research communities.      …”
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Framing Ageing as a Medical Problem: Public Discourses on Older Adults, Health Risks and Tecnoscientific Solutions in the UK and Italy by Francesco Miele, Federico Neresini, Emanuele Di Buccio

“…These articles underwent a quantitative analysis based on topic modelling techniques to identify and analyse the relevant topics. In parallel, we developed some synthetic indices to support the analysis of how news about older people is “biomedicalised” in media coverage. …”
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A large-scale dataset of AI-related tweets: Structure and descriptive statisticsGitHubDataverse by Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, Daniel Kouloukoui, Thierry Warin

“…While additional linguistic features—such as text length and tokenization—were used in internal analyses, they are not included in the public release. …”
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Viral suppression among patients in HIV/AIDS care at healthcare facilities in Ethiopia: Same-day antiretroviral initiation. by Kidanu Hurisa Chachu, Kefiloe Adolphina Maboe

“…Additionally, enhancing viral load testing coverage at 6, 12, and 24 months is crucial to ensure sustained viral suppression.…”
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Preliminary Study on Soil Mineral Identification in Erbil Province by Dawod Rasooli Keya, Hemn Othman Salih, Zewar Zainal Omar, Ismail Anwer Said

“…A systematic sampling approach was employed, ensuring adequate coverage of the study area. 80 soil samples were collected from various locations and depths, and a combination of field observations and laboratory analyses was conducted to identify and characterize soil minerals. …”
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Exploring Legislative Textual Data in Brazilian Portuguese: Readability Analysis and Knowledge Graph Generation by Gisliany Lillian Alves de Oliveira, Breno Santana Santos, Marianne Silva, Ivanovitch Silva

“…Nevertheless, challenges remain in resolving entity ambiguity and achieving full relationship coverage. Additionally, readability analyses using metrics for Brazilian Portuguese revealed that ALRN proposals require superior reading skills due to their technical style. …”
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Accurate human genome analysis with element avidity sequencing by Andrew Carroll, Alexey Kolesnikov, Daniel E. Cook, Lucas Brambrink, Kelly N. Wiseman, Sophie M. Billings, Semyon Kruglyak, Bryan R. Lajoie, Junhua Zhao, Shawn E. Levy, Cory Y. McLean, Kishwar Shafin, Maria Nattestad, Pi-Chuan Chang

“…We show that longer insert sizes result in even higher accuracy, with long insert Element sequencing giving more accurate genome analyses at all coverages. Conclusions New options for sequencing technologies can analyze genomes comparably or better than prior standard methods.…”
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Comparative analysis of rainfall data from remote sensing and surface stations in the Paracatu river basin, Brazilian Cerrado by Maycow Douglas de Oliveira Silva, Paulo Sérgio Cardoso Batista, Sharrine Omari D. de Oliveira Marra, Marinaldo Loures Ferreira

“…In areas with limited terrestrial station coverage, satellite-based products such as the Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) have become particularly valuable. …”
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THE COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ACTIVITIES AIMED TO CONTROL THE SPREAD OF HIV/TB CO-INFECTION IN NORTH-WEST RUSSIA by Z. M. Zagdyn, E. V. Verbitskaya, E. G. Sokolovich, N. A. Belyakov

“…The epidemiological and clinical analyses were based on the reporting forms of Rosstat on tuberculosis and HIV, data from analytical reports on monitoring visits and data from the questionnaires developed by the authors, for 2007-2017. …”
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Implications of low-carbon policies on the agricultural sector: a systematic review by Syarifah Mardhiah Syed Salim, Siti Indati Mustapa

“…This review evaluates the impact of GHG emissions from agricultural sector by employing the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology to analyse 49 peer-reviewed articles published between 2019 and 2024. …”
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Routing Protocols and Mobility Predictions for UAV Data Collection From Agricultural Sites: A Survey by Khemis Ben Samuel, Stephen D. Wolthusen, Julianne Sansa Otim, Roseline Nyongarwizi Akol, Mary Nsabagwa

“…Optimizations minimize the coverage time and energy consumption. As routing protocols operate on the network layer, this review analyses articles that include cross-layer issues, modelling, and predictions. …”
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Determining the Critical Intensity for Crack Initiation in Concrete Arch Dams by Endurance Time Method by Mohammadreza Mashayekhi, Hasan Mostafaei

“…Determining this parameter using conventional time history analyses requires multiple trials and errors applying several up and down scaling of a suite of ground motions which can be very time consuming. …”
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