Seamless global daily soil moisture mapping using deep learning based spatiotemporal fusion by Menghui Jiang, Tian Qiu, Ting Wang, Chao Zeng, Boxuan Zhang, Huanfeng Shen

“…Soil moisture products with long-term, high spatial continuity, and high accuracy are essential for meteorological management and hydrological monitoring. …”
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The politics of internet freedom rankings by Tetyana Lokot, Mariëlle Wijermars

“…Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net, that have become powerful “global pattern-setters” for how internet freedom is understood and are used as tools of political or diplomatic influence. …”
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Inequalities in health behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic – a commentary by Aleksandra Herbeć

“…These findings suggest that in addition to focusing on behaviours that are aimed at health protection, public health policies and measures deployed during pandemics should continue to include interventions aimed at health promotion and prevention (e.g. physical activity and balanced diet during lockdowns).…”
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Kleinschalige productieruimte behouden in de stad: de casus van Brusselse bouwbedrijven (1965-2016) by Sarah De Boeck, Matthijs Degraeve, Frederik Vandyck

“…It shows that in both 1965 and 2016 construction companies have a scattered distribution pattern over the Region's built-up area, that they follow the Region's built-up expansions and that they have a strong path dependence. …”
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Precision neuropsychology in the area of AI by Astri J. Lundervold

“…Key opportunities include enhanced pattern recognition in traditional assessments (e.g., digital clock drawing), continuous monitoring of symptom fluctuations (e.g., Attention Deficit Disorder), and personalized assessment and treatment procedures based on individual needs (e.g., learning disorders). …”
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The PRC’s UNSC Policy Evolution by A. M. Galimullin

“…An analysis of the veto use after 2013 testifies to the fact that Xi Jinping not only continued the line of his predecessor in the UNSC, but also further developed into an even more proactive one. …”
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Habitat and Spatio-Temporal Interaction Between Green Peafowl with Cattle and Megaherbivores in Baluran National Park by Satyawan Pudyatmoko

“…Green peafowl (Pavo muticus muticus) is an endangered species, whose population is continuously declining. It is protected animal in Indonesia that occurs in remnant, and sometime small habitat with high hunting pressure, that made the animal prone to extinction. …”
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L’âme des machines dans The Ghost in the Shell by Bounthavy Suvilay

“…In Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow aimed to publicize the concept of holons continuing the reasoning of Arthur Koestler in order to apply it to the computer. …”
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Maintaining small-scale production space in the city: the case of Brussels construction companies (1965-2016) by Sarah De Boeck, Matthijs Degraeve, Frederik Vandyck

“…It shows that in both 1965 and 2016 construction companies have a scattered distribution pattern over the Region's built-up area, that they follow the Region's built-up expansions and that they have a strong path dependence. …”
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Angle Modulated Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms for Feature Selection by Gürcan Yavuz, Doğan Aydin

“…Optimal feature subset selection is an important and a difficult task for pattern classification, data mining, and machine intelligence applications. …”
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A stochastic evaluation for non-stationary random noise over a long time period based on local statinarity and its application to actual acoustics environment by K. Nashimura, M. Ohta

“…For a non-stationarity with continuously slow temporal change, the noise evaluation method is derived by considering the temporal change of moment statistics or distribution parameters. …”
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Lorazepam provocation test in purported schizophrenia with lack of treatment response by John E. Berg

“…Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) gave some symptom relief and he continued on maintenance ECT for years with weekly intervals. …”
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Confucian egalitarianism: gender-role attitudes of Chinese in Ireland by Jianfei Niu, Gerard Boucher

“…The females experienced few changes in their social interactions with significant others and reference groups who continued to impose Confucian gender expectations on them. …”
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Les nouveaux internats d’éducation prioritaire. Apports et limites de dispositifs pédagogiques contemporains d'accompagnement scolaire by Laurent Lescouarch, Filippo Pirone

“…In this paper we analyse the pedagogical pattern offered by those boarding schools which have recently been created in education action zones as a new school support shape. …”
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The status of China's international division of labour from Marx's theory of international value. by Hui Ouyang, Huaibing Chen, Johnny Fat Iam Lam, Xianke Li

“…Based on Marx's theory of international value, this paper analyzes the carrier of unequal exchange and the path of international transfer of surplus value, constructs an international division of labour status index by comprehensively observing the organic composition of capital in the export and import sectors, and tries to accurately grasp the characteristics of the current international division of labour pattern coexisting between horizontal products and vertical products. …”
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Unveiling the Efficiency of the Moment Distribution Method: A Geometric Series Perspective by Mahdi Nouri

“…The moment distribution method, originally introduced by Hardy Cross in his influential publication “Analysis of Continuous Frames by Distributing Fixed-End Moments” (published in Transactions of the ASCE, 1932;96(1793):1–10), is widely recognized as a fundamental aspect of both structural engineering and global education. …”
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Towards Gender Equality a Comparative Analysis of Gender Attitudes in Africa by Felicia Masenu

“… Gender attitudes and its factors continue to be debated in an era where gender equality remains a priority to countries in the world. …”
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Maintenir l’espace de production de petite taille en ville : le cas des entreprises de construction bruxelloises (1965-2016) by Sarah De Boeck, Matthijs Degraeve, Frederik Vandyck

“…It shows that in both 1965 and 2016 construction companies have a scattered distribution pattern over the Region's built-up area, that they follow the Region's built-up expansions and that they have a strong path dependence. …”
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A Case Report of Successful Cataract Surgery in Theil-Behnke Corneal Dystrophy: A Visual Rehabilitation for the Patient by Radhika Paranjpe, Varsha Manade, Preethi Abraham, Khushboo Goyal, Surbhi Chodvadiya

“…Conclusion: Despite its rarity, Thiel-Behnke dystrophy along with cataract can severely impair vision, making early diagnosis and continuous monitoring crucial for preventing further visual decline. …”
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Foxed intra- and interspecific differentiation in <em>Leptogorgia</em> (Octocorallia: Gorgoniidae). A description of a new species based on multiple sources of evidence by M. Mar Soler-Hurtado, César Megina, Annie Machordom, Pablo J. López-González

“…This is particularly true in the case of gorgonian diversity, in which only classical morphological characters (e.g. branching pattern, size and colouration of the colony and sclerites, etc.), which can be homoplastic and continuous, have been used. …”
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