How COVID-19 Affected the Italian Personal Protective Equipment Supply Chain: An Empirical Analysis by Anna Corinna Cagliano, Antonio Carlin, Carlo Rafele, Chiara Campanale

“…However, five years after the onset of COVID-19, there is still a lack of studies focusing on Personal Protective Equipment supply chain behavior in Italy. Italy is a particularly significant case study, as it was the first Western country to be severely impacted by the pandemic. …”
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Self-Supervised Social Recommendation Algorithm Fusing Residual Networks by WANG Yujie, YANG Zhe

“…However, the existing algorithms mainly utilize the static social graph structure, which is unable to mine the potential linking relationship between users, and at the same time do not solve the noise problem in the user-item interaction behavior. Therefore, a self-supervised social recommendation algorithm incorporating residual networks is proposed. …”
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Impact of Digital Interventions in Occupational Health Care: A Systematic Review by Mirjam M. Jern-Matintupa, MD, MPH, Anita M. Riipinen, MD, PhD, Merja K. Laine, MD, PhD

“…The health targets of the interventions varied widely, but we identified 2 main focus areas: sedentary behavior (n=17, 32%) and mental health (n=14, 26%). …”
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Comparative Analysis of Lab-Data-Driven Models for International Friction Index Prediction in High Friction Surface Treatment (HFST) by Alireza Roshan, Magdy Abdelrahman

“…A laboratory design approach was created to assess the fundamental ideas behind the international friction index (IFI) concept and update the present IFI model parameters for HFST applications based on test findings to gain a better understanding of HFST performance. …”
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Encouraging Sustainable Choices Through Socially Engaged Persuasive Recycling Initiatives: A Participatory Action Design Research Study by Emilly Marques da Silva, Daniel Schneider, Claudio Miceli, António Correia

“…However, motivating users to adopt sustainable behaviors through interactive technologies presents significant psychological, cultural, and technical challenges in creating engaging and long-lasting experiences. …”
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Pandemic consequences and crisis recovery scenarios by Mariia Minchenko, Kateryna Demchuk

“…The study's relevance is that the global economy needs significant behavioral, structural, and institutional changes to stabilize the system and form the basis for further development. …”
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Effects of different mobility concepts in new residential areas by Matthias Heinrichs, Stefanie Schöne, Jakob Geischberger, María López Díaz

“…The households and inhabitants are created synthetically using statistical data derived from a survey among the first people moved in. …”
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The Impact of Seasonal Changes and Living Activities on Dwelling Patterns and the Form of Rural Houses

“…This inconsistency in style and form has led to the deformity in villages and created anonymous, unreasonable, inconsistent rural settings. …”
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TCN-Based DDoS Detection and Mitigation in 5G Healthcare-IoT: A Frequency Monitoring and Dynamic Threshold Approach by Mirza Akhi, Ciaran Eising, Lubna Luxmi Dhirani

“…A dynamic threshold strategy also provides adaptive security by averaging detected malicious behavior messages across all nodes to determine the base threshold. …”
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Relationship between regional relative theta power and amyloid deposition in mild cognitive impairment: an exploratory study by Jaesub Park, Jaesub Park, Woo Jung Kim, Woo Jung Kim, Han Wool Jung, Han Wool Jung, Jae-Jin Kim, Jae-Jin Kim, Jin Young Park, Jin Young Park, Jin Young Park

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Estimating Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Risk for the EXPOSE (Explaining Population Trends in Cardiovascular Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Health Transitions in South Africa a... by Shaun Scholes, Jennifer S Mindell, Mari Toomse-Smith, Annibale Cois, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo

“… BackgroundCardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death globally. Demographic, behavioral, socioeconomic, health care, and psychosocial variables considered risk factors for CVD are routinely measured in population health surveys, providing opportunities to examine health transitions. …”
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Dual-color optical activation and suppression of neurons with high temporal precision by Noëmie Mermet-Joret, Andrea Moreno, Agnieszka Zbela, Milad Nazari, Bárður Eyjólfsson Ellendersen, Raquel Comaposada Baro, Nathalie Krauth, Anne von Philipsborn, Andreas Toft Sørensen, Joaquin Piriz, John Yu-luen Lin, Sadegh Nabavi

“…Slice electrophysiology in the hippocampus as well as behavioral inspection of vibrissa movement demonstrate a minimal excitation from blue light. …”
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Investigating mental health disparities in rural sexual and gender minority adults: protocol for the rural exploration and approaches to LGBTQ + Mental Health (REALM) prospective c... by Shoshanna L. Fine, Kalai Willis, Iaah L. Lucas, Kirsten F. Siebach, Jennifer L. Glick, Mariah Valentine-Graves, Savannah Winter, Michael Smith, Thomas Waltz, Gina Bailey Herring, Marissa Hannah, Holly C. Wilcox, Travis Sanchez, Stefan D. Baral, Sarah M. Murray

“…Results will be used to create more targeted, acceptable, and impactful intervention content and strategies that mitigate stigma, promote mental health, and prevent suicidal behaviors among rural SGM adults.…”
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ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD APPLICATION IN FLUIDIZATION OF METALLIC PARTICLES by GABRIELA MUNTIANU, ILEANA-DENISA NISTOR, DIANA-CARMEN MIRILĂ, ANA-MARIA GEORGESCU, VASILICA-ALISA ARUȘ, NICOLETA PLATON, COSMIN JINESCU

“…These results are important for designing an installation for the fluidization of metallic particles and for predicting the behavior of a magnetically stabilized fluidized bed (MSFB). …”
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Characterization of hybrid silicate materials based on ceramic glazes and waste London underground dust by Hana Ovčačíková, Jeffrey Stephen Miller, Vlastimil Matějka, Eva Bartoníčková, Ondřej Jankovský, Jozef Vlček

“…“London underground dust” is created from train wheels and brakes grinding against steel tracks and collected in filtration systems. …”
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Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance of Cd₃P₂ by Alloying with Dirac Material Cd₃As₂ by Kunling Peng, Chenjian Fu, Yunzhen Du, Sikang Zheng, Meng Tian, Pengfei Gao, Jianjun Ying, Wenbin Yi, Xu Lu, Sheng Zhang, Guoyu Wang, Xiaoyuan Zhou

“…These results provide foundational insights into the thermoelectric behavior governed by the interplay between the semiconductor Cd₃P₂ and the Dirac material Cd₃As₂, establishing a framework for further research and performance optimization of this solid solution system.…”
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The “Cocombola Study”: A Physical Phantom Model for tDCS-Induced Electric Field Distribution by Matteo Guidetti, Rosanna Ferrara, Kora Montemagno, Natale Vincenzo Maiorana, Tommaso Bocci, Sara Marceglia, Serena Oliveri, Anna Maria Bianchi, Alberto Priori

“…The results obtained were in line with the expected behavior of the EFs. Conclusions: Watermelon might be a cheap and feasible phantom head model to characterize the EFs induced by tDCS and, potentially, even other non-invasive brain stimulation techniques.…”
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Local heterogeneous dipolar structures drive gigantic capacitive energy storage in antiferroelectric ceramics by Jiawen Hu, Peng Wang, Liqiang He, Guanglong Ge, Jinjun Liu, Tengfei Hu, Fangfang Xu, Tao Zeng, Zhengqian Fu, Jiwei Zhai, Weiping Li, Zhongbin Pan

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Graphical model analysis of subjective well-being and various factors in Japanese adults from the Iwaki cross-sectional study by Shunji Sakai, Akito Onoda, Emi Hasegawa, Ippei Kawanishi, Gakuro Ikeda, Koichi Murashita, Ken Itoh, Yoshinori Tamada, Tatsuya Mikami, Shigeyuki Nakaji, Chie Furuta

“…An undirected graph that included factors such as nutrient intake, eating behavior, mental and physical health, social situations, and SWB was created using data from 519 participants in the IHPP of 2021. …”
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T cells in cancer: mechanistic insights and therapeutic advances by Jingjing Pu, Ting Liu, Yi Zhou, Mengping Chen, Xuehang Fu, Yike Wan, Junying Wang, Binzhen Chen, Amit Sharma, Veronika Lukacs-Kornek, Ingo G.H. Schmidt-Wolf, Jian Hou

“…However, tumors often find ways to evade this immune response, creating challenges for effective treatment. In this review, we explore how different T cell subsets—including cytotoxic T cells, helper T cells, regulatory T cells, and unconventional T cells—contribute to tumor progression or suppression. …”
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