“ESG score” vs. “ESG rating”: a conceptual model for the sustainability assessment and self-assessment of European SMEs by Pina Murè, Saverio Giorgio, Saverio Giorgio, Valeria Antonelli, Antonino Crisafulli

“…Finally, the questionnaire is currently being tested at a local bank and has been proposed to SME suppliers in a specific supply chain. …”
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Bioinspired hierarchical porous tough adhesive to promote sealing of high-pressure bleeding by Yinghao Li, Dongling Xiao, Weixi Yan, Meilin Jiang, Ju Tan, Zhongliang Qin, Jingting Zhou, Yue Sun, Mingcan Yang, Guanyuan Yang, Yawei Gu, Yong Liu, Chuhong Zhu

“…Timely and stable sealing of uncontrolled high-pressure hemorrhage in emergency situations outside surgical units remains a major clinical challenge, contributing to the high mortality rate associated with trauma. The currently widely used hemostatic bioadhesives are ineffective for hemorrhage from major arteries and the heart due to the absence of biologically compatible flexible structures capable of simultaneously ensuring conformal tough adhesion and biomechanical support. …”
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High Radiation Resistance in the Binary W‐Ta System Through Small V Additions: A New Paradigm for Nuclear Fusion Materials by Matheus A. Tunes, Darren Parkison, Bochuan Sun, Patrick Willenshofer, Sebastian Samberger, Christoph Frühwirth, Shalini Tripathi, Benjamin K. Derby, Jon Kevin S. Baldwin, Saryu J. Fensin, Damian Sobieraj, Jan S. Wróbel, Jesper Byggmästar, Stefan Pogatscher, Enrique Martinez, Duc Nguyen‐Manh, Osman El‐Atwani

“…Abstract Refractory High‐Entropy Alloys (RHEAs) are promising candidates for structural materials in nuclear fusion reactors, where W‐based alloys are currently leading. …”
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DExIMA: Design Explorer for In-Memory Architectures by Andrea Coluccio, Alessio Naclerio, Marco Vacca, Giovanna Turvani, Mariagrazia Graziano, Maurizio Zamboni

“…LiM is a promising architectural and technological solution to the von Neumann Bottleneck, i.e. the performance gap between the CPU and the memory in classical CPU-Memory structures. In literature, various approaches to the LiM paradigm have been proposed. …”
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Factors that influence the preferences for telehealth among family caregivers of disabled elders: a qualitative study by Lina Guan, Guijuan Zhang, Yuyang Yi, Yaqin Liang, Xiaochun Zou, Bingsheng Guan, Yanya Chen, Wai-kit Ming

“…Telehealth has significantly alleviated the burden on family caregivers, both subjectively and objectively. It is currently utilized in family care settings for various populations, including disabled elderly individuals and children. …”
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Model Tests of Concrete-Filled Fiber Reinforced Polymer Tube Composite Pile Under Cyclic Lateral Loading by Chao Yang, Guoliang Dai, Weiming Gong, Yuxuan Wang, Mingxing Zhu, Shaolei Huo

“…However, their performance under cyclic lateral loads, such as those induced by waves and currents, requires further investigation. This study conducted model tests on 11 FRP composite piles embedded in sand to evaluate their behavior under cyclic lateral loading. …”
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African swine fever virus infection of porcine peripheral blood monocyte-derived macrophages induces the formation of tunneling nanotube-connected large vesicle-like cell segments:... by Brecht Droesbeke, Nadège Balmelle, Hans J. Nauwynck, Herman Favoreel, Marylène Tignon

“…Despite the severity of the disease, there are currently no effective antiviral treatments available in Europe. …”
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A Distributed and Scalable Framework for Low-Latency Continuous Trajectory Stream Processing by Salman Ahmed Shaikh, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Akiyoshi Matono, Kyoung-Sook Kim

“…Conversely, while scalable SPEs do exist, they lack the necessary data structures, operators, and indices essential for processing trajectory streams. …”
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Magnetothermal transport in ultraclean single crystals of Kitaev magnet α-RuCl3 by Y. Xing, R. Namba, K. Imamura, K. Ishihara, S. Suetsugu, T. Asaba, K. Hashimoto, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda, Y. Kasahara

“…This width reduction can be understood through two distinct mechanisms: sample-dependent magnetic critical fields that influence the lower boundary of the plateau region, and the decoupling between chiral Majorana edge currents and phononic thermal transport that determines the upper boundary. …”
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Kinetics of Proton Transfer and String of Conformational Transformation for 4-Pyridone-3-carboxylic Acid Under External Electric Field by Ya-Wen Li, Rui-Zhi Feng, Xiao-Jiang Li, Ai-Chuan Liu, En-Lin Wang

“…In order to explore the essence of the anticoccidiosis of anticoccidial drugs under bioelectric currents, the intermolecular double-proton transfer and conformational transformation of 4-pyridone-3-carboxylic acid were investigated by quantum chemistry calculations (at the M06-2X/6-311++G**, M06-2X/aug-cc-pVTZ and CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ levels) and finite temperature string (FTS) under external electric fields. …”
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Assessment of the Effect of Deleting the African Swine Fever Virus Gene <i>R298L</i> on Virus Replication and Virulence of the Georgia2010 Isolate by Elizabeth Ramirez-Medina, Lauro Velazquez-Salinas, Alyssa Valladares, Ediane Silva, Leeanna Burton, Douglas P. Gladue, Manuel V. Borca

“…African swine fever (ASF) is a lethal disease of domestic pigs that is currently challenging swine production in large areas of Eurasia. …”
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Recommendations for standardizing biopsy acquisition and histological assessment of immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated colitis by Brian G Feagan, Vipul Jairath, Reetesh K Pai, Rish K Pai, Amitabh Srivastava, Christopher Ma, Christophe Rosty, David F Schaeffer, Roger M Feakins, Gregory Y Lauwers, Jonathan Krell, Richard Kirsch, Leonardo Guizzetti, John K MacDonald, Won-Tak Choi, Stefanie C McFarlane, Joanna C. Walsh

“…Results were discussed between rounds using moderated videoconferences. There are currently no disease-specific instruments for assessing histological features of ICIC. …”
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5-Azacytidine-Induced Cardiomyocyte Differentiation of Very Small Embryonic-Like Stem Cells by XiaoLin Sun, HongXiao Li, Ye Zhu, Pei Xu, QiSheng Zuo, BiChun Li, Xiang Gu

“…The use of stem cells in generating cell-based pacemaker therapies for bradyarrhythmia is currently being considered. Due to the propensity of stem cells to form tumors, as well as ethical issues surrounding their use, the seed cells used in cardiac biological pacemakers have limitations. …”
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Investing in the development of the next generation of MCH leaders by Karen A. McDonnell, Jamal Percy, Lisa Anders, Monique J. Brown, Alice R. Richman, Julianna Deardorff, Monica S. Ruiz, Jihong Liu, Kelli Russell, Audrey Snyder, Cassondra Marshall

“…These programs also make changes to organizational structures that reflect the geographic and demographic representation of their communities. …”
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Efficiency analysis of the Chilean sawmill industry by Wilson Alexander Mejías Caballero, Pamela Poblete, Janina Gysling, Indroneil Ganguly, Daniel Sepúlveda Oehninger

“…One notable issue is the decline in the number of active sawmill units, with only 61 currently producing sawn wood with structural characteristics. …”
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A Multiphysics Dataset Generation Procedure for the Data-Driven Modeling of Traction Electric Motors by Simone Ferrari, Luigi Solimene, Riccardo Torchio, Costanza Anerdi, Fabio Freschi, Luca Giaccone, Gianmarco Lorenti, Francesco Lucchini, Piergiorgio Alotto, Gianmario Pellegrino, Maurizio Repetto

“…., electromagnetic, thermal, structural, etc.) can no longer be neglected, even in preliminary designs. …”
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A Novel Dynamic Characteristic for Detecting Breathing Cracks in Blades Based on Vibration Response Envelope Analysis by Minghao Pan, Yongmin Yang, Fengjiao Guan, Haifeng Hu, Zifang Bian, Wenkang Huang, Bohao Xiao, Ang Li

“…Fatigue cracks in blades pose a significant threat to the safe operation of rotating machinery. Currently, the application of non-contact displacement sensors in blade vibration measurements has enabled the widespread analysis of nonlinear dynamic characteristics, such as natural frequency deviations and spectral anomalies, to enhance crack fault diagnosis in rotating machinery. …”
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Indigenous Peoples’ responses to evacuation for birth in Ontario: conceptualizing risk through an Indigenous midwifery-led approach by Erika Campbell, Melanie Murdock, Sarah Durant, Carole Couchie, Carmel Meekis, Charitie Rae, Julie Kenequanash, Lisa Boivin, Jacob Barry, Arthi Erika Jeymohan, Karen Lawford

“…Abstract Background Currently, pregnant Indigenous Peoples living in remote, rural, and northern Indigenous communities in Canada are subjected to evacuation birth policy, whereby they are evacuated out of their community to large, urban hospitals to give birth. …”
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How Dryland-to-Paddy Conversion Affects the Carbon Emission Efficiency in the Short Term: Evidence from Soil Carbon-Fixing Bacteria and the Carbon Pool in an Experimental Study by Yongjun Yang, Renjie Gong, Xuyue Pan, Xiaoxiao Li, Ziyi Hua, Jing Ma, Xueying Duan, Fu Chen

“…An illustrative example of this form of land consolidation is the conversion from dryland to paddy fields, which has changed the ecological environment of farmlands, resulting in significant effects on carbon fixation and emissions. However, there currently exists a deficiency in essential understanding regarding the short-term effects of dryland-to-paddy conversion on ecological processes tied to soil carbon-fixation bacteria and carbon emission efficiency (CEE). …”
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Association of valproate use and hippocampal atrophy in idiopathic generalized epilepsy by Xiang Huang, Yingying Zhang, Qiuxing Lin, Kailing Huang, Yuming Li, Peiwen Liu, Danyang Cao, Wenhao Li, Wei Li, Xiuli Li, Qiyong Gong, Dong Zhou, Dongmei An

“…Objective: Recent studies revealed the effect of valproate (VPA) on brain structural changes in idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE). …”
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