“It may just be aging”: illness representations of Brazilians with Alzheimer’s disease by Paula Gasparini Emery Trindade, Marcia Cristina Nascimento Dourado

“…Different perspectives with regards to illness may be influenced by distinct cultures. …”
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A Blockchain-Assisted Cross-Domain Authentication and Key Negotiation Scheme in IIoT by Zhengnan Xu, Guofang Dong, Ruicheng Yang

“…Finally, we analyze the security and performance of the scheme, and the results show that the scheme can efficiently verify data integrity and add the functions of key update, user dynamic update, and semi-trusted third-party dynamic update. …”
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The Influence of Stakeholder Involvement in the Adoption of Digital Technologies in the UK Construction Industry by Boroto Hwabamungu, Paul Shepherd

“…Thematic analysis of twenty-four semi-structured interviews and sixty survey responses, which were conducted with different digital technologies adoption actors in the construction industry, allowed the identification of six final themes depicting the influence of stakeholder involvement in the adoption of digital technologies. …”
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Enhanced Deep Autoencoder-Based Reinforcement Learning Model with Improved Flamingo Search Policy Selection for Attack Classification by Dharani Kanta Roy, Hemanta Kumar Kalita

“…The proposed work introduces an intelligent semi-supervised intrusion detection system based on different algorithms to classify the network attacks accurately. …”
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Énergétique et régulation de la fonction de reproduction chez des femelles captives Babouins Olive (Papio anubis) by Cécile Garcia

“…A 2-year follow-up was carried out for a sample of 23 multiparous and semi-free living lactating female baboons. There were no rank-related differences in mean energy intakes among the females. …”
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The role of society and family in adolescents’ disaster resilience: A qualitative study by Mohammad Ali Rezaei, Neda Mohammadinia

“…The data were collected via in-depth and semi-structured interviews and analyzed with the steps suggested by Granheim and lundman method. …”
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Interactive Effect of Residue Quality and Agroecologies Modulate Soil C- and N-Cycling Enzyme Activities, Microbial Gene Abundance, and Metabolic Quotient by Birhanu Agumas, Getachew Agegnehu, Tesfaye Feyisa

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A Bioclimatic Design Approach to the Energy Efficiency of Farm Wineries: Formulation and Application in a Study Area by Verónica Jiménez-López, Anibal Luna-León, Gonzalo Bojórquez-Morales, Stefano Benni

“…This study provides valuable insights into the effectiveness of different architectural approaches, offering guidelines for the design of functional buildings for wine production, besides presenting energy-efficient solutions for wineries tailored to the climatic conditions of the study region. …”
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Photosynthetic response of Solidago gigantea Aition and Calamagrostis epigejos L. (Roth) to complex environmental stress on heavy metal contaminated sites by Wojciech Bąba, Agnieszka Kompała-Bąba, Edyta Sierka, Wojciech Bierza

“…Abstract Studies of in situ plant response and adaptation to complex environmental stresses, are crucial for understanding the mechanisms of formation and functioning of ecosystems of anthropogenically transformed habitats. …”
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Construction of a theoretical framework for the downstream effects of social alienation in young-onset dementia patients based on grounded theory by KANG Yun, SHAO Yan, PENG Guihai, ZHU Shuzhen, LI Longti

“…Objective To explore and construct a theoretical framework for the downstream effects of social alienation in youny-onset dementia (YOD) patients, based on grounded theory methodology.Methods Purpose sampling was employed, and data were collected from January to March 2023 at 3 top tertiary hospitals and 6 community health service centers in Shiyan city, patients with YOD and their caregivers at different levels and stages of cognitive function of the disease courses as study subjects. …”
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Réinvestir le saltus dans la pensée agronomique moderne : vers un nouveau front eco-politique ? by Xavier Poux, Jean-Baptiste Narcy, Blandine Ramain

“…In the French context, the Grenelle de l’environnement is being promoting a so-called “green and blue corridor” (“trame verte et bleue”) as a key-reference for spatial planning at different levels. Such corridor should incorporate the above-mentioned agricultural features, forming altogether the semi-natural vegetation (SNV).One could interpret this shift as a come-back of the saltus (from the ancient trilogy ager [= cultivated land], silva [= forested land] and saltus [=between the two formers, open and uncultivated land formed of herbaceous vegetation or low height scrubs]), as the ecological objects aimed at in environmental policies are indeed components of saltus. …”
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Buffalo meat quality, processing, and marketing: harnessing its benefits and nutraceutical potential by Sebastiana Failla

“… Buffalo meat production is growing in different countries also because buffalo products exhibit some positive characteristics for human health compared to red meats from other species. …”
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One‐Fit‐All Transformer for Multimodal Geophysical Inversion: Method and Application by Yiran Jiang, Jianwei Ma, Jieyuan Ning, Jiaqi Li, Han Wu, Tiezhao Bao

“…Additionally, the framework incorporates a novel semi‐supervised training strategy to explore empirical relationships for prediction uncertainty estimation, ultimately providing more comprehensive inversion results. …”
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Sustainable Soil Management in Alkaline Soils: The Role of Biochar and Organic Nitrogen in Enhancing Soil Fertility by Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, Abdul Basir, Syed Tanveer Shah, Monsif Ur Rehman, Mehmood ul Hassan, Hongbing Zheng, Abdul Basit, Árpád Székely, Aftab Jamal, Emanuele Radicetti, Yaser Hassan Dewir, Roberto Mancinelli

“…Biochar (BC) serves a vital function in sequestering carbon, improving nutrient cycles, and boosting overall soil quality. …”
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Market-Oriented Agriculture and Food Security: Evidence from Vegetable Farmers of Korhogo, Northern Côte d’Ivoire by Mamadou Kone, Shadrack Kipkogei, Simon Ncho, De Zhou

“…Market-oriented agriculture functions as a critical mechanism by which rural farmers can alleviate poverty and enhance food security, and it is actively promoted in Côte d’Ivoire. …”
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Real-Time Recognition and Localization of Kiwifruit Based on Improved YOLOv5s Algorithm by Jin-Sui Dai, Zhi-Qin He

“…First, data enhancement is implemented in the training strategy to ensure the model’s efficient learning and generalization ability in complex environments; then the Coordinate Attention mechanism is introduced to highlight the key features of the image and improve detail detection; Secondly, the Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network structure is used to optimize the feature fusion and strengthen the information exchange between different layers through bidirectional connectivity; then, the loss function is optimized to improve the bounding box localization accuracy; and finally, the combined with the binocular vision stereo matching algorithm Semi-Global Block Matching to obtain the spatial location information of Kiwifruit. …”
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Calculation of the molecular properties of five cephalosporins: cephradine, cephalexin, cefadroxil, cefprozil and ceftobiprole by Elso Manuel Cruz Cruz, Eslhey María Sánchez Domínguez

“…Molecular geometries were optimized with semi-empirical calculations, according to the parameterized number three model. …”
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Investigating Indonesian university students’ attitudes toward ELF-informed materials in business English contexts by Wulandari Santoso, Fuad Abdul Hamied, Ahmad Bukhori Muslim

“…Despite the limited scope of this study, the findings indicate that the exposure to ELF-informed materials needs to be accompanied by the provision of awareness-raising tasks which utilize the noticing strategy to allow learners to pay attention to different language functions, features, and varieties in authentic spoken and written texts produced within ELF business settings.…”
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Knowledge and use of the digital platform of institutional documents by pharmacy professionals: a diagnosis by Elice Maria SILVA, Camila Nascimento MONTEIRO, Carlos Moreira CUNHA

“…The results were obtained by applying a semi-structured questionnaire to pharmacy professionals at the hospital under study, with different job titles and work shifts. …”
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The Sound Quality Characteristics of the Gan Opera Ancestral Temple Theater Based on Impulse Response: A Case Study of Zhaomutang in Leping, Jiangxi Province by Haoran Leng, Wei Xiong, Bo Zhou

“…In contrast, the Qintang has a relatively weak early sound energy because of its volume and functional constraints. Still, its overall reverberation time is not significantly different from that in the other areas. …”
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