Cohabitation in Mountain Pastures: Tensions, Fantasies and Realities of Shepherds, Hut Caretakers and Outdoor Recreationists by Myriam Ribert, Émilie Crouzat, Philippe Bourdeau, Victor Andrade, Hermann Dodier

“…With shepherds facing isolation and mounting pressure from both tourism and climate change, rifts between actors are expanding as is the need for dialogue, education and mediation.…”
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Household Indebtedness in the Context of the Financialization of Social Policies by Başak Işıl Alpar

“…Furthermore, households facing deficiencies in social state welfare provision and seeking individual loans to meet their basic needs constitute an indebted society.…”
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Chinese adversarial text generation method based on punctuation insertion by ZHANG Qian, YAN Qiao

“…Current methods for generating adversarial texts in Chinese were mainly based on replacing characters with visually similar or homophonic ones. …”
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Optimizing Computational Process of High-Order Taylor Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Solving the Euler Equations by Meng Zhang, Kyosuke Yamamoto

“…After verifying its fundamental feasibility in one-dimensional tests, the optimized TDG method is applied to a two-dimensional forward-facing step problem. In all numerical tests, the optimized TDG method clearly exhibits a computational efficiency advantage over the conventional TDG method, therefore saving a great amount of time, nearly 70%. …”
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COVID-19 employment disruption and area-level deprivation by Anne Devlin, Adele Whelan, Seamus McGuinness, Paul Redmond

“…The findings suggest that not only did deprived areas have higher rates of employment disruption but the disruption they faced was more volatile in that it was more responsive to changes in government restrictions. …”
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Investigation on manhole sludge in Can Tho City by Huu Ha Giang Pham, Gia Linh Le, Duc Khanh Tran, Kim Ngan Vo, Thanh Ngoc Phuong Phan, My Phuong Nguyen, Thanh Binh Dien, Quoc Phong Ho

“… During the rainy season, Can Tho city frequently faces severe flooding on its streets. In this study, the investigation is carried out on 30 streets and 10 canals nearby the streets in the center of Can Tho city. …”
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Public awareness, concerns and attitudes towards energy transition in Kentucky by Sydney Oluoch, Nirmal Pandit, Leticia Munoz Revelo, Cecelia Harner

“…Kentucky’s coal industry has faced a sharp decline due to global concerns about climate change, the environmental impact of coal extraction, diminishing coal deposits, environmental regulations, expansion of renewables, and competitive natural gas prices. …”
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Prediction of the Characteristics of Concrete Containing Crushed Brick Aggregate by Marijana Hadzima-Nyarko, Miljan Kovačević, Ivanka Netinger Grubeša, Silva Lozančić

“…The construction industry faces the challenge of conserving natural resources while maintaining environmental sustainability. …”
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RSW-YOLO: A Vehicle Detection Model for Urban UAV Remote Sensing Images by Hao Wang, Jiapeng Shang, Xinbo Wang, Qingqi Zhang, Xiaoli Wang, Jie Li, Yan Wang

“…Vehicle detection in remote sensing images faces significant challenges due to small object sizes, scale variation, and cluttered backgrounds. …”
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Alternative proteins; A path to sustainable diets and environment by Shima Jafarzadeh, Zeinab Qazanfarzadeh, Mahsa Majzoobi, Samira Sheiband, Nazila Oladzadabbasabad, Yasaman Esmaeili, Colin J. Barrow, Wendy Timms

“…Furthermore, this article explores the current commercial applications of meat alternatives, highlighting the challenges faced in their widespread adoption and suggesting future research directions. …”
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Investigation on manhole sludge in Can Tho City by Huu Ha Giang Pham, Gia Linh Le, Duc Khanh Tran, Kim Ngan Vo, Thanh Ngoc Phuong Phan, My Phuong Nguyen, Thanh Binh Dien, Quoc Phong Ho

“… During the rainy season, Can Tho city frequently faces severe flooding on its streets. In this study, the investigation is carried out on 30 streets and 10 canals nearby the streets in the center of Can Tho city. …”
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Pretraining-improved Spatiotemporal graph network for the generalization performance enhancement of traffic forecasting by Xiangyue Zhang, Chao Li, Ling Ji, Yuyun Kang, Mingming Pan, Zhuo Liu, Qiang Qi

“…Additionally, adding or replacing datasets in a trained model requires retraining, which decreases prediction accuracy and increases time cost. …”
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Cognitive Ageing in Great Britain in the New Century: Cohort Differences in Episodic Memory. by Gindo Tampubolon

“…But studying cognitive ageing in the population faces a difficulty from the fact that older respondents are liable to leave (attrite) before study completion. …”
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Modeling of Pointing Errors in Terrestrial FSO Links Caused by Building Sway Under Wind Loads by Hasan Tahsin Toplar, Murat Uysal

“…With their high data rate capacity, free space optical (FSO) communication systems can be used for last mile access, backhauling and fiber optic replacement. Terrestrial FSO links are typically installed on building roofs and are prone to building sways due to dynamic wind loads. …”
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Complying with ethical principles in elderly and frail patients with advanced chronic kidney disease by Ana Mateus

“…Aims: To analyze ethically the problems faced in renal replacement therapy resulting from the aging of the population in Portugal. …”
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Agriculture et paysage des espaces périurbains algériens by Hadj Mohammed Maachou

“…The city of Oran is facing its spatial extension as well as the development of its economic activities within its rural periurban hinterland. …”
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Impact of vehicles reliability on the purchasing costs of spare parts by Yu. D. Ishkin, N. S. Zakharov, E. G. Ishkina

“…In this case, they are faced with the need to stock with spare parts. It was found that the costs of spare parts account for up to 45 % of all operating costs, their reduction is possible with the correct approach to planning and organization of spare parts supply. …”
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MINI Logic 1-Bit Adder: A Comparison with Hybrid NMOS-Memristor-Logic Styles Using Ta2O5/Al2O3 Based RRAM Device by NITHYA, N., PARAMASIVAM, K.

“…As conventional CMOS technology faces scaling and efficiency limitations, integrating emerging memory technologies like Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM), also known as memristor, offers a promising solution. …”
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HOW TO CREATE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (BPM) SYSTEM by B. Ye. Odintsov, A. N. Romanov

“…However, in practice, the creation of new systems faces several problems; the most important of them can be summarized as follows: search and calculation of the index which measures the manageable efficiency; transformation of network structures that reflect target causal relationships into hierarchical ones; providing soft replacement of resources in the process of performance management; the need to use multiple-argument functions in calculations designed to find the target requirements; the need to solve problems on limitations of dynamics and ways to achieve goals.The theory of back calculations providing transformation of strategic management requirements into the control requirements (target budget or target indicators) may be used as a platform to solve the above mentioned problems. …”
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FOSTERING CRITICAL THINKING AND GLOBAL AWARENESS THROUGH INNOVATIVE ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION by Khadidja Samira ZITOUNI

“…Additionally, the study assesses the challenges faced by instructors and institutions in implementing these approaches and provides recommendations for enhancing their effectiveness. …”
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