Responsibilities and Limits of Local Government Actions against Users of Public Services of Planning and Sustainable Territorial Development in Romania by Bogdan Suditu, Mariana Nae, Silviu Neguţ, Aurel Gheorghilaş

“…The implementation of decentralization and local public autonomy has led to the capitalization of the local potential of some administrative divisions and caused a competition and a difficult cooperation between them. …”
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Effect of Phytohormones of Kinetin and Epibrassinolide on Content and Intracellular Localization of Glucosides and Free Amino Acids in Pea Plants Cells (Pisum sativum L.) by Antonina N. Ershova, Natalia Vinokurova

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Localization of Conveyor Belt Damages Using a Deep Neural Network and a Hybrid Method for 1D Sequential Data Augmentation by Iwona Komorska, Andrzej Puchalski, Damian Bzinkowski

“…The application of the LSTM-AM algorithm allows for real-time monitoring of conveyor operation and facilitates precise localization and estimation of damage size through data synchronization.…”
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Improving Phrase Segmentation in Symbolic Folk Music: A Hybrid Model with Local Context and Global Structure Awareness by Xin Guan, Zhilin Dong, Hui Liu, Qiang Li

“…To address these issues, we propose a segmentation method integrating local context enhancement and global structure awareness. …”
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Local Scour Around Marine Structures: A Comprehensive Review of Influencing Factors, Prediction Methods, and Future Directions by Bingchuan Duan, Duoyin Wang, Chenxi Qin, Lunliang Duan

“…Local scour is a phenomenon of sediment erosion and transport caused by the dynamic interaction between water flow and seabed sediment, posing a serious threat to the safety of marine engineering structures such as cross-sea bridges and offshore wind turbines. …”
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Analysis of Compliance and Audit Opinion Correlation and Causes of Failure in Detecting Non-Compliance a Study on Local Government by Abdullah Lathif Elbaaqy Habiby, Irwan Taufiq Ritonga

“…This study aims to analyze the correlation between level of local government compliance with laws/regulations and audit opinions on Local Government Financial Statements (LGFS) and to identify causes of failure in detecting non-compliance, including non-compliance that contains elements of fraud, in LGFS audit. …”
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A Modified Sine Cosine Algorithm Based on A Novel Locally Weighted Method for Global Optimization Problems by Shahad Mohammed, Nazar Hussein, Mohammed Alkahya

“…The sine cosine algorithm (SCA), a recently discovered population-based optimization technique, is used to resolve optimization issues. In this research, the study proposes employing the LWSCA (Locally Weighted Sine Cosine Algorithm) as a hybrid approach to enhance the performance of the original SCA (Sine Cosine Algorithm) and mitigate its limitations. …”
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GCML: Geometric Correlation Encoding Network With Multi-Scale Local Feature Extraction for Accurate Point Cloud Registration by Jinlei Zhuang, Ziteng Wang, Weiqiang Ma

“…For the second problem, GCML proposes a multi-scale local feature perception module (MLFP) that integrates multi-scale local features of point clouds during the feature enhancement stage. …”
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GU-Net3+: A Global-Local Feature Fusion Algorithm for Building Extraction in Remote Sensing Images by Yali Liu, Cui Ni, Peng Wang, Dongqing Yang, Hexin Yuan, Chao Ma

“…Global features can help the model better recognize the overall structure of large buildings and provide contextual background information when segmenting small buildings to avoid mis-segmentation. Local features focus on extracting details and edge information, enabling a precise description of the target’s local shape and texture details. …”
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Local Climate Change Adaptation under the Lenses of Public Health: A Case Study from Porto, Portugal by José Pedro Silva, Gloria Macassa, Henrique Barros, Ana Isabel Ribeiro

“…Discussion/Conclusion: In Porto, health seems both a powerful mobilizing issue and a central topic concerning local adaptation. …”
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Remote Sensing Image Compression via Wavelet-Guided Local Structure Decoupling and Channel–Spatial State Modeling by Jiahui Liu, Lili Zhang, Xianjun Wang

“…The Wavelet Transform-guided Local Structure Decoupling (WTLS) module applies multi-scale wavelet decomposition to disentangle and separately encode low- and high-frequency components, enabling efficient parallel modeling of global contours and local textures. …”
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A novel potential outlier recognition approach considering local heterogeneity enhancement to improve the quality of soil datasets by Yongji Wang, Mingjun Yang, Meizi Wang, Jiayang Lv, Shuhao Yuan, Shaoqi Li, Zihan Wang, Jipeng Zhang, Qingwen Qi, Yanjun Ye

“…Local indicators of spatial association (LISA) can address this limitation by examining the local spatial structures inherent in soil data. …”
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A Refined Terrace Extraction Method Based on a Local Optimization Model Using GF-2 Images by Guobin Kan, Jie Gong, Bao Wang, Xia Li, Jing Shi, Yutao Ma, Wei Wei, Jun Zhang

“…Moreover, leveraging deep learning (DL) models with local adaptive improvements can further enhance the accuracy of interpretation by exploring latent information. …”
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Mental health and the healthy immigrant effect in Chile: a comparative cross-sectional study with international migrants and locals by Alice Blukacz, Marcela Oyarte, Báltica Cabieses, Báltica Cabieses, Paula Madrid, Alexandra Obach

“…IntroductionThe question of whether international migrants appear to be in better health than the locals, and whether this “healthy immigrant effect” declines over time is a highly relevant one, especially with regards to mental health. …”
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Understanding stakeholder relationships and local context to build a community-based one health surveillance system in Guinea by Maxime Tesch, Abdoulaye Touré, Saa André Tolno, Hélène De Nys, Mathieu Bourgarel, Mamadou Alimou Barry, Mohamed Idriss Doumbouya, Marisa Peyre, Marie-Marie Olive

“…This crisis, caused in part by increased human contact with wildlife, was exacerbated by the lack of preparedness within the health sector of the affected countries, including inadequate surveillance of disease emergence from wildlife. Given that local communities face the greatest exposure to these issues, this study sought to acquire the contextual knowledge needed to set up community-based zoonotic disease surveillance. …”
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Outcomes of the Fifth International Conference on Bioscience and Biotechnology, 2024 (ICBB-2024): Planetary Health—A Local Discourse by Suvechhya Bastola, Maria Alba Abad, Anurag Adhikari, Gaurav Adhikari, Aagat Awasthi, Ashim Dhakal, Rijan Maharjan, Rojlina Manandhar, Rukumesh Paudyal, Sunil Pokhrel, Amina Singh, Neha Shrestha, Lekhendra Tripathee, Remco Kort, Prajwal Rajbhandari

“…The event drew inspiration from the European Planetary Health Hub, convening and exploring sustainable, locally relevant solutions to global planetary health issues. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Approach to Forecasting Crude Oil Prices Using Local Mean Decomposition, ARIMA, and XGBoost by Jawaria Nasir, Muhammad Aamir, Soofia Iftikhar, A. B. Albidah, Ohud A. Alqasem, Maysaa E. A. Elwahab, Ilyas Khan, Wei Sin Koh

“…Crude oil in its usage and process brings about several issues that affect the environment including soiling of the air and water and the release of greenhouse gases leading to changes in the climate. …”
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Helyi önkormányzati autonómia: mi változik, mi marad? (Autonomy of local governments: what will change, what will remain?) by Katalin Adél Rámhápné Radics

“…In Hungary, the autonomy of local governments has always been an important issue in balancing local democracy with central state control. …”
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Powers of local governments in the field of security of settlements on the example of flight permits: monitoring of legislation and law enforcement practice by Ekaterina S. Shugrina

“…It is shown that powers of local governments to issue permits for flights are not based on the law and are contained only in by-laws. …”
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SDG 5 and Local Action Plan Challenges on Protection and Empowerment of Women and Children in Central Java’s Social Conflicts by Sabhita Kusuma Ayusia, Adi Setyorini Fitri, Ramadhanti Wita, Murniati Tri, Huda Marwan Nurul

“…The 2000 UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security was adopted in Indonesia through the National Action Plan for the Protection and Empowerment of Women and Children in Social Conflict (NAP P3AKS). At a local level, RAN P3AKS was adopted through Local Action Plan (LAP) P3AKS issued by six regions in Indonesia, namely Lampung, Aceh, Central Sulawesi, East Java, DIY, and Central Java. …”
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