PS-GAN: A Novel Pseudo-Siamese Generative Adversarial Network for Multimodal Remote Sensing Image Change Detection by Zhifu Zhu, Xiping Yuan, Shu Gan, Raobo Li, Rui Bi, Weidong Luo, Cheng Chen

“…To address this, we propose a pseudo-siamese generative adversarial network (PS-GAN) that simultaneously considers both local and global information. Unlike conventional GANs that focus solely on local features, PS-GAN utilizes a two-branch structure in the encoder phase to separately extract global and local information. …”
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Recent developments in profiled steel sheeting dry board (PSSDB) systems: A systematic literature review by Abdulrahman Mubarak Salem Sawahli, Sakhiah Abdul Kudus, Adiza Jamadin, Mohamad Farid Misnan, Kunitomo Sugiura

“…This paper evaluates the structural performance and applications of the PSSDB system and analyses critical issues and research perspectives. Key results indicate that local buckling remains a formidable design challenge for PSS over a continuum of design cases, with few investigations proposing feasible mitigation strategies. …”
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Foreground-Driven Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Human Keypoint Detection by Shuxian Li, Hui Luo, Zhengwei Miao, Zhixing Wang, Qiliang Bao, Jianlin Zhang

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Application of Design Speed for Urban Road and Street Network by Ziedonis Lazda, Juris Smirnovs

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New realities of the administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine and areas of ethnic minorities’ settlement: Geographical correlations and social consequences by Myroslav Dnistrianskyi, József Molnár, Nataliya Dnistrianska, István Molnár D.

“…At the same time, studies have shown that it was not easy to implement this approach in the newly created administrative districts, given the officially defined criteria, the politicisation of the issue and the relatively high degree of mosaic settlement of ethnic groups. …”
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Visual Homing Navigation With Haar-Like Features in the Snapshot by Changmin Lee, Daeeun Kim

“…Visual homing navigation has been a challenging issue in indoor localization and navigation. Inspired by insect navigation, the snapshot model was introduced for homing navigation, where a pair of snapshots at the current location and at the nest are compared to guide the homing direction. …”
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La Private Finance Initiative et les infrastructures scolaires au Royaume-Uni : vingt ans après, quel héritage ? by Françoise Granoulhac

“…While local councils have improved their expertise in dealing with such contracts, the imbalance of the relationship between public and private sector partners remains a central issue and has led to an erosion of public authorities’ control and decision-making capacity. …”
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Erector spine plane block as a universal, safe and effective component of multimodal anesthesia by M. M. Barsa

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Problems of Good Governance in Managing Indonesia’s Borderland: The Case of Entikong Subdistrict by Rusdiono Rusdiono, Adityo Darmawan Sudagung, Jaya Addin Linando, Kartika Ningtias

“…The data for this article were collected through a field work in Entikong for four months in 2022 in which we conducted observation, interviews, and focus group discussion with local residents and government officers. This study reveals that good governance became the focal issue explaining Entikong’s lack of development by providing two problems in the border development at Entikong: 1) the government’s inconsistency on the road widening project and 2) the complexity of governance and bureaucracy. …”
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“Men who love the oak trees”: services and care in the cork oak forests of Southern Andalusia by Javier Escalera-Reyes, Agustín Coca-Pérez

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MUNICIPAL SERVICES AS A MEANS OF INCREASING THE CITIZENS’ ACTIVITY by O. V. Yakhina

“…Results: the municipal services are regarded by the author as a way to meet the needs of the population of a particular territory, and as a way of interaction between local public authorities and the citizens. The issue of the functioning of e-municipalities is studied, as well as the shortcomings in the legal regulation in this field. …”
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Regional nature parks in France as agents of regional sustainability transformation by Thomas Hammer

“…The experiences of PNRs demonstrate how a local–regional transformation process can be initiated and designed and its requirements. …”
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Developing stakeholder participation to address lack of safe water as a community health concern in a rural province in South Africa by Jennifer Hove, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Rhian Twine, Denny Mabetha, Maria van der Merwe, Ishmael Mtungwa, Sonto Khoza, Kathleen Kahn, Sophie Witter

“…Results Community stakeholders nominated lack of safe water as a local priority public health issue and generated evidence on causes and contributors, and health and social impacts. …”
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Hybridizing spatial machine learning to explore the fine-scale heterogeneity between stunting prevalence and its associated risk determinants in Rwanda by Gilbert Nduwayezu, Ali Mansourian, Jean Pierre Bizimana, Petter Pilesjö

“…Childhood stunting is a serious global public health issue that exhibits local spatial variations. Previous studies have used traditional statistical methods to identify stunting risk factors, and little is known about the application and usefulness of spatial machine learning techniques in identifying localized stunting risk factors based on complex datasets. …”
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Eco-anthropologie et primatologie pour la conservation de la biodiversité : un projet collaboratif dans le Parc National de Moukalaba-Doudou, Gabon by Naoki Matsuura, Yuji Takenoshita, Juichi Yamagiwa

“…It is therefore necessary to pay enough attention to both people and animals and to move towards an integrated approach geared at the relation between local societies and the environment.Japanese ecological anthropology and primatology, which developed simultaneously through longterm field research in various regions of Africa, offer a suggestive idea to tackle the issue. …”
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COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND MECHANISMS OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT OF COAL COMMUNITIES IN THE CONDITIONS OF MODERN CHALLENGES by Liubov Kvasnii, Svyatoslav Kostyuk, Nataliia Voitovych

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ON THE QUESTION OF DEFINING THE OBJECT-SUBJECT COMPOSITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTITUTIONALISM by Anna V. Potapchuk

“…Based on the fact that the environment is the fundamental natural space of human life, such relations can be characterized as global, but with the obligatory local, local-regional, regional, state-wide, interstate, macro-regional, global understanding, measured and implemented.…”
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The nomenclature of scientific specialties and the new model of award of academic degrees: Russian experience by Svetlana V. Narutto

“…Not only federal regulatory legal acts interrelated with the nomenclature of specialties, for which scientific degrees are awarded, but also local legal acts of organizations that regulate the designated issues in different ways were analyzed. …”
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A psychometric evaluation of an item bank for an English reading comprehension tool using Rasch analysis by Louis Wai Keung Yim, Che Yee Lye, Poh Wee Koh

“…Results showed that the data adequately fit the unidimensional Rasch model across all test levels with good internal consistency. Psycho metric issues found amongst items were primarily related to ill-functioning distractors and local dependence on items. …”
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Telemedicine in the making: insights from an analysis of health mobility in the Piedmont region by Marta Alesina, Matteo Ballesio, Marco Dalmasso, Sylvie Occelli, Michele Presutti, Bibiana Scelfo

“…In Piedmont, a few studies have clearly shown that the deployment of telemedicine results from the intertwining of many factors, including the consideration of access and sustainability issues. Building on these premises, this study analyses the 2019 health mobility to specialist care in Piedmont local health areas. …”
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