A Dual-Enhanced Hierarchical Alignment Framework for Multimodal Named Entity Recognition by Jian Wang, Yanan Zhou, Qi He, Wenbo Zhang

“…Multimodal amed entity recognition (MNER) is a natural language-processing technique that integrates text and visual modalities to detect and segment entity boundaries and their types from unstructured multimodal data. …”
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Enhancing Seismic Repairability of Precast RC Frames Through an Innovative Replaceable Plastic Hinge Technology by Resat Oyguc, Ali Berk Bozan

“…Thus, this proposed technology effectively tackles persistent issues related to low-strength materials in precast structures, presenting a practical approach to improving earthquake resilience and minimizing repair time and costs.…”
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Understanding sustainability perceptions: Insights from textual analysis and a survey experiment by Valentina Rotondi, Alice Noris, Emanuele Carpanzano

“…Age differences show that older individuals concentrate on nature and mobility, whereas younger respondents highlight infrastructure and environmental issues. Geographical distinctions indicate that Italian residents frequently mention energy, recycling, and technology, while those in Southern Italian Switzerland emphasize culture and tourism. …”
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Ethical and pedagogical reflections around serious games in patients education (PE): by Jean-Denis Aubry, Emmanuel Rusch

“…Background The serious game in healthcare, part of the e-health segment, aims to develop, in a fun and educational way, the skills needed for better day-to-day management of chronic diseases in patients and their families, using video games as part of patient education (PE) programmes. …”
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Consumer Qualities and Potential Relevance of Dairy Alternatives from Domestic Beans and Peas by Anna L. Veber, Svetlana A. Leonova, Oksana V. Kondrateva

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Emotion Recognition from rPPG via Physiologically Inspired Temporal Encoding and Attention-Based Curriculum Learning by Changmin Lee, Hyunwoo Lee, Mincheol Whang

“…Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact physiological measurement for emotion recognition, yet the temporally sparse nature of emotional cardiovascular responses, intrinsic measurement noise, weak session-level labels, and subtle correlates of valence pose critical challenges. To address these issues, we propose a physiologically inspired deep learning framework comprising a Multi-scale Temporal Dynamics Encoder (MTDE) to capture autonomic nervous system dynamics across multiple timescales, an adaptive sparse α-Entmax attention mechanism to identify salient emotional segments amidst noisy signals, Gated Temporal Pooling for the robust aggregation of emotional features, and a structured three-phase curriculum learning strategy to systematically handle temporal sparsity, weak labels, and noise. …”
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Application of improved and efficient image repair algorithm in rock damage experimental research by Mingzhe Xu, Xianyin Qi, Diandong Geng

“…Digital image technology is vulnerable to interference from fractures and scaling, leading to potential loss of image data; while acoustic emission technology is not hindered by these issues, noise from rock destruction can interfere with the electrical signals, causing errors. …”
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Chip breaking by triangular tool path in turning process by Shogo NAKAMURA, Kenji OHARA, Kenichi NAKANISHI, Naohiko SUGITA

“…In turning processes, effective chip control is crucial for preventing machining issues such as tool damage, workpiece surface defects, and equipment malfunctions caused by cutting chips. …”
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Brexit: Could France Follow the Lead? by R. I. Blagoveshchenskii

“…As in the UK, certain segments of the French population show growing concern about the prospect of losing national sovereignty given the country’s declining influence within the EU, and call to curb immigration (mainly from North Africa). …”
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Research of Practices of Formation and Development of Human Capital in Companies of Various Industries on the Russian Market by E. S. Yakhontova, D. V. Kutyavin

“…However, despite the unflagging and continued interest of the scientific community in the issues related to human capital, there are still many “white spots” in this area. …”
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The Russian-Ukrainian war of 2014-2022: Monitoring of state-confessional relations in Ukraine by Анатолій Колодний, Людмила Филипович

“…The authors prove that the war-affected intensification of the identification processes in the religious segment of Ukrainian society has affected state-confessional relations in the country, and now society needs clear, consolidating messages from the state more than ever. …”
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The legal and ethical aspects of organ donation: Between altruism and (dis)trust by Čović Ana, Knežević Bojović Ana

“…This paper will provide an overview of the relevant legal regulations and challenges facing everyone who needs an organ transplant after the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Serbia found the provisions of Article 23 of the Law on Human Organ Transplantation from 2018, which refer to organ donation from a deceased individual, and the provisions of Article 28 of the Law on Human Cells and Tissues, which stipulate the conditions for tissue donation, to be unconstitutional, and citing religious standpoints on this current legal, medical, and bioethics issue. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic saw a decrease in the number of donated and transplanted organs, while the post-COVID period saw the frequent occurrence of issues of distrust of the healthcare systems and the World Health Organization among different segments of the population, and thus the impact of this (dis)trust on the decision of individuals to become potential donors, especially in countries facing a high level of corruption in all areas, as well as war-torn areas where the possibility for unsanctioned human organ trade on the black market is high. …”
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Analyzing the Problems and Opportunities of Reference Pricing for the Use by State Government and Local Self-Government Bodies in Procurement Activities and Housing Development by R. L. Rovbel

“…As a result of the conducted study, the methodology of reference pricing in the housing market was presented, and a proposal was made to attract evaluating companies and the institute of evaluation in general to carry out calculations on the economic value formation of different housing types for a particular segment of consumers. Transfer to the institute of evaluation of all issues, concerning reference pricing in the public housing construction market will enable to improve the level and quality of life of the population and to minimize the budget due to the increase in the price reliability level.…”
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Decentralized Asynchronous Formation Planning of Multirotor Aerial Vehicles in Dynamic Environments Using Flexible Formation Graphs and Tight Trajectory Hulls by Fahad Tanveer, Muhammad Bilal Kadri

“…Moreover, to mitigate issues relating to communication delays between agents, asynchronous execution of a finite horizon navigation framework with usage of sparse trajectory control points for trajectory segments is employed. …”
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Older Adults’ Walking Behavior and the Associated Built Environment in Medium-Income Central Neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile by Mohammad Paydar, Asal Kamani Fard

“…In Chile, more than half of older adults have health issues and almost 72% of the elderly population never engages in physical activity. …”
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A Novel Human Action Recognition Model by Grad-CAM Visualization with Multi-level Feature Extraction Using Global Average Pooling with Sequence Modeling by Bidirectional Gated Recu... by Jayamohan Manoharan, Yuvaraj Sivagnanam

“…Despite the progress in deep learning, issues such as occlusion, distraction from the background, and motion pattern variability still exist, thus restricting the generalization ability of current models. …”
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Hidden challenges in evaluating spillover risk of zoonotic viruses using machine learning models by Junna Kawasaki, Tadaki Suzuki, Michiaki Hamada

“…This enhancement is particularly notable in segmented RNA viruses, which are involved with severe zoonoses but have been overlooked due to limited data availability. …”
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Barriers to broaden the electricity production from biomass and biogas in Brazil by Margareth de Cássia Oliveira Pavan, Dorel Soares Ramos, Munir Yones Soares, Clara Barufi, Marly Monteiro de Carvalho

“…Financial difficulties of the plants, sector conservatism, issues in the electricity sector, and lack of knowledge limit the potential and interest in developing new projects. …”
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SAVE-T: Safety Analysis Visualization and Evaluation Tool by Yuan Zhu, Sami Demiroluk, Kaan Ozbay, Kun Xie, Hong Yang, Di Sha

“…Traffic crashes are one of the biggest issues which constitute a threat to lives of the motorists and disrupt operations of the transportation system. …”
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How Predictable Is Electric Vehicle Adoption? Exploring the Broader Role of Renewables in Transportation Using a Data-Driven Approach by Simona-Vasilica Oprea, Adela Bara

“…A classification model is proposed, embedding several cutting-edge classifiers. As the neutral segment of population is significant (over 22%), the 1st mapping included this segment associated to the “Likely” (to adopt) class, whereas the 2nd mapping included this segment associated to the “Unlikely” class. …”
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