Mitigating Financial Burden of Tuberculosis through Active Case Finding Targeting Household and Neighbourhood Contacts in Cambodia. by Fukushi Morishita, Rajendra-Prasad Yadav, Mao Tan Eang, Saly Saint, Nobuyuki Nishikiori

“…We analyzed household cost data from ACF and PCF to determine the financial benefit of ACF, update the baseline cost data, and explore whether any dissaving patterns can be a proxy for catastrophic costs in Cambodia.…”
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Comprehensive geospatial analysis of urban expansion dynamic in Lahore, Pakistan (1998–2023) by Sona Karim, Yaning Chen, Patient Mindje Kayumba, Ishfaq Ahmad, Hassan Iqbal

“…Our analysis also revealed divergent urban expansion patterns significantly impacting local ecosystems. …”
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Sustainable prospective proposals for utilizing modifiers in bitumen industry to address global warming by Mohammad Mehdi Dadaei, Pouria Hajikarimi, Fereidoon Moghadas Nejad

“…Asphalt pavements, are particularly vulnerable to the stresses caused by climate change including rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns. The paper examines the impact of global warming on asphalt pavements using the Prophet model under three scenarios, focusing especially on variations in the performance grade of bitumen obtained from 34 synoptic stations of Iran. …”
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Application of a KAN-LSTM Fusion Model for Stress Prediction in Large-Diameter Pipelines by Zechao Li, Shiwei Qin

“…Comparisons with a traditional LSTM model reveal that the LSTM-KAN model—in which the fully connected layer is replaced by a KAN layer—achieves significantly lower loss and higher accuracy with fewer training iterations. …”
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Engineered wetlands use case for climate change adaptation of vineyards in the Rahovec wine region of Kosovo by Dustin Paul Sanchez, Vlerë Krasniqi

“…The hypothesis is that climate change-driven anomalous rain patterns combined with insufficient drainage caused field waterlogging, in these stagnant areas, inferior stock selection led to rapid spread of disease. …”
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Aware and unaware- stereotypes and gender scripts in family narratives in the process of education by Magda Karkowska

“…The aim of the article is to discuss the issues of shaping gender roles in children of early school age, taking into account the importance of stereotypes and gender scripts in this process.First of all, the basic concepts of roles, stereotypes and scripts referring to gender were presented, then I briefly reconstructed the basic assumptions of theories explaining the process of shaping a child's gender identity, in the second part of the considerations I discuss the most common patterns of female and male roles in Polish culture and present their relationships with the construction of identity, at the end I shared information on what behaviors should be avoided and how can we replace them so as not to disturb the formation of the child's ideas about functioning in gender roles. …”
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Bearing Characteristics of Surrounding Rock of Deep Mining Roadway with Full and End Bolt Anchorages: A Comparative Numerical and Experimental Study by Wenbao Shi, Yan Li, Wanfeng Li, Shihui Li

“…The stability and variation patterns of the axial force, as well as the evolution law of bearing characteristics of surrounding rock, were analyzed. …”
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Building Collectives, Worlds, Interfaces: on the Prospects of Political Ecology through the Prism of Bruno Latour’s Book “Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democra... by Regina V. Penner

“…It eliminates the hierarchies of modernity, replacing them with hybrid networks, where democracy is impossible without taking into account the interests of all actants.…”
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Purchasing Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms for Optimizing Inventory Management by Reza Hamdi Prayetno, Rani Destika Purba, Kyrene Wirawan, Kelvin Sweet, Evta Indra

“…The model successfully captured seasonal patterns and trends in sales data, proving its ability to forecast stock requirements. …”
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Differences in gene expression between high and low tolerance rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) to acute thermal stress. by Leah A Turner, Anne A Easton, Moira M Ferguson, Roy G Danzmann

“…We then compared the hepatic transcriptome profiles of high and low tolerance fish relative to untreated controls common to both strains to uncover patterns of differential gene expression and to gain a broad perspective on the interacting gene pathways and functional processes involved. …”
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Correlation between Interdialytic Weight Gain and Intradialytic Hypotension in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Undergoing Hemodialysis in Tertiary Referral Hospital by Artaria Tjempakasari, Nitya Prasanta, Aditiawardana, Magdeline Elizabeth Carrasco

“…This research examined IDWG patterns in patients on regular HD. Methods: A prospective, observational study of 40 end-stage renal disease patients on regular HD twice a week at Dr. …”
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Preparation and Printing Performance of Visible Light Photochromic Paper Based on PMoA-PWA/ZnO/PVP Composite by Wanqing Zhao, Hongmei Zhao, Wei Feng, Honggang Zhao

“…Application tests showed that the prepared paper had extremely stable, excellent and reversible visible light photochromic properties, whether it was printing patterns or words, and could replace ordinary paper to realize the reuse of paper.…”
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From direct to trunk-and-feeder public transport services in the Urban South: Territorial implications by Pablo Salazar Ferro, Roger Behrens

“…The move from direct services to feeder-trunk-distributor services can, however, have significant implications for travel patterns within the urban territory. Formal feeder-trunk-distributor public transport systems are more rigid than the paratransit-based model they are meant to replace. …”
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Predictive Analytics in Agriculture: Machine Learning Models for Coconut Tree Health by Goswami Anjali, Kirit Dhablia Dharmesh

“…Active machine learning (ML) models have started replacing the conventional methods of crops health management and farm productivity with predictive analytics. …”
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Formulation and sensory evaluation of tofu-based creams as custard cream alternatives for dietary-restricted consumers by Yasuhiro Arii

“…Additionally, TC batches were prepared by replacing refined sugar with unrefined sugars, such as beet sugar or cane sugar for vegans. …”
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Economic Structure Transformation and Changes in the Proportion of Labor in East Java Province in 1998 – 2018 by Yulia Maris Herdianti

“…In 1994, the dominance of primary sector in contributing East Java’s Gross Regional Domestic Product is already replaced by secondary sector and later by tertiary sector in 2004. …”
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Legal education reform and medical litigation: Improved access but delayed justice in plastic surgery malpractice cases in South Korea. by Daihun Kang, Seung Eun Hong

“…South Korea's 2009 legal education reform, which replaced the bar exam and two-year judicial training system with graduate-level law schools, aimed to enhance the quality and accessibility of legal services. …”
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A model of the origins and development of Aleut by Anna Berge, Ben Potter, Jason Rogers

“…We here develop an integrated archaeogenetic model consistent with existing data on archaeological and genetic patterning among northern populations to evaluate the prehistoric development of Unangam Tunuu and related languages. …”
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The Diagnostic Value of Thermography in Oncology: Current Evidence and Future Perspectives by Anna Bioły, Piotr Marcjasz, Patryk Dryja, Agata Boczar, Agnieszka Buliszak, Monika Babczyńska

“… Introduction and Purpose: Thermography – imaging heat patterns via infrared (IR) cameras – offers a noninvasive, radiation-free approach to detect the increased regional skin temperature associated with tumors’ hypermetabolism and angiogenesis [3]. …”
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Assessing and Forecasting Natural Regeneration in Mediterranean Landscapes After Wildfires by Paraskevi Oikonomou, Vassilia Karathanassi, Vassilis Andronis, Ioannis Papoutsis

“…The findings suggest that sclerophyllous species regenerate faster, while fir forests recover slowly and may be replaced by sclerophylls. To predict vegetation regrowth, two time series models (ARMA, VARIMA) and two machine learning-based ones (random forest, XGBoost) were tested. …”
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