Tracing and analysis of 288 early SARS-CoV-2 infections outside China: A modeling study. by Francesco Pinotti, Laura Di Domenico, Ernesto Ortega, Marco Mancastroppa, Giulia Pullano, Eugenio Valdano, Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Chiara Poletto, Vittoria Colizza

“…These findings become again critical to prevent second waves, now that countries have reduced their epidemic activity and progressively phase out lockdown.…”
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A Closer Cooperation between Space and Seismology Communities – a Way to Avoid Errors in Hunting for Earthquake Precursors by Pilipenko Vyacheslav, Shiokawa K.

“…The considered examples comprise: Magnetic storms as a trigger of EQs; ULF waves as a global EQ precursor; Geomagnetic impulses before seismic shocks; Long-period geomagnetic disturbances generated by strong EQs; Discrimination of underground ULF sources by amplitude-phase gradients; Depression of ULF power as a short-term EQ precursor; and Detection of seimogenic emissions by satellites. …”
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The Cosmological Population of Gamma-Ray Bursts from the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei by Hoyoung D. Kang, Rosalba Perna, Davide Lazzati, Yi-Han Wang

“…With the discovery of gravitational waves (GWs), the disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have emerged as an interesting environment for hosting a fraction of their sources. …”
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Advanced energy conversion strategies using multistage radial turbines in Organic Rankine Cycles for low-grade heat recovery by Fuhaid Alshammari, Ahmed S. Alshammari, Ahmed Alzamil

“…Conventional single-stage supersonic radial turbines suffer from shock waves and performance deterioration due to high pressure ratios. …”
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On the inefficiency of fermion level-crossing under the parity-violating spin-2 gravitational field by Kohei Kamada, Jun’ya Kume

“…In the study of gravitational leptogenesis, for example, lepton asymmetry associated with the chiral gravitational waves (GWs) sourced during inflation is evaluated only by integrating the anomaly equation. …”
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Dual Adaptive Filtering by Optimal Projection Applied to Filter Muscle Artifacts on EEG and Comparative Study by Samuel Boudet, Laurent Peyrodie, William Szurhaj, Nicolas Bolo, Antonio Pinti, Philippe Gallois

“…The filtering rate was 84.3% for muscle artifacts with a 6.4% reduction of cerebral signals even for the fastest waves. DAFOP was found to be significantly more efficient than CCA and 30 Hz filters. …”
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KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND PRACTICES OF MEDICAL STUDENTS FROM MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE: THE CASE OF REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA by Catalina CROITORU, Elena CIOBANU, Greta BALAN, Alina FERDOHLEB

“…Medical students are less informed about the effects of climate change on health and the need to consult a doctor to adjust therapeutic plans in response to heat waves. Their attitude towards the need for mitigation measures to reduce the impact of climate change triggers and the need for behavioral changes is positive. …”
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Unraveling the Multilevel Dynamics of Water, Sanitation, and Child Anthropometry in Indonesia by Rifa Kirana, Ahmad Komarulzaman

“…Methods: The study employs cross-sectional data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) waves 4 (2007) and 5 (2014), comprising a combined sample of 7,583 children. …”
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Invasive Treatment of Lower Limb Varicose Veins - Comparison of Treatment Methods by Ewa Piekarska, Krzysztof Dobrzeniecki, Remigiusz Luter

“…Review methods: The literature review utilized databases covering sources from PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus. …”
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Noise Annoyance in Physical Sciences: Perspective 2015–2024 by Jacek Lukasz Wilk-Jakubowski, Radoslaw Harabin, Lukasz Pawlik, Grzegorz Wilk-Jakubowski

“…The current level of civilization development results in the widespread presence of devices that generate sound waves. Even in the so-called quiet zones, infrasound can be recorded, which, despite the lack of audibility, causes undesirable physiological reactions or affects the environment. …”
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UKRAINIAN MASS MEDIA (1941–2009) ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF KHRESHCHATYK IN SEPTEMBER 1941 by Illia Afanasiev

“…Against the backdrop of these hostilities, modern mass media publications dedicated to similar events of the past look more topical. Waves of interest in the topic of the destruction of Khreshchatyk in September 1941 rise every year in hundreds of Ukrainian mass media. …”
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Reinjection of Produced Water into Formations in Unconventional Gas Reservoirs by Haosen Xing, Peng Zheng, Ping Yue, Yu Mu

“…This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of gas field produced water from four perspectives: water sources, chemical composition, treatment methods, and application scenarios. …”
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Adolescent pregnancy, maternal and child anaemia: Empirical analysis from India, Bangladesh, and Nigeria by Anu Rammohan, Hoi Chu, Niyi Awofeso, Srinivas Goli

“…This paper empirically analyses the association between teenage pregnancy and child nutritional status, maternal and child anaemia in three countries (Nigeria, India and Bangladesh) that account for the highest proportion of teenage births and/or total number of malnourished teenage mothers and children. Data were sourced from nine waves of Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in Bangladesh, India, and Nigeria from 2005–2018, covering a sample of 27,705 children from Bangladesh, 266,308 children from India and 54,719 children from Nigeria. …”
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Optical Design Study with Uniform Field of View Regardless of Sensor Size for Terahertz System Applications by Jungjin Park, Jaemyung Ryu, Hojong Choi

“…A zoom optical system that changed the image height by fixing the angle of view and changed the focal length by moving the internal lens group was designed. THz waves exhibit minimal change in the refractive index depending on the wavelength. …”
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Experimental study on adiabatic pre-cooling systems for air cooled condensers in hot and humid climates by Faris Ahmed, A. S. Ramana, K. Jayakumar

“…Abstract The rise in ambient temperature caused by heat waves has led to increased demand for comfort cooling that affects the operational reliability of unitary air conditioning system. …”
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Identification of Environmental Noise Traces in Seismic Recordings Using Vision Transformer and Mel-Spectrogram by Qianlong Ding, Shuangquan Chen, Jinsong Shen, Borui Wang

“…Environmental noise is inevitable during seismic data acquisition, with major sources including heavy machinery, rivers, wind, and other environmental factors. …”
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AFFORESTATION AS A MECHANISM FOR MITIGATING VIOLENT CONFLICTS BETWEEN FARMERS AND HERDERS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA by VAHYALA ADAMU TARI

“…The study relied on secondary sources of data collection mainly from newspapers, reports, published journals, and text books. …”
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COVID-19-related worries and mental health: the protective role of sense of coherence by Anita Padmanabhanunni, Serena Ann Isaacs, Tyrone B. Pretorius

“…The study was undertaking in the first and second waves of the COVID-19 disease outbreak in 2020.Results: T-test analyses found that women reported higher levels of depression and anxiety than men, and correlational analyses found a significant negative association between age and anxiety. …”
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The Political and Economic Status of the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia by Yonghao Wang

“…Analysis and synthesis of literary sources (while studying the concept of “diaspora”), historical method (while describing three main waves of Chinese diaspora migration and studying Chinese settlement in different parts of South-East Asia), descriptive method (while studying the place of Chinese diaspora in political and economic life of South-East Asia) were used as main research methods.Results. …”
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A Parameter Study of the Electromagnetic Signatures of an Analytical Mini-disk Model for Supermassive Black Hole Binary Systems by Kaitlyn Porter, Scott C. Noble, Eduardo M. Gutiérrez, Joaquín Pelle, Manuela Campanelli, Jeremy Schnittman, Bernard J. Kelly

“…When galaxies merge, they form SMBH binary (SMBHB) systems, and these central SMBHs will also merge at later times, producing gravitational waves. Because galaxy mergers are likely gas-rich environments, SMBHBs are also potential sources of electromagnetic (EM) radiation. …”
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