Evil, Hiddenness, and Nonbelief in Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes: by Bakinaz Abdalla

“…I argue that Abū al-Barakāt’s formulation, distinct from customary articulations of the problem in his intellectual milieu, anticipates atheistic challenges posed by the evidential argument and divine hiddenness. …”
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Ageism During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Discussion and Recommendations by Hanife Andaç Demirtaş Madran

“…Acknowledging that Covid-19 poses a higher risk for individuals over a certain age, several countries implemented restrictions specific to those age groups. …”
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Investigation into Noise Emission Reduction of a Cutting Press via Active Vibration Control by Friesen Dietmar, Schmiele Dennis, Krimm Richard, Behrens Bernd-Arno

“…High-strength materials are increasingly used in mechanical engineering, posing challenges in sheet metal forming, particularly shearing. …”
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Isoferulic acid facilitates effective clearance of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae through targeting capsule. by Tingting Wang, Huaizhi Yang, Qiushuang Sheng, Ying Ding, Jian Zhang, Feng Chen, Jianfeng Wang, Lei Song, Xuming Deng

“…Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) poses an alarming threat in clinical settings and global public health owing to its high pathogenicity, epidemic success and rapid development of drug resistance, especially the emergence of carbapenem-resistant lineages (CR-hvKP). …”
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Disentangling the Range of Responses to Threats, Hazards and Disasters. Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation in question by Magali Reghezza-Zitt, Samuel Rufat

“…The articulation of vulnerability towards resilience and then adaptation is presented as a solution to the problems posed by uncertainty and the difficulties of dealing with complexity. …”
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Temporal context modulates the recovery of the attentional blink by Fangshu Yao, Bin Zhou

“…Abstract Humans usually adjust their attentional mode to tackle the challenges posed by environmental inputs. Depending on the uncertainty level, different attentional strategies may be adopted. …”
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Gamification for pubertal and menstrual health education in adolescent girls: Study protocol by Sana Nazmi, Fereshteh Behmanesh, Hossein-Ali Nikbakht, Manoosh Mehrabi, Romina Fili, Atefeh Omrani, Romina Hamzehpour

“…BACKGROUND: Adolescents’ lack of awareness regarding puberty provides the ground for seeking information from unreliable sources, which poses the greatest challenge for adolescents. An educational approach for adolescents and characterized by creativity is gamification. …”
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WLAN Cell Handoff Latency Abatement Using an FPGA Fuzzy Logic Algorithm Implementation by Roberto Sepúlveda, Oscar Montiel-Ross, Jorge Quiñones-Rivera, Ernesto E. Quiroz

“…It presented an approach of a predictive fuzzy Logic controller to reduce the channel scanning process to a tenth of the standard time, and its efficient FPGA implementation to speed up the processing time. …”
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A Quantitative-Qualitative Classification for Igneous Building Stones Based on Brazilian Tensile Strength: Application to the Stone Durability by Amin Jamshidi, Luís Sousa

“…In the present study, a novel classification for igneous building stones based on BTS was proposed. …”
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Leveraging IGOOSE-XGBoost for the Early Detection of Subclinical Mastitis in Dairy Cows by Rui Guo, Yongqiang Dai

“…Subclinical mastitis in dairy cows poses a significant challenge to the dairy industry, leading to reduced milk yield, altered milk composition, compromised animal health, and substantial economic losses for dairy farmers. …”
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Application of Foundry Wastes in Eco-Efficient Construction Materials: A Review by Ingried Aguiar, Sandra Cunha, José Aguiar

“…Foundries generate millions of tons of waste annually, posing a challenge to companies that generate it and to the environment due to landfill disposal. …”
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Mechanisms of Disinformation Amplification in Hybrid Warfare: The Case of the Conflict in Ukraine by Rafał ROMAŃSKI

“… This article presents an interdisciplinary analysis of disinformation amplification mechanisms within the context of contemporary hybrid warfare, with particular emphasis on the armed conflict in Ukraine. …”
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The Ball Welding Bar: A New Solution for the Immediate Loading of Screw-Retained, Mandibular Fixed Full Arch Prostheses by Danilo Bacchiocchi, Andrea Guida

“…Purpose. To present a new intraoral welding technique, which can be used to manufacture screw-retained, mandibular fixed full-arch prostheses. …”
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Privacy-preserving and verifiable spectral graph analysis in the cloud by Yuzhao Song

“…Current schemes are proposed for privacy alone under the semi-honest model, while disregarding the realistic threat posed by the misbehaving cloud that might skip computationally intensive operations for economic gain. …”
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Multimodal fusion with relational learning for molecular property prediction by Zhengyang Zhou, Yunrui Li, Pengyu Hong, Hao Xu

“…Furthermore, the reliance on auxiliary modalities poses challenges, as such data is often unavailable in downstream tasks. …”
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Desiring Production a Cross-Cultural Pathology of Desire in Salman Rushdie’s “Fury” and “The Ground Beneath her Feet” by Swatee Sinha, Anjali Gera Roy

“… The present essay through a close investigation of Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) and Fury (2002) looks into the challenges posed by global capitalism at the turn of the 21st century. …”
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A Double Life: The Park-cum-Monument of Brotherhood in Arms and Friendship between the USSR and Poland in Poznań by Katarzyna Różniak

“…By analyzing archival and press materials as well as selected photographs from private archives, the text seeks to trace the negotiations of the park’s shape pursued at different levels of authority, and presents the social practices that developed in response, on the one hand, to the adopted ideological premises, and on the other hand to social utility. …”
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Manejo de Desechos Sólidos Orgánicos Generados en Bares y Comedores de la ESPOL by E. Jiménez, C. Arias

“…Lo más crítico es que lamayoría de los materiales presentes en los residuos son reciclables, pero la ciudadanía no lo tienepresente. …”
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Conference Report: Challenging Construction Grammar: New Insights from Morphology (8–12 April 2024; Monte Verità, Switzerland) by Regina Ruf, Michael Redmond

“…Nevertheless, Construction Morphology is a comparatively young branch of Construction Grammar that poses many open questions and challenges. The questions that were asked within this workshop relate to the connection between morphology and Construction Grammar as a framework, the handling of phenomena situated at the interface of morphology and syntax, and how phenomena that are specific for the scope of morphology can be captured from a constructional point of view. …”

Alveolar Socket Sealing Using Mucosal Grafts for Alveolar Ridge Preservation by Nurul Ain Binti Mohamed Yusof, Rusmizan bin Yahaya, Yuhaniz bt Ahmad Yaziz

“…The fresh extraction socket in the alveolar ridge poses a significant challenge in clinical practice, requiring the preservation of both the hard and soft tissue envelope to maintain stable ridge volume. …”
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