The Role of Bio-Enzymes in Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6: Enhancing Water Quality and Sanitation by Priya K.T. Padma, Motlagh Amin Hossaini, Swarupa M. Lakshmi

“…Global water stress levels are rising, with water pollution posing a significant challenge to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6). …”
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Factors Associated with Postnatal Depression among Primi Mothers by D. Jija

“…Introduction: Postnatal depression poses a heavy burden to the society because of its significant impact on the health of the baby, mother, and its negative effect on the family. …”
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Model-Based Control Allocation During State Transitions of a Variable Recruitment Fluidic Artificial Muscle Bundle by Jeong Yong Kim, Matthew Bryant

“…A variable recruitment bundle poses a hybrid control problem as it operates by controlling pressure as a continuous variable while simultaneously shifting between discrete recruitment states. …”
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Medical Abortion of a First-Trimester Pregnancy with Large Multiple Uterine Leiomyomata by Somsook Santibenchakul, Unnop Jaisamrarn

“…A 42-year-old woman, 6 weeks pregnant, presented to the Family Planning Clinic with an unintended pregnancy. …”
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Islanding Detection Methods and Challenges for Distribution Generation: A Technological Review by Farshad Aslani, Shuhui Li

“…Islanding detection poses a significant technical challenge for the reliable operation of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems, particularly as the deployment of distributed generation (DG) increases across modern power networks. …”
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Energy transition narratives in the European Union by I. L. Prokhorenko

“…By promoting increasingly stringent ecological standards and climate regulations in the energy sector and consistently forcing others to emulate its example, the European Union seeks to present itself as a normative power in this area. …”
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Plant disease classification in the wild using vision transformers and mixture of experts by Zafar Salman, Abdullah Muhammad, Dongil Han

“…This discrepancy between the training images and images in-the-wild conditions poses a major challenge for deploying these models in agricultural settings. …”
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Application of sodium carbonate and sodium sulfate for removal of lithium and strontium from oilfield produced water by Mahda Talebi, Arezoo Rezaei, Yousef Rafiei

“…Lithium poses potential toxicity to aquatic organisms, while strontium contributes to scale formation and facilitates the co-precipitation of naturally occurring radioactive materials. …”
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La valoración paisajística en los Catálogos de Paisaje Urbano by Lucas Períes, Silvina Barraud

“… El presente artículo afronta la valoración paisajística como fase de un proceso metodológico para la construcción de los catálogos de paisaje urbano cuya finalidad es determinar el tipo de valor que posee un paisaje y establecer consideraciones de calidad paisajística para delinear acciones que apunten al desarrollo sostenible y a la calidad de vida urbana. …”
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Modern biological methods of processing plant raw materials used to increase its storage capacity by N. E. Posokina, A. I. Zakharova

“…Low-temperature production processes and refrigerated storage promote the development of psychrophilic microorganisms; another threat is posed by high microbiological contamination of raw materials. …”
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Rapid Dataset-Free Self-Calibration for Heat Flux-Based Core Body Temperature Sensors by Yuki Hashimoto, Soto Tada, Yoshifumi Nishida

“…This study presents a reference-free calibration method for wearable core body temperature sensors based on the single-heat-flux approach, eliminating the need for a pre-constructed dataset and reducing the required calibration time. …”
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Song Melody and Speech Tone Conflict in Translated Yorùbá Christian Hymns by Tolulope Owoaje, Tunde Adegbola

“…The tripartite constraint of aligning melody, meter, as well as meaning, posed a major problem to the hymn translators. Having given priority to melody and metre, the translators therefore, tend to compromise on meaning, thereby producing Yorùbá hymns that will sound interesting melodically, and correlate metrically with the metre, but producing hardly meaningful words when sung. …”
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Sociodemographic description of remanent malaria foci in three municipalities of Chihuahua, Mexico, during the period 2000–2022 by Jaime R. Adame-Gallegos, Carlos A. Rodríguez-Alarcón, Maria Carmen Rodríguez, Ángel F. Betanzos-Reyes

“…Abstract The sociodemographic conditions and natural characteristics of the state of Chihuahua, in Mexico, have historically posed challenges for the implementation and monitoring of malaria control programs. …”
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Da higiene à construção da cidade: o Estado e o saneamento no Rio de Janeiro From hygiene to the building of a city: the State and sanitation in Rio de Janeiro by Eduardo Cesar Marques

“…Exploring the vast literature available on Rio de Janeiro's urban world at that time, the present text supplements this with an analysis focused above all on the architecting of Brazil's first policies on sanitation infrastructure.…”
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A Comparative Study of Static VAR Systems for ImprovingVoltage Stability in Expansion of Mining Projects with Gearless Motor Drives by J. L. Olabarrieta Rubio, P. Eguia Lopez, E. Torres Iglesias, A. Etxegarai Madina

“…In the next decade, the demand for copper is expected to grow by 25%, posing a challenge for mining facilities to increase their production by opening new mines or upgrading existing ones. …”
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Star fruit (Averrhoa carambola L.): Exploring the wonders of Indian folklore and the miracles of traditional healing by Suchita Gupta, Reena Gupta

“…High oxalic acid content in the fruit poses a risk of toxicity, particularly for individuals with renal impairments who consume excessive fruit juices. …”
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Precipitation extremes in the Puna of Atacama Desert, Chile: How to manage current and future uncertainty? by Pablo Sarricolea, Hugo Romero-Aravena, Roberto Serrano-Notivoli, Oliver Meseguer-Ruiz, Vincent Dubreuil, Beatriz M. Funatsu

“…There is a high level of uncertainty regarding the variability of precipitation and its projections in many regions of this country. This poses challenges for climate characterization and for defining strategies to reduce its risks. …”
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Three-dimensional finite-time optimal cooperative guidance with integrated information fusion observer by Yiao Zhan, Linwei Wang, Di Zhou

“…Intercepting high-maneuverability hypersonic targets in near-space environments poses significant challenges due to their extreme speeds and evasive capabilities. …”
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NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY PROBLEM AND STUDY OF APPROACH BASED ON FINITE VOLUME METHOD by Ye. S. Sherina, A. V. Starchenko

“…Reconstruction of the conductivity distribution is an ill-posed problem, typically requiring a large amount of computation and resolved by minimization techniques. …”
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LSTM-Based Hand Gesture Recognition for Indonesian Sign Language System (SIBI) on Affix, Alphabet, Number, and Word by Patricia Ho, Handri Santoso

“…Sign language plays a critical role in enabling communication for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community in Indonesia, yet there remains a significant gap in technological support for recognizing the official Indonesian sign language, Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI). This study presents a deep learning-based hand gesture recognition system for SIBI, focusing on four primary gesture categories: affix, alphabet, number, and word. …”
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