“Iconoclasm” in the early years of Soviet power (1918–1921) by Rogozny, Pavel G.

“…However, the new authorities faced open disobedience to their orders, and it turned out to be simply impossible to remove all the icons that hung in schools, shops, hospitals, factories, etc. …”
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Real time forecasting in the coastal zone: Stream power in the lower Mississippi River by Laura Manuel, Ehab Meselhe, Kelin Hu, Arnejan van Loenen, Thies Blokhuijsen, Md Nazmul Azim Beg

“…The Mississippi River Delta is the primary entrance to over 2300 miles of commercial waterway and faces year-round dredging and evolving unregulated natural outlets. …”
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Learning Power Systems Waveform Incipient Patterns Through Few-Shot Meta-Learning by Lixian Shi, Qiushi Cui, Yang Weng, Yigong Zhang, Shilong Chen, Jian Li, Wenyuan Li

“…However, traditional detection methods cannot achieve satisfactory performance when faced with limited data. Besides, some signal analysis methods based on waveform conversion to images cannot obtain understandable image data and cannot analyze both current and voltage signals simultaneously. …”
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The road to a sustainable energy system in the Guadeloupe archipelago: Challenges and opportunities by Mostafa Barani, Konstantin Löffler, Luka Garibashvili, Pedro Crespo del Granado

“…The Guadeloupe archipelago, situated in the eastern Caribbean Sea with a population of approximately 400,000 inhabitants, faces distinctive challenges in realizing a sustainable and resilient energy transition owing to its nature being a distributed island system. …”
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STRENGTHENING RESILIENCE: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN FACILITATING LOCAL AGRICULTURAL ADAPTATION TO THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN TANZANIA by Reginald Chetto, Makarius Mdemu, Jacob Kihila

“…The study also revealed that institutional linkages are crucial in comprehensively addressing challenges faced by smallholder farmers, thereby building their livelihood resilience. …”
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Conjugate heat transfer in wedged latticework cooling ducts with ejection flow for turbine blades by Binye Yu, Xingwei Li, Jie Li, Shi Bu

“…Trailing edge of high temperature turbine blades faces challenge of severe thermal environment due to wedged profile and hence limited cooling spaces. …”
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The Time Machine: Future Scenario Generation Through Generative AI Tools by Jan Ferrer i Picó, Michelle Catta-Preta, Alex Trejo Omeñaca, Marc Vidal, Josep Maria Monguet i Fierro

“…Contemporary society faces unprecedented challenges—from rapid technological evolution to climate change and demographic tensions—compelling organisations to anticipate the future for informed decision-making. …”
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SDES-YOLO: A high-precision and lightweight model for fall detection in complex environments by Xiangqian Huang, Xiaoming Li, Limengzi Yuan, Zhao Jiang, Hongwei Jin, Wanghao Wu, Ru Cai, Meilian Zheng, Hongpeng Bai

“…In the field of object detection, while YOLOv8 has recently made notable strides in detection accuracy and speed, it still faces challenges in detecting falls due to variations in lighting, occlusions, and complex human postures. …”
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A Comprehensive Review on Limitations of Autonomous Driving and Its Impact on Accidents and Collisions by Amit Chougule, Vinay Chamola, Aishwarya Sam, Fei Richard Yu, Biplab Sikdar

“…It delves into prevalent limitations faced by self-driving cars, encompassing issues like adverse weather conditions, susceptibility to hacking, data security concerns, technological efficacy, testing and validation intricacies, information handling, and connectivity glitches. …”
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Rules for investigation of patients with asymptomatic elevation of serum aminotransferase activity by M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin, Ye. N. German

“…Features of differential diagnosis and medical approach in patients without any clinical symptoms is actual and common issue faced by many general practitioners every day. As a rule, elevation of activity of alanine and-or aspartate aminotransferases (ALT, AST) is considered as highly significant marker of hepatocyte damage. …”
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Integration of data sets for modelling gender violence and perception of insecurityZenodo by Sandra Lucía Hernández Zetina, Ana Belén Anquela Julián, Ángel Esteban Martín Furones, Carlos Martinez Montes, Santos Fernández Noguerol

“…In general, this indicator faces a lack of sufficient data for accurate measurement, which limits the ability to accurately assess and address gender-based violence. …”
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Key Elements in Integrity Management of Underground Gas Storage: A Framework for Energy Safety by Shuyi Xie, Bin He, Ligang Chen, Kangkai Xu, Jinheng Luo, Lifeng Li, Bohong Wang

“…Currently, the integrity management of gas storage faces challenges such as an abundance of standards and the complexity of management elements, which affect both operational safety and management efficiency. …”
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Traffic and Driving Simulator Based on Architecture of Interactive Motion by Alexander Paz, Naveen Veeramisti, Romesh Khaddar, Hanns de la Fuente-Mella, Luiza Modorcea

“…The implementation of the proposed architecture faces significant challenges ranging from multiplatform and multilanguage integration to multievent communication and coordination.…”
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Design of a thermal stress microfluidic platform to screen stability of therapeutic proteins in pharmaceutical formulations by O. Bortone, S. Fiorenza, M. Baldassarre, N. Falco, M. Amidi, T. Markkula, P.A. Netti, E. Torino

“…Due to challenges related to their immunogenicity, the journey of biologics into clinics still faces obstacles. Among the causes of protein immunogenicity, their natural propensity to aggregation is crucial, indeed, to study their stability, pharmaceutical formulations are generally exposed to diverse environmental physicochemical conditions. …”
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The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review by Cristina Sin, Orlanda Tavares, Elina Apsite-Berina, Judith Borràs, Betül Bulut-Sahin, Martina Chrančoková, Karolina Czerska-Shaw, Anne Marie Devlin, Sybille Heinzmann, Suvi Jokila, Anita Kéri, Ivana Lešević, Annarita Magliacane, Anna Nicolaou, Neslihan Onder-Ozdemir, Adriana Perez-Encinas, Natassa Raikou, Maria Victoria Soule, Deimantas Valančiūnas, Ana Iolanda Voda, Merve Zayim-Kurtay

“…Most studies, however, focus on the students themselves, the challenges they faced during the pandemic and their coping strategies. …”
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Ultrasonic-assisted Cr3C2 nanoparticle-reinforced aluminum-copper plasma arc brazing process by Congcong Lu, Yuhang Xie, Xiaoquan Yu, Yan Li, Jiankang Huang, Ding Fan

“…However, welding these two metals faces challenges because of their different physical and chemical properties. …”
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Decoding HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders: a new perspective from multimodal connectomics by Zhongkai Zhou, Wei Wang, Hui Li, Ying Shi, Lingling Zhao, Yibo Lu, Xingchen Wei, Hongjun Li

“…Currently, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) remains one of the major challenges faced by people living with HIV (PLWH). HAND involves the vulnerability of neural circuits caused by synaptic degeneration and abnormal synaptic pruning. …”
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Enhancing Safety in Nigeria's Oil and Gas Sector: A Fault Tree Analysis Approach by Mgbowaji Zacchaeus, John Nwenearizi Ugbebor, Ikechukwu Ozoemenam Agbagwa, Ochuko Felix Orikpete

“… The oil and gas industry, a cornerstone of the global energy supply, faces multifaceted challenges that threaten its operational integrity, environmental sustainability, and socio-economic contributions, particularly in regions like Nigeria where the sector's growth is pivotal to national development. …”
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Integrating Renewable Energy with Internet of Things (IoT): Pathways to a Smart Green Planet by Shojib Mia, Firoz Ahmed, Ibrahim Khan, Md. Emamul Kabir, Mehedi H. Roni, Khadijatul Cobra, Anjuman Ara Khatun, Shahriar Mahmud

“…Additionally, this study also examines the challenges faced by smart IoT systems, providing critical analysis and identifying promising directions for future advancements. …”
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Islamic Legal Perspective on the Implementation of Online Marriage Contracts during the Covid-19 Pandemic by Imam Sujono, Yovita Arie Mangesti, Slamet Suhartono, Zaleha Kamaruddin

“…The research results show that marriage contracts conducted online during the COVID-19 pandemic are legally valid, thereby contributing to resolving the difficulties faced by prospective brides and grooms in gathering to conduct the marriage contract due to social restrictions. …”
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