Researching researchers: exploring the challenges of conducting research during a pandemic by Onyinyechi Onuoha, Diane Lorenzetti, Jacqueline Pearson, Bernice Lee, Tanya Beran

“…The third theme described the impact that human connections and relationships had on the success of the research, and the final theme explored the RAs’ creativity and problem-solving approaches, which aided in navigating the challenges faced during the pandemic. The RAs overcame the challenges with positive attitudes, creativity, and collaboration. …”
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Pharmacist prescriber in Italy and possible changes to current legislation: survey of attitudes among pharmacists, family doctors and users by Francesca Baratta, Irene Pignata, Lorenzo Ravetto Enri, Paola Brusa

“…The extension of the duties of the Italian pharmacist to include prescribing would be extremely important considering the challenges the National health system is facing regarding the shortage of healthcare workers.Methods In this article, we report the findings of a survey on the role of the pharmacist prescriber conducted among pharmacists, family doctors, and pharmacy users in the North-West of Italy. …”
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THE SOCIAL COMPOSITION AND MAIN TASKS OF RUSSIAN RIGHT-MONARCHIST AND CENTRIST POLITICAL PARTIES OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY by A. S. Zabolotskikh

“…Contrary to popular belief, the big bourgeoisie and the landlord class were not the only groups that are members of the «Union of October 17th». However Octobrists faced with serious problems, attracting to its ranks of workers and peasants of the Russian population, because they are more focused on employers rather than workers. …”
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An Enhanced Slime Mould Algorithm and Its Application for Digital IIR Filter Design by Xiaodan Liang, Dong Wu, Yang Liu, Maowei He, Liling Sun

“…However, it still suffers some shortcomings such as the unstable convergence speed, the imprecise search accuracy, and incapability of identifying a local optimal solution when faced with complicated optimization problems. With the purpose of overcoming the shortcomings of SMA, this paper proposed a multistrategy enhanced version of SMA called ESMA. …”
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A privacy budget adaptive optimization scheme for federated computing power Internet of things by MA Wenyu, CHEN Qian, HU Yuxiang, YAN Haonan, HU Tao, YI Peng

“…Federated computing power Internet of things (IoT) is designed to deeply integrate computing power with IoT resources, facilitating the efficient utilization of vast and ubiquitously dispersed IoT data and heterogeneous resources through federated learning. Faced with the threats of emerging privacy attacks, e.g., model inversion attacks and gradient leakage attacks, the academic and industrial communities have widely investigated and applied differential privacy (DP) as an effective privacy protection technique. …”
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The dengue disquisition: A low-cost public housing conundrum in Klang Valley, Malaysia. by Nabila AbuBakar, Jerzy M Behnke, Norhidayu Sahimin, Xiaoye Kang, Siti Nursyahirah Mohd Shahar, Yvonne Ai Lian Lim, Siti Nursheena Mohd Zain

“…This type of public housing often faces challenges, including substandard housing facilities. …”
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Effectiveness of Plant Adaptogens in Sports: Bibliometric Study and Prospects for Use by Igor V. Goncharenko, Viktoriia A. Pastukhova, Halyna V. Lukyantseva

“… Rehabilitation of professional athletes faces objective difficulties associated with excessively intense loads and a short period between competitions. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on intra-household gender disparities in the Middle East and North Africa region: A scoping review protocol. by Malak Ghezzawi, Sasha Fahme, Salpy Naalbandian, Jocelyn DeJong, WOMENA Study Group

“…While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global gender inequity has been acknowledged, specific challenges faced by partnered-women in MENA are underexplored. …”
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UTILIZATION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY TO PRESERVE CHINESE WALL PAINTINGS AS CULTURAL HERITAGE by Elizabeth Susanti GUNAWAN, Miki TJANDRA

“…Documentation is carried out by taking a photo of each image at eye level to minimize distortion. The difficulties faced were a narrow place to take photos with minimal distance, paintings that were blocked by several temple artifacts, lighting in the room that was very dark, and image tracing that was almost faded. …”
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Fludarabine/Cyclophosphamide Conditioning Regimen in Aplastic Anemia Patients Receiving Matched-Sibling Donor Transplant Is Non-inferior to ATG/Cyclophosphamide: A Single-Center Ex... by Uzma Zaidi, Mushkbar Fatima, Shafaq Abdul Samad, Kashif Shafique, Hira Fatima Waseem, Tasneem Farzana, Tahir Sultan Shamsi

“…Pakistan, being a developing country, faces grave economic challenges due to meager health care budget; therefore, cost constraints remain the foremost impediment in optimizing transplant facilities for socioeconomically deprived patients. …”
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Zoning and assessing the potential for landslide in the Shidri Chach basin using the ANP model by aghail madadi, ebrahim beheshti javid, nazfar aghazadeh

“…Comparing slid surfaces with flats facing risks indicates regions located at high and average risk class possess most areas of slide surfaces so that a flat involving very high risk  and a flat with high risk devote 35 percent (79km²) and 32/6 (72km²) of landslides for themselves, respectively. …”
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Challenges And Strength: A Scoping Review On Online Assessment Practices In Healthcare Professions by Hareem Fatima, Mahwish Niaz, Aisha Rafi, Hassan Salim, Ayesha Yousaf, Muhammad Faraz Sipra

“…Result: Diverse challenges and strengths associated with online assessment were identified and categorized based on the roles of students, teachers, and administrative staff. Students faced challenges like internet connectivity and distractions, while faculty dealt with increased screen time and invigilation difficulties. …”
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Denoising of Tourist Street Scene Image Based on ROF Model of Second-Order Partial Differential Equation by Xiaofeng Yang

“…A major challenge that researchers have been facing is to find a way to effectively remove noise. …”
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How to solve novel problems: the role of associative learning in problem-solving performance in wild great tits Parus major by Laure Cauchard, Pierre Bize, Blandine Doligez

“…Using wild breeding great tits facing a new non-food motivated problem-solving task, we investigated the role of associative learning in finding the solution, compared to multiple other non-cognitive factors. …”
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Intervention in International Navigation: A Case Study of Seizure of Oil Tankers by States in the Implementation of Domestic and International Cross-Border Sanctions by Reyhane Derogari, Hatam Sadeghi Ziyazi, Somayehsadat Mirilavasani

“…Today, in addition to the traditional interventions and restrictions on navigation that are stated in article110 of UNCLOS, we are facing emerging issues in the field of seas, which can be the reason for the intervention of ships in order to maintain international peace and security, interests and internal laws of states. …”
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Dimensi SERVQUAL Pada Kualitas Layanan Satpol PP Kota Dumai Dalam Penertiban ODGJ by Widya Cancer Rusnita, Adlin Persada

“…This study aims to analyze the service quality of the Dumai City Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP), motivated by the increasing number of ODGJ disrupting public order, particularly in strategic locations, and the challenges faced by Satpol PP in addressing these issues. This research employs a qualitative method with data collection techniques, including observation, in-depth interviews, and document analysis. …”
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MSCD-YOLO: A Lightweight Dense Pedestrian Detection Model with Finer-Grained Feature Information Interaction by Qiang Liu, Zhongmin Li, Lei Zhang, Jin Deng

“…As a crucial direction in pedestrian detection, dense pedestrian detection still faces many unresolved challenges. Existing methods suffer from low detection accuracy, high miss rates, large model parameters, and poor robustness. …”
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Digital enhancement and photogrammetric recording of La Joquera Levantine rock art (Borriol, Castelló) by Inés Domingo, Peyman Javadi, Dídac Roman

“…This paper reports the technologies and methods used, the challenges faced (in terms of space available, lighting restrictions and the visual interference caused by the protective fence), and the results obtained at La Joquera rock art site as part of the 2D and 3D digital recording of the rock surface, the colour and the motifs depicted. …”
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The Design Idea and its Application in the Inner Space (Refreshments Shops as Sample) by Naderah Abdul Razzaq Ghazal

“… The inner or architect faces difficulty in choosing his applicable design, so that the research presents a study based on scientific and practical components to find out a design idea as an objective study and the mechanisms of application by utilizing modern technology and the products of the digital world to achieve a sustainable and balanced environment participates in upgrading the inner designs so it comes with the concept of the design idea and means of cognitive processing that take part in its application in real life to reach the title of the research “The design idea and its application in the inner space ‘’ the study as a necessity resulted from a need to increase design awareness in finding out a link between the application of the design idea and precept it. …”
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Building a foundation to study distributed information behaviour by Terry L. von Thaden

“…</b> In this paper, I describe some of the problems faced by crews on modern flight decks and suggest a framework modelled on Information Science, Human Factors, and Activity Theory research to assess the distribution of information actions, namely information identification, gathering and use, by teams of users in a dynamic, safety critical environment. …”
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