Capacity planning for hydro-wind-photovoltaic-storage systems considering high-dimensional uncertainties by Xiongwei Li, Jintao Song, Yuquan Ma, Ziqi Zhu, Hongxu Liu, Chuxi Wei

“…The application of hydro-wind-photovoltaic-storage systems offers a promising solution, yet faces challenges from the high-dimensional uncertainties in natural conditions. …”
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Integrating Human-Computer Interactions in Nigerian Energy System: A Skills Requirement Analysis by Omoseni Adepoju, Oluwarotimi Akinyomi, Oluwadamilola Esan

“…Despite Nigeria's abundant energy resources, the sector faces multiple challenges, such as infrastructural deficits, policy inconsistencies, regulatory uncertainties, and overreliance on non-renewable energy sources. …”
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Prioritizing implementation solutions for the urban family physician policy in Iran: a multi-criteria decision-making study by Lida Shams, Mohammadreza Mobinizadeh, Taha Nasiri, Fatemeh Mohammadi

“…Abstract Background Family physician program is one of the effective reforms of the health system in Iran, but despite the implementation of this program in rural areas and the passage of ten years since its implementation in two provinces of Fars and Mazandaran, its implementation has faced problems. The aim of this study is to identify and prioritize implementation solutions related to the challenges of the family physician program in Iran. …”
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Optimising islanded AC microgrid control: A hierarchical approach with FCS-VMPC and consensus algorithm by Zawar Khan, Muhammad Aamir, Rizwanullah Khan, Mohd Fairouz Mohd Yousof

“…Due to this hierarchical control AC microgrid (MG) faces unequal power sharing or power quality problems. …”
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Correlation of the terms “social order” and “public order”, “social security” and “public safety” by K. O. Chyshko

“…It has been stated that the science of administrative law is faced with the issue of not replacing and/or unifying the terms “social order”, “public order”, “social security”, “public safety”, but rather with their coordination with each other, and as a result, it is proposed to focus on the difference between the adjectives “public” and “social”, which lies in the conditional scope of the concept “social”. …”
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Fuzzy Approach in Rail Track Degradation Prediction by Mostafa Karimpour, Lalith Hitihamillage, Najwa Elkhoury, Sara Moridpour, Reyhaneh Hesami

“…Rail transport authorities around the world have been facing a significant challenge when predicting rail infrastructure maintenance work. …”
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Seasonal Dynamics in Bacteriological and Physicochemical Water Quality of the Southern Gulf of Lake Tana by Baye Sitotaw, Belayneh Daniel, Mulugeta Kibret, Workiye Worie

“…However, this lake is facing deterioration in water quality due to pollution caused by anthropogenic influences. …”
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China’s Perceptions of Russia during the Ukraine Conflict by Srikanth Kondapalli

“…This article aims to examine China's interests and positions regarding the ongoing Ukrainian conflict, the implications for its relations with Russia, and the opportunities and challenges that China faces in the current situation. The article employs an inductive approach, analyzing China's predicaments at four levels: perceptions within the decision-making bodies of the Communist Party, the foreign ministry, think-tanks, and the media community. …”
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Contrastive meta-learning framework for few-shot cross-lingual text classification by GUO Jianming, ZHAO Yuran, LIU Gongshen

“…However, the advancement of cross-lingual text classification is faced with several challenges. Firstly, it has been found difficult to obtain language-agnostic representations that perform well in cross-lingual transfer. …”
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Deep Transfer Learning for Lip Reading Based on NASNetMobile Pretrained Model in Wild Dataset by Ashwaq Waleed Abdul Ameer, Pedram Salehpour, Mohammad Asadpour

“…This includes scenarios where subjects are not directly facing the camera, words are not clearly articulated, or image cropping techniques are not used. …”
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Macroeconomic model of safe functioning of the national economy of Azerbaijan in the long-term period by M. R. Ayyubov

“…In the 90s of the twentieth century, due to the formation of new independent states in the post-Soviet space, as well as a change in the constitutional foundations of Eastern European countries, the governments of the countries were faced with the task of ensuring economic security of the countries.In the scientific literature, there are three main paradigms for solving the problem of the country’s  economic security: the paradigm of the country’s national interests; the paradigm of independent and independent development of the national economy; paradigm of sustainable development of the national economy. …”
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Machine Learning-based Disease Classification in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) Plants by Md Towfiqur Rahman, Sudipto Dhar Dipto, Israt Jahan June, Abdul Momin, Muhammad Rashed Al Mamun

“…In Bangladesh, tomato cultivation faces significant challenges due to its susceptibility to various microorganisms, parasites, and bacterial infections. …”
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Aesthetic and Mechanical Suitability of a Clear Synthetic Resin as a Unconventional Binder for Road Pavements by Marco Pasetto, Andrea Baliello, Giovanni Giacomello, Emiliano Pasquini

“…Indeed, new challenges related to environmental pollution and landscape preservation must be faced. In this sense, clear road pavement surfaces represent an effective technology aimed at guaranteeing environmental-friendly aesthetic pavements. …”
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Multi-scenario modeling of regional dual-carbon target achievement and air quality improvement: A case study of Zhejiang province by Yuxin Yang

“…The rise in carbon emissions is a major driver of global warming, and China faces the dual challenge of reducing emissions while addressing air pollution. …”
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The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf: History, Key Achievements and Development Prospects by E. S. Melkumyan

“…However, the GCC leaders strive to revive the spirit of cooperation and since the GCC members are interested in strengthening their cooperation, the organization could meet the challenges it has faced.…”
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Deep Interest-Shifting Network with Meta-Embeddings for Fresh Item Recommendation by Zhao Li, Haobo Wang, Donghui Ding, Shichang Hu, Zhen Zhang, Weiwei Liu, Jianliang Gao, Zhiqiang Zhang, Ji Zhang

“…First, a fresh-item recommendation scenario usually faces the challenge that the training data are highly deficient due to low page views. …”
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BK Virus Load Associated with Serum Levels of sCD30 in Renal Transplant Recipients by Haidar A. Shamran, Salma N. Malik, Jinan M. Al-Saffer, Rana S. Jawad

“…Rejection is the main drawback facing the renal transplant operations. Complicated and overlapping factors, mainly related to the immune system, are responsible for this rejection. …”
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Territorialidade e ancestralidade: formação e reconhecimento da comunidade pescadora extrativista do Quilombo do Degredo, Brasil by Lorena Lins, Augusto Cesar Salomão Mozine

“…The Degredo community faces daily challenges, including interference from exploitative enterprises and conflicts with regional farmers. …”
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Why do patients with ‘primary care sensitive’ problems access ambulance services? A systematic mapping review of the literature by Ali R G Shaw, Sarah Purdy, Matthew J Booker

“…Findings were summarised across 5 broad categories: factors associated with individual patients; actions of care-givers and bystanders; population-level factors; health infrastructure factors; challenges faced by health professionals. A number of subcategories were developed to explore these factors in more detail.Conclusions This review reports important factors that may impact on ambulance use for primary care problems across a global setting, including demographic measures associated with deprivation, minority status and individual social circumstances. …”
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An Analysis of the Concept of Water in Secondary School Biology Textbooks by Musa Dikmenli, Vedat Kadir Ozkan, Selda Kilic, Osman Cardak

“… As a result of human beings' activities to dominate nature and transform it for their own benefit as they continue to advance in science and technology, environmental problems such as climate change have become the biggest threat faced by the biosphere in the current century. One of the biggest problems of humanity today is the scarcity of water resources. …”
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