Counteraction corruption under martial law: an analysis of problems and opportunities by O. S. Bondarenko, O. O. Tymoshenko

“…It has been determined that the tax burden, regulatory pressure, monopolization, an imperfect judicial system, and directly corruption are the causes of the shadow economy. The steps taken by state bodies and the programs introduced by them to reduce the level of corruption are analyzed. …”
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Improving Precise Orbit Determination of LEO Satellites Using Enhanced Solar Radiation Pressure Modeling by Youcun Wang, Min Li, Kecai Jiang, Wenwen Li, Qile Zhao, Rongxin Fang, Na Wei, Renhai Mu

“…Time‐dependent solar irradiance data and a highly physical shadow model are considered for SRP modeling. We develop an advanced thermal reradiation model for satellite solar panels. …”
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Eco-activist imagery in literary texts for children (a case study of English postmodern fairy tales and short stories) by Alla Tsapiv, Mariia Andrieieva

“…The analysis of our case study reveals that the protagonists of eco-activist fairy tales are primarily children concerned about environmental issues. Shadow narratives and the point of view of the child-focaliser are realized by the visual means, i.e. visual metaphors, salience of definite objects on the pictures, interplay of colours and shapes. …”
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Asymptomatic lung abscess of aspergillus in a female without previous lung diseases or immunocompromise: a case report by Hanxue Xiang, Ling Zhang, Liu Yang, Miaotian Cai, Yingmin Ma, Yulin Zhang

“…Case presentation A 43-year-old female was found a mass shadow with central liquid anechoic area in the apical posterior segment of the left upper lung lobe by chest computerized tomography for 1 month, but had no any systematic or respiratory complaints. …”
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The mammal fauna of the city of Luhansk (Ukraine) in the pre-war period (2004–2014) by Igor Zagorodniuk, Marina Korobchenko

“…It is characterised by the dominance of typical synanthropes, including mouse-like rodents, sedentary bats and feral carnivorans, and the regular presence of a number of ‘shadow’ groups in the communities—hedgehogs, dormice, vesper bats, martens, etc.…”
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Identification of Spectrally Similar Materials From Multispectral Imagery Based on Condition Number of Matrix by Maozhi Wang, Shu-Hua Chen, Jun Feng, Wenxi Xu, Daming Wang

“…The results for a case study to identify water, ice, snow, shadow, and other materials from Landsat 8 OLI data indicate that SF-CNM can identify the materials specified by the given samples successfully and accurately and that SF-CNM significantly outperforms those of spectral angle mapper algorithm, Mahalanobis classifier, maximum likelihood, and artificial neural network, and produces the performance similar to, even slightly better than that of support vector machine.…”
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The effect of electronic money and new payment instruments on the monetary aggregation variables and the role of banks in inflation and liquidity by Ali Rahbar, Hadi Rahmani Fazli, Parviz Davoodi, Hosein Samsami Mazraeh Akhond

“…On one hand, the advent of modern monetary tools and the widespread adoption of electronic money and payment systems can significantly influence the money supply, banking reserves, monetary base, the velocity of money circulation, and the multiplier effect. This, in turn, can shadow the impact of monetary policies on economic variables such as inflation and economic growth. …”
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LEGAL ANALYSIS OF TARGETING AS A BASIS FOR THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE by Daria Bozhko

“…This is especially difficult in Ukraine because of the existence of a large shadow economy, underreporting of income, and a rather weak administrative system. …”
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Drought Occurrence in Central European Mountainous Region (Tatra National Park, Slovakia) within the Period 1961–2010 by Jaroslav Vido, Tsegaye Tadesse, Zbyšek Šustek, Radoslav Kandrík, Miriam Hanzelová, Jaroslav Škvarenina, Jana Škvareninová, Michael Hayes

“…The spatial analyses showed that precipitation shadow of the mountains influences the risk of drought occurrence. …”
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Pleural Rosai-Dorfman disease complicated with renal clear cell carcinoma: a case report and literature review by Sudan Tang, Sudan Tang, Xinju Yang, Shunan Wang, Shunan Wang, Qin Xiao, Qin Xiao

“…Initial chest CT showed a 5.7cm × 1.3cm soft tissue density shadow, which grew to 6.8cm × 1.7cm two years later. …”
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Influence of Geometry and Boundary Conditions in Area of the Cohesion between Materials on the Reflection of an Ultrasonic Beam. Part 2. Features of Experimental Simulation by A. R. Baev, N. V. Levkovitch, M. V. Asadchaya, A. L. Mayorov, G. I. Razmyslovich, A. Y. Burnos

“…For this purpose an immersion installation working in the shadow mode and allowing for simulation the spatial fields of scattered longitudinal waves at inhomogeneous or defective adhesion boundaries was developed and constructed. …”
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Closer look at circulating nitric oxide levels and their association with polycystic ovary syndrome: A meta-analytical exploration by Seyed Sobhan Bahreiny, Akram Ahangarpour, Elnaz Harooni, Mahdi Amraei, Mojtaba Aghaei, Reza Mohammadpour Fard

“… Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) casts a wide shadow over the reproductive health of millions of women worldwide, emerging as one of the most complex and multifaceted endocrine disorders. …”
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Effect of dupilumab on otitis media associated with eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis by Seiichiro Kamimura, Keisuke Ishitani, Ryota Morozumi, Eiji Kondo, Takahiro Azuma, Go Sato, Yoshiaki Kitamura

“…The EOM disease status was compared using the EOM severity score, temporal bone shadow on Computed Tomography (CT), and standard pure tone audiometry. …”
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Integrating attention mechanism and boundary detection for building segmentation from remote sensing images by Ping Liu, Yu Gao, Xiangtian Zheng, Hesong Wang, Yimeng Zhao, Xinru Wu, Zehao Lu, Zhichuan Yue, Yuting Xie, Shufeng Hao

“…The loss function optimizes the extraction of building boundaries in backpropagation, ensuring the integrity of building boundary extraction in the shadow part. Experimental results show that the proposed model AMBDNet achieves high-performance metrics, including a recall rate of 0.9046, an IoU of 0.7797, and a pixel accuracy of 0.9140 on high-resolution remote sensing images, demonstrating its robustness and effectiveness in precise building segmentation. …”
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Assessing The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Ruhinda, Irene George

“…The study also found that domestic violence is increasingly seen as a 'shadow pandemic' to COVID-19. Domestic violence escalates during times of crisis, including epidemics. …”
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Spontaneous Lorentz symmetry-breaking constraints in Kalb–Ramond gravity by Ednaldo L. B. Junior, José Tarciso S. S. Junior, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Manuel E. Rodrigues, Diego Rubiera-Garcia, Luís F. Dias da Silva, Henrique A. Vieira

“…Lower and upper limits of the photon sphere for lightlike geodesics are established to demonstrate the influence of KR gravity on the photon sphere. Additionally, the shadow radius is determined for two observers, one situated at a finite distance from the KR black hole, and the other located at an infinite distance, to constrain the symmetry-breaking parameter l, with comparisons made to EHT results. …”
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The analysis of thermal performance of radiation life support system based on experimental data by V. I. Karagusov, A. V. Zinovieva

“…., a significant part of them, such as fog, haze, dew, shadow from each cloud affects the amount of insolation and all this cannot be taken into account in advance. …”
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Effect of Zinc Additive and Annealing on Dielectric Characteristics of the PSCCO Compound by shatha hashim mahdi, Naba F. Hamady, Demiral Akbar

“…At a frequency range of 50-106 Hz, regarding the dielectric properties, including the dielectric constant, and dielectric loss factor, at room temperature, it measured electrical conductivity and electrical resistance as a function of frequency in the range from 50 to106 Hz, Measurements of the ceramic composite model PSCCO (PbSr2Ca2Cu3O) plus (PbSr2Ca2Cu2.4 Zn0.6O) showed dielectric constant (11.23 and 10.30), while also measuring the loss angle shadow and alternating conductivity. The following parameters were measured for two models at a frequency range of 50-106 Hz: dielectric loss factor (7.76 and 9.45), tangent loss tangent (tanδ) (0.69 and 0.91), and alternating electrical conductivity (σa.c). …”
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Moving from monitoring to real-time interventions for air quality: are low-cost sensor networks ready to support urban digital twins? by Nicole Hannah Cowell, Nicole Hannah Cowell, Lee Chapman, David Topping, Philip James, Daniel Bell, Thomas Bannan, Ettore Murabito, James Evans, Mark Birkin

“…To date, there are few examples of true digital twins of environmental challenges with many limited to the ‘digital shadow’ stage of development, characterized by lack of bi-directional feedback between the digital model and physical world. …”
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A Binocular Vision-Assisted Method for the Accurate Positioning and Landing of Quadrotor UAVs by Jie Yang, Kunling He, Jie Zhang, Jiacheng Li, Qian Chen, Xiaohui Wei, Hanlin Sheng

“…This paper introduces a vision-based target recognition and positioning system for UAV mobile landing scenarios, addressing challenges such as target occlusion due to shadows and the loss of the field of view. A novel image preprocessing technique is proposed, utilizing finite adaptive histogram equalization in the HSV color space, to enhance UAV recognition and the detection of markers under shadow conditions. …”
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