Hotspots in peril: Misalignment of conservation efforts and ecological values in a shallow coastal sea by Kasper J. Meijer, Oscar Franken, Sterre Witte, Sander J. Holthuijsen, Tjisse van der Heide, Laura L. Govers, Han Olff

“…Abstract Misalignment between the location of marine protected areas (MPAs) and ecologically valuable areas, here defined as low conservation conformity, may arise due to conflicting socioeconomic and ecological demands, diminishing MPA effectiveness. Such conflicts are especially found in coastal areas with high human population density and high natural productivity. …”
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On Your Mark, Get Set, Choose! A Randomized Cross-Over Study Comparing Fixed and Self-Selected Rest Periods in Interval Running Among Professional Female Soccer Players by Asaf Ben-Ari, Yedidya Silverman, Uri Obolski, Israel Halperin

“…However, our protocol required athletes to divide a long total rest duration (720 s) across nine intervals, which may have been overly cognitively demanding. The current study aimed to explore the effects of the SS approach with a simplified rest allocation task on performance, physiological, and psychological outcomes. …”
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South African Open Distance Elearning Student: The Types, Effectiveness, and Preference of Feedback Support by Morakinyo Akintolu, Mohamed Ahmed Mitwally, Moeketsi Letseka

“…L’étude identifie également des formulaires de feedback spécifiques demandés par les étudiants pour améliorer leur expérience éducative. …”
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Análisis de los riesgos musculoesqueléticos asociados a los trabajos de ferrallas: Buenas prácticas Musculoskeletal risks analysis related to steel reinforcement works: Good practi... by Mónica López Alonso, Mª Dolores Martínez Aires, Esther Martín González

“…Subsequently, after the identification of the large number of risks musculoskeletals, it's defined a set of better practices for these workers, exposed to very demanding work conditions and with low culture of prevention.…”
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DIGITAL TOOLS FOR MATCHING QUALIFICATIONS TO THE LEVELS OF THE NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK by Volodymyr Kovtunets, Sergiy Londar, Serhii Melnyk, Oles Kovtunets

“…Saaty’s Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is close to optimal for solving the problem of qualifications comparing and therefore looks like the best option for such methods. However, AHP demands non-trivial qualifications in mathematics and computing. …”
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Water woes: the institutional challenges in achieving SDG 6 by Jaivime Evaristo, Yusuf Jameel, Cecilia Tortajada, Raymond Yu Wang, James Horne, Howard Neukrug, Carlos Primo David, Angela Maria Fasnacht, Alan D. Ziegler, Asit Biswas

“…Effective water governance demands consistent policies, coherent collaboration among diverse stakeholders, and comprehensive strategies that cater to specific regional contexts. …”
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South African Open Distance Elearning Student: The Types, Effectiveness, and Preference of Feedback Support by Morakinyo Akintolu, Mohamed Ahmed Mitwally, Moeketsi Letseka

“…L’étude identifie également des formulaires de feedback spécifiques demandés par les étudiants pour améliorer leur expérience éducative. …”
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The Effects of Digital eHealth Versus Onsite 2-Day Group-Based Education in 255 Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Cohort Study by Birgitte Berentsen, Camilla Thuen, Eline Margrete Randulff Hillestad, Elisabeth Kjelsvik Steinsvik, Trygve Hausken, Jan Gunnar Hatlebakk

“…However, as postdiagnostic patient education can be resource demanding, assessment of digital approaches and verification of their effectiveness is warranted. …”
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Technical Analysis of Comfort and Energy Consumption in Smart Buildings With Three Levels of Automation: Scheduling, Smart Sensors, and IoT by Rahmat Aazami, Mohammad Moradi, Mohammadamin Shirkhani, Ambe Harrison, Saad F. Al-Gahtani, Z. M. S. Elbarbary

“…Conventional control methods fall short of meeting the increasingly complex demands of smart buildings. However, leveraging IoT in smart building design can significantly enhance quality of life by making smart systems more efficient, optimizing resource allocation, and improving management capabilities and services. …”
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Enhancing Food Security via selecting Superior Camelina (Camelina sativa L.) parents: a positive approach incorporating pheno-morphological traits, fatty acids composition, and Toc... by Amin Ebrahimi, Hamzeh Minaei Chenar, Sajad Rashidi-Monfared, Danial Kahrizi

“…Effectively meeting future agricultural demands requires comprehensive and efficient assessments of genetic diversity in breeding programs and germplasm from gene banks. …”
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Privacy-preserving approach for IoT networks using statistical learning with optimization algorithm on high-dimensional big data environment by Fatma S. Alrayes, Mohammed Maray, Asma Alshuhail, Khaled Mohamad Almustafa, Abdulbasit A. Darem, Ali M. Al-Sharafi, Shoayee Dlaim Alotaibi

“…Privacy-preserving machine learning (ML) training in the development of aggregation permits a demander to firmly train ML techniques with the delicate data of IoT collected from IoT devices. …”
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An Analysis of the Vocational-Educational Problematics for Substantiating Production Specialist Competencies by V. E. Steinberg, L. V. Vakhidova, E. M. Gabitova

“…This also enables to effectively build and timely adjust the learning process of really demanded, competitive experts capable to realise innovative projects, to master and create new equipment, i. e. to keep the successful operation and development of production and economics of a region and a country in general. …”
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ECG-LM: Understanding Electrocardiogram with a Large Language Model by Kai Yang, Massimo Hong, Jiahuan Zhang, Yizhen Luo, Suyuan Zhao, Ou Zhang, Xiaomao Yu, Jiawen Zhou, Liuqing Yang, Ping Zhang, Mu Qiao, Zaiqing Nie

“…However, the interpretation of ECG data alongside patient information demands substantial medical expertise and resources. …”
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Theoretical Aspects of Professional Competence of Police Officers from the Tactical and Operative Response Unit by Ye. S. Romanenko

“…The fulfillment of the mentioned tasks demands from the policemen a high level of preparation and professional competence, which is expressed according to O. …”
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Dietary practice and associated factors among lactating mothers in Dangila District in the Awi Zone Amhara region Ethiopia, 2022: a cross-sectional study by Sileshi Mulatu, Getasew Mulatu, Azeb Gedif

“…IntroductionLactation is the critical time for meeting the nutritional demands of mothers and infants. Mothers from low-income countries, including Ethiopia, are considered nutritionally vulnerable. …”
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Leveraging ChatGPT for Enhancing Arabic NLP: Application for Semantic Role Labeling and Cross-Lingual Annotation Projection by Ferial Senator, Abdelaziz Lakhfif, Imene Zenbout, Hanane Boutouta, Chahrazed Mediani

“…The former is highly precise but it demands substantial training and extensive resources, while, the latter, reduce human effort but often results in lower-quality annotations. …”
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Fuzzy Logic-Based Arrival Time Estimation for Indoor Navigation Using Augmented Reality by Muhammad Hidayat Mohammed Sohif, Muhammad Imran Mardzuki, Azhar Mohd Ibrahim, Ahmad Jazlan

“…Mobile applications designed for indoor navigation often rely on expensive and computationally demanding beacons or natural markers to track the user's location along a predetermined path. …”
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Association of occupational dust exposure with combined chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumoconiosis: a cross-sectional study in China by Yali Fan, Qiao Ye, Wenjing Xu, Yuanying Wang, Yiran Wang, Shiwen Yu

“…Occupational dust exposure as well as heavy smoking is associated with an increased risk of combined COPD and pneumoconiosis, which demands an effective preventive intervention.…”
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Time and cost of linking administrative datasets for outcomes assessment in a follow-up study of participants from two randomised trials by Mohammad Shahbaz, Jane E. Harding, Barry Milne, Anthony Walters, Lisa Underwood, Martin von Randow, Lena Jacob, Greg D. Gamble, for the ANCHOR Study Group

“…Conclusions Obtaining administrative datasets demands a substantial amount of time and effort. However, data linkage is a feasible method for outcome ascertainment in follow-up studies in New Zealand. …”
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Dukungan Sosial dan Religiusitas Dalam Penyesuaian Diri Mahasiswa Perantau by Tugimin Supriyadi, Mega Widyastuti, Aulia Yasmin Salsabilla, Mochamad Widjanarko

“…Based on the phenomenon that migrant students will always meet, interact, and communicate with fellow migrants and the native community, it will cause cultural diversity and changes in students so that the demands to adjust themselves increase. In order to be able to carry out good Self Adjustment in a migrant state, Social support and Religiosity may have an influence. …”
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