Advancing the understanding of Naegleria fowleri: Global epidemiology, phylogenetic analysis, and strategies to combat a deadly pathogen by Awadh Alanazi, Sonia Younas, Hasan Ejaz, Muharib Alruwaili, Yasir Alruwaili, Bi Bi Zainab Mazhari, Muhammad Atif, Kashaf Junaid

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Level of service for assessing streets and public spaces: the case of hsistorical Aleppo by N. V. Danilina, L. Alibrahim

“…Historic cities face the issues of sustainable development, especially city centres that have high cultural value. One of the most important topics is ensuring connectivity and accessibility as road and street networks in historic centres have their own characteristics: narrow alleys, high density of buildings, vehicles, pedestrian flows and a variety of public activities. …”
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Le risque tsunami en Martinique : planifier une évacuation préventive en optimisant l’accessibilité de sites refuges by Frédéric Leone, Mathieu Péroche, Rafaëlle Gutton

“…Considering this high threat, the most effective measure is a planned and organized evacuation of the coastal population. …”
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Decision Process Analysis on Project Priority Strategy: A Case Study of an ICT Design Firm by Vincent F. Yu, Catherine W. Kuo, Ruey Huei Yeh

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Kinematics Analysis of Multi-dimensional Vibration Reduction Construction Vehicle Seat with 2-SPS + SR Suspension by Bijuan Yan, Jie Zhang, Huijun Liang, Zekun Liu

“…The first and second order motion coefficients of the suspension are obtained by taking the first and second derivatives of the position equation. …”
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Activités artisanales sur la rive droite de la Vesle à Reims/Durocortorum by Émilie Jouhet, Michaël Brunet, Pierre Mathelart, Véronique Matterne

“…However, the demolishing of the most recent layers explains in part why no road or quay level related to this phase was discovered. …”
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Producer Services Openness and the Development of Servitization: The Perspective of Two-Way Openness by Wei Chen, Yinzhong Chen, Yifei Hao, Sili Chen

“…The policy implications of these research conclusions are as follows: firstly, taking co-construction of the “Belt and Road” as a chance to promote the new open pattern; secondly, focusing on expanding the openness of high-end producer services; and thirdly, taking innovation driven development as the guide to increase R&D investment of producer services.…”
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What drives potential accessibility decomposition? Temporal and spatial variability of the impact of infrastructure and population components in France, Spain, and Poland in the ye... by Piotr Rosik, Marcin Mazur, Marcin Stępniak, Tomasz Komornicki, Sławomir Goliszek, Patryk Duma, Paweł Churski

“…It has been shown that periods of very high impact of the development of road infrastructure on improving accessibility are mostly limited to a single decade in each of the countries examined, i.e., in the 1970s in France, the 1990s in Spain and the 2010s in Poland. …”
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Transportation System Vulnerability Assessment considering Environmental Impact by Juanjuan Lin, Wangbing Lin

“…However, transportation infrastructures are highly vulnerable to extreme events. Therefore, identifying the most critical component of the transportation system is among the first priorities of transportation network planners and managers. …”
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Dissociable effects of perceived control on reward-related neural dynamics under risk and ambiguity by Shiting Chen, Menglin Wu, Jianbiao Zhao, Guanglong Liu, Wendeng Yang, Ya Zheng

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Optimization of maritime emergency base placement for inland waterway accident response: a case study of the Yangtze River by Quandang Ma, Jiaquan Pan, Yang Zhou, Shaorui Zhou, Mingyang Zhang

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Reliable Multihop Broadcast Protocol with a Low-Overhead Link Quality Assessment for ITS Based on VANETs in Highway Scenarios by Alejandro Galaviz-Mosqueda, Salvador Villarreal-Reyes, Hiram Galeana-Zapién, Javier Rubio-Loyola, David H. Covarrubias-Rosales

“…Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have been identified as a key technology to enable intelligent transport systems (ITS), which are aimed to radically improve the safety, comfort, and greenness of the vehicles in the road. However, in order to fully exploit VANETs potential, several issues must be addressed. …”
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Concept, Framework, and Data Model for Geographical Soundscapes by Xiu Lu, Guannan Li, Xiaoqing Song, Liangchen Zhou, Guonian Lv

“…Based on the MPEG-7 data model, this study develops a geographical-MPEG-7 data model which consists of low-, medium-, and high-level feature classes. Taking as an example soundscape data collected on a university road in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, in a real geographical environment, the concept, framework, and data model architecture of the geo-soundscape proposed in this study are demonstrated and described to validate the completeness and feasibility of the proposed model. …”
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Research of efficiency of ferrous metallurgy slag use in pavement base layers by S. A. Chernov, E. V. Lekontsev, V. S. Schreiner, A. V. Fuchs, A. I. Piskunov

“…The results of research of metallurgical slags characteristics are presented, the possibility of their application in organomineral mixtures for pavement base layers is considered, taking into account technological features of their preparation and indicators of operational properties. …”
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Management Modalities of Mandible Fracture and Dental Trauma in Pediatric Patients During Mixed Dentition Phase: A Series of Case Study by Lomtu Ronrang, Alice Lyngdoh

“…The prevalence of oromaxillofacial fracture in pediatric patients is comparatively less than in adults, which could be due to several inconclusive factors, such as infrequent exposure to high-contact sports games, rash driving of vehicles and motorbikes, alcohol consumption, and fist fights for personal reasons under the influence of alcohol. …”
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Joint exposure to multiple air pollutants and residual cardiovascular risk in hypertension by Yalan Li, Wei Hong, Jingjing Wu, Jie Wang, Shiqi Liu, Hong Yuan, Jingjing Cai, Rujia Miao, Jiangang Wang, Yao Lu

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The Prognostic Significance of the CALLY Index in Ampullary Carcinoma: An Inflammation-Nutrition Retrospective Analysis by Xi P, Huang G, Huang K, Qin D, Yao Z, Jiang L, Zhu Q, He C

“…After PSM, the survival advantage observed between the low and high CALLY groups remained discernible and consistent.Conclusion: This study indicated that a reduced CALLY index correlates with a poorer cancer-specific survival in AC patients after PD, highlighting its utility as a prognostic marker for this condition.Keywords: ampullary carcinoma, prognosis, inflammation-nutritional-index, competing risk analysis, propensity matching analysis…”
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Le réseau hydraulique à Pompéi (Italie) de l’époque des Samnites à Auguste (fin ive-fin ier s. av. J.-C.) by Federico Giletti

“…With respect to the supply to the archaic city in the early and middle Samnite era, the evidence shows the use and spread across the main urban area of deep artesian wells, designed to intercept and capture the water present in the subsoil of Pompeii’s high ground. In our current state of knowledge, it is possible to identify 28 wells which, though already in use in the Archaic period, were perfectly integrated into the urban organisation of the Samnite city, where they were mainly located in open spaces, at crossroads and along roads. …”
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Invoking spatial justice in urban mobility in Nairobi: A commuter’s perspective by Dorcas Nthoki Nyamai

“…Furthermore, the unclear laws and regulations that govern road use sustain a system riddled with uncertainties and injustices. …”
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Review and Prospect of Research on Urban Walking Safety and Environmental Influencing Factors Thereof by Lin LI, Yu YE, Yong CHEN

“…Secondly, from the perspective of research evolution, the research has the following findings. 1) The analysis results of highly cited literature concerns show that walking safety and walkers’ safety perception dominate the development direction of relevant research. 2) Based on WoS database, the analysis of theme words shows that taking accident analysis as the core, taking pedestrian characteristics as the perspective and taking new technology as the guidance are the three major topics in the field of walking safety research. …”
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