Integration of Multi-Source Archival Data for 3D Reconstruction of Non-Existent Historical Buildings by Beata Calka, Paulina Jaczewska, Justyna Slowik

“…The city of Warsaw, Poland, has endured significant damage throughout its history, particularly during World War II. The city was bombed in September 1939, and many buildings were blown up following the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. …”
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Design of Direct Current Microgrid Converter with Cost-Effective Low-Voltage Battery Storage System by Juraj Tvarožek, Michal Prazenica, Tomáš Paulec, Slavomir Kaščák, Patrik Resutík

“…Battery storage systems are becoming very popular around the world. However, they are mainly used in industry for high-performance applications. …”
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Cystic Echinococcosis/Hydatid Cyst Coinfection with HIV: A Report from Shiraz, Iran by Yosef Sharifi, Seyed Mahmoud Sadjjadi, Hamed Nikoupour Dailami, Seyed Hamed Jafari, Mohammad Hossein Anbardar, Mohammad Bagher Khosravi

“…HIV coinfected with other parasitic diseases may cause a serious problem for the patients. A few case reports describing echinococcosis with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection have been reported in the world; however, it has not been reported in Iran, so far. …”
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The Primate Habituation Programme, Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic: An overview by Terence Fuh Neba, Anna Feistner, Angelique Todd

“…In 2012, DNNP, and its neighbouring NPs, were designated a World Heritage Site, the Sangha Tri-National complex (TNS) – classified as an exceptional priority area for western lowland gorilla and central chimpanzee (Pan t. troglodytes) conservation in the IUCN Regional Action Plan. …”
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Optimizing water resource management in tropical drought-prone regions through hybrid MCDM techniques: A water-stress mapping approach by Suman Mukherjee, Suman Paul, Subhasis Bhattacharya, Aznarul Islam, Sadik Mahammad, Edris Alam

“…Therefore, the eastern Chotonagpur region, one of the drought-prone areas of the world with mounting temperature and heat waves in the summer, is examined in the context of uncertainty of rainfall and a precarious agrarian economy. …”
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The internet gaming disorder and its associated factors among college students at Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study by Khalid Bin Abdulrahman, Tariq Y. Alhomoud, Ismail S. Alateeq, Faisal N. Al-Mohaisen, Musab S. Alshamrani, Saleh I. Alhathlul, Mohammed Abdulaziz Khamsah

“…Background: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) or video gaming has been considered by World Health Organization (WHO) and American Psychiatric Association (APA) as a disease. …”
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Reliability-Based Design of Solid and Nail-jointed I-Section of Nigerian-Grown African Birch (<i>Anogeissus leiocarpus</i>) Timber Column by U.N. Wilson, A.A. Adedeji, F.O.P. Oriola, J.A. Alomaja, J.E. Sani

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A Case Study of Using Numerical Analysis to Assess the Slope Stability of National Freeways in Northern Taiwan by Hao-Wei Chiu, Yi-Hao Tsai, Chao-Wei Tang, Chih-Yu Chu, Shong-Loong Chen

“…By comparison, under seismic conditions, the force acting on the slope extended to the whole slope. Furthermore, the slope safety factor of Site 1 was greater than the design specification value in three different scenarios. …”
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A Novel Power Prediction Model Based on the Clustering Modification Method for a Heavy-Duty Gas Turbine by Jing Kong, Wei Yu, Jinwei Chen, Huisheng Zhang

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the composite model achieves a 32.66% reduction in MAPE and an increase in R² to 0.9982 compared to single-model approaches. …”
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Sentiment analysis of the Hamas-Israel war on YouTube comments using deep learning by Ashagrew Liyih, Shegaw Anagaw, Minichel Yibeyin, Yitayal Tehone

“…Identifying public opinion on war topics is crucial for offering insights to opposing sides based on popular opinion and emotions about the ongoing war. To address the gap, we build a model on YouTube comment sentiment analysis of the Hamas-Israel war to determine public opinion. …”
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Global Use, Adaptation, and Sharing of Massive Open Online Courses for Emergency Health on the OpenWHO Platform: Survey Study by Jamie Sewan Johnston, Nadine Ann Skinner, Anna Tokar, Elham Arabi, Ngouille Yabsa Ndiaye, Matthew Charles Strehlow, Heini Utunen

“…Compared with learners in high-income countries, learners in LMICs were more likely to adapt materials to distribute via offline formats or technologies, such as WhatsApp or text message (31% vs 8%; P<.001); to address cultural, linguistic, or other contextual needs (20% vs 12%; P=.076); and to meet local guidelines (20% vs 9%; P=.010). …”
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The Diphilos Dissertation Prize Winners by Jaimee Uhlenbrock

“…The Diphilos Dissertation Prize is a biennial monetary award of €1000 that is granted to a recent graduate student for an accepted dissertation that focuses on coroplastic material from the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds from the Neolithic period through late antiquity. …”
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The Potential Use of Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Their Derived Exosomes as Immunomodulatory Agents for COVID-19 Patients by Faisal A. Alzahrani, Islam M. Saadeldin, Abrar Ahmad, Dipak Kumar, Esam I. Azhar, Arif Jamal Siddiqui, Bassem Kurdi, Abdulrahim Sajini, Abdulmajeed F. Alrefaei, Sadaf Jahan

“…A novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) causing lethal acute respiratory disease emerged in December 2019. …”
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Development of measures to assess listening-related effort and fatigue in daily life among hearing aid users: protocol for a quantitative field trial by Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Andreea Micula, Jeppe Høy Konvalinka Christensen, Dorothea Wendt, Hamish Innes-Brown, Ingrid Johnsrude, Matthew Apps, Torsten Dau

“…Ambient acoustics will be captured every 20 s via the participants’ (n=60) personal hearing aids, and the participants will provide self-reported momentary assessments through a mobile app throughout the day. …”
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Integrating Visible Light Communication and AI for Adaptive Traffic Management: A Focus on Reward Functions and Rerouting Coordination by Manuela Vieira, Gonçalo Galvão, Manuel A. Vieira, Mário Vestias, Paula Louro, Pedro Vieira

“…The proposed system addresses urban mobility challenges effectively, offering a robust solution to modern traffic demands while improving the travel experience for all road users.…”
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Using Dalbavancin for the Treatment of Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections (ABSSSIs) in Obese Patients: A Real-Life, Single-Center Observational Study by Alessandra Oliva, Flavia Petrucci, Cristiana Leanza, Marco Rivano Capparuccia, Michela Comi, Claudio Mastroianni

“…<b>Background/Objectives</b>: Obesity is an established risk factor for several infective conditions, including Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections (ABSSSIs), with a rising trend in their incidence expected in this population. …”
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Transformation of Hydroacoustic Energy into Seismoacoustic Energy at 22 Hz in Medium Depth- and Deep-Sea Conditions by Grigory Dolgikh, Mikhail Bolsunovskii, Sergey Budrin, Stanislav Dolgikh, Mikhail Ivanov, Vladimir Ovcharenko, Aleksandr Pivovarov, Aleksandr Samchenko, Vladimir Chupin, Igor Yaroshchuk

“…This experiment belongs to the field of acoustic tomography and is aimed at solving the problems of non-contact methods for studying the geological structure of the shelf areas of the World Ocean. …”
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Pavement Disease Visual Detection by Structure Perception and Feature Attention Network by Bin Lv, Shuo Zhang, Haixia Gong, Hongbo Zhang, Bin Dong, Jianzhu Wang, Cong Du, Jianqing Wu

“…Experimental results on real-world pavement disease images show that the mAP@0.5 of the proposed SPFAN increases from 66.2% to 71.2%, an improvement of 7.55%, while the F1-score also increases by 9.03%, compared to the baseline YOLOv8n model. …”
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Drivers of the Sustainability Performance of Induction Stove Conversion Program in Indonesia by Retno Wulan Damayanti, Silvia Dhea Safira, Pringgo Widyo Laksono, Haryono Setiadi, Nisa Aqilla Ellenahaya Entifar

“…While LPG is considered a clean cooking fuel by the World Health Organization due to its low PM2.5 emissions, this program aims to further reduce CO2 emissions from cooking activities, aligning with Indonesia's clean energy transition and 2060 Net Zero Emission goals. …”
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Patient-Centric Structural Determinants of Adherence Rates Among Asthma Populations: Exploring the Potential of Patient Activation and Encouragement Tool TRUSTR to Improve Adherenc... by Asim Zia, Arthur Brassart, Sheila Thomas, Fen Ye, Judith J. Stephenson, C. Daniel Mullins, Christopher A. Jones

“…**Results:** HIRD data reveal mean adherence rate of 59% (standard deviation (SD) 29%) for PDC and 58% for MPR (SD 36%). Key structural findings from SEMs derived from the HIRD dataset indicate that each additional year in the age of the patient has a positive total effect on the adherence rate. …”
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