Promoting Student Competencies in Informatics Education by Combining Semantic Waves and Algorithmic Thinking by Frauke RITTER, Bernhard STANDL

“…We live in a digital age, not least accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Nature Connection: Providing a Pathway from Personal to Planetary Health by John Zelenski, Sara Warber, Jake M. Robinson, Alan C. Logan, Susan L. Prescott

“…The vast and growing challenges for human health and all life on Earth require urgent and deep structural changes to the way in which we live. …”
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Economic (in)security in globalization challenges by Milić Slobodan, Anđelković Nemanja

“…At the end of the paper, we conclude that due to economic uncertainty and in quest of a better standard of living, the countries of Southeast Europe, including Serbia, remained without an immense population, which will be a big problem for them in the future.…”
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PSICIC: noise and asymmetry in bacterial division revealed by computational image analysis at sub-pixel resolution. by Jonathan M Guberman, Allison Fay, Jonathan Dworkin, Ned S Wingreen, Zemer Gitai

“…Live-cell imaging by light microscopy has demonstrated that all cells are spatially and temporally organized. …”
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Developing and Implementing a Web-Based Psychotherapy Program to Address Mental Health Challenges Among Patients Receiving Oncologic and Palliative Care: Protocol for an Open-Label... by Nazanin Alavi, Callum Stephenson, Shadé Miller, Payam Khalafi, Israa Sinan, Danielle Kain, Maggie McDougall, Julia Davies, Debora Stark, Erin Tompkins, Jasleen Jagayat, Mohsen Omrani, Amirhossein Shirazi, Dianne Groll, Claudio Soares

“…All web-based programs will be delivered through a secure platform specifically designed for web-based psychotherapy delivery. …”
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Pavement resurfacing and supply chains are significant contributors to PM2.5 exposure from road transportation: evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area by Fiona Greer, Ahmad Bin Thaneya, Joshua S Apte, Arpad Horvath

“…There are hundreds of millions of kilometers of paved roads and many people live in proximity. Pollution from road transportation is a well-documented problem potentially leading to chronic health impacts. …”
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Innovative sensor-based eldercare application involving 3D reconstruction and behaviour detection by Luo, Wenyu

“…Through this project, we aim to tackle this social problem by creating an affordable and customizable smart eldercare solution for all family with an elderly living alone. …”
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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION: A MISSING LINK by Farhad Hosseinlou

“…Engineers, compared to other single professions, are responsible for majority of the artifacts of the current world which we live in. The impact of an engineer’s work on this constructed world has both benefits and risks, ranging from safety and health issues to environmental degradations. …”
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Cultura científica y educación universitaria en Cuba: aproximaciones desde la perspectiva CTS / Scientific Culture and University Education in Cuba: Approaches from the CTS perspec... by Dolores Vilá Blanco

“…It goes into such effects, in meditating on how these cultural and educational processes proceed from a field of knowledge (CTS), whose essence is the development of the analytical ability to connect, defragment and transrelate processes, aspects that are not always developed in all potentialities that are inherent to it, from a global / local contextual scientific understanding as a prelude to the processes of multicrisis in which we live, and of which Cuba, in its own diversities and historical complexities, is not exempt.…”
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Analysis of mortality from suicide in the Altai Republic, Russia, for the period of 1990-2019 by N. Semenova

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Neural Net Modeling of Checkpoint Inhibitor Related Myocarditis and Steroid Response by Stefanovic F, Gomez-Caminero A, Jacobs DM, Subramanian P, Puzanov I, Chilbert MR, Feuerstein SG, Yatsynovich Y, Switzer B, Schentag JJ

“…Suite 310, Buffalo, NY, 14203, USA, Tel +1 716-867-0550, Fax +1 716-633-3331, Email Jerome.schentag@live.comBackground: Serious but rare side effects associated with immunotherapy pose a difficult problem for regulators and practitioners. …”
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A Multigoal Path-Planning Approach for Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robots Based on Bidirectional Dynamic Weighted-A* and Learn Memory-Swap Sequence PSO Algorithm by Minghao Li, Lijun Qiao, Jianfeng Jiang

“…Thirdly, by using the LM-SSPSO algorithm, we aim to plan the shortest distance path that traverses all goal positions. …”
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Identification, Distribution, and Habitat Suitability Models of Ixodid Tick Species in Cattle in Eastern Bhutan by Jamyang Namgyal, Tim J. Lysyk, Isabelle Couloigner, Sylvia Checkley, Ratna B. Gurung, Tenzin Tenzin, Sithar Dorjee, Susan C. Cork

“…Tick infestation is the most reported parasitological problem in cattle in Bhutan. In May and June 2019, we collected ticks from 240 cattle in two districts of Eastern Bhutan. …”
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Maintaining Inducibility of Dermal Follicle Cells on Silk Fibroin/Sodium Alginate Scaffold for Enhanced Hair Follicle Regeneration by Kuo Dong, Xinyu Wang, Ying Shen, Yiyu Wang, Binbin Li, Cuiling Cai, Linyi Shen, Yajin Guo

“…We transplanted the SF/SA scaffolds into the back wounds of SD rats, and evaluated the damage model constructed in vivo. …”
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Capacity for One Health research in the Horn of Africa by K. Marie McIntyre, Michael Cooper, Matthew Baylis

“…Introduction: In low-and-middle-income countries, many people live near livestock. Rural livelihoods need improvement, however livestock-sector growth is a ‘wicked’ problem, needing careful management and One Health approaches which balance positive aspects of livestock ownership against deleterious impacts. …”
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Monitoring cathodic protection system for underground pipeline by Thai, Seng Choong

“…The world we live in today is greatly affected by corrosion issues and therefore multiple methods of continuous monitoring of a structure can help investigate the corrosion process. …”
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Post-Pandemic Development: Sluggish or Rapid Recovery? by Dharendra Wardhana

“…We invite the readership to give us feedback on these articles and we surely welcome submissions on other topics from all fields of science in the upcoming issue.…”
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Smart cities built by smart people: How to build Smart cities using a contextual participatory approach? by Maryam NAZARI

“…This study explains why one size smart solution does not fit all cities’ problems and delivers a prompt guideline on how to uncover the actual needs of a city and to deliver feasible solutions that make the city smart(er). …”
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Reverse k Nearest Neighbor Search over Trajectories by Wang, Sheng, Bao, Zhifeng, Culpepper, J. Shane, Sellis, Timos, Cong, Gao

“…To solve the problem, we first develop an index to handle dynamic trajectory updates, so that the most up-to-date transition data are available for answering an RκNNTquery. …”
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The Modern Barrier in Romantic Relationships: A Review on Partner Phubbing by Izzet PARMAKSIZ

“…Despite all we cannot eliminate the use of telephone and internet from our lives, it is necessary to be conscious of how to use these technologies correctly. …”
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