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7 January 2026

Initial teacher education plays a decisive role in preparing future educators to establish meaningful and reciprocal relationships with families that support children’s learning across contexts. Moving beyond traditional, school-centred notions...

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6 Citations
4,731 Views
20 Pages

Investigating Visual Perception Impairments through Serious Games and Eye Tracking to Anticipate Handwriting Difficulties

  • Chiara Piazzalunga,
  • Linda Greta Dui,
  • Cristiano Termine,
  • Marisa Bortolozzo,
  • Matteo Matteucci and
  • Simona Ferrante

4 February 2023

Dysgraphia is a learning disability that causes handwritten production below expectations. Its diagnosis is delayed until the completion of handwriting development. To allow a preventive training program, abilities not directly related to handwriting...

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693 Views
14 Pages

12 December 2025

Individuals are increasingly using artificial intelligence chatbots, such as ChatGPT, to seek conversational support for their personal mental health difficulties. Heightened concerns about mental health stigma may make anonymous, on-demand chatbot i...

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1 Citations
3,020 Views
12 Pages

Champ versus Chump: Viewing an Opponent’s Face Engages Attention but Not Reward Systems

  • Ralph S. Redden,
  • Greg A. Gagliardi,
  • Chad C. Williams,
  • Cameron D. Hassall and
  • Olave E. Krigolson

31 July 2021

When we play competitive games, the opponents that we face act as predictors of the outcome of the game. For instance, if you are an average chess player and you face a Grandmaster, you anticipate a loss. Framed in a reinforcement learning perspectiv...

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4 Citations
3,750 Views
12 Pages

CT Rendering and Radiomic Analysis in Post-Chemotherapy Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection for Testicular Cancer to Anticipate Difficulties for Young Surgeons

  • Anna Scavuzzo,
  • Pavel Figueroa-Rodriguez,
  • Alessandro Stefano,
  • Nallely Jimenez Guedulain,
  • Sebastian Muruato Araiza,
  • Jose de Jesus Cendejas Gomez,
  • Alejandro Quiroz Compeaán,
  • Dimas O. Victorio Vargas and
  • Miguel A. Jiménez-Ríos

Post-chemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (PC-RPLND) in non-seminomatous germ-cell tumor (NSTGCTs) is a complex procedure. We evaluated whether 3D computed tomography (CT) rendering and their radiomic analysis help predict resectability...

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12 Citations
10,779 Views
13 Pages

Although medical facilities restrict smoking inside, many people continue to smoke outside, creating problems with second-hand smoke, litter, fire risks, and negative role modeling. In 2005, Arkansas passed legislation prohibiting smoking on medical...

  • Review
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4 Citations
11,707 Views
31 Pages

11 July 2025

Background: The management of difficult airways is one of the most critical and challenging aspects of emergency and ICU care. Despite technological advances, unanticipated airway difficulty can result in serious complications, including hypoxia, bra...

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1 Citations
864 Views
17 Pages

Migration to Italy and Integration into the European Space from the Point of View of Romanians

  • Vasile Chasciar,
  • Denisa Ramona Chasciar,
  • Claudiu Coman,
  • Ovidiu Florin Toderici,
  • Marcel Iordache and
  • Daniel Rareș Obadă

9 October 2025

This study investigates the determinants of Romanian workers’ migration intentions towards Italy, integrating economic, social, and psychological perspectives. Based on a sample of 358 respondents, four hypotheses were tested concerning perceiv...

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5 Citations
2,776 Views
16 Pages

Understanding Client Difficulties in Transdiagnostic Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Qualitative Analysis of Homework Reflections

  • Vanessa Peynenburg,
  • Andrew Wilhelms,
  • Ram Sapkota,
  • Marcie Nugent,
  • Katherine Owens,
  • Nick Titov,
  • Blake Dear and
  • Heather Hadjisatvropoulos

21 July 2022

Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT) is helpful for many clients, but less is known about the challenges clients face during ICBT, such as difficulties with skill practice, development, or maintenance. Understanding client difficulti...

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59 Citations
20,195 Views
15 Pages

Classifications of impacted teeth allow defining the type and degree of retention, as well as assessing the degree of difficulty of the procedure. The aim of this study was to conduct retrospective analysis of the degree of retention and difficulty i...

  • Brief Report
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2 Citations
1 Views
2 Pages

Anaesthetic Concerns for Large Intracranial Cyst Excision: Expect the Unexpected!

  • Uma Hariharan Hariharan,
  • Rakesh Garg,
  • Alka Gupta,
  • Seema Wasnik and
  • Mridula Pawar

Neurosurgical procedures in infants poses various challenges such as difficulty in venous cannulation, securing invasive vascular lines, difficult airway, controlling intra-cranial tension, managing large fluid shifts to positioning- related issues a...

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4,445 Views
19 Pages

20 May 2025

Dysphagia in children poses a significant health concern. Difficulties in swallowing can lead to an impairment in food intake and malnutrition, as well as a risk of aspiration and pneumonia. It is a life-threatening condition, especially for newborns...

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76 Citations
14,616 Views
23 Pages

Development of Organic Farming in Europe at the Crossroads: Looking for the Way Forward through System Archetypes Lenses

  • Natalia Brzezina,
  • Katharina Biely,
  • Ariella Helfgott,
  • Birgit Kopainsky,
  • Joost Vervoort and
  • Erik Mathijs

Over the last several decades, policymakers and stakeholders in the European Union (EU) have put considerable effort into increasing the adoption of organic farming, with the overall objective of its sustainable development. However, the growth of th...

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1 Citations
2,275 Views
13 Pages

Behavioural Difficulties in Children and Adolescents with Mental Disorders under Extreme Situations

  • Pablo Gonzalez-Domenech,
  • José Luis Romero-Béjar,
  • Luis Gutierrez-Rojas,
  • Sara Jimenez-Fernandez and
  • Francisco Diaz-Atienza

22 October 2021

In 2020, the Governments of many countries maintained different levels of confinement of the population due to the pandemic that produced the COVID-19. There are few studies published on the psychological impact in the child and adolescent population...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,894 Views
14 Pages

Although exclusive breastfeeding is recommended for the first six months of life, a large number of women worldwide do not practice it successfully. Our study aimed to investigate the perceived support from health professionals for women who experien...

  • Review
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83 Citations
18,200 Views
30 Pages

Pharmacokinetic Interactions between Herbal Medicines and Drugs: Their Mechanisms and Clinical Relevance

  • Laura Rombolà,
  • Damiana Scuteri,
  • Straface Marilisa,
  • Chizuko Watanabe,
  • Luigi Antonio Morrone,
  • Giacinto Bagetta and
  • Maria Tiziana Corasaniti

4 July 2020

The therapeutic efficacy of a drug or its unexpected unwanted side effects may depend on the concurrent use of a medicinal plant. In particular, constituents in the medicinal plant extracts may influence drug bioavailability, metabolism and half-life...

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6 Citations
1,979 Views
20 Pages

Intention recognition in Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) is critical for enabling robots to anticipate and respond to human actions effectively. This study explores the application of deep learning techniques for the classification of human inten...

  • Article
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5 Citations
7,041 Views
27 Pages

Response to Hypothetical Social Scenarios in Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury Who Present Inappropriate Social Behavior: A Preliminary Report

  • Jean Gagnon,
  • Anne Henry,
  • François-Pierre Decoste,
  • Michel Ouellette,
  • Pierre McDuff and
  • Sacha Daelman

24 January 2013

Background: Very little research thus far has examined the decision making that underlies inappropriate social behavior (ISB) post-TBI (traumatic brain injury). Objectives: To verify the usefulness of a new instrument, the Social Responding Task, for...

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233 Views
17 Pages

Healthcare Professionals Describe Difficulties Encountered When Breaking Bad News to Oncology Patients: An Italian Observational Study

  • Stefano Botti,
  • Luana Conte,
  • Marco Cioce,
  • Laura Orlando,
  • Enrica Tamagnini,
  • Chiara Cannici,
  • Angela Capuano,
  • Valentina De Cecco,
  • Ludovica Panzanaro and
  • Nicola Serra
  • + 3 authors

23 December 2025

Background: Many nurses and physicians report difficulties with breaking bad news to their patients due to the lack of adequate skills and training. This study aimed to explore the communication skills, knowledge, and self-perceived difficulties of h...

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20 Citations
6,583 Views
16 Pages

The Socio-Linguistic Adaptation of Migrants: The Case of Oralman Students’ Studying in Kazakhstan

  • Fatima Valieva,
  • Jannat Sagimbayeva,
  • Dina Kurmanayeva and
  • Gulzhakhan Tazhitova

This article examines different aspects of the oralman students’ socio-linguistic adaptation. Scientific research has identified various obstacles oralmen face when studying at Universities in Kazakhstan, especially in the context of the Englis...

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1 Citations
2,797 Views
24 Pages

2 July 2024

Optimum planning and effective land consolidation, widely discussed by contemporary authors, is a response to the perceivable need to modernise global agriculture to ensure the community’s food security and create steady, sustainable developmen...

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45 Citations
7,409 Views
20 Pages

A Phenotypic Search on Graft Compatibility in Grapevine

  • Sara Tedesco,
  • Ana Pina,
  • Pedro Fevereiro and
  • Friedrich Kragler

Grafting is the most used propagation method in viticulture and is the unique control strategy against Phylloxera. Nevertheless, its practice remains limited mainly due to inconsistent graft success and difficulties in predicting graft compatibility...

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5 Citations
2,453 Views
16 Pages

Cognitive Stress Regulation in Schizophrenia Patients and Healthy Individuals: Brain and Behavior

  • Lydia Kogler,
  • Christina Regenbogen,
  • Veronika I. Müller,
  • Nils Kohn,
  • Frank Schneider,
  • Ruben C. Gur and
  • Birgit Derntl

6 April 2023

Stress is an important factor in the development, triggering, and maintenance of psychotic symptoms. Still, little is known about the neural correlates of cognitively regulating stressful events in schizophrenia. The current study aimed at investigat...

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14 Citations
7,203 Views
12 Pages

Standard for the Quantification of a Sterilization Effect Using an Artificial Intelligence Disinfection Robot

  • Heeju Hong,
  • WonKook Shin,
  • Jieun Oh,
  • SunWoo Lee,
  • TaeYoung Kim,
  • WooSub Lee,
  • JongSuk Choi,
  • SeungBeum Suh and
  • KangGeon Kim

23 November 2021

Recent outbreaks and the worldwide spread of COVID-19 have challenged mankind with unprecedented difficulties. The introduction of autonomous disinfection robots appears to be indispensable as consistent sterilization is in desperate demand under lim...

  • Review
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44 Citations
15,548 Views
15 Pages

17 February 2011

The last decade has seen a steady increase in screening of cDNA expression product libraries displayed on the surface of filamentous bacteriophage. At the same time, the range of applications extended from the identification of novel allergens over d...

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3,682 Views
14 Pages

13 June 2022

This article demonstrates the difficulty of incorporating within the methodological ambit of ‘participant observation’, a possibility of the ethnographer herself staking claim in the religious truth claims of the community that constitute...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,191 Views
12 Pages

30 October 2022

Direct laryngoscopy (DL) and videolaryngoscopy (VL) have been the most commonly used airway management modalities in the last several decades. Meanwhile, various optional airway tools (e.g., supraglottic devices, fiberoptic bronchoscopes) have been u...

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266 Views
20 Pages

28 December 2025

Urban coastal areas along the Mediterranean are exposed to short-duration convective rainfall, producing infrastructure disruptions and flood-related impacts. This study analyzes 45 rainfall episodes in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona between 2014...

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17 Citations
9,566 Views
21 Pages

Differences in Local Rice Price Volatility, Climate, and Macroeconomic Determinants in the Indonesian Market

  • Agie Wandala Putra,
  • Jatna Supriatna,
  • Raldi Hendro Koestoer and
  • Tri Edhi Budhi Soesilo

16 April 2021

Rice is a staple food in most Asian countries, and food security is often viewed as having a rice supply to avoid a food crisis. The large number of people who have low incomes means there is a risk of household economic conditions being threatened w...

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8 Citations
4,787 Views
12 Pages

Multi-Class Assessment Based on Random Forests

  • Mehdi Berriri,
  • Sofiane Djema,
  • Gaëtan Rey and
  • Christel Dartigues-Pallez

26 February 2021

Today, many students are moving towards higher education courses that do not suit them and end up failing. The purpose of this study is to help provide counselors with better knowledge so that they can offer future students courses corresponding to t...

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1 Citations
3,821 Views
14 Pages

Spheroids of FAP-Positive Cell Lines as a Model for Screening Drugs That Affect FAP Expression

  • Victor V. Pleshkan,
  • Marina V. Zinovyeva,
  • Dina V. Antonova and
  • Irina V. Alekseenko

Fibroblast activation protein has a unique expression profile that manifests mainly in wounds and tumors, which anticipates it as an encouraging and selective target for anticancer therapy. However, research of the therapeutic potential of FAP is lim...

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9 Citations
1,925 Views
13 Pages

8 May 2024

Understanding human actions often requires in-depth detection and interpretation of bio-signals. Early eye disengagement from the target (EEDT) represents a significant eye behavior that involves the proactive disengagement of the gazes from the targ...

  • Review
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3 Citations
5,005 Views
26 Pages

Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequent cancer in women. In female dogs, canine mammary gland tumor (CMT) is also the leading neoplasm. Comparative oncology indicates similar tumor behaviors between human BCs (HBCs) and CMTs. Therefore, this review s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,273 Views
11 Pages

Vertical Etching of Scandium Aluminum Nitride Thin Films Using TMAH Solution

  • A. S. M. Zadid Shifat,
  • Isaac Stricklin,
  • Ravi Kiran Chityala,
  • Arjun Aryal,
  • Giovanni Esteves,
  • Aleem Siddiqui and
  • Tito Busani

9 January 2023

A wide bandgap, an enhanced piezoelectric coefficient, and low dielectric permittivity are some of the outstanding properties that have made ScxAl1−xN a promising material in numerous MEMS and optoelectronics applications. One of the substantia...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,358 Views
19 Pages

Advances in Biosynthesis of Non-Canonical Amino Acids (ncAAs) and the Methods of ncAAs Incorporation into Proteins

  • Liang Chen,
  • Xiulan Xin,
  • Yuning Zhang,
  • Shunyao Li,
  • Xiaoman Zhao,
  • Song Li and
  • Zhaochu Xu

21 September 2023

The functional pool of canonical amino acids (cAAs) has been enriched through the emergence of non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs). NcAAs play a crucial role in the production of various pharmaceuticals. The biosynthesis of ncAAs has emerged as an alte...

  • Article
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22 Citations
6,456 Views
15 Pages

11 March 2020

This study draws on the notions of investment and consumption to interpret beliefs about learning languages other than English (LOTEs) among learners in Chinese universities. By interviewing 23 Chinese university students learning French or Spanish i...

  • Review
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252 Views
17 Pages

29 December 2025

Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare, multisymptomatic genetic disorder caused by the absence or dysfunction of specific genes on chromosome 15. The genetic abnormality is anticipated to cause a dysfunction of the hypothalamus, which is also c...

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7 Citations
4,590 Views
9 Pages

28 December 2022

Statisticians work with figures, whereas scientists work with estimated quantities. Every direct (physical) measurement has some degree of uncertainty. Single numbers pose no problems, and an implied range can always be specified. Difficulties arise...

  • Review
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10 Citations
3,951 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of Control Strategies for Xylella fastidiosa in the Balearic Islands

  • Bàrbara Quetglas,
  • Diego Olmo,
  • Alicia Nieto,
  • David Borràs,
  • Francesc Adrover,
  • Ana Pedrosa,
  • Marina Montesinos,
  • Juan de Dios García,
  • Marta López and
  • Andreu Juan
  • + 1 author

The emergence of Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) in the Balearic Islands in October 2016 was a major phytosanitary challenge with international implications. Immediately after its detection, eradication and containment measures included in Decision 2015/789...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,626 Views
18 Pages

Application of Variable-Order Fractional Calculus to the Modeling of Calendar Aging in Lithium-Ion Batteries

  • Juan Antonio López-Villanueva,
  • Pablo Rodríguez-Iturriaga,
  • Luis Parrilla and
  • Salvador Rodríguez-Bolívar

5 March 2023

Battery aging is one of the key challenges that electrochemical energy storage faces. Models for both cycling and calendar aging are valuable for quantitatively assessing their contribution to overall capacity loss. Since batteries are stored and emp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
9,559 Views
21 Pages

4 September 2018

The European Tourism Indicators System (ETIS) is a product of the European Union (EU) Sustainable Development Strategy, which was formulated with the objectives of promoting economic prosperity, social equity, cohesion, and environmental protection....

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19 Citations
5,882 Views
11 Pages

Vehicle Price Classification and Prediction Using Machine Learning in the IoT Smart Manufacturing Era

  • Fadi Al-Turjman,
  • Adedoyin A. Hussain,
  • Sinem Alturjman and
  • Chadi Altrjman

26 July 2022

In this paper, machine learning (ML) strategies have been utilized in predicting vehicles’ prices and good deals. Vehicle value prediction has been considered one of the most significant research topics with the rise of IoT for sustainability....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,108 Views
19 Pages

Proactive Cross-Layer Framework Based on Classification Techniques for Handover Decision on WLAN Environments

  • Josué Vicente Cervantes-Bazán,
  • Alma Delia Cuevas-Rasgado,
  • Luis Martín Rojas-Cárdenas,
  • Saúl Lazcano-Salas,
  • Farid García-Lamont,
  • Luis Arturo Soriano,
  • José de Jesús Rubio and
  • Jaime Pacheco

25 February 2022

In recent years, modern technology has been increasing, and this has grown a derivate in big challenges related to the network and application infrastructures. New devices have been providing more high functionalities to users than ever before; howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
16,224 Views
21 Pages

30 September 2023

Liquid fossil fuel is anticipated to run out by the mid-2060s. The destruction of land, water, and air due to fossil fuel use contributes to environmental degradation. Policymakers, scientists, and researchers are looking into power generation from r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,599 Views
22 Pages

Coronary Artery Disease and Severe Aortic Stenosis: Contemporary Treatment Options for Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

  • Nikolaos Ktenopoulos,
  • Antonios Karanasos,
  • Odysseas Katsaros,
  • Anastasios Apostolos,
  • George Latsios,
  • Athanasios Moulias,
  • Michael I. Papafaklis,
  • Grigorios Tsigkas,
  • Constantinos Tsioufis and
  • Konstantinos Toutouzas
  • + 1 author

14 December 2024

Approximately 50% of individuals eligible for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) have coronary artery disease (CAD). The influence of CAD, both its prevalence and severity, on post-TAVI clinical results has yielded conflicting findings. R...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,557 Views
8 Pages

The Predictive Value of Mutation Screening for Anticipating COVID-19 Waves

  • Robert Hohan,
  • Petre Milu,
  • Simona Paraschiv,
  • Corina Casangiu,
  • Andreea Tudor,
  • Ovidiu Vlaicu,
  • Leontina Banica,
  • Marius Surleac,
  • Dragos Florea and
  • Dan Otelea

11 November 2021

Emerging SARS-CoV-2 strains continue to generate difficulties for authorities and health care professionals worldwide due to enhanced transmissibility and/or immune response evasion. The appearance of the Alpha and Delta strains has been associated w...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,901 Views
10 Pages

9 October 2020

We present the case of a female patient who developed complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) after a right-foot injury. The patient had pain from the right knee to the toes and showed severe disgust at the appearance of the affected limb. Consequently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,405 Views
26 Pages

Working Methodology with Public Universities in Peru during the Pandemic—Continuity of Virtual/Online Teaching and Learning

  • Ana María Martín-Cuadrado,
  • Silvia Lavandera-Ponce,
  • Begoña Mora-Jaureguialde,
  • Cristina Sánchez-Romero and
  • Lourdes Pérez-Sánchez

This article describes the consultancy provided by the UTEC-UNED-TECSUP University Consortium to six national universities in Peru, during the COVID-19 state of emergency. This action aims to promote the techno-pedagogical change from a face-to-face...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,770 Views
9 Pages

Middle-School Student Engagement in a Tick Testing Community Science Project

  • Amy Prunuske,
  • Cole Fisher,
  • Jhomary Molden,
  • Amarpreet Brar,
  • Ryan Ragland and
  • Jesse vanWestrienen

18 December 2021

Studies of tickborne illness have benefited from interactions between scientists and community members. Most participants in community science projects are well-educated adults, but there are anticipated benefits from engaging younger students in res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,337 Views
34 Pages

17 June 2022

Dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs) have been of interest to many researchers. These are problems in which the environment changes during the evolutionary process, such as the Pareto-optimal set (POS) or the Pareto-optimal front (PO...

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