Academic Articles & Research Papers

Temporal trends and disparities in mortality associated with heart failure and underlying ischemic heart disease in the US population: A Nationwide retrospective cross-sectional study (1999–2023).

Differences in income-related health inequalities in Brazil and the USA: a comparative cross-sectional study.

Conducting Research in Human Geography

Reading this book is your first step to becoming a competent human geography researcher. Whether you are a novice needing practical help for your first piece of research or a professional in search of an accessible guide to best practice, C...

The Study of Words Related to Nature and Natural Phenomena in Iranian Oykonyms: Their Use and Background

Introduction One of the most important tools for studying the history and culture of any nation or tribe is to recognize the language and linguistic materials of that nation. Linguistic data can be divided into written and unwritten or or...

Global oil price and stock markets in oil exporting and European countries: Evidence during the Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war

The relationship between oil price movements and stock markets during the COVID-19 pandemic and the geopolitical crisis like the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war is yet unexplored extensively. This study therefore examines the return-correlation...

Combined storytelling and mapping approaches for increasing community engagement with woodland creation and expansion projects

Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover whi...

TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE SEPARATION OF MULTILAYER COMPOSITES

Waste Printed Circuit Boards (WPCBs) are integral components of virtually all electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), forming the structural backbone of the electronics industry. Classified into single-sided, double-sided, multilayer, ri...

Identification and structural analysis of the interactional effect of the change drivers on the field of education

Due to its wide range and importance, the education system has very important and complex elements that if we neglect to monitor their future variations, it can lead to undeniable and profound damages to the results that are expected to be ...

Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithm Based on Semi-Autoencoder

To effectively use the user-item interaction history and auxiliary information in recommendation systems,this paper proposes an improved collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm.Based on semi-autoencoder,the features of auxiliary in...

Kinetics of Hydrolytic Depolymerization of Textile Waste Containing Polyester

Textile products comprise approximately 10% of the total global carbon footprint. Standard practice is to discard apparel textile waste after use, which pollutes the environment. There are professional collectors, charity organizations, and...

A survey of the use of crowdsourcing in software engineering

Systems and software engineering -- Vocabulary

The systems and software engineering disciplines are continuing to mature while information technology advances. This International Standard was prepared to collect and standardize terminology. Its purpose is to identify terms currently in ...

Applications of Ontologies in Software Engineering

The emerging field of semantic web technologies promises new stimulus for Software Engineering research. However, since the underlying concepts of the semantic web have a long tradition in the knowledge engineering field, it is sometimes ha...

Music Genre Recommendations Based on Spectrogram Analysis Using Convolutional Neural Network Algorithm with RESNET-50 and VGG-16 Architecture

Recommendations are a very useful tool in many industries. Recommendations provide the best selection of what the user wants and provide satisfaction compared to ordinary searches. In the music industry, recommendations are used to provide ...

Calibration of Microscopic Traffic Simulation in an Urban Environment Using GPS-Data

Accurate traffic models are of decisive importance for well-founded traffic engineering and represent the basic framework for comprehensive simulation studies as modelling of traffic demand. Using traffic count and speed measurements of roa...

Clustering Ensemble Joint Similarity Recommendation Algorithm Optimized by Improved Bee Colony

The collaborative filtering algorithm is widely used in the field of recommendation because of its good recommendation effect,which nonetheless is significantly reduced when the data is sparse and from a cold start.In this case,in order to ...

Marxism and Anthropology

This book examines the uses made of anthropology by Marx and Engels, and the uses made of Marxism by anthropologists. Looking at the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies, the book evaluates their views in the light of present ...

Partial replacement of red and processed meat with legumes: a modelling study of the impact on nutrient intakes and nutrient adequacy on the population level

Abstract Objective: The shift towards plant-based diets with less meat and more legumes is a global target and requires an understanding of the consequences of dietary adequacy on the population level. Our aim was to model the impact of pa...

Developing European policy on xenotransplantation: instructive findings from the first representative UK sample survey on attitudes and views on animal to human transplants

Recent landmark advances, particularly those related to gene-editing technology and the pioneering pig-to-human transplants currently underway in the USA and China, mean that xenotransplantation (XTx) may become a realistic option for patie...

Beyond Agenda Setting: Information Subsidies and Public Policy

This volume describes the use of mass media and other communication channels by corporations, bureaucrats, politicians and consumer advocates to influence the development and implementation of public policy in areas of science, technology a...