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Artificial intelligence in the construction industry: A review of present status, opportunities and future challenges Open
Las nuevas tecnologías y en especial la IA, se han venido impulsando el cambio y transformación en múltiples mercados, y su impacto en el sector de la construcción tiene el potencial de optimizar los procesos, impulsar la innovación y gene…
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Teacher job satisfaction: the importance of school working conditions and teacher characteristics Open
Given that teacher shortage is an international problem, teacher job satisfaction merits closer attention. Not only is job satisfaction closely related to teacher retention, but it also contributes to the well-being of teachers and their s…
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Analysis of Factors Influencing Container Shortage in Tanjung Priok Port, Jakarta Open
The pandemic has put pressure on global maritime supply chain activities resulting in slowdowns and delays. This is reflected in the container crisis, which has caused a shortage of containers at Indonesia's busiest port, Tanjung Priok Por…
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Global water shortage and potable water safety; Today’s concern and tomorrow’s crisis Open
Climate change, severe droughts, population growth, demand increase, and poor management during the recent decades have further stressed the scarce freshwater resources worldwide and resulted in severe water shortages in many regions. The …
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Response Mechanism of Plants to Drought Stress Open
With the global climate anomalies and the destruction of ecological balance, the water shortage has become a serious ecological problem facing all mankind, and drought has become a key factor restricting the development of agricultural pro…
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A Review of Phosphorus Removal Technologies and Their Applicability to Small-Scale Domestic Wastewater Treatment Systems Open
The removal of phosphorus (P) from domestic wastewater is primarily to reduce the potential for eutrophication in receiving waters, and is mandated and common in many countries. However, most P-removal technologies have been developed for …
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3D Bioprinting for Organ Regeneration Open
Regenerative medicine holds the promise of engineering functional tissues or organs to heal or replace abnormal and necrotic tissues/organs, offering hope for filling the gap between organ shortage and transplantation needs. Three‐dimensio…
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Face Masks in the New COVID-19 Normal: Materials, Testing, and Perspectives Open
The increasing prevalence of infectious diseases in recent decades has posed a serious threat to public health. Routes of transmission differ, but the respiratory droplet or airborne route has the greatest potential to disrupt social inter…
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Evaluate the Malignancy of Pulmonary Nodules Using the 3-D Deep Leaky Noisy-OR Network Open
Automatic diagnosing lung cancer from computed tomography scans involves two steps: detect all suspicious lesions (pulmonary nodules) and evaluate the whole-lung/pulmonary malignancy. Currently, there are many studies about the first step,…
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Care of patients with liver disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: EASL-ESCMID position paper Open
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses an enormous challenge to healthcare systems in affected communities. Older patients and those with pre-existing medical conditions have been identified as populations at risk of a seve…
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Integrated STEM Education: A Systematic Review of Instructional Practices in Secondary Education Open
The shortage of graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), has led to numerous attempts to increase students' interest in STEM. One emerging approach that has the potential to improve students' motivation for STE…
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International criteria for electrocardiographic interpretation in athletes: Consensus statement Open
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the leading cause of mortality in athletes during sport. A variety of mostly hereditary, structural or electrical cardiac disorders are associated with SCD in young athletes, the majority of which can be ident…
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Recent Advances in SELEX Technology and Aptamer Applications in Biomedicine Open
Aptamers are short DNA/RNA oligonucleotides capable of binding to target molecules with high affinity and specificity. The process of selecting an aptamer is called Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment (SELEX). Thanks …
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Demographics and Automation Open
We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, because it creates a shortage of middle-aged workers specializing in manual production tasks. We show that demographic change is associate…
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International consensus conference on stool banking for faecal microbiota transplantation in clinical practice Open
Although faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has a well-established role in the treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), its widespread dissemination is limited by several obstacles, including lack of dedicated …
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Sample-Efficient Deep Learning for COVID-19 Diagnosis Based on CT Scans Open
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected more than 1.3 million individuals all over the world and caused more than 106,000 deaths. One major hurdle in controlling the spreading of this disease is the inefficiency and shortage of me…
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The COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Low- and Middle-Income Countries Open
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly around the world with devastating consequences on patients, health care workers, health systems, and economies. As it reaches low- and middle-income countries, its effects could be e…
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Evaluation of COVID-19 RT-qPCR Test in Multi sample Pools Open
Background The recent emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) led to a current pandemic of unprecedented scale. Although diagnostic tests are fundamental to the ability to detect and respond, overwhelmed h…
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Global Evolution of Research in Artificial Intelligence in Health and Medicine: A Bibliometric Study Open
The increasing application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and medicine has attracted a great deal of research interest in recent decades. This study aims to provide a global and historical picture of research concerning AI in he…
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The Safe Assets Shortage Conundrum Open
A safe asset is a simple debt instrument that is expected to preserve its value during adverse systemic events. The supply of safe assets, private and public, has historically been concentrated in a small number of advanced economies, most…
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A Comprehensive Survey on Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks: Recent Advances, New Challenges, and Future Research Directions Open
Cognitive radio technology has the potential to address the shortage of available radio spectrum by enabling dynamic spectrum access. Since its introduction, researchers have been working on enabling this innovative technology in managing …
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Weights and importance in composite indicators: Closing the gap Open
Composite indicators are very popular tools for assessing and ranking countries and institutions in terms of environmental performance, sustainability, and other complex concepts that are not directly measurable. Because of the stakes that…
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The critical role of laboratory medicine during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other viral outbreaks Open
Coronavirus disease 2019, abbreviated to COVID-19 and sustained by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is the latest biological hazard to assume the relevance of insidious worldwide threat. One obvious questio…
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Vaccine optimization for COVID-19: Who to vaccinate first? Open
The optimal use of COVID-19 vaccine depends mainly on how efficacious the vaccine is and how many doses are available.
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Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for COVID-19 Infection Detection and Classification From CT Images Open
An outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease (i.e., COVID-19) has been recorded in Wuhan, China since late December 2019, which subsequently became pandemic around the world. Although COVID-19 is an acutely treated disease, it can also be fa…
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Deep Learning Models for Histopathological Classification of Gastric and Colonic Epithelial Tumours Open
Histopathological classification of gastric and colonic epithelial tumours is one of the routine pathological diagnosis tasks for pathologists. Computational pathology techniques based on Artificial intelligence (AI) would be of high benef…
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Understanding teacher shortages: An analysis of teacher supply and demand in the United States Open
This paper reviews the sources of and potential solutions to teacher shortages in the United States. It describes the sources of current and projected increases in teacher demand relative to enrollments, shifts in pupil-teacher ratios, and…
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International recommendations for electrocardiographic interpretation in athletes Open
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the leading cause of mortality in athletes during sport. A variety of mostly hereditary, structural, or electrical cardiac disorders are associated with SCD in young athletes, the majority of which can be iden…
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Anchor-Free Oriented Proposal Generator for Object Detection Open
Oriented object detection is a practical and challenging task in remote sensing image interpretation. Nowadays, oriented detectors mostly use horizontal boxes as intermedium to derive oriented boxes from them. However, the horizontal boxes…
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Recent Progress in Green Cement Technology Utilizing Low-Carbon Emission Fuels and Raw Materials: A Review Open
The cement industry is facing numerous challenges in the 21st century due to depleting natural fuel resources, shortage of raw materials, exponentially increasing cement demand and climate linked environmental concerns. Every tonne of ordi…