Analysing perceptions of nature and nature's contributions to people for a Swiss ecological infrastructure by Marina Cracco, Gretchen Walters, Romain Loup

“…As one of the few exploratory studies to examine perceptions of all types of contributions of nature, using the IPBES international framework, and looking at nature inside and outside parks, this work contributes to strengthening the design and management of parks and ecological infrastructure in Switzerland and beyond. …”
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Utilization of Animal Solid Waste for Electricity Generation in the Northwest of Iran 3E Analysis for One-Year Simulation by Azher M. Abed, Holya A. Lafta, Reza Alayi, Hossein Tamim, Mohsen Sharifpur, Nima Khalilpoor, Behnam Bagheri

“…The results of scenario analysis showed that in all designed systems, the highest amount of energy production was in July and was related to the hottest season of the year. …”
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Evaluation of the Effect of Different Contaminants on the Shear Bond Strength of Different Adhesive Systems - An In Vitro Study by Monalisha Jha, Amit Kumar, Abha Telang, Puja Kumari, Gaurav Verma, Karuna Bharti

“…To assess the variations in shear bond strength across the groups, statistical analysis was applied, most likely using SPSS or a comparable program. Results: In all contamination circumstances, ADPER SINGLE BOND-2 consistently showed a stronger shear bond strength than CLEARFIL LINER BOND-F and SINGLE BOND UNIVERSAL ADHESIVE, according to the data. …”
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An Analytical Exploration of Mobile Virtual Social Networks and Their Impact on Teenagers\' Academic Quality of Life by Amrollah Amani Kalarijani, Mahsa Talebi, Bita Erfani

“…The target demographic encompassed all tenth-grade male and female students from two districts in Baharestan during the academic year of 2023, with a total of 100 eligible individuals who willingly opted to participate in the study; the instruments employed for data collection included questionnaires pertaining to the utilization of mobile virtual social networks as developed by Javadinia et al. (2011) and the assessment of quality of life in educational settings as conceptualized by Ainley and Bourke (1992). …”
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Holistic Explanation in Architectural Historiography: Inquiry of the Possibility in Response to Branko Mitrovic A Critique on the Book Rage and Denials: Collectivist Philosophy, Po... by Zeinab Tamassoki, Mehrdad Qayyoomi

“…In addition to the choices that led to the final formulation of the artwork, one must also consider the other options available, those possible choices that were left out, to clarify feasible limitations and, conversely, the choices that led to the emergence of the work. Even considering that all final decisions merely result from chemical interactions in actors' brains, one cannot judge alternative options the same way, some of which did not even occur in the artist's mind or the network of agents involved. …”
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Effect of Abiotic Stresses on the Nondestructive Estimation of Rice Leaf Nitrogen Concentration by Stephan M. Haefele, Joel D. L. C. Siopongco, Serafin T. Amarante, To Phuc Tuong

“…Linear relations between chlorophyll concentration and leaf N concentration based on dry weight (Ndw) between SPAD values adjusted for leaf thickness and Ndw and between LCC scores adjusted for leaf thickness and Ndw could be confirmed for all treatments and varieties used. Leaf spectral reflectance measurements did not show a stress-dependent change in the reflectance pattern, indicating that no specific element of the photosynthetic complex was affected by the stresses and at the stress level applied. …”
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Potentials of hydrogen economy in energy transition towards 2050 net zero emission agenda: Opportunities for Nigeria by Abubakar S. Sambo, Abdullahi Adamu

“…The existing energy ecosystem that sustains economic activity around the world is heavily dependent on coal, oil, and natural gas. In fact, all fossil fuels combined accounted for over 84 per cent of total global energy use in 2019. …”
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Modeling the Risks of Blockchain Development in Improving the Resilience of the Medical Equipment Supply Chain by Atena Maleki, Masoumeh Zeinalnezhad, Tahereh Aliheydari Bioki, Ehsan Hedayati

“…Blockchain technology is creating a huge revolution in all the world's industries and has become one of the most popular financial markets in the world. …”
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Religious service attendance and consumer financial outcomes: Evidence from a longitudinal survey by Cwynar Andrzej, Potocki Tomasz, Białowolski Piotr, Węziak-Białowolska Dorota

“…The results indicate that RSA is prospectively associated with all three consumer financial outcomes: savings (positive), debt (negative), and financial satisfaction (positive). …”
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RISK MANAGEMENT IN ISLAMIC BANKS: A RESEARCH ON THE PARTICIPATION BANKS IN TURKEY by Hüseyin Çetin, Raif Parlakkaya, Mustafa Nihat Demirci

“…Islamic banks face almost all risks exposed in conventional banks. Risks are further diversified and complicated in Islamic banks. …”
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Fate and Distribution of Heavy Metals in Wastewater Irrigated Calcareous Soils by Mohammed Hashem Stietiya, Mohammad Duqqah, Theophilus Udeigwe, Ruba Zubi, Tarek Ammari

“…Results showed that sorption capacity for Zarqa River (ZR1) soil was higher than Wadi Dhuleil (WD1) soil for all metals. The order of sorption affinity for WD1 was in the decreasing order of Ni > Zn > Cd, consistent with electrostatic attraction and indication of weak association with soil constituents. …”
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About difficulties in the examination of the quality of medical care in the complicated course of the postoperative period after cystectomy by K. N. Movchan, K. E. Chernov, B. S. Artyushin, A. V. Zharkov, A. Yu. Chernova

“…At present, in St. Petersburg, all conditions have been created for the concentration of patients with severe diseases of the bladder in a number of specialized medical organizations, in which a large number of cystectomies with intestinal plastic are routinely performed annually, which makes it possible with a high probability to guarantee a favorable clinical outcome without discrediting method of the rarity of its implementation.…”
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Phytotoxicity of exotic species on the physiological potential of crambe seeds (Crambe abyssinica Hochs) by Silvana Fraga Silva, Halina Stéffany Lopes Costa, Jesimiel Silva Viana, Sebastião Medeiros Filho

“…Seedlings lengths were reduced in the presence of P. juliflora and C. madagascariensis. For crambe seeds, all extracts negatively affected their physiological potential.…”
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Equine Trypanosomiasis: Molecular Detection, Hematological, and Oxidative Stress Profiling by Mostafa Shoraba, Salma A. Shoulah, Faysal Arnaout, Abdelfattah Selim

“…Moreover, the PCR assay targeting RoTat 1.2 VSG gene revealed positive specific band (205 bp) in all examined samples for T. evansi and the phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that strain of this study is closely related to T. evansi isolate in horses from India (MT501210) while showed difference from sequences of other species. …”
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Teaching the basics of Life Safety according to the specifics of the subject of educational material by I. G. Kretova, O. V. Belyaeva, Е. А. Koscova

“…It must be taken into account when choosing teaching methods and technologies. All students agree that practical classes of «Fundamentals of health and safety» should be held offline and give preference to having tasks in mini-groups. …”
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Music Signal Recognition Based on the Mathematical and Physical Equation Inversion Method by Wei Jiang, Dong Sun

“…The attention network-based classification model draws on the properties of human auditory attention to improve the recognition scores of the main playing instruments and the overall recognition accuracy of all instruments. The two-stage classification model is divided into a first-stage classification model and a second-stage classification model, and the second-stage classification model consists of three residual networks, which are trained separately to specifically identify strings, winds, and percussions. …”
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Sodium Cyclamate Identification and Determination of Dawet Ice Sold in Wedi District Indonesia by Makhabbah Jamilatun, Pradea Indah Lukito, Ira Dwi Astuti

“…The conclusion is that the sodium cyclamate content in dawet ice sold in Wedi District from all samples analyzed does not exceed the maximum usage limit set by BPOM Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia No. 4 of 2014, concerning the Maximum Limit for the Use of Sweetener Food Additives, amounted to 250 mg/kg</p>…”
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The Anthropocene and the biodiversity crisis: an eco-evolutionary perspective by Jarne, Philippe

“…A major facet of the Anthropocene is global change, such as climate change, caused by human activities, which drastically affect biodiversity with all-scale declines and homogenization of biotas. …”
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Brain Bioelectric Responses to Short-Term Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Training in Indian and Russian University Students Studying in the Russian Arctic by Denis Demin, Liliya Poskotinova

“…During the HRV BF sessions, the sympathetic activity decreased more significantly in Russian students, while the alpha EEG activity significantly increased across all brain regions in both groups. In Indian students, there was a notable increase in theta and beta1 EEG spectral power in the frontal, central, and temporal regions. …”
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Temperature tolerance of European fish species based on thermal maxima in southern Baltic Sea-basin streams by Grzegorz Radtke, Rafał Bernaś

“…Additionally, upper tolerance boundaries are reported here for the first time for some species. For all species, the upper limit of physiological endurance (lethal temperature) was clearly higher than the tolerance threshold. …”
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