A decomposition analysis of sociodemographic factors and non-cigarette tobacco use as contributors to the change in smoking rates in South Africa between 2017/18 and 2021 by K Kali, O Ayo-Yusuf

“…Women, individuals aged <35 years and black Africans had the largest increase in waterpipe/hubbly and ECig use. …”
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The in ovo screening of 27 single essential oils showed selective effects on hatchability, performance and gene expression relevant to gut functions in broilers at hatch by Asad A. Khaskheli, Shahram Niknafs, Mila M.Y. Meijer, Xinle Tan, Peter R. Ferket, Eugeni Roura

“…Ylang ylang, turmeric acid, star anise, clary sage, and black pepper upregulated the expression of gut immunity biomarkers IL1B, IL10, IGMH, CD3D, and BU1 compared to the saline. …”
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Pengembangan Sistem Manajemen Pengetahuan di Organisasi Asosiasi Alumni Program Beasiswa Amerika - Indonesia (ALPHA-I) by Muhammad Nurwegiono, Sri Nurdiati, Sony Hartono Wijaya

“…Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah sistem manajemen pengetahuan yang dibangun dengan framework PHP dan MySQL sebagai Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) berbasis website. Hasil pengujian Black box dari 36 kasus uji yang telah dilakukan menyatakan bahwa semua fungsi pada sistem berjalan sesuai dengan perintah yang diberikan.   …”
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Unilateral Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome Resulting in Cataract and Urrets-Zavalia Syndrome after Sequential Uneventful Implantation of a Posterior Chamber Phakic Toric Intraocula... by Kepa Balparda, Claudia Marcela Vanegas-Ramirez, Johny Márquez-Tróchez, Tatiana Herrera-Chalarca

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The science and politics of ‘knowledge’ in safe sport research by Benjamin Carr

“…Improving the Question Appraisal System (QAS): Moving further away from black magic and black boxes. American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) 2020. …”
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Sociodemographic disparities in influenza vaccination among older adults in United States by Huan Tao, Jin Chen, Xue Zhang, Xue Zhang, Tao Wang, Nenggang Jiang, Yongqian Jia

“…Compared to non-Hispanic Black people with an income below $25,000 and education less than high school, the ORs were significantly higher among non-Hispanic whites [2.12, (95% CI 1.97–2.28)], non-Hispanic Black people [1.30, (95% CI 1.18–1.44)], and Hispanics [1.40, (95% CI 1.24–1.59)] earning above $50,000 and education above high school. …”
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Pengembangan Sistem Manajemen Pelatihan Kerja di Kota Surakarta by Affriza Brilyan Relo Pambudi Agus Putra, Shelvie Nidya Neyman, Hendra Rahmawan

“…Dari hasil penelitian ini melalui pengujian dengan metode black box untuk mengukur efisiensi, akurasi, validitas data dan kegunaan sistem manajemen pelatihan kerja untuk memastikan tidak terjadinya kembali tumpang tindih data.   …”
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Geography and age drive racial and ethnic disparities in hospital mortality for paediatric community-acquired pneumonia in the United States: a retrospective population based cohor... by Cody-Aaron L. Gathers, Nadir Yehya, Anireddy Reddy, Paula M. Magee, Vanessa C. Denny, Michelle R. Mayeda, Amanda O’Halloran, Sanjiv D. Mehta, Stephanie Wanamaker, Jessica C. Fowler, Garrett Keim

“…Region and age strongly impacted mortality in all racial and ethnic groups, with higher mortality for Black, Hispanic/Latino, and Other patients <1 year. …”
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Necropsies of Reptiles: Recommendations and Techniques for Examining Invasive Species by Seth C. Farris, Michiko A. Squires, Frank Ridgley, Emma Lavergne, Mitchell Serota, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…South Florida provides prime habitat for invasive reptiles such as Argentine black and white tegu and Burmese python, and these species are used to describe our techniques. …”
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Scalp Melanoma Diagnosed by Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in a Tertiary Health Center by A. B. Zarami, N. A. Satumari, M. Ahmed

“…Melanoma is one of the most aggressive malignant skin neoplasms worldwide with more than 20% of world melanoma seen in black Africa and Asia. Late presentation due to ignorance, poverty, and lack of adequate health facility in Nigeria is always the norms. …”
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La photographie à la Librairie centrale des Beaux-Arts – Éditions Albert Lévy (1906-1936) by Maud Allera

“…From 1928, the publisher seems to have abandoned black-and-white photography in favour of stencil-coloured illustrations. …”
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Responsibility, refusal, and return: Thoughts on an ethics of inclination by K. van Marle

“…It could challenge those assumptions of certainty and truth that are so central to formalist and black-letter takes on law and current legal culture. …”
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Generalising Holographic Superconductors by Andrea Donini, Víctor Enguita-Vileta, Fabian Esser, Veronica Sanz

“…Using a semianalytical procedure to compute the superconductor properties, we are able to further generalise the geometric description of the hologram beyond the AdS-Schwarzschild Black Hole paradigm and propose a set of higher-dimensional metrics which exhibit the same universal behaviour. …”
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Adsorption Properties and Structure of Some Active Carbons by I.A. Bardina, E.V. Kalashnikova, N.V. Kovaleva, T.A. Rudnitskaya, N.K. Shonya

“…Gas chromatography has been used to determine the initial low-coverage heats of adsorption of C2–C6 hydrocarbons and their derivatives on active carbon and graphitized carbon black. The porous structure of the active carbon has been determined from the adsorption isotherms of benzene measured at 25°C by a vacuum static method. …”
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Aspects of a novel nonlinear electrodynamics in flat spacetime and in a gravity-coupled scenario by Anjan Kar

“…Moreover, a minimal coupling of Einstein’s General Relativity (GR) with this NLE results in solutions of regular black holes or naked singularities, depending on whether the source is a nonlinear magnetic monopole or an electric charge, respectively.…”
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Oral and Lower Extremity Ulcers as the Initial Presentation of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis by Mohammed Omar Al Salihi, Bianca Dominguez, Viresh Mohanlal, S. J. Carlan

“…Oral and skin ulcers are considered to be rare presentations. Case. A 39-year-old black male presented to the hospital with oral and skin ulcers and was diagnosed with GPA based on the biopsies of both cutaneous lesions and kidney. …”
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En attendant Bouteflika. Le président et la crise de sens en Algérie by Thomas Serres

“…It then looks at Bouteflika’s rise to power and the restoration of order, a staged return to the glorious past and the vanquishing of the black decade. This restoration of order was also linked to political paralysis, the dynamics of which would have been both institutional and fortuitous in so far as they linked to the head of state’s illness. …”
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Columbia / New York: The Ruins of the Civil War by Thomas Constantinesco

“…While the ashes of Columbia became a climactic episode in the narrative of the Lost Cause, the burning of New York City indexed the problematic memorialization of antistate and anti-Black violence.…”
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Continuous Time Portfolio Selection under Conditional Capital at Risk by Gordana Dmitrasinovic-Vidovic, Ali Lari-Lavassani, Xun Li, Antony Ware

“…In this paper we investigate one such measure—conditional capital at risk—and find the optimal strategies under this measure, in the Black-Scholes continuous time setting, with time dependent coefficients.…”
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A Positivity-Preserving Numerical Scheme for Nonlinear Option Pricing Models by Shengwu Zhou, Wei Li, Yu Wei, Cui Wen

“…A positivity-preserving numerical method for nonlinear Black-Scholes models is developed in this paper. …”
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