Effectiveness of the Federal ‘Clean Air’ Project to Improve Air Quality in the Most Polluted Russian Cities by Roman V. Gordeev, Anton I. Pyzhev, Ekaterina A. Syrtsova

“…The initial phase of the ‘Clean Air’ Project was a valuable first step, particularly in establishing an air quality monitoring network and conducting detailed pollution assessments in 12 cities. …”
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Mixed Convective-Radiative Dissipative Magnetized Micropolar Nanofluid Flow over a Stretching Surface in Porous Media with Double Stratification and Chemical Reaction Effects: ADM-... by P. K. Pattnaik, M. M. Bhatti, S. R. Mishra, Munawwar Ali Abbas, O. Anwar Bég

“…The present study deals with the electrically conducting micropolar nanofluid flow from a vertical stretching surface adjacent to a porous medium under a transverse magnetic field. …”
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Physical activity among school-aged children and intervention programs using self-determination theory (SDT): A scoping review by Tameka STEWART, Manoj SHARMA

“…Methods: PRISMA-ScR guidelines were used in conducting this scoping review. An electronic literature search in MEDLINE (PubMed), Google Scholar, ERIC, and Academic Search Premier was performed to identify intervention studies based on SDT aimed at promoting PA among school-aged children. …”
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Clinical Outcomes and Quality of Life in Recipients of Livers Donated after Cardiac Death by Neehar D. Parikh, Anton I. Skaro, Daniela P. Ladner, Vadim Lyuksemburg, Joshua G. Cahan, Amna Daud, Zeeshan Butt

“…We examined clinical and quality of life (QOL) outcomes of DCD recipients by conducting a retrospective and cross-sectional review of patients from 2003 to 2010. …”
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A New Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Deep Transfer Network and Supervised Joint Matching by Chengyao Liu, Fei Dong, Kunpeng Ge, Yuanyuan Tian

“…Third, a new domain adaptation approach, supervised joint matching, is developed to conduct joint feature distribution matching and instance reweighting with the consideration of maximum marginal criterion. …”
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Key factors in coastal village’s street planning for marine climate adaptation by Yuan Zheng, Feng Liang, Bifeng Zhu, Tingting Hong, Danhua Xu

“…By using parameterization techniques to establish a dynamic model and conducting multi-objective optimization driven by genetic algorithms, the degree of influence of morphological indicators and climate indicators is revealed. …”
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Effects of water level changes on the hydrological connectivity and water quality of a lake-type wetland by Yemiao Lin, Junfeng Dai, Xinyue Peng, Zheqing Li, Zupeng Wan

“…This work aims to explore the effects of water level changes on the connectivity and water quality of lake-type water bodies in the Huixian Karst Wetland, Guilin.MethodsWater quality data for Mudong Lake from January 2021 to December 2022 were obtained by collecting monthly water samples and conducting laboratory tests for six common water quality parameters. …”
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Is chronic urticaria or urticarial vasculitis a diagnostic dilemma? by L.I. Vakulenko, S.V. Samsonenko, K.V. Skriabina

“…The informed consent of the child and child's parents was obtained for conducting the research. No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.…”
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Effects of various manufacturing parameters and test temperature and crosshead displacement rate on the peel resistance of UHMWPE composites by Omar Banabila, Noora Alahmed, Rubayea Alameri, Rafael Santiago, Kamran A. Khan, Wesley J. Cantwell

“…Peel tests were initially conducted on different sample widths to establish the critical fracture energy of the material, which was found to plateau at approximately 2000 J/m². …”
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Solid waste management beliefs and practices in rural households towards sustainable development and pro-environmental citizenship by M.R. Limon, J.P.C. Vallente, N.C.T. Corales

“…A number of significant implications were offered in this study, such as conducting community workshops and campaigns for the effective management of solid wastes.…”
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Effectiveness of an environmental educational program on intern dentists’ knowledge and practices regarding eco-friendly green dentistry: a quasi-experimental study by Eman Helmy Hassan, Nesma Lotfy, Mamdouh Hanafy Abdou, Ebtisam Mohamed Fetohy, Mohamed Fakhry Hussein

“…Methods An interventional quasi-experimental study (one group pre-test-post-test design) was conducted on 69 intern dentists at the Faculty of Dentistry Alexandria University. …”
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ASTEC–MAAP Comparison of a 2 Inch Cold Leg LOCA until RPV Failure by J. C. de la Rosa Blul, S. Brumm, F. Mascari, S. J. Lee, L. Carenini

“…Beside the effect of the code user in conducting severe accident simulations, some discrepancies are found in the modelling approaches in each code. …”
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Organizational features of operational service of lines by criminal police units by S. A. Chyzh

“…The article considers the existing scientific approaches to the definition of “operational service”, which allowed to formulate the author's position on the definition of “operational service of criminal police units of work lines” as a balanced organizational and managerial model of criminal police units on a particular line of work, which means the following: 1) operative overlapping of objects of operative attention by representatives of the agency network; 2) conducting control and supervision proceedings for the purpose of control, monitoring, analysis, assessment and forecasting of the operational situation along the line of work; 3) search and recording of factual data on illegal activities of individuals and groups; 4) use the possibilities of criminal analysis in order to create a single security space in all spheres and sectors of the economy and ensure an effective system of operational and investigative counteraction to criminal offenses that encroach on the functioning of the state economy. …”
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The impact of community-based non-pharmacological interventions on cardiovascular and kidney disease outcomes in remote dwelling Indigenous communities: A scoping review protocol. by Ikechi G Okpechi, Vinash Kumar Hariramani, Naima Sultana, Anukul Ghimire, Deenaz Zaidi, Shezel Muneer, Mohammed M Tinwala, Feng Ye, Megan Sebastianski, Abdullah Abdulrahman, Branko Braam, Kailash Jindal, Maryam Khan, Scott Klarenbach, Soroush Shojai, Stephanie Thompson, Aminu K Bello, Aminu K Bello

“…<h4>Materials and methods</h4>This scoping review will be guided by the methodological framework for conducting scoping studies developed by Arksey and O'Malley. …”
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A green route of antibacterial films production from shrimp (Penaeus monodon) shell waste biomass derived chitosan: Physicochemical, thermomechanical, morphological and antimicrobi... by Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Mohd. Maniruzzaman, Ripon Kumar Saha

“…Whereas the highly active chitosan were extracted from shrimp (Penaeus monodon) shells by conducting demineralization, de-proteinization, and deacetylation reaction. …”
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Peculiarities of acoustic diagnostic methods in pediatric practice (literature review, own research) by Yu.V. Marushko, O.V. Khomych

“…The implementation of acoustic methods into clinical practice is a promising direction that deserves further research and development. The conducted experimental studies demonstrated the ability of the "Trembita-Corona" device to accurately diagnose and localize lung lesions in community-acquired pneumonia, confirming the effectiveness of the developed methods and algorithms. …”
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Voluntary Disclosure and Relational Connectivity – The Case of the Polish Bond Market by Dominika Hadro, Marek Pauka, Kamil Gemra, Szymon Okoń, Justyna Fijałkowska

“…The purpose of our research is to evaluate the voluntary disclosure strategy and effective communication between issuers and investors on the Polish bond market Catalyst. We conducted a questionnaire among issuers on the Catalyst. …”
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Mapping evidence on barriers to and facilitators of diagnosing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) in low- and middle-incom... by Abebe Sorsa Badacho, Ozayr Harron Mahomed

“…PubMed, MEDLINE with full text via the EBSCO host, Google Scholar, Science Direct and Scopus will be used for a comprehensive search for data extraction. The search will be conducted using keywords, Boolean terms, and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). …”
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A Retrospective Aspect at the Evaluations of a University Clinical Research Ethics Committee: The Unseen Reasons Behind the Disapproved Studies by Canan Uluoğlu, Ali Kağan Coşkun, Utku Aykan

“…Objective: The process of conducting medical research on human subjects is secured by a number of regulations from its planning phase through its publication as an original article. …”
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Experimental Testing and Numerical Simulation of Recycled Concrete Aggregate in a Concrete Mix by Bini Neupane, Kameshwar Sahani, Shyam Sundar Khadka

“…To address this issue and mitigate resource depletion, the research focuses on concrete recycling. By conducting a thorough analysis of mechanical properties, crack patterns, strength variations, and specific gravity evaluations across different RCA compositions, the study emphasizes the ongoing endeavors toward sustainable concrete practices. …”
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