Advancing biomonitoring of eDNA studies with the Anaconda R package: Integrating soil and One Health perspectives in the face of evolving traditional agriculture practices. by Pierre-Louis Stenger, Audrey Léopold, Kelly Dinh, Pierre Mournet, Nadia Robert, Julien Drouin, Jacques Wamejonengo, Sylvie Russet, Thomas Ibanez, Laurent Maggia, Fabian Carriconde

“…In response, we present the Anaconda R Package, a novel tool designed to enhance the analysis of eDNA data for biomonitoring purposes. …”
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Catastrophizing and Depressive Symptoms as Prospective Predictors of Outcomes Following Total Knee Replacement by Robert R Edwards, Jennifer A Haythornthwaite, Michael T Smith, Brendan Klick, Jeffrey N Katz

“…The present findings suggest that high levels of catastrophizing and depression may promote enhanced pain levels, indicating that interventions designed to reduce catastrophizing and depressive symptoms may have the potential to further improve joint replacement outcomes.…”
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Russia and Poland: Problems of Inevitable Coexistence by D. V. Ofitserov-Belskiy

“…Diplomatic methods were designed to hurt Russian interests and to create a topic for discussion. …”
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The politics of digital sovereignty and the European Union’s legislation: navigating crises by Gábor Hulkó, János Kálmán, András Lapsánszky

“…The European Union’s legislative initiatives, including the Digital Services (DSA), Digital Markets (DMA) and European Media Freedom (EMFA) regulations, as well as the efforts to regulate artificial intelligence, are designed to address the crises inherent in the digital age, while at the same time posing new challenges to the sovereignty and perception of sovereignty of individual states. …”
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The mediating effect of intrusive rumination on the relationship between illness uncertainty and fear of cancer recurrence in breast cancer survivors by Alper Türkel, Nur Nihal Türkel, Ahmet Kadıoğlu, Mutlu Doğan, İrem Ekmekçi Ertek

“…Methods The study was designed to be cross-sectional, and 204 breast cancer survivors were included. …”
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Ecological implication of changing irrigation sources and farming practices: experiences from West Bengal, India by Amartya Pani, Pulak Mishra, Mrinal Kanti Dutta

“…Moreover, the findings appear to point to the need for additional infrastructure development, they also provide insights into designing organic and more resilient policies and institutions to promote ecology-centric participatory irrigation and farming practices for the long-term growth of agrarian sectors.…”
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Positive Stress and Reflective Practice Among Entrepreneurs by Kati Tikkamäki, Päivi Heikkilä, Mari Ainasoja

“…The research process was designed to support reflective dialogue among the 21 Finnish entrepreneurs from different fields who participated in the study, with results based mainly on qualitative interviews. …”
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The Conditions of Public Opinion Action in Soviet Lithuania by Valdemaras Klumbys

“…The time of appearance of discreditable information, its form, and to what part of society it is designed is very important. In Soviet Lithuania, the discreditable information is related to the person's past, his activity in independent Lithuania, during the first Soviet and Nazi occupation, and after the war period. …”
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Balancing the load: A narrative review with methodological implications of compensatory training strategies for non-starting soccer players by Filipe Clemente, Guglielmo Pillitteri, Luiz H. Palucci Vieira, Alireza Rabbani, Piotr Zmijewski, Marco Beato

“…The gap in research underscores the necessity for improved study designs that can shed light on the real impact of compensatory training. …”
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Multifeature extraction based MobileViTv3 model for fish feeding behavior recognition from video streaming by Zheng Zhang, Menglu Chen, Qingsong Hu, Yanbing Shen

“…It can extract spatio-temporal features while obtaining the lightweight characteristic. The MFE block is designed by improving ActionNet, with the frequency channel attention (FCA) and multi-head self-attention (MHSA) mechanisms. …”
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Investigation of Sonic Under-expanded Jets Using Slotted Rectangular Mechanical Tabs by K. Anusindhiya, G. Vinayagamurthy, K. Sathish Kumar

“…The Tabs A, B and C are designed with a blockage of 7.3% which are placed diametrically opposite to each other at the exit of a converging nozzle of 13 mm exit diameter. …”
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Mechanical Properties and Constitutive Model of Geopolymer Lightweight Aggregate Concrete by Peng Ren, Weijie Zhang, Xiaopeng Ye, Xi Liu

“…In order to study the mechanical properties and stress–strain relationship of geopolymer lightweight aggregate concrete (GLAC), 13 groups of different mix proportions were designed. The influence of the binder ratio, alkali–binder ratio, alkali activator modulus, steel fiber volume content, coarse aggregate volume content, and water–binder ratio on the cube compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, flexural strength and axial compression performance of GLAC was analyzed. …”
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Interviews with multimedia comics creators—how Hannah Berry, Lance Dann and Tom McNally use audio drama to move their work into new areas of storytelling by Alex Fitch

“…This interview took place 30th October 2017, at Cartoon County, a monthly discussion group where a comic creator talks about their work in front of an audience of their peers in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex.In the second interview, former Comics Laureate Hannah Berry and audio producer Lance Dann discuss their work together on The Rez, a multimedia storytelling project which exists as a podcast, an app, a website and a comic. Each aspect is designed to complement each other to tell a larger story within the science-fictional world of the narrative, aimed at introducing children to ideas of kindness and resilience, and first created during Covid lockdowns. …”
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Exploiting question-answer framework with multi-GRU to detect adverse drug reaction on social media by Jiao-huang Luo, Ai-hua Yang

“…To solve the problem, we regard ADR detection as a question-answer problem and introduces an innovative neural network framework with multiple GRU layers designed for extracting ADR-related information from tweets. …”
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Fabrication Technique of Dental Restoration Using Hybrid Ceramic With Cad Cam Method by Meita Andriyani, Sonya Harwasih, Eny Inayati

“…Mechanical manufacture of dental restorations using ceramic hybrid materials with CAD CAM method begins with scanning, selection of materials and tooth shade, designing, milling, followed by finishing, polishing, ends with staining and glazing.…”
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The construction of a psychometric instrument for the educational role enactment of attending physicians in teaching hospitals by Ling-Chun Ou, Yu-Chih Lin

“…Methods A 15-item questionnaire was designed based on a literature review to examine the enactment of three educational roles within the role set of attending physicians. …”
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Pengembangan Instrumen Keterampilan Berpikir Kritis pada Pembelajaran Matematika SMA by Budi Harjo, Sudarmadi Putra, Kafin Jaladri, Joko Subando

“…Method – Preliminary research identified challenges faced by mathematics teachers in designing valid and reliable assessment instruments for students' critical thinking skills. …”
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Halo-RPD: searching for RNA-binding protein targets in plants by A. O. Shamustakimova

“…Recommendations for better NGS assay designs are provided.…”
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Impact of Investment on Labour Productivity in Azerbaijan's Chemical and Petrochemical Industry by Vilayat Ismayilov, Nizami Gafarov, Sabina Valiyeva

“… The subject of research related to the impact of investment on industrial productivity in Azerbaijan is relevant and essential for understanding the economic situation in the country and for designing effective strategies for the development of the industry. …”
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Urban Vegetation Mapping from Aerial Imagery Using Explainable AI (XAI) by Arnick Abdollahi, Biswajeet Pradhan

“…Thus, in this work, we explain how an explanation model called Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) can be utilized for interpreting the output of the DNN model that is designed for classifying vegetation covers. We want to not only produce high-quality vegetation maps, but also rank the input parameters and select appropriate features for classification. …”
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