A problem of "Raseiniai tank's" history by Arvydas Žardinskas

“…Attempts to destroy this tank with the new 50 mm anti-tank cannon, bombardment by large caliber cannon, and the use of engineers with explosives during the night all failed. …”
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Grey Forecasting for technoeconomic sustainability of fiberglass composite waste recycling in developing countries by Rizwan Rasheed, Fizza Tahir, Shuaishuai Geng, Fizza Batool, Muhammad Afzaal, Yuehong Su

“…The demand for engineered composites particularly fiberglass reinforced polymers (FRP) is gaining momentum. …”
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PARylation of HMGA1 desensitizes esophageal squamous cell carcinoma to olaparib by Xin‐Yuan Lei, Kai‐Yue He, Qiu‐Tong Li, Lei Zhang, Dan‐Hui Wu, Jing‐Yu Yang, Jin‐Rong Guo, Meng‐Jie Liu, Zi‐Long Zhao, Jun‐Qi Li, Huai Liu, Yuan Zhao, Yu‐Jia Li, Qian‐Hui Sun, Chen‐Guang Wu, Yun‐Fan Wang, Geng‐Sheng Cao, Gang Wang, Yong‐Ping Jian, Zhi‐Xiang Xu

“…In both subcutaneous tumour models and genetically engineered mouse models of in situ esophageal cancer, HMGA1 interference increased tumour sensitivity to olaparib. …”
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So to Speak: A Computational and Empirical Investigation of Lexical Cohesion of Non-Literal and Literal Expressions in Text by Alexis Palmer, Caroline Sporleder, Linlin Li

“…We also show that an automatically computable semantic relatedness measure based on search engine page counts correlates well with human intuitions about the cohesive structure of a text and can therefore be used to determine the cohesive structure of a text automatically with a reasonable degree of accuracy. …”
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Detection of Prunus Necrotic Ringspot Virus (PNRSV) and Apple Mosaic Virus (ApMV) in Rose (Rosa spp.) Plants in Konya Province by Adile Tuğçe Orhan, Serkan Yeşil

“…These results will serve as an important source of information for rose producers and agricultural engineers in the region and will allow the development of strategies to control the spread of viruses and minimize infections.…”
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Toward Endless Life: Population, Machinery, and Monumental Time by Thomas Allen

“…The expositions and related cultural artifacts such as monumental clocks, literary narratives and sketches, and historical paintings thus presage, in their imaginings of inhuman time, not only the contemporary academic interest in “big history” and “deep time,” but also such cultural phenomena as the Clock of the Long Now, whose builders (engineers and technophiles associated with the computer industry in California) envision a clock so slow it would tell time into a future devoid of humanity. …”
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Surface topography modulates initial platelet adhesion to titanium substrata by Cecilia Yan Guo, Raymond Mo, Hugh Kim

“…We conclude that while surface topography can be engineered to modulate initial platelet adhesion, granule secretion is likely regulated as a separate and independent process.…”
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Cryoablation in Chronic Pain Management: A Narrative Review by Sreyashi Naskar, Debesh Bhoi, Wasimul Hoda, Heena Garg

“…This narrative review includes all types of scientific studies, published between 2010 and 2023, which were selected using a specific set of keywords through two different literature search engines. In conclusion, it explains how cryoneurolysis works to provide long-term pain relief and summarizes the latest evidence supporting its use in chronic pain management.…”
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The Origin of German-American Relations as a Partnership of Unequal Parties by E. S. Leonov

“…Abstract: Despite the high technological effectiveness of today’s German economy which serves as the «engine» of Europe and the core of the European integration processes, Germany, however, possesses a limited foreign policy leverage in the modern international relations. …”
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Land use land cover change as a casual factor for climate variability and trends in the Bilate River Basin, Ethiopia. by Samuel Shibeshi Bikeko, Dr E Venkatesham

“…Utilizing multispectral satellite imagery from Landsat 5, 7, and 8, along with meteorological data from five stations, LULC was classified using the Random Forest algorithm on the Google Earth Engine platform. Climate variability and trends were assessed using the Mann-Kendall trend test, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), and the Standardized Temperature Index (STI). …”
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Charging Ahead: The Evolution and Reliability of Nickel‐Zinc Battery Solutions by Idris Temitope Bello, Hassan Raza, Alabi Tobi Michael, Madithedu Muneeswara, Neha Tewari, Wang Bingsen, Yin Nee Cheung, Zungsun Choi, Steven T. Boles

“…This comprehensive review should serve as a resource for researchers, engineers, and industry experts aiming to advance and commercialize dependable, high‐performing Ni‐Zn battery technology for a sustainable energy future.…”
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LEVEL OF COMPLIANCE OF CORE CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS TO ETHICAL STANDARDS IN NIGERIA by B.A Adeyinka, G.O. Jagboro, G.K. Ojo, S.J. Odediran

“…The study area was Lagos State and the target respondents were the registered professionals including architects, quantity surveyors, builders and engineers. A total of one hundred and seventy (170) questionnaire were randomly administered on the professionals and one hundred and thirty eight (138) were retrieved representing 81.18% response rate. …”
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The Israel-Gaza Conflict in the British Press A Corpus-based Critical Stylistic Analysis by Sawsan Hazim Hassan

“…Examining collocations via the Sketch Engine tool provides a clear image of the representation of Israel, Gaza, and Hamas in the corpus under study. …”
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Monitoring the impact of confinement on hyphal penetration and fungal behavior. by Yi-Syuan Guo, Julian A Liber, Jennifer L Morrell-Falvey, Gregory Bonito, Scott T Retterer

“…In this study, we demonstrate the development and use of an engineered microhabitat to visualize fungal growth in response to varied levels of confinement. …”
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A Hybrid Mangrove Identification Method by Combining the Time-Frequency Threshold of the Mangrove Index With a Random Forest Binary Classifier by Zhuokai Jian, Bin Ai, Jiali Zeng, Yuchao Sun

“…The hybrid method was applied to Landsat 8 OLI data to derive the mangrove distribution in China using Google Earth Engine. It demonstrated an overall accuracy rate of 92.86% and an F1 score of 0.92, a significant improvement over using either method alone. …”
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Eurocentric Beauty Standards: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Pakistani Skincare Blogs by Memona Mujahid, Salma Kalim

“…Following a mixed-method approach, combining Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis (CADS) and Sketch Engine as a tool for examining frequency, wordlists, collocations, and concordances, this study analyzes the language and ideologies in ‘beauty and skincare’ blogs from three Pakistani healthcare websites: Instacare, Healthwire, and Oladoc. …”
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Flexibility in PAM recognition expands DNA targeting in xCas9 by Kazi A Hossain, Lukasz Nierzwicki, Modesto Orozco, Jacek Czub, Giulia Palermo

“…xCas9 is an evolved variant of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system, engineered to improve specificity and reduce undesired off-target effects. …”
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Benchmarking the identification of a single degraded protein to explore optimal search strategies for ancient proteins by Rodriguez Palomo, Ismael, Nair, Bharath, Chiang, Yun, Dekker, Joannes, Dartigues, Benjamin, Mackie, Meaghan, Evans, Miranda, Macleod, Ruairidh, Olsen, Jesper V., Collins, Matthew J.

“…We systematically investigated the performance of a wide range of sequencing tools and search engines in a controlled system: the experimental degradation of the single purified bovine β-lactoglobulin (BLG), heated at 95°C and pH 7 for 0, 4 and 128 days. …”
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The Glocalization of Sport: A Research Field for Social Innovation by Zijing Li, Arnaud Waquet, Philippe Campillo

“…The glocalization, considered as a theorical framework to rethink local social innovation which answered to the limit of the globalization, is examined in this article through an in-depth bibliographic analysis conducted using the Lillocat metasearch engine (covering 354 articles since 1992 across 11 thematic areas, 29 of which are related to sports). …”
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Induced hepatocyte-like cells derived from adipose-derived stem cells alleviates liver injury in mice infected with Echinococcus Multilocularis by Hui Liu, Xiaojuan Bi, Ning Yang, Xue Zhang, Bingbing Fang, Nuerbaiti Kusuman, Wenmei Ma, Jing Li, Jin Chu, Li Sun, Liang Li, Guodong Lü, Renyong Lin

“…Abstract Accumulating evidence has shown that adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) have the potential to differentiate into hepatic lineages, which are ideal engraftments for tissue-engineered repair. In this study, we investigated the potential of transplanted induced hepatocyte-like cells (iHEPs) in treating hepatic alveolar echinococcosis and describe an efficient three-step protocol for the generation of iHEPs in vitro from ADSCs. …”
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