Transforming monosaccharides: Recent advances in rare sugar production and future exploration by Shin-ichi Nakakita, Jun Hirabayashi

“…Rare sugars are defined as monosaccharides and their derivatives that do not exist in nature at all or that exist in extremely limited amounts despite being theoretically possible. …”
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Influence of human peripheral blood samples preprocessing on the quality of Hi-C libraries by M. M. Gridina, E. Vesna, M. E. Minzhenkova, N. V. Shilova, O. P. Ryzhkova, L. P. Nazarenko, E. O. Belyaeva, I. N. Lebedev, V. S. Fishman

“…The genome-wide variant of the chromatin conformation capture technique (Hi-C) is a powerful tool for revealing patterns of genome spatial organization, as well as for understanding the effects of their disturbance on disease development. …”
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Gas Seepage along the Edge of the Aquitaine Shelf (France): Origin and Local Fluxes by Livio Ruffine, Jean-Pierre Donval, Claire Croguennec, Laurent Bignon, Dominique Birot, Anne Battani, Germain Bayon, Jean-Claude Caprais, Nadine Lantéri, Denis Levaché, Stéphanie Dupré

“…Assuming a steady discharge, the mean calculated methane emission for the nine seeps is of 38 kmol·yr−1. …”
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Analysis of Natural Aging Behavior of Asphalt Binder in Cold and Arid Region by Shanglin Song, Meichen Liang, Fujin Hou, Honggang Gao, Yufeng Bi, Haixing Zhang, Meng Guo

“…With extremely bad climate and poor geographical environment in cold and arid region, the deterioration and failure of road materials are serious. …”
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Polarization-independent isotropic metasurface with high refractive index, low reflectance, and high transmittance in the 0.3-THz band by Sato Kento, Suzuki Takehito

“…Here, we demonstrate an isotropic metasurface with polarization-independent material properties with the extremely high refractive index of 14.0 + j0.49, low reflectance of 1.0 %, and high transmittance of 86.9 % at 0.31 THz. …”
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Determination of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Craft Villages and Industrial Environments of Vietnam by Thi Vi Phung, Thuy Ngoc Nguyen, Lan-Anh Phan Thi, Hung Viet Pham, Hong Anh Duong

“…The environmental risks posed by PFASs in surface water from craft villages were mainly in a range of extremely low to low level, particularly a few points have high ecological risks of PFDoA.…”
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Excitation of ULF, ELF, and VLF Resonator and Waveguide Oscillations in the Earth–Atmosphere–Ionosphere System by Lightning Current Sources Connected with Hunga Tonga Volcano Erupt... by Yuriy G. Rapoport, Volodymyr V. Grimalsky, Andrzej Krankowski, Asen Grytsai, Sergei S. Petrishchevskii, Leszek Błaszkiewicz, Chieh-Hung Chen

“…The electric current source due to lightning near the location of the Hunga Tonga volcano eruption has a wide-band frequency spectrum determined in this paper based on a data-driven approach. …”
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Emergency Laparotomy in the Critically Ill: Futility at the Bedside by Niels D. Martin, Sagar P. Patel, Kristen Chreiman, Jose L. Pascual, Benjamin Braslow, Patrick M. Reilly, Lewis J. Kaplan

“…The presence of any identifiable abdominal pathology established a 90% mortality rate. Conclusions. The need for BSL portends an extremely high mortality rate and is likely useful in preintervention counselling. …”
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Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activity of Microalgae <I>Dunaliella salina</I> and <I>Botryococcus braunii</I> by Ali Ridlo, Delianis Pringgenies, Ribka Anindita Br Perangin-angin, Dafit Ariyanto

“…Highlight Research • The methanolic extracts of  salinaand B. braunii contained alkaloids, steroids, triterpenoids, flavonoids, and saponins. • Chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, and carotenoids were most abundant in the ethyl acetate extracts of salinaand B. braunii…”
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Truffle Species Discrimination Based on Their Chemical Composition, Chromaticity Coordinates and Antioxidant Capacity by Cristina Valencia-Sullca, Anja Rakotondramavo, Catherine Verret, Jean-Philippe Blondeau, Sullivan Renouard

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The People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID) of the USSR in the City of Kuibyshev (1941-1943) by S. I. Chernyavsky

“…Among other tasks were the search for allies, establishing effective military, economic and political cooperation with them, counteracting the expansion of the Nazi coalition at the expense of Sweden and Turkey, and conducting an extremely balanced policy in the Far East in order to avoid a military clash with Japan.Due to the deterioration of the military situation on the Western Front and the imminence of the capture of Moscow, on October 16, 1941, the main staff of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, headed by its Deputy Chairman A. …”
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GAZE DIRECTION MONITORING MODEL IN COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT by Olesia Barkovska, Yaroslav Liapin, Tetiana Muzyka, Ihor Ryndyk, Pavlo Botnar

“…The practical novelty of the proposed model of monitoring the direction of gaze in a computer-based knowledge control system lies in the possibility of automated remote control over a large audience of students. …”
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Bioconversion of municipal organic solid waste in to compost using Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia Illucens) by Priscilla Addo, Sampson Oduro-Kwarteng, Samuel Gyasi, Esi Awuah

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Exploring the Effects of <i>Gracilaria lemaneiformis</i> Polysaccharides on the Fecal Microbiota and Fecal Metabolites of Fattening Pigs Based on 16S rDNA and Metabolome Sequencing by Mingyang Jia, Qiang Ma, Hongjun Wang, Xiangzhou Yan, Lei Wang, Baosong Xing, Qingxia Lu, Jing Wang

“…Sixty Duroc × (Landrace × Yorkshire) castrated male finishing pigs were randomly divided into negative control (NC) and <i>gracilaria lemaneiformis</i> polysaccharides (GLP) groups to study the effects of GLP on the fecal microbiota and fecal metabolites of fattening pigs. The NC group was fed a basic diet, and the GLP group was fed a basic diet supplemented with 0.1% GLP. …”
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Purification of amorphous boron powder by using the soluble transformation of acid-insoluble boron magnesium compounds by Lv S.-X., Cao Z., Wu J.-J.

“…At present, amorphous boron powder is considered to be the best fuel for solid fuel-rich propellants due to its extremely high volume calorific value and mass calorific value. …”
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Interior Convection Regime, Host Star Luminosity, and Predicted Atmospheric CO2 Abundance in Terrestrial Exoplanets by Antonin Affholder, Stéphane Mazevet, Boris Sauterey, Dániel Apai, Régis Ferrière

“…Despite this unexpected similarity, we predict that a mission capable of detecting atmospheric CO _2 abundance above 0.1 bar in 25 terrestrial exoplanets is extremely likely (≥95% of samples) to infer the dominant interior convection regime in that sample with strong evidence (10:1 odds). …”
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L-Citrulline in Neonates: From Bench to Bed Side by Dwayne Mascarenhas, Atefeh Mohammadi, Randa Higazy, Julijana Ivanovska, Estelle Gauda, Bonny Jasani

“…L-citrulline (L-CIT), a precursor to L-arginine (L-ARG), is a key contributor to the nitric oxide (NO) signaling pathway. …”
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Mitigation of Harmonics and Unbalanced Voltage Disturbance Compensation by MSVPWM Based- DVR in the Distribution Net by Haider Muhamad Husen

“…Recent power distribution networks comprise abundant sensitive loads, which extremely impact the power quality of source in electrical power networks. …”
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Functional Balance and Motor Impairment Correlations with Gait Parameters during Timed Up and Go Test across Three Attentional Loading Conditions in Stroke Survivors by Haidzir Manaf, Maria Justine, Mazlifah Omar

“…The level of functional balance (Berg Balance Scale) and motor impairment (Fugl-Meyer assessment lower extremity) were assessed prior to the TUG test. TUG test was conducted under three attentional loading conditions (single, dual motor, and dual-cognitive). …”
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Exploration of Flood Prediction in Watersheds Based on the Fusion Analysis of Remote Sensing Big Data with Multiple Physical Fields by Minming Xu, Yun Ouyang

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