Secretion of S100A8, S100A9, and S100A12 by Neutrophils Involves Reactive Oxygen Species and Potassium Efflux by Mélanie R. Tardif, Julie Andrea Chapeton-Montes, Alma Posvandzic, Nathalie Pagé, Caroline Gilbert, Philippe A. Tessier

“…Chemotactic agents, cytokines, and particulate molecules were used to stimulate human neutrophils. MSU crystals, PMA, and H2O2 induced the release of S100A8, S100A9, and S100A12 homodimers, as well as S100A8/A9 heterodimer. …”
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Barriers to and facilitators of access to mental health services among pregnant adolescents and young mothers in Belize by Olusola Oladeji, Joanna Lai, Natalia R. Velazquez, Mohammed I. Bammai, Ghanshyam Kandel, Andria Spyridou, Natalia L. Beer, Angella E. Baitwabusa, Juliet Simmons, Fidel L. Cuellar, Iveth Quintanilla, Jeffan Augustine

“…The second theme was health systems and highlighted a lack of trust and confidence in health care providers, as well as limited access to mental health services due to insufficient human resources, long waiting times, and transportation costs. …”
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Identification and interpretive ranking of factors affecting the improvement of agility in business process management by Sadegh Hasani Moghadam, Mohammad Mahdi Mohtadi, Hossein Bazargani, Ali Taheri, Mohsen Miri

“…After that, the results showed that environmental awareness, knowledgeable and competent human resources, organizational learning dimension, contingent and appropriate structures, governance, improvisation-based strategy-making, technological infrastructure, dynamic adaptation, culture, and creative sustainability are prioritized, respectively.Originality/Value: Using soft operations research techniques, including the interpretive ranking process, in designing an agile model for managing business processes will significantly help process organizations in complex and dynamic environments to simultaneously exploit the benefits of stability in managing processes and dynamism coming from being agile.…”
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The Influence of Multi-Sensory Perception on Public Activity in Urban Street Spaces: An Empirical Study Grounded in Landsenses Ecology by Tianqi Han, Lina Tang, Jiang Liu, Siyu Jiang, Jinshan Yan

“…Understanding how various urban street spatial characteristics affect public behavior, alongside the role of multi-sensory perception, enables designers and planners to create more human-centered urban environments. Grounded in landsenses ecology, this study employs correlation analysis, regression analysis, and Partial Least-Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to examine the effects of different urban street spatial characteristics on public behavior and the mediating role of multi-sensory perception. …”
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Ester derivatives of Dictyostelium differentiation-inducing factors exhibit antibacterial activity, possibly via a prodrug-like function by Katsunori Takahashi, Haruhisa Kikuchi, Takehiro Nishimura, Hirotaka Ishigaki, Yusuke Miura, Ayuko Takahashi, Yuzuru Kubohara

“…Results In vitro tests revealed that the antibacterial activity of 3 and 4 was lost in the presence of human serum albumin (HSA), suggesting that HSA might inhibit their effectiveness. …”
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The Myth of Air Purifier in Mitigating the Transmission Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Virus by Lip Huat Saw, Bey Fen Leo, Chin Yik Lin, Norfilza Mohd Mokhtar, Sawal Hamid Md Ali, Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nadzir

“…Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly infectious disease that emerged in December of 2019, threatening human health and leading to global public health crises. …”
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Extreme high temperatures and heatwave events across Europe in 2023 by Yuqing Sun, Gensuo Jia, Xiyan Xu

“…With global mean temperatures reaching record highs in 2023, many regions experienced successive heatwaves, causing negative impacts on human health, social economy, and ecosystems. Europe is among the continents that experienced a series of extreme heatwaves over large areas in the year. …”
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A New Metaheuristic-Based Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Software Modularization by Masoud Aghdasifam, Habib Izadkhah, Ayaz Isazadeh

“…Experimental results on seven folders of Mozilla Firefox with different functionalities and five other software systems show that the TDHC produces modularization closer to the human expert’s decomposition (i.e., directory structure) than the other existing algorithms. …”
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The National Police of Ukraine as an object to combat illegal migration by K. O. Krut

“…This article has a scientific and theoretical significance based on the relevance of illegal migration in our country and combating human trafficking as one of the factors that threaten national security and law and order.…”
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Neural progenitor cell-derived exosomes in ischemia/reperfusion injury in cardiomyoblasts by Oiva Arvola, Virpi Stigzelius, Minna Ampuja, Riikka Kivelä

“…Abstract The physiologic relationship between the brain and heart is emerging as a novel therapeutic target for clinical intervention for acute myocardial infarction. In the adult human brain, vestigial neuronal progenitor stem cells contribute to neuronal repair and recovery following cerebral ischemic injury, an effect modulated by secreted exosomes. …”
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«CULTURAL REVOLUTION» IN THE USSR IN 1929–1932 AND THE EARLY ATTACKS AGAINST N.I. VAVILOV’S SCHOOL. A STUDY BASED ON DOCUMENTS FROM ST. PETERSBURG ARCHIVES by E. I. Kolchinsky

“…Lysenko was a competition between two rival academic schools for financial, material, and human resources. Already in the early attacks against Vavilov, which began in the years of the «cultural revolution», before T.D. …”
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Lewy body diseases and the gut by Timothy R. Sampson, Malú Gámez Tansey, Andrew B. West, Rodger A. Liddle

“…Recent experimental and human observational studies raise the possibility that pathogenic alpha-synuclein (⍺-syn) might develop in the GI tract and subsequently spread to susceptible brain regions. …”
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Calculation of Involved and Noninvolved Organs Doses in Carbon Therapy of Brain Tumor Using GEANT4 Simulation Toolkit by Maria Ahmadi, Seyed Mohammad Motevalli, Payvand Taherparvar, Vahid zanganeh

“…Introduction: This study used the GEANT4 Monte Carlo toolkit for radiation transport simulations in brain carbon therapy, incorporating a human phantom model to accurately assess dose delivery to targeted and non-targeted organs. …”
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First Autologous Cell Therapy of Cerebral Palsy Caused by Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Damage in a Child after Cardiac Arrest—Individual Treatment with Cord Blood by A. Jensen, E. Hamelmann

“…Therefore, based on experimental evidence, we explored the therapeutic potential of human cord blood, known to contain stem cells, to examine the functional neuroregeneration in a child with cerebral palsy after cardiac arrest. …”
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The prediction of attitude towards cheating based on spiritual intelligence and achievement goal orientation in students by maryam sheykh, Solmaz Dabiri

“…The statistical population of the present study included all female students of the first secondary level in the 15th district of Tehran in the academic year of 2022-2023 who were studying in the fields of math physics, experimental sciences, and humanities. Among 3500 community members, 245 students were selected as the research sample based on the Krejcie and Morgan table and by random sampling method. …”
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A deep learning model based on RGB and hyperspectral images for efficiently detecting tea green leafhopper damage symptoms by Yang Xu, Yilin Mao, He Li, Jiazhi Shen, Xiuxiu Xu, Shuangshuang Wang, Shah Zaman, Zhaotang Ding, Yu Wang

“…However, traditional methods of recognizing and classifying the damage symptoms of this pest rely on human visual observation, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and subjective. …”
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Enhancing Orthopedic Surgery and Treatment Using Artificial Intelligence and Its Application in Health and Dietary Welfare by D. Rubidha Devi, S. K. UmaMaheswaran, Sandhya Tarar, Abu Sarwar Zamani, Durgaprasad Gangodkar, A. Prabhu Chakkaravarthy, IssahAbubakari Samori

“…The current decade has seen an increased usage of high-end digital technologies like machine learning in the field of health care services which enable in supporting and performing different functions with less or no human interventions. The application of machine learning tools in the orthopedic area is gaining more popularity as it can support in analyzing the issues in a more comprehensive manner, provide accurate data, support in forecasting the pattern. …”
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Prediction and Evaluation of Coal Mine Coal Bump Based on Improved Deep Neural Network by Shuang Gong, Yi Tan, Wen Wang

“…The DA-DNN model avoids the problem of determining the index weight, is completely data-driven, reduces the influence of human factors, and can realize the learning of complex and subtle deep relationships in incomplete, imprecise, and noisy limited data sets. …”
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NATO Aggression Against Yugoslavia: International-Legal, Military Strategic and Geopolitical Consequences by E. G. Ponomareva, A. V. Frolov

“…On March 24, 1999, on the pretext of protecting human rights NATO began its aggression against a sovereign European state – the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. …”
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Maternal singing and speech have beneficial effects on preterm infant’s general movements at term equivalent age and at 3 months: an RCT by Manuela Filippa, Gianluca Filippa, Elisa Della Casa, Alberto Berardi, Odoardo Picciolini, Sara Chiara Meloni, Clara Lunardi, Alessandra Cecchi, Alessandra Sansavini, Luigi Corvaglia, Luigi Corvaglia, Didier Grandjean, EVC Group, Fabrizio Ferrari

“…To avoid influencing outcomes, future research should control for differences in maternal engagement outside of the intervention.ConclusionLive maternal singing and speaking are fundamental human practices that, in this study, enhanced preterm infants’ general movements and potentially supported their neurobehavioral development. …”
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