Investigation of Pesticide Residue Limits in the Surface Water, Case study: Alara Stream in Alanya by Hasan Koçyiğit, Firdevs Sinanoğlu

“…Recently, the development of industrial activities and technologies, on the one hand make the human life easier, on the other hand, it decreases the available water resources due to environmental pollution. …”
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PGC-1α activation to enhance macrophage immune function in mycobacterial infections. by Joel R Frandsen, Zhihong Yuan, Brahmchetna Bedi, Zohra Prasla, Seoung-Ryoung Choi, Prabagaran Narayanasamy, Ruxana T Sadikot

“…Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) are a heterogeneous group of environmental microorganisms with distinct human pathogenesis. Their incidence and prevalence are rising worldwide, due in part to elevated antimicrobial resistance which complicates treatment and potential successful outcomes. …”
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Design and mechanical analysis of a novel modular bionic earthworm robot with upright functionality by Shufeng Tang, Jianan Yao, Yue Yu

“…Abstract With the escalating demand for exploration within confined spaces, bionic design methodologies have attracted considerable attention from researchers, primarily due to the intrinsic limitations of human access to hazardous environments. However, contemporary bionic robots primarily attain linear motion through the axial radial deformation of their body segments, thereby lacking the upright functionality that is characteristic of these organisms. …”
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CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELIABILITY OF INTUITIVE MORAL DECISIONS by V. V. Nadurak

“…The main kinds of intuitive moral decisions are identified: 1) intuitively emotional decisions (i.e. decisions made under the influence of emotions that accompanies the process of moral decision making); 2) decisions made under the influence of moral risky psychological aptitudes (unconscious human tendencies that makes us think in a certain way and make decisions, unacceptable from the logical and ethical point of view); 3) intuitively normative decisions (decisions made under the influence of socially learned norms, that cause evaluative feeling «good-bad», without conscious reasoning). …”
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The limits of restrictions on free competition in the state of emergency—the Hungarian fuel and food retail price maximisation in the light of the Hungarian constitutional court’s,... by Csaba Erdős, Viktória Verebélyi, László Knapp

“…This can basically be determined on the basis of the relevant case law of three fora of legal protection—the Hungarian Constitutional Court, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Court of Justice of the European Union. …”
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Cropland non-agriculturization and agricultural green development: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China by Chunxia Zhu, Yangyang Sun, Haolun Xu

“…Given the economic vitality and ecological diversity of the YEB, the results of this study can provide reference for the protection of cropland and agricultural green development in other regions with prominent human-land contradictions worldwide.…”
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Route Selection of Multimodal Transport Based on China Railway Transportation by Hui Zhang, Yao Li, Qingpeng Zhang, Dingjun Chen

“…In the process of multimodal transportation, due to the interference of natural factors (weather, terrain, etc.) and some special human factors, it may have different degrees of impact on the transportation time and transportation safety of different transportation modes. …”
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The Redox Process in Red Blood Cells: Balancing Oxidants and Antioxidants by Dala N. Daraghmeh, Rafik Karaman

“…While their antioxidative capabilities are essential to their physiological functions and delivering oxygen to tissues, their pro-oxidant behavior plays a part in several human pathologies. The redox-related changes in RBCs can have an impact on their function and fate. …”
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Prevalence of Pharmaceuticals in Surface Water Samples in Ghana by David Azanu, David Adu-Poku, Selina Ama Saah, William Ofori Appaw

“…The existence of these pharmaceuticals in surface water does not only point to a general concern for the environment but also a potential health risk on humans and other lives as a result of their impact on drinking water and vegetable production in Ghana.…”
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Unsupervised Anomaly Detection With Variational Autoencoders Applied to Full‐Disk Solar Images by Marius Giger, André Csillaghy

“…These are often difficult to obtain because they require human input. A common challenge for researchers in space weather is the sparsity of annotations in many of the available data sets, which are either unlabeled or have ambiguous labels. …”
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Simplified Physical Stability Assessment of Chilean Mine Waste Storage Facilities Using GIS and AI: Application in the Antofagasta Region by Gabriel Hermosilla, Gabriel Villavicencio, Giovanni Cocca-Guardia, Vicente Aprigliano, Manuel Silva, Juan Carlos Quezada, Pierre Breul, Vinicius Minatogawa, Jaime Morales

“…This approach reduces analysis time and minimizes human error. Validated in the Antofagasta Region, Chile’s primary mining area, we identified and evaluated 70 WRD and 54 LWD. …”
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Welfare Implications of Low-Dose Atipamezole Reversal of Tiletamine/Zolazepam/Xylazine Anaesthesia in Pigs by Rachel Layton, David S. Beggs, Andrew Fisher, Peter Mansell, Daniel Layton, Peter A. Durr, Teegan Allen, Grace Taylor, Michael L. Kelly, David T. Williams, Kelly J. Stanger

“…Judicious use of anaesthesia can mitigate experimental, human safety, and animal welfare concerns, but it does not eliminate the potential for adverse effects. …”
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Lactic acid in the vaginal milieu modulates the Candida-host interaction by Diletta Rosati, Marisa Valentine, Mariolina Bruno, Arnab Pradhan, Axel Dietschmann, Martin Jaeger, Ian Leaves, Frank L. van de Veerdonk, Leo A.B. Joosten, Sumita Roy, Mark H. T. Stappers, Neil A.R. Gow, Bernhard Hube, Alistair J.P. Brown, Mark S. Gresnigt, Mihai G. Netea

“…We examined how lactic acid abundance in the vaginal niche impacts the interaction between C. albicans and the human immune system using an in vitro culture in vaginal simulative medium (VSM). …”
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Anthropological view of plague epidemics in the his­torical past by T.F. Khaydarov, D.A. Dolbin

“…At many times in their history, humans have faced major epidemics. The “Black Death”, which broke out in the middle of the 14th century, is believed to be the deadliest one. …”
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Development of Diagnostic Biomarkers for Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy at Early Stages Using Quantitative Proteomics by Jonghwa Jin, Hophil Min, Sang Jin Kim, Sohee Oh, Kyunggon Kim, Hyeong Gon Yu, Taesung Park, Youngsoo Kim

“…First, to identify biomarker candidates that are specifically expressed in human vitreous, we performed data-mining on both previously published DR-related studies and our experimental data; 96 proteins were then selected. …”
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N-Oxalylglycine-Conjugated Hyaluronic Acid as a Macromolecular Prodrug for Therapeutic Angiogenesis by Andrew H. DeMaria, Jeoung Soo Lee, Ken Webb

“…NOG was conjugated to HA by esterification, and release was significantly increased in the presence of degradative enzymes, esterase and hyaluronidase, compared to physiological buffer, confirming that the release of NOG is primarily enzymatically driven. Normal human dermal fibroblasts (NHDFs) cultured with HA-NOG exhibited HIF-1α accumulation in the cell nucleus and dose-dependent increases in mRNA expression levels of three direct HIF transcriptional targets. …”
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Carotenoid comparison among broccoli leaves, stems, and flowers dried with drying cabinet by Devi Mazarina, Soekopitojo Soenar, Wibawa Aji Prasetya, Nusa Cassandra Permata, Pratiwi Zahra Anggita

“…Vegetables are essential for humanity due to their colour, taste, nutrition, and health. …”
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Avicenna's optimistic theodicy by T.K. Ibrahim

“…In this perspective, he argued also about the possibility of afterlife's spiritual (intellectual) perfection, which helps a human being the achievement of the highest degree of happiness. …”
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The Role of Higher Education in the Formation of a Healthy Lifestyle: Results of Sociological Research by A. N. Pokida, N. V. Zybunovskaya, I. A. Gazieva

“…According to the survey, people with higher education assess their health better, care more about it, express greater awareness of the factors that determine human health, interest in a healthy lifestyle, which is manifested in more active behavioral practices aimed at maintaining and strengthening own health.…”
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The Application of PSO in Structural Damage Detection: An Analysis of the Previously Released Publications (2005–2020) by Parsa Ghannadi, Seyed Sina Kourehli, Seyedali Mirjalili

“…That is because the early detection of the damages and measures to be taken to repair and replace the damaged members with healthy ones could lead to economic advantages and would prevent human disasters. The optimization-based methods are one of the most popular techniques for damage detection. …”
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