Fear of progression and quality of life in patients with heart failure: a cross-sectional study on the multiple mediation of psychological distress and resilience by Cancan Chen, Xiaofei Sun, Yanting Zhang, Henan Xie, Jie Kou, Hongmei Zhang

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MLHI-Net: multi-level hybrid lightweight water body segmentation network for urban shoreline detection by Jianhua Ye, Pan Li, Yunda Zhang, Ze Guo, Shoujin Zeng, Youji Zhan

“…The over-parameterized convolutional layers enhance the interactive ability of feature representation and context information. The removal of spatial and channel redundancy, in conjunction with interactive reconstruction, serves to simulate attention and enhance the learning ability of waterscape. …”
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Special features of friction stir welding dissimilar joints by I. K. Chernykh, E. V. Vasiliev, R. V. Dylchenko, Yu. E. Zhdanova, B. K. Igisenov

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Designing blade wheels for microturbine plants based on prototypes by A. S. Pugachuk, D. V. Muller, A. V. Chernyshev

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Prospects of molecular genetic approaches in controlling technological properties of wheat grain in the context of the "grain – flour – bread" chain by E. K. Khlestkina, T. A. Pshenichnikova, N. I. Usenko, Yu. S. Otmakhova

“…The data on diagnostic DNA markers, which are suitable for efficient selection of genotypes instead of the time-consuming analysis of technological properties during breeding process, are summarized. Thus, the information about the genetic potential of bread wheat and modern technologies that provide grounds for moving from excessive use of chemicals to a more benign and organic effect on the quality of the products throughout the "grain – flour – bread" chain, is summarized.…”
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Emergency Medicine as a Medical Speciality in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects by Wahab Yinusa

“…A total of 40 relevant publications in addition to the authors knowledge and exposure in EM supported the information presented in this manuscript. Our study revealed that inadequate funding and ambulance services, nonavailability of trained bystanders, limited infrastructure and skilled manpower, inadequate and inequitable distribution of health resources, lack of standard emergency department, high out-of-pocket expenses and substandard implementation of EMS policies, are factors militating against a functional EMS in the country. …”
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Kinematic calculation and plotting of lifting height and speed of the tangential cam pusher using MATHCAD program by Yu. P. Makushev, T. A. Polyakova, L. Yu. Volkova, V. V. Ryndin

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Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Traction, Closed Reduction, and Subsequent Hip Fixation in Hilgenreiner Brace in Patients with Severe Forms of Hip Developmental Dysplasia by Ahmad Gharaibeh, Rastislav Sepitka, Jan Pobeha, Daniela Schreierova, Martina Habinakova, Gabriel Vasko, Marek Lacko

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Outcomes of a pilot randomized clinical trial testing brief interventions to increase HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake among rural people who inject drugs attending syringe serv... by Hilary L. Surratt, Sarah Brown, Abby L. Burton, Will Cranford, Laura C. Fanucchi, Christie Green, Stephanie M. Mersch, Rebecca Rains, Philip M. Westgate

“…Methods: Eighty participants were enrolled from two rural SSP locations in southeastern Kentucky. Following informed consent, participants completed a baseline interview, and were randomized to the intervention comparators. …”
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Spatial-temporal analysis of flood patterns in semiarid river catchments of SE Iberian Peninsula since CE 1850 by Carlos Sánchez-García, Lothar Schulte

“…A database of the main historical floods reported in written historical documents in the Almanzora, Andarax, Antas and Aguas river basins was compiled, and information on the damage caused by the floods was retrieved from 15 historical archives, allowing an understanding of how floods have behaved over the past 170 years and how they are likely to behave in the near future. …”
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Consideration of hydrodynamic forces in determining the force factors acting operating elements of a scroll compressor by V. A. Pronin, A. V. Kovanov, E. N. Mikhailova, A. Yu. Zhilkin

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Klotsche K., Micus F., Thomas C., Hesse U. Waste heat recovery for reciprocating compressors / trans. from Engl. M. A. Fedorova by M. A. Fedorova

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The quality of education of the Russian political elite by N. N. Meshcheryakova, O. V. Kryshtanovskaya

“…A number of universities and separate educational programs which conduct training mainly in mathematical, natural-science directions and information technologies correspond to the international approaches to quality assessment. …”
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Digital anti-aliasing trapezoidal recursively separable image processing filter with resizable scanning multi-element aperture by A. V. Kamenskiy, K. A. Rylov, N. Borodina

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An assessment of compliance with proposed regulations to restrict on-package marketing of packaged foods to improve nutrition in South Africa by Safura Abdool Karim, Tamryn Frank, Alice S. Khan, Morongoa G. Tlhako, Sikhumbule K. Joni, Elizabeth C. Swart

“…Food packages and their nutritional information were coded and analyzed to determine whether the product would be required to carry a WL and whether the package included regulated marketing. …”
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Capture of 3D Human Motion Pose in Virtual Reality Based on Video Recognition by Qiang Fu, Xingui Zhang, Jinxiu Xu, Haimin Zhang

“…The human body motion gesture is designed for capturing experiments, and the capture results show that the obtained pose angle information can better restore the human body motion. …”
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Instrumentación rotatoria comparada con instrumentación manual para terapias pulpares en odontopediatría. by María Belén Salazar, María José Masson, María Cristina Salazar Montes, Leslee Angheloris Ribadeneira Morales

“…Métodos: Se aplicaron los criterios de informes PRISMA- ScR. Para la búsqueda de los artículos se utilizaron las bases de datos pubmed/Medline, Elsevier, Epistemonikos, Scielo.org, Redalyc.org; Imbiomed y Google académico, Artículos en idioma inglés y español, publicados desde enero 2017 a junio de 2022. …”
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INNOVATIVE MECHANISMS FOR IMPLEMENTING STATE ECONOMIC POLICY FOR POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION OF UKRAINE: QUANTUM TRANSFORMATIONS AS A DRIVER OF DEVELOPMENT by Oleksiy Shkuratov, Liudmila Antonova, Roman Dzyuba

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Thermal and solutal performance analysis featuring fully developed chemically reacting micro-rotational convective flow in an open-ended vertical channel by G.T. Gitte, Shreedevi Kalyan, H. Saraswathi, Vinod Kulkarni, Mohammed Jameel, Jagadish V. Tawade, Nitiraj Kulkarni, Barno Abdullaeva, Refka Ghodhbani, M. Waqas

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Forming a national community of practice of food system planning initiatives aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by Konstantinos Zougris, Albie F. Miles, Rose Benjamin, Ella Geismar

“…IntroductionThis paper is designed to identify key factors informing the process of developing a United States-based national community of practice of state and regional food system planning efforts aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.MethodsGrounded in an extensive literature review, we employed an exploratory sequential mixed methods design to assess the needs, functions, challenges, and likelihood for participation in a national community of practice aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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