Evaluation of Turbojet Engine with Water Injection for Aircraft Use as Controlled Object by Alexandru-Nicolae Tudosie, Mihai Lungu

“…The system’s quality was evaluated by performing studies that concern the turbojet’s main parameters (speed and combustor temperature) and time behavior (system response at step input), which led to some results and conclusions regarding how the water injection changed the properties of the engine as a controlled object: the engine has become slower with bigger static errors for the studied parameters (affecting the stabilization at their values imposed by the new operating regime). …”
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The Impact of Job Demands and Resources on Overtime Work and Work-Related Health among Employees of The Isfahan Metro Company by Zohre Sharei, Shahin Ebrahimi

“…Introduction: The increasing advancement of technology in the field of digital technology and automation has led to a change in the line of work and job content, and it seems that organizations are pushing their employees towards harder and longer work, which affects the health of employees. …”
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Empowering rural communities: the role of financial literacy and management in sustainable development by Gorrettie Nakyeyune Kyeyune, Joseph Mpeera Ntayi

“…Participants included a cross-section of community members—ranging from household heads and local entrepreneurs to SACCO (Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization) members and parish chiefs—all of whom engage with government-led poverty alleviation programs. A semi-structured interview guide facilitated the collection of nuanced data, which was subsequently transcribed and subjected to content analysis to distill key thematic insights.Results and discussionThe findings illuminate a stark reality: inadequate financial management and literacy significantly thwart the sustainable development of rural communities. …”
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Human Supervision is Key to Achieving Accurate AI-assisted Wildlife Identifications in Camera Trap Images by Sarah E. Huebner, Meredith S. Palmer, Craig Packer

“…The combined efforts of HITL led to error rates of less than 10% for 73% of the dataset and lowered the error rates for an additional 23%. …”
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Adeno-Associated virus 8 delivers an immunomodulatory peptide to mouse liver more efficiently than to rat liver. by Yuqing Wang, Ayrea Hurley, Marco De Giorgi, Mark R Tanner, Rong-Chi Hu, Michael W Pennington, William R Lagor, Christine Beeton

“…Transduction of mouse livers led to the production of sufficient levels of functional ShK-235 in the serum from AAV-ShK-235 single-injected mice to block Kv1.3 channels. …”
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Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Analysis Between Depressive Symptoms, Social Withdrawal, Self-Esteem, and School Adaptation in Multicultural Adolescents by Chung Choe, Seunghee Yu

“…In these years, while higher school adaptation led to lower social withdrawal, social withdrawal did not affect school adaptation. …”
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Strategies for Mainstreaming Edible Cities with Focus on the City of Lincoln: A Critical Cross-Case Study Analysis of Community Growing Groups in the UK by Hannah Williams, Amira Elnokaly

“…The socio-political climate in the UK, compounded by government austerity measures, has intensified the cost-of-living crisis, significantly impacting the affordability of the food supply chain. This has led to an increasing disconnect from healthy dietary practices and has contributed to declines in mental and physical wellbeing. …”
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Balance correlations, agentic zeros, and networks: The structure of 192 years of war and peace. by David Dekker, David Krackhardt, Patrick Doreian, Pavel N Krivitsky

“…Social network extensions of Heider's balance theory have led to a plethora of adaptations, often inconsistent with Heider and each other. …”
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Crime in the law enforcement agencies in 1948–1952 and its counteraction by V. A. Grechenko

“…For many of them, the perceptions of the state of legality were quite specific, formed mainly under the influence of the events of the war, combined with a tendency to be quick to punish those who were considered criminals and a relatively low level of awareness of the law. All of this has led to the existence of the problem of crime in the law enforcement agencies of the republic, and this problem is still relevant today, both from a theoretical and practical point of view. …”
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Analysis of Located Problems in Isfahan City-Region by Using of Social Network Analysis by Daryoush Moradi Chadegani, Masoud Ghasemi, Niloofar Rastghalam

“…For this purpose, in the first step, identifying problems between Isfahan and ten neighboring cities has led to the formulation of a statement of problems by using the dual paths of reviewing the documents of documents and urban plans and conducting interviews with city managers and experts. …”
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National, International and Legal Mechanisms of Control over the Activity of Non-Government Security Entities by M. V. Zavalnyi

“…Further privatization and outsourcing in the security sector has led to a significant expansion of this area and increased risks of human rights and freedoms’ violations. …”
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Sustainability Reporting and Assurance: A New Challenge for the Audit Profession in Europe by Darko DACHEVSKI, Barry ACKERS

“…Implications for the European audience: For the European audience, the study underscores the significance of collaborative training initiatives led by academia and professional audit associations to equip external auditors with the requisite skills necessary for delivering assurance services on sustainability reporting of satisfactory quality. …”
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Improving the predictive capability of Framingham Risk Score for the risk of myocardial infarction based on coronary artery calcium score in healthy Singaporeans by Ching Yee Ivory Yeo, John Carson Jr Allen, Weiting Huang, Wei Ying Tan, Siew Ching Kong, Khung Keong Yeo

“…Recent changes in patient demographics and risk factors have undermined the accuracy of SG FRS, and the rising popularity of wearable health metrics has led to new data types with the potential to improve risk prediction. …”
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Targeting epithelial-mesenchymal transition signaling pathways with Dietary Phytocompounds and repurposed drug combinations for overcoming drug resistance in various cancers by A.N.K.V. Sravani, John Thomas

“…Thus, there is a need for medications that are both highly effective and with low cytotoxic for modulating EMT transitions at ground level. Thus, this led to the study of the evaluation and efficiency of phytochemicals found in dietary sources of fruits and vegetables and also the combination of small molecular repurposed drugs that can enhance the effectiveness of traditional cancer treatments. …”
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The Mechanical Behaviors of Various Dental Implant Materials under Fatigue by Fatma Bayata, Cengiz Yildiz

“…L-605 CoCr alloy-assigned implant model showed the least penetration, while cp Ti with the nanotubular TiO2 surface led to the most one. However, the difference was about 0.01 mm, and it may not be evaluated as a distinct difference. …”
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Integral Roles of Specific Proteoglycans in Hair Growth and Hair Loss: Mechanisms behind the Bioactivity of Proteoglycan Replacement Therapy with Nourkrin® with Marilex® in Pattern... by Jan Wadstein, Erling Thom, Aida Gadzhigoroeva

“…This emerging insight has led to the recognition of “dysregulated proteoglycan metabolism” as a plausible causal or mediating pathology in hair growth disorders in both men and women. …”
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Aortic allografts in treatment of aortic valve and ascending aorta prosthetic endocarditis by S.V. Spiridonov

“…Relapse of infection occurred in 1 patient (3.8 %) four years after the operation and led to lethal outcome. Conclusion. Reoperations using allografts are an effective surgical treatment of prosthetic endocarditis. …”
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Exosomal miR-543 Inhibits the Proliferation of Ovarian Cancer by Targeting IGF2 by Shupei Zhang, Diling Pan, Shaoyu Zhang, Qiumei Wu, Lan Zhen, Shihuang Liu, Jingjing Chen, Rong Lin, Qiuhua Hong, Xiangqin Zheng, Huan Yi

“…Notably, upregulation of miR-543 led to increased cell supernatant glucose levels and suppressed cell growth, which was rescued by overexpression of IGF2. …”
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CRIMEA AND THE POLITICS OF LEGITIMACY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS by A. A. Vlasov, A. V. Brega

“…The blockade, first by non-state actors, and then by state structures of Ukraine in water supply, access to electricity, restriction of freedom of movement and in other areas, led to the violation of human rights in the Crimea. …”
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Assessment of Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Property of Polyphenol-Rich Chitosan-Pineapple Peel Film by Jyoti Jatav, Ayon Tarafdar, Chakkaravarthi Saravanan, Bhaswati Bhattacharya

“…Pure chitosan films at ≥7 log CFU/ml after 24 h showed lower log reduction for all the bacterial organisms, whereas the chitosan-PEE (at ≤5 logs CFU/ml) and chitosan-PME (at ≤6 log CFU/ml) films expressed higher log reduction for all the four bacterial isolates. Thus, this work led to the utilization of the pineapple peel waste as well as provided an alternative to nonbiodegradable packaging films.…”
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