Case Study on Incentive Mechanism of Energy Efficiency Retrofit in Coal-Fueled Power Plant in China by Donghai Yuan, Xujing Guo, Yuan Cao, Liansheng He, Jinggang Wang, Beidou Xi, Junqi Li, Wenlin Ma, Mingshun Zhang

“…An ordinary steam turbine retrofit project is selected as a case study; through the retrofit, the project activities will generate emission reductions within the power grid for about 92,463 tCO2e per annum. The internal rate of return (IRR) of the project is only −0.41% without the revenue of carbon credits, for example, CERs, which is much lower than the benchmark value of 8%. …”
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An 8‐bit digital‐to‐time converter with pre‐skewing and time interpolation by Daniel Junehee Lee, Fei Yuan, Gul N. Khan, Yushi Zhou

“…Pre‐skewing that lowers the per‐stage‐delay of delay lines beyond that set by the chosen technology is investigated. …”
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Mains Electricity Base Rate Minimization Under Specified Conditions of Power Consumption with the use of Capacitors by Alexander S. Demidov, Alexander S. Kochurov

“…The gain in payment was approximately 20 per cent.…”
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Designing High-Freedom Responsive Feeder Transit System with Multitype Vehicles by Zhengwu Wang, Jie Yu, Wei Hao, Tao Chen, Yi Wang

“…Case studies show that the mixed running mode of multiple models can significantly improve the seat utilization, which can also significantly reduce the number of departures and the average travel distance per passenger. The proposed service area optimization method is proved to be feasible to improve the last mile travel.…”
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REDISCOVERY OF CAMELLIA TONKINENSIS (PIT.) COHEN-STUART (THEACEAE) ON MT. BA VI, HANOI, VIETNAM by Anh Vinh Le, Hieu Nguyen, Thanh Son Hoang, Anthony S. Curry

“…The characteristics of the specimens included papery-textured, elliptic or broad elliptic leaves with acuminate to narrowly acuminate apices, obtuse to rounded bases, petioles with channeled adaxial surfaces, tomentose gynoecia, 3(–4)-coccate capsules, and 1(–2) seeds per locule. A comparison of the morphological characteristics of the 2022 and 2023 collections (DL 220901, Dl 230201) was made with the type specimen (B. …”
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DIETARY SILICA NANOPARTICLE AMELIORATES THE GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND MUSCLE COMPOSITION OF STINGING CATFISH, HETEROPNEUSTES FOSSILIS by Partha Sarathi Das, Md Fazle Rohani, Basim. S. A. Al Sulivany, Salman Shahriar Nibir, Runa Akther Juthi, Abdus Satter, Md Sazzad Hossain, Shameeran Salman Ismael

“…Several growth indices (weight gain, WG; percent weight gain, %WG; length gain, LG; and specific growth rate, SGR), feed utility parameters (feed conversion ratio, FCR; feed conversion efficiency, FCE; and protein efficiency ratio, PER) and survival rate was assessed at the end of the feeding trial. …”
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SAS4P: Providing automatic smoking detection for a persuasive smoking cessation application by Pedro O Rossel, Lorenzo Paredes, Antonio Bascur, Claudia Martínez-Carrasco, Valeria Herskovic

“…Smoking is the biggest avoidable health risk, causing millions of deaths per year worldwide. Persuasive applications are those designed to change a person’s behavior, usually in a specific way. …”
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Effect of Probiotic Administration of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus coagulans Isolate on Growth Performance in Broiler Chicken by Berliana Elok Faiqoh, Mirni Lamid, Ratna Damayanti, Sri Chusniati, Mohammad Anam Al Arif, Sunaryo Hadi Warsito, Tita Damayanti Lestari, Hartanto Mulyo Raharjo, Saifur Rehman, Muhammad Asif Hussain

“…(P0) was a group without probiotics, (P1), (P2), and (P3) were experimental treatment groups consist of probiotic 2 mL/day, 4 mL/day, and 6 mL/day per orally. In results, feed intake, body weight, and FCR values in all treatment groups (P1, P2, P3) were significantly different (p < 0.05) from (P0) group. …”
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Social wireless sensor network toward device-to-device interactive Internet of Things services by Sunme Kim, Yongbin Yim, Seungmin Oh, Sang-Ha Kim

“…Social wireless sensor network is the architecture and mechanism to define the organic relationships of sensing data and the flow of data per service dynamically and flexibly over wireless sensor networks. …”
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Preliminary effectiveness of social prescription and virtual patient information in increasing tertiary prevention among cancer patients (ESPRIT): protocol for a single-centre, ran... by Karen Steindorf, Michael Koller, Michael Leitzmann, Wolfgang Herr, Daniel Heudobler, Lisa Boyer, Anne Herrmann, Tobias Pukrop, Christine Bernardi, Sabine Einhell

“…Physical activity will be assessed using accelerometers and measured by average steps per day within the last 2 weeks after recruitment and at follow-up visits (3, 6 and 12 months). …”
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Effect of dietary microalgae on growth performance and health in meat-type quails by Samar M. Mohamed, Mahmoud Alagawany, Mohamed S. El-Kholy, Mohamed M. El-Mekkawy, Ayman S. Salah, Youssef A. Attia, Rashed A. Alhotan, Alessandro Di Cerbo, Antonia Lestingi

“…The purpose of this work was to ascertain the impact of dietary inclusion of Dunaliella salina (Ds) and Arthrospira platensis (Ap) mixture as growth promoters on growth performance, carcass traits, liver and renal function, lipid profile, immunology and economics in quail chicks. 240 Un -sexed seven-day quail chicks were separated into four treatment groups with six replicates of ten chicks per group. The treatment groups are: control: basal diet; DsAp0.5: basal diet + 0.25 g Ds+ 0.25 g Ap/kg diet; DsAp1: basal diet + 0.50 g Ds+ 0.50 g Ap/kg diet; and DsAp2: basal diet + 1.00 g Ds+ 1.00 g Ap/kg diet. …”
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Extracellular vesicles-derived miR-21 as a biomarker for early diagnosis and tumor activity in breast cancer subtypes by Claudia Omarini, Virginia Catani, Ilenia Mastrolia, Angela Toss, Federico Banchelli, Chrystel Isca, Daniele Medici, Ornella Ponzoni, Marco Brucale, Francesco Valle, Maria Cristina Baschieri, Roberto D’Amico, Valentina Masciale, Chiara Chiavelli, Federica Caggia, Carlo Augusto Bortolotti, Federico Piacentini, Massimo Dominici

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Understanding Community Health Care Through Problem-Based Learning With Real-Patient Videos: Single-Arm Pre-Post Mixed Methods Study by Kiyoshi Shikino, Kazuyo Yamauchi, Nobuyuki Araki, Ikuo Shimizu, Hajime Kasai, Tomoko Tsukamoto, Hiroshi Tajima, Yu Li, Misaki Onodera, Shoichi Ito

“…The students were randomly divided into 16 groups (7-8 participants per group). Each group participated in two 3-hour PBL sessions per week over 2 consecutive weeks. …”
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Effect of drug interactions with apixaban on clinical outcomes in cancer patients with venous thromboembolism by Marte Svalastoga, Trine-Lise Larsen, Trine-Lise Larsen, Jorunn Brekke, Tone Enden, Hege Frøen, Herish Garresori, Eva Marie Jacobsen, Alina Carmen Porojnicu, Anne Hansen Ree, Anne Hansen Ree, Dag Torfoss, Elin Osvik Velle, Hilde Skuterud Wik, Waleed Ghanima, Waleed Ghanima, Per Morten Sandset, Per Morten Sandset, Anders Erik Astrup Dahm, Anders Erik Astrup Dahm

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Treatment of autonomous intestinal neuropathy in critical care by prucalopride and multistrain probiotic by A. L. Kovaleva, A. I. Ulyanin, O. Yu. Kiselyova, Ye. A. Poluektova, O. S. Shifrin, A. S. Tertychny, V. T. Ivashkin

“…At the background of treatment stool frequency gradually decreased up to 2 times per day, hematochezia stopped. However at the 7-8th days patient developed constipation, feeling of abdominal distention and progressive general weakness. …”
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Методологія профілактики великих акушерських синдромів by N.Y. Lemish

“…І група - 32 вагітні: профілактику ВАС проведено низькими дозами ацетилсаліцилової кислоти (АСК) по 100-150 мг per os 1 раз на добу, з 12 по 36-й тиждень вагітності; ІІ група - 31 вагітна, яким з 6 по 16-й тиждень профілактичне лікування проведено прогестероном за схемою 200 мг 1 раз на добу per vaginum щодня; ІІІ група - 36 вагітних, яким призначено профілактичну монотерапію у вигляді препарату магнію в комплексі з вітаміном В6 трьома курсами по 6 тижнів; ІV група - 56 вагітних, які відмовилися від будь-яких профілактичних заходів; контрольна група (КГ) - 50 здорових вагітних. …”
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Zadania gmin z zakresu gospodarki odpadami komunalnymi w Polsce i źródła ich finansowania by Janina Kotlińska, Helena Żukowska

“…Analizą objęto: 1) liczbę składowisk odpadów, na które wywożone były odpady komunalne, i powierzchni składowania odpadów; 2) masę wytworzonych odpadów komunalnych per capita w przekroju województw w Polsce; 3) masę zebranych odpadów komunalnych, w tym od gospodarstw domowych w łącznej masie odpadów; 4) udział odpadów zebranych selektywnie w łącznej masie zebranych odpadów; 5) masę i strukturę zebranych odpadów w sposób selektywny; 6) dochody, w tym dochody z opłat, i wydatki systemu gospodarki odpadami komunalnymi; 7) poziom sfinansowania kosztów systemu gospodarki odpadami komunalnymi dochodami z opłat, w przekroju typów gmin i związków komunalnych zajmujących się gospodarką odpadami komunalnymi. …”
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Venous thromboembolism incidence and risk factors associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors among patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer by Chi Nguyen, Alok A Khorana, John Barron, Jennell Palaia, Lisa Rosenblatt, Radhika Pisupati, Ning Huang, Kerrin Gallagher, T Christopher Bond

“…Previous radiation and severe obesity (body mass index ≥40) were associated with VTE.Conclusions VTE incidence rate per 100 person-years was common across regimens in patients with aNSCLC, but numerically lower for patients receiving ICI-based regimens compared with those receiving chemo-based and ICI+chemo regimens. …”
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Preliminary study on unlocking growth and yield potential of USDA foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) lines with NPK fertilization by Hira Shahzadi, Shahbaz Khan, Abdulrahman Al-Hashimi, Shahzad M. A. Basra, Kashf Mehmood, Muhammad Ashfaq Wahid, Muhammad Nawaz, Sohail Irshad, Abdul Haseeb, Afroz Rais, Safia Gul, Danish Ibrar, Yheni Dwiningsih

“…Among the different treatments, T3 resulted in the maximum plant height, panicle length, and grain yield per panicle. The highest panicle weight and grain yield per panicle were observed in line V106. …”
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Production and bioactivity test of recombinant protein common carp growth hormone by Deny Sapto Chondro Utomo, . Alimuddin, Agus Oman Sudrajat, Irvan Faizal

“…Benih ikan mas dengan bobot rata-rata 5,15±0,4 g diinjeksi secara intramuskular satu kali per minggu selama 4 minggu dengan larutan rGH hasil ekstraksi dari 1 µg pelet bakteri/g bobot ikan. …”
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