Structured Polyvinyl Alcohol/Zeolite/Carbon Composites Prepared Using Supercritical Fluid Extraction Techniques as Adsorbent for Bioethanol Dehydration by Joddy Arya Laksmono, Mahmud Sudibandriyo, Asep Handaya Saputra, Agus Haryono

“…The BET characterization shows that composite preparation under supercritical CO2 conditions provides reasonable surface areas, which are proportional to the content of activated carbon. …”
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Visual-textual integration in LLMs for medical diagnosis: A preliminary quantitative analysis by Reem Agbareia, Mahmud Omar, Shelly Soffer, Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Girish N. Nadkarni, Eyal Klang

“…LLMs altered their explanatory reasoning in 45–60 % of cases when images were provided. …”
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Pulmonary function in swimmers exposed to disinfection by-products: a narrative review by Michał Boraczyński, Tomasz Balcerek, Nikola Rożkiewicz, Monika Pabiszczak, Michał Harasymczuk, Aneta Sławska, Przemysław Lutomski

“…Fortunately, the reduction of bronchial symptoms in swimmers who reduce training volume and intensity suggests that the negative effects on pulmonary function may be reversible. For these reasons, it is crucial to develop effective respiratory protection strategies, including medical interventions and modifications to the pool environment. …”
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Assessment of satisfaction of using socially marketed health consumables at government settings among beneficiaries in a rural area of Hooghly District, West Bengal by Aditi Sur, Bobby Paul, Lina Bandyopadhyay, Monalisha Sahu, Rivu Basu, Ankush Banerjee

“…Results: Ever use of government-supplied contraceptives like Chhaya (Ormeloxifene), Antara (Injectable contraceptive), emergency contraceptive pills, and intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUCD) was done by only 15.3%, 10.7%, 7.3%, 32% of eligible beneficiary households, respectively. The major reasons cited for irregular use were unawareness of availability of the products (Chhaya = 76.3%, Antara = 64.9%, EC pills = 46.7%), poor faith regarding quality (Male condom = 40%, Generic medicines = 70%), inadequate promotion (IUCD = 53.9%). …”
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Orbital lesion (pseudotumor and dacryoadenitis) is a manifestation of systemic sarcoidosis by E.A. Burylova, L.A. Mamaeva, A.S. Berdnikova, O.K. Fedorova

“…Threatened vision loss and poor quality of life are the reasons to prescribe systemic steroids in generalized sarcoidosis. …”
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Credit Risk Modeling Using Interpreted XGBoost by Marcin Hernes, Jędrzej Adaszyński, Piotr Tutak

“…However, the interpretation of the results of risk assessment models is very important due to the need to explain to the client the reasons for assessing their credit risk.…”
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Experimental Study on the Bending Behavior of Steel-Wood Composite Beams by Shaowei Duan, Wenzhao Zhou, Xinglong Liu, Jian Yuan, Zhifeng Wang

“…Bonding wooden boards on both sides of the steel beam web can improve the bearing capacity, and the form of the member is more reasonable and effective; increasing the cross-sectional size of the H-beam in the steel-wood composite beam can further improve the bearing capacity of the composite beam; adding bolt anchorage on the basis of the structural glue used in the composite beam can further improve the bearing capacity of the composite beam. …”
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Machine-learning-based cost prediction models for inpatients with mental disorders in China by Yuxuan Ma, Xi Tu, Xiaodong Luo, Linlin Hu, Chen Wang

“…The findings of this study provide evidence for setting up more reasonable insurance payment standards for inpatients with mental disorders and support resource allocation in clinical practice.…”
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How, why, where and when people feed birds?—Spatio‐temporal changes in bird‐feeding in Finland by Purabi Deshpande, Anna Haukka, Katja Rönkä, Tuomas Aivelo, Andrea Santangeli, Rose Thorogood, Aleksi Lehikoinen

“…Additionally, we conducted an online questionnaire in 2021 (over 14,000 respondents) to examine reasons for the changes that we detected. We find that, over 40 years, the annual amount of food provided has increased significantly in rural areas, while the number of bird‐feeding sites has decreased and especially so in urban areas. …”
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Obesity prevalence among healthcare professionals in England: a cross-sectional study using the Health Survey for England by Richard G Kyle, Jane Wills, Catherine Mahoney, Louise Hoyle, Muireann Kelly, Iain M Atherton

“…Further research is required to better understand the reasons for high obesity prevalence among healthcare professionals in England to inform interventions to support individuals to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.…”
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Correlation Between <i>Cryptococcus</i> Infection and the Nasal Mycobiota in a Population of Free-Ranging Koalas (<i>Phascolarctos cinereus</i>) in New South Wales, Australia by Andrew S. McPherson, Sophie L. Haworth, Alex Kan, Luisa Monteiro de Miranda, Mark B. Krockenberger

“…Nasal colonisation and subclinical cryptococcosis are common in koalas (<i>Phascolarctos cinereus</i>) due to their shared environmental niche with <i>Cryptococcus</i>: <i>Eucalyptus</i> trees. However, for reasons that remain unclear, the prevalence of clinical disease is low in koalas. …”
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High Prevalence but Insufficient Treatment of Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Results of a Population-Based Cohort by Claudia Ott, Anne Liebold, Angela Takses, Ulrike G. Strauch, Florian Obermeier

“…In anemic patients, we further investigated all laboratory results to differentiate between iron deficiency and other reasons for anemia. All patients with any kind of anemia were interviewed separately according to symptoms of iron-deficiency anemia and administration of iron. …”
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Evidence that transverse variability of critical current density can greatly mitigate screening current stress in high field REBCO magnets by Jeseok Bang, Jonathan Lee, Griffin Bradford, Kwangmin Kim, Xinbo Hu, Dmytro Abraimov, Jan Jaroszynski, Anatolii Polyanskii, So Noguchi, Seungyong Hahn, David C. Larbalestier

“…Indeed, the third Little Big Coil (LBC3), a REBCO magnet that generated a record, high field of 45.5 T, showed wavy plastic damage produced by excess SCS in all pancakes except two made with single-slit conductors having their slit edges pointing inward towards the magnet center. Reasons for this slit edge orientation-dependent damage mitigation having not yet been presented, we made it the central issue of this new Little Big Coil (LBC4). …”
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A Semianalytical Model for Analyzing the Infill Well-Caused Fracture Interference from Shale Gas Reservoirs by Sidong Fang, Yonghui Wu, Cheng Dai, Liqiang Ma, Hua Liu

“…The proposed model is shown to be reasonable and accurate for handling multiwell interference problems after comparing with the commercial numerical simulator tNavigator. …”
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Elderly Patients with Nondistant Metastatic Pancreatic Head Adenocarcinoma Cannot Benefit from More Radical Surgery by Li Chen, Lanning Jia, Zhigang Tian, Yang Yang, Ke Zhao

“…It found that surgery is an independent prognostic factor, but expanded surgery has no survival advantage for these patients, whereas SPD provides a better survival advantage than EPD. SPD is a reasonable treatment option for these patients.…”
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Enhanced Multi‐Objective Optimization Model for Bridge Performance Assessment and Prediction, Based on Improved PCA, K‐Means Clustering, and Kaplan–Meier Survival Algorithm by Chengzhong Gui, Zhi Duan, Zuwei Huang, Zhiguo Sun, Wei Qiao, Yu Cheng

“…It should not be ignored that, the accuracy and reasonability of bridge structure system performance evaluation and prediction depend largely on the selection of target thresholds.…”
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Financing of Preschool Education in Ukraine in 1919–1933: Historical and Legal, Historical and Economic Aspects by S. O. Tkachenko, О. V. Golovko

“…The upbringing of children from the early age, according to the Program of the party and the decisions of the Soviet government, had to become the complete prerogative of public educational agencies. The main reasons for the rapid growth in the number of institutions of state and public education of children of preschool age have been analyzed. …”
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Tyrosine hydroxylase of the brain and it’s regulation by glucocorticoids by E. V. Sukhareva, T. S. Kalinina, V. V. Bulygina, N. N. Dygalo

“…Ontogenetic variation in the expression of Fos and Jun family proteins, which affects their ratio, can be one of the reasons for the TH gene regulation by glucocorticoids at near-term fetuses and neonates. …”
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Siphon-type hydroelectric plants: application for power generation in a low head dam in southern Brazil by Janaina Terhorst Pizutti, Carlos Henrique Pereira Assunção Galdino, Fernando Setembrino Cruz Meirelles, Alexandre Beluco

“…The availability of water, combined with the technologies for generating electricity at a reasonable cost, have sustained the success of this type of generation over the years. …”
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Constitutional identity and national values in the conditions of permanent threats to Ukraine’s stateship by V. Kovalchuk

“…Modern Ukraine finds itself on a challenging path toward forming its constitutional identity, which, due to historical reasons, has not been fully developed. The individual elements that have emerged during the years of independence have not coalesced into a coherent philosophical and ideological doctrine that would enable the Ukrainian national state to become an equal subject of international law and allow the Ukrainian people (nation) to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination. …”
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