South Africa’s Non-Aligned Stance on the Russia-Ukraine War: Implications on South Africa’s Economic Trade Relations by Thoriso Ntlailane, Costa Hofisi

“…It observed the trade relations that South Africa has with states that condemned the acts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Not only that but also, the trade relations of South Africa with states that used the non-alignment foreign policy in the Russia-Ukraine war. …”
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Enhanced Visible Light Photocatalytic Activity for TiO2 Nanotube Array Films by Codoping with Tungsten and Nitrogen by Min Zhang, Juan Wu, DanDan Lu, Jianjun Yang

“…The mechanism of the enhanced photocatalytic activity could be attributed to (i) increasing number of hydroxyl groups on the surface of TNAs after the hydrothermal treatment, (ii) a strong W-N synergistic interaction leads to produce new states, narrow the band gap which decrease the recombination effectively, and then greatly increase the visible light absorption and photocatalytic activity; (iii) W ions with changing valences in all codoped samples which are considered to act as trapping sites, effectively decrease the recombination rate of electrons and holes, and improve the photocatalytic activity.…”
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Achieving enhanced strength-ductility synergy in heterogeneous equiaxed structured Ti-6Al-4V alloy sheets by cryogenic pre-stretching by Lingjian Meng, Zhuoya Zhao, Peng Lin, Zhengyi Jiang, Jingwei Zhao

“…For the heterogeneous equiaxed structure, the grain boundaries between large equiaxed and small fragmented α grains act as barriers for dislocation motion and cause the significant strain gradient and back stress strengthening effect, thus leading to an enhanced strength. …”
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Do atmospheric rivers trigger tabular iceberg calving? by Tristan Scott Rendfrey, Jeremy Bassis, Claire Pettersen

“…Recent studies suggest that anomalous atmospheric moisture transport events – atmospheric rivers – can act as triggers for calving. These conclusions, however, were based on studies of case studies of individual icebergs or ice shelves, making it difficult to determine if this relationship remains apparent when considering a wider set of calving events and ice shelves. …”
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EMS3D-KITTI: Synthetic 3D dataset in KITTI format with a fair distribution of Emergency Medical Services vehicles for autodrive AI model trainingZenodo by Chandra Jaiswal, Sally Acquaah, Christopher Nenebi, Issa AlHmoud, AKM Kamrul Islam, Balakrishna Gokaraju

“…To address this, we leveraged the Car Learning to Act (CARLA) simulator to generate and fairly distribute rare EMS vehicles, automatically labelling these objects in 3D point cloud data. …”
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Transcriptome-Based Modeling Reveals that Oxidative Stress Induces Modulation of the AtfA-Dependent Signaling Networks in Aspergillus nidulans by Erzsébet Orosz, Károly Antal, Zoltán Gazdag, Zsuzsa Szabó, Kap-Hoon Han, Jae-Hyuk Yu, István Pócsi, Tamás Emri

“…Although it may regulate directly only a limited number of genes, these include elements of the signaling network, for example, members of the two-component signal transduction systems. AtfA acts in a stress-specific manner, which may increase further the number and diversity of AtfA-dependent genes. …”
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An analysis of the position of Islam and Islamic standards in the legal systems of Malaysia and Egypt by Mohammad Yosefzadeh, Mahdi Zare, Mohammad Mazhari

“…According to the hypothesis of this study, religion acts as an identity-forming element in many layers of the legal system in the constitutional frameworks of Malaysia and Egypt. …”
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On Adaptive Fractional Dynamic Sliding Mode Control of Suspension System by Ali Karami-Mollaee, Oscar Barambones

“…In FDSMC, a fractional integral acts as a low-pass filter before the system actuator to remove high-frequency chattering, necessitating an additional state for FDSMC implementation assuming all FOSS state variables are available but the parameters are unknown and uncertain. …”
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Utilization of Lagerstroemia speciosa dry leaf litter combined with cat-tle dung for the production of enriched vermicompost – A possibility of valorization by Gnanasekaran R, Jerin Rexiya S, Dhanalakshmi M, Abinaya M, Priyadharshini B, Sharmilee D, Udayamathi M

“…Increased growth, germination, and pest resistance were observed in the plants in which compost was utilized.Conclusion: The current study paves the way to create a green environment by reducing and converting leaf litter into vermicompost which will act as a circular economy.…”
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The Increase of Insect Pest Population in Paddy Field Managed with an Ecological Approach using Refugia Plants and Biopesticides by Arieska Wahyu Alprilia, Wiwin Windiyanti, Ramadhani Mahendra Kusuma

“… Insect pests can damage plants and act as vectors of diseases such as brown planthoppers which can transmit dwarf virus disease. …”
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Subtilases: a major prospect to the genome editing in horticultural crops by Umashankar Chandrasekaran, Umashankar Chandrasekaran, Woo Jong Hong, Hyeran Kim, Hyeran Kim

“…This review summarizes recent findings on SBT enzymes, which act as ‘protein scissors’ in activating peptide hormones, and discusses the potential for using selected SBTs in CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to enhance the growth and resilience of economically important Solanaceae crops, with a focus on pepper.…”
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The Performance of Direct Disk Diffusion for Community Acquired Bacteremia due to Gram-Negative Bacilli and Its Impact on Physician Treatment Decisions by Peter Daley, Adam Comerford, Jurgienne Umali, Carla Penney

“…Because inoculum is not standardized, direct susceptibility results do not agree with standard susceptibility results for all drugs. Physicians do not act on direct susceptibility results. Conclusion. …”
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Robot-assisted Neuroendoscopy: Surgeon’s Third Hand – a Proof of Concept Study by Karnam Murali, Rychen Jonathan, Guzman Raphael, Cattin Philippe C., Rauter Georg, Gerig Nicolas

“…We also quantitatively identified the range of forces applied by the endoscope to act as a retractor on two brain phantoms while visualizing the surgical site. …”
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MicroRNA-22 Promotes Renal Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis by Targeting PTEN and Suppressing Autophagy in Diabetic Nephropathy by Yingying Zhang, Siqi Zhao, Depei Wu, Xingmei Liu, Mingjun Shi, Yuanyuan Wang, Fan Zhang, Jing Ding, Ying Xiao, Bing Guo

“…There is increasing evidence demonstrating that microRNAs act as key players in the regulation of autophagy and are involved in DN. …”
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Impact of Jupiter’s Heating and Self-shadowing on the Jovian Circumplanetary Disk Structure by Antoine Schneeberger, Olivier Mousis

“…This shadowed zone, located around 10 Jupiter radii, can act as a cold trap for volatile species such as NH _3 , CO _2 , and H _2 S. …”
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AKRs confer oligodendrocytes resistance to differentiation-stimulated ferroptosis by Valentina Saverio, Emanuele Ferrario, Romina Monzani, Mara Gagliardi, Francesco Favero, Davide Corà, Claudio Santoro, Marco Corazzari

“…Our study demonstrates that the physiological and maturation-dependent increase in iron accumulation within oligodendrocytes acts as a pro-ferroptotic signal, countered by the concurrent expression of AKR1C1. …”
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Evaluation of Olgun Çocuk Dergisi [Mature Child Magazine] (1935) within the Scope of Raising National and Historical Consciousness of Children by Tolgahan Ayantaş, Cengiz Dönmez

“…The study found that the journal included sub texts related to the Surname Act (1934) in society and efforts of simplification of language, mentioned the Dardanelles War and the War of Independence, stressed the virtues of the Turkish Nation and significance of Atatürk as a leader and tried to raise nation and history awareness in children by this way. …”
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Matrix-free human 2D organoids recapitulate duodenal barrier and transport properties by Kopano Valerie Masete, Dorothee Günzel, Jörg-Dieter Schulzke, Hans-Jörg Epple, Nina A. Hering

“…As this coat could potentially act as a diffusion barrier, we aimed to generate robust human duodenum-derived organoid monolayers that do not need a gelatinous matrix for anchorage to improve upon existing models to study epithelial transport and barrier function. …”
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Common and distinct neural underpinnings of the association between childhood maltreatment and depression and aggressive behavior by Yuan Li, Ting Zhang, Xin Hou, Xiaoyi Chen, Yu Mao

“…Conclusions We speculate that the control system may serve as a transdiagnostic neural basis accounting for the sequela of childhood maltreatment, and the attention network and the reward network may act as specific neural basis linking childhood maltreatment to depression and aggression, respectively.…”
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Hyaluronan Synthase 3 Null Mice Exhibit Decreased Intestinal Inflammation and Tissue Damage in the DSS-Induced Colitis Model by Sean P. Kessler, Dana R. Obery, Carol de la Motte

“…Hyaluronan (HA) overproduction is a hallmark of multiple inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Hyaluronan can act as a leukocyte recruitment molecule and in the most common mouse model of intestinal inflammation, the chemically induced dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) experimental colitis model, we previously determined that changes in colon distribution of HA occur before inflammation. …”
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