The Protective Role of Ambient Ultraviolet Radiation Against Dementia: An Ecological Analysis of Global Data by Wenpeng You

“…Subgroup analyses were performed to explore differences across income classifications, regional groupings, and developmental statuses, based on World Bank and United Nations criteria. Results A significant inverse correlation between UVR and dementia incidence was identified (r = −0.764, p < 0.001), which persisted after adjusting for confounding factors. …”
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Local Self-Governments in Hungary: Recent Changes through Central European Lenses by Csaba Lentner, Szilard Hegedus

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Proximate, Mineral Contents and Physicochemical Properties of <i>Chrysophyllum Albidum</i> (African Star Apple) Kernel Flour and Oil by S.S. Audu, C.I. Beetseh, D.U. Edward-Ekpu, A.A. Ewuga

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Ex Situ Conservation, DNA Barcoding and Enzymatic Potential Evaluation of Macrofungi (Basidiomycota, Ascomycota) from Vietnam by Nadezhda V. Psurtseva, Anna A. Kiyashko, Svetlana V. Senik, Thi Ha Giang Pham

“…From 2012 to 2023, 785 strains of macrofungi from National Parks of Vietnam were preserved in the LE-BIN collection, 327 of which were barcoded with the sequences deposited in the NCBI GenBank. A taxonomic analysis demonstrated that many of the preserved isolates are potentially new or poorly studied species, representing a useful resource for taxonomical studies and a search for new medicinal mushrooms. …”
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Genetic Uniqueness and Pomological Diversity Among the Apple Accessions Maintained Within the Croatian National Clonal Germplasm Repository by Danijel Čiček, Almira Konjić, Martina Skendrović Babojelić, Predrag Vujević, Silvio Šimon, Fuad Gaši

“…Results obtained through the use of two marker systems revealed 26 synonyms, 40 duplicates, 13 mislabeling accessions, 45 accessions with confirmed identity (known cultivars), and 45 unique accessions, as well as the true identity of a large number of accessions, currently maintained at the Croatian National Apple Germplasm Bank. In order to investigate the pomological variability of unique apples, a three-year study was carried out on eleven pomological traits. …”
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Prevalence and phylogenetic analysis of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in cattle in Mosul city, Iraq by Sadam D. Hasan, Mohammad A. Altaliby, Amer H. Taha, Karam M. Abdulrazzaq

“…Furthermore, in this study, two sequences of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis were deposited in GenBank (PP976335.1 and PP976335.1); phylogenetically the study strains showed 100% identity near MAP strain in Saudi Arabia under the accession number (MN928512.1) and 99.85% identity with Spain, Germany and South Korea strain accession numbers (FJ775181.1, CP053068.1 and CP033909.1) respectively. …”
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Zakat-based urban farming: A tool for poverty alleviation, community empowerment, financial inclusion, and food security by Kinan Salim, Baharom Abdul Hamid, Ziyaad Mahomed, Wiaam Hassan

“…In collaboration with a leading Islamic bank in Malaysia, the model was pilot tested across selected residential communities in Malaysia. …”
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Two-Stage Treatment of Enterocutaneous Fistulas by V. Yu. Struchkov, S. V. Berelavichus, E. A. Akhtanin, D. S. Gorin, M. V. Dvukhzhilov, A. A. Goev, A. I. Burmistrov, P. V. Markov, A. G. Kriger

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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Associated with Myrciaria dubia in the Amazonia Region, Peru by Alexandra Jherina Pineda-Lázaro, Adela Vallejos-Tapullima, Angel David Hernández-Amasifuen, Santos Carballar-Hernández, Sixto Imán-Correa, Fernando Marcelo Carvajal-Vallejos, Orlando Ríos-Ramírez, Mike Anderson Corazon-Guivin

“…For the morphological and molecular analyses of the AMF, samples of rhizospheric soil and roots from two native accessions of the National Germplasm Bank of M. dubia were collected. Eighteen AMF morphospecies were identified in rhizospheric soil, belonging to nine genera Acaulospora, Ambispora, Entrophospora, Diversispora, Gigaspora, Glomus, Paraglomus, Funneliformis, and Sclerocystis, being the first one the most frequent. …”
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The Impact of Medicaid Preferred Drug Lists on Utilization and Costs of Antipsychotic Medication by Christian Frois, Thomas O’Connell, Jacqueline Pesa, John Fastenau

“…For each program, the total antipsychotic cost per capita was estimated by multiplying antipsychotic utilization by list price (First DataBank), then dividing by program enrollment. To control for differences in the prevalence of antipsychotic use among Medicaid patients across states, cost estimates were adjusted using state-level mental-health illness prevalence data (Kaiser Family Foundation, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA], and Thomson Healthcare). …”
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The essence of the heirs’ obligation to reimburse funeral expenses of the testator and peculiarities of its fulfilment by O. Ye. Kukhariev

“…It has been emphasised that there is a need to improve the procedure for issuing a notary's permission to receive a part of the testator's deposit in a bank (financial institution), primarily for reimbursement of the expenses incurred by a person for the testator's burial.…”
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Discovering natural products as potential inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins by Muhammad Alqaaf, Ahmad Kamal Nasution, Mohammad Bozlul Karim, Mahfujul Islam Rumman, Muhammad Hendrick Sedayu, Retno Supriyanti, Naoaki Ono, Md. Altaf-Ul-Amin, Shigehiko Kanaya

“…Utilizing the Protein Data Bank Japan (PDBJ) and BindingDB databases, we isolated 204 S-glycoprotein sequences and conducted a clustering analysis to identify similarities and differences among them. …”
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Iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy and maternal and neonatal health outcomes: A prospective study, Spain, 2021–2022 by Regina Ruiz de Viñaspre-Hernández, Raúl Juárez-Vela, José Antonio Garcia-Erce, Kapil Nanwani-Nanwani, Silvia González-Fernández, Vicente Gea-Caballero, Ignacio Larrayoz-Roldán, Alberto Tovar-Reinoso, Pablo del Pozo-Herce, Pilar Sanchez-Conde, Clara Isabel Tejada-Garrido, Manuel Quintana-Diaz

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A Quantum-Based Machine Learning Approach for Autism Detection Using Common Spatial Patterns of EEG Signals by S. Saranya, R. Menaka

“…EEG signals were spatially filtered using a wavelet-based regularized filter bank common spatial pattern. Key features, including peak-to-peak amplitude, were extracted, and correlation-based feature selection identified the most informative features. …”
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The University and City Images for Migration of Nonresident Students: a Regional Case by G. F. Gabdrakhmanova

“…It involves the creation of a data bank on key issues of Russian higher education. One of these indicators may be the subjective reasons for the attractiveness of territories for applicants/students/graduates in terms of the significance of images of the university and city of study, as well as factors influencing educational migration. …”
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Complete genome sequence of Pseudarthrobacter sp. NIBRBAC000502770 from coal mine of Hongcheon on Republic of Korea by Min-Kyu Park, Yeong-Jun Park, Myung-Suk Kang, Min-Ha Kim, Soo-Young Kim, Jae-Ho Shin

“…The genome and plasmid are available in GenBank (CP041198.1, CP014497.1), offering insights into bioremediation and plant growth in metal-contaminated environments.…”
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Natural antifibrosis potential of anthocyanin in Ipomoea batatas against Transforming Growth Factor beta Type II receptor by in silico ADMET and molecular docking study by Evi Lusiana, Ernawati Sinaga, Zen Hafy, Debby Handayati Harahap, Ramzi Amin, Irsan Saleh

“…The TGFβRII protein was retrieved from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) database, while the I. batatas anthocyanin was acquired from the PubChem database. …”
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Fast and Sensitive Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic Acid Using a Rapid Detection System Free of RNA Extraction by Liang Ma, Yanyan Fan, Xiaomu Kong, Yongwei Jiang, Hong Huang, Meimei Zhao, Yi Liu, Peng Gao, Yong Cui, Yongtong Cao

“…The limit of detection (LoD) was determined using a negative nasopharyngeal swab matrix spiked with different concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 virus; a total of 734,337 reference sequences of viral genomes from GenBank were used for the in-silico analysis to assess the inclusivity of the assay. …”
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A Comparison of Penguin Swarm Optimization Algorithms for Enhancing Network Throughput by Talha Akhtar, Najmi Ghani Haider, Nadeem Kafi Khan, Rashid Uddin

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Reliability-Based Design of Solid and Nail-jointed I-Section of Nigerian-Grown African Birch (<i>Anogeissus leiocarpus</i>) Timber Column by U.N. Wilson, A.A. Adedeji, F.O.P. Oriola, J.A. Alomaja, J.E. Sani

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