A sustainable approach in pumpkin seed oil processing line: Recent advances in pumpkin seed oil and oil processing by-products by Guoqiang Zhang, Jingbo Guo, Jinying Guo

“…However, pumpkin seed oil cake (PSOC), as the secondary by-product from oil processing, contains high potential value and is scarcely utilised. …”
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Estimating Compressive Strength of High Performance Concrete with Gaussian Process Regression Model by Nhat-Duc Hoang, Anh-Duc Pham, Quoc-Lam Nguyen, Quang-Nhat Pham

“…To train and verify the aforementioned prediction model, a data set containing 239 HPC experimental tests, recorded from an overpass construction project in Danang City (Vietnam), has been collected for this study. …”
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The rhabdoid variant of adrenocortical carcinoma-Report of three cases and literature review by Pavithra Ayyanar, Mukund N. Sable, Amit K. Adhya, Manoj K. Das, Madhabananda Kar, Pritinanda Mishra

“…Large discohesive cells with abundant cytoplasm containing eosinophilic inclusions, eccentric vesicular nucleus, and prominent nucleoli. …”
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Research Progress on Chemical Constituents, Pharmacological Actions and Application of Codonopsis Radix as Both Medicine and Food by ZHANG Huan, LI Chao, JI Chenfeng

“…Codonopsis Radix, the dried roots of the genus Codonopsis of Platycodonaceae, has a very long history of culinary and medicinal use in China and is considered to strengthen the middle warmer and benefit vital energy as well as to benefit the stomach and help produce saliva in Chinese medicine. Codonopsis Radix contains a rich variety of chemical constituents, including flavonoids, alkaloids, polysaccharides, saponins, steroids, trace elements and amino acids, with many pharmacological effects, such as enhancing immunity, protecting the heart, nerve and gastrointestinal tract, regulating blood sugar, antioxidant, anti-fatigue, antibacterial, anti-virus, and anti-tumor functions, so it has been increasingly applied as both food and medicine. …”
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HISTORICAL MELODIES IN GALLUS HUSZÁR’S HYMNAL OF 1560 by Ágnes TÖRÖK

“…In Gallus Huszár’s hymnal the group of he historical songs contains 10 songs, for 5 of which there are melodies, although all of the melodies are known from chant notes. …”
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Biocompatible and Biodegradable Ultrafine Nanoparticles of Poly(Methyl Methacrylate-co-Methacrylic Acid) Prepared via Semicontinuous Heterophase Polymerization: Kinetics and Produc... by Henned Saade, María de Lourdes Guillén, Judith Cabello Romero, Jesús Cepeda, Anna Ilyna, Salvador Fernández, Francisco Javier Enríquez-Medrano, Raúl Guillermo López

“…The method used for the preparation of these particles stabilized in a latex containing around 11% solids includes the dosing of the monomers mixture on a micellar solution preserving monomer starved conditions. …”
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Administrative-Legal Regulation of Ukraine’s Space Activities: Challenges in Wartime and Strategic Perspectives by Inesa Kostenko

“…The importance of space technologies in military intelligence, navigation, and communication is underscored, as well as the prospects for attracting foreign investment to develop the sector. The article contains recommendations for enhancing the effectiveness of state policy in the field of space activities and integrating Ukraine into the international space community.…”
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The Daily Menu in Times of Pandemic for Individuals with Anxiety and Depression by Daniela Gomes Alcoforado, Miriam Leite Farias, Juliana Gonçalves Machado, Francisco Vicente Sales Melo, Thomas Kühn

“…The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light food and nutrition vulnerabilities in society, which were aggravated by the effects of social isolation and other measures to contain coronavirus spread in people’s lives. This study explores how individuals with mental disorders are reacting to this pandemic time, focusing in the context of their eating habits. …”
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CRISPR-Hybrid: A CRISPR-Mediated Intracellular Directed Evolution Platform for RNA Aptamers by Qiwen Su-Tobon, Jiayi Fan, Michael Goldstein, Kevin Feeney, Hongyuan Ren, Patrick Autissier, Peiyi Wang, Yingzi Huang, Udayan Mohanty, Jia Niu

“…Fusing RNA aptamers to the sgRNA of CRISPR can recruit cognate RNA-binding protein (RBP) effectors to target genomic sites, and the expression of sgRNA containing different RNA aptamers permit simultaneous multiplexed and multifunctional gene regulations. …”
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Machine learning identified novel players in lipid metabolism, endosomal trafficking, and iron metabolism of the ALS spinal cord by Jack Cheng, Bor-Tsang Wu, Hsin-Ping Liu, Wei-Yong Lin

“…The accuracy of the classifiers was greater than 83% and 77% for the training set and the unseen test set, respectively. The classifiers contained 114 genes. Among them, 41 genes have been reported in previous ALS studies, and others are novel in this field. …”
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RANKING FACTORS FOR SUPPLIER SELECTION WITH APPLICATION OF THE FTOPSIS METHOD by Adis Puška, Sead Šadić, Admir I. Beganović

“…Experts were assigned a survey questionnaire containing 39 factors for supplier selection to which they gave their opinion on which of these factors is important for establishing new cooperation or establishing partnerships with suppliers. …”
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Status and Causes of Soil Salinization of Irrigated Agricultural Lands in Southern Baja California, Mexico by Tsuneyoshi Endo, Sadahiro Yamamoto, Juan A. Larrinaga, Hideyasu Fujiyama, Toshimasa Honna

“…Low EC and high pH levels were observed in the profiles of sandy fields, because the salt composition of these soils can easily change when salts are leached by irrigation water that contains carbonates of sodium. On the other hand, high levels of salinity and sodicity were observed in the soils of clayey fields. …”
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Libraries in the Digital Age, do they survive? by Dessy Harisanty, Rahma Sugihartati, Koko Srimulyo, Kathleen Lourdes Obille

“…These were filtered into 723 texts sorted based on aspects containing negative and positive perspectives of library discourse. …”
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Vibrational Spectroscopy of Binary Titanium Borides: First-Principles and Experimental Studies by Urszula D. Wdowik, Agnieszka Twardowska, Bogusław Rajchel

“…Polarized and unpolarized Raman spectra of TiB, TiB2, and Ti3B4 are reported along with the experimental spectra of commercial powder and bulk TiB2 containing less than 1 wt.% of impurity phases. The X-ray diffraction spectroscopy, applied for phase composition examination of both bulk and powder materials, identifies only the TiB2 phase. …”
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Influence of limestone dust and natural pozzolan on engineering properties of self-compacting repair mortars by Amar Benyahia, Said Choucha, Mohamed Ghrici, Ahmed Omran

“…The main goal of this work is the formulation of a self-compacting repair mortars (SCRMs) containing limestone dust (LD) and natural pozzolan (NP). …”
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Factorization of the Hilbert space of eternal black holes in general relativity by Vijay Balasubramanian, Ben Craps, Juan Hernandez, Mikhail Khramtsov, Maria Knysh

“…These microstates, which contain heavy matter shells behind the horizon and form an overcomplete basis of the Hilbert space, exist in any theory of gravity with general relativity as its low energy limit. …”
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A Novel Partial Sequence Alignment Tool for Finding Large Deletions by Taner Aruk, Duran Ustek, Olcay Kursun

“…Although there are a number of publically available next generation sequencing mapping and sequence alignment programs, these software packages do not correctly align fragments containing deletions larger than one kb. We present a fast alignment software package, BinaryPartialAlign, that can be used by wet lab scientists to find long structural variations in their experiments. …”
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LC-MS/MS Method for Simultaneous Quantification of Dexmedetomidine, Dezocine, and Midazolam in Rat Plasma and Its Application to Their Pharmacokinetic Study by Wenjuan Cui, Qin Liu, Shan Xiong, Lujun Qiao

“…Chromatographic separation was achieved on a C18 column (50 mm × 2.1 mm, 3 µm) using a mobile phase composed of water (containing 0.1% formic acid) and acetonitrile. The lower limits of quantification were 0.1, 0.1, and 0.2 ng/mL for dexmedetomidine, dezocine, and midazolam in rat plasma, respectively. …”
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Image Sequence Fusion and Denoising Based on 3D Shearlet Transform by Liang Xu, Junping Du, Zhenhong Zhang

“…In general, the most existing image fusion methods only consider combining the important information of source images and do not deal with the artifacts. If source images contain noises, the noises may be also transferred into the fusion image together with useful pixels. …”
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TiO2 and ZnO Nanoparticles in Photocatalytic and Hygienic Coatings by Veronika Jašková, Libuše Hochmannová, Jarmila Vytřasová

“…The best photocatalytic effect showed the coating containing the mixture of the first type of TiO2 and nano-ZnO despite the fact that the first type of TiO2 was not better in the photocatalytic test than the other types of TiO2. …”
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