Present and future of cancer nano-immunotherapy: opportunities, obstacles and challenges by Man Wang, Fei Yu, Yuan Zhang

“…Owing to gaps between preclinical and clinical studies, nano-immunotherapy faces multiple challenges, including the biosafety of nanomaterials and clinical trial design. In this review, we provide an overview of cancer immunotherapy and summarize the evidence indicating how nanomedicine-based approaches increase the efficacy of immunotherapies. …”
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Effect of tranexamic acid dissolved in warm, cold, and room-temperature irrigation fluid on complications during and after TURP surgery: a double-blind, randomized clinical trial by Masoomeh Salehi, Behzad Imani, Shirdel Zandi, Hamed Haghiabi, Somayeh Souri

“…Methods This prospective, double-blind clinical trial was conducted from April to November 2023 at Imam Khomeini Hospital in Alashtar, Iran. 100 patients scheduled for TURP were selected via convenience sampling and randomly assigned into four groups using a four-block and permutation design. The groups were as follows: Intervention Group A (TXA dissolved in cold irrigation fluid), Intervention Group B (TXA dissolved in room-temperature irrigation fluid), Intervention Group C (TXA dissolved in warm irrigation fluid), and the Control Group (room-temperature irrigation without TXA). …”
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Reflectance and Thermal Micrometeorological Characteristics of an Urban Green Space in the Mediterranean During July’s 2023 Heatwave by Nikolaos D. Proutsos, Alexandra D. Solomou, Stefanos P. Stefanidis, Ioannis X. Tsiros

“…The study highlights that in order to create climate-resilient environments and improve thermal comfort, it is crucial to include suitable materials and a variety of vegetation in urban design. Such insights into the complex nature of urban microclimate indicates also the issue of the careful selection of materials and plant species in urban greening initiatives to help cities face the UHI phenomenon.…”
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Workflow-driven catalytic modulation from single-atom catalysts to Au–alloy clusters on graphene by Gabriel Reynald Da Silva, João Paulo Cerqueira Felix, Celso R. C. Rêgo, Alexandre C. Dias, Carlos Maciel de O. Bastos, Maurício J. Piotrowski, Diego Guedes-Sobrinho

“…Incorporating Au into $${\text{M}_n}$$ adjusts $$\varepsilon _{\text {d}}$$ closer to the Fermi level, especially for Group-10 alloys, offering designs with improved stability and efficiency comparable to pure Au nanocatalysts. …”
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Training Load and Current Soreness Predict Future Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness in Collegiate Female Soccer Athletes by Brett S. Pexa, Christopher J. Johnston, Jeffrey B Taylor, Kevin R. Ford

“… # Purpose To determine the predictive capabilities of training load variables on the development of lower extremity DOMS in female collegiate soccer athletes throughout an entire season. # Study Design Prospective Cohort # Methods Twenty-seven collegiate female soccer athletes reported their lower extremity DOMS each day prior to all soccer activity. …”
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Whether the Effect of Sperm DNA Fragmentation on the Clinical and Laboratory Outcomes Changes with the Paternal age in the intracytoplasmic sperm injection Cycles of Donor Oocytes by Deepthi Repalle, saritha kv, Shilpa Bhandari, Jitendra Choudhary

“… OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to know the effect of paternal age together with Sperm DNA fragmentation on the clinical and laboratory outcomes in the donor oocyte intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles. STUDY DESIGN: In this prospective cohort study a total of 229 patients undergoing their first intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles and fresh blastocyst embryo transfer with donor oocytes were included in this study. …”
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Are Functional Performance Test Scores Better When Compared to Baseline or Contralateral Limb Scores Following LE Injury in Adolescent Athletes? by Edward Jones, Jessica Jochum, Hannah Corn, Michaela O'Brien, Melissa Parks, Jamal Armoush, Amanda Annee

“…It was hypothesized that using baseline scores for comparison would be more responsive to residual deficits following injury than using the contralateral limb. # Study Design Prospective longitudinal cohort study # Methods High school athletes (n=395) from all varsity sports completed a battery of FPTs including the Y-Balance Test (YBT), single limb hop tests and T-Test for agility (TT) during their preseason to establish baseline data. …”
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Adsorption of TDS and chloride ions from partially treated tannery wastewater using activated coffee husk by Nazrawit Debebe Tadess, Getasew Yehuala Gezahegn, Yosef Hagos Abrha

“…The adsorption isotherm and kinetics were determined using different models. Design expert was used to optimize TDS and chloride ions adsorption and the optimal conditions were 2.38 h of contact time, pH of 7.19, and 2.54 g/L adsorbent dosage. …”
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Effect of the overhead height and tilt angle on comprehensive performance of photovoltaic roof based on simulation and experimental methods by Wenheng Zheng, Huihui He, Fuyu Qin, Yuncheng Lan, Yingde Yin

“…The results of this paper can provide a reference for the design and optimization of photovoltaic roofs.…”
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Overcoming Data Scarcity in Wind Power Forecasting: A Deep Learning Approach With Bidirectional Generative Adversarial Network and Neighborhood Search PSO Algorithm by Shiyu Liu, Fei Chen, Zhendong Liu, Hongyan Qiao

“…During the prediction stage, SAM is designed to obtain a new input matrix for weight allocation before BiGRU, enhancing its sensitivity to critical input information. …”
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Decision-making in ethical dilemmas faced by auditors: a case study of small and medium sized audit firms that are trusted by the stock exchange by Maryam Rokhshi, Kaveh Azinfar, Seyyed Ali Nabavi Chashmi

“…The data of this research have been collected through the design of questionnaires among the auditors of small and medium audit firms trusted by the stock exchange. …”
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Robust Forest Sound Classification Using Pareto-Mordukhovich Optimized MFCC in Environmental Monitoring by Ahmad Qurthobi, Robertas Damasevicius, Vytautas Barzdaitis, Rytis Maskeliunas

“…To improve classification capabilities, the study introduces a hybrid model that combines neural network (CNN) with a Bidirectional Long-Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) layer, designed to capture both spatial and temporal features of the sound data. …”
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Legal Status of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine: Current State and Perspectives of Development by L. V. Borets, Ya. O. Arbych

“…It is the basis for authors to emphasize the importance of adopting a regulatory act, which will be designed to distinguish between basic categories (concepts) in the field of public financial control (audit). …”
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PEMBELAJARAN REMEDIAL TERPADU DENGAN MENERAPKAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN GENERATIF UNTUK MENGUBAH MISKONSEPSI SISWA TERHADAP KONSEP USAHA DAN ENERGI by Nur Rosuli, Irwan Koto, Nyoman Rohadi

“…The research was pre-experimental research with one group pretest-posttest design. The result showed that there was a significant effect on remedial learning related to applying generative models to change in students’ conceptions with t hitung > t tabel (16,33 ). …”
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Assessment of the Nutritional Status of the Children with Acute Leukemia on Chemotherapy in Karbala City by Dheyaa Aldeen Nawfal Al-khateeb, Ali Hussein Al-hafidh, Usama Ahmed Hadi Al-jumaily

“…The study Methods were a case-control study conducted in Karbala city/Iraq, for 3 months, the study sample included 140 children (70 cases and 70 controls) aged (2 to 14) years, by using convenient sampling and use special questionnaire design and measuring anthropometric measures. The results revealed that the highest percentage of patients in the age group 5-10 years (47.1%), the boys were (55.7%), (52.9%) of patients live in urban, highly significant association (p.value < 0.001) of family history of cancer, has less physical activity and psychological effects on loss of appetite. …”
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Feeding of Marbled Goby, Oxyeleotris marmorata (Blkr.), Larvae in the Two Weeks of Their Early Life by Irzal Effendi, K. Sumawidjaja

“…Factorial arrangement in randomised block design was used in this experiment with two factors: kind of feed and feed density for sand goby, Oxyeleotris marmorata (Blkr.) larvae. …”
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Prevalence and Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Health Care Workers in Tertiary Health Care Institutions in a Developing Country: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study by Chinedu Anthony Iwu, Pius Ositadinma, Victor Chibiko, Ugochukwu Madubueze, Kenechi Uwakwe, Uche Oluoha

“…A cross-sectional analytical design that used convenience and snowballing techniques to enroll 347 health care workers from tertiary health care institutions in Imo State, Nigeria, from September 28 to October 14, 2021. …”
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Towards culturally inclusive healthcare in Peru: Mapping epistemic concepts in contemporary Indigenous Amazonian medicine-Traditional healers' perspectives. by Ilana Berlowitz, Maria Amalia Pesantes, Cynthia Cárdenas Palacios, Chantal Martin-Soelch, Ursula Wolf, Caroline Maake

“…These often involved carefully designed applications of 'teacher plants', a concept at the heart of this medical system. …”
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Optimization of Extraction of Compound Flavonoids from Chinese Herbal Medicines Based on Quantification Theory and Evaluation of Their Antioxidant Activity by Xu Yang, Dongli Cao, Haiyu Ji, Yingying Feng, Juan Yu, Anjun Liu

“…CFs were extracted from the raw materials named “medicine food homology,” composed of hawthorn, lotus leaf, tartary buckwheat, cassia seed, Lycium barbarum, and Poria cocos in a mass ratio of 4 :  2 :  2 :  1.5 :  1 :  1. L9 (34) orthogonal design, level effect and engineering average estimation, and quantification theory were utilized to improve the extraction method of CFs, and the predictive model for CFs yield was constructed. …”
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Body mass index in relation to dental maturation of 10 to 14 years old school children in Erbil city. A cross-sectional prospective study by Omar Fawzi Chawshli, Yara Ismael Ameen

“…Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study design was applied for the present study, 383 school children were participated in this study which nominated from Erbil city. …”
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