Spatial Distribution of the Probability of Satisfying the Chill Requirements of Pistachio in Iran Using ERA5-Land Reanalysis Data by Ebrahim Asadi Oskouei, Saeedeh Kouzegaran, Mansoureh Kouhi, Hossein Hokmabadi, Mohsen Eslami

“…Temperature, specifically winter chill accumulation, is generally considered to be a decisive climatic factor in flowering and fruit sets. …”
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A Deep Learning-Based Approach for Two-Phase Flow Pattern Classification Using Void Fraction Time Series Analysis by Jefferson Dos Santos Ambrosio, Marco Jose da Silva, Andre Eugenio Lazzaretti

“…However, they are underexplored and have not evaluated the generalization of the models to other data or acquisition systems. …”
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Sexual Health Advocacy for Guys (SHAG): a randomized trial of the impact of a text-messaging program on HIV incidence and STI testing among a national sample of sexual minority cis... by M. L. Ybarra, D. J. Feaster, R. Garofalo, S. Bull

“…Outcomes include testing for HIV and other STIs, increasing PrEP and PEP use, and HIV incidence. Generalized linear models will be used to estimate treatment effects on primary study outcomes, with longitudinal models (estimated based on Generalized Estimating Equations) specified to examine effects over time. …”
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PGTransNet: a physics-guided transformer network for 3D ocean temperature and salinity predicting in tropical Pacific by Song Wu, Senliang Bao, Wei Dong, Senzhang Wang, Xiaojiang Zhang, Chengcheng Shao, Junxing Zhu, Xiaoyong Li

“…Numerical models are the most prevalent of the traditional approaches, which are often too complex and lack of generality. Recently, with the rise of AI, many data-driven methods are proposed. …”
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Heavy Metal Spatial Variation Mechanism and Ecological Health Risk Assessment in Volcanic Island Soils: A Case Study of Weizhou Island, China by Ran Bi, Wei Fu, Xuanni Fu

“…The basalt profiles generally exhibit higher heavy metal content and pH values compared to volcaniclastic rock profiles, as basalt accumulates higher concentrations of heavy metals. …”
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Chikungunya virus infection in the skin: histopathology and cutaneous immunological response by Natália Gedeão Salomão, Natália Gedeão Salomão, Luciana Araújo, Luiz José de Souza, Anna Luiza Young, Carlos Basílio-de-Oliveira, Rodrigo Panno Basílio-de-Oliveira, Jorge José de Carvalho, Priscilla Conrado Guerra Nunes, Juliana Fernandes da Silva Amorim, Douglas Valiati dos Santos Barbosa, Marciano Viana Paes, Kíssila Rabelo, Kíssila Rabelo, Flavia Dos Santos

“…The disease caused by CHIKV generally evolves with spontaneous resolution in a few weeks; however, progression to a chronic disease may occur. …”
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Deep learning based tractography with TractSeg in patients with hemispherotomy: Evaluation and refinement by Johannes Gruen, Tobias Bauer, Theodor Rüber, Thomas Schultz

“…Even though it has exclusively been trained on healthy subjects, a certain level of generalization to different pathologies has been demonstrated, and TractSeg is now increasingly used for clinical cases. …”
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Optimization of Toxicity, Biodegradability, and Skin Irritation in Formulations Containing Mixtures of Anionic and Nonionic Surfactants Combined with Silica Nanoparticles by Manuela Lechuga, Mercedes Fernández-Serrano, Josefa Núñez-Olea, Juan Francisco Martínez-Gallegos, Francisco Ríos

“…The addition of silica nanoparticles generally mitigates the overall toxicity of surfactants, whether used individually or in mixtures. …”
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Effects of hook size on the catch variation, size selectivity, and bycatch of the bottom set longline fisheries targeting nemipterid fishes in the Philippines by Angelo C. Macario, Tania Islam, Ricardo P. Babaran, Alexander J. Balsomo, Takeshi Tomiyama

“…However, larger fish were collected with larger hooks, as suggested by the generalized additive model (GAM). In contrast, the generalized additive model suggested that middle-sized hooks (#566 to #568) yielded the highest catches but with an increased bycatch. …”
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Simulation Study on Strength and Failure Characteristics for Granite with a Set of Cross-Joints of Different Lengths by Dawei Yin, Shaojie Chen, Xingquan Liu, Hongfa Ma

“…The uniaxial compressive strength at α and β between 30° and 60° is generally small. Finally, the microdisplacement field distributions of granite specimen were discussed.…”
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Investigation of Hydrogeochemical Characteristics and Quality of the Water Resources in Şiran (Gümüşhane) District Center, Turkey by Ümmühan Semiz, Mehmet Ali Gücer, Selçuk Alemdağ

“…The water resources in the study area are generally classified as Ca-Mg-HCO3 type carbonated (Ca+Mg>Na+K), and generally their weak acids are more than strong acids (HCO3>SO4+Cl). …”
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Comparative testing of vaccines based on viruses of genetic lineages G1 and Y280 for their potency against low pathogenic avian influenza H9N2 by S. V. Frolov, L. O. Scherbakova, N. V. Moroz, V. N. Irza, V. Yu. Kulakov

“…While low pathogenicity of the agent does not allow demonstrating the vaccine protective properties by the direct methods generally used for potency assessment (e.g. morbidity and mortality), the indirect methods were used: determination of antigenic relatedness of the strains, level of the postvaccinal homologous and heterologous humoral immunity, analysis of the virus genome synthesis inhibition (reduction) in vaccinated birds following their challenge. …”
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FIRMS’ FINANCIAL AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATION WITH EARNING MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: A META-ANALYSIS APPROACH by Fatima Abdul Hamid, Chaabane Oussama Houssem Eddine, Abdullah Mohamed Ayedh, Abdelghani Echchabi

“…The analysis permits this research to accumulate and assimilate the results of previous literature, and their generalization to a wider range of settings. The results showed that all corporate governance and financial characteristics variables have a significant association with earnings management practices.  …”
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Rapid Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections Using Technologies Based on Nucleic Acid Detection by François J Picard, Michel G Bergeron

“…Bacterial identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing methods used in clinical microbiology laboratories generally require at least two days. This long delay often forces physicians to treat patients presumptively with broad-spectrum antibiotics. …”
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Le lent dévoilement du travail des agricultrices by Christian Nicourt

“…It aims at understanding why the work of women on the farms has generally been denied and has remained invisible, and why it may become visible in certain situations. …”
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Neutrosophic Clustering Algorithm Based on Sparse Regular Term Constraint by Dan Zhang, Yingcang Ma, Hu Zhao, Xiaofei Yang

“…Neutrosophic clustering is the generalization of fuzzy clustering and has been applied to many fields. …”
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Savoirs experts vs savoirs territoriaux by Tarik Dahou, Francesca Marin, Hicham Masski, Mohamed Naji

“…The marine protected areas’ (MPAs) management is generally supposed to be based on the sharing of local and scientific knowledge. …”
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On the System of Diophantine Equations x2-6y2=-5 and x=az2-b by Silan Zhang, Jianhua Chen, Hao Hu

“…In this paper, we extend this result and put forward a generalized method which can completely solve the family of systems of Diophantine equations x2-6y2=-5 and x=az2-b for each pair of integral parameters a,b. …”
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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PECULIARITIES FOR HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL TRAINING by Evgeniya I. Muratova, Stanislav I. Dvoretsky, Alexander Yu. Ivanov

“…The authors suggest a generalized algorithm for postgraduate curriculum development within competency format and give recommendations on how to form the list of professional competencies. …”
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Writing research differently by Margaret Malone, Jourdan Davis, Stephen Muecke, Karen Schwartz, Chantal Trudel, Liz Weaver

“…Together, they demonstrate that coherence and cohesion – clarity – come in more shapes and forms than generally admitted, and can be welcoming frameworks for the rarely admitted: hope, sustenance, complexity, conflict and change. …”
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