Climate change, air pollution and chronic respiratory diseases: understanding risk factors and the need for adaptive strategies by Jiayu Xu, Zekang Su, Chenchen Liu, Yuxuan Nie, Liangliang Cui

“…Further interdisciplinary research and global collaboration are needed in the future to enhance adaptability and address climate health inequality.…”
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Exploring the Landscape of Digital Entrepreneurship among Disabled People: A Bibliometric Analysis by Rahmawati Rahmawati, Rochmat Aldy Purnomo, Ari Kuncara Widagdo, Noor Ismawati Jaafar, Farzana Parveen Tajudeen, Endang Dwi Amperawati, Sri Hartoko, Agus Dwianto

“…Furthermore, employing cartographic analyses with VOSviewer, the study maps out the interconnectedness and collaboration networks among authors, nations, and keywords, offering insights into the global research landscape in this critical area. By shedding light on the existing body of literature and research dynamics, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of digital entrepreneurship within the disability context. …”
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A Rare Case of Cardiac Recovery after Acute Myocarditis from West Nile Virus Infection: A Review of the Current Literature by KaChon Lei, Wilbur Ji, Bhavana Bhaya, Chowdhury Ahsan

“…We report a previously healthy 37-year-old Caucasian male who presented to our facility with two days of progressive lower extremity weakness, fever, edema, and shortness of breath found to have left ventricular global hypokinesis with an ejection fraction of less than 25%, consistent with acute viral myocarditis. …”
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The Role of Air Pollution and Olfactory Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis by Louise Odendaal, Hazel Quek, Carla Cuní-López, Anthony R. White, Romal Stewart

“…The escalating issue of air pollution contributes to an alarming number of premature fatalities each year, thereby posing a significant threat to global health. The focus of recent research has shifted towards understanding its potential association with neurodegenerative diseases, specifically Alzheimer’s disease (AD). …”
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Entecavir: stability and drug-excipient compatibility by Ariadne Botto Fiorot, Clayton Raynan dos Santos, Thiago Padovani Xavier, Taisa Shimosakai de Lira, Marcelo Antonio de Oliveira

“…Production of generic ETV drugs is an ongoing global endeavor, with particular significance for developing countries that rely on importing the expensive reference drug. …”
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Netnography of Fan Localization on Social Media Releases: Observation of Overwatch (OW) and Overwatch League (OWL) by Dody M.H. Chen

“…The implementation of such fan activities has significantly enhanced the dissemination of information across various language contexts, thereby fostering extensive interactions within global fan communities. Through frameworks of practice-led research and netnography, this article examines Chinese fan localizers’ incentives and procedures in contributing to the English-Chinese localization of social media content. …”
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Impact of Price-Responsive Load and Renewables in an Emission-Aware Power Systems by Boming Liu, Jin Dong, Byungkwon Park, Jianming Lian, Teja Kuruganti

“…Decarbonization of the power grid will require collective efforts from different entities. As the global energy sector shifts from fossil-based systems of energy production to renewable energy sources to reduce energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, demand-side flexibility can play an important role in decarbonizing the grid. …”
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Towards Transparent AI in Medicine: ECG-Based Arrhythmia Detection with Explainable Deep Learning by Oleksii Kovalchuk, Oleksandr Barmak, Pavlo Radiuk, Liliana Klymenko, Iurii Krak

“…Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally, highlighting the need for accurate diagnostic tools. …”
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Molecular and Biochemical Characterization of the Greek Pepper ( Capsicum annuum ) Cultivars ‘Florinis’ and ‘Karatzova’ by Niki Mougiou, Foteini Trikka, Sofia Michailidou, Mariana Pantoura, Anagnostis Argiriou

“…Peppers are the fourth most important vegetable in the global food economy. Greek pepper cultivars ‘Florinis’ and ‘Karatzova’ are especially popular because of the signature red color and sweet taste of the fruits. …”
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Optimal life-cycle adaptation of coastal infrastructure under climate change by Ashmita Bhattacharya, Konstantinos G. Papakonstantinou, Gordon P. Warn, Lauren McPhillips, Melissa M. Bilec, Chris E. Forest, Rahaf Hasan, Digant Chavda

“…In this work, we thus formulate climate risk management as a dynamic decision-making problem based on Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs), taking real-time data into account for evaluating the evolving conditions and related model uncertainties, in order to select the best possible life-cycle actions in time, with global optimality guarantees for the formulated optimization problem. …”
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Zinc-Doped Boron Phosphide Nanocluster as Efficient Sensor for SO2 by Shahid Hussain, Shahzad Ali Shahid Chatha, Abdullah Ijaz Hussain, Riaz Hussain, Muhammad Yasir Mehboob, Shabbir Muhammad, Zaheer Ahmad, Khurshid Ayub

“…Geometric parameters such as dipole moment, QNBO, frontier molecular orbital analysis, PDOS, and global indices of reactivity are performed to visualize the changes in electronic properties of B12P12 after Zn and SO2 adsorption.…”
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Hydrogen Storage Materials: Promising Materials for Kazakhstan’s Hydrogen Storage Industry by S. Abdimomyn, S. Malik, M. Skakov, Y. Koyanbayev, A. Miniyazov, F. Malchik

“…By leveraging these resources, Kazakhstan can play a crucial role in advancing hydrogen storage technologies and contributing to global decarbonization efforts. The review aims to offer comprehensive insights into the current state and prospects of solid-state hydrogen storage materials, emphasizing their relevance and potential impact on Kazakhstan's energy sector. …”
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Modelling the role of drug barons on the prevalence of drug epidemics by John Boscoh H. Njagarah, Farai Nyabadza

“…Substance abuse is a global menace with immeasurable consequences to the health of users, the quality of life and the economy of countries affected. …”
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Finite family groups for fermionic and leptoquark mixing patterns by Jordan Bernigaud, Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas, Jim Talbert

“…In particular, we analyze patterns de- rived when an ultra-violet flavour theory is assumed to break to global Abelian symmetries in Standard Model fermion masses and new Yukawa-like terms sourced by the leptoquark representation. …”
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Streptococcus pneumoniae Coinfection in COVID-19: A Series of Three Cases by Chaitanya Pal, Paulina Przydzial, Ogechukwu Chika-Nwosuh, Shrey Shah, Pratik Patel, Nikhil Madan

“…We are currently dealing with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which has affected over 15 million people globally with over half a million deaths. Previous respiratory viral pandemics have taught us that bacterial coinfections can lead to higher mortality and morbidity. …”
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Design of Nonfragile State Estimator for Discrete-Time Genetic Regulatory Networks Subject to Randomly Occurring Uncertainties and Time-Varying Delays by Yanfeng Zhao, Jihong Shen, Dongyan Chen

“…It is shown that the proposed method ensures that the estimation error dynamics is globally asymptotically stable and the desired estimator parameter is designed via the solutions to certain LMIs. …”
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Form and Function of Sleep Spindles across the Lifespan by Brittany C. Clawson, Jaclyn Durkin, Sara J. Aton

“…Despite a broad general understanding of mechanisms of spindle generation gleaned from animal studies, the mechanisms underlying certain features of spindles in the human brain, such as “global” versus “local” spindles, are largely unknown. …”
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Regional Innovation as a Catalyst for Economic Growth by Gunawan Adi Saputra Silalahi, Khoirunurrofik

“…This study adopts the theory of Regional Innovation and indicators in the Global Innovation Index (GII) and the Regional Innovation Index (IID). …”
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Comparison of carvedilol vs. bisoprolol for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF): A systematic review and meta-analysis from the Asian population by Yedy Purwandi Sukmawan, Tita Nofianti, Anisa Pebiansyah

“…China, Indonesia, and Malaysia have the highest age-standardized rates of heart failure in Asia, according to the Global Burden of Disease study. While numerous systematic reviews and meta-analyses have compared bisoprolol and carvedilol in HFrEF, most have focused on Western populations. …”
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Fracture Propagation Behavior of Jointed Rocks in Hydraulic Fracturing by Xiaoxi Men, Jiren Li, Zhihui Han

“…The maximum principal stress is the control factor of fracture propagation in global scale, and the joint plane is the control factor of fracture propagation in local scale. …”
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