Bioconversion of different organic waste into fortified vermicompost with the help of earthworm: A comprehensive review by Sharanpreet Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Alkesh Kandoria, Jahangeer Quadar, Sartaj Ahmad Bhat, Anu Bala Chowdhary, Adarsh Pal Vig

“…Purpose Solid waste management has become a serious global problem. There is a strong need to recycle them as these wastes are rich in plant nutrients and soil conditioners. …”
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SURVEILLANCE OF PARASITIC DISEASES IN BULGARIA by Rumen Harizanov, Violeta Yakimova, Mihaela Videnova, Ognyan Mikov, Aleksandra Ivanova, Eleonora Kaneva, Raina Borisova, Nina Tsvetkova, Iskra Rainova, Zornitca Traykova

“… The incidence and number of cases of several parasitic diseases subject to mandatory reporting and registration under the Ministry of Health (MoH) 2005 Regulation 21 increased after the end of the global pandemic of COVID-19 in 2023. In addition, parasitic infections imported from endemic tropical regions are recorded annually in the country. …”
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Assessing and predicting Bojiang lake area and LULC changes from 2000 to 2045 by Muhammad Naeem, Yongqiang Zhang, Xiaoqiang Tian, Ping Miao, Congcong Li, Zhenwu Xu, Longhao Wang, Faisal Mumtaz, Zixuan Tang, Shaoyang He

“…Study focus: While the global significance of lake ecosystems is well established, few studies have investigated the long-term dynamics of Bojiang Lake, particularly the interplay between human activities and climate change. …”
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Assessing the Response of Satellite Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence and NDVI to Impacts of Heat Waves on Winter Wheat in the North China Plain by Chenjie Xian, Li He, Zhengwei He, Dongjian Xue, Zhe Li

“…Global warming has increased the chance of concurrent extreme climate events (weather or climate events that are rare within their statistical reference distributions in a particular place, such as heat waves, floods, and droughts). …”
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Ammonifying and phosphorus-solubilizing function of Aliikangiella maris sp. nov. isolated from Phaeocystis globosa bloom and algal–bacterial interactions by Fei Li, Fei Li, Ming-Ben Xu, Liang-Hao Pan, Jie Li, Cai-Bi Lan, Zhe Li, Shan Lu, Jun-Xiang Lai, Jun-Xiang Lai, Peng-Fu Li

“…Phaeocystis globosa blooms are of escalating global concern due to their substantial ecological impacts on marine ecosystems. …”
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Empowering Urdu sentiment analysis: an attention-based stacked CNN-Bi-LSTM DNN with multilingual BERT by Lal Khan, Atika Qazi, Hsien-Tsung Chang, Mousa Alhajlah, Awais Mahmood

“…Among the different deep neural networks utilized for SA globally, Bi-directional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM), BERT, and CNN models have received much attention. …”
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Pre-pregnancy obesity and weight gain during pregnancy: impact on newborn outcomes by Sezgin Gunes, Suzan Sahin, Meltem Koyuncu Arslan, Nurhan Korkmaz, Ozlem Karaca Dag, Emir Gokalp, Hazal Saban, Mehmet Koca, Mehmet Yekta Oncel

“…Abstract Background Overweight and obesity are global issues, especially among women of childbearing age, linked to adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. …”
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Suppression of Aedes aegypti may not affect sympatric Aedes albopictus populations: findings from two years of entomological surveillance in Singapore by Wei Jian Wong, Cheong Huat Tan, Matthew Gregory Verkaik, Lee Ching Ng, Ary Anthony Hoffmann, Chee-Seng Chong

“…Abstract Globally, multiple trials have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of novel tools, such as the sterile and incompatible insect techniques, in suppressing Aedes aegypti populations. …”
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Life Cycle Assessment for Solid Waste Management: A Case Study for Melikgazi Municipality (Kayseri) by Emine Irbaş, Filiz Dadaşer Çelik

“…Net energy use / non-renewable energy resources depletion potential (GJ), global warming potential (kg CO2-equivalent), acidification potential (kg SO2-equivalent) and eutrophication potential (kg O2-equivalent) were calculated for all scenarios. …”
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Parental Roles and Challenges in Managing Pediatric Obesity: Insights from Focus Group Interviews in Korea by Jieun Ju, Jahye Jung, Yong Hee Hong, Minsoo Shin, Yoon Lee, Ah-Ram Sul

“…Background : Pediatric obesity is a global public health concern. South Korea is witnessing a notable increase in obesity rates among children and adolescents, despite various governmental interventions. …”
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Normalized difference vegetation index prediction using reservoir computing and pretrained language models by John Olamofe, Ram Ray, Xishuang Dong, Lijun Qian

“…Using MODIS/Terra Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 250 m SIN Grid V061 dataset, we designed and implemented Reservoir Computing (RC) models and transformer-based models including pretrained language model, and compared the prediction performance of these models to traditional machine learning and deep learning methods such as Nonlinear Regression, Decision Tree, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network, and DLinear. …”
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Pregnancy outcomes in patients with psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, or axial spondyloarthritis receiving ixekizumab by A. Egeberg, L. Iversen, A. B. Kimball, S. Kelly, E. Grace, H. Patel, W. Xu, G. Gallo, E. Riedl, S. R. Feldman

“…Detailed information about pregnancy and related outcomes across these indications in patients exposed to ixekizumab is lacking.Objectives To evaluate pregnancy outcomes after maternal or paternal exposure to ixekizumab in patients with psoriasis, PsA, or axSpA.Methods Pregnancy cases from clinical trials and post-marketing reports, associated with either maternal or paternal exposure to ixekizumab cumulatively through 22 March 2019, were identified in the Eli Lilly Global Safety Database and described separately.Results One hundred and ninety-three ixekizumab-exposed pregnancies were identified. …”
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Visibility Enhancement of Lesion Regions in Chest X-Ray Images With Image Fidelity Preservation by Ryoichi Ishikawa, Tomohisa Yuzawa, Taiki Fukiage, Masataka Kagesawa, Toru Watsuji, Takeshi Oishi

“…Our framework assesses the background signals, whereas conventional methods focus on the visibility of the global image. The proposed method predicts the image processing parameters that enhance the lesion signals via the inference neural network. …”
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Fabrication of zinc oxide/sodium alginate nanocomposite for effective catalytic degradation of Direct Yellow 44 dye: A sustainable approach by Shumaila Kiran, Abdulaziz Bentalib, Alina Javaid, Mubashar Hussain, Muhammad Wakil Shahzad, Zubair Khaliq, Muhammad Bilal Qadir, Zaryab Rashid

“…Environmental pollution associated with the discharge of industries is becoming a global concern. Textile dyes indicate some of the most complex environmental pollutants due to their complexity and variety. …”
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OCT-based diagnosis of glaucoma and glaucoma stages using explainable machine learning by Md Mahmudul Hasan, Jack Phu, Henrietta Wang, Arcot Sowmya, Michael Kalloniatis, Erik Meijering

“…Leveraging SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP)-based global feature ranking and partial dependency analysis (PDA) estimated decision boundary cut-offs on machine learning (ML) models, a novel algorithm was developed to implement an XAI tool. …”
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Enhancing Maize Production Through Timely Nutrient Supply: The Role of Foliar Fertiliser Application by Brian Ssemugenze, Akasairi Ocwa, Ronald Kuunya, Costa Gumisiriya, Csaba Bojtor, János Nagy, Adrienn Széles, Árpád Illés

“…Maize, regarded as a staple economic crop, attracts special global attention with the aim to enhance its production. …”
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Leclercia adecarboxylata Cholecystitis with Septic Shock in Immunocompetent Patient by Nooraldin Merza, John Lung, Ahmed Taha, Ahmed Qasim, Jill Frost, Tarek Naguib

“…Her abdomen was tender globally and more tender in the epigastric area. Vitals showed a temperature of 37°C, pulse of 110 beats/min, blood pressure of 75/50 mmHg, and oxygen saturation of 91% on room air. …”
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Towards CO2 emissions reduction of shipping: Ca(OH)2 based carbon capture system for safeguarding the marine environment by Valentina Bortuzzo, Valentina Bortuzzo, Serena Bertagna, Luca Braidotti, Vittorio Bucci

“…Climate change poses a global challenge related to the reduction of pollutant atmospheric emissions and the maritime transportation sector is directly involved, due to its significant impact on the production of Greenhouse Gases and other substances. …”
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Genetic advancements in breast cancer treatment: a review by Marzieh Shokoohi, Sadaf Sedaghatshoar, Homaira Arian, Milad Mokarami, Fatemeh Habibi, Fatemeh Bamarinejad

“…Abstract Breast cancer (BC) remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women globally, highlighting the urgent need for more effective and targeted therapies. …”
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iTRAQ-Based Proteomic Analysis of Visual Cycle-Associated Proteins in RPE of rd12 Mice before and after RPE65 Gene Delivery by Qinxiang Zheng, Yueping Ren, Radouil Tzekov, Shanshan Hua, Minghan Li, Jijing Pang, Jia Qu, Wensheng Li

“…The proteomics analysis identified a total 536 proteins with a global false discovery rate of 0.21%, out of which 7 were visual cycle-associated proteins. …”
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