Potential and challenges for an integrated management of tuberculosis, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension: A scoping review protocol. by Vitri Widyaningsih, Ratih Puspita Febrinasari, Victoria Sari, Clarissa Augustania, Bintang Verlita, Chatarina Wahyuni, Bachti Alisjahbana, Ailiana Santosa, Nawi Ng, Ari Probandari

“…We will remove duplicates and apply the inclusion and exclusion criteria to identify the set of papers for the review. …”
Get full text

Prevalence and dynamics of antimicrobial resistance in pioneer and developing Arctic soils by Shamik Roy, Robin A. Dawson, James A. Bradley, Marcela Hernández

“…We showed that ARGs, MGEs, and ARB are present, and exhibit a non-uniform distribution in the developing soils. …”
Get full text

Navigating the political minefield: strategies for online participation in a polarized society by Limor Ziv, Gal Yavetz

“…In this study, we explored political participation among young adults in Israel, with a particular focus on the impact of polarization on their engagement in online discourse. …”
Get full text

An Improved EMD-Based Dissimilarity Metric for Unsupervised Linear Subspace Learning by Xiangchun Yu, Zhezhou Yu, Wei Pang, Minghao Li, Lei Wu

“…We investigate a novel way of robust face image feature extraction by adopting the methods based on Unsupervised Linear Subspace Learning to extract a small number of good features. …”
Get full text

A randomized block policy gradient algorithm with differential privacy in Content Centric Networks by Lin Wang, Xingang Xu, Xuhui Zhao, Baozhu Li, Ruijuan Zheng, Qingtao Wu

“…To solve the privacy protection problem, we add a differential privacy protection mechanism to the algorithm, and we prove that it preserves the ε -privacy level. …”
Get full text

Video-based estimation of blood pressure. by Ananyananda Dasari, Laszlo A Jeni, Conrad S Tucker

“…In this work, we propose a non-contact video-based approach that estimates an individual's blood pressure. …”
Get full text

Introducing carbon assimilation in yeasts using photosynthetic directed endosymbiosis by Yang-le Gao, Jay Cournoyer, Bidhan C. De, Catherine L. Wallace, Alexander V. Ulanov, Michael R. La Frano, Angad P. Mehta

“…We demonstrate that the yeast/cyanobacteria chimera can be engineered to biosynthesize natural products under the photosynthetic conditions. …”
Get full text

Repellency of Essential Oils and Plant-Derived Compounds Against <i>Aedes aegypti</i> Mosquitoes by April D. Lopez, Sophie Whyms, Hailey A. Luker, Claudia J. Galvan, F. Omar Holguin, Immo A. Hansen

“…To expand on this study, we reanalyzed our GC–MS data to identify the short organic constituents of these oils. …”
Get full text

Storm-based distributed sampling system for multi-source stream environment by Wonhyeong Cho, Myeong-Seon Gil, Mi-Jung Choi, Yang-Sae Moon

“…We first present a multiple-coordinator structure to solve the coordinator bottleneck. …”
Get full text

Need for cognitive closure, political trust, and belief in conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic by Alexander Jedinger, Lena Masch

“…In contrast, we expect that individuals high in cognitive closure and political trust are more likely to disregard conspiracies surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodTo test our preregistered hypotheses, we rely on data from multiple waves of a representative survey among the German population (N = 2,883). …”
Get full text

Different Effects of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-2 on Myogenic Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Doaa Aboalola, Victor K. M. Han

“…In this study, we determined the roles of IGF-1 and IGF-2 and their interactions with IGFBP-6. …”
Get full text

Massive Spinning Relativistic Particle: Revisited under BRST and Supervariable Approaches by A. Tripathi, B. Chauhan, A. K. Rao, R. P. Malik

“…We discuss the continuous and infinitesimal gauge, supergauge, reparameterization, nilpotent Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST), and anti-BRST symmetries and derive corresponding nilpotent charges for the one 0+1-dimensional (1D) massive model of a spinning relativistic particle. …”
Get full text

Handover Management of Net-Drones for Future Internet Platforms by Kyung-Nam Park, Jin-Hyeok Kang, Byeong-Moon Cho, Kyung-Joon Park, Hwangnam Kim

“…The advent of the Internet of things (IoT) is changing the way how we interact with the physical world. However, the current Internet suffers from exponential increase in bandwidth demand. …”
Get full text

Expanding Network Analysis Tools in Psychological Networks: Minimal Spanning Trees, Participation Coefficients, and Motif Analysis Applied to a Network of 26 Psychological Attribut... by Srebrenka Letina, Tessa F. Blanken, Marie K. Deserno, Denny Borsboom

“…Applying the three methods, we arrive at several tentative conclusions. Trait Empathy is the most “central” attribute in the network. …”
Get full text

Missional insights on socio-political realities, religious vulnerability, and the choice of Barabbas by Ignatius W. Ferreira

“…Through a deep dive into the Jewish choice of Barabbas over Jesus, we seek to unravel the underlying dynamics. By examining the socio-political context of Roman occupation and Jewish societal pressures, we illuminate how these external factors influenced the religious vulnerability of the Jewish people. …”
Get full text

Numerical Solutions of Certain New Models of the Time-Fractional Gray-Scott by Sami Aljhani, Mohd Salmi Md Noorani, Khaled M. Saad, A. K. Alomari

“…We utilize the fractional homotopy analysis transformation method to obtain approximate solutions for the time-fractional Gray-Scott model. …”
Get full text

Synthetic Gene Drives in Plants: Development Strategies, Potential Applications, and Ethical Considerations by Yawen Liu, Bingke Jiao, Wenfeng Qian

“…ABSTRACT We are facing significant agricultural and environmental challenges, including herbicide‐resistant weeds that compromise crop yields and invasive plant species that disrupt local ecosystems. …”
Get full text

Attentional Capture and Inhibition of Saccades after Irrelevant and Relevant Cues by Heinz-Werner Priess, Nils Heise, Florian Fischmeister, Sabine Born, Herbert Bauer, Ulrich Ansorge

“…We recorded saccadic inhibition after relevant and irrelevant stimuli. …”
Get full text

Study of 1D Strange Charmed Meson Family Using HQET by Pallavi Gupta, A. Upadhyay

“…We study its decay modes variation with hadronic coupling constant gxh and the mixing angle θ. …”
Get full text

A Direct Approach Based on C2-IULOWA Operator for Group Decision Making with Uncertain Additive Linguistic Preference Relations by Ding-Hong Peng, Zhi-Fang Gao, Chang-Yuan Gao, Hua Wang

“…With respect to group decision making (GDM) problem with uncertain additive linguistic preference relations (UALPRs), we investigate the efficient aggregation of the uncertain additive linguistic preference information. …”
Get full text