Regional-Scale Ozone Deposition to North-East Atlantic Waters by L. Coleman, S. Varghese, O. P. Tripathi, S. G. Jennings, C. D. O'Dowd

“…A potentially significant ozone-driven flux of iodine to the atmosphere is estimated to be in the range of 2.5–500 M molec cm−2  s−1, leading to a mixing-layer enhancement of organo-iodine concentrations of 0.1–22.0 ppt, with an average increase in the N.E. …”
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Efficient Gated Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks for Real-Time Speech Enhancement by Fazal-E -Wahab, Zhongfu Ye, Nasir Saleem, Hamza Ali, Imad Ali

“…With the LibriSpeech dataset, the experiments show that the proposed real-time approach leads to improved objective perceptual quality and intelligibility with much fewer trainable parameters than existing LSTM and GRU models. …”
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Metalloproteinases and their Inhibitors under the Course of Immunostimulation by CPG-ODN and Specific Antigen Inhalation in Equine Asthma by Ann Kristin Barton, Tarek Shety, John Klier, Sabine Geis, Ralf Einspanier, Heidrun Gehlen

“…In equine asthma, overexpression of MMPs contributes to pathological tissue destruction, while TIMPs counteract MMPs with overexpression leading to fibrosis formation. The results of this study show that CpG-ODN inhalation may be an effective therapy to address a misbalance in equine asthma. …”
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Linking organisational life cycle models to church’s dual nature for effective management by Osward Sichula, Patrick Nanthambwe, Vhumani Magezi

“…Traditionally, the church has been viewed through dichotomous lenses as either a purely spiritual organism or a physical organisation, often leading to gaps in management practices. This article addresses the critical question: how can the church’s spiritual and physical dimensions be effectively integrated into governance and management practices, particularly for newly established and growing churches? …”
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The Real-Time Prediction of Cracks and Wrinkles in Sheet Metal Forming According to Changes in Shape and Position of Drawbeads Based on a Digital Twin by Sarang Yi, Daeil Hyun, Seokmoo Hong

“…The application of drawbeads often relies on the experience of field workers, leading to considerable trial and error before stabilizing the production process. …”
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Research on Bogie Frame Lateral Instability of High-Speed Railway Vehicle by Chen Wang, Shihui Luo, Ziqiang Xu, Chang Gao, Weihua Ma

“…With the tread-concave wear being aggravated, the equivalent conicity of wheel-rail matching constantly increases, which leads to the bogie frame lateral instability and then the frame instability alarm.…”
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A Multi-Source Domain Adaptation Method for Bearing Fault Diagnosis with Dynamically Similarity Guidance on Incomplete Data by Juan Tian, Shun Zhang, Gang Xie, Hui Shi

“…In actual industrial scenarios, collecting a complete dataset with all fault categories under the same conditions is challenging, leading to a loss in fault category knowledge in single-source domains. …”
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Apigenin is an anoikis sensitizer with strong anti-metastatic properties in experimental breast cancer by Ruijie Xu, Zhijie Yao, Hao Zhang, Haitao Li, Wei Chen

“…In this study, we have conducted a rationalized screening to search for novel leading anoikis sensitizer from daily foods. Among 19 tested dietary phytochemicals, the best results were obtained with apigenin, a natural component of celery. …”
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Treatment gap for mental and behavioral disorders in Punjab by Rohit Garg, Bir Singh Chavan, Subhash Das, Sonia Puri, Arvind A. Banavaram, Vivek Benegal, Girish N. Rao, Mathew Varghese, Gopalkrishna Gururaj

“…Many attitudinal, structural, and other barriers leading to high treatment gaps were identified during FGDs in the community, such as stigma, poor knowledge about mental health, deficiency of psychiatrists, and distance from the hospital. …”
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Lee Silverman Voice Treatment to Improve Speech in Parkinson’s Disease: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis by Tingting Pu, Min Huang, Xiangyu Kong, Meng Wang, Xiangling Chen, Xixi Feng, Changyou Wei, Xiechuan Weng, Fan Xu

“…Speech changes occur in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and cause communication difficulties, leading to social isolation. Lee Silverman voice treatment (LSVT) is a speech therapy approach designed to improve patients’ language and voice capabilities. …”
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Removal of microplastics by algal biomass from aqueous solutions: performance, optimization, and modeling by Fatemeh Lotfigolsefidi, Mojtaba Davoudi, Maryam Sarkhosh, Ziaeddin Bonyadi

“…Data analysis indicated that QM best described the experimental findings, leading to the identification of optimal conditions for PS removal: a pH of 7.5, a reaction time of 31.90 min, a C. vulgaris dosage of 274.05 mg/L, and a PS level of 789.37 mg/L. …”
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University proceedings. Volga region. Natural sciences by E.G. Khudonogova, T.A. Khusheyeva

“…The optimal time for sowing Calendula seeds, in the conditions of the Cis-Baikal region, is the beginning of May (May 1–11), later sowing of seeds (May 20) leads to late flowering of plants, a delay in the opening of buds and a decrease in the yield of raw inflorescences. …”

Calorie Restriction with a High-Fat Diet Effectively Attenuated Inflammatory Response and Oxidative Stress-Related Markers in Obese Tissues of the High Diet Fed Rats by Seungae Park, Na-Young Park, Giuseppe Valacchi, Yunsook Lim

“…Obesity characterized by increased mass of adipose tissue leads to systemic inflammation. Calorie restriction (CR) improves parameters associated with immune response and antioxidant defense. …”
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Quantum-Ordering Ambiguities in Weak Chern—Simons 4D Gravity and Metastability of the Condensate-Induced Inflation by Panagiotis Dorlis, Nick E. Mavromatos, Sotirios-Neilos Vlachos

“…Inflation in such models is caused by primordial-gravitational-waves(GW)-induced condensation of the gCS terms, which leads to a linear-axion potential. We demonstrate that this inflationary phase may be metastable, due to the existence of imaginary parts of the gCS condensate. …”
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ACTIVITIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST QUARTET AND ITS PARTICIPANTS TO ACHIEVE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SETTLEMEN WITHIN THE ROAD MAP PROJECT (2003 – 2008) by I. A. Leshchenya

“…Quartet's activities to implement the settlement plan couldn't avoid the influence by the United States and a special character of the US-Israeli relations. The US leading role in the work of the Quartet led to a series of events which aggravated the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and became decisive for further development of the conflict which in the end led to the current stalemate. …”
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Pore Space Reconstruction of Shale Using Improved Variational Autoencoders by Yi Du, Hongyan Tu, Ting Zhang

“…Shale is a type of complex porous medium with evident fluctuations in various mineral compositions, dense structure, and low hardness, leading to a big challenge for the characterization and acquisition of the internal shale structure. …”
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Experimental Validation of Virtual Torque Sensing for Wind Turbine Gearboxes Based on Strain Measurements by Jelle Bosmans, Simone Gallas, Victor Smeets, Matteo Kirchner, Luk Geens, Jan Croes, Wim Desmet

“…Monitoring the torque paves the way for the calculation of remaining useful lifetime, leading to cost reductions through improved reliability and maintenance planning. …”
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Study on the influence of secondary aging on the flow behavior and self-healing performance of asphalt mastic by Yu Wang, Yao Zhang, Bo Li, Aihong Kang, Changjiang Kou

“…However, SBS modifier will also inhibit the flow behavior of asphalt due to its complex three-dimensional spatial structure, leading to a decrease in flow behavior index from 0.967 for unaged base asphalt to 0.672 for SBS modified asphalt, respectively. …”
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Mental health services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in high-income countries: protocol for a rapid review by Yu Fu, Dawn Craig, Ge Yu

“…The care and level of mental health service provided are felt to be inadequate to respond to the increasing demand for mental health conditions in the time of the pandemic, leading to an urgent need to learn from service change and consequences to inform solutions and plans to support the NHS postpandemic plan in the UK. …”
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Availability of caregiver-friendly workplace policies (CFWPs): an updated international scoping review protocol by Allison Williams, Reed Ciarloni

“…It is expected that this scoping review will provide: valuable insights on how broader social and cultural issues shape CFWPs; identification of leading workplaces that provide CFWPs, as well as; labour sectors that require improvement. …”
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