Pro-inflammatory effects of inhaled Great Salt Lake dust particles by Jacob M. Cowley, Cassandra E. Deering-Rice, John G. Lamb, Erin G. Romero, Marysol Almestica-Roberts, Samantha N. Serna, Lili Sun, Kerry E. Kelly, Ross T. Whitaker, Jenna Cheminant, Alessandro Venosa, Christopher A. Reilly

“…Great Salt Lake sediment and derived PM< 3.1 (quasi-PM2.5 or qPM2.5) contained metals/salts, natural and anthropogenic chemicals, and bacteria. …”
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Silent witnesses: unveiling the epidemic of femicides in North-west Tshwane, South Africa – a decade of analysis by Yaseen Bismilla, K. K. Hlaise, C. Van Wyk

“…Excluded were cases classified as suicides, accidents, or natural deaths after further examination. Data was collected through the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System (NIMSS) and cross-verified with post-mortem reports, police data and death registers. …”
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Identification of most motivating resource for estimation of social hierarchy in water buffaloes by Sunil Dutt, M.L. Kamboj

“… Buffaloes are social animals and live in herds in natural settings. Under husbandry conditions, they are loosely housed in groups to allow them to express social behavior. …”
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Analyzing Iran's Legislative Criminal Policy in Dealing with Environmental Terrorism, Emphasizing the Need for Criminalization and Preventive Measures by behrouz sepehri, Nourooz Kargari, mohammad ashouri, ghassem ghassemi

“…Introduction: environmental security, is a necessary condition for the health and continuity of human life on earth and due to the vital, widespread and inevitable dependence of humans on the environment, if the environmental security is taken away and it is removed from the possibility of healthy living, as a result of the goal or the means of placing the environment, following environmental terrorism, with various methods such as polluting the natural and man-made environment with dangerous substances, extensive and irreparable damage is caused to human life and health And often, the most obvious effects of damage to the safety and health of the environment appear in the form of epidemics, and on the other hand, the cross-border effects of such actions and the possibility of transferring the said effects from through the flow of air or water or the carriers of disease agents to countries and regions beyond the place of the accident, and the possibility of spreading some of these effects on the life and health of future generations, reveals the seriousness of the danger of environmental terrorism, hence, The purpose of this thesis is to explain the vital necessity of legal, technical and specialized contrast, against environmental terrorism in the form of an efficient criminal policy with international interaction, with emphasizing the extent and irreparability of the effects caused by environmental terrorism, and the necessity and importance of preventive measures.Materials and Methods:  In terms of the goal, the current research will cause expansion the legal theories and doctrine and complete the previous theories with the fundamental method of the research results, and also with the practical approach, effective practical solutions to deal with environmental terrorism will be presented, and on the other hand, the materials and information used in the research, They are collected with the library method and after collecting and categorizing the materials and information, with the descriptive-analytical method, the findings and the collected materials are analyzed logically and legally and they are used as the basis of citation to strengthen the approach of the researcher in the relevant subject.Results: In a comprehensive and efficient criminal policy to contrast against environmental terrorism, in addition to criminalizing this criminal phenomenon along with the real conceptology and in addition to recognizing its specific elements, it is expected that with the necessary criminal measures, specialized measures will be taken to identify and criminalize behaviors that it has a preliminary aspect to dangerous crimes, and it is possible that environmental terrorism is also committed through them, and therefore, in order to prevent this criminal phenomenon, criminalize such behaviors in the form of obstruction crimes seems necessary.Discussion: In Iran's criminal system, environmental terrorism has not been considered as an independent criminal behavior, with specific elements and specific conditions, However, due to the inherent of the behaviors related to environmental terrorism, this type of terrorism is inherently reprehensible, and as a rule, it can be included in various legal elements in the criminal laws, and on the other hand, due to the analogy of some elements of this criminal phenomenon with the destruction of the earth, According to jurisprudence, significant examples of environmental terrorism behaviors can be considered as examples of corruption in the land subject to Article 286 of the Islamic Penal Code (approved in 2012). …”
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The water quality of the Upper Citarum: Applying the overall index of pollution, Said-WQI, and pollution index methods by Mariana Marselina, Nurul Aulia Rahmi, Siti Ai Nurhayati

“…Water is a crucial natural resource, integral to sustaining human life and environmental equilibrium. …”
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Efficacy of total transanal laparoscopic pull‑through and pure transanal endorectal pull‑through in the treatment of common‑type Hirschsprung disease by Guizhen Huang, Wenqian Huang, Chi Sun, Meng Li, Chaosheng He, Yi Su, Weili Xu, Suolin Li

“…Improvements in laparoscopic skills among pediatric surgeons, along with technological advancements, have led to the widespread use of the natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) technique; however, reports on long-term outcomes and high-quality follow-up data on anorectal manometry in patients treated with this approach are scarce. …”
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GrB-Fc-KS49, an anti-EMP2 granzyme B fusion protein therapeutic alters immune cell infiltration and suppresses breast cancer growth by Ana Alvarez de Cienfuegos, Lawrence H Cheung, Khalid A Mohamedali, Michael G Rosenblum, Brian Aguirre, Cheng-Hsiang Lu, Anubhav Chandla, Nidhi Kejriwal, Lucia Liu, Ann M Chan, SuYin Kok, Sergio Duarte, David Casero, Madhuri Wadehra

“…Background Granzyme B (GrB) is a key effector molecule, delivered by cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural killer cells during immune surveillance to induce cell death. …”
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Perancangan Aplikasi Tanggap Api Berbasis Android Menggunakan Metode Design Sprint by Agus Tedyyana, Muhammad Fauzi, Depandi Enda, Fajar Ratnawati, Elgamar Syam

“…Abstract Indonesia is a country that is vulnerable to the threat of disasters related to climate and natural phenomena such as landslides, forest fires, floods to drought. …”
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The Impact of Simulated Education and Training on Undergraduate Students&rsquo; Disaster Evacuation Competencies by Hawsawi S, Al Thobaity A, Saleh MSM

“…Sumayyah Hawsawi,1 Abdulellah Al Thobaity,2 Manal Saleh Moustafa Saleh3,4 1Nursing Department, Al Noor Hospital, Makkah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, College of Nursing; Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia; 3Nursing Department, College of Applied Medical Science, Shaqra University, Shaqra, Saudi Arabia; 4Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Alsharqia, EgyptCorrespondence: Abdulellah Al Thobaity; Manal Saleh Moustafa Saleh, Email Abdulellah.althobaity@hotmail.com; manalmoustafa954@gmail.comBackground: The occurrence of disasters in the world is natural, but we must learn how to deal with their occurrence and mitigate their impact on people and property. …”
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Setup of a densely distributed and quality-controlled meteorological sensor network in Pune, India, for urban microclimate research and citizen participation in the context of clim... by N. Eingrüber, W. Korres, U. Löhnert, K. Schneider

“…To better understand differences in the natural and social environment and their effects upon climate adaptation strategies in humid and monsoon-driven climates, a densely distributed meteorological sensor network was established in an urban high-density neighbourhood in Pune, India, in 2023 for continuous long-term data collection (12 stations, 59 sensors) following the prototype network installed in the city of Cologne, Germany, in 2021 (14 stations, 58 sensors). …”
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Capital formation and production of carbon emissions in low-carbon development by E.S. Siregar, S.U. Sentosa, A. Satrianto

“…Low carbon development is a new platform to maintain economic growth through reducing carbon emissions and reducing the use of natural resources, because it was predicted that reducing emissions will increase economic growth while preventing forest loss, improving air quality and living standards, and reducing mortality rates.METHODS: Utilizing a quantitative method, this study integrates a novel viewpoint by combining low-carbon development with related emission factors. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF THE REGION'S INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT AND POLICY INSTRUMENTS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ITS INVESTMENT POTENTIAL IN WARTIME by Ruslan Boiko, Roman Martsenyuk, Arsen Protsykevych

“…It is substantiated that effective instruments of regional investment policy in the context of critical instability are: military risk insurance and diversification; use of concession agreements; private and public investments in the defence industry and critical infrastructure industries/sectors (energy, transport and logistics, medicine and pharmaceuticals, natural resources); support for innovative and technological startups in the areas of security, the real economy and infrastructure; stimulation of investments in human resources; support for investments in business projects of demobilised persons, war veterans and other combatants; encouragement of investments in the development of export potential to maintain the country's financial security.…”
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A Scenario for Origin of Global 4 mHz Oscillations in Solar Corona by Li Xue, Chengliang Jiao, Lixin Zhang

“…This result is consistent with global observations of Alfvénic waves in corona and can naturally explain the observational ubiquity of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>4</mn><mspace width="2pt"></mspace><mi>mHz</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> without the difficulty of the <i>p</i>-mode passing through the acoustic-damping chromosphere. …”
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Global assessment of leukemia care quality: insights from the quality of care index (QCI) from 1990 to 2021Research in context by Yuzhe Pan, Qian Liu, Nan Zhang, Shuang Peng, Xinqi Li, Fuling Zhou

“…Funding: This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program) (No. 82370176) and the Key Research and Development Program of Hubei Province (No. …”
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High clinical burden of classical homocystinuria in the United States: a retrospective analysis by Mahim Jain, Mehul Shah, Kamlesh M. Thakker, Andrew Rava, Agnes Pelts Block, Colette Ndiba-Markey, Lionel Pinto

“…Patients who had 1 or more International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision code for homocystinuria (E72.11) or the signs, disease, and symptoms term homocystinuria in the natural language processing dataset were included. …”
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Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Contribution of Proxabrushes with Regular Toothbrushes and Only Regular Toothbrushes to the Oral Health of Thai Elderly by Orachad Gururatana, Warangkana Vejvithee, Narisa Ekpatcha

“…A total of 510 elderly with at least 20 natural teeth and interdental spaces were randomized (test n = 255; control n = 255), and 35 were excluded from analysis because of early drop out leaving 239 in the test group and 236 in the control group. …”
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UPLC-ESI-MS/MS Profile and Antioxidant, Cytotoxic, Antidiabetic, and Antiobesity Activities of the Aqueous Extracts of Three Different Hibiscus Species by Hanan M. Al-Yousef, Wafaa H. B. Hassan, Sahar Abdelaziz, Musarat Amina, Rasha Adel, May A. El-Sayed

“…Hibiscus deflersii aqueous extract might be a hopeful origin of functional constituents with anticancer (on A-549 cell line), antidiabetic, and antiobesity activities. It might be a natural alternative remedy and nutritional policy for diabetes and obesity treatment without negative side effects. …”
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Degassing at the Volcanic/Geothermal System of Kos (Greece): Geochemical Characterization of the Released Gases and CO2 Output Estimation by Kyriaki Daskalopoulou, Antonina Lisa Gagliano, Sergio Calabrese, Lorenza Li Vigni, Manfredi Longo, Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos, Giovannella Pecoraino, Walter D’Alessandro

“…Forty-five gas samples have been collected from natural gas manifestations at the island of Kos—the majority of which are found underwater along the southern coast of the island. …”
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MECHANISMS FOR ENSURING THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS THROUGH THE FORMATION OF THEIR ENERGY DEPENDENCE BASED ON THE INTENSIFICATION OF BIOFUEL PRODUCTION by Yuliia Okhota, Denys Titov, Svitlana Dotsiuk

“…The study analyses international experience in the development of the bioenergy sector and its adaptation to Ukrainian conditions, taking into account the natural and economic characteristics of rural areas. …”
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Characterization and Spatial Distribution of Sand Group Architecture and Channel Types in Tight Gas Reservoirs: A Case Study From the Jurassic Shaximiao Formation of the Jinqiu Gas... by Guian Guo, Deyu Zhu, Xiaojuan Wang, Mingqiu Li, Xu Guan, Xiaoju Zhang, Changjiang Wu, Shaomin Zhang, Li Hu, Juan Zhao, Nan Li, Huiqiang Wang, Bohan Duan

“…There is a high content of natural gas in Types A and B of sandstones, with a daily gas production of 29.16×104–47.6×104 m3/day and pressure coefficients of 0.72–1.08. …”
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