Why do countries engage in the preferential trade agreement network? by Flavia Rovira, Marcel Vaillant

“…The first is related to natural trade cost and market size. The second group is related to political economy effects. …”
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Coupled Electrokinetics-Adsorption Technique for Simultaneous Removal of Heavy Metals and Organics from Saline-Sodic Soil by Salihu Lukman, Mohammed Hussain Essa, Nuhu Dalhat Mu'azu, Alaadin Bukhari

“…In this study, an integrated in situ remediation technique that couples electrokinetics with adsorption, using locally produced granular activated carbon from date palm pits in the treatment zones that are installed directly to bracket the contaminated soils at bench-scale, is investigated. Natural saline-sodic soil, spiked with contaminant mixture (kerosene, phenol, Cr, Cd, Cu, Zn, Pb, and Hg), was used in this study to investigate the efficiency of contaminant removal. …”
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Atmospheric Deposition: Sampling Procedures, Analytical Methods, and Main Recent Findings from the Scientific Literature by M. Amodio, S. Catino, P. R. Dambruoso, G. de Gennaro, A. Di Gilio, P. Giungato, E. Laiola, A. Marzocca, A. Mazzone, A. Sardaro, M. Tutino

“…The atmosphere is a carrier on which some natural and anthropogenic organic and inorganic chemicals are transported, and the wet and dry deposition events are the most important processes that remove those chemicals, depositing it on soil and water. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Flooding Process on Downstream Structure by Three-dimensional Dam-break Wave by YU Ruixing, LIN Qin, HE Shiming, ZHENG Yipeng, ZHENG Kaiyuan

“…Dam break caused by natural disasters, such as heavy rainfall, poses a potential threat to the safety of downstream structures. …”
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Metalloproteinase Inhibitors: Status and Scope from Marine Organisms by Noel Vinay Thomas, Se-Kwon Kim

“…In this process, screening of natural products from marine organisms that could potentially inhibit the expression of metalloproteinases has gained a huge popularity, which became a hot field of research in life sciences. …”
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Histological demonstration of gonad development in the banana shrimp, Fenneropenaeus merguiensis by Jirakanit Chimnual, Jirawat Saetan, Wilaiwan Chotigeat

“…Overall, these factors necessitate conservation of this shrimp species across its natural habitat. Information on the migration of primordial germ cells (PGCs) to form a gonad is essential for shrimp preservation techniques such as broodstock preparation, sex differentiation, and germ cell transplantation. …”
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Pregnancy by Yasemin Arikan, David R Burdge

“…It is essential that health care workers providing care to these women fully understand the natural history of HIV disease in pregnancy, the factors that affect vertical transmission and the management issues during pregnancy. …”
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Beauty Beyond the Golden Ratio: A Study of Perception Regarding Facial Proportions and Symmetry in the Turkish Population by Özlem Özgür, Leo Can Mazlum, Billur Sezgin Kızılok

“…Both left and right symmetrical faces were considered less attractive than natural asymmetrical faces. Conclusion: Standardized “golden” ratios are effective reference points for the perception of facial attractiveness although deviation from these proportions does not always imply that a face will not be perceived as attractive, as some degree of asymmetry also contributes to facial attractiveness and beauty.…”
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Loving and Healing a Hurt City: Planning a Green Monterrey Metropolitan Area by Rob Roggema, Igor Ishi Rubio Cisneros, Rodrigo Junco López, Paulina Ramirez Leal, Marina Ramirez Suarez, Miguel Ortiz Díaz

“…This approach reveals concrete and widespread pain in the metropolis, such as impacts on natural landscapes (rivers and mountains), air pollution, ecological degradation, and hydrological disconnections. …”
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L’accompagnement, source de création de savoirs by Catherine Canivet, Catherine Cuche, Jean Donnay

“…Par ailleurs, nous proposons que le travail d’accompagnateur, voire de compagnonnage réflexif, confine à celui de chercheur et peut créer (co-créer) des savoirs de natures différentes dont certains peuvent être reconnus par une certaine communauté scientifique. …”
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Seismic Response for Wave Propagation across Joints with Equally and Unequally Close-Open Behaviours by Qi Zhang, Zhengliang Li, Tao Yu

“…The interaction between rock joints and seismic waves is critical in rock engineering when rock mass is suffered from human-induced or natural earthquakes. Stress wave propagation across rock joints is usually dependent on the seismic response of the joints. …”
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Back-extraction of major actinides from organic phase through precipitation by Réaux-Durain, Julie, Mortada, Boushra, Bertrand, Murielle, Maynadié, Jérôme, Carboni, Michaël, Meyer, Daniel, Bourgeois, Damien

“…Recycling waste nuclear fuel through the production of mixed oxide (MOx) fuel allows for sustainable management of natural nuclear resources. With the aim of reducing the number of steps required for recycling U and Pu, the possibility of precipitating them directly from the organic phase (also referred to as precipitation stripping) using oxalic acid, is investigated herein. …”
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Speaking unplugged, or what to do to get ESL students chatting (from a teaching experience at a technical university) by Ekaterina N. Karakozova, Yuliya S. Perevezentseva

“…The results obtained, first of all, indicate the possibility of successfully regulating the balance of communicative activity in the classroom, which naturally reduces the time of speaking for the teacher and increases the time for developing and improving speaking skills for students. …”
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Survey of artificial intelligence data security and privacy protection by Kui REN, Quanrun MENG, Shoukun YAN, Zhan QIN

“…Artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms are developing rapidly.These emerging techniques have been widely used in audio and video recognition, natural language processing and other fields.However, in recent years, researchers have found that there are many security risks in the current mainstream artificial intelligence model, and these problems will limit the development of AI.Therefore, the data security and privacy protection was studied in AI.For data and privacy leakage, the model output based and model update based problem of data leakage were studied.In the model output based problem of data leakage, the principles and research status of model extraction attack, model inversion attack and membership inference attack were discussed.In the model update based problem of data leakage, how attackers steal private data in the process of distributed training was discussed.For data and privacy protection, three kinds of defense methods, namely model structure defense, information confusion defense and query control defense were studied.In summarize, the theoretical foundations, classic algorithms of data inference attack techniques were introduced.A few research efforts on the defense techniques were described in order to provoke further research efforts in this critical area.…”
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Blockchain-based digital copyright trading system by Li LI, Siqin ZHOU, Qin LIU, Debiao HE

“…In the current era of digitalization and networking,the demand for digital copyright transactions is increasing.The traditional centralized copyright protection system has series of problems such as high registration costs,long work acceptance times,and being vulnerable to tampering by saboteurs.Blockchain as a decentralized network structure and based on P2P network and cryptographic technology,which can establish trust relationship on the network by pure mathematics.Without relying on the middle platform,blockchain technology can naturally alleviate the above problems.With the help of self-regulatory,traceable and decentralized features of blockchain technology and digital copyright trading scenarios,a digital copyright trading system model was designed.The new system is based on the advanced permissioned blockchain provided by IBM.The implementation of copyright registration and copyright transaction can ensure the integrity and tamper-resistant of the information.Finally,the installation time of chain code deployment was tested.The results show that the system is simple to install and has low maintenance costs.Compared with the traditional trusted third party copyright authentication mechanism,the blockchain-based digital rights trading system has a short registration time,no registration fee,and better architecture security and scalability.…”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Restoration of Fertility at Experimental Pelvic Inflammatory Disease by Nataliia Volkova, Mariia Yukhta, Anatoliy Goltsev

“…Relative number of fertilized eggs in the group with cMSC therapy was higher by 40% compare to that in the control. Pregnancy rate in natural estrous cycle after cell administration increased by 20%, and average number of litters in this group was two times significantly higher than that in the control. …”
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From Methodological Authoritarianism to Epistemic Realism: Multidisciplinary Research Paradigms and the Post-modern Turn by Kizito Michael George

“…The paper analytically illuminated that postmodern epistemological ethos leads to the emergence of post-positivism in the natural sciences and interpretivism in the humanities and social sciences by propagating deconstructionist and emancipatory multi-disciplinary methodologies such as critical discourse analysis, phenomenological interpretation, critical race theory and critical gender theory. …”
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Interspecific hybridization and cell engineering of lettuce (<i>Lactuca</i> L.) by N. A. Zagnukhina, A. B. Kurina

“…Studying artificial hybridization and natural populations makes it possible to identify evolutionary relationships among various Lactuca spp. …”
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Nano-zeolite-modified concrete: A comprehensive study of mechanical properties, corrosion resistance, and microstructural of concrete under varied exposure conditions by Ahmed Elsayed Mohamed, Magdy Ali Abdelaziz, Ahmed Serag Farid, Khaled M. Osman

“…This study investigates the application of natural milling Nano Zeolite (NZ) on concrete, a crystalline aluminosilicate mineral with distinctive microporous structures, and the promotion of eco-friendly building endeavors. …”
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Blending ratio of recycled aggregate on the performance of pervious concrete by Yao Yanya

“…The results demonstrated that the 24-hour water absorption rate of the recycled coarse aggregate was 12 times higher than that of natural aggregate, the porosity of the pervious concrete was between 14.2% and 20.44%, and the permeability coefficient was between 0.19 cm and 0.46 cm and increased with the increase of the porosity. …”
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