ASSESSMENT OF EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF INACTIVATED RABIES VACCINES BASED ON “ARRIAH” STRAIN AND FORMULATED WITH DIFFERENT ADJUVANTS IN CATTLE by A. N. Balashov, D. A. Lozovoy, A. V. Borisov, D. V. Mikhalishin, M. I. Doronin

“…Wild carnivores contacting with domestic and farm animals and transmitting the pathogen to them are the main source and natural reservoirs of rabies. The highest level of rabies incidence in livestock is observed among cattle. …”
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Soilscapes from Byers Peninsula, Maritime Antarctic: landform-lithology controls in soil formation by JÔNATAS PEDRO DA SILVA, MÁRCIO R. FRANCELINO, ANDRÉ LUIZ L. DE FARIA, HEITOR P. PALMA, ISABELLE DE A. OLIVEIRA, JOSÉ JOÃO L.L. DE SOUZA, CARLOS ERNESTO G.R. SCHAEFER

“…Abstract The Byers Peninsula, the largest ice-free area in Maritime Antarctica, is vital for studying landscape-scale natural processes due to its diverse periglacial landforms. …”
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Transdisciplinariedad: método y política. Un viaje en primera persona desde la filosofía by Carlos López

“…En lugar de un rechazo del ejercicio disciplinario, aquí se propone una actitud que saca partido de ese ejercicio, primero, revisando sus objetos, procedimientos, fundamentos y valoraciones, segundo, evitando las discusiones con las perspectivas multi- e inter- disciplinarias en torno al modo en que las disciplinas deben asociarse, por último, rechazando la búsqueda, más allá de todos los saberes, de una plataforma cognitiva natural o social que sería común a cualquier tipo de conocimiento. …”
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Regulatory T cell suppressive potency dictates the balance between bacterial proliferation and clearance during persistent Salmonella infection. by Tanner M Johanns, James M Ertelt, Jared H Rowe, Sing Sing Way

“…Herein, virulent Salmonella was used to explore the role and potential importance of Foxp3-expressing regulatory T cells in dictating the natural progression of persistent bacterial infection. …”
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Multi-material and multi-scale platform for robotic based in situ bioprinting by Andrea Guerra, Gabriele Maria Fortunato, Elisa Batoni, Giovanni Vozzi, Carmelo De Maria

“…This work aims to develop a robotic system capable of performing multi-material, multi-scale, and multi-tool in situ bioprinting, enabling the fabrication of constructs that recapitulate the complexity of natural tissues at different scales. Starting from a previously developed robotic platform, namely IMAGObot (a 5 Degree of Freedom robotic manipulator), new printing tools were integrated with a new automatic tool-change to allow for fully automated multi-tool printing. …”
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Reentry Capsule Reachable Tube Boundary Prediction via Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization by Wen Zou, Zhanxin Cui, Genghui Li, Zhiwei Feng, Zhenkun Wang, Qingyu Gao, Qingbin Zhang, Tao Yang

“…To address this issue, this paper introduces a novel tube prediction scheme by leveraging the natural geometric characteristics of the reachable tube and employing a multiobjective optimization strategy. …”
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Experimental Study on Frost Heave Behavior of Steel Fiber Improved Soil by Rongjian Shi, Feng Huang, Fengtian Yue, Zequn Hong, Yichen Li

“…The incorporation of steel fibers into the natural soil is generally considered to be a novel and effective way to reduce the amount of frost heave induced by an artificial freezing process in underground engineering. …”
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Arsenic leakage crisis in supply chain of battery storage materials: Water quality footprint of cobalt mining demands action by Anna C. Schomberg, Wolf von Tümpling, Ellen Kynast

“…Applying the water quality footprint method, we determined that 30–615 m3 of virtual dilution water per electric car would be needed to reduce arsenic pollution below natural background levels in a scenario that assumes that 49 % of the cobalt from the respective mine enters the production of battery materials aligning with recent global cobalt demand and use figures. …”
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Effect of Gelling Agent and Plant Growth Regulators on In Vitro Shooting and Rooting of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni by Ghizlane Bouaaza, Ouiam Chetto, Lhou Beniken, Laila Dziri, M’hamed Majji, Rachid Benkirane, Hamid Benyahia

“…This herb is a new source of natural sugar substitute, which makes it a valuable crop for the world. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of the Diversity of Fungal Secondary Metabolites and Their Emerging Applications in Healthcare and Environment by Khushbu Wadhwa, Neha Kapoor, Hardeep Kaur, Eman A. Abu-Seer, Mohd. Tariq, Sazada Siddiqui, Virendra Kumar Yadav, Parwiz Niazi, Pankaj Kumar, Saad Alghamdi

“…Fungi and their natural products, like secondary metabolites, have gained a huge demand in the last decade due to their increasing applications in healthcare, environmental cleanup, and biotechnology-based industries. …”
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GC-FID and Olfactometry-Assisted Assessment of Odors from Polymeric Foams under Normal and Repeated-Use Conditions by Alena Capíková, Daniela Tesařová, Josef Hlavaty, Adam Ekielski, Pawan Kumar Mishra

“…Additionally, repeated-use studies were done to understand the effect of prolonged usage/natural ageing on emitted odors from the foams. The samples were tested as per ČSN EN 13 725 (2005) and ISO 16000-6 (2011) criteria using GC-FID (gas chromatography-flame ionization detector) and olfactometry. …”
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Improving clinical care of patients in Nipah outbreaks: moving beyond ‘compassionate use’ by Md Zakiul Hassan, Amanda Rojek, Piero Olliaro, Peter Horby

“…With a high mortality rate, human-to-human transmission potential, and the widespread presence of Pteropus bats, the natural reservoir, NiV remains a significant epidemic threat. …”
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Terrestrial isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea) of Slovakia: an annotated checklist, new records, and bibliography by Andrej Mock, Karel Tajovský, Adrián Purkart, Ivan Hadrián Tuf

“…Carpathian elements are sparsely distributed within the mosaic of well-preserved natural forests. Hyloniscus mariae is likely the only surface-dwelling endemic species in the northern parts of the Carpathian range. …”
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Effects of environmental variability on population dynamics of golden carpet shell clam (Polititapes aureus) by José Manuel Parada, José Molares

“…A model was built to explain the natural mortality rate as function of temperature, salinity, fluorescence, and the condition factor. …”
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WILL TO TRUTH AND GENDER STUDIES by D. Y. Snitko, O. P. Varshavskyi

“…To achieve this purpose, the following tasks are solved: 1) to investigate the way in which philosophy constitutes itself; 2) to establish how the category of "sex" manifests, both in the natural and in the social contexts; 3) to determine the correlation of gender studies and philosophy. …”
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Comparison of colour properties in american walnut (Juglans nigra) wood coated with different surface finishes by Ümit Ayata

“… In this research, the colour characteristics [hue (ho) angle, yellow (b*) colour tone, lightness (L*), red (a*) colour tone, chroma (C*), ∆E*, ∆L*, ∆a*, ∆b*, ∆C*, and ∆H*] of surfaces treated with three distinct types of coatings [solvent-based yacht varnish, which has high hardness and is highly resistant to water, a waxy varnish formulated for interior and exterior wood coatings, consisting of a mixture of natural oils, waxes, and resins, and matte-glossy, solvent-based, acrylic resin-based stone varnish)] on American walnut (Juglans nigra L.) wood were examined and compared. …”
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FathomDEM: an improved global terrain map using a hybrid vision transformer model by Peter Uhe, Chris Lucas, Laurence Hawker, Malcolm Brine, Hamish Wilkinson, Anthony Cooper, Alex A Saoulis, James Savage, Christopher Sampson

“…The Earth’s terrain is linked to many physical processes, and gaining the most accurate representation is key to work in many sectors from engineering to natural hazards modeling and ecology. Existing global digital elevation models (DEMs) are widely used, however often suffer from systematic biases caused by trees, buildings and instrumentation error, ultimately limiting their effectiveness. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE RENAISSANCE’S ART OF MEMORY ON DESCARTES’ PHILOSOPHY by Gintautas Mažeikis

“…The same logical, Pythagorean, and cabbalistic principles of Lullism, however, became the basis for the art of memory of the Renaissance and for the natural magic of the Renaissance, which Descartes knew. …”
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Computational Modeling and Theoretical Calculations on the Interactions between Spermidine and Functional Monomer (Methacrylic Acid) in a Molecularly Imprinted Polymer by Yujie Huang, Qiujin Zhu

“…The optimized geometries at different template to functional monomer molar ratios, mode of bonding between template and functional monomer, changes in charge on natural bond orbital (NBO), and binding energy were analyzed. …”
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Movement of the South Russian Frontier in the 17th – First Half of the 19th Centuries as the Development of the “Wild Fields” by Valery V. Kanishchev, Yuri A. Mizis

“…The authors of the article made an attempt to clarify the concept of frontier, considering it not only in a civilizational sense, but also in a socio-natural context. Particular attention was paid to the movement of the frontier as the development of the “Dykoee Polee” [Rus: steppe, “Wild Fields”], a space not yet plowed by farmers. …”
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