Water‐Triggered Reconfigurable Glycerogels for Sustainable All‐Gel Supercapacitors by Md. Tariful Islam Mredha, Adith Varma Rama Varma, Tanish Gupta, Insu Jeon

“…Moreover, following self‐healing and rebuilding, the capacitance remains at 91% and 110% (at 0.35 mA cm−2) of the original value, respectively. This generalized strategy for preparing multifunctional reconfigurable gels will facilitate the development of high‐performance flexible and wearable devices with improved durability and recyclability.…”
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Double Security Level Protection Based on Chaotic Maps and SVD for Medical Images by Conghuan Ye, Shenglong Tan, Jun Wang, Li Shi, Qiankun Zuo, Bing Xiong

“…In this study, SVD is used for watermarking and encryption in the DWT domain. The main originality is that decryption and watermark extraction can be performed separately. …”
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FUNERARY TOWERS CHULLPA IN THE LAUCA RIVER VALLEY: A FIRST ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL ANALYSIS by A. Gangui

“…Given the lack of written information or other forms of original documentation, in order to affirm the use of a systematic orientation, it is necessary to measure a statistically significant number of monuments. …”
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Designing a multi-period multi-stage supply chain network under uncertainty by Maryam Hemmati, Masoud Rabbani, Mohammad Reza Mehregan

“…The results of the first iteration provide us with better answers compared to the other iterations.Originality/Value: This research can be considered as one of the first optimization papers that presented a multi-level and multi-product-multi-period supply chain with uncertainty in the parameters in the dairy and pharmaceutical industries and the environmental costs of production and transportation and sustainable social costs such as reported accidents and incidents, job satisfaction, safety, reduction of dispatch time and lost working days simultaneously with the economic dimension in management-related decisions. …”
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Effect of biogenic polyamines on sliding motility of mycobacteria in the presence of antibiotics by I. V. Tsyganov, A. G. Tkachenko

“…Sliding is a process of passive movement on the surface of semi-liquid mediums which was originally described for mycobacteria and other bacterial species deprived of the organelles specialized for movement. …”
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Feasibility Assessment and Implementation of Integrated Management of The West Coast of The Mazandran Province According to the ICZM by Habibeh Karimi, Khatereh Bagherzadeh Asl, Samira Torabi

“…Furthermore, the successful implementation of ICZM requires more attention to the social and economic conditions of the Caspian littoral states. Originality/Value: We study the characteristics of the west coast of Mazandaran province based on important ecosystems and parameters such as industrial pollutants, soil type, vegetation (sea and land), wildlife, geology, and marine topics (water fluctuations, wave characteristics, etc.) …”
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The Application of Advanced Bone Imaging Technologies in Sports Medicine by Samuel S. Tadros, Scott Epsley, Sameer Mehta, Brandon C. Jones, Hiran I. Rajapakse, Rashad Madi, Austin Alecxih, Daniel Kargilis, Chamith S. Rajapakse

“…Several novel bone imaging techniques originally developed for osteoporosis assessment have great potential to be utilized to improve the standard of care in bone fracture risk assessment and healing in sports medicine with much greater precision and less adverse radiation exposure.…”
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The Economic Succession Doctrine in Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law: 'Nothing Extraordinary' After Skanska Industrial? by Marco Botta

“…The article first discusses the origins of the economic succession doctrine, which derives from the broad concept of “undertaking” developed by the CJEU case law and the so-called “single economic entity” doctrine. …”
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PHILOSOPHY OF WAR AND PEACE: IN SEARCH OF NEW EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGY by O. O. Bazaluk, D. B. Svyrydenko

“…The research is going to perform precious conceptualization of the strategy contours initiated at the previous publications of O. Bazaluk. Originality. Authors defined the series “fatal” mistakes of the European Security Strategy and formulated the list of objectives of the revised security strategy. …”
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Higher Environmental Education in Japan: Social Mission and National Peculiarities by Yu. L. Mazurov, A. I. Bancheva

“…In this regard, the original Japanese practice of higher environmental education is of undoubted interest for other countries of the world including  Russia.…”
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COMMUNICATION LEVELS OF THE INDIVIDUAL by V. M. Rubskyi

“…The correlation of these philosophical positions reveals the inconsistency of materialistic reduction in anthropology. Originality. The author identifies four levels of communication: background, obstacle, function and dialogue. …”
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Board Gender Diversity and Risk Management in Corporate Financing: A Study on Debt Structure and Financial Decision-Making by Davood Askarany, Soleil Jafari, Azam Pouryousof, Sona Habibi, Hassan Yazdifar

“…Additionally, the findings demonstrate that board compensation moderates this relationship by curbing managerial risk-taking, further improving financial decision-making. <b>Originality/Value:</b> This research provides novel insights into the intersection of board gender diversity and risk management in financial decision-making, particularly in the context of a developing economy like Iran. …”
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Finite-Element-Based Time-Dependent Service Life Prediction for Carbonated Reinforced Concrete Aqueducts by Lan Zhang, Ri-Sheng He, Long-Wen Zhang, Yan-Ye Chen

“…Point estimation is then integrated with structural finite element analysis to calculate the first four moments of random variables as functions of concrete carbonation. Additionally, the original performance function is transformed into a normal distribution using dual power transformation and the Jarque–Bera test. …”
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Evaluating the representativeness of the bentgrass (Agrostis L.) gene pool collected across the Russian Federation and neighboring countries in the VIR collection by L. L. Malyshev

“…., and A. tenuis Sibth. by cultivars and breeding material of foreign origin. The representativeness of the gene pool and the distribution of germplasm collecting sites over the territory of the ex-USSR have been evaluated, and the species diversity has been analyzed within the collection. …”
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Variation in Illipe Nut's Fat Yield of Tengkawang-producing Shorea from Several Provenances and Land Races by Budi Leksono, Lukman Hakim

“…S.macrophylla, S. gysbertsiana, S. stenoptera, S. pinanga) originated from 4 provenances and land races (Gunung BungaWest Kalimantan, Sungai Runtin-West Kalimantan, Bukit Baka-Central Kalimantan, and Haurbentes-West Java). …”
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CRITERIA OF THE CULTIVAR MODEL AND INTERRELATIONS AMONG ECONOMICALLY USEFUL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHAENOMELES IN CONNECTION WITH BREEDING by L. D. Komar-Tyomnaya

“…The strongest relationships was found between the beginning of flowering and its duration (r = –0.9), between the beginning of flowering and the duration of the dormancy period (r = 0.91), between the durations of flowering and dormancy periods (r = –0.82), between the corolla diameter, the flower’s originality (r = 0.83) and the overall ornamentality of the bush (r = 0.86). …”
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Investigation of Permeability Behavior of Sandy Soils Mixed with Industrial Waste by Baki Bağrıaçık, Esra Deniz Güner

“…The useful reuse of these industrial wastes will contribute to the economic development of the organizations and the country by reducing environmental pollution, reducing storage costs, reducing the use of limited natural resources and providing new generation materials. The geological origins of the ground and rock environments on which the structure is constructed have a very variable structure and different types of geological materials require different solutions in terms of design. …”
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Chaotic evolutionary multi-objective optimization for multivariate pair trading in tehran stock exchange: the distance approach by Hossein Nikoo, Jamal Barzgari khanagha, Hamid Reza Mirzaei

“…In addition, these results indicate the superiority of the multi-objective pair trading strategy based on the distance approach over the traditional single-objective model.Originality/Value: In order to optimize pair trading, the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm was used. …”
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Supergraph Topology Feature Index for Personalized Interesting Subgraph Query in Large Labeled Graphs by Xiaohuan Shan, Haihai Li, Chunjie Jia, Dong Li, Baoyan Song

“…Then, an auxiliary data structure Supergraph Topology Feature Index (STFIndex) is designed to replace the storage of the original data graph and improve the efficiency of an online query. …”
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An effective framework for strange metallic transport by Benoît Douçot, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Giuseppe Policastro, Sutapa Samanta, Hareram Swain

“…Abstract Semi-holography, originally proposed as a model for conducting lattice electrons coupled to a holographic critical sector, leads to an effective theory of non-Fermi liquids with only a few relevant interactions on the Fermi surface in the large N limit. …”
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