Structural and Mineralogical Characterization of a Fossil Hydrothermal System Located at the Outermost Front of the Southern Apennines Fold-and-Thrust Belt by Paolo Fulignati, Fabrizio Agosta, Claudia Belviso, Giacomo Prosser, Antonio Lettino, Angela Vita Petrullo, Francesco Cavalcante

“…Stage 1 was produced by the circulation of fluids having low-pH conditions (pH ≈ 3-4) and relatively high-SO42- activity, as testified by the hydrothermal alteration mainly carried out by the alunite group minerals (particularly jarosite), which is typical of an advanced argillic alteration facies. …”
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Systemic immune response at gastroesophageal reflux disease by Yu. V. Yevsyutina, A. S. Trukhmanov, V. T. Ivashkin, S. V. Lyamina, I. Yu. Malyshev

“…High level of IL-8 was associated with increased frequency of relapses of erosive esophagitis within 2 years, despite of carried out therapy.Conclusions. Relation of cytokine levels to the form of GERD was revealed. …”
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Time-varying harmonic impedance estimation based on locally-geographically weighted regression by XU Fangwei, XIE Pei′ang, WANG Chuan, LIU Kai, GUO Kai, FAN Lijuan

“…Secondly, the impedance reference value is used to modify the regression equation to reduce the under determination of the original regression equation. To screen out the sample points that are similar to the background harmonics of the sample points of concern, the background harmonic reference value is simultaneously utilized as the prior information. …”
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The Atmospheric Deposition of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Year 2022/2023 by Giuseppe Ianiri, Gaetano Settimo, Maria Eleonora Soggiu, Marco Inglessis, Sabrina Di Giorgi, Pasquale Avino

“…The collection of bulk atmospheric depositions was carried out approximately every 30 days, and the PAHs were determined according to the indications given in ISTISAN Report 06/38 and Standard UNI EN 15980:2011. …”
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Indirect electrochemical detection of perfluoro decanoic acid from water by Sorina-Claudia Negrea, Lidia Ani Diaconu, Dorian Neidoni, Adina Pacala, Luoana Florentina Pascu, Sorina Motoc, Anamaria Baciu, Elena Trif, Florica Manea

“…The electro polymerization process was carried out using cyclic voltammetry (CV) by scanning 25 cyclic voltammograms in a potential range of 0.00 →1.00 V/SCE with a scan rate of 0.05 V·s-1. …”
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Design and Verification of a Deep Rock Corer with Retaining the In Situ Temperature by Zhiqiang He, Heping Xie, Mingzhong Gao, Ling Chen, Bo Yu, Yunqi Hu, Jianping Yang

“…Finally, a verification test of the integrated active and passive thermal insulation system (graphene heating material and C1) was carried out. Results showed that the insulating effect could be increased by 13.3%; thus, the feasibility of the integrated thermal insulation system was verified. …”
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The USA and the energy transition of the 21st century: Measures to overcome dependence on China in critical minerals by N. А. Biryukova

“…The article contains comparative analysis of Trump and Biden administration approaches to navigating the country out of the dependence from China for critical minerals; it also identifies key focus areas of the current US mineral strategy. …”
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A microstructure-based numerical approach for uniaxial fatigue life-based non-uniaxial fatigue life prediction of hypo-eutectoid steels by Jonghoon Shin, Hyunki Kim, Minwoo Kang, Chungan Lee, Seunghyun Hong, Yoon Suk Choi

“…The proposed prediction procedure involves the generation of a statistically representative synthetic microstructure, the development of slip system-based fatigue constitutive models for the primary ferrite and pearlite phases constituting the hypo-eutectoid steel, the synthetic microstructure-based finite element simulations for uniaxial, torsional, and in-phase and out-of-phase axial plus torsional fatigue loading conditions using the developed constitutive models, the extraction of the cyclic increment of the fatigue indicator parameters (ΔFIP) from fatigue-simulated microstructures for the local fatigue damage quantification, the calibration of the uniaxial fatigue life prediction model by linking simulated uniaxial ΔFIPs to the uniaxial fatigue life data, and finally the prediction of the non-uniaxial fatigue life (through simulated non-uniaxial ΔFIPs) using the uniaxial fatigue-calibrated life prediction model. …”
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Modeling of Measuring Transducers for Relay Protection Systems of Electrical Installations by Iliya Iliev, Andrey Kryukov, Konstantin Suslov, Nikolay Kodolov, Aleksandr Kryukov, Ivan Beloev, Yulia Valeeva

“…Based on this, the model of this transmission line was adjusted; repeated modeling was carried out, and errors were calculated. The modeling results showed a high accuracy when calculating the modules and phases of voltages using the identified model. …”
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The mental health impact of COVID-19: the need for community interventions and collaboration for recovery by Nadarajah Rajeshkannan, Daya Somasundaram, Balachandran Kumarendran, Thirunavukarasu Kumanan, Ivan Dinesh Aloysius, Nalayini Sugirthan, Sivanantham Sasikumar, Nalayini Jegathesan

“…Materials and methods: This qualitative study aims to map out the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and suggest recovery strategies based on analyzing COVID-19 mental health and psychosocial impact-related comments on social/news media, participant’s observations, and participant action research. …”
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Juozas Jurginis in 1961 was criticized by Moscow by Arūnas Vyšniauskas

“…The research made on this issue was carried out using new archival material from the Lithuanian Special Archives, the old textbooks, newspapers, and other historical materials from Soviet times. …”
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Importance of Aberrant Right Subclavian Artery Detection During Second Trimester Ultrasound Examination in Low-Risk Population by Erdal Seker, Hasan Sut, Mustafa Kocar, Coskun Umit, Esra Ozkavukcu, Acar Koc

“…STUDY DESIGN: Our study was carried out in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine between the dates of January 2017-January 2020. …”
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Problematic internet use and its relationship with eating disorders by Claudia Ruiz-Centeno, Raquel Cueto-Galán, Raquel Cueto-Galán, Raquel Cueto-Galán, Jose Miguel Pena-Andreu, Andrés Fontalba-Navas, Andrés Fontalba-Navas, Andrés Fontalba-Navas

“…Content selection was carried out through non-random intentional sampling and based on the following criteria: the most prominent content on each platform in terms of the number of interactions, created within less than 5 years old, and displaying pro-ana and/or pro-mia content in English or Spanish. …”
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The Effect of an Educational Intervention Based on the Health Belief Model on the Level of Breastfeeding Self-efficacy in Mothers Referring to Qazvin Health Centers: A Randomized C... by fatemeh mohammadi, mahdi ranjbaran, hamed bigdeli, zinat jourabchi

“…Data analysis was carried out tilizing SPSS26 software, with a predetermined significance level of 0.05 for all statistical tests. …”
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Health promoting palliative care interventions in African low-income countries: a scoping review by Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Diane Tapp, Samiratou Ouedraogo, Ariane Plaisance, Carol-Anne Hyland-Carignan, Idriss Ali Gali-Gali

“…Using Covidence, two reviewers independently carried out a two-step review process (title/abstract and full text) and data extraction.Findings A total of 2259 articles were screened and 12 were included. …”
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Extrinsic attributes that drive consumer purchase of block mozzarella by K. Homwongpanich, M.E. Watson, D. Rovai, H. Eshpari, M.A. Drake

“…Block mozzarella is generally a price-driven product, except for special occasions where consumers seek out block mozzarella that they perceive to be of higher quality.…”
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Relationship between inherited genetic variation and survival from colorectal cancer stratified by tumour location by Christopher Wills, Katie Watts, Amy Houseman, Timothy S. Maughan, David Fisher, Nada A. Al-Tassan, Richard S. Houlston, Valentina Escott-Price, Jeremy P. Cheadle

“…We studied 1899 patients with advanced CRC (514 had proximal colonic, 493 distal colonic and 892 rectal tumours) and carried out genome-wide association studies for survival. …”
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Association between ТР53, MDM2 and NQO1 gene polymorphisms and viral load among women with human papillomavirus by A.H. AlBosale, E. V. Mashkina

“…Genotyping for TP53 215C>G (Pro72Arg) and MDM2 -410T>G SNPs was carried out by allele-specific PCR and genotyping for NQO1 609C>T was performed by a TaqMan assay. …”
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Effect of <i>Cnidoscolus aconitifolius</i> (Family Euphorbiaceae) Aqueous Leaf Extract on Some Antioxidant Enzymes and Haematological Parameters of High Fat Diet and Streptozotocin... by EA Obichi, CC Monago, DC Belonwu

“…This study was carried out to evaluate the oxidative and haematologic effects of aqueous extract of Cnidoscolus aconitifolius (CA) in high fat diet (HFD) and streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetes in Wistar albino rats. …”
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From Nasion to Sellion: repositioning landmarks for radioprotection-tailored 3D cephalometric analysis by Marco Serafin, Benedetta Baldini, Elisa Boccalari, Salvatore Bocchieri, Sergio Sambataro, Chiarella Sforza, Giuseppe Baselli, Gianluca Martino Tartaglia, Alberto Caprioglio

“…Purpose The present study aimed to three-dimensionally evaluate the correlation between cephalometric measurements utilizing Sellion in place of Nasion.Material and methods A pilot study using 25 CBCTs was carried out to determine the required sample size, reaching a minimum of 136 patients was required to validate the correlation between Nasion(N)- and Sellion(Se)-related measurements. …”
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