Supporting a state in developing a working theory of improvement for promoting equity in science education by William R. Penuel, Tiffany N. Neill, Todd Campbell

“…External partners supported leaders of a single state in the US Northeast to support a process of articulating aims, specifying primary and secondary drivers, and identifying change strategies to promote a more equitable system of science education in the state, grounded in the vision of A Framework for K-12 Science Education (National Research Council, 2012). In this paper, we rely on descriptive analyses of joint meetings and a focus group with state leaders describe the tools supporting the process of development, the team’s use of the tools to generate an early draft of the Driver Diagram, and issues surfaced while developing it with a team of interest holders in the state.ResultsTwo meanings of equity emerged as significant within the series of meetings: that of the importance of universal access to professional learning and the importance of students having opportunities to experience culturally relevant instruction. …”
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Flowers: precious food and medicine resources by Xuqiang Liu, Senye Wang, Lili Cui, Huihui Zhou, Yuhang Liu, Lijun Meng, Sitan Chen, Xuefeng Xi, Yan Zhang, Wenyi Kang

“…Flowers and their active ingredients are becoming more and more popular in the preparation of food, drugs and industrial products. This paper summarizes the active ingredients, pharmacological activities and applications in the pharmaceutical and food industries of flower plants in recent years. …”
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Study on Viscosity Reducer Flooding Technology for Deep Low Permeability Extra Heavy Oil Reservoirs by Xiaopeng Cao, Zupeng Liu, Yong Yang, Shiming Zhang, Yahui Bu, Sen Wang, Yipu Liang, Qihong Feng

“…Conventional steam injection thermal recovery has poor viscosity reduction performance and low productivity of a single well, which makes it difficult to develop this type of heavy oil reservoir. In this paper, core flooding experiment and microvisualization equipment were used to study the mechanism of improving the recovery of deep extra heavy oil by using water-soluble viscosity reducer; the realization of water-soluble viscosity reducer in numerical simulation was achieved by using nonlinear mixing rule; the reservoir numerical simulation model of water-soluble viscosity reducer displacement in test well group was established to optimize the development technical parameter of water-soluble viscosity reducer. …”
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Efficient Path Planning and Formation Control in Multi-Robot Systems: A Neural Fields and Auto-Switching Mechanism Approach by Raouf Fareh, Mohammed Baziyad, Tamer Farouk Rabie, Sofiane Khadraoui, Mohammad Habibur Rahman

“…These systems rely on complex control strategies that struggle to adapt to dynamic and challenging environments, resulting in sub-optimal performance and potential collisions. This paper presents a novel approach to enhancing the path planning and formation control of multi-robot leader-follower systems by integrating neural fields and novel potential field modeling. …”
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The Validation of the sickle scan technique used to diagnose sickle cell disease by Magain Mihatano Barihuta, Guelord Inkalaba, Jocelyn Kakumba Mankulu, Olivier Nzingula, Maguy Luvandu Mbenza, Nicole M. Misengabu, M Ndeme, Michel Diyi, Mbembe Bitengeli, Tresor Bayebila Menanzambi, Nsimba Miezi, José Lami Nzunzu, Fridolin Kodondi Kule-koto

“…This test can also be applied to samples collected on blotting paper. The interpretation time should not exceed 2 minutes, contrary to the manufacturer's claims. …”
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Improved Performance and Voltage Stability of Islanded Inverters Using Single-Loop PI-Lead Controller by Mohammed E. Benzoubir, Abderezak Lashab, Khaled Rayane, Mohammed Benmiloud, Mohamed Bougrine, Atallah Benalia, Mohamed Trabelsi, Hani Vahedi

“…This paper introduces a novel single-loop control scheme for voltage regulation in islanded inverters, using a proportional-integral-lead (PI-Lead) controller designed within the synchronous reference frame (SRF) through a loop-shaping approach. …”
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Students’ attitudes toward euthanasia and abortion: a cross-cultural study in three Mediterranean countries by Ivana Tutić Grokša, Ana Depope, Tijana Trako Poljak, Igor Eterović, Toni Buterin, Robert Doričić, Mariana Gensabella, Maria Laura Giacobello, Josip Guć, Eleni Kalokairinou, Željko Kaluđerović, Iva Rinčić, Ivana Zagorac, Miltiadis Vantsos, Amir Muzur

“…As part of the scientific research project EuroBioMed, we compared the attitudes of students from three Mediterranean countries towards abortion and euthanasia and examined them from the perspective of Mediterranean bioethics. Methods A pen-to-paper survey was conducted on a convenient sample of students (N = 1097) from five universities and four fields of study (Medicine, Law, Theology and Philosophy) in Croatia, Greece and Italy to investigate their attitudes towards abortion and euthanasia. …”
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Understanding Individual Differences in Happiness Sources and Implications for Health Technology Design: Exploratory Analysis of an Open Dataset by Edel Ennis, Raymond Bond, Maurice Mulvenna, Colm Sweeney

“…However, as with many constructs, the unique ways in which individuals experience happiness present major challenges for designing personalized DMHIs. ObjectiveThis paper aims to (1) present an analysis of how sex may interact with age, marital status, and parental status to predict individual differences in sources of happiness, and (2) to present a preliminary discussion of how open datasets may contribute to the process of designing health-related technology innovations. …”
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Resilience-oriented passenger subsidy design for taxi travel under pandemic control by Lei Xia, Zhengfeng Huang, Gao Gao, Pengjun Zheng

“…Abstract Summarizing historical pandemic control experience can help the government better cope with the impact of uncertain public health events on taxi industry. This paper presents a summary of the relationship between various pandemic control measures and taxi system from the perspective of travel resilience. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Ferrite Nanoparticles for Efficient Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Dyes by Julia Mazurenko, A. K. Sijo, Larysa Kaykan, Volodymyr Kotsyubynsky, Łukasz Gondek, Antoni Zywczak, Mateusz Marzec, Oleksii Vyshnevskyi

“…This paper reports the successful synthesis of spinel-type CuFe2O4 ferrite nanoparticles with an average particle size of 24 nm, produced using the citrate sol–gel autocombustion method. …”
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CanKiwi: A Mechanistic Competition Model of Kiwifruit Bacterial Canker Disease Dynamics by Oussama Hadj Abdelkader, Hadjer Bouzebiba, Miguel G. Santos, Danilo Pena, António Pedro Aguiar, Susana M. P. Carvalho

“…This paper proposes a mathematical model based on a mechanistic approach and previous research findings for the bacterial canker disease development in kiwifruit vines. …”
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Multi-level clustering and Prediction based energy efficient routing protocol to eliminate Hotspot problem in Wireless Sensor Networks. by Bhaskar Prince, Prabhat Kumar, Sunil Kumar Singh

“…Nevertheless, numerous multi-hop routing protocols using clustering technique face the challenge of nodes nearer to the Base Station (BS) depleting their energy faster due to forwarding data from the entire network leading to premature node failure and network partitioning known as ‘hotspot problem’. The paper introduces an Energy-Efficient Mega-Cluster-Based Routing (EEMCR) protocol specially designed for expansive coverage area. …”
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Study on the Dynamic Response of the Carbody–Anti-Bending Bars System by Ioana-Izabela Apostol, Traian Mazilu, Mădălina Dumitriu

“…Also, the method feasibility has been verified in the past using an experimental scale demonstrator system. In this paper, a new model of the carbody–anti-bending bar system is proposed by including three-directional elastic elements (vertical and longitudinal direction and rotation in the vertical–longitudinal plane) to model the fastening of the anti-bending bars to the supports and the vertical motion of the anti-bending bars modelled as free–free Euler–Bernoulli beams connected to the elastic elements of the fastening. …”
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Bivariate power Lomax Sarmanov distribution: Statistical properties, Reliability measures, and Parameter estimation by M.A. Abd Elgawad, M.A. Alawady, H.M. Barakat, G.M. Mansour, I.A. Husseiny, Salem A. Alyami, Atef F. Hashem, M.O. Mohamed

“…This paper presents a bivariate power Lomax Sarmanov distribution (BPL-SARD) constructed from Sarmanov copulas and power Lomax (PL) marginal distributions. …”
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Practices regarding human Papillomavirus counseling and vaccination in head and neck cancer: a Canadian physician questionnaire by Scott Anderson, Andre Isaac, Caroline C. Jeffery, Joan L. Robinson, Daniela Migliarese Isaac, Christina Korownyk, Vincent L. Biron, Hadi Seikaly

“…Methods A Canada-wide electronic questionnaire regarding counseling practices on HPV infection, transmission, and vaccination was designed and distributed to PCPs, OBGYNs, and OHNSs across Canada through electronic and paper-based methods. Basic Descriptive statistics were used to analyze responses. …”
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Differential Chaos Shift Keying for FSO Systems: A Novel Approach Under Turbulence and Boresight Pointing Errors by Gyan Deep Verma, Aashish Mathur, Manav R. Bhatnagar

“…In the last two decades, chaos-based signals have achieved much popularity due to their useful waveform properties such as non-periodicity, wide-band nature, and robustness against eavesdropping by intruders. In this paper, we utilize differential chaos shift keying (DCSK) for free space optical (FSO) communication systems to improve their performance under the combined influence of atmospheric turbulence (AT) and non-zero boresight pointing errors (PEs). …”
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Testbed Configuration for Minimizing PAPR in GFDM Systems Through a Novel Companding Approach by Sowbhagya Appalla, Siva Prasad Valluri, K. N. G. B. Yaswanth, Kishore Vejandla, Chakravarthy Gunturu, Gundla Jagapathi, Nittala Noel Anurag Prashanth, A. V. Prabu

“…Despite its numerous advantages, GFDM, akin to other multi-carrier schemes, is afflicted by an inherent high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), which can degrade power efficiency and impair system performance under high-power amplifier constraints. In this paper, we rigorously derive the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) for GFDM systems, elucidating its intricate dependence on the design and characteristics of pulse-shaping filters, which are instrumental in managing spectral and temporal properties. …”
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Perioperative nursing of patients with verrucous epidermal nevi (疣状表皮痣手术患者围手术期护理体会) by SI Tao (司桃), FAN Xiaoli (范晓莉), LI Huixian (李慧娴), PEI Pei (裴培), DING Eryan (丁二艳)

“…This paper summarized the nursing management for 33 patients with verrucous epidermal nevi. …”
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Results of Selective Biochemical Screening for Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency and Sequencing of the <i>LIPA</i> Gene in the Risk Group Patients by S. V. Shtykalova, A. A. Egorova, O. S. Glotov, A. V. Kiselev, I. Yu. Kogan

“…Samples from 2805 patients are collected as dried blood spots on filter paper test forms. Biochemical study of the lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) enzyme activity was carried out according to Hamilton’s protocol of, using 4-methylumbelliferyl palmitate as a substrate and LAL inhibitor Lalistat-2. …”
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Effective BCDNet-based breast cancer classification model using hybrid deep learning with VGG16-based optimal feature extraction by Meenakshi Devi P., Muna A., Yasser Ali, Sumanth V.

“…Also, ultrasound imaging is a non-invasive method commonly used for breast cancer screening. Hence, the paper presents a novel deep learning model, BCDNet, for classifying breast tumors as benign or malignant using ultrasound images. …”
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