Shear-Dependent Yield Stress of Iron Ore Fine Tailings in Two-Step Flocculation Process by Ying Yang, Hongjiang Wang, Bern Klein, Aixiang Wu

“…The floc strength and fractal dimension also showed the same rule. The internal reasons for the stronger shear resistance of the secondary flocculating slurry were the increase of the number of binding sites, the electric neutralization between the two flocculants, and the steric hindrance effect of the flocculants.…”
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Od adaptacji do edukacji, czyli plakaty filmowe w praktyce szkolnej by Dominika Byczek

“…The author begins by explaining the reason for choosing this topic, which she sees primarily in the fact that, according to her own observations and research, students do not encounter the analysis of film posters in school, nor do they have a desire to respond to the demands of other researchers in the field of Polish language teaching. …”
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Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking by Quantum Zhuo, Mansour N. Al-Harbi, Petrus C. Pistorius

“…Further improvement was obtained by applying the engineered features to a non-linear machine-learned model (based on XGBoost), yielding both physically reasonable trends and smaller prediction errors. Trends from Shapley dependence analysis (applied to the XGBoost model) are quantitatively consistent with theoretical trends. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Interstitial Lung Disease Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure Admitted to the ICU by Sourabh Pahuja, Milta Kuriakose, Satyam Agarwal, Pradeep Bajad, Arjun Khanna, Deepak Talwar

“…Background: Acute respiratory failure is a dreaded complication of interstitial lung disease (ILD) and is the most significant reason for mortality in most forms of ILDs. Knowledge of outcome predictors that can be assessed early after intensive care unit (ICU) admission would help guide the use of specific treatments. …”
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Computational Modeling of Desiccation Properties (CW, LS, and VS) of Waste-Based Activated Ash-Treated Black Cotton Soil for Sustainable Subgrade Using Artificial Neural Network, G... by Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Jamshid Shakeri, Hasel Amini-Khoshalan, Thompson F. Usungedo, Mohammadreza Alimoradi-Jazi

“…Problematic soils or black cotton soils are not good pavement foundation materials except that they are pretreated in order to meet the basic strength characteristics required for roads in Nigeria. Due to this reason, there has been ongoing research to evaluate the best practices in which black cotton soils can be favorably utilized in earthwork construction. …”
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Agriculture Based Food Producing Countries Are Less Secured in Food by Jesmin Aktar, Khan Md Shaiful Islam

“…That means people involved in production of food are not getting food as much and this is the reason not to access food as they have less per capita income. …”
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Business Incubators in Russia: 2020 Survey in International Comparative Perspective by M. A. Slesarev

“…At the same time, the total number of business incubators also significantly dropped, which means that all of the above positive changes do not reflect the growth of the business incubation market and the scaling of the most effective structures; on the contrary, it is an optimization.As a result of the study, we formulate several additional questions for future research and study to understand better the challenges business incubators currently face in Russia, the reasons for their recent consolidation, and possible ways out.…”
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Identifying and prioritizing cultural factors affecting the physical structure of the city with emphasis on indigenous architecture (Case study: Sarab city) by Mohammad Golmohammadi, Mohammad Adalatkhah, Akbar Abdollahzadeh Tarf

“…Nowadays, knowledge of the physical structure of the city and the reasons that govern its spatial expansion in different periods is necessary to control its expansion and is one of the important factors influencing the success of urban planners and designers. …”
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Does the consumption of soya products affect cholesterol levels, blood pressure, or other cardiovascular health indicators? by Aleksandra Walendzik, Kinga Racisz, Joanna Duda, Jakub Kędzia, Alicja Obcowska, Paweł Racisz, Łukasz Sencerek

“… Introduction and Purpose Cardiovascular diseases (CVD)  are the leading factor of mortality among people in the world. For this reason, people are trying to find factors that could improve the condition of the circulatory system. …”
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A Review on Managing Agroecosystems for Improved Water Use Efficiency in the Face of Changing Climate in Tanzania by Jerome Kimaro

“…There is poor adoption of recommended adaptation among smallholder farmers due to several socioeconomic reasons. One of the key objectives of climate smart agriculture is to improve bio-geochemical interactions within landscape and decrease competition of natural resources between humans and other component of agroecosystems. …”
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Prediction of the Sex-Associated Genomic Region in Tunas (Thunnus Fishes) by Yoji Nakamura, Kentaro Higuchi, Kazunori Kumon, Motoshige Yasuike, Toshinori Takashi, Koichiro Gen, Atushi Fujiwara

“…Since estrogen sulfotransferase is responsible for the inactivation of estrogens, it is reasonable to assume that the expression of sult1st6y in gonad cells may inhibit female development, thereby inducing the individuals to become males. …”
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Characteristics and Indications of Legal Abortion among the Pregnant Women in Lorestan Province of Iran during 2017–2019 by Zahra Fatemi, Soheila Akbari

“…Fetal disturbance of the brain and spine was the most prevalent reason of abortion (24.92%, 95% CI: 19.63%–31.19%) followed by Down syndrome (19.34%, 95% CI: 14.73%–24.95), hydrops fetalis (12.79%, 95% CI: 9.09%–17.48%), and anencephaly (12.79%, 95% CI: 9.09%–17.48%). …”
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Interhospital Patient Transfers from the Emergency Department: A Retrospective, Observational Study by Ali Cankut Tatlıparmak

“…Conclusion: The most common reason for transfer was cardiac events. Increasing the cardiology facilities and equipment of the hospital could reduce the number of interhospital patient transfers.…”
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ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT "BANKING SYSTEM" IN THE CONTEXT OF SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND SECTORAL DIVISION OF THE ECONOMY by Nataliia Pohorelenko, Olha Hlushchenko

“…The importance of this research is related to the fact that it is banking activity that significantly affects other components of the economic system, because it determines the coordination of a sig­nificant share of the movement of financial flows between business entities. The reason: in one way or another, researchers have to note the ramifications and volumes of such activities taking into account a single bank or some combination of them, where in particular such concepts as "banking system" and "banking sector" are used. …”
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A systematic literature review of data-driven decision making: professional development program and its impact in enhancing teachers efficacy by Aulia Zahratun Nisa, Farida Kurniawati

“…Currently, many teachers have not applied D3M in their classrooms, even though D3M can help teachers develop effective teaching methods in class. One reason for this is the lack of teachers' efficacy in applying D3M. …”
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Directions of harmonization of the main principles of domestic administrative and legal science with European integration requirements by O. Yu. Kyrychenko

“…It has been emphasized that for the above reason, the process of European integration of national legislation has the most significant impact on administrative and legal science, since this branch of law is the most important regulator of social relations in the field of public administration, specifies and regulates the rules of operation, organization of activities and legal status of public authorities, and also establishes the rights and obligations of citizens and public organizations in the specified sphere. …”
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Low back pain treatment adherence barriers in Eswatini private physiotherapy practices: A pilot study by Tapiwa Chikaka, Monique M. Keller

“…Clinical implications: To overcome the barrier of adherence to keeping appointments, prioritising health education and providing reasons for exercises should be empathised. Exercise programme adherence could be improved by providing reference material, less and more meaningful and/or functional exercises.…”
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Study on the Dynamic Response of Gravel Soil Low Embankment under a Long-Time Dynamic Loading Based on Model Test by Dapeng Liu, Jing Wang, Feng Du

“…The low embankment is an important technique for road development in subgrade engineering due to its small fill height and applicability to the natural landscape in the oasis desert area of Xinjiang, China. A reasonable development of the gravel soil low embankment design requires the study of its dynamic response under a long-time dynamic loading. …”
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Unlocking Patient Resistance to AI in Healthcare: A Psychological Exploration by Abu Elnasr E. Sobaih, Asma Chaibi, Riadh Brini, Tamer Mohamed Abdelghani Ibrahim

“…More specifically, this research examines the roles of the need for personal contact (NPC), perceived technological dependence (PTD), and general skepticism toward AI (GSAI) in shaping patient resistance to AI integration. For this reason, a sequential mixed-method approach was employed, beginning with semi-structured interviews to identify adaptable factors in healthcare. …”
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Dynamic Characteristics of Offshore Natural Gas Hydrate Dissociation by Depressurization in Marine Sediments by Xinfu Liu, Chunhua Liu, Jianjun Wu

“…The stable period of natural gas production enhances, and the water flow rate reduces with the increase of bottom-hole pressure in production wellbores. The main reason is the slow offshore NGH dissociation under the low producing pressure and the restriction of heat conductivity under the low temperature.…”
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