Ability of Different Flavonols and Commercial Mannoproteins to Enhance Wine Colour through Copigmentation by Cristina Alcalde-Eon, María-Teresa Escribano-Bailón, Ignacio García-Estévez

“…It has been reported that flavonols are the most effective wine copigments, but studies on the influence of the structure of these copigments on the magnitude of copigmentation are scarce. …”
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Determinants of e-pharmacy adoption and the mediating role of social influence among young users by Adetumilara Iyanuoluwa Adebo, Kehinde Aladelusi, Mustapha Mohammed

“…Data was analysed using partial least square structural equation modeling. Findings – The primary determinant driving the adoption of e-pharmacy is performance expectancy. …”
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Evaluation of Impact of Prescribing Safety Assessment Workshop on Medical Doctors Using Kirkpatrick Model by Adnan Jehangir, Khalid Farooq Danish, Rahila Yasmeen, Waqas Rabbani, Farhana Ayub

“…Prescribers lacks uniform structured training and assessment which is one of the major factors for this situation across the country. …”
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Enhancement of Physical Appearance, Skin Permeation, and Odor Reduction Using Liposome of Hydrolyzed Salmon Collagen for Cosmetic Products by Thanaporn Amnuaikit, Rajeev Shankar Rajagopal, Krisana Nilsuwan, Soottawat Benjakul

“…From all the experimental results, it could be seen that liposomes can help increase skin penetration, and undesirable odors and colors can be masked by the appropriate lipid bilayer structure of liposomes.…”
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Cultivation of Grit in Nursing Students: A Qualitative Descriptive Study “Cultivation of Grit” by Carolyn Spriggs Muchna PhD

“…Methods Twenty-two second-year associate degree-seeking nursing students in rural central Arizona completed demographic and Grit-O Scale questions using Survey Monkey™ and participated in semi-structured interviews or focus group discussions held from September through December 2022. …”
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Perceptions and practices of imaging personnel and physicians regarding the use of brain MRI for dementia diagnosis in Uganda. by Rita Nassanga, Noeline Nakasujja, Mark Kaddumukasa, Stephen E Jones, Martha Sajatovic, Michael Grace Kawooya

“…Sub-themes under these themes included cost considerations, poor and good MRI practices, MRI as a standard operating procedure, positive attitudes towards brain MRI, and barriers such as structural, financial, operational, technical, and patient-related issues. …”
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Health effects of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS): A study among federal civil servants in Bayelsa State, Nigeria by Endurance Uzobo, Aboluwaji D Ayinmoro

“…Methods: A cross-sectional survey was adopted using simple random sampling to recruit 337 federal employees living in the state. A structured questionnaire was used as data collection instrument to elicit socio-demographic information and types of services enjoyed under the scheme by the participants. …”
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Comparison of the Effects of Different Decontamination Methods on Staphylococcus Aureus Biofilm by Ece Açıkgöz Alparslan, Ufuk Bağcı, Ayşegül Kurt

“…Following decontamination procedures, colony-forming units and viable biomass were analyzed to identify the biofilm removal efficacy of the treatments and the viability of bacteria remaining on the surface. Biofilm structure was assessed by confocal laser scanning microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. …”
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Subjective Evaluation of Music Compressed with the ACER Codec Compared to AAC, MP3, and Uncompressed PCM by Stuart Cunningham, Iain McGregor

“…Our previous research presented a novel codec named ACER (Audio Compression Exploiting Repetition), which achieves data reduction by exploiting irrelevancy and redundancy in musical structure whilst generally maintaining acceptable levels of noise and distortion in objective evaluations. …”
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Optimization of laccase production and its application in delignification of biomass by Zabin K. Bagewadi, Sikandar I. Mulla, Harichandra Z. Ninnekar

“…The FTIR analysis revealed the structural alterations occurring during the delignification process. …”
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The Role of the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society in the Abolition of Oozhiyam (Bonded Labor Service) in Kerala by Ayyappan Balakrishnan

“…Caste slavery was an oppressive, discriminative, and exploitive system which existed in Kerala from an early medieval period onwards. In the social structure of Kerala, the bonded or forced labor system was an unavoidable factor of slavery. …”
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Investigation of the physicochemical properties and pharmacokinetics of the active compounds in Quercus infectoria gall extract by Roohallah Yousefi

“…Vescalagin's pharmacokinetics may be influenced by its sugar structure and conjugation sites, and low water solubility could limit its bioavailability. …”
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In silico Analysis of Human Endothelial Cell-specific Molecule 1 and Interleukin-6 Genetic Variants Involved in Coronary Artery Disease by Vineet Kulkarni, Sukanya Shetty, Roopa Bhandary, Yanglem Mary

“…SOPMA was utilized to determine the proteins’ secondary structure. Results: SIFT analysis identified 57 intolerant and 65 tolerant SNPs in ESM-1. …”
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Exploring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Learning Experience, Mental Health, Adaptability, and Resilience Among Health Informatics Master’s Students: Focus Group Study by Nadia Davoody, Natalia Stathakarou, Cara Swain, Stefano Bonacina

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore the overall learning experience among health informatics master’s students at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and the strategies they used to overcome learning challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. MethodsThrough 3 structured focus groups, this study explored health informatics master’s students’ experiences of shifting learning environments for classes that started in 2019, 2020, and 2021. …”
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It is harder for me: A thematic analysis of lived experience of self-care, and its relationship with self-injurious behaviors in psychiatric patients by Jonas Bjärehed, Hanna Grenner, Sara Pavlovic, Magnus Nilsson

“…Twelve participants were recruited from a psychiatric outpatient clinic and semi-structured interviews were conducted focusing on participants’ perceptions of self-care, its relationship with self-injury, and factors influencing self-care. …”
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Laterization Process Recognition along the Northern Border of the Congo Craton by Geoelectrical and Geotechnical Data by H. L. Ekoro Nkoungou, S. A. Zogo Tsala, V. Oyoa, P. Eba'a Owoutou

“…With the properties of laterites being related to the nature of the rock from which they are derived, twenty vertical electrical surveys and twenty boreholes for geotechnical tests, distributed in two units (plutonic and green belt zones) of the Ntem complex located at the northern limit of the Congo Craton, were implemented to study the formation process of the laterites of this geological structure. The inversion of the geoelectrical data in the plutonic area resulted in three lateritic layers with resistivities of 1090 Ω·m, 1302 Ω·m, and 1122 Ω·m, with induration and leaching indices of 28.9% and 72.56%. …”
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Perspectives and attitudes of midwifery educators toward distance education in midwifery care education by Seda Serhatlioglu, Reyhan Aydin Dogan

“…Data was collected online using a structured survey by a researcher. A survey was developed by trainers based on literature to understand the attitudes and opinions of the trainers towards distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Relationship between Perceived Teacher Expectations and Cognitive Engagement: Mediating Role of Academic Self-Efficacy in Students with Learning Disorders by Mohadese Mortezapour, Hossien Jenaabadi, Afsaneh Marziyeh

“…The research instruments used in this study included the Teacher's perceived expectations questionnaire (Bulach, 2002), Academic Engagement Questionnaire (Zerang, 2012) and Academic Self-efficacy Scale (Midgley et al. (2000) . Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the proposed model. …”
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Adversarial patch defense algorithm based on PatchTracker by Zhenjie XIAO, Shiyu HUANG, Feng YE, Liqing HUANG, Tianqiang HUANG

“…The application of deep neural networks in target detection has been widely adopted in various fields.However, the introduction of adversarial patch attacks, which add local perturbations to images to mislead deep neural networks, poses a significant threat to target detection systems based on vision techniques.To tackle this issue, an adversarial patch defense algorithm based on PatchTracker was proposed, leveraging the semantic differences between adversarial patches and image backgrounds.This algorithm comprised an upstream patch detector and a downstream data enhancement module.The upstream patch detector employed a YOLOV5 (you only look once-v5) model with attention mechanism to determine the locations of adversarial patches, thereby improving the detection accuracy of small-scale adversarial patches.Subsequently, the detected regions were covered with appropriate pixel values to remove the adversarial patches.This module effectively reduced the impact of adversarial examples without relying on extensive training data.The downstream data enhancement module enhanced the robustness of the target detector by modifying the model training paradigm.Finally, the image with removed patches was input into the downstream YOLOV5 target detection model, which had been enhanced through data augmentation.Cross-validation was performed on the public TT100K traffic sign dataset.Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm effectively defended against various types of generic adversarial patch attacks when compared to situations without defense measures.The algorithm improves the mean average precision (mAP) by approximately 65% when detecting adversarial patch images, effectively reducing the false negative rate of small-scale adversarial patches.Moreover, compared to existing algorithms, this approach significantly enhances the accuracy of neural networks in detecting adversarial samples.Additionally, the method exhibited excellent compatibility as it does not require modification of the downstream model structure.…”
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Deformation and Rupture of Thin Steel Plates due to Cumulative Loading from Underwater Shock and Bubble Collapse by Julian J. Lee, Malcolm J. Smith, James Huang, Geoffrey T. Paulgaard

“…The test specimens consisted of plates 0.76 mm and 1.21 mm thick made of either ASTM A1008 mild steel or 350 WT structural-grade steel with a low-temperature notch-toughness requirement. …”
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