Fatty Amides from Crude Rice Bran Oil as Green Corrosion Inhibitors by E. Reyes-Dorantes, J. Zuñiga-Díaz, A. Quinto-Hernandez, J. Porcayo-Calderon, J. G. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, L. Martinez-Gomez

“…The corrosion inhibitory capacity of the fatty amides was evaluated on an API X-70 steel using electrochemical techniques such as real-time corrosion monitoring and potentiodynamic polarization curves. …”
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Application of the Professional Psychological Quest in the Professional Training of Police Officers by N. E. Miloradova, N. Ye. Tverdokhliebova

“…The authors emphasize the advisability of using a police quest, which contributes to the increase of professional competence level due to the increase of the study time amount allocated for practical work, the independent acquisition and use of new knowledge and skills in practice, making the right decisions within the framework of their professional competence, and well-coordinated teamwork.…”
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Multiscale Laboratory Study and Numerical Analysis of Water-Weakening Effect on Shale by Zhen Li, Shangge Liu, Wentao Ren, Jinjin Fang, Qinghua Zhu, Zhilin Dun

“…The thickness of the double layer increases with the increase of water immersion time. This paper provides a set of useful data for reference in construction in shale strata, and a methodology to evaluate water-weakening effect through laboratory and numerical modelling approaches.…”
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Liver Transplantation: Evolving Patient Selection Criteria by Andy S Yu, Aijaz Ahmed, Emmet B Keeffe

“…These events have led to a marked lengthening of the waiting time for liver transplantation, resulting in increased deaths of those on the waiting list and sicker patients undergoing transplantation. …”
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Optimized digital workflow for pathologist-grade evaluation in bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis mouse model by Toshiki Goto, Akira Sano, Shinichi Onishi, Natsuko Hada, Rui Kimata, Saori Matsuo, Sohei Oyama, Atsuhiko Kato, Hideaki Mizuno, Masaki Yamazaki

“…However, this method requires expertise in recognizing complex visual patterns and is time-consuming, making the workflow difficult and inefficient. …”
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Data Analysis and Results of the Radiation-Tolerant Collaborative Computer On-Board OPTOS CubeSat by Alberto Martín-Ortega, Santiago Rodríguez, José R. de Mingo, Sergio Ibarmia, Joaquín Rivas, Sergio López-Buedo, Celia López-Ongil, Marta Portela-García

“…To maintain the reliability needed to perform typical critical activities such as real-time maintenance or current surveillance, authors have conceived a set of collaborative hardening techniques, taking advantage of the distributed architecture of the OPTOS On-Board Computer. …”
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Food safety traceability readiness of cabbage and eggplant farmers by Melodee Marciana E. de Castro, Jewel Joana S. Cabardo

“…A growing global concern on food safety has much more been emphasized at the time of the pandemic. This includes the internal control system (ICS) for conventional safe farming, which has proven its ability to control pesticide residue within the safe and sustainable maximum limits for cabbage and eggplant compliant with the most stringent regulations implemented globally. …”
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Hydrogel and Organic Amendments to Increase Water Retention in Anthroposols for Land Reclamation by Valerie S. Miller, M. Anne Naeth

“…Hydrogel application method impacted the initial water retention, but over time, the effect was limited. Water retention in lakebed sediment showed little difference relative to no amendment addition and had lowest increases relative to other substrates. …”
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Conflict Consulting Clinic as a Method of Practical Training of Humanities Students by A. I. Strebkov, A. N. Sunami

“…This stems both from the interdisciplinary subject field of conflict management, which combines the fundamental and applied components, as well as the needs of the labor market and the students themselves. At the same time, being in the circle of social sciences and humanities, conflict management faces the traditional challenges for this industry, associated with the most relevant forms of organizing students’ practical work. …”
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Effect of Acarbose on Long-Term Prognosis in Acute Coronary Syndromes Patients with Newly Diagnosed Impaired Glucose Tolerance by Peng Yun, Ai-ming Du, Xue-jun Chen, Jing-cheng Liu, Hu Xiao

“…During the mean follow-up of 2.3 years, the risk of recurrent MACE in acarbose group was decreased significantly compared with that in control group (26.67% versus 46.88%, P<0.05); at the same time, thickening of the CIMT was significantly slower than the control group ((1.28 ± 0.42) mm versus (1.51 ± 0.64) mm, P<0.05). …”
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Assessment of the institutional trust level of students in modern Russian society in the context of global cultural and digital transformations by M. A. Tanina, V. V. Bondarenko, V. A. Yudina, O. A. Zyablikova

“…One of the key factors influencing the political development and stability of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as RF, Russia) is trust of citizens in political and social institutions. At the same time, youth is part of the Russian society with which the strategic prospects for progress of the country and vectors of socio-economic transformations are connected. …”
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Effects and Mechanisms of Silibinin on Influenza A/H1N1 Pathogenesis in a Mouse Model by Mohsen Keshavarz, Mohsen Ghorbani, Forough Shamsizadeh, Haideh Namdari, Vahid Salimi, Farhad Rezaei

“…For this, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluids were collected from the thoracic cavity 5 days after the intervention, and viral quantification was performed using TaqMan Real-time PCR. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to evaluate IFN‐γ and IL-10 levels in serum and BAL samples. …”
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DIGITALIZATION: IMPROVING THE LITERACY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS THROUGH MULTIMODAL TEXTS by Lilis Afifah, Sri Prameswari Indriwardhani, Sawitri Retnantiti, Rizman Usman

“…In contrast to technological developments, teaching materials for Arbeit am Text courses studied by students at Universitas Negeri Malang (UM) are still conventional and have not received sufficient attention for a long time. On the other hand, the course that focuses on German reading skills has an important goal, namely, to improve student literacy. …”
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Air Pollution Variation During COVID-19 Pandemic Using Satellite and On-site Measurement Data in Six Provinces in Iran by Maryam Zare Shahne, Amirhossein Noori, Mehdi Alizade Attar

“…In the present study, the temporal variation of Sentinel-5P TROPOMI-derived air pollutants (NO2 and SO2,) and MODIS-derived AOD were examined by using satellite missions in six air pollution’ hotspots provinces, including Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Tehran, Ahvaz, and Guilan in Iran for contemporaneous time periods before (as a baseline period), and during the epidemic, including the first wave lockdown period of the COVID-19 outbreak, from the 22nd of February, 2019, to the 22nd of February, 2021. …”
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A Blockchain-Assisted Federated Learning Framework for Secure and Self-Optimizing Digital Twins in Industrial IoT by Innocent Boakye Ababio, Jan Bieniek, Mohamed Rahouti, Thaier Hayajneh, Mohammed Aledhari, Dinesh C. Verma, Abdellah Chehri

“…The IIoT enables digital twins, virtual replicas of physical assets, to improve real-time decision-making, but challenges remain in trust, data security, and model accuracy. …”
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Method and system development of external target designation with target indication for armoured weapons samples by V. I. Kirnos, A. V. Zubar’, I. V. Kunaev

“…When conducting scientific research, the authors solve the problem of implementing a multi-purpose and accurate external target designation in real time, for the targets and critical facilities along the line of sight and beyond it. …”
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The Statistical Detecting of Sulfur Hexafluoride and Nitrous Oxide Effect on Seasonal Rainfalls in Iran During Recent Decade by Yosef Ghavidel Rahimi, Maysam Tolabi Nejad, Manochehr Farajzadeh

“…In this research the data set of some climatologic elements, related to the cold seasons of previous year, were used to forecast the next year precipitations in Kermanshah and Nouje Hamedan synoptic stations. Therefore, time series of seven climatologic elements including mean temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, mixing ratio, vapor pressure, dew point temperature and sea level pressure were entered to the artificial neural networks as input, while next year precipitation was considered as the output of network. …”
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A Novel Cellular Handset Design for an Enhanced Antenna Performance and a Reduced SAR in the Human Head by Salah I. Al-Mously, Marai M. Abousetta

“…This new handset design is modeled and simulated using a finite difference time-domain (FDTD)-based platform SEMCAD. The proposed handset is based on a current commercially available bar-phone type with a curvature shape, keypad positioned above the screen, and top-mounted antenna. …”
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Mimetic Gravity: A Review of Recent Developments and Applications to Cosmology and Astrophysics by Lorenzo Sebastiani, Sunny Vagnozzi, Ratbay Myrzakulov

“…Within this framework, it is possible to provide a unified geometrical explanation for dark matter, the late-time acceleration, and inflation, making it a very attractive theory. …”
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Effect of Carboxylic Functional Group Functionalized on Carbon Nanotubes Surface on the Removal of Lead from Water by Muataz Ali Atieh, Omer Yehya Bakather, Bassam Al-Tawbini, Alaadin A. Bukhari, Faraj Ahmad Abuilaiwi, Mohamed B. Fettouhi

“…Four independent variables including pH, CNTs dosage, contact time, and agitation speed were carried out to determine the influence of these parameters on the adsorption capacity of the lead from water. …”
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