Network Resilience and Rehabilitation Strategies for an Airport Movement Area Considering Traffic Flow and Road Class by Ruiling Mou, Rui Kang

“…The results indicate that the airport movement area transportation network in the southwest region lacks small-world and scale-free network characteristics. The identification of important road intersections through the FDBC strategy proves to be more effective in discerning potential safety hazard orientations. …”
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Physicochemical, Functional, Microbial, and Sensory Characteristics of Precooked Complementary Flour Produced from Yellow Maize Enriched with Roasted Cashew Almonds and Baobab Pulp by Wilfred Ngaha Damndja, Aurelie Solange Agume Ntso, Thérèse Josiane Ngatchic Metsagang, Hermionne Djello Nkali

“…The results showed that for all the flours formulated, macronutrients, vitamins, and energy values were in the range recommended by the World Food Program. But concerning minerals, iron (5.12–5.30 mg/100 g DM) and calcium (141.02–181.94 mg/100 g DM) contents were lower compared to the norm. …”
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Factors Influencing the Choice Between Multi-Target Stool DNA and Colonoscopy for Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Alaska Native Peoples by Lauren A. Jeffries, Christie A. Flanagan, Lila J. Finney Rutten, John B. Kisiel, Diana G. Redwood

“…The Alaska Tribal Health System is increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among Alaska Native (AN) peoples, who experience the highest CRC rate in the world. Through a clinical trial (NCT04336397), AN people living in rural/remote Alaska were offered either the previously unavailable multi-target stool DNA test (mt-sDNA; Cologuard^®) or colonoscopy. …”
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The influence of sustainable fertilization on the parameter of soil biogenicity, weight of 1000 grains and the yield of different maize genotypes by Cvijanović Gorica, Bajagić Marija, Stepić Vesna, Marinković Jelena, Mamlić Zlatica, Đurić Nenad, Nićin Slobodan

“…One of the world's biggest problems in the last few decades is the production of food while protecting the land and resources necessary for survival. …”
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Exploring Synergies: Greenhouse Gas Dynamics, Soil Mechanisms, and Forest Ecosystems for Climate Resilience and Sustainable Environmental Stewardship by Ihsan Muhammad, Xinyu Luo, Imran Khan, Abdullah Ahmed Al‐Ghamdi, Mohamed Soliman Elshikh, Weijun Shen

“…Utilizing FAOSTAT and World Development Indicators data, we analyze the connections between total GHG emissions and factors such as biomass burning (BM), net stock change (NSC), fertilizer application (FERT), and manure application (MA) in soils. …”
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The Influence of Consumer Knowledge of Halal Supply Chain Practices on Purchase Intention in Halal Personal Care & Beauty Products by Yayang Adiningtyas, Erlinda Yunus

“…Background: As a country with the largest Moslem population in the world, halal products are in demand in Indonesia, and manufacturers need to start implementing halal supply chain practices to ensure that their products meet the halal standards of Moslem communities. …”
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Adherence to guidelines for incidental pulmonary nodules: insights from a Nordic survey by Kirill Neumann, Janna Berg, Haseem Ashraf, Johan Isaksson, Aija Knuuttila, Morten H. Borg, Torben R. Rasmussen

“…Background and purpose: There is limited data on the real-world management of incidental pulmonary nodules (IPN). …”
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Strategies for introducing and implementing vaccines for adults into national immunization programs in Europe: Good practices and key insights of the adult immunization board meeti... by Sara Boccalini, Angela Bechini, Marco Del Riccio, Birgit Weinberger, Jacek Wysocki, Domenico Martinelli, Ole Wichmann, Tiina Likki, Greet Hendrickx, Pierre Van Damme, Chloé Wyndham-Thomas, Paolo Bonanni, Jade Pattyn

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Numerical study of the plasticity effect on the behavior of short steel columns filled with concrete loaded axially by Yousria Boulmaali-Hacene Chaouche, Nadia Kouider, Kamel Djeghaba, Bachir Kebaili

“… For more than two decades, the construction technique using concrete filled steel tube (CFST) has been widespread throughout the world. Indeed, it has been demonstrated that the use of normal or high strength concrete, confined in a steel tube of circular shape can considerably improve its ductility as well as its load capacity, owing to the combination of the qualities of the two constituent materials; these tubes have an effortless execution, indeed, the concrete used in the CFST does not require formwork nor reinforcement, a durability of the two materials as well as a good behavior to fire, which was the effect desired at the origin of their elaboration. …”
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Informing the development of diagnostic criteria for differential diagnosis of alcohol-related cognitive impairment (ARCI) among heavy drinkers: A systematic scoping review. by Lisa Jones, Lynn Owens, Andrew Thompson, Ian Gilmore, Paul Richardson

“…The lack of evidence is an important barrier to the development of clear guidelines for diagnosing ARCI, which would ultimately improve the real-world management and treatment of patients with ARCI.…”
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Impact of Comorbidities on the Severity of Disease & Outcome in Children with COVID 19 at a Tertiary Care Pediatric Hospital, Rawalpindi. by Rai Muhammad Asghar, Muddassar Sharif, Khalid Saheel, Isfandyar Khan, Abid Hussain, Rai Rijjal Ashraf

“…The virus affects almost all countries of the world. It has infected humans in all age groups, of all ethnicities, both males and females. …”
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Global Burden of Esophageal Cancer and Its Risk Factors: A Systematic Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 by Irena Ilic, Ivana Zivanovic Macuzic, Ana Ravic-Nikolic, Milena Ilic, Vesna Milicic

“…Methods: This ecological study presented the incidence, mortality, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) of esophageal cancer in the world. This study collected the Global Burden of Disease study data from 1990 to 2019. …”
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Exploring the role of the JEEViKA swasthya mitra helpdesk in improving healthcare access: a qualitative study in tertiary healthcare facilities in Bihar, India by Pragya Kumar, Shamshad Ahmad, Narottam Pradhan, Neha Chaudhary, Haripriya H., Sarita Kumari, Naveen K. G., Akanksha Yadav, Rakesh Jha, Md. Ashraf Parwez, Swati Swati, Apolenarius Purty, Somya Somya

“…Funding The study was supported by the Bihar Rural Livelihood Promotion Society supported by the World Bank and Project Concern Internation India.…”
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Self-translation as re-creation: The incipit of a fantasy novel in French (original language) and English by Emma SCHÜTZ

“…I hope to write as a doctoral student in ‘Pratiques et théories de la création littéraire et artistique’ at Aix-Marseille University.It is my project to translate this choral novel, the first volume of Sublimes, and thus rewrite it benefiting from the freedom afforded by self-translation, within the framework provided by the doctoral school or as an autonomous work.The trilogy, entitled Sublimes in French and English, shows two parallel worlds: Earth in 2082, a rather dystopian take on our near future, and Arcadia, a fantasy world where magic once reigned but has long since disappeared. …”
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Computational Study of the Phytochemical Constituents from Uncaria tomentosa Stem Bark against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Spike Protein by Oscar Herrera-Calderon, Abdulrahman M. Saleh, Andres F. Yepes-Perez, Nada H. Aljarba, Saad Alkahtani, Gaber El-Saber Batiha, Renan Dilton Hañari-Quispe, Haydee Chavez, Josefa Bertha Pari-Olarte, Eddie Loyola-Gonzales, José Santiago Almeida-Galindo, José Francisco Kong-Chirinos, Taoufiq Benali

“…The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has spread rapidly and is considered the predominant variant in the world, and its main characteristic is related to evade immunity from natural infection or vaccines, due to its multiple mutations in the spike protein. …”
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The position of Lithuanian parties towards Poland in 1920-1926: from modus vivendi to permanent confrontation by Andrius Grodis

“… In the end of the First World War, Lithuanian (having just regained independence) international position was badly complicated by a terror conflict with Poland with respect to Vilnius that took place in 1919. …”
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Deconstrucţia canonului literar în critica actuală română şi sârbă by Mariana Dan

“…The main idea of the book, which is the need of Romanian literature to synchronize with other European literatures, is old, and was already described in Romania in Eugen Lovinescu’s studies, prior to World War II. According to Negrici, it is the Romanian mentality in the first place that is due to ‘evolve’. …”
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Integrated microRNA and mRNA signatures associated with overall survival in epithelial ovarian cancer. by Joanna Lopacinska-Jørgensen, Douglas V N P Oliveira, Guy Wayne Novotny, Claus K Høgdall, Estrid V Høgdall

“…The content of our cohort (162 serous carcinomas, 15 endometrioid carcinomas, 11 mucinous carcinomas, and 9 clear cell carcinomas) reflects a real-world scenario of EOC. Several interaction pairs between 6 miRNAs (hsa-miR-126-3p, hsa-miR-223-3p, hsa-miR-23a-5p, hsa-miR-27a-5p, hsa-miR-486-5p, and hsa-miR-506-3p) and 8 mRNAs (ATF3, CH25H, EMP1, HBB, HBEGF, NAMPT, POSTN, and PROCR) were identified and the findings appear to be well supported by the literature. …”
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Strengthening Maternal and Infant Health in an impoverished peri urban community in Lima, Peru: The SAMI Project by Anna KOHLER-SMITH, Karen RAMOS, Carmen CONTRERAS, Milagros DUEÑAS, Leonid LECCA, Jerome T. GALEA

“…Project activities include accompaniment to clinical health appointments by community health workers for women until 45 days post birth, birth education classes in the second trimester, birth planning, depression screening, and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ‘Thinking Healthy Programme’ to reduce symptoms of mild to moderate perinatal depression. …”

Effectiveness of Single-Tablet Combination Therapy in Improving Adherence and Persistence and the Relation to Clinical and Economic Outcomes by Carly J. Paoli, Jörg Linder, Khushboo Gurjar, Deepika Thakur, Julie Wyckmans, Stacy Grieve

“…**Objectives:** We conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to examine STCT-associated outcomes across 4 evidence domains: clinical trials, real-world evidence (RWE), health-related quality of life (HRQoL) studies, and economic evaluations. …”
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