Antioxidant activities and inhibitory effects of free and bound polyphenols from date (Phoenix dactylifera L.) seeds on starch digestive enzymes by Sameera Sirisena, Ken Ng, Said Ajlouni

“…Bound polyphenol fraction, with strong α-glucosidase inhibition and weak α-amylase inhibition, was suggested as a significant source of functional food ingredients with anti-hyperglycaemic properties.…”
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Extraction, Isolation, and TEMPO-NaBr-NaClO Oxidation Modification of Cellulose from Coffee Grounds by Mourad Ouhammou, Abdellah Mourak, Aziz Ait-Karra, Jaouad Abderrahim, Najat Elhadiri, Mostafa Mahrouz

“…These chemical modifications improve the cellulose’s reactivity, broadening its potential applications in various fields, including biocomposites, sustainable packaging materials, and functional films. This work demonstrates the feasibility of utilizing coffee ground residues as a renewable, eco-friendly source of modified cellulose for high-value applications.…”
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Evaluation of Health and Wellness Centers in Nagpur District of Maharashtra, Central India by Priti N. Tiwari, Sagar M. Pandey, Hitesh C. Tayade, Arvind S. Kushwaha, Sushma S. Thakre, Subhash B. Thakre

“…Results: All eight HWCs were functioning in government buildings. Half of the HWCs had electricity and functional power backup. …”
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Efficient Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Using AgN3 Single‐Atom Sites Embedded in Free‐Standing Electrodes for Flow Cell Applications by M. Nur Hossain, Ali Malek, Zhangsen Chen, Lei Zhang, Shuhui Sun, Hanshuo Liu, Roberto Neagu, Jigang Zhou, Hui Yuan, Christopher S. Allen, Gianluigi Botton

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Harnessing the microbial interactions from Apocynum venetum phyllosphere for natural product discovery by Wei Huang, Xingzhi Jiao, Lingqi Hua, Qianjin Kang, Lili Zhang, Xiaoxia Luo, Linquan Bai

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Dietary compositions and their seasonal shifts in Japanese resident birds, estimated from the analysis of volunteer monitoring data. by Tetsuro Yoshikawa, Yutaka Osada

“…Determining the composition of a bird's diet and its seasonal shifts are fundamental for understanding the ecology and ecological functions of a species. Various methods have been used to estimate the dietary compositions of birds, which have their own advantages and disadvantages. …”
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Comparing soil microbial diversity in smallholder plantain backyard gardens and main farms in Western and Central Africa by Manoj Kaushal, Yao Adjiguita Kolombia, Amos Emitati Alakonya, Cargele Masso

“…Beneficial genera such as Bacillus, Streptomyces, Bradyrhizobium, and Paenibacillus were also detected. Functional predictions based on COG and KEGG databases indicated notable differences in microbial functional potential between the two settings. …”
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Potentials of Natural Preservatives to Enhance Food Safety and Shelf Life: A Review by Ejigayehu Teshome, Sirawdink Fikreyesus Forsido, H. P. Vasantha Rupasinghe, Ebisa Olika Keyata

“…The extraction condition and purification of natural preservatives may change their structure and affect their functionality. Selecting the best extraction method coupled with minimal processing such as direct mechanical extraction seems to preserve active ingredients. …”
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HEARING CORRECTION METHOD BASED ON PSYCHOACOUSTICALLY MOTIVATED FREQUENCY TRANSPOSITION IN A SPEECH SIGNAL by M. I. Porhun, M. I. Vashkevich

“…For frequency transposition, source and target frequency bands are selected. The width of the source frequency band is fixed, while the width of the target band is adaptive. …”
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Tracing the Image of Turks in Travel Writing through Translation by Seda Taş İlmek

“…Therefore, the analysis suggests that the translator, as an intercultural agent, seemed to claim his position as an author-translator in the translation process while particularly illustrating the function of gatekeeping and the use of translation for selecting and highlighting the representation of mental pictures of a certain culture and period.…”
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Designing and implementing a Web-based real time routing service for crisis management (a case study for district 11 of Tehran) by javad sadidi, seyed hassan hosseini sajedi

“…According to the obtained results, the path’s length and traffic’s volume variables have the most important role in target function formation (travel cost) therefore the specific path will be selected as the optimal path, with the minimized distance between the destination and the traffic volume. …”
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Sorting algorithm acceleration based on CPU-FPGA heterogeneous system by Kou Yuanbo, Qiu Zeyu, Wang Liang, Huang Jianqiang

“…Traditional sorting methods are mainly implemented in software serial mode, including bubble sorting, selective sorting and so on. These algorithms often use sequential comparison, and the operation time complexity is relatively high. …”
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Optimal extraction of a polysaccharide with antioxidant and hypoglycemic activities from the root of Radix Puerariae lobatae (Willd.) Ohwi by Jingjing Fang, Yijun Zhang, Yuqing Liu, Wen Cao, Qiuyue Lv, Jiangping Wu, Guodong Wang, Jun Han

“…Radix Pueraria lobata has been recognized as a medicine and functional food, whose polysaccharide is its main bioactive component. …”
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Genomic Survey of Genes Encoding Major Intrinsic Proteins (MIPs) and Their Response to Arsenite Stress in Pepper (<i>Capsicum annum</i>) by Syed Muhammad Azam, Kaixuan Huang, Jiaxin Yuan, Yanqing Bai, Qiaolin Chen, Panpan Dang, Hend Alwathnani, Hajar Fahad Bin Zayid, Renwei Feng, Christopher Rensing

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Metabolism and Immune Suppressive Response in Liver Cancer by Patrizio Caini, Vinicio Carloni

“…The enhanced metabolic activity of cancer cells leads to competition for essential nutrients, depriving non-malignant cells of critical resources. Simultaneously, the accumulation of metabolic byproducts within the tumor microenvironment (TME) selectively favors innate immune responses while impairing adaptive immunity. …”
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MergeBot: A platform of semi-structured merge conflict resolution for C/C++ code by Hua He, Xiaofan Liu, Lei Xu, Guanghui Mei, Jifeng Xuan

“…In software version control systems, like Git, merge conflicts typically arise when multiple developers edit the same segment of a source file from different branches. Detecting merge conflicts can be automated; however, resolving merge conflicts is tedious and demanding. …”
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Intratumoural aldosterone and CYP11B2 expression levels among different genotypes of aldosterone producing tumours by Tobias Åkerström, Branislav Klimàcek, Matilda Annebäck, Olov Norlén, Peter Stålberg

“…Primary aldosteronism is the most common endocrine cause of hypertension, affecting 5–10% of hypertensive patients. Determining the source of aldosteronism is necessary for correct diagnosis and further molecular analysis. …”
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Spatial database applications for network analysis: Case study of bicycle accessibility of forested areas in the Poznań Metropolitan Area, Poland by Kostecki Robert

“…The solution includes a complete description of how to perform network analysis using a spatial database with SQL and pgRouting. The implemented functionalities consist of solutions for finding the equidistance or isochrone area for any selected point location. …”
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基于新型摆线包络行星减速器的电动轮毂 by 陈治宇, 梁栋, 李朝阳

“…Nowadays the technology of electric wheel is widely used in new energy vehicles.An electric wheel based on a new type of cycloid envelope planetary reducer is proposed.The PM brushless DC motor is selected as a power source.The cycloid envelope planetary reducer with high load capacity,small volume and high stiffness is the main drive device.The overall design of motor-driving device-wheel housing is realized.The main meshing pair of this high performance cycloid reducer with floating disc type output mechanism is composed of cycloid gear and double-envelope internal gear.The meshing and tooth profile equations of cycloid double-envelope internal gear are respectively derived.The characteristic of secondary action during the engagement process is demonstrated.This developed electric wheel based on the cycloid envelope planetary reducer has the characteristics of large overload capacity,small volume,high integration and low manufacturing cost.It can be applied to electric vehicles and achieve the function of single-wheel drive or all-wheel drive.…”
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Building a Collaborative Editorial Workbench for Legal Texts with Complex Structures by Nils Geißler, Daniela Schulz

“…It introduces the reasons for selecting WordPress as the project’s CMS, the workflows established (including a sophisticated XSL-scripting pipeline), as well as three plug-ins created to integrate certain functionalities. …”
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