Challenges in osteochondral repair—a critical review by Jalaja Aswathy, Josna Joseph, Annie Abraham

“…This critical review addresses the various challenges in OC tissue repair, including (i) anatomical complexities, (ii) biological approaches to restoring the OC interface, and material selection, (iii) cell sources for reconstruction, and (iv) recreating a coordinated microenvironment. …”
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Canopy Chlorophyll Content Inversion of Mountainous Heterogeneous Grasslands Based on the Synergy of Ground Hyperspectral and Sentinel-2 Data: A New Vegetation Index Approach by Yi Zheng, Yao Wang, Tayir Aziz, Ali Mamtimin, Yang Li, Yan Liu

“…This study confirms that the synergistic use of multi-source data effectively overcomes the limitations of the spectral–spatial resolution of a single data source, providing a novel methodology for the precision monitoring of mountain ecosystems.…”
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Optimizing extraction of microbial DNA from urine: Advancing urinary microbiome research in bladder cancer by Chuang-Ming Zheng, Ho Won Kang, Seongmin Moon, Young Joon Byun, Won Tae Kim, Yung Hyun Choi, Sung-Kwon Moon, Xuan-Mei Piao, Seok Joong Yun

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Genetic diversity in wild species and cultivars of strawberry for the <i>FanAAMT</i> gene controlling fruit flavor volatiles by A. S. Lyzhin, I. V. Luk’yanchuk

“…‘Karmen’, ‘Ostara’, ‘Samson’, ‘Symphony’, ‘Troubadour’ and ‘Vima Tarda’, in which the functional allele of the FanAAMT gene was found. In the remaining studied strawberry genotypes the marker FanAAMT was not detected, which presumably indicates that the FanAAMT gene is absent. cells (R9.4.1).…”
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mdciao: Accessible Analysis and Visualization of Molecular Dynamics Simulation Data. by Guillermo Pérez-Hernández, Peter W Hildebrand

“…We present mdciao, an open-source command line tool and Python Application-Programming-Interface (API) for easy, one-shot analysis and representation of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation data. …”
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Precision medicine in premature ovarian insufficiency: a focus on the precision therapeutic strategies for mesenchymal stem cells by Rou Wang, Fengyuan Liu, Qiuyue Liao, Jiachen Wu, Lingjuan Wang, Kezhen Li

“…Key issues include the selection of appropriate MSCs sources, the optimization of culture conditions, and the determination of optimal transplantation protocols (encompassing dosage, administration route, and timing), all of which pose significant barriers to clinical translation of MSCs. …”
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PPI-GA: A Novel Clustering Algorithm to Identify Protein Complexes within Protein-Protein Interaction Networks Using Genetic Algorithm by Naeem Shirmohammady, Habib Izadkhah, Ayaz Isazadeh

“…Any disturbance in proteins interactive network can act as a source for biological disorders and various diseases such as Alzheimer and cancer. …”
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Optimization of Adversarial Reprogramming for Transfer Learning on Closed Box Models by Alexander Bott, Moritz Siems, Alexander Puchta, Jurgen Fleischer

“…While it has been shown that this concept can work well in image classification, and a further modification has been developed to classify time series features, this work focuses primarily on the remaining key challenges such as the selection and comparison of appropriate loss functions, the optimisation of hyperparameters using Bayesian methods, and data labelling in the absence of ground truth. …”
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Recreational Thematic Dominants in News TV Discourse by M. A. Gladko

“…The key tasks of the research are to identify the repertoire of thematic dominants of recreation, their functional characteristics, the specifics of participation in the construction of the news text, as well as a description of the recreation scale.Methodology and sources. …”
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Assessment of Serum Vitamin D Levels and Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Vitamin D Deficiency among Emergency Health-care Workers at a Tertiary Care Center in N... by Sakshi Yadav, Prakash Ranjan Mishra, R. Rajalekshmi, Bharath Gopinath, Praveen Aggarwal, Akshaya Ramaswami, Paulina, Mohit Sharma

“…While most participants were aware of the active form of vitamin D, its sources and critical functions, knowledge about non-skeletal manifestations and measurable forms of vitamin D deficiency was limited. …”
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Evaluation of the coupling coordination effect of Hefei Rail transit station area based on supply and demand matching. by Wangyang Gui, Mengnan Cheng, Tong Zhang, Yifei Guo, Bin Xu

“…The coupling of supply and demand in the rail transit station area is an important driving force for ensuring the balanced development between the traffic functions and the place performance of the rail transit station area. …”
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Spells and the Holy Tradition: On the Reception of the Biblical Heritage in the Verbal Magic of the Eastern Slavs by Tatyana A. Agapkina

“…The author investigates how these events and images get into the oral tradition, how they are assimilated into folklore, and what functions they perform in charms. The author relies on Holy Scripture and Sacred Tradition and uses apocryphal writings, liturgics, prayers, sermons, and other sources. …”
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Methodology of recreation in the structure of the educational space by Viacheslav Zaytzev, Sergii Iermakov, Magdalena Hagner- Derengowska

“…Materials and Methods. Sources of information are publications in domestic literature. …”
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Balancing Performance and Portability: A Study on CsI(Tl) Crystal Sizes for Real-Time Gamma-Ray Spectrum and Dose Monitoring by Nikolaos Voulgaris, Hikari Nishimura, Shingo Tamaki, Sachie Kusaka, Isao Murata

“…This was accomplished by calculating the detection efficiency and energy resolution through experimental measurements using standard gamma-ray sources and simulations using MCNP5. …”
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Compositional and nutritional value of lupin cultivars: Identifying high-protein seeds for enhanced protein isolate production and phytochemical valorisation by Pau Taberner-Pibernat, Albert Ribas-Agustí, Gisela Quinteros, Gerard Sabeña, Miguel López-Gómez, Rubén Domínguez-Valencia, Ricard Bou

“…These findings highlight the potential of lupin for diverse applications in the food and industrial sectors. Cultivar selection is essential to enhance protein extraction yields and colour, as well as to consider lupin as a source of various phytochemicals for valorisation.…”
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Energy Trading in Local Energy Markets: A Comprehensive Review of Models, Solution Strategies, and Machine Learning Approaches by Sania Khaskheli, Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam

“…This classification examines various algorithms for energy transactions considering the agent type, learning methods, policy, state space, action space, and action selection for state, action, and reward function outputs. …”
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Information Assisted Dictionary Learning for fMRI Data Analysis by Manuel Morante, Yannis Kopsinis, Sergios Theodoridis, Athanassios Protopapas

“…Moreover, it can cope efficiently with uncertainties in the modeling of the hemodynamic response function. In addition, the method bypasses one of the major drawbacks of the DL methods; namely, the selection of the sparsity-related regularization parameters. …”
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SentemQC - A novel and cost-efficient method for quality assurance and quality control of high-resolution frequency sensor data in fresh waters [version 2; peer review: 1 approved,... by Sofie Gyritia Madsen van't Veen, Joachim Audet, Eti Ester Levi, Brian Kronvang, Søren Erik Larsen, Erik Jeppesen, Esben Astrup Kristensen, Anders Nielsen, Thomas Alexander Davidson, Jane Rosenstand Laugesen, Peter Mejlhede Andersen

“…The SentemQC method is computationally efficient and features a six-step user-friendly setup for anomaly detection. The method marks anomalies in data using five moving windows. …”
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Distribution, behavior and diet of the Asiatic black bear in human modified landscapes by Hadi Fahimi, Mahmood Soofi, Nahid Ahmadi, Ali T. Qashqaei, Hamidreza Heidari, Haaken Bungum, Bent Rech, Jonas Trepel, Matthias Waltert

“…Elevation, precipitation, village density, and PA size did not substantially influence occupancy. Black bear detection probability became 100 % only above 14 km survey effort, indicating its overall rarity, and bears were much more easily detected during and after rainfall. …”
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Antiretroviral drug therapy does not reduce neuroinflammation in an HIV-1 infection brain organoid model by Samuel Martinez-Meza, Thomas A. Premeaux, Stefano M. Cirigliano, Courtney M. Friday, Stephanie Michael, Sonia Mediouni, Susana T. Valente, Lishomwa C. Ndhlovu, Howard A. Fine, Robert L. Furler O’Brien, Douglas F. Nixon

“…Abstract Background HIV-1-associated neurocognitive impairment (HIV-1-NCI) is marked by ongoing and chronic neuroinflammation with loss and decline in neuronal function even when antiretroviral drug therapy (ART) successfully suppresses viral replication. …”
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