Scots Pine Bark Extracts as Co-Hardeners of Epoxy Resins by Tomasz Szmechtyk

“…Extracts from natural waste like bark or leaves are great sources of phytochemicals, which contain functional groups (hydroxyl, carboxylic, vinyl, allyl) attractive in terms of polymer synthesis. …”
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Whole-Genome Resequencing Reveals Phylogenetic Relationships and Sex Differentiation Mechanisms Among Fujian <i>Cycas</i> Species by Xinyu Xu, Yousry A. El-Kassaby, Sijia Liu, Juan Zhang, Lanqi Zhang, Junnan Li, Wenkai Li, Kechang Zhang, Minghai Zou, Zhiru Lai, Likuang Lin, Yongdong Zhang, Shasha Wu, Bihua Chen

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Thermomechanical and Photophysical Properties of Crystal-Violet-Dye/H2O Based Dissolutions via the Pulsed Laser Photoacoustic Technique by Vicente Torres-Zúñiga, Rosalba Castañeda-Guzmán, Santiago J. Pérez-Ruiz, Omar G. Morales-Saavedra

“…An appropriate processing of the photoacoustic signals allows an adequate data analysis of the generated waves within the system, providing an accurate determination of the speed of sound as function of the dye-concentration. The acoustic attenuation was calculated based on the distance of the two PZT-microphones to an acoustic-source point and performing linear-fitting of the experimental data (RMS-amplitudes) as function of the dye-concentration. …”
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Lier les cooccurrences des Epithetes (1571) de Maurice de La Porte et celles des textes de la Pléiade by Nathalie Gasiglia, Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou

“…It is based on the example of a current editorial project that involves processing and publishing, in digital format, a sixteenth century lexicographical work, Les Epithetes by Maurice de La Porte (1571), whose main source is the poetry of the Pléiade. The textual database currently being established should make it possible to identify the attestations upon which La Porte based his selections. …”
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Branding process of cultural heritage in the context of rural revitalization in China: a case study of Qingtian County by Mei Zhang

“…The branding process reflects the combination of the functions of service-oriented government and the vitality and agency of the society. …”
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Prediction of the pharmaceutical solubility in water and organic solvents via different soft computing models by A. Yousefi, k. movagharnejad

“…Molecular weight, melting point, temperature and the number of each functional group in the pharmaceutical compound and organic solvents were selected as the input variables of these three different neural network models. …”
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The role of a tutor in teaching values by Anna Pekala

“…The role of education of moral values in preparing for future functioning in society and building correct interpersonal relations is emphasized. …”
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Reinforcement learning-based vehicle travel path reconstruction from sparse automatic licence plate recognition data by Qiuping Li, Hui Meng, Li Zhuo

“…First, the maximum entropy inverse reinforcement learning (MaxEnt IRL) method is employed to learn vehicle path selection strategy, i.e. the reward function, from the real data. …”
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Consistent microbial insights across sequencing methods in soil studies: the role of reference taxonomies by Niranjana Rose Edwin, Aoife Duff, Coline Deveautour, Fiona Brennan, Florence Abram, Orla O'Sullivan

“…Our findings reveal that both methods offer moderately similar outcomes, providing consistent detection of major phyla, similar microbial community differentiation patterns, and largely identifying the same relationships between the phyla and nitrogen functions. …”
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Analysis of the Possibility of Using Energy Harvesters to Power Wearable Electronics in Clothing by Anna Dąbrowska, Agnieszka Greszta

“…., sensors and diodes) implemented to clothing indicate the possibility of using miniaturized EHs as a power source for such elements. Each of the discussed EH has both disadvantages and advantages. …”
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Bridging Behavioural, Neural, and First-Person Insights into Working Memory Strategies by Anka Slana Ozimič, Nina Purg Suljič, Aleš Oblak, Jurij Bon, Toma Strle, Grega Repovš

“… Working memory is a core cognitive function, yet findings regarding its behavioural and neural underpinnings are often inconsistent. …”
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Coherence in popularized medico-pharmaceutical reports: The case of EPAR summaries for the public by Aage Hill-Madsen

“…The summary for the public reports the gist of the specialized source text in a linguistic register suitable for a lay readership. …”
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Urinary Exosomes by Irena Dimov, Ljubinka Jankovic Velickovic, Vladisav Stefanovic

“…Thus, UE have valuable potential as a source of biomarkers for early detection of various types of diseases, monitoring the disease evolution and/or response to therapy. …”
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TRIM study protocol - a prospective randomized multicenter Trial to assess the Role of Imaging during follow-up after radical surgery of stage IIB-C and III cutaneous malignant Mel... by Ylva Naeser, Hildur Helgadottir, Yvonne Brandberg, Johan Hansson, Roger Olofsson Bagge, Nils O. Elander, Christian Ingvar, Karolin Isaksson, Petra Flygare, Cecilia Nilsson, Frida Jakobsson, Olga del Val Munoz, Antonis Valachis, Malin Jansson, Charlotte Sparring, Lars Ohlsson, Ulf Dyrke, Dimitrios Papantoniou, Anders Sundin, Gustav J. Ullenhag

“…Early onset of treatment seems to improve outcome, which suggests that early detection of recurrent disease should be beneficial. …”
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Grown up in the face of values. The subjective dimension of shaping values in human life. by Rafał Bodarski

“…This enormous impact of our activity is analyzed in the article from the point of view of selected theories functioning both in psychology and in pedagogy.…”
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Magistrates’ Travelling Libraries: The Circulation of Normative Knowledge in the Portuguese Empire of the Late 18th Century by Airton Ribeiro da Silva Jr.

“…The present study focuses on the lists of books of eleven magistrates appointed to judicial posts in a range of locations throughout Portuguese America between 1799 and 1807. Censorship sources allow us to identify the books chosen by these itinerant magistrates as being indispensable for the exercise of their judicial function. …”
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State of accounting methods and cost of maintenance and improving water management facilities by L.V. Syrovatchenko, T.M. Shapoval

“…The researcher finds out that the accounting cost of maintaining and improving water management facilities depends on the sources of financing of such costs as general or special funds of budget institutions. …”
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Development of a clinical decision support tool for Primary care Management of lower Urinary tract Symptoms in men: the PriMUS study by Adrian Edwards, Ridhi Agarwal, Janine Bates, Alison Bray, Sarah Milosevic, Emma Thomas-Jones, Michael Drinnan, Marcus Drake, Peter Michell, Bethan Pell, Haroon Ahmed, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Kerenza Hood, Yemisi Takwoingi, Chris Harding

“…Key outcomes that determine overall resource use are medical management (treatments and consultation time) and referral rates. …”
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A Study of Directional Patterns of Ultrasonic Parametric Array by Denis Sergeevich RAKOV, Aleksandr S. RAKOV, Andrey N. KUDRYAVTSEV, Nikolay P. KRASNENKO, Yury A. CHURSIN, Maksim A. MURIN

“…The results of selecting and functional testing of unit elements are described in this paper. …”
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Genomics and integrative clinical data machine learning scoring model to ascertain likely Lynch syndrome patients by Ramadhani Chambuso, Takudzwa Nyasha Musarurwa, Alessandro Pietro Aldera, Armin Deffur, Hayli Geffen, Douglas Perkins, Raj Ramesar

“…Annovar, Intervar, Variant Effect Predictor (VEP), and OncoKB software tools were used to functionally annotate and interpret somatic variants detected. …”
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