Rain Barrel Owners: Meeting the Programming Needs of the Unique Extension Audience by Emily Ott, Paul F. Monaghan, Wendy Wilber, Lynn Barber, Karissa Raymond

“…This 9-page document will provide insight into the behavior and attitudes of rain barrel owners so that Extension professionals may gain a better understanding of this unique audience. …”
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SOCIAL NETWORKS AS A TOOL FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE by V. Voronin, M. Iontseva

“…The authors describe social networks as a special virtualized social environment, characterize and describe the features of interaction within it. In the work, much attention is paid to socio-psychological mechanisms - scoring, patricipation, the technology of the expanding core and cascade technology, as well as the organizational conditions for employee motivation.…”
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Pathology of single dose cadmium toxicity and investigations of protective effect of simultaneous chlorpromazine administrations in rats by Tuna Erdem, Fatih Hatipoğlu

“…Relative testes and epididymis weights decreased and atrophy was seen in these organs. In addition, disseminate and intensity necrosis with vessel lesions in the testes was observed. …”
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Application of expert opinion in investigation and proof of criminal offences against justice by V. V. Grytsenko

“…Forensic examinations aimed at identifying the perpetrator are atypical in their investigation, since in most cases the identity of the latter is reliably known. …”
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Phenoxybenzamine in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Potential Role and Novel Mechanisms by Mario A. Inchiosa

“…The later stages are frequently characterized by changes to skin texture and nail deformities, hypertrichosis, muscle atrophy, and bone demineralization. Earlier treatments of CRPS syndromes were primarily focused on blocking sympathetic outflow to an affected extremity. …”
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Association between joint exposure to ambient air pollutants and carotid plaque: The mediating role of cardiometabolic risk factors by Yunfei Li, Ze Han, Xiaoyu Zhao, Yueruijing Liu, Zhiyuan Wu, Jinqi Wang, Xia Li, Xiuhua Guo, Lixin Tao

“…Background: Research has shown that exposure to joint air pollution is related to atherosclerosis, but little evidence has been found for carotid plaques. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Tetrakis(4-oxo-piperidinium ethylene acetal) Bis Sulfate Hexahydrate by H. Marouani, M. Rzaigui, S. S. Al-Deyab

“…Chemical preparation, x-ray characterization, IR spectroscopy and thermal analysis of a new sulfate (C7H12O2NH2)4(SO4)2.6H2O, are reported. The atomic arrangement can be described by layers formed by sulfate anions (SO -24) and water molecules connected by hydrogen bonds O-H…O. …”
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Chorea as the First Sign in a Patient with Elderly-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Yuko Ariizumi, Tetsutaro Ozawa, Takayoshi Tokutake, Izumi Kawachi, Masaki Hirose, Shinichi Katada, Shuichi Igarashi, Keiko Tanaka, Masatoyo Nishizawa

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain demonstrated a focal lesion in the right caudate head, which showed hyperintensity on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery and diffusion-weighted imaging. …”
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The effect of shielding gas composition on the toughness and crack growth parameters of AlMg4,5Mn weld metals by Prokić-Cvetković R., Kastelec-Macura S., Milosavljević A., Popović O., Burzić M.

“…The welding was performed with GTAW in the shielded atmosphere of Ar+0,015N2, mixture of the inert gases Ar+50%He+0,015N2 and Ar+70%He+0,015N2. …”
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Smart Agricultural Pest Detection Using I-YOLOv10-SC: An Improved Object Detection Framework by Wenxia Yuan, Lingfang Lan, Jiayi Xu, Tingting Sun, Xinghua Wang, Qiaomei Wang, Jingnan Hu, Baijuan Wang

“…The Convolutional Block Attention Module is employed to improve feature representation and attention focus. …”
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Automatic Search of Differential Characteristics and Improved Differential Cryptanalysis for PRINCE, QARMA, and MANTIS by Yaxin Cui, Hong Xu, Lin Tan, Wenfeng Qi

“…With this model, we find two sets of 7-round differential characteristics for PRINCE with less guessed key bits and use them to present a multiple differential attack against 11-round PRINCE, which improves the known single-key attack on PRINCE by one round to our knowledge.…”
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Zabawa czy afekt? O ideologicznym uwikłaniu twórczości Wiktora Pielewina by Andrzej Polak

“…The former accuse him of an overly skeptical attitude to the Western model of life, while the latter do not like the writer’s ironic approach to social reality, polemics with Russian values and attempts to discredit them. …”
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Antarctic Wide Subglacial Hydrology Modeling by Shivani Ehrenfeucht, Christine Dow, Koi McArthur, Mathieu Morlighem, Felicity S. McCormack

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Fabrication of Axial and Radial Heterostructures for Semiconductor Nanowires by Using Selective-Area Metal-Organic Vapor-Phase Epitaxy by K. Hiruma, K. Tomioka, P. Mohan, L. Yang, J. Noborisaka, B. Hua, A. Hayashida, S. Fujisawa, S. Hara, J. Motohisa, T. Fukui

“…Transmission electron microscopy combined with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy measurements have been used to analyze the crystal structure and the atomic composition profile for the nanowires. GaAs/AlGaAs, InP/InAs/InP, and GaAs/GaAsP core-shell structures have been found to be effective for the radial heterostructures to increase photoluminescence intensity and have enabled laser emissions from a single GaAs/GaAsP nanowire waveguide. …”
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NEIL3 Mediates Lung Cancer Progression and Modulates PI3K/AKT/mTOR Signaling: A Potential Therapeutic Target by Hongbo Huang, Qingwang Hua

“…The public data used in this study were downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. “Limma” in R was used for the analysis of differentially expressed genes. …”
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Diffusion Maps Clustering for Magnetic Resonance Q-Ball Imaging Segmentation by Demian Wassermann, Maxime Descoteaux, Rachid Deriche

“…White matter fiber clustering aims to get insight about anatomical structures in order to generate atlases, perform clear visualizations, and compute statistics across subjects, all important and current neuroimaging problems. …”
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Globalization and urban centers: Impact, challenges and development of global cities by Mujević Demir

“…This process means that cities, especially large and important urban centers, become key actors on the international scene, transcending national borders and establishing a direct connection with global markets, cultures, communications and political structures. Special attention is devoted to the development of the so-called global cities, which represent key centers of economic, political and cultural power. …”
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Principales elementos a tener en cuenta para el correcto diagnóstico de la sarcopenia by José Hernández Rodríguez, Yuri Arnold Domínguez

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Quantitative impact of immunomodulation versus oncolysis with cytokine-expressing virus therapeutics by Peter S. Kim, Joseph J. Crivelli, Il-Kyu Choi, Chae-Ok Yun, Joanna R. Wares

“…Some of the most promising therapeutic candidates are now being engineered to produce immunostimulatory factors, such as cytokines and co-stimulatory molecules, which, in addition to viral oncolysis, initiate a cytotoxic immune attack against the tumor. This study addresses the combined effects of viral oncolysis and T-cell-mediated oncolysis. …”
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Salivary microbiota dysbiosis and elevated polyamine levels contribute to the severity of periodontal disease by Md Haroon Rashid, Sandhya Pavan Kumar, Resma Rajan, Anitha Mamillapalli

“…Progression of periodontitis resulting in clinical attachment loss, bone loss and eventually the tooth loss is poorly understood. …”
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