South Africa’s Weekly Media: Front-Page Reporting 9/11, Preventing Islamophobia by Muhammed Haron

“…The media’s negative portrayal and reporting about Muslims did not only contribute towards a tendentious relationship between the media and the Muslims but it also contributed towards the spread of Islamophobia. …”
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Formal Verification of Nonfunctional Requirements of Overall Instrumentation and Control Architectures by Polina Ovsiannikova, Antti Pakonen, Dmitry Muromsky, Maksim Kobzev, Viktor Dubinin, Valeriy Vyatkin

“…In this article, we focus on the latter and use formal verification methods to reason about the correctness of an I&C architecture represented with an ontology, using the example of a nuclear power plant design. …”
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An Evaluation on the Potential of Large Language Models for Use in Trauma Triage by Kelvin Le, Jiahang Chen, Deon Mai, Khang Duy Ricky Le

“…Overall, the literature highlights multifaceted applications of LLMs, especially in emergency trauma settings, albeit with clear limitations and ethical considerations, such as artificial hallucinations, biased outputs and data privacy issues. …”
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Barriers to Fluoride Application as a Preventive Measure among Oral Health Care Providers by Aqdar A. Akbar, Noura Al-Sumait, Hanan Al-Yahya, Mohammad Y. Sabti, Muawia A. Qudeimat

“…Fear of overdose was a concern in 57% of the participants. About 31% believed that caries is a multifactorial disease and cannot be prevented. …”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Cross-Sectional Study of Practices among Paediatricians in Private Sector, Mumbai by Carolyn Kavita Tauro, Nilesh Chandrakant Gawde

“…Drug-resistance at beginning of treatment is suspected for child in contact with a drug-resistant patient (67.7%) and with prior history of antitubercular treatment (12.9%). About half of them (48%) request drug-resistance test for rifampicin in case of nonresponse after two to three months of therapy and regimen prescribed by 41.7% for multidrug-resistant TB was as per ISTC. …”
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Training specialists in international relations: rethinking the new paradigm by E. V. Voevoda

“…The process of globalization, global changes, challenges and threats bring about the necessity to study specific features of international cooperation in ecology, psychology of conflict, psychology of leadership, etc. …”
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Improving the Performance of Liquid-Based Battery Thermal Management Systems Using Flow Patterns and Contact Surface with the Battery by Abolfazl Mokhtari

“…Additionally, the study shows the impact of increased contact surface on system weight, indicating a significant weight reduction of about 28.5% in solid blocks with increased contact surface. …”
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Fractal-Based Robotic Trading Strategies Using Detrended Fluctuation Analysis and Fractional Derivatives: A Case Study in the Energy Market by Ekaterina Popovska, Galya Georgieva-Tsaneva

“…DFA and R/S analysis may capture the long-range dependencies and fractal features inherited by the nature of the electricity price time series and give information about persistence and variability in their behavior. …”
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Taurine prevents mitochondrial dysfunction and protects mitochondria from reactive oxygen species and deuterium toxicity by Stephanie Seneff, Anthony M. Kyriakopoulos

“…Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen with a neutron as well as a proton, making it about twice as heavy as hydrogen. We first explain the important role that the gut microbiome and the gut sulfomucin barrier play in deuterium management. …”
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Advancements in the development of antivirals against SARS-Coronavirus by Mrityunjay Kumar, Mirza Sarwar Baig, Kanchan Bhardwaj, Kanchan Bhardwaj

“…Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) caused an outbreak in 2002-2003, spreading to 29 countries with a mortality rate of about 10%. …”
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Discrimination of Effects between Directional and Nondirectional Information of Auditory Warning on Driving Behavior by Yuting Zhang, Xuedong Yan, Zhuo Yang

“…Providing a clear warning with directional information about an urgent hazard event could give drivers adequate time to prepare for the potential collision. …”
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The New Silence Trend for Businesses: Quiet Hiring by Güzin Kıyık Kıcır

“…The reactive tendencies in silence, which have recently come to the fore in the business world, bring about the development of different adaptation skills for employees, managers and businesses. …”
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Lunar Tractive Forces and Renal Stone Incidence by Spyridon Arampatzis, George N. Thalmann, Heinz Zimmermann, Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos

“…Several factors are implicated in renal stone formation and peak incidence of renal colic admissions to emergency departments (ED). Little is known about the influence of potential environmental triggers such as lunar gravitational forces. …”
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From bowls to pots: The dairying revolution in Northwest Turkey, a view from Barcın Höyük, 6600 to 6000 BCE. by Hadi Özbal, Adria Breu, Laurens Thissen, Fokke Gerritsen, Elisha van den Bos, Alfred Galik, Turhan Doğan, Muhiddin Çergel, Adnan Şimşek, Ayla Türkekul, Rana Özbal

“…Research has identified Northwest Turkey as a key region for the development of dairying in the seventh millennium BCE, yet little is known about how this practice began or evolved there. This research studies Barcın Höyük, a site located in Bursa's Yenişehir Valley, which ranges chronologically from 6600 BCE, when the first evidence of settled life appears in the Marmara Region, to 6000 BCE, when Neolithic habitation at the site ceases. …”
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Mountain permafrost and associated geomorphological processes: recent changes in the French Alps by Xavier Bodin, Philippe Schoeneich, Philip Deline, Ludovic Ravanel, Florence Magnin, Jean-Michel Krysiecki, Thomas Echelard

“…This paper provides a synthesis of the knowledge about the current status of the mountain permafrost in the French Alps and its recent evolution. …”
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« L’attention littéraire » dans les textes d’Alessandro Mendini (1931-2019) : une traduction permanente vers le projet by Catherine Geel

“…It is thus the act of translation that allows Alessandro Mendini to shed light on the construction of a written and projective work where “attention to the literary” is what it is all about. The designer’s written matter, complex and ultimately highly organised, is not content to explain the man or the work, it is the very matter of his design work: the text goes beyond the unveiling of his main theoretical concepts of “sentimental robot”, “cynical man”, “decorative man”, and “natural object body”. …”
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GENETIC DIVERSITY OF BREAD WHEAT LANDRACES COLLECTED BY SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS IN AFGHANISTAN by O. P. Mitrofanova, P. P. Strelchenko, E. V. Zuev, K. Street, J. Konopka, M. Mackay

“…The distribution of Afghani landraces of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) from the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry and Australian collections depending on elevation above sea level and climatic conditions (humidity/aridity) is discussed. Data about sources of valuable traits for breeding identified among the accessions of Afghani bread wheat are presented. …”
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An analysis of the role of different levels of exchange of explicit information in human–robot cooperation by Ane San Martin, Johan Kildal, Elena Lazkano

“…These designs enable the robot to offer contextual information about what user actions it has identified and how it intends to respond, which is in line with the goal of cooperation. …”
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Highlights in IBD Epidemiology and Its Natural History in the Paediatric Age by Marco Gasparetto, Graziella Guariso

“…Multicenter national registers and international networks can provide information on IBD epidemiology and lead to hypotheses about its causes and possible management strategies. …”
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High Level Bioaerosol Protection against Infective Aerosols: How Medical Face Masks Compare against Respirators by Christian M. Sterr, Aline Dick, Lena Schellenberger, Julian Zirbes, Claudia Nonnenmacher-Winter, Frank Günther

“…However, there is still uncertainty about the protective effect of the different types of masks against virus containing aerosols. …”
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