Agricultural Expansion-Induced Infiltration Rate Change in a West African Tropical Catchment by Yacouba Yira, Aymar Y. Bossa

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Costimulatory Pathways: Physiology and Potential Therapeutic Manipulation in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Nien Yee Kow, Anselm Mak

“…Indeed, SLE is characterized by an orchestrated interplay amongst different types of immunopathologically important cells participating in both innate and adaptive immunity including the dendritic cells, macrophages, neutrophils and lymphocytes, as well as traditional nonimmune cells such as endothelial, epithelial, and renal tubular cells. …”
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Hydrogel and Organic Amendments to Increase Water Retention in Anthroposols for Land Reclamation by Valerie S. Miller, M. Anne Naeth

“…Type of waste material and amendment, application rate, and application method impacted water retention and can be adapted to build anthroposols in the field using waste materials suitable for reclamation.…”
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Conflict Consulting Clinic as a Method of Practical Training of Humanities Students by A. I. Strebkov, A. N. Sunami

“…The practice of students, organized in the form of a conflict consulting clinic, first of all solves the problem of adapting students to the conditions and requirements of the practical activity of a conflictologist. …”
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Malian field isolates provide insight into Plasmodium malariae intra-erythrocytic development and invasion. by Francois Dao, Amadou Niangaly, Fanta Sogore, Mamadou Wague, Djeneba Dabitao, Siaka Goita, Aboubacrin S Hadara, Ousmaila Diakite, Mohamed Maiga, Fatoumata O Maiga, Chantal Cazevieille, Cecile Cassan, Arthur M Talman, Abdoulaye A Djimde, Alejandro Marin-Menendez, Laurent Dembélé

“…Regarding RBC invasion, quantified by an adapted flow cytometry based method, our study indicated that none of the seven antibodies tested, against receptors known for their role in P. falciparum invasion, had any impact on the ability of P. malariae to penetrate the host cells. …”
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The fundamentals of Indian personality: An investigation of the big five by Tanisha Shetty, Nitha Thomas, Ravindra Neelakanthappa Munoli

“…This raises questions about the cross-cultural validity of the Big Five model as well as highlighting the need to adopt more culturally adaptive methods of assessing personality.…”
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Effects of female sexual chemosignals on mucosal immunity in BALB/c and C57BL/6 male mice by G. V. Kontsevaya, E. A. Litvinova, M. P. Moshkin

“…In mice, female chemosignal entry into the male organism via the respiratory system causes activation of the mucosal immune response, which leads to the development of enhanced resistance to infections and is of adaptive value. However, the activation of mucosal immunity depends on the genetic predispositions of the immune response. …”
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"Many old people taking care of old people": Experiences of older adults after Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. by Adrián J Santiago-Santiago, Jeffrey Ramos-Santiago, Eliut Rivera-Segarra

“…., communal support, equitable resource sharing) and 3) La brega (i.e., adaption and autogestión). Older adults in Adjuntas and Castañer addressed the emergent challenges after Hurricane María such as loneliness and lack of resources by relying on their communities. …”
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An instruction dataset for extracting quantum cascade laser properties from scientific textDataverse by Deperias Kerre, Anne Laurent, Kenneth Maussang, Dickson Owuor

“…They however experience challenges with domain specific properties, for instance the heterostructure and design types in the QCL domain hence for adaptation. In this paper, we present an original instruction dataset for training and evaluation of LLMs for QCL properties extraction from text. …”
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A modified procedure for the evaluation of the amylose and amylopectin content in potato starch by Yu. A. Khoroshavin, V. K. Khlestkin

“…The developed technique includes elements of previously disjointed procedures for dissolution and spectrophotometric determination of amylose in starch, and combines the following advantages: 1) starch samples dissolve in an organic solvent (0.5 % solution of lithium bromide in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMS)); 2) measurement of light absorption is performed at two wavelengths, 550 and 510 nm, and 3) the technique is adapted for use with a plate spectrophotometer. This procedure allows starch polysaccharides to avoid to avoid hydrolysis during dissolution, allows the precise spectrophotometric determination of the concentration of amylose complex with iodine in solution, and opens the possibility of using this technique for throughput phenotyping. …”
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THE CHILD-CENTERED PARADIGM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHERS by Horațiu CATALANO, Ana RUS, Gabriela MESTIC, Andreea-Ionela DOHOTARU

“…The research instrument was adapted from the questionnaire of the ERASMUS + 2019 - 1 - UK01 - KA 203 - 061665 (Child - Centered Competences for Early Childhood Education and Care) project, which aimed to explore the implications of the child-centered approach in the continuous professional development of early childhood teachers.The results of the Pearson analysis showed that the child-centered education approach correlates positively with continuous professional development. …”
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Meta-analyses of Culex blood-meals indicates strong regional effect on feeding patterns. by Jet S Griep, Eve Grant, Jack Pilgrim, Olena Riabinina, Matthew Baylis, Maya Wardeh, Marcus S C Blagrove

“…These results demonstrate that feeding patterns of Culex mosquitoes vary between species but can also vary between geographically distinct populations of the same species, indicating that regional or population-level adaptations are major drivers of host utilization. Ultimately, these findings support the surveillance of vector-borne diseases by specifying which host groups are most likely to be at risk.…”
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Optimal Benefit Distribution of a Tontine-like Annuity Fund with Age-Structured Models by Fan Zhang, Ping Chen, Xueyuan Wu

“…The core objective of this paper is to develop a pension model using ASMs, recognizing its significant potential for adaptation and expansion. The primary mathematical approach employed is the Maximum Principle from optimal control theory, which helps in deriving explicit solutions for the optimal subsidy strategy. …”
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Advancements in soil science for sustainable agriculture: conventional and emerging knowledge and innovations by Godswill Ntsomboh-Ntsefong, Kingsley Tabi Mbi, Essubalew Getachew Seyum

“…Understanding these effects is vital for developing mitigation and adaptation strategies. Promising soil remediation techniques like phytoremediation and bioaugmentation utilize plants and microorganisms to restore degraded soils. …”
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Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Risk in Physical Exercise Program Users by José Ander Asenjo Alarcón

“…Risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus were determined with a diagnostic interpretation guide adapted from the American Diabetes Association, the Peruvian Endocrinology Society, and the Ministry of Health. …”
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Multiperson Interactive Activity Recognition Based on Interaction Relation Model by Hongbin Tu, Renyu Xu, Rui Chi, Yuanyuan Peng

“…Secondly, this paper proposed an adaptive occlusion state behavior recognition method derived from the semantic knowledge model to ravel out the concern of occlusion and self-occlusion in human action recognition. …”
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Understanding the maternal-infant nexus from dental histology and high-resolution compositional biogeochemistry: implications for bioarchaeological research by Alessia Nava

“…This contribution presents an overview of state-of-the-art high-resolution compositional biogeochemistry coupled with dental histomorphometry as a tool to deepen our knowledge of the mother-infant nexus in archaeological and palaeoanthropological contexts, and to investigate, at the highest possible temporal resolution, women’s and children’s survival and adaptation strategies over the course of human evolution.…”
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Distribution of the common nettle Urtica dioica L. and annual nettle U. urens L. in the Russian Federation by N. N. Luneva, T. Yu. Zakota, Y. A. Fedorova

“…Therefore, plants of the same species, occurring in different parts of their area of distribution, are adapted to different hydrothermal conditions, which should be taken into account when selecting forms for further possible cultivation and use.…”
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A Multi-Agent Approach to Modeling Task-Oriented Dialog Policy Learning by Songfeng Liang, Kai Xu, Zhurong Dong

“…Multi-agent dialogue policy learning demonstrates superior learning speed and exploration capabilities, positioning it as a promising approach for developing more effective and adaptive dialogue agents. However, many studies neglect to holistically model collaboration between agents, which limits the effectiveness of policy learning. …”
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Arithmetic-Like Reasoning in Wild Vervet Monkeys: A Demonstration of Cost-Benefit Calculation in Foraging by Sayaka Tsutsumi, Tomokazu Ushitani, Kazuo Fujita

“…In addition to providing empirical data, the current study provides an easily adaptable field technique that would allow comparison across taxa and habitat using a uniform method.…”
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