PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA by S. V. Rudenko, Y. A. Sobolievskyi

“…An important question: "Can we assume that the spiritual culture of the American Indians contained philosophical knowledge?" remains relevant today. …”
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Acoustic Emission Characteristics and Failure Mechanism of Fractured Rock under Different Loading Rates by Yongzheng Zhang, Gang Wang, Yujing Jiang, Shugang Wang, Honghua Zhao, Wenjun Jing

“…Uniaxial tests on a sample containing a single open fracture were simulated under different loading rates ranging from 0.005 to 0.5 m/s. …”
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The effect of forages treated with different methods on fattening performance and slaughter and carcass characteristics of awassi lambs by Orhan ÖZBEY, Abdulkadir AKÇAN, Fuat GÜRDOĞAN

“…This study was carried out to determine an economic feeding system for Awassi sheep at the age of 8-12 months which were fed for a short period to be fit for slaughter and sacrifice so as to get a high lattening performance and to investigate the elteel ol ihis feeding system on slaughter and carcass characteristics According to this, the animals fed with ration containing grinded barley straw without molasses formed Group I. fed with the ration containing grinded barley straw treated with molasses formed Group II and the other fed with ration containing barley straw which was noi grinded but treated with moiasses formed Group III. …”
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Unique Presentation of Giant Metastatic Microcystic Serous Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas by Cyriac Abby Philips, Chetan Ramesh Kalal, Chhagan Bihari, Amrish Sahney, KN Chandan Kumar, Archana Rastogi

“…Tumors of the pancreas that contain substantial cystic components include mainly mucinous cystic neoplasm, intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm, solid pseudopapillary tumor, and cystadenomas (which encompass microcystic, macrocystic/oligocystic, and rare solid serous adenomas). …”
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Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Al Matrix Composites Reinforced with TiO₂ and Graphitic Carbon Nitride by Chen Wang, Xianyong Zhu, Ke Zhang, Jiaan Liu, Xiong Xiao, Cheng Jiang, Jinyuan Zhang, Changchun Lv, Zhaoxue Sun

“…The maximum tensile strength has been found at about 172.5 MPa in the Al-10TiO₂ containing 1 wt% g-C₃N₄, which was enhanced by 34% compared to that of the Al-10TiO₂. …”
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Residual ciprofloxacin in chicken manure inhibits methane production in an anaerobic digestion system by Yiting Wang, Qing Liu, Hongli Ran, Pingcai Peng, Yan Wang, Guoliang Peng, Yinbao Wu, Xin Wen

“…Here, the effects of three types of veterinary antibiotics commonly used in laying hen breeding on AD were explored. Manures containing antibiotics at two different concentrations were continuously added during AD for 5 days: amoxicillin (HAMX: 145.06 mg/kg, LAMX: 57.88 mg/kg), doxycycline (HDOC: 183.61 mg/kg, LDOC: 98.00 mg/kg), and ciprofloxacin (HCIP: 96.34 mg/kg, LCIP: 40.43 mg/kg). …”
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Hydra Radio Access Network (H-RAN): Multi-Functional Communications and Sensing Networks, Initial Access Implementation, and Task-2 Approach by Rafid I. Abd, Daniel J. Findley, Kwang Soon Kim

“…Indeed, while the potential of H-RAN networks encompasses numerous improvements and innovations across various aspects of next-generation technologies, this paper addresses the initial access implementation and data transmission approaches under the non-line-of-sight (NLoS) of the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text {level}_{1}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> case study. Our solution contains several novelties that enhance both overhead and model accuracy. …”
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Antioxidative Characteristics and Sensory Acceptability of Bread Substituted with Purple Yam (Dioscorea alata L.) by Siti Tamaroh, Ajat Sudrajat

“…The resulting bread contained total anthocyanins 54.62 mg/100 g db, total phenol 391.14 mg EAG/100 g db, antioxidant activity 48.53% and volume expansion 64.85%, color L∗=53.06, a∗=6.52, b∗=13.32, C=14.87, H=64.06, and sensory score=3.24 (preferred).…”
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From Matched Certificates to Related Persons by Rick Mourits, Ingrid K. van Dijk, Kees Mandemakers

“…For the Netherlands, a rich new data source has become available which contains indexed civil certificates for multiple generations of individuals: LINKS. …”
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Using the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System for Doxycycline-inducible Gene Expression in RAW264.7 Macrophage Cells to Study Phagocytosis by Parsa Kamali, Gregory Fairn

“…In this protocol, we use the Sleeping Beauty transposon system to generate RAW264.7 cells with doxycycline-inducible inositol polyphosphate 4-phosphatase B containing a C-terminal CaaX motif (INPP4B-CaaX). INPP4B-CaaX dephosphorylates the D-4 position of phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate and inhibits phagocytosis. …”
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A Review of the Mechanism of Bailing for Diabetic Nephropathy Based on ChatGPT and Network Pharmacology by Weiwei Xi, Xuming Zhao, Boya Wang, Yichen Zhu, Hua Li

“…Bailing capsules, which contain fermented cordyceps mycelium, are commonly utilized in treating various kidney disorders, including DN in clinical practice. …”
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Application of the calculation method for calculating an economically justified land tax by A. V. Ilin

“…The analysis of normative legal base, taxation practice, statistical data, economic publications devoted to the mechanism of land tax assessment has been carried out. The article contains judgments of the continuous presence of a significant overestimation of the tax base for the land tax in the tax system of Russia, which leads to the unreliable definition of the taxpayer’s tax liability. …”
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Desired Compensation Adaptive Robust Control of an Active Vibration Isolation System by Bo Zhao, Weijia Shi, Ming Zhang, Jiaxin Li, Feng Li

“…The DCARC control scheme is then proposed, which contains a deterministic robust control (DRC) term and an adaptive control (AC) term. …”
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News Writing for Print by Ricky W. Telg

“… A good print news story will contain the following components: inverted pyramid structure, five Ws and H, leads, impersonal reporting, news writing techniques, quotations and attributions, Associated Press Style, and proper grammar and punctuation. …”
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Software Defect Prediction For Quality Evaluation Using Learning Techniques Ensemble Stacking by Muhammad Romadhona Kusuma, Windu Gata, Sigit Kurniawan, Dedi Dwi Saputra, Supriadi Panggabean

“…We used machine learning techniques and ensemble stacking approach on the "Masjid Tower" dataset containing 228 records and 34 attributes. The preprocessing process involved label encoding, feature selection with Pearson correlation, standard normalization, and the use of SMOTE to handle data imbalance. …”
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Detection and decontamination of Mycoplasma in cultured cells and viral strains by Glaucia Prado de Andrade, Natália Hettwer Pedroso, Alice Becker, Vinicius Soares dos Santos, Juciane Bonella, José Valter Joaquim Silva Júnior, Rudi Weiblen, Eduardo Furtado Flores

“…Bovine (MDBK and CRIB cells), porcine (PK-15), rabbit (RK-13) and hamster (BHK-21) cell lineages were maintained in media containing the drugs and tested by PCR at weekly intervals. …”
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Unsteady Mixed Convection Boundary Layer from a Circular Cylinder in a Micropolar Fluid by Anati Ali, Norsarahaida Amin, Ioan Pop

“…Most industrial fluids such as polymers, liquid crystals, and colloids contain suspensions of rigid particles that undergo rotation. …”
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Beneficial Effects of <i>In Vitro</i> Reconstructed Human Gut Microbiota by Ginseng Extract Fermentation on Intestinal Cell Lines by Margherita Finazzi, Federica Bovio, Matilde Forcella, Marina Lasagni, Paola Fusi, Patrizia Di Gennaro

“…Among the natural compounds that we can introduce by the diet, <i>Panax ginseng</i> extract is one of the most utilized since it contains a vast number of bioactive molecules such as phenolic acids, flavonoids, and polysaccharides that have been shown to possess antioxidant, anti-ageing, anti-cancer, and immunomodulatory activity. …”
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Evaluating the PNI, RAI, SIP and SPI Indices in Mapping Drought Intensity of Iran: Comparing the Interpolation Method and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) by Mahmoud Khosravi, Alireza Movaqqari, Mohammad Reza Mansouri Daneshvar

“…So these indices are mapped through the two analysis methods containing spatial interpolating and digital elevation models. …”
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3D Printing of Polymer-Derived Graphene/SiC_p/SiC Composite by Direct Ink Writing by Hongjun Liu, Yajun Li, Run Tang, Yamin Li

“…A polycarbosilane (PCS)-based slurry containing graphene/SiC_p composite powder was developed and 3D-printed into scaffolds with a lattice structure, which were then pyrolyzed at 1500 °C to obtain a graphene/SiC_p/SiC composite. …”
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