A green approach to recovering lithium and cobalt from spent lithium-ion batteries using dilute HCl solution mixed with H. sabdariffa flower extract as a leaching agent by Tran T.T., Nguyen T.H., Nguyen P.D., Lee M.S.

“…In these leaching systems, the extract, which contains organic compounds, acts as a complexing and reductive agent for dissolved metals. …”
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Selective Activation of Cancer Stem Cells by Size-Specific Hyaluronan in Head and Neck Cancer by Marisa Shiina, Lilly Y. W. Bourguignon

“…We determined that human head and neck cancer cells (HSC-3 cell line) contain a subpopulation displaying cancer stem cell (CSC) properties and are very tumorigenic. …”
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Knowledge of Future Dental Practitioners towards Oral Cancer: Exploratory Findings from a Public University in Malaysia by Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Nazrin Bin Zakaria, Shazia Qasim Jamshed

“…A 9-item pretested questionnaire contains questions on oral examination, oral cancer risk factors, and requests for further information. …”
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Analysis of geothermal impact on metabolite compounds of heat-tolerant plant species using clustering and similarity cliff by N.B. Maulydia, K. Khairan, T.E. Tallei, F. Mohd Fauzi, R. Idroes

“…These findings suggest that the chemical compositions of plants in geothermal regions are influenced by the unique environmental conditions, leading to distinct chemical fingerprints for each area.CONCLUSION: This study illustrates that medicinal plants found in geothermal regions contain a broad range of chemical compounds, showcasing a notable diversity in their chemical compositions. …”
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Efficacy and safety of a digital check-in and triage kiosk in emergency departments: a systematic review protocol by Benedict Hayhoe, Azeem Majeed, Mark Harmon, Geva Greenfield, Ana Luísa Neves, Himani Laxshmi Kaur Sehgal

“…A narrative synthesis will be used to summarise the findings of the included studies.Ethics and dissemination This review is exempt from ethical approval because it will be analysing published studies containing non-identifiable data. The findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications.PROSPERO registration number CRD42024481506.…”
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A Critique on the Book “The Mixed Method Research” by Mustafa Hamadani

“…Shirin Koshki has been used as a textbook for human and social sciences in the new field of mixed methods. This book contains some drawbacks which are investigated in the current research. …”
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Dietary exposure to essential oils of selected Pinus and Abies species leads to morphological changes in Drosophila melanogaster wings by Cvetković Vladimir J., Lazarević Maja, Mitić Zorica S., Zlatković Bojan, Stojković-Piperac Milica, Jevtović Snežana, Stojanović Gordana, Žikić Vladimir

“…Drosophila larvae were treated with a diet containing 3% EOs from 6 Pinus and 3 Abies species. …”
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JAPANESE IRIS (IRIS ENSATA THUNB.) IN SOUTHERN WEST SIBERIA by Z. V. Dolganova

“…Fruit formation of cultivars with simple flowers was 54 %, with double, 9 %, and with forced crossing 93 and 73 %, respectively. The fruit contained 5–116 seeds; their weight was 6–9 g; and germinative capacity, 1–37 %. …”
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Anomaly Detection in High Mobility MDT Traces Through Self-Supervised Learning by J. M. Sanchez-Martin, C. Gijon, M. Toril, S. Luna-Ramirez, V. Wille

“…However, some samples in MDT traces contain critical location errors due to the user equipment's energy-saving, thus making MDT data filtering vital to guarantee an adequate performance of MDT-driven algorithms. …”
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Machine learning identified novel players in lipid metabolism, endosomal trafficking, and iron metabolism of the ALS spinal cord by Jack Cheng, Bor-Tsang Wu, Hsin-Ping Liu, Wei-Yong Lin

“…The accuracy of the classifiers was greater than 83% and 77% for the training set and the unseen test set, respectively. The classifiers contained 114 genes. Among them, 41 genes have been reported in previous ALS studies, and others are novel in this field. …”
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Nanocrystalline Cellulose/Polyvinylpyrrolidone Fibrous Composites Prepared by Electrospinning and Thermal Crosslinking by Katrina M. Hatch, Jana Hlavatá, Katherine Paulett, Tatsiana Liavitskaya, Sergey Vyazovkin, Andrei V. Stanishevsky

“…Nanocellulose/polyvinylpyrrolidone (nCel/PVP) fibrous composite materials containing rod-like nanocrystalline cellulose particles with the lengths varying in the range from 100 to 2000 nm were prepared by using DC electrospinning. …”
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Cloning, Characterization and Expression Regulation in Response to High-Temperature Stress of TRAF7 Gene in the Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus by Yanfeng ZHAO, Meijie LIAO, Jianlong GE, Jinjin WANG, Yingeng WANG, Xiaojun RONG, Bin LI, Yanting TAN

“…Evm.model.chr8.1363 contained 18 exons and 15 introns, and evm.model.chr8.1742 contained 17 exons and 14 introns. …”
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By the time you read this it is already too late by Theron Schmidt

“…Performance-writing and performance-lectures are well-developed strategies for attempting this reflexive double-hold, in which the content reshapes the container of delivery such that it becomes an instance of that which it is also describing. …”
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A New Flow Line Function for Modeling Material Trajectory and Textures in Nonequal-Channel Angular Pressing by A. Hasani, L. S. Toth, Sh. Mardokh Rouhani

“…In the present work, an improved version of that flow function is presented containing two additional parameters compared to the previously proposed function. …”
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Effect of ration supplemented with zinc on some hematological parameters in angora goats by Nurcan Dönmez, Ercan Keskin

“…Group 1(Conlrol) and group 2(Experimental) were fed with a standart ration containing 35 ppm Zn and the same ration supplemented with 250 ppm Zn respectively as ad libitum for 6 months. …”
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Association of bud and anther morphology with developmental stages of the male gametophyte of melon (Cucumis melo L.) by M. L. Nguyen, T.N.B.T. Huyen, D. M. Trinh, A. V. Voronina

“…It was also found that one anther could contain the microspores and pollen grains of different developmental stages. …”
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Cross refinement network with edge detection for salient object detection by Junjiang Xiang, Xiao Hu, Jiayu Ding, Xiangyue Tan, Jiaxin Yang

“…One or multiple objects may also be left undetected if the image contains multiple objects. To solve these problems, this article proposes the novel cross refinement network, which consists of a Res2Net‐based backbone network; a fusion network equipped with four convolutional block attention modules and four edge‐salient cross units; and a detection network with an edge enhancement unit and a residual refinement network (RNN). …”
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Isolation and Characterization of the Microbiological and Physicochemical Qualities, the Protein and Amino Acid Profiles of Fermented Chicken and Duck Egg Ovalbumin by Nurliyani, M. Z. Abidin, I. Kandarina

“…Specific carbohydrate-containing bands were notably absent in the fermented OVA. …”
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Eco-friendly steelmaking: Exploring the potential of plant-based binder Acacia gum for iron ore pelletizing by Hassan Koohestani, Jalal Hasanpoor, Behrooz Ghasemi

“…In the XRD pattern of samples containing Acacia gum, hematite phase peaks were observed, and no significant impurities were identified. …”
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Association between the use of electronic cigarettes and subsequent initiation of tobacco cigarettes in the youth population of a city: A retrospective cohort study by Khadeejah Hussain, Sancheti P. V., Agrawal M, Parande M. A., Tambe M. P., Borle P

“…Subjects were interviewed using an approved questionnaire containing sections about demographic data, details of behaviours related to E-cigarette use. …”
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