The Effect of Activators on the Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Alkali-Activated Nickel Slag by Liwei Xu, Xuefang Wang, Can Guan, Wenda Wu, Lingling Zhang

“…In order to mitigate problems associated with environmental pollution, alkali-activated nickel slags (AANSs) may be used as an alternative to cementitious material. …”
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Effect of amniotic fluid on hair follicle growth by Gamze Tumentemur, Elif Ganime Aygun, Bulut Yurtsever, Didem Cakirsoy, Ercument Ovali

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Investigating factors affecting the financial recovery of businesses admitted to the stock exchange by Fatemeh Sahraei, Jafar Jamali, Hamidreza Vakilifard, Ali Zare, Seyed Yaghoub Zeraatkish

“…The growth and revival of the company is the result of exploiting the opportunities. In fact, a company has limited resources that it uses as necessary tools to achieve growth in facing upcoming opportunities (Hussain & Waseer, 2018). …”
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Designing a Model for Brand Engagement Value Creation through the Integration of Gamification Technology and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) by Zahra. Atf, fariz taherikia, kambiz heidarzadeh Hanzaei

“…The growth and revival of the company is the result of exploiting the opportunities. In fact, a company has limited resources that it uses as necessary tools to achieve growth in facing upcoming opportunities (Hussain & Waseer, 2018). …”
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Effects of the Highly COX-2-Selective Analgesic NSAID Etoricoxib on Human Periodontal Ligament Fibroblasts during Compressive Orthodontic Mechanical Strain by Christian Kirschneck, Erika Calvano Küchler, Michael Wolf, Gerrit Spanier, Peter Proff, Agnes Schröder

“…We then determined gene and/or protein expression of COX-2, IL-6, PG-E2, RANK-L, OPG, ALPL, VEGF-A, P4HA1, COL1A2, and FN1 via RT-qPCR, ELISA, and Western blot analyses as well as apoptosis, necrosis, cell viability, and cytotoxicity via FACS, MTT, and LDH assays. In addition, hPDL fibroblast-mediated osteoclastogenesis was assessed by TRAP staining in coculture with RAW267.4 cells for another 72 h. …”
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Regulatory mechanisms tuning ethylen signaling in plants by E. V. Zemlyanskaya, N. A. Omelyanchuk, A. A. Ermakov, V. V. Mironova

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Influence of contextual factors on most demanding scenarios in under-19 professional soccer players by Rubén-Cipriano Romero-Rodríguez, Enrique Alonso-Pérez-Chao, Carlos Ribas, Daniel Memmert, Miguel-Ángel Gómez-Ruano

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Relative age effect across the talent identification process of youth female soccer players in the United States: Influence of birth year, position, biological maturation, and skil... by Laura Finnegan, Mirelle van Rijbroek, José M. Oliva-Lozano, Rick Cost, Matthew Andrew

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Analysis of the Ukrainian legislation on labour protection adaptation to the European Union acts by S. A. Petrovska, M. V. Petrovskyi

“…The process of Ukrainian legislation adaptation to EU norms requires coordinated cooperation between all branches of government for effective work and successful implementation of their rule-making and law enforcement powers in practice. The main focus of the ongoing process of Ukraine's legislative approximation with the EU should not be on the implementation of individual directives, but on the transfer of the overall architecture of EU legislation on health and safety, starting with the alignment with Framework Directive № 89/391/ЄЕС. …”
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Thoracolumbar And Lumbopelvic Spinal Alignment During The Deadlift Exercise: A Comparison Between Men And Women by Victor Bengtsson, Ulrika Aasa, Fredrik Öhberg, Lars Berglund

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Posterior Positivity Distribution Analysis of Subclinical Bluetongue in the Eastern and North-Eastern States of India: A Wakeup Call for Outbreak Preparedness by Siddhartha Narayan Joardar, Aritra Sanyal, Ahmed Abd El Wahed, Saibal Ray

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Analisis postur kerja dan redesain fasilitas bagian pengemasan (studi kasus pada PT RNM) by Ida Bagus Suryaningrat, El Daffa Ramadiansyah, Ragil Ismi, Andrew Setiawan Rusdianto, Noer Novijanto

“…Packaging workers in the UKB PT RNM complained about the lack of comfortable work facilities and also pain in certain parts of the body. …”
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Understanding Community Health Care Through Problem-Based Learning With Real-Patient Videos: Single-Arm Pre-Post Mixed Methods Study by Kiyoshi Shikino, Kazuyo Yamauchi, Nobuyuki Araki, Ikuo Shimizu, Hajime Kasai, Tomoko Tsukamoto, Hiroshi Tajima, Yu Li, Misaki Onodera, Shoichi Ito

“… BackgroundJapan faces a health care delivery challenge due to physician maldistribution, with insufficient physicians practicing in rural areas. …”
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An optimized approach for predicting water quality features and a performance evaluation for mapping surface water potential zones based on Discriminant Analysis (DA), Geographical... by Abhijeet Das

“…This study examines the surface water quality of Baitarani River, Odisha, which faces serious problems with water quality because of a variety of home, industrial, and environmental causes. …”
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Response of alcohol fermentation strains, mixed fermentation and extremozymes interactions on wine flavor by Ling-Zhi Zhao, Ling-Zhi Zhao, Jing Chen, Jing Chen, Jing Chen, Xiang-Ying Wei, Xiang-Ying Wei, Xiang-Ying Wei, Bo Lin, Feng-Jin Zheng, Krishan K. Verma, Gan-Lin Chen, Gan-Lin Chen, Gan-Lin Chen

“…The process of winemaking involves a complex of enological technique that faces a host of challenges in a winery including, inconsistent quality due to chemical and microbiological instability, limited sensory flavor profiles, and concerns met with changing micro-environmental conditions. …”
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Quantitative evaluation of essential amino acids and omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids from global marine bivalve aquaculture by Karsoon Tan, Peng Xu, Leiheng Huang, Cong Luo, KhaiHang Choong, Zexin Li, Yu Guo, Kit-Leong Cheong

“…However, expanding protein production from land-based farming, fisheries, and fish aquaculture faces challenges such as limited land and water resources, high carbon emissions, overfished stocks, and reliance on unsustainable fish meal and fish oil. …”
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Appearance of green tea compounds in plasma following acute green tea consumption is modulated by the gut microbiome in mice by John D. Sterrett, Kevin D. Quinn, Katrina A. Doenges, Nichole M. Nusbacher, Cassandra L. Levens, Mike L. Armstrong, Richard M. Reisdorph, Harry Smith, Laura M. Saba, Kristine A. Kuhn, Catherine A. Lozupone, Nichole A. Reisdorph

“…Overall, we describe a novel workflow for discovering relationships between individual food compounds and the composition of the gut microbiome.IMPORTANCEFoods contain thousands of unique and biologically important compounds beyond the macro- and micro-nutrients listed on nutrition facts labels. In mammals, many of these compounds are metabolized or co-metabolized by the community of microbes in the colon. …”
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Automatic GPR detection of grouting defects behind the tunnel shield segments based on wavelet coherence analysis combined with modified Res-RCNN by Dengyi Wang, Ming Peng, Liu Liu, Xiongyao Xie, Zhenming Shi, Yaoying Liang, Jian Shen, Qiyu Wu

“…Ground penetrating radar (GPR), a widely used non-destructive testing technique for detecting grouting defects behind tunnel shield segments, faces challenges like steel rebar interference, low working efficiency, and expert interpretation reliance. …”
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A Digital Tool (Technology-Assisted Problem Management Plus) for Lay Health Workers to Address Common Mental Health Disorders: Co-production and Usability Study in Pakistan by Maham Saleem, Shamsa Zafar, Thomas Klein, Markus Koesters, Adnan Bashir, Daniela C Fuhr, Siham Sikander, Hajo Zeeb

“…Stage 1 (evidence review and stakeholder consultation) included 3 focus group discussions with 32 LHWs and 7 in-depth interviews with key stakeholders working in the health system or at the health policy level. …”
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Bacterioplankton Activity in a Meso-eutrophic Subtropical Coastal Lagoon by Maria L. Schmitz Fontes, Heloísa Fernandes, Manoela Brandão, Mariana Coutinho Hennemann, Raquel Aparecida Loss, Valdelúcia Maria Alves de Souza Grinevicius, Denise Tonetta, Karina Cesca, Mônica Hessel Silveira, Mara Bedin, Derce Recouvreux, Regina Vasconcellos Antônio

“…Bacterial production rates were also significantly higher under nutrient additions (1.28 d−1), compared to the control and light (0.50 d−1 and 0.44 d−1, respectively), demonstrating that bacterial growth and production in this meso-eutrophic lagoon are under an immediate “bottom-up” regulation, followed by a potential top-down effect. These facts reinforce the urgency on improving the local wastewater management plan in order to prevent further expansion of anoxic waters.…”
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