Bone Densitometric Analysis using Cone Beam Computed Tomography (Cone Beam CT) and Computed Tomography (CT): Establishing the Correlation between Predicted and Actual Values by Rashmit Kumar, Kurian Punnoose, Meenakumari Chikkanna, Srikanth Gunturu, Mosa Mohammad Alrifai, Abdulghani Saeed Al Zahrani, J. Suresh Babu, C. Swarnalatha, Abhishek Singh Nayyar

“…Background: One of the major drawbacks of cone beam computed tomography (cone beam CT) is that unlike CT, the gray density values obtained from cone beam CT are relative, and not absolute as obtained in the case of CT. …”
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Evaluation of Antibiotic Resistance and Biofilm Production among Clinical Strain Isolated from Medical Devices by Veronica Folliero, Gianluigi Franci, Federica Dell’Annunziata, Rosa Giugliano, Francesco Foglia, Rossella Sperlongano, Anna De Filippis, Emiliana Finamore, Massimiliano Galdiero

“…Among the 94 MDs isolated strains, 42.7% were Gram-positive, 40.3% Gram-negative, and 17% Candida species. …”
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Change in mineral composition and cooking quality in legumes grown on semi-arid alfisols due to elevated CO2 and temperature by K. Sreedevi Shankar, M. Vanaja, Mekala Shankar, Asma Siddiqua, K. L. Sharma, V. Girijaveni, V. K. Singh

“…Field experiments were conducted using black gram (Vigna mungo L.), green gram (Vigna radiate L.), and pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.) genotypes under the Free Air Temperature Elevation (FATE) facility, with three treatments (Ac, eT, and eCO2 + eT) at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad. …”
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Development of a model for detection and analysis of inclusions in tomographic images of iron castings using decision trees by Dorota Wilk-Kołodziejczyk, Aleksandra Nowotny, Izabela Krzak, Adam Tchórz, Krzysztof Jaśkowiec, Marcin Małysza, Adam Bitka, Mirosław Głowacki, Marzanna Książek, Łukasz Marcjan

“…The middle range corresponding to the darker shades of gray was assigned to particles that could be shrinkage porosities. …”
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DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION, AND ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE PATTERNS OF FOODBORNE BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL PATHOGENS by Shakir Ullah, Hayat Khan, Usman Saeed, Ismail Shahid, Yasir Zubair, Maryam Bibi, Umair Islam, Basit Ali, Usman Shah, Muhammad Iqbal Khan Rahman

“…Conclusion: The prevalence of Gram-positive bacteria is greater than Gram-negative bacteria in the current study. …”
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Antimicrobial resistance profile among bacteria isolated from patients presenting with wounds at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital, South western Uganda by Andrew, Baguma, Benson, Musinguzi, Kagirita, Atek Atwiine, Joel, Bazira

“…G positive cocci particularly S. aureus is also an important pathogen among other implicated gram positive cocci. There are high levels of multi - antimicrobial resistance among both Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria.…”
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Use of large language models as artificial intelligence tools in academic research and publishing among global clinical researchers by Tanisha Mishra, Edward Sutanto, Rini Rossanti, Nayana Pant, Anum Ashraf, Akshay Raut, Germaine Uwabareze, Ajayi Oluwatomiwa, Bushra Zeeshan

“…Majority (57.5%) of these participants practiced in an academic setting with a median of 7 (2,18) PubMed Indexed published articles. 198 respondents (87.6%) were aware of LLMs and those who were aware had higher number of publications (p < 0.001). 18.7% of the respondents who were aware (n = 37) had previously used LLMs in publications especially for grammatical errors and formatting (64.9%); however, most (40.5%) did not acknowledge its use in their papers. 50.8% of aware respondents (n = 95) predicted an overall positive future impact of LLMs while 32.6% were unsure of its scope. 52% of aware respondents (n = 102) believed that LLMs would have a major impact in areas such as grammatical errors and formatting (66.3%), revision and editing (57.2%), writing (57.2%) and literature review (54.2%). 58.1% of aware respondents were opined that journals should allow for use of AI in research and 78.3% believed that regulations should be put in place to avoid its abuse. …”
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Characterizations and Entropy Measures of the Exponentiated Generalized Frechet Geometric Distribution by Naz Saud, Aqsa Rafique, Muhammad Ijaz, Naila Amjad, Mahmoud El-Morshedy, Syed Habib Shah

“…Secondly, four different entropy measures are considered and expressed analytically via the incomplete gamma function. The behavior of all these entropy measures is discussed by performing a numerical study.…”
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Investigation on the Effect of Probability Distribution on the Dynamic Response of Liquefiable Soils by Juncheng Wang, Li Zhou, Wenzhi Song, Houle Zhang, Yongxin Wu

“…This study investigated the effect of different probabilistic distributions (Lognormal, Gamma, and Beta) to characterize the spatial variability of shear modulus on the soil liquefiable response. …”
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Radiolytic Stability of the TEHDGA-Impregnated Silica-Based Adsorbent for Extraction Chromatography by Miyazaki Yasunori, Sano Yuichi, Ishigami Ryoya

“…Gamma-ray and He2+ ion beam (which is simulating alpha-ray from Am-241, for example) were applied to the TEHDGA adsorbent to evaluate hydrogen gas production, leaching of organics by 3 M HNO3 solution, thermal characteristics and speciation of degradation products. …”
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Applications of Babalola q-convolution operator on subclass of analytic functions by Timilehin Gideon Shaba, Saravanan Gunasekar, Afis Saliu, Fairouz Tchier, Baskaran Sudharsanan

“…Abstract In this study, we present a specific type of analytic functions called B γ ( q ) $\mathfrak{B}_{\gamma}(q)$ , characterized by the Babalola q-convolution operator. …”
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MASTER Prompt and Follow-Up GRB Observations by Nataly Tyurina, Vladimir Lipunov, Victor Kornilov, Evgeny Gorbovskoy, Nikolaj Shatskij, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Pavel Balanutsa, Alexander Belinski, Vadim Krushinsky, Ivan Zalozhnyh, Andrey Tlatov, Alexander Parkhomenko, Kirill Ivanov, Sergey Yazev, Peter Kortunov, Anatoly Sankovich, Artem Kuznetsov, Vladimir Yurkov

“…These results include 5 prompt observations of GRB in 2008 and 2009, follow-up observations of 15 other GRBs in 2008-2009, the first observations in different polarization angles of optical emission from the gamma-ray bursts GRB091020, and observations in different polarization angles for GRB091127 and GRB090820.…”
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Approximation Properties of p,q-Szász-Mirakjan-Durrmeyer Operators by Zhi-Peng Lin, Wen-Tao Cheng, Xiao-Wei Xu

“…In this article, we introduce a new Durrmeyer-type generalization of p,q-Szász-Mirakjan operators using the p,q-gamma function of the second kind. The moments and central moments are obtained. …”
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Antibacterial Activity of Grepafloxacin by B Wiedemann, P Heisig

“…Grepafloxin has an extremely broad spectrum of activity. Its activity against Gram-positive bacteria exceeds that of currently available quinolones. …”
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Synthesis and Evaluation of Some Coumarin Containing Potential Antimicrobial Agents by Sayali D. Kudale, Meenakshi N. Deodhar

“…These compounds were characterized on the basis of their spectral (IR, 1H NMR) data and evaluated for antimicrobial activity in vitro against gram positive and gram negative bacteria and fungi. …”
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Synthesis and Characterizations ofN2(Aryl)-N4, N6-bis (6, 7-dichloro-1, 3-benzothiazol-2-yl)-1, 3, 5-triazine-2, 4, 6-triamines as Biological Potent Agents by B. B. Baldaniya

“…The products have been tested for their antibacterial activity against gram (+)ve and gram (-)ve bacteria and also on different strains of fungi. …”
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A Review on The Second Edition of Farsi Biyamuzim by Esmat Khoeini, Mohammad Parsanasab, Naser Kermani

“…Its disadvantages can be attributed to the structural inconsistency of the book in the instruction of letters and grammatical materials and the lack of a list of sources and a defect in its list of contents.…”
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Russian as a foreign language in higher education: systematic approach to teaching vocabulary by Аnna A. Khokhlova, Natalya N. Nemich

“…The authors conclude that the research work points out the importance of systemic criteria in the process of mastering the grammatical and vocabulary material as well as the development of speech skills and abilities. …”
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Harnessing Bacillus Species for Antibiotic Discovery: A Review by Daniel Tunde Abbey, Aisha Tajudeen Oganija, Onyibo Leonard Ebube, Dim Emmanuel Ifeanyi

“… The genus Bacillus is a group of rod-shaped, gram-positive bacteria known for their vast potential of the production of antibiotics. …”
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Conductometric, physico-chemical, and biological activity investigations of a copper–indometacin complex by AbdulAziz A. Alayyafi, Kholoud Z. Ghanem, Modhi S. Almarri, Shereen E. Salem, Esam A. Gomaa, Elsayed M. AbouElleef

“…The antimicrobial activities of indometacin and (Cu-Indo) complex have been studied using the disc diffusion method against Gram-negative bacteria (P. aeruginosa, E. coli, and K. pneumoniae), Gram-positive bacteria (S. aureus, B. cereus, and S. epidermidis), and fungi (C. albicans). …”
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