Combination Effects of Docetaxel and Doxorubicin in Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer Cells by Eleftheria Tsakalozou, Allison M. Eckman, Younsoo Bae

“…Strong synergy was seen when PC3 was treated with DOC at concentrations lower than its IC50 values (0.125~0.5 nM) plus DOX (2~8 times IC50). …”
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Delving into Secondary School EFL Teachers’ Practices Facilitated by Task-Based Language Instruction by Syla Rrita

“…As per the examination procedure, it is evident that task-based teaching is not created with examination in mind. Its aim is to support students in using English outside the classroom, even if the language they produce is not always grammatically accurate. …”
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Calm ocean, stormy sea: atmospheric and oceanographic observations of the Atlantic during the Atlantic References and Convection (ARC) ship campaign by L. Köhler, L. Köhler, J. Windmiller, D. Baranowski, M. Brennek, M. Ciuryło, L. Hayo, D. Kȩpski, S. Kinne, B. Latos, B. Lobo, T. Marke, T. Nischik, D. Paul, P. Stammes, A. Szkop, O. Tuinder

“…One of the main objectives of ARC was to obtain vertically resolved cross sections of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). To this end, we crossed the ITCZ three times in the meridional direction. …”
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Vers une ethnographie paysagère ? by Hugo Gassin

“…On the occasion of the law’s thirtieth anniversary, this article looks at one of its legacies in research and urban planning, paving the way for the development of an ethnographic approach to the landscape.…”
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Resource- Based Conflict and Rural Poverty in Benue State by W. Yio Benjamin

“…It is against this background that the paper examines the Farmers and Pastoralists violent conflict in Benue State and its devastating effects on rural farmers in the area. …”
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The fusion of subjectivity and objectivity: a study on the construction of historical facts of Chinese Anti-Japanese war from the perspective of Toynbee’s philosophy of history by Yongguan Tian

“…In this study, we analyze the evolution of Toynbee’s philosophy of history, its essential ideas and its practical significance are first analyzed, using this as a starting point, for the subjectivity and objectivity in the construction of historical facts during the Chinese Anti-Japanese War. …”
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Assessing the effect of deposited bitumen or asphaltenes on the nitrification process in the north saskatchewan river sediment by Nayereh Saborimanesh, Patricia Q. Tran, Md Hosnay Mobarok

“…Additionally, the sedimentary microbial community composition altered from its initial composition to a new profile post-exposure to Asp or Bit. …”
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Candidate Species for Florida Aquaculture: Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Panulirus argus by Christian L. Miller, Cortney L. Ohs, R. LeRoy Creswell

“…It gives description and natural history and discusses culture methods, market, and diseases that may affect its aquaculture potential. Includes references and recommended additional reading Published by the UF Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, September 2007. …”
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Further Studies of the Myrmicine Sting Apparatus: Eutetramorium, Oxyopomyrmex, and Terataner (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) by Charles Kugler

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Reflectometric System for Continuous and Automated Monitoring of Irrigation in Agriculture by Egidio De Benedetto, Giuseppe Cannazza, Antonio Masciullo, Christian Demitri, Andrea Cataldo

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Methimazole disrupted skeletal ossification and muscle fiber transition in Bufo gargarizans larvae by Fei Wei, Xueyi Wu, Hongyuan Wang, Yongpu Zhang, Lei Xie

“…Methimazole (MMI) is an emerging endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) due to its increasing use in the treatment of thyrotoxicosis (hyperthyroidism), but its potential impact on amphibian development remains largely unexplored. …”
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Transformer-based malware detection using process resource utilization metrics by Dimosthenis Natsos, Andreas L. Symeonidis

“…This study is the first to explore the application of Transformers for malware detection using process resource-utilization metrics, encoding input data as sequences of processes, with each process represented by its resource-utilization metrics (e.g., CPU, memory, and disk usage). …”
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Influenza A virus hemagglutinin: from classical fusion inhibitors to proteolysis targeting chimera-based strategies in antiviral drug discovery by Francisco Javier Hermoso-Pinilla, Aitor Valdivia, María-José Camarasa, Tiziana Ginex, Francisco Javier Luque

“…Given its pivotal role in the early stages of influenza A infections, intense drug discovery efforts have been undertaken to target HA in the past decades. …”
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Shear properties of jointed dual-pylon of the cable-stayed bridge with separated unequal-width decks under asymmetric load by Chao Luo, Jingzhou Xin, Jiafeng Yang, Yan Jiang, Lei Huang, Jianting Zhou

“…The test results indicate when the unbalanced horizontal force of the jointed dual-pylon structure reaches its maximum during the service phase, the stress at the dual-pylon connectivity node remains relatively low, indicating good shear resistance of the dual-pylon connectivity node. …”
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Impact of Background Traffic on Speech Quality in VoWLAN by Peter Počta, Peter Kortiš, Martin Vaculík

“…The background traffic was generated by means of the accomplished Distributed Internet Traffic Generator (D-ITG). The impact of these types of traffic and traffic load on speech quality using the test sequence and speech sequences is the aim of this paper. …”
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Trends and problems of development of the world tourism by E. A. Frolova

“…Tendencies of development of world tourism, its positive and negative aspects have been examined. …”
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Inelastic Parametric Analysis of Seismic Responses of Multistorey Bidirectional Eccentric Structure by Yu-ping Kuang, Xin-liang Jiang, Nan Jiang

“…When Ω=1.1, the coupling effect between the translation in the load direction and the torsion is at its strongest condition. Increasing the eccentricities leads to a decrease in the displacement in the load direction as well as an increase in the displacement perpendicular to load direction and torsion displacement. …”
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Information seeking in organizations: epistemic contexts and contests by Chun Wei Choo

“…Information constitutes what the organization 'knows' about its environment and its tasks, and thus creates a basis for action. …”
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Rapid Screening and Estimation of Binding Constants for Interactions of Fe3+ with Two Metalloproteins, Apotransferrin and Transferrin, Using Affinity Mode of Capillary Electrophore... by Mohammed Al Bratty, Hassan A. Alhazmi, Sadique A. Javed, Zia Ur Rehman, Asim Najmi, Karam A. El-Sharkawy

“…Change in the mass and charge of protein upon binding to the metal ion in the capillary tube led to variation in its migration time and was used to measure the noncovalent binding interactions by fast screening method. …”
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The Vlasiator 5.2 ionosphere – coupling a magnetospheric hybrid-Vlasov simulation with a height-integrated ionosphere model by U. Ganse, Y. Pfau-Kempf, H. Zhou, L. Juusola, L. Juusola, A. Workayehu, F. Kebede, K. Papadakis, M. Grandin, M. Alho, M. Battarbee, M. Dubart, L. Kotipalo, A. Lalagüe, J. Suni, K. Horaites, M. Palmroth, M. Palmroth

“…<p>Simulations of the coupled ionosphere–magnetosphere system are a key tool to understand geospace and its response to space weather. For the most part, they are based on fluid descriptions of plasma (magnetohydrodynamics, MHD) formalism, coupled to an electrostatic ionosphere. …”
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