Effect of Endotoxemia in Suckling Rats on Pancreatic Integrity and Exocrine Function in Adults: A Review Report by Jolanta Jaworek, Barbara Tudek, Paweł Kowalczyk, Michalina Kot, Joanna Szklarczyk, Anna Leja-Szpak, Piotr Pierzchalski, Joanna Bonior, Artur Dembiński, Piotr Ceranowicz, Zygmunt Warzecha, Katarzyna Nawrot-Porąbka, Krzysztof Gil

“…These pioneer studies have shown that exposition of suckling rats to endotoxin has an impact on the pancreas in the adult organism.…”
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Microplastic contamination in commercial marine fish: A case study in Johor, Malaysia by Ezraneti Riri, Hassan Noor Artika, Miskon Mohd Fuad, Mohamed Juliana

“…Microplastic contamination in marine ecosystems endangered marine organisms such as fish and poses a risk to humans. …”
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Auxo: A Temporal Graph Management System by Wentao Han, Kaiwei Li, Shimin Chen, Wenguang Chen

“…It supports both efficient global and local queries with low space overhead. Auxo organizes temporal graph data in spatio-temporal chunks. …”
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Enhancing Light-Trapping Properties of Amorphous Si Thin-Film Solar Cells Containing High-Reflective Silver Conductors Fabricated Using a Nonvacuum Process by Jun-Chin Liu, Chen-Cheng Lin, Yu-Hung Chen, Chien-Liang Wu, Chia-Ming Fan, Yu-Ming Wang, Chung-Yuan Kung

“…We proposed a low-cost and highly reflective liquid organic sheet silver conductor using back contact reflectors in amorphous silicon (a-Si) single junction superstrate configuration thin-film solar cells produced using a nonvacuum screen printing process. …”
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Ingredients from integral valorization of Isabel grape to formulate goat yogurt with stimulatory effects on probiotics and beneficial impacts on human colonic microbiota in vitro by Francyeli Araújo Silva, Rita de Cássia Ramos do Egypto Queiroga, Evandro Leite de Souza, Glenise Bierhalz Voss, Maria Manuela Estevez Pintado, Margarida Angélica da Silva Vasconcelos

“…Goat yogurts with IG ingredients (IGI) stimulated the growth of tested Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium probiotic strains during a 48-h cultivation, as well as decreased the pH values and enhanced the organic acid production. Goat yogurts with IGI increased the population of Lactobacillus spp. and Bifidobacterium spp. during a 24-h in vitro colonic fermentation. …”
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Human immune system: Exploring diversity across individuals and populations by Kim Han Hoang Nguyen, Nghi Vinh Le, Phuc Hoang Nguyen, Hien Hau Thi Nguyen, Duy Mai Hoang, Chien Dinh Huynh

“…This review systematically organizes these findings, with the goal of emphasizing the potential of targeted interventions to address health disparities and advance translational research, enabling a more comprehensive strategy. …”
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Effects of Feeding of Two Potentially Probiotic Preparations from Lactic Acid Bacteria on the Performance and Faecal Microflora of Broiler Chickens by Paula Fajardo, Lorenzo Pastrana, Jesús Méndez, Isabel Rodríguez, Clara Fuciños, Nelson P. Guerra

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of two probiotic preparations, containing live lactic acid bacteria (Lactococcus lactis CECT 539 and Lactobacillus casei CECT 4043) and their products of fermentation (organic acids and bacteriocins), as a replacement for antibiotics in stimulating health and growth of broiler chickens. …”
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History and prospects for the development of special psychology: on the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lubovsky by E.E. Artemova, T.A. Basilova, Yu.E. Kurtanova, T.A. Meshkova, A.M. Shcherbakova

“…Lubovsky headed for a long time at the Research Institute of Defectology and became the organizer and first head of the Department of Special Psychology at Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. …”
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The Effect of Patient Weight and Provider Training and Experience on Dosing of Rocuronium by N. C. Godwin, L. Rodriguez, S. Banks, B. T. Major, Y. Rodriguez

“…Using a mixed model to account for repeated measures, patients were analyzed by dose and weight category as defined by the World Health Organization (eight categories ranging from very severely underweight to very severely obese) as well as by the administering provider’s level of experience. …”
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Noninvasive in vivo imaging of macrophages: understanding tumor microenvironments and delivery of therapeutics by Prakash Gangadaran, Akanksha Onkar, Ramya Lakshmi Rajendran, Anshika Goenka, Ji Min Oh, Fatima Khan, ArulJothi Kandasamy Nagarajan, Sathish Muthu, Anand Krishnan, Chae Moon Hong, Byeong-Cheol Ahn

“…Noninvasive in vivo molecular imaging of macrophages is crucial for investigating intricate cellular processes, comprehending the underlying mechanisms of diseases, tracking cells and EVs’ migration, and devising macrophage-dependent drug-delivery systems in living organisms. Thus, in vivo imaging of macrophages has become an indispensable tool in biomedical research. …”
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State of Lung Cancer in Egypt: Moving Towards Improved Guidelines for Prevention, Screening, Treatment, and Clinical Care Programs by Nagla Abdel Karim, MD, Ahmed Magdy Rabea, MD, Philip C. Mack, PhD, Janakiraman Subramanian, MD, Ehab Khalil, MD, Mai Sherif, MD, Radwa Marawan, MD, Tagrid Gaafar, MD, Lobna Shash, MD, Kei Suzuki, MD, Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, Hisham Wahba, MD, Salma Aboelela, MSc, Asrar Al Ahmadi, MD, Hamed Al Husaini, MD, Nada Mohsen, MD, Rana Khaled, MD, Neemat Kassem, MD, Hussein Khaled, MD, Noha El Said, MD, Nadia Zakhary, MD, Dina Shoukry, MD, Alaa Abdullah ElSadieque, MSc, M. Yasser Alsedfy, MSc, Shaheen Islam, MD, Hend ElSherbiny, MD, Mervat El Deftar, MD, Noha Awad, MD, Abdel Rahman Mohamed, MD, David Gandara, MD, Karen Kelly, MD, Triparna Sen, PhD

“…In 2023, the first annual meeting of the Thoracic Oncology Multidisciplinary Faculty, organized by the Egyptian Cancer Research Network and the Egyptian Society of Respiratory Neoplasms, was held in Cairo, Egypt. …”
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Linking servant leadership and career development to employee voice behaviour through engagement and commitment: evidence from State Polytechnics in East Java, Indonesia by Tri Wulida Afrianty, Hamidah Nayati Utami, Erlina Eka Sasmita, Fauzan Rismanda Rosanta Putra, Tjandra Dewi Wulandari

“…This study examines the impact of servant leadership and career development policy on employee voice behaviour at State Polytechnics in East Java, Indonesia, using the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) theory framework. Employing a structured survey, responses were gathered from 182 non-teaching staff across seven polytechnics and analysed using partial least squares- structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). …”
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Techniques for Suppressing Mineral Dust Aerosol from Raw Material Stockpiles and Open Pit Mines: A Review by Hsin-Chieh Kung, Wan-Ching Lin, Bo-Wun Huang, Justus Kavita Mutuku, Guo-Ping Chang-Chien

“…Chemical agents, including organic biopolymers, chemical surfactants, and inorganic, have higher dust suppression efficiency than plain water due to higher hygroscopicity and agglomeration potentials. …”
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Experimental approach on the contribution of wind and animal vectors in the dispersal and colonization of testate amoebae (Protista, Amoebozoa) in freshwater ecosystems by Matheus Henrique de Oliveira de Matos, Felipe Rafael de Oliveira, Fernando Miranda Lansac-Tôha, Melissa Progênio, Bianca Ramos de Meira, Loiani Oliveira Santana, Crislaine Cochak, Luiz Felipe Machado Velho

“…In terms of abundance, a similar trend was observed, with differences in the treatment of all vectors combinated, when comparing the treatments with only wind, and the combination of wind and vectors alone, indicating a possible progressive colonization of these organisms in the new aquatic environment. Regarding the composition of testate amoebae, we did not detect significant differences between treatments within each period or between different treatments throughout the experiment. …”
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Synthesis of Magnetic Composite Based on Vermiculite by G. Kurmangazhi, S.M. Tazhibayeva, Haoran Zhang, K.B. Musabekov, Z.A. Tattibayeva

“…These results show that vermiculite-magnetite composite has a significant potential for use as a sorbent in the treatment of wastewater from oil, organic pollutants, as well as carriers of drugs. …”
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Parameterless-Growing-SOM and Its Application to a Voice Instruction Learning System by Takashi Kuremoto, Takahito Komoto, Kunikazu Kobayashi, Masanao Obayashi

“…An improved self-organizing map (SOM), parameterless-growing-SOM (PL-G-SOM), is proposed in this paper. …”
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Cognitive Scout Node for Communication in Disaster Scenarios by Rajesh K. Sharma, Anastasia Lavrenko, Dirk Kolb, Reiner S. Thomä

“…CR can be an appropriate mean to establish self-organization and situation awareness at the radio interface, which is highly desired to manage unexpected situations that may happen in a disaster scenario. …”
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Effect of COVID-19 on the cultural identity of the Amazonian indigenous Waorani by Aldrin Espín-León, María Luisa Pertegal-Felices, Antonio Jimeno-Morenilla, Juan Guzmán-Montalvo

“…The results show that the cultural identity of the Waorani indigenous people has remained largely unchanged from the first measurement in 2017 to the second measurement after the pandemic in 2022 across most variables (economic, production, property, and land cultivation; family, reproduction, education, childcare, and medicine; organization, community politics, and justice; social, music, art, food, clothing, and housing). …”
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Internal electric field steering S-scheme charge transfer in ZnIn2S4/COF boosts H2O2 photosynthesis from water and air for sustainable disinfection by Linlin Zhuo, Shaofeng Dong, Yik Tung Sham, Jinpeng Zhang, Xiaoying Xu, Kenrick Chun Kiu Ho, Min Pan, Qiaoshan Chen, Guocheng Huang, Jinhong Bi

“…In this study, a novel heterojunction photocatalyst was synthesized by incorporating ZnIn2S4 into covalent organic frameworks (COFs) to enable environmentally friendly hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) photosynthesis and explore its potential for in situ disinfection. …”
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Temperature Effect on Exploitation and Interference Competition among Microcystis aeruginosa, Planktothrix agardhii and, Cyclotella meneghiniana by Andreia Maria da Anunciação Gomes, Sandra Maria Feliciano de Oliveira e Azevedo, Miquel Lürling

“…We studied the effect of temperature (18 and 30°C) on growth and on the exploitation and interference competition of three species: Microcystis aeruginosa (MIJAC), Planktothrix agardhii (PAT), and Cyclotella meneghiniana (CCAP). Coculturing the organisms in batch systems allowed for the examination of both competitive interactions, while the interference competition was studied in cross-cultures. …”
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