Design Optimization and Parameter Analysis of a Hybrid Rocket Motor-Powered Small LEO Launch Vehicle by Hao Zhu, Pengcheng Wang, Weile Xu, Yuanjun Zhang, Hui Tian, Guobiao Cai

“…Pareto graphs of the design results show that the design of HRM at the 1st stage has the greatest impact on the take-off mass, total velocity increment, and maximum axial overload of the SLV. Self-organizing maps show that the take-off mass, maximum diameter, overall length, and velocity increment of the SLVs have the same variation tendency. …”
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Multivariate quantitative analysis of glycan impact on IgG1 effector functions by Tamara Cvijić, Matej Horvat, Jakob Plahutnik, Ana Golob, Jaka Marušič

“…Particularly, how IgG glycosylation affects its effector functions is a point increasingly underscored in guidelines by the World Health Organization and regulatory agencies. Our results show that just a 1% decrease in Fc fucosylation can lead to a more than 25% increase in antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity. …”
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Setting and Reaching Targets with Computer-Assisted Cochlear Implant Fitting by Bart Vaerenberg, Geert De Ceulaer, Zoltán Szlávik, Patrizia Mancini, Andreas Buechner, Paul J. Govaerts

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The use of wheatgrass (<i>Thinopyrum intermedium</i>) in breeding by I. V. Pototskaya, V. P. Shamanin, A. N. Aydarov, A. I. Morgounov

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Quality Evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescription in Naolingsu Capsule Based on Combinative Method of Fingerprint, Quantitative Determination, and Chemometrics by Lili Xu, Yang Jiao, Weiliang Cui, Bing Wang, Dongxiao Guo, Fei Xue, Xiangrong Mu, Huifen Li, Yongqiang Lin, Huibin Lin

“…In total, 37 flavonoids, 21 organic acids, 22 lignans, 13 saponins, and 20 other compounds were recognized in NLSC by the UHPLC-Q/TOF-MS/MS method. …”
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Induction training programme of resident doctors: The need of the hour by Md Sameer, Jawahar S. K. Pillai, Biswajeevan Sahoo

“…Background: An induction training program is a structured process to acclimatize and orient the newly inducted staff or employees to an organization. As per the literature, there is no structured induction training program for resident doctors available in tertiary care teaching hospitals in India. …”
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الدور المجتمعى للمکتبة الوطنیة فى تنمیة الوعى السیاسى للمواطنین : دراسة مسحیة by د. هبة ابراهیم مرعى

“…The importanceof the national libraries is due to the role it plays in introducing citizens andincreasing their awareness of information on everything related to theachievements of the state and development projects as well as helping citizensby providing some e-government services to serve citizens and saves effort andtime and achieved great benefit for citizens and the state alike.This study aims to know the role of the national library in developingcitizens' awareness of electronic services, political information, and nationalgovernment organizations, in addition to monitoring national projects that havebeen implemented, and to design a proposed electronic application that can beapplied in the national library to develop citizens' awareness of national projectsand Egyptian e-governmental services. …”
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Understanding how and why audits work: protocol for a realist review of audit programmes to improve hospital care by Rijk Gans, Kees Ahaus, Lisanne Hut-Mossel, Gera Welker

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Association between Emission Parameters and Material-phase Concentrations of Phthalate Plasticizers and their Alternatives by Chenyang Bi, Clara M. A. Eichler, Chunyi Wang, John C. Little

“…Abstract Plasticizers are frequently used in building materials and consumer products and many are semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs). Understanding the emission rate of plasticizers in indoor environments is critical for subsequent exposure and health risk assessments. …”
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Suicide Ideation among Outpatients with Alcohol Use Disorder by Wen-Yu Hsu, Ting-Gang Chang, Cheng-Chen Chang, Nan-Ying Chiu, Chieh-Hsin Lin, Hsien-Yuan Lane

“…The suicidal ideation group had significantly younger participants, a higher proportion of women, a higher proportion of participants with a history of domestic violence, a greater severity of alcohol addiction (based on both AUDIT and MAST scores), higher depression scores, higher anxiety scores, less social support, a lower quality of life (World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL)), and poorer sleep quality (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, PSQI) compared with the nonsuicidal ideation group. …”
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Use of climate smart agriculture technologies in West Africa peri-urban Sahel in Niger by Tinawaen Tambol, Emmanuel K. Derbile, Moussa Soulé

“…The other technologies included fertilizer micro-dose, organic manure and compost application, flood-tolerant improved varieties, irrigation based on green energy, tele-irrigation, early maturing varieties and planting pits. …”
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Counteraction corruption under martial law: an analysis of problems and opportunities by O. S. Bondarenko, O. O. Tymoshenko

“…Recommendations aimed at combating corruption in the country have been proposed, among which the key ones are: 1) institutional recommendations providing for the introduction of reform of the Accounting Chamber and the State Audit Service of Ukraine; 2) legal recommendations that provide for the development of effective control mechanisms by public organizations, effective use of assets of corrupt officials and their accomplices for the needs of the state; 3) structural recommendations providing for the formation of specialized departments (and the appointment of responsible persons) with the aim of preventing and detecting corruption and other similar situations.…”
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Exploring Strategies to Improve Adherence to Immunization Schedule: A Study among Children Attending Maternal and Child Health Clinic at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya by Esther Cheptanui Muathe, Mary Kamau, Eve Rajula

“…Despite immunization guidelines put in place by the World Health Organization, globally, 1.5 million children die annually related to inadequate vaccination coverage. …”
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Magnitude and associated factors of unmet need for family planning among reproductive-aged women in Ethiopia: An umbrella review. by Mulat Ayele, Gizachew Yilak, Abebaw Alamrew, Eyob Shitie Lake, Befkad Derese Tilahun

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>The World Health Organization defines women with an unmet need for family planning as individuals who are fecund, sexually active, and wanting to either to limit childbirth or postpone their next birth but are not utilizing any form of contraception. …”
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Data Mining Evidences Variabilities in Glucose and Lipid Metabolism among Fish Strains: A Case Study on Three Genotypes of Gibel Carp Fed by Different Carbohydrate Sources by Xuerong Song, Haokun Liu, Junyan Jin, Dong Han, Xiaoming Zhu, Yunxia Yang, Shouqi Xie

“…As revealed by a self-organizing map (SOM) and the cluster of growth and biochemical indicators, CASV had superior growth and feed utilization and better regulation of postprandial glucose, followed by CASIII, while Dongting showed a high level of plasma glucose with poor growth performance. …”
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A parallel bioreactor strategy to rapidly determine growth-coupling relationships for bioproduction: a mevalonate case study by Alec Banner, Joseph Webb, Nigel Scrutton

“…Advances in Synthetic biology have provided the opportunity to engineer micro-organisms to produce compounds from renewable feedstocks, which could play a role in replacing traditional, petrochemical based, manufacturing routes. …”
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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on supervised consumption service delivery in Vancouver and Surrey, Canada from the perspective of service providers by Tyson Singh Kelsall, Michelle Olding, Tara Myketiak, Nitasha Puri, Kanna Hayashi, Thomas Kerr, Mary Clare Kennedy

“…Emergent staff responses to these challenges included: collective staff organizing for changes to policy; individual frontline staff non-compliance with emerging policies; and staff experiencing burnout in their roles. …”
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship, R&D Internal Capabilities and R&D External Collaboration on Innovation Performance in MAPNA Industrial Group by Abbas Khamseh

“…Also, innovation performance has the most impact, respectively, on the indicators of the investment in R&D software, the amount of investment in equipment and laboratories, and the percentage of R&D costs of the organization's total sales. All three are indicators of R&D internal capabilities. …”
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Development of Fuzzy Level of Service Criteria for Bus Rapid Transit considering User Heterogeneities in China by Yueying Huo, Jianrong Liu, Jian Zhang, Xiaojuan Li

“…Using a smartphone-based transit travel survey system, we organized BRT passenger travel surveys on three BRT systems in China to collect data. …”
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Interpersonal dependence and differential types of reflection in students – boys and girls by O. V. Myloslavska

“…The article presents results of the study of interpersonal dependence in the context of reflection as a necessary condition for personal autonomy and the mechanism of constructing and organizing a life perspective in adolescence. The psychological content of the phenomenon of interpersonal dependence is revealed, its destructive influence on the personality is emphasized, the positive role of reflection as a factor of actualization of the autonomy of the individual and the neutralization of interpersonal dependence is substantiated. …”
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