Assessment of Urban Landscape Patterns to Measure the Effects of Urbanization on Landscape Structure (Case Study: Kermanshah City) by Gholam Reza Sabzghabaei, Soolmaz Dashti, Kaveh Jafarzadeh, Mojgan Bazmara Baleshti

“…Next step, kappa coefficient was calculated to verify the accuracy of image classification, using test samples, the accuracy of the statistical parameters. …”
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Vertical bacterial variability in oxidation ponds in the tropical zone by C. Tudsanaton, T. Pattamapitoon, O. Phewnil, W. Wararam, K. Chunkao, P. Maskulrath, M. Srichomphu

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A Theoretical Three-dimensional Diagram to Separate Star Formation, Active Galactic Nuclei, and Shocks in Galaxies by Peixin Zhu, Lisa J. Kewley, Ralph S. Sutherland, Kathryn Grasha

“…Disentangling the star formation, AGN, and shocks in galaxy integral field unit (IFU) spectra at optical wavelengths is crucial to expanding the galaxy sample for AGN and stellar feedback studies, given the lack of multiwavelength observations for most of the galaxies that are observed in optical wavelengths. …”
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Evaluation of sustainability criteria in the industrialization system of office buildings in hot and humid climate of Abadan city by Ali Mardani, Mohsen Vafamehr, Behzad Vasigh, Ali Khaki

“…The tests include single sample T (t-test), paired T and K-S test in "SPSS-16.0" software environment. …”
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Pneumonia after Major Cancer Surgery: Temporal Trends and Patterns of Care by Vincent Q. Trinh, Praful Ravi, Abd-El-Rahman M. Abd-El-Barr, Jay K. Jhaveri, Mai-Kim Gervais, Christian P. Meyer, Julian Hanske, Jesse D. Sammon, Quoc-Dien Trinh

“…From 1999 to 2009, patients undergoing major forms of MCS were identified using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), a Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) subset, resulting in weighted 2,508,916 patients. …”
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Seasonal Variability of PM10 Chemical Composition Including 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene, Marker of Plastic Combustion and Toxicity in Wadowice, South Poland by Przemysław Furman, Katarzyna Styszko, Alicja Skiba, Damian Zięba, Mirosław Zimnoch, Magdalena Kistler, Anne Kasper-Giebl, Stefania Gilardoni

“…The presented work is a part of the project concerning assessment of air quality of small cities around Krakow agglomeration. …”
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Comprehensive Blood Metabolome and Exposome Analysis, Annotation, and Interpretation in E-Waste Workers by Zhiqiang Pang, Charles Viau, Julius N. Fobil, Niladri Basu, Jianguo Xia

“…<b>Methods:</b> To investigate the metabolic and exposomic changes in these workers, we analyzed whole blood samples from 100 male e-waste workers and 49 controls from the GEOHealth II project (2017–2018 in Accra, Ghana) using LC-MS/MS. …”
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A multi-visual measurement method for ultimate tensile elongation of steel strand based on spatial characteristics by Xiong Peng, Pengtao Wang, Bingxu Duan, Xingu Zhong, Guihua Wang, Chao Zhao

“…Uniaxial tension tests were conducted on nine repeated samples of the same steel strand material, divided into three separate batches. …”
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Planning community-based intervention for speech for children with cleft lip and palate from rural South India: A needs assessment by Subramaniyan Balasubramaniyan, Vaidyanathan Raghunathan, B. Rajashekhar, B. W. C. Sathiyasekaran, Roopa Nagarajan

“…Descriptive analysis and profiling of speech samples were carried out and reported using universal protocol for reporting speech outcomes. …”
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Tracing the Evolution of the Cool Gas in CGM and IGM Environments through Mg ii Absorption from Redshift z = 0.75 to z = 1.65 Using DESI-Y1 Data by Xuanyi Wu, Z. Cai, T.-W. Lan, S. Zou, A. Anand, Biprateep Dey, Z. Li, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen, D. Brooks, T. Claybaugh, A. de la Macorra, P. Doel, S. Ferraro, J. E. Forero-Romero, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, K. Honscheid, S. Juneau, R. Kehoe, T. Kisner, A. Lambert, M. Landriau, L. Le Guillou, M. Manera, A. Meisner, R. Miquel, J. Moustakas, J. A. Newman, F. Prada, G. Rossi, E. Sanchez, D. Schlegel, M. Schubnell, M. Siudek, D. Sprayberry, G. Tarlé, B. A. Weaver, H. Zou

“…The measurement is based on crossmatching the positions ELGs at z  = 0.75–1.65 and the metal absorption in the spectra of background quasars with data provided by the Year 1 sample of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. …”
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Exploring Deep Clustering Methods in Vibro-Acoustic Sensing for Enhancing Biological Tissue Characterization by Robin Urrutia, Diego Espejo, Montserrat Guerra, Karin Vio, Thomas Suhn, Nazila Esmaeili, Axel Boese, Patricio Fuentealba, Alfredo Illanes, Christian Hansen, Victor Poblete

“…We assessed the performance of two dimensionality reduction techniques: uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) and variational autoencoder (VAE). …”
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Differential Protein-Coding Gene Expression Profile in Patients with Prostate Cancer by Lorena Albarracín-Navas, Maylin Almonte-Becerril, Enmanuel Guerrero, Josue Rivadeneira, Marcelino Telechea-Fernández, Elizabeth Guzmán, Fanny Calderón, María José Hernández-Leal, Tamara Otzen, Carlos Manterola, Galo Duque, Ángela L. Riffo-Campos

“…Background: Prostate cancer is the second most common neoplasm in men, with projections estimating over one million new cases by 2045. …”
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Selected socio-economic aspects of the integration of Ukrainians: Evidence from the Czech Republic by Linda Danielova, Radka Prokešová, Jitka Vacková, Renata Švestková, Lesia Shuranova

“…AcknowledgmentsThis study is supported by the project GA JU 101/2022/S “Selected aspects of integrating foreigners living in the Czech Republic from the perspective of society and the labor market.”…”
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Feasibility of dynamic chest radiography to calculate lung volumes in adult people with cystic fibrosis: a pilot study by Matthew Shaw, Thomas Simon FitzMaurice, Paul Stephen McNamara, Dilip Nazareth, Caroline McCann, Martin Walshaw, Scott Hawkes

“…In an observational, prospective, non-controlled, single-centre pilot study, we compared it with whole-body plethysmography (WBP) in the measurement of lung volume subdivisions in people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF).Methods Lung volume subdivisions were estimated by DCR using projected lung area (PLA) during deep inspiration, tidal breathing and full expiration, and compared with same-day WBP in 20 adult pwCF attending routine review. …”
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Climate change and topographic variations affect infestation by Xyleutes ceramica (Walker, 1865) (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) in teak plantations in Thailand by Thanapol Choochuen, Jiří Foit, Ponthep Meunpong, Warong Suksavate

“…At each plantation, 48 plots evenly distributed among twelve teak stands were sampled. The infested teak trees in the plots were assessed, and the coordinates of the tree positions were recorded. …”
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Multiscale Three‐Dimensional Evaluation and Analysis of Murine Lung Vasculature From Macro‐ to Micro‐Structural Level by Birger Tielemans, Nora F. Marain, Axelle Kerstens, Nicolas Peredo, Montserrat Coll‐Lladó, Nicola Gritti, Perrine deVillemagne, Paul Dorval, Vincent Geudens, Michaela Orlitová, Sebastian Munck, Bartosz Leszczyński, Jim Swoger, Greetje Vande Velde

“…Optical microscopy techniques such as optical projection tomography (OPT) and light sheet fluorescence microscopy, allows noninvasive, mesoscopic imaging of optically cleared mouse lungs, still enabling 3D microscopic reconstruction down to the precapillary level. …”
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Influence of <i>Lactiplantibacillus plantarum </i>and <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> Individual and Collaborative Inoculation on Flavor Characteristics of Rose Fermented Beverage by Yingjun Zhou, Yinying Chao, Chengzi Huang, Xiaochun Li, Zhuhu Yi, Zuohua Zhu, Li Yan, Yu Ding, Yuande Peng, Chunliang Xie

“…E-nose analysis demonstrated distinct volatile profiles distinguishing the four fermentation samples. HS-SPME/GC-MS identified a total of 245 volatile compounds, among which alcohols constituted the most abundant class. …”
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Grower and operational characteristics of US passion fruit farmers by Benedict C. Posadas, Eric T. Stafne, Trent Blare, Laura Downey, Joshua Anderson, Jonathan Crane, Romina Gazis, Ben Faber, Dara G. Stockton, Daniel Carrillo, J. Pablo Morales-Payan, Manjul Dutt, Alan Chambers, Dario Chavez

“…Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Virgin Islands completed the remainder. This sample was 12% of the 364 passion fruit farms reported in 2017. …”
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Nuclear level density in the statistical semiclassical micro-macroscopic approach by A. G. Magner, A. I. Sanzhur, S. N. Fedotkin, A. I. Levon, U. V. Grygoriev, S. Shlomo

“…Level density ρ is derived for a finite system with strongly interacting nucleons at a given energy E, neutron N, and proton Z particle numbers, projection of the angular momentum M, and other integrals of motion, within the semiclassical periodic-orbit theory (POT) beyond the standard Fermi-gas saddle-point method. …”
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The Radio Spectral Energy Distribution and Star Formation Calibration in MIGHTEE-COSMOS Highly Star-forming Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3.5 by Fatemeh Tabatabaei, Maryam Khademi, Matt J. Jarvis, Russ Taylor, Imogen H. Whittam, Fangxia An, Reihaneh Javadi, Eric J. Murphy, Mattia Vaccari

“…We present rest-frame radio SEDs of a sample of 160 star-forming galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3.5 in the Cosmic Evolution Survey field as part of the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration project. …”
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