A grounded theory based kano model to develop age-friendly housing retrofit strategies for older people in China by Erxin Tu, Ying Zhou

“…These findings offer a basis for optimizing AFH retrofit subsidy policies for older adults with varying physical abilities and for cities at different economic levels.…”
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Primary school teachers' opinions about their own competencies for teaching music culture focused on traditional content by Tanasković Marija K.

“…To respond to the tasks that lead to the successful implementation and outcomes of teaching process, the teacher must possess professional and general competences, because the pupil's mastery of the material depends on teacher's knowledge, skills to transfer knowledge and his ability to choose appropriate teaching content, methods and strategies for representing the content. …”
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Application of Sustainability Criteria in Identifying Sites for Social Housing in Serbia by Tanja Njegić, Sanja Simonović Alfirević, Tijana Crnčević, Katarina Majhenšek

“…An adequate and sustainable site is of crucial importance for the success of a social housing project, because it directly affects the ability to meet the specific housing needs of the target tenants and their social integration into the local community. …”
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The party and political landscape of Germany after the European Parliament elections by Vladislav B. Belov

“…The article provides a forecast of the ability of government parties to continue their compromise-based activities and the possibility of maintaining the coalition until the next Bundestag elections in September 2025. …”
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Effect of Glycoconjugation on Cytotoxicity and Selectivity of 8-Aminoquinoline Derivatives Compared to 8-Hydroxyquinoline by Gabriela Pastuch-Gawołek, Julia Szreder

“…The resulting glycoconjugates, as well as their potential metabolites, were evaluated for their ability to inhibit the proliferation of cancer cell lines (including HCT 116 and MCF-7) and a healthy cell line (NHDF-Neo). …”
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A quality assessment algorithm for no-reference images based on transfer learning by Yang Yang, Chang Liu, Hui Wu, Dingguo Yu

“…This algorithm leverages a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) due to its ability to effectively capture multi-scale semantic information features, which are essential for representing the complex visual perception in images. …”
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The Relationship between Digital Marketing, Customer Engagement, and Purchase Intention via OTT Platforms by Sufyan Habib, Nawaf N. Hamadneh, Asif Hassan

“…The significant growth in the digital marketing application in online businesses and its ability to engage customers has enhanced its importance. …”
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An Extension of Cross Redundancy of Interval Scale Outputs and Inputs in DEA by Farhad Hosseinzadeh-Lotfi, Gholam-Reza Jahanshahloo, Mansour Mohammadpour

“…As the number of variables increases, the ability to discriminate between the decision making units (DMUs) decreases. …”
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The Interaction between Bmal1 and Per2 in Mouse BMSC Osteogenic Differentiation by Haiya Zhuo, Yuhong Wang, Qing Zhao

“…We also suppressed Per2 gene expression using an adenovirus vector harboring RNAi sequences, and similarly, the osteogenic differentiation ability of BMSCs was enhanced. Furthermore, when both Bmal1 and Per2 gene expression was suppressed in BMSCs by lentiviral and adenoviral interference, the osteogenic differentiation capability was stronger than that in BMSCs following single-gene inhibition. …”
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Phosphorus and Nutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease by Emilio González-Parra, Carolina Gracia-Iguacel, Jesús Egido, Alberto Ortiz

“…Patients with renal impairment progressively lose the ability to excrete phosphorus. Decreased glomerular filtration of phosphorus is initially compensated by decreased tubular reabsorption, regulated by PTH and FGF23, maintaining normal serum phosphorus concentrations. …”
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Digital Ektypon: Using an RTI Dome for Digitizing Squeezes and Epigraphic Research by Ilias N. Gotsikas, Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos, Pericles A. Mitkas

“…In a world where the past meets cutting-edge technology, this research augments the arsenal of tools for digital humanities, ensuring that the legacy of ancient inscriptions is studied, preserved, and appreciated by scholars and enthusiasts alike.…”
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Chain Gangs: New Aspects of Hyaluronan Metabolism by Michael Erickson, Robert Stern

“…New aspects of hyaluronan biology have recently become realized: involvement in autophagy, in the pathology of diabetes., the ability to modulate immune responses through effects on T regulatory cells and, in its fragmented forms, by being able to engage several toll-like receptors. …”
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Enhancing motivation, physical activity, and motor skills through a sport management program based on the sport education model by Dennys Christovel Dese, Cahyo Wibowo

“…Conclusions: sport education model has the potential to be an effective method in physical education for enhancing student engagement and physical abilities. …”
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Three-Dimensional CST Parameterization Method Applied in Aircraft Aeroelastic Analysis by Hua Su, Chunlin Gong, Liangxian Gu

“…Class/shape transformation (CST) method has advantages of adjustable design variables and powerful parametric geometric shape design ability and has been widely used in aerodynamic design and optimization processes. …”
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Bystander Position Taking in School Bullying: The Role of Positive Identity, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Determination by Sandra K. M. Tsang, Eadaoin K. P. Hui, Bella C. M. Law

“…This paper asserts that bystanders actually play pivotal roles in deciding whether the bullying process and dynamics are benign or adversarial. Bystanders' own abilities and characteristics often influence how they respond to victims and bullies. …”
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Spinal Excitability Changes after Transspinal and Transcortical Paired Associative Stimulation in Humans by Maria Knikou

“…These findings support the notion that transspinal and transcortical PAS has the ability to alter concomitantly cortical and spinal synaptic activity. …”
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A Simplified Multiband Sampling and Detection Method Based on MWC Structure for Mm Wave Communications in 5G Wireless Networks by Min Jia, Xue Wang, Xuemai Gu, Qing Guo

“…Moreover, MWC structure has the ability to apply to different bands used in mm wave communications by mixed processing, which is similar to spread spectrum technology.…”
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The study of the factors affecting phreatic line position and stability in upstream tailings dams by Parsa Alizadeh, Manouchehr Latifi

“…In this type of dam, the position of the phreatic line depends on several factors, including the permeability of waste materials, segregation, the ability to depreciate the Excess pore pressure of waste materials, anisotropy ratio, pond location, and foundation permeability. …”
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Possibilities of palliative chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced and metastatic pancreatic cancer by L. I. Moskvicheva, L. V. Bolotina

“…Currently, pancreatic cancer remains one of the most unfavorable tumor pathologies, characterized by pronounced difficulties in diagnostics and treatment, a significant impact on the ability to work and quality of life of patients, and low indicators of patient life expectancy. …”
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DNA Extraction from Bronchial Aspirates for Molecular Cytology: Which Method to Take? by Hans Jürgen Grote, Viola Schmiemann, Mario Sarbia, Alfred Böcking

“…It was the aim of the present study to evaluate the ability of 50% ethanol/2% carbowax (Saccomanno fixative) to preserve bronchial secretions with high quality genomic DNA as well as to compare different DNA extraction methods. …”
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