Synthesis of glass-based catalysts for biodiesel production from a blend of beef tallow and waste cooking oil by M. Mashamba, L. Tshuma, L.B. Moyo, N. Tshuma, G.S. Simate

“…FTIR analysis of the calcined and uncalcined catalysts showed a sharp decrease in hydroxyl functional groups, indicating successful calcination. …”
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Does Context Matter? Governance Models in Local Administration by Stefanie Vedder, Benjamin Friedländer, Simon Bogumil-Uçan, Tanja Klenk

“…Design/Methodology/Approach: The article employs a comparative design to analyse the adoption of global public administration concepts across different administrative branches. Given their shared rigid Weberian tradition but divergent tasks and context, the study uses the German financial and social administrations as examples. …”
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Treatment Preferences of Physicians Treating Adult Patients with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the United States and Canada: A Discrete Choice Experiment by Jeff Schein, Martin Cloutier, Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle, Maryaline Catillon, Yan Meng, Beatrice Libchaber, Fanny Jiang, Ann Childress

“…These findings highlight potential discrepancies in physician and patient preferences based on existing evidence and underscore the importance of shared decision-making, which may in turn increase patients’ treatment satisfaction.…”
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Comparative analysis of NR and NiR gene families reveals nitrite formation mechanisms in two Toona species by Yi Wei, Jianhua Dai, Yanru Fan, Hengfu Yin, Jun Liu, Xiaojiao Han

“…The NR and NiR proteins in T. sinensis and T. ciliata share high sequence similarity and exhibit close genetic relationships with their counterparts in Populus trichocarpa and Salix purpurea. …”
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The EU Sanctions Policy: A Thorny Path of Transformation by L. D. Oganisyan

“…The author notes that along with a sharp increase in the number of sanctions against Russia provoked by the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the most important element of this transformation was the intensification of the EU’s efforts to combat sanctions evasion. …”
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Мutants of inflorescence development in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) by N. I. Dzyubenko, E. A. Dzyubenko

“…M. truncatula and alfalfa share highly conserved nucleotide sequences and exhibit nearly perfect  synteny between the two genomes. …”
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Co-producing a safe mobility and falls informatics platform to drive meaningful quality improvement in the hospital setting: a mixed-methods protocol for the insightFall study by Ben Glampson, Clare Leon-Villapalos, Erik Mayer, Rachael Lear, Phoebe Averill, Catalina Carenzo, Rachel Tao, Robert Latchford

“…Our dissemination plan includes presenting our findings to the National Falls Prevention Coordination Group, publication in peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations and sharing findings with patient groups most affected by falls in hospital.…”
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استراتیجیات استخدام شبکات التواصل الاجتماعى فى الأرشیفات الوطنیة العربیة : دراسة وصفیة تحلیلیة by د. السید صلاح الصاوى

“…They should archive models of users' participation on what ispublished and shared concerning the archival content on social platforms,especially on important national events.…”
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Crimean-Ottoman Factor in the Socio-Cultural System of Russia in Early Modern Times by T. V. Chernikova

“…At the same time, it not only did not share the fate of many eastern powers with a traditional way, which turned into the 17th-19th centuries in the colony and semi-colony, but also, on the contrary, it led a successful colonial expansion and demonstrated externally the almost synchronous trends in state building that were inherent in the Western European countries.The author believes that the patrimonial structure of the sociocultural system of the Russian state in the 15-17 centuries contributed to the mobilization of internal material and human resources, coupled with an early superficial “Europeanization” (regular borrowing the military, technical, and cultural experience of modernizing Western Europe), ensured Russia's competitiveness in the world. …”
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The state of combined thoracoabdominal triple-organ transplantation in the United States by Emily G. Dunbar, BS, Ye In Christopher Kwon, BA, Matthew Ambrosio, MS, Inna F. Tchoukina, MD, Keyur B. Shah, MD, David A. Bruno, MD, Walker A. Julliard, MD, Josue Chery, MD, Vigneshwar Kasirajan, MD, Zubair A. Hashmi, MD

“…Methods: This retrospective study utilized data from heart-lung-liver (HLL), heart-lung-kidney (HLK), heart-kidney-liver (HKL), and heart-kidney-pancreas (HKP) recipients from the United Network for Organ Sharing registry between 1989 and 2023. Recipient and donor characteristics and risk factors for mortality were analyzed using Cox regression hazard models. …”
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Describing viewpoints on human‐nature relationships to unveil socio‐environmental conflicts and support community‐based projects by Beatriz Demasi, Nina Garcia de Almeida Prado, Flávia Pereira Lima, Charbel N. El‐Hani, Renata Pardini

“…These viewpoints allowed characterizing divergences that can limit collective organization within the community as well as shared desires for the future. One viewpoint was associated with researchers, highlighting differences between theirs and community members' conceptions. …”
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Nationwide Outcomes of Heart Transplantation for Postpartum Cardiomyopathy by Ilias P. Doulamis, Aspasia Tzani, Ahmet Kilic, Toshiki Kuno, Alexandros Briasoulis

“…Methods: A retrospective analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) registry was performed for adult patients undergoing heart transplants (01/2001–01/2023) for postpartum cardiomyopathy. …”
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First-time use of electronic patient-reported outcome measures in a cluster randomized trial: a qualitative study by Terese Solvoll Skåre, Tonje Lundeby, Jo Åsmund Lund, Marianne Jensen Hjermstad, May Helen Midtbust

“…Future research should explore strategies to bridge professional disparities and promote a shared understanding of the value provided by ePROMs.…”
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Genetic and environmental contribution to phenotypic resemblance between Iranian couples: Tehran Cardiometabolic and Genetic Study (TCGS) by Parisa Riahi, Amir Hossein Saeidian, Albert Tenesa, Carolyn T. Hogan, Michael March, Kamran Guity, Mahmoud Amiri Roudbar, Asieh Zahedi, Maryam Zarkesh, Farideh Neshati, Mehdi Hedayati, Fereidoun Azizi, Hakon Hakonarson, Maryam S. Daneshpour, Mahdi Akbarzadeh

“…Objective: To provide an applied framework for assessing the genetic contribution to assortative mating (AM) using height as a model trait and disclose the trace of certain pieces of evidence of AM in the form of the shared environmental effects from long-term cohabitation on spouses’ anthropometric traits and lipid serum levels. …”
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Assessing the feasibility of using publicly available data sources to identify healthcare data discrepancies and enhance service delivery: a retrospective cross-sectional study of... by Sheila Leatherman, Matthew Neilson, Alix Boisson-Walsh, Jack Lewis

“…Comparisons highlighted areas of positive performance and shared challenges across these countries, with notable variability in certain categories. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SECTORAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS: RUSSIA AND BRAZIL ON THE REGIONAL JET MARKET by M. G. Yevtodyeva

“…In contrast to the Embraer – a company that has managed to implement a state-of-the-art design and manufacturing system, achieved better balance between military and civil aircraft programs, successfully adopted foreign experience in coinvestment, risk-sharing partnerships and clusters, thus proving to be an effective system integrator, – the UAC and SCA achieved comparatively smaller progress in the above areas. …”
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Fecal microbiome change in patients with ulcerative colitis after fecal microbiota transplantation by A. Y. Tikunov, V. V. Morozov, A. N. Shvalov, A. V. Bardasheva, E. V. Shrayner, O. A. Maksimova, I. O. Voloshina, V. V. Morozova, V. V. Vlasov, N. V. Tikunova

“…The exception was the Clostridiumdifficilesequences, which accounted for <0.5 % of the sequences in samples from almost half of the patients and after FT, the share of such C. difficilesequences was significantly reduced only in samples from three patients. …”
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Exploring cement Production's role in GDP using explainable AI and sustainability analysis in Nepal by Ramhari Poudyal, Biplov Paneru, Bishwash Paneru, Tilak Giri, Bibek Paneru, Tim Reynolds, Khem Narayan Poudyal, Mohan B. Dangi

“…Utilizing regression models like Extra Trees (Extremely Randomized Trees) Regressor, CatBoost (Categorial Boosting) Regressor, and XGBoost (eXtreme Gradient Boosting) Regressor, Random Forest and Ensemble of Sparse Embedded Trees (SET) machine learning is used to examine the demand, supply, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) performance of cement manufacturing in India which shares a common cement related infrastructure to Nepal. …”
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Shifting shadows: Assessing the habitat and climate change response of binturong (Arctictis binturong) in the conservation landscape of the Asian continent by Imon Abedin, Tanoy Mukherjee, Ah Ran Kim, Hyun-Woo Kim, Soo Rin Lee, Shantanu Kundu

“…Most of the countries sharing the distribution range showed a decrease of habitat suitability in future scenarios by over 10 %, except for Bhutan and China, which showed increases by 30 % to 90 % by 2061–2080 under both SSPs. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of vector control for supplementing mass drug administration for eliminating lymphatic filariasis in India. by Donald S Shepard, Aung K Lwin, Sunish I Pulikkottil, Mariapillai Kalimuthu, Natarajan Arunachalam, Brij K Tyagi, Graham B White

“…MDA proved highly cost effective at $112 per DALY averted, a very small (8%) share of India's then per capita Gross Domestic Product. …”
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