Consequences of Surface Composition and Aggregation Conditions of Ag Nanoparticles on Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) of Pesticides by Marcelo José dos Santos Oliveira, Gilia Cristine Marques Ruiz, Rafael Jesus Gonçalves Rubira, Santiago Sanchez-Cortes, Carlos José Leopoldo Constantino, Leonardo Negri Furini

“…These findings demonstrated that although the pesticide molecules belong to the same chemical functional group, their detection was strongly influenced by the surface of the silver nanoparticles and the salts added. …”
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Virus adaptation to heparan sulfate comes with capsid stability tradeoff by Han Kang Tee, Simon Crouzet, Arunima Muliyil, Gregory Mathez, Valeria Cagno, Matteo Dal Peraro, Aleksandar Antanasijevic, Sophie Clément, Caroline Tapparel

“…In this study, we used enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) as the model and demonstrated that, unlike the parental MP4 variant, the cell-adapted strong HS-binder MP4-97R/167 G does not require acidification for uncoating and releases its genome in the neutral or weakly acidic environment of early endosomes. …”
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Open Data Release and Privacy Concerns: Complexity in Mitigating Vulnerability with Controlled Perturbation by Shah Imran Alam, Ihtiram Raza Khan, Syed Imtiyaz Hassan, Farheen Siddiqui, M. Afshar Alam, Anil Kumar Mahto

“…In our study, we point out that privacy is one of the consistent and leading barriers among others. Strong privacy laws restrict data owners from opening the data freely. …”
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Study protocol for an observational cohort study of heat stress impacts in pregnancy in The Gambia, West Africa [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Jane E Hirst, Ana Bonell, Abdul Sesay, Leonidas G. Ioannou, Bubacarr Bah, Kris A. Murray, Andy Haines, Sophie E. Moore, David Jeffries, Neil S Maxwell, Ana Vicero-Cabrera, Apolline Saucy, Cally Tan, Emmanuel Okoh, Dorothy Watters, Bakary Sonko, Williams Oluwatosin Adefila, Yahaya Idris, Mam Leigh-Nabou, Jarra Manneh, Andreas Flouris, Sainabou Bojang, Amanda N Sferruzzi-Perri, Andrew Prentice

“…Climate change has resulted in an increase in heat exposure globally. There is strong evidence that this increased heat stress is associated with poor maternal and fetal outcomes, especially in vulnerable populations. …”
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Binding of Cd(II) by Amorphous Aluminum Hydroxide-Organophosphorus Coprecipitates: From Macroscopic to Microscopic Investigation by Lei Lu, Feng Xu, Wenkai Rao, Ning Nie, Huihui Du

“…The mobility of Cd(II) in soils, sediments, and aquatic systems is strongly dependent on adsorption behaviors occurring at the mineral-water interface, and this process may be influenced by the presence of organic phosphorus (OP). …”
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Acute Toxicity of Xylene on the African Catfish <i>Clarias gariepinus</i> by I.C. Davies, E.S. Erondu, A.I. Hart, L.C. Osuji

“…The median lethal time LT50 recorded was 55.7 hours. There was a strong correlation between (%) mortality in Probits and the Log10 Dose (R²=0.9772). …”
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Effects of pandemic on families, parenting stress, and emotional well-being of children in villages under Mugalur Subcentre, Sarjapur PHC, Bengaluru by Soumya Surendran, Deepthi N Shanbhag, Loana Mariyam Sebastian, Ben Mathews, Joel Harry, V Rachel, GS Ranjitha

“…Home confinement along with the closures of schools has had a strong negative impact on the psychosocial wellbeing of children. …”
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Evidence base of economic evaluations of workplace-based interventions reducing occupational sitting time: an integrative review by Raija Korpelainen, Paulus Torkki, Sanaz Akhavan Rad, Frank Kiwanuka

“…From the societal perspective, the interventions (eg, the use of a sit–stand desk) were cost-effective.Conclusion The economic impact of workplace interventions implemented to reduce occupational sitting time is evident; however, the existing evidence is limited, which precludes strong conclusions. Cost-effectiveness is not often evaluated in the studies exploring workplace interventions that address occupational sitting time. …”
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Efficient removal of aqueous Pb(II) using partially reduced graphene oxide-FeO by Ting Guo, Chaoke Bulin, Bo Li, Zhiwei Zhao, Huitao Yu, He Sun, Xin Ge, Ruiguang Xing, Bangwen Zhang

“…A lower dosage favors a higher adsorption quantity, implying a strong adsorptive potential for partially reduced graphene oxide-Fe 3 O 4 . …”
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Validation of DSDs of GPM DPR with Ground-Based Disdrometers over the Tianshan Region, China by Xinyu Lu, Xiuqin Wang, Cheng Li, Yan Liu, Yong Zeng, Hong Huo

“…Rainfall rate (R) and Dm exhibited a strong positive correlation, and the fitted curve followed a power function distribution.…”
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What Can Urban Gardening Really Do About Gentrification? A Case-Study of Three San Francisco Community Gardens by Guillaume Marche

“…This question is especially crucial since the municipal government is a strong proponent of urban greening and the City of San Francisco has a rather ambivalent attitude when it comes to balancing poor people’s socioeconomic rights with the tax revenue generated by urban development and the resulting influx of households in the upper income bracket. …”
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Accommodation intersubjective et générique dans le forum du Madman’s Café by Stéphane Kostantzer

“…The main strategy for the contributors to differentiate consists of embedding other genres (in the Bakhtinian sense of the word) in their messages, sometimes affiliated, sometimes totally unrelated to the norms of this forum, from which the speakers may diverge inconsequentially, or towards which they may feign a useless convergence—a process that has strong humorous potential. Humour, which generally proceeds from an intentional hiatus between a stylistic convergence and an ideological divergence, is a vehicle of choice for the expression of one’s personal identity. …”
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Efficient Acquisition of Fully Human Antibody Genes against Self-Proteins by Sorting Single B Cells Stimulated with Vaccines Based on Nitrated T Helper Cell Epitopes by Liangliang Jiang, Tao Jiang, Jianhua Luo, Yanliang Kang, Yue Tong, Xiaoda Song, Xiangdong Gao, Wenbing Yao, Hong Tian

“…This NitraTh can also break immune tolerance to autoantigens, such as human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and cannabinoid receptor 1, and induce strong specific IgM+ B cell responses in vitro. HER2-NitraTh vaccine can also stimulate the generation of HER2-specific IgG+ B cells in human immune system mice, which was established by cotransplanting lymphocytes and autologous dendritic cells in immunodeficient mice. …”
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Chemical Characteristics and Trends of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: A Review by Aditi Majumdar, Dhrubajyoti Samanta, Reshmi Das

“…Furthermore, the synthesis of rainwater chemistry reveals a strong relationship with dominant interannual climate variability El Niño Southern Oscillation with significantly higher concentrations of Na+, K+, Ca2+, Cl–, and SO4– in rainwater during El Niño year compared to La Niña year.…”
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Using AI chatbots (e.g., CHATGPT) in seeking health-related information online: The case of a common ailment by Pouyan Esmaeilzadeh, Mahed Maddah, Tala Mirzaei

“…The results show that both hedonic and utilitarian values strongly influence users' satisfaction with conversational AI. …”
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CSTrans: cross-subdomain transformer for unsupervised domain adaptation by Junchi Liu, Xiang Zhang, Zhigang Luo

“…With the success of Transformer in various vision tasks, existing UDA methods borrow strong Transformer framework to learn global domain-invariant feature representation from the domain level or category level. …”
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Comprehensive assessment to reveal the salt tolerance potential of cultivated eggplants and their wild relatives by Esra Cebeci, Hatice Filiz Boyaci, Sevinc Kiran, Sekure Sebnem Ellialtioglu

“…Moreover, positive correlations were spotted between 0-5 scale values and MDA and Na+ level in shoots by correlation analysis. Strong correlations between proline accumulation–S. linnaeanum and MDA accumulation–AH were revealed by principal component analysis (PCA). …”
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Awareness, attitude, and acceptance of newborn screening for sickle cell disease among health workers and caregivers at primary healthcare centers in Gwagwalada Area Council, Feder... by Isa Hezekiah A, Chisomaga Ifeanyi Oparaugo, Grace Doyin Ajetomobi, Ayomide Esther Fasina, Reuben Ikechukwu Chianumba, Obiageli Eunice Nnodu, Obiageli Eunice Nnodu

“…The majority, 175 (59.1%) of the caregivers strongly agreed that NBS for SCD helps in the early detection and management of SCD, while 7 (2.4%) disagreed. …”
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A Rapid and Nondestructive Quality Detection Approach for Yongchuan Xiuya Tea Based on NIRS and siPLS-ANN Method by Ying Zhang, Jie Wang, Xiuhong Wu, Rui Chang, Hongyu Luo, Juan Yang, Quan Wu, Ze Xu, Yingfu Zhong

“…Utilizing a tanh activation function, the model exhibited strong predictive performance: an Rp² of 0.980 and RMSEP of 0.341 for prediction set samples, and an Rp² of 0.978 with RMSEP of 0.373 for unknown samples. …”
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E‐CHAIM as a Model of Total Electron Content: Performance and Diagnostics by D. R. Themens, Ben Reid, P. T. Jayachandran, Bion Larson, A. V. Koustov, Sean Elvidge, A. M. McCaffrey, Chris Watson

“…Overall, E‐CHAIM exhibits strong performance within the polar cap and auroral oval but performs comparably to the IRI at sub‐auroral latitudes.…”
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