Exploring Citizenship: Unit 5 My Community by Stacey Ellison, John Rutledge, Joy Jordan, Dale W. Pracht

“… Unit V: My Community The 4-H Citizenship Project offers the opportunity to help 4-H members relate all of their 4-H projects and experiences to the world around them. The 4-H Citizenship manuals will serve as a guide for 4-H Citizenship experiences. …”
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Abatacept in the Treatment of Juvenile Dermatomyositis-Associated Calcifications in a 16-Year-Old Girl by Sukesh Sukumaran, Vini Vijayan

“…Currently, there are no known effective treatments for calcinosis and current therapy is based on anecdotal retrospective studies and cases series. …”
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Diaspora Engagement Strategies and Policies by Jovan Filipovic, Srečko Srečko Devjak, Bogomil Ferfila

“…Diasporas have been making contributions to their motherland for a long time (Ionescu, 2006), without waiting for policies to rally them and, if truth be told, very often finding them to be the major obstacles for establishing the partnership. …”
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EDUCATION IN REMOTE ACCESS: A TEACHER’S VIEW by E. E. Ivanova

“…Psychological and pedagogical barriers that affect the perception of educational material by students, the performance of the teacher and student, including the effectiveness of educational interaction between them, have been considered. The problems of organizing and conducting intermediate certification in remote access have been emphasized: difficulties in identifying students ‘ identities, and the use of proctoring technologies.…”
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Development and validation of an automatic all‐wheel steering system for multiple‐articulated rubber‐tire transit by Jianghua Feng, Yunqing Hu, Xiwen Yuan, Ruipeng Huang, Xinrui Zhang, Lei Xiao

“…One subsystem is a path tracking control system and the other subsystem is a trajectory following the control system. Secondly, the theoretical principles of the two control systems are introduced in detail. …”
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MAPK4 inhibits the early aberrant activation of B cells in rheumatoid arthritis by promoting the IRF4-SHIP1 signaling pathway by Pei Huang, Guangli Yang, Pingping Zhang, Yin Zhu, Yaning Guan, Jian Sun, Qian Li, Yang An, Xiaoqi Shi, Juanjuan Zhao, Chaohong Liu, Zhixu He, Yan Chen, Zuochen Du

“…In summary, this study reveals the diverse roles of MAPK4 in regulating of B cell functions, with potential implications for developing therapeutic strategies for RA and related autoimmune diseases.…”
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Memperkuat Pertahanan Laut Indonesia: Belajar dari Strategi Pertempuran Laut Rusia-Jepang, 1904-1905 by Cecep Hidayat

“…The analysis reveals that six naval battles took place during the Russo-Japanese War, with Japan emerging victorious in five of them. In these battles, Japan implemented an aggressive naval blockade strategy, supported by effective leadership, a superior fleet and armament, as well as a well-organized logistics system. …”
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Efficacy of melatonin treatment in a cystic fibrosis mouse model of airway infection by Kristen R. Schaefer, Sara Rogers, Zachary Faber, Thomas J. Kelley

“…In conclusion, long-term systemic treatment with melatonin is an effective therapy in a CF mouse model that normalizes the response to airway infection to a WT pattern.…”
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Rapid Joule-heating synthesis of metal/carbon-based electrocatalysts for efficient carbon dioxide reduction by Weijian Guo, Xueying Cao, Ao Zhou, Wenwen Cai, Jintao Zhang

“…In this study, a rapid thermal shock method was developed to load various metal nanoparticles onto carbon supports. …”
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Low Temperature Synthesis of Hexagonal Bi2Te3 Nanoplates Using an Open Reactor and Its Effect on Their Physicochemical Properties by Laura A. Reyes-Verdugo, Maria de J. Martinez-Carreon, C. D. Gutierrez-Lazos, Francisco J. Solis-Pomar, Jose G. Quiñones-Galvan, Eduardo Perez-Tijerina

“…The samples were drop-cast on glass and FTO substrates for subsequent structural, chemical, and thermoelectric analyses. The electron microscopy analysis demonstrated that samples precipitated in highly crystalline hexagonal nanoplates, grown along the [0 1 5] plane of the rhombohedral phase of Bi2Te3. …”
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An Efficient Retinal Fluid Segmentation Network Based on Large Receptive Field Context Capture for Optical Coherence Tomography Images by Hang Qi, Weijiang Wang, Hua Dang, Yueyang Chen, Minli Jia, Xiaohua Wang

“…LKMU-Lite integrates a Decoupled Large Kernel Attention (DLKA) module that captures both local patterns and long-range dependencies, thereby enhancing feature representation. Additionally, it incorporates a Multi-scale Group Perception (MSGP) module that employs Dilated Convolutions with varying receptive field scales to effectively predict lesions of different shapes and sizes. …”
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Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) by Lily Tucciarone, Sara Murphy, Wendy J. Dahl

“… This publication addresses the characteristics, health and nutrition implications, and medical nutrition therapy recommendations for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). …”
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S-Glutathionylation of Protein Disulfide Isomerase Regulates Estrogen Receptor α Stability and Function by Ying Xiong, Yefim Manevich, Kenneth D. Tew, Danyelle M. Townsend

“…Thus, redox regulation of PDI causes its S-glutathionylation, thereby mediating cell death through activation of the UPR and abrogation of ERα stability and signaling.…”
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Near‐Isotropic, Extreme‐Stiffness, Continuous 3D Mechanical Metamaterial Sequences Using Implicit Neural Representation by Yunkai Zhao, Lili Wang, Xiaoya Zhai, Jiacheng Han, Winston Wai Shing Ma, Junhao Ding, Yonggang Gu, Xiao‐Ming Fu

“…It is challenging to create continuous density distributions to design a smooth mechanical metamaterial sequence in which each metamaterial possesses stiffness close to the theoretical limit in all directions. This study proposes three near‐isotropic, extreme‐stiffness, and continuous 3D mechanical metamaterial sequences by combining topology optimization and data‐driven design. …”
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The Diagonally Dominant Degree and Disc Separation for the Schur Complement of Ostrowski Matrix by Jianxing Zhao, Feng Wang, Yaotang Li

“…Finally, we give numerical examples to illustrate the theory results.…”
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Dissection of the genetic loci for grain hardness and variation of the key genes in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by Jinna Hou, Pengge Sun, Pei Yan, Shenghui Geng, Wenxu Li, Maomao Qin, Ziju Dai, Baoming Tian, Zhengqing Wu, Zhengfu Zhou, Changwen Li, Zhensheng Lei

“…Totally, six haplotypes were identified and among them the haplotypes Pina-D1a/PinbD1b (56.77 %) and Pina-Dla/Pinb-D1a (31.25 %) accounted for the highest proportion. …”
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Piezoelectric characteristics of coal rock leakage under uniaxial compression by Zeyi Liu, Ke Gao, Yujiao Liu, Chengyao Zhu, Yao Zhang

“…The wavelet packet energy at the end of the elastic deformation stage was 0.26 V2, similar to the pre-compression value of 0.29 V2. Therefore, the overall damage in the compression and elastic deformation stages was approximately 0. …”
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Glucose Management during Insulinoma Resection Using Real-Time Subcutaneous Continuous Glucose Monitoring by Yuki Sugiyama, Chiaki Kiuchi, Maiko Suzuki, Yuki Maruyama, Ryo Wakabayashi, Yasunari Ohno, Shugo Takahata, Takumi Shibazaki, Mikito Kawamata

“…These data were helpful for adjusting the glucose infusion; therefore, we think that an SCGM system as a supportive device for glucose monitoring may be useful for glucose management during surgery.…”
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The Role of Dectin-1-Akt-RNF146 Pathway in β-Glucan Induced Immune Trained State of Monocyte in Sepsis by Guo C, Xu P, Luo W, Zhang J, Sun X, Hoang H, Ma D, Wu D, Zhong J, Miao C

“…Murine double-hit models (pretreatment or post-treatment of β-glucan in septic mice) and murine monocyte/macrophage cell line RAW264.7 were used then.Results: scRNA-seq revealed that Ring finger protein 146 (RNF146) and protein kinase B (Akt) were downregulated in the immunosuppression period of septic patients and were verified to be decreased in bone marrow and spleen monocytes from septic mice. …”
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Research on In Situ Stress Measurements in Reinforced Concrete Beams Based on the Core-Drilling Method by Nian-Chun Deng, Peng-Fei Tang

“…The difference between the measured concrete stress and the theoretical value was less than 10%, and the average error was only 6.03%, indicating the feasibility of the proposed method.…”
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