The solution of super-scale DEA models based on preference character by Zhanxin Ma, Hao Li, Yinjie, Ziwei Fan

“…By delving into these relationships, it becomes feasible to address super-scale DEA problems more swiftly, aligning with the need for timeliness in real-world efficiency evaluations and reducing time costs. …”
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Ensuring irrigation water availability for off-season vegetable production in the face of competition from rural domestic water supplies in the commune of Lalo (Benin) by Djigbo Félicien Badou, Christophe Nouvewa, Christian Allé, Audrey Merveille Adango, Luc Ollivier Sintondji

“…During the dry season in West Africa, balancing agricultural and domestic water needs becomes increasingly challenging due to the depletion of water resources, underscoring the urgency for sustainable water resource management strategies. …”
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Effect on Soil Properties of BcWRKY1 Transgenic Maize with Enhanced Salinity Tolerance by Xing Zeng, Yu Zhou, Zhongjia Zhu, Hongyue Zu, Shumin Wang, Hong Di, Zhenhua Wang

“…However, soil salinity has become a major problem affecting plant productivity due to arable field degradation. …”
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The Antiseptic Octenidine Inhibits Langerhans Cell Activation and Modulates Cytokine Expression upon Superficial Wounding with Tape Stripping by Nenad Nikolić, Philip Kienzl, Pooja Tajpara, Martin Vierhapper, Johannes Matiasek, Adelheid Elbe-Bürger

“…Octenidine (OCT) has become a widely used antiseptic in professional wound care, but its influence on several components of the wound healing process remains unclear. …”
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Processing and Validation of Whey-Protein-Coated Films and Laminates at Semi-Industrial Scale as Novel Recyclable Food Packaging Materials with Excellent Barrier Properties by E. Bugnicourt, M. Schmid, O. Mc. Nerney, J. Wildner, L. Smykala, A. Lazzeri, P. Cinelli

“…The developed whey coating could be enzymatically removed within 2 hours and is therefore compatible with plastic recycling operations to allow multilayer films to become recyclable by separating the other combined layers. …”
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When to stop social learning from a predecessor in an information-foraging task by Hidezo Suganuma, Aoi Naito, Kentaro Katahira, Tatsuya Kameda

“…Using a behavioural experiment, we investigated how social information available from a preceding demonstrator affects the timing of becoming independent and individual performance thereafter. …”
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Enhancing Vehicular Network Efficiency: The Impact of Object Data Inclusion in the Collective Perception Service by Andreia Figueiredo, Pedro Rito, Miguel Luis, Susana Sargento

“…As the automotive industry evolves, integrating intelligent technologies and cooperative services in vehicular networks has become crucial to enhance road safety and autonomous driving capabilities. …”
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Estimation of Surface Heat Flux and Surface Temperature during Inverse Heat Conduction under Varying Spray Parameters and Sample Initial Temperature by Muhammad Aamir, Qiang Liao, Xun Zhu, Aqeel-ur-Rehman, Hong Wang, Muhammad Zubair

“…Insulation effects of vapor film become apparent in the sample initial temperature range of 900°C causing reduction in surface heat flux and cooling rate of the sample. …”
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Surrogate Safety Analysis of Pedestrian-Vehicle Conflict at Intersections Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Videos by Peng Chen, Weiliang Zeng, Guizhen Yu, Yunpeng Wang

“…Conflict analysis using surrogate safety measures (SSMs) has become an efficient approach to investigate safety issues. …”
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Artificial intelligence and assisted reproductive technology: A comprehensive systematic review by Yen-Chen Wu, Emily Chia-Yu Su, Jung-Hsiu Hou, Ching-Jung Lin, Krystal Baysan Lin, Chi-Huang Chen

“…The continuous evolution of AI methodologies is likely to further revolutionize this field, enabling more tailored and successful treatment approaches. AI is becoming an indispensable tool in reproductive medicine, enhancing both the effectiveness of treatments and the clinical decision-making process. …”
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Diversity of Chroogomphus (Gomphidiaceae, Boletales) in Europe, and typification of C. rutilus by Ross Scambler, Tuula Niskanen, Boris Assyov, A. Martyn Ainsworth, Jean-Michel Bellanger, Michael Loizides, Pierre-Arthur Moreau, Paul M. Kirk, Kare Liimatainen

“…Different candidates for the application of the name C. rutilus are evaluated and the best fit to the description is selected; lecto- and epitypes are chosen to fix the name. Chroogomphus fulmineus and C. mediterraneus are also epitypified and a new species, C. subfulmineus, is described. …”
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Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations by Olga Solaja, María Fernández-López, Davide Crepaldi, Manuel Perea

“…The present study tests whether encoding letter strings from a novel alphabet becomes more resistant to distortion when trained with variable input. …”
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Amphiphiles Self-Assembly: Basic Concepts and Future Perspectives of Supramolecular Approaches by Domenico Lombardo, Mikhail A. Kiselev, Salvatore Magazù, Pietro Calandra

“…In this perspective, we summarize in this tutorial review the basic concept and recent research on self-assembly of traditional amphiphilic molecules (such as surfactants, amphiphile-like polymers, or lipids) and more recent concepts of supramolecular amphiphiles assembly which have become increasingly important in emerging nanotechnology.…”
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In Situ Synthesis of Ternary Ni-Fe-Mo Nanosheet Arrays for OER in Water Electrolysis by Zhi Lu, Yifan Guo, Shilin Li, Jiaqi Ding, Yingzi Ren, Kun Tang, Jiefeng Wang, Chengxin Li, Zishuo Shi, Ziqi Sun, Hongbo Meng, Guangxin Wang

“…The exploitation of high-efficiency and inexpensive catalysts become important to the mass use of water decomposition. …”
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Psychologic Resilience and Related Factors in the Euthymic Bipolar Patients by Ersin Uygun, Aylin Koseoglu, Suat Kucukgoncu, Sahap N. Erkoc

“…This fact attracted the attention onto the psychological resilience, which is the ability of dealing with stressful life-events and overcoming the traumatic experiences, and it has become a phenomenon that is taken into consideration to empower the protective factors for the disorder. …”
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Creencias epistemológicas: premisas constitutivas de perspectivas acerca del conocimiento by Walter Sergio Terrazas

“…Dos perspectivas epistemológicas fueron identificadas: una empírica caracterizada por la premisa de que el conocimiento es una sistematización objetiva de observaciones de una realidad unívoca que se materializa en una única explicación posible, y una perspectiva relativista individual que se caracteriza por la premisa de que el conocimiento es una sistematización subjetiva de hechos que da lugar a múltiples explicaciones igualmente válidas. …”
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Research progress and application status of organoid in breast cancer subtypes by Qiuxia Zhang, Min Wang, Li You, Chen Chen, Jia Feng, Miao Song, Kui Yang, Xuexue Liu, Guangrong Li, Jinbo Liu

“…Coupled with advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies, organoids have become increasingly valuable in biological and chemical research. …”
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Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Are Major Threats of Otitis Media in Wollo Area, Northeastern Ethiopia: A Ten-Year Retrospective Analysis by Ayele Argaw-Denboba, Asrat Agalu Abejew, Alemayehu Gashaw Mekonnen

“…In conclusion, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are alarmingly increasing in Wollo area, northeastern Ethiopia, and becoming a major public health problem in the management of patients with middle ear infection.…”
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Utilizing Remote Sensing to Quantify Evapotranspiration: A Case Study of the Saiss Basin (Morocco) by Oumou Abdellah, Essahlaoui Ali, Khrabcha Abdelali, Essahlaoui Narjisse, Alitane Abdennabi, Kassou Amina, El Hafyani Mohammed, Van Rompaey Anton, Gobin Anne

“…In areas highly affected by drought in a changing climate, evapotranspiration (ET) becomes a significant parameter affecting soils and vegetation. …”
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Usefulness of Magnifying Endoscopy with Narrow-Band Imaging for Determining Tumor Invasion Depth in Early Gastric Cancer by Daisuke Kikuchi, Toshiro Iizuka, Shu Hoteya, Akihiro Yamada, Tsukasa Furuhata, Satoshi Yamashita, Kaoru Domon, Masanori Nakamura, Akira Matsui, Toshifumi Mitani, Osamu Ogawa, Sumio Watanabe, Mitsuru Kaise

“…Magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging (ME-NBI) has become essential for determining tumor margin in early gastric cancer (EGC). …”
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