A cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association study identified susceptibility genes for age-related macular degeneration by Hongfan Yang, Haofei Huang, Kunlin Pu

“…This study identified six susceptibility genes associated with the risk of AMD through a cross-tissue TWAS, providing new insights into the potential systemic regulatory mechanisms underlying AMD.…”
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A review of population genetics and the prospects for crop improvement by Godswill Ntsomboh-Ntsefong, Gabriel Mahbou Somo Toukam, Benoit Constant Likeng-Li-Ngue, Kingsley Tabi Mbi, Seyum Getachew Essubalew, Mohammad Ali Shariati, Vesna Karapetkovska Hristova, Libert Brice Tonfack, Joseph Martin Bell, Emmanuel Youmbi

“…Population genetics is crucial in identifying desirable traits and genetic markers, developing breeding strategies and improving the efficacy of crop improvement programs. …”
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Nonthermal Signatures of Radiative Supernova Remnants. II. The Impact of Cosmic Rays and Magnetic Fields by Rebecca Diesing, Siddhartha Gupta

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Sparse Regularization With Reverse Sorted Sum of Squares via an Unrolled Difference-of-Convex Approach by Takayuki Sasaki, Kazuya Hayase, Masaki Kitahara, Shunsuke Ono

“…Traditional sparse regularization functions, such as <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L_{1}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-norm, suffer from problems like amplitude underestimation and vanishing perturbations. The reverse ordered weighted <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$L_{1}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-norm (ROWL) addresses these issues but introduces new challenges. …”
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Effect of Supervision on Employee Performance in Uganda: A Case Study of Shuuku Savings Cooperative SACCO in Sheema District. by Ayesiime, Peninah

“…It further recommends that Supervision must be more of ideas sharing and participatory than conventional or control oriented in order to improve on performance.…”
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The problem of combustion instability in liquid rocket engines by Samir Vekilov, Volodymyr Lipovskyi, Roman Pustovyi

“…Thus, a complex of modifications was applied to the chamber in order to prevent combustion instability in the developed low-thrust rocket engines. …”
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The Impact of Global Transformations of the Business Environment on the Development of Enterprises by Karlova Olena A.

“…It is identified that global transformations not only create new opportunities for the growth and development of economic entities, but also pose significant risks and challenges. …”
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Features of the Processes of Digitalization of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in Ukraine by Reshetnyak Olena I., Bielikova Nadiia V., Yurchenko Oleksiy K., Kalashnikova Kateryna Yu.

“…Among the main obstacles to the implementation of digitalization of SMEs are: the inability to invest in high-value digital tools and relatively high operating costs for maintenance; lack of digital competencies among managers and employees; resistance to change on the part of workers and unwillingness to change on the part of managers. …”
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Covid-19 And Performance of Selected Non-Governmental Organizations in Kabale District, Uganda. by Karungi, Molly

“…This may involve reallocating resources, phasing out certain projects, and exploring new opportunities for service delivery.…”
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A Qualitative Study on the Tax Amnesty Perception of Income Taxpayers: The Case of Türkiye by Serap Püren

“…The results showed that tax amnesties frequently implemented by governments cause taxpayers to expect a new amnesty and cause tax compliance to deteriorate, and are perceived as unfair and unjust by taxpayers who fulfill their tax obligations. …”
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R&D IN FUNCTION OF DIRECT PUBLIC SUPPORTS TO SMEs: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY IN TURKEY by Filiz Giray, Mehmet Çına, Simla Güzel

“…According to the logistic regression model, the determiner factors are the information level of firms on R&D supports, available convenient support kind, the number of licenses and patents, supply of new product to market etc., in order to increase the possibility for benefit from supports. …”
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Is it possible to do theology without philosophical presuppositions? by D. F. M. Strauss

“…But since it is only characteristic of created entities that they are subject to the order which God as Creator has set for them, this ultimately entails that grasping God in a concept subjects God to a creational law. …”
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R&D IN FUNCTION OF DIRECT PUBLIC SUPPORTS TO SMEs: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY IN TURKEY by Filiz Giray, Mehmet Çına, Simla Güzel

“…According to the logistic regression model, the determiner factors are the information level of firms on R&D supports, available convenient support kind, the number of licenses and patents, supply of new product to market etc., in order to increase the possibility for benefit from supports. …”
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Roma & Sinti Culture as Modern German Studies by Arushi Nair

“…In her memoir she explores the distinctions between Sinti and Roma, her ambitions, and her connection to generations of Roma artists. She tells a new story, a different story that opens up a very different perspective from the view provided by scholarship on the Roma and Sinti. …”
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Accounting as a performance measurement tool: A case study of Restaurants in Musanze Town/Rwanda. by Elisee, Kaberuka

“…The study recommended Management of the restaurants to improve their accounting system in order to meet the international accounting standards (IAS) and evaluate themselves through accounting information.…”
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Contribution of the dynamic visualization of a 3D hydrogeological conceptual model to the participatory management of groundwater resources by Malard, Arnauld, Dörfliger, Nathalie, Jeannin, Pierre-Yves, Laube, Silvan

“…Concepts and principles of 3D conceptual models and of the new FAM are presented and discussed in this paper with an application to a volcanic aquifer in Indonesia.…”
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Regenerative therapies for myocardial infarction: exploring the critical role of energy metabolism in achieving cardiac repair by Jiahao Ren, Xinzhe Chen, Tao Wang, Cuiyun Liu, Kun Wang

“…After myocardial infarction, in order to ensure normal blood supply to the heart, the remaining cardiomyocytes compensate for the loss of cardiomyocytes mainly by working at high capacity rather than by proliferating to produce new cardiomyocytes. …”
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Improved snow geese algorithm for engineering applications and clustering optimization by Haihong Bian, Can Li, Yuhan Liu, Yuxuan Tong, Shengwei Bing, Jincheng Chen, Quance Ren, Zhiyuan Zhang

“…Abstract The Snow Goose Algorithm (SGA) is a new meta-heuristic algorithm proposed in 2024, which has been proved to have good optimization effect, but there are still problems that are easy to fall into local optimal and premature convergence. …”
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Distribution and abundance of a soil centipede, Tygarrup nepalensis Shinohara, 1965 (Mecistocephalidae: Geophilomorpha: Chilopoda) in a moist temperate forest in Northwest Himalaya by Negi Javaid Diksha, Ahmed Shakoor, Sambyal Deepali, Stašiov Slavomír, Julka Jatinder Mohan

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Weak gravity conjecture validation with photon spheres of quantum corrected Reissner–Nordstrom–AdS black holes in Kiselev spacetime by Mohammad Reza Alipour, Mohammad Ali S. Afshar, Saeed Noori Gashti, Jafar Sadeghi

“…Our focus is on photon spheres, which serve as markers for stable and unstable photon spheres. We confirm the validity of the WGC by demonstrating that quantum corrections do not alter the essential charge-to-mass ratio, thereby supporting the conjecture’s universality. …”
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