Human development II: We Need an Integrated Theory for Matter, Life and Consciousness to Understand Life and Healing by Sören Ventegodt, Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Maj Lyck Nielsen, Birgitte Clausen, Joav Merrick

“…We suggest that a relatively simple model based on interacting wholenesses instead of isolated parts can shed a new light on a number of difficult issues that we need to explain and understand in biology and medicine in order to understand and use metamorphosis in the holistic medical clinic. …”
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Pursuit on the plane by objects moving away from the trajectory of defending object, with simulation of detection area by A. А. Dubanov, T. V. Ausheev

“…As a means of protection, instead of releasing passive heat traps, it is proposed to drop a multitude of autonomously controlled weapons of destruction. …”
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Effects of N-Acetylcysteine and N-Acetylcysteine Amide on Erythrocyte Deformability and Oxidative Stress in a Rat Model of Lower Extremity Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury by Gokhan Erol, Hakan Kartal, Faruk M. Comu, Erdem Cetin, Ertan Demirdas, Huseyin Sicim, Celal S. Unal, Celalettin Gunay, Bilgehan S. Oz, Cengiz Bolcal

“…N-acetylcysteine-amide (NACA) is a modified form of NAC containing an amide group instead of a carboxyl group of NAC. Our study aims to investigate the effectiveness of these two substances on erythrocyte deformability and oxidative stress in muscle tissue. …”
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An Efficient Approach to Extract and Store Big Semantic Web Data Using Hadoop and Apache Spark GraphX by Wria Mohammed Salih Mohammed, Alaa Khalil Jumaa

“…Hadoop can store datasets because it can use many hard disks for distributed data clustering; Apache Spark can be used for parallel data processing more efficiently than Hadoop MapReduce because Spark uses memory instead of the hard disk. Semantic Web data has been stored and processed in this paper using Apache Spark GraphX and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). …”
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Does Context Matter? Governance Models in Local Administration by Stefanie Vedder, Benjamin Friedländer, Simon Bogumil-Uçan, Tanja Klenk

“…Originality/Significance/Value: In addition to the contribution to the field, our comparative methodology and empirical study makeup show the advantages of concentrating on a minimal number of paradigms that can be delineated as clearly as possible, instead of operationalising public administration reforms with a multitude of (potentially country-specific) indicators. …”
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The response of hydraulic conductivity to air-trapped saturation in a dissolution process of trapped-air in quasi-saturated fine sands media by Donghui CHENG, Yingbo LAN, Jing YUAN, Lin XIANG, Xiaoting YANG, Xiaoying QIAO, Lin DENG, Zilin WANG, Qing WANG

“…This study designed an oxygen-trapped dissolution experiment in quasi-saturated fine sands media, instead of air-trapped, in which the soluble oxygen in water and the corresponding hydraulic conductivity can be accurately measured. …”
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Challenges and opportunities for assessing trends of amphibians with heterogeneous data – a call for better metadata reporting by Klaus Henle, Reinhard A. Klenke, M. Benjamin Barth, Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, Diana E. Bowler

“…However, only a few species have been monitored annually for a long period of time by specific monitoring programmes. Instead, there are many heterogeneous datasets that contain observations of amphibians from professional surveys as well as diverse citizen science and other voluntary surveys. …”
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Implications of the Improvement in Atmospheric Fine Particles: A Case Study of COVID-19 Pandemic in Northern Taiwan by Chuan-Hsiu Huang, Yi-Ru Ko, Tzu-Chi Lin, Yu-Hsiang Cheng, Yu-Cheng Chen, Yu-Chieh Ting

“…Nonetheless, organic matter (OM) and elemental carbon (EC) simply decreased by 36% and 13%, which caused the chemical composition of PM2.5 to change so that the carbonaceous matter in PM2.5 dominated instead of the inorganic ions. Correlation-based hierarchical clustering analysis further showed that PM2.5 was clustered with carbonaceous matter during the Level 3 alert, while that clustered with inorganic ions during both pre-alert and post-alert periods. …”
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Excellent high-temperature strength of (HfZrTiTaNb)C high-entropy carbide diffusion-bonded joint via in-situ alloying of Ni/Nb/Ni composite interlayer by Ruijie Mu, Ying Wang, Shiyu Niu, Kongbo Sun, Zhenwen Yang

“…Leveraging the intrinsic interfacial stability and sluggish diffusion effect, the HEC with its original lattice structure, was capable of developing diffusion bonding with the Nb2Ni layer instead of interacting with the liquid phase. The high reliability of the HEC/Nb2Ni bonded interface was confirmed by the coherence of (11¯3) HEC//(141)Nb2Ni and a calculated lattice misfit of 0.044. …”
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How to enhance company engagement in public-private emergency collaborations in the supply of essential goods by Markus Lüttenberg, Alexander Zienau, Marcus Wiens, Ole Hansen, Florian Diehlmann, Frank Schultmann

“…While their preferred contribution to collaborative crisis management is providing resources (e.g. goods or equipment) instead of coordination tasks, they also want to ensure that their business processes are sustained. …”
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Neglecting the neglected: Tobacco cessation support is 'essential' for the management of asthma and COPD by Dilek Karadogan, İlknur Kaya, Merve Yumrukuz Şenel, Esin Bilgin Konyalıhatipoğlu, Tahsin Gökhan Telatar, Metin Akgün

“…Conclusions Tobacco cessation support seems to be neglected in asthma and COPD management. Instead, pulmonologists and patients focus on pharmaceutical treatments, which constitute the other component of care.…”
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TCAD Simulation Study of Cylindrical Vertical Double-Surrounding-Gate a-InGaZnO FETs and Geometric Parameter Optimization by Yue Zhao, Lihua Xu, Chuanke Chen, Xufan Li, Kexin Shang, Di Geng, Lingfei Wang, Ling Li

“…Threshold control of amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O field-effect transistor (a-IGZO FET) is generally a critical issue through material composition adjustment. Instead, this work reports a cylindrical vertical double-surrounding-gate (DSG) a-IGZO FET, featuring flexibility of threshold modulation, by the 3-D technology computer-aided design (TCAD) simulation. …”
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Principal component analysis and its generalizations for any type of sequence (PCA-Seq) by V. M. Efimov, K. V. Efimov, V. Y. Kovaleva

“…For the resulting matrix, the principal components are calculated by the principal-coordinate method (PCo). Instead of a distance matrix, one can use a matrix of any similarity/dissimilarity indexes and apply methods of multidimensional scaling (MDS). …”
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Dentoskeletal effects of aesthetic and conventional twin block appliances in the treatment of skeletal class II malocclusion: a randomized controlled trial by Mohamed Najati Alsilq, Mohamed Youssef

“…To overcome these effects, a modified twin block was designed, which uses vacuum-formed hard plates (VFPs) instead of acrylic plates. This clinical trial evaluated the skeletal and dentoalveolar changes resulting from a modified twin block (aesthetic twin block) (ATB) in comparison with conventional twin block (CTB) in addition to levels of esthetics and discomfort. …”
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In Silico Exploration of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome <i>mec</i> (SCC<i>mec</i>) Evolution Based on Phylogenetic Relationship of <i>ccrAB/C</i> by Huawei Wang, Jinxing He

“…Importantly, the phylogenetic relationship of <i>ccrAB/C</i> did not exhibit centralization over time; instead, similarly to <i>mecA</i>, <i>ccrAB/C</i> with similar identities had close clades across decades and geographical limits and different SCC<i>mec</i> types, which enabled us to discriminate SCC<i>mec</i> based on the sequence identity of <i>ccrAB/C</i>. …”
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Modality-Focused L2-Instruction in Swedish Sign Language by Ingela Holmström

“…It requires expressing the language using hands, arms, face, and body instead of the speech organs, and this is very unfamiliar for them. …”
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Cytogenetic features of intergeneric amphydiploids and genome-substituted forms of wheat by E. D. Badaeva, R. O. Davoyan, N. A. Tereshchenko, E. V. Lyalina, S. A. S.A. Zoshchuk, N. P. Goncharov

“…Chromosome analysis has not confirmed the presence of the N genome from Ae. uniaristata Vis. in the genome-substituted hybrid Avrotata. Instead, Avrotata carries the D genome. Our study shows that octoploid hybrids, namely AD 7, AD 7147 undergo more complex genome reorganizations as compared to hexaploids: the chromosome number of two presumably octoploid wheatAegilops hybrids were reduced to the hexaploid level. …”
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Kinetics of carbon dioxide, methane and hydrolysis in co-digestion of food and vegetable wastes by D. Pham Van, M.G. Hoang, S.T. Pham Phu, T. Fujiwara

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Effect of Cinnamon Essential Oil on the Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting of Cancer Patients by Shima Mehrabian, Batool Tirgari, Mina Beitollahi, Mansooreh Azizzadeh Forouzi, Behjat Kalantari Khandani

“…Patients in the control group used a placebo (a pad moistened with 2 ml of isotonic saline) instead of cinnamon essential oil during the intervention period. …”
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Two Cysteines in Raf Kinase Inhibitor Protein Make Differential Contributions to Structural Dynamics In Vitro by Hyun Sang Cho, Mohammad Faysal Al Mazid, Eun-Young Lee, Md Abu Rayhan, Hyoun Sook Kim, Byung Il Lee, Hye Jin You

“…Mutation of alanine or serine instead of cysteine in RKIP proteins did not affect the biochemical characteristics, while dynamic light scattering and liquid chromatography (LC) quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) suggested distinct peaks in solution, which were identified via LC–MS/MS analyses, and further clarified the role of cysteine in RKIP dimerization. rhRKIP dimer formation was abrogated by a 32-aa peptide mimicking the region between two RKIP proteins for dimerization. …”
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