Discussion of Inconsiderate Cruelty Towards Animals: Further Arguments for Animal Rights by Enyimba Maduka, Chukwuemeka I. Awugosi, Pius A. Ohere, Timothy Adie Okpe, Joseph Paul Essien

“…In our view, the primary focus should instead be on animal welfare and suffering. While animals should not be treated merely as tools for human purposes, it is possible for humans to control them in ways that still allow animals to have decent lives. …”
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Japan in the Russia - U.S. Relations by S. V. Volkov

“…However, Ukraine has become a major springboard to contain Russia. Instead of establishing equal Russian - American relations United States and their allies (under American pression) have chosen a policy of isolating Moscow, but such actions are blocking the Russian - Japanese rapprochement beneficial both for Tokyo and Kremlin, which is interested in deepening its ties with Japan in order to diversify its relations with Asia-Pacific area. …”
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Implementation of Student Course Evaluation: Pandemic Impact on the Non-Constraint Engagement (NCE) Model by Faridah Maarof, Said El-Emam, Raudah Mohd Yunus

“…The COVID-19 pandemic did not cause a fall in student participation. Instead, following the outbreak arrival, there was a sharp increase in SCE response rates. …”
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Relationship between Maternal Immunological Response during Pregnancy and Onset of Preeclampsia by Alicia Martínez-Varea, Begoña Pellicer, Alfredo Perales-Marín, Antonio Pellicer

“…The maternal immunological tolerance to the semiallogeneic fetus becomes greater in egg donation pregnancies with unrelated donors as the complete fetal genome is allogeneic to the mother. Instead of being rejected, the allogeneic fetus is tolerated by the pregnant woman in egg donation pregnancies. …”
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Analyzing Interdisciplinary Research Using Co-Authorship Networks by Mati Ullah, Abdul Shahid, Irfan ud Din, Muhammad Roman, Muhammad Assam, Muhammad Fayaz, Yazeed Ghadi, Hanan Aljuaid

“…Researchers and scientists no longer remain solitary individuals; instead, they collaborate to advance fundamental understandings of research topics. …”
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Dynamic Metabolic Footprinting Reveals the Key Components of Metabolic Network in Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Pramote Chumnanpuen, Michael Adsetts Edberg Hansen, Jørn Smedsgaard, Jens Nielsen

“…To capture the highly dynamic nature of metabolites, we propose the use of dynamic metabolic footprinting instead of the traditional method which relies on analysis at a single time point. …”
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Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014) by Geoffrey Supran, Naomi Oreskes

“…For example, accounting for expressions of reasonable doubt, 83% of peer-reviewed papers and 80% of internal documents acknowledge that climate change is real and human-caused, yet only 12% of advertorials do so, with 81% instead expressing doubt. We conclude that ExxonMobil contributed to advancing climate science—by way of its scientists’ academic publications—but promoted doubt about it in advertorials. …”
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Bandwidth Reconfigurable Metamaterial Arrays by Nathanael J. Smith, Dimitris Papantonis, John L. Volakis

“…In contrast with previous bandwidth and frequency response reconfigurations, our approach does not change the aperture’s or ground plane’s geometry, nor does it introduce external filtering structures. Instead, the new responses are realized by making simple circuit changes into the balanced feed integrated with the wideband MTM array. …”
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Growth Performance, Body Measurements and Live Weight Estimation of Tülü (Bactrian × Dromedary F1) Calves from Birth to Six Months of Age by Atakan Koç, Alkan Çağlı

“…In conclusion, Tülü calves had relatively high growth rate in their first six months of age, and unlike other livestock species, instead of hearth girth (HG), AG that includes the hump can be used to estimate LW of Tülü calves.…”
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Funding the New Biologics – A Health Economic Critique of the CCOHTA Report: Infliximab for the Treatment of Crohn’s Disease by Craig R Mitton

“…The high ICURs that were quoted in the report do not necessarily mean that infliximab is not valuable, because opportunity costs were not considered. Instead of calculating the ICUR, a preferable approach would be to determine the benefit of this therapy, compared with that which could be derived from alternative uses of the same amount of health care resources. …”
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GaN-Based High-k Praseodymium Oxide Gate MISFETs with P2S5/(NH4)2SX + UV Interface Treatment Technology by Chao-Wei Lin, Hsien-Chin Chiu

“…An electron-beam evaporated Pr2O3 insulator is used instead of traditional plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), in order to prevent plasma-induced damage to the AlGaN. …”
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A Study of Moving from Cloud Computing to Fog Computing by Hindreen Rashid Abdulqadir, Subhi R. M. Zeebaree, Hanan M. Shukur, Mohammed Mohammed Sadeeq, Baraa Wasfi Salim, Azar Abid Salih, Shakir Fattah Kak

“…Cloud and Fog provide IoT processing and storage of IoT items locally instead of sending them to the cloud. Cloud and Fog provide quicker reactions and better efficiency in conjunction with the cloud. …”
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Networks and the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease by Leon Danon, Ashley P. Ford, Thomas House, Chris P. Jewell, Matt J. Keeling, Gareth O. Roberts, Joshua V. Ross, Matthew C. Vernon

“…Given the breadth of areas covered and the ever-expanding number of publications, a comprehensive review of all work is impossible. Instead, we provide a personalised overview into the areas of network epidemiology that have seen the greatest progress in recent years or have the greatest potential to provide novel insights. …”
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Insights into the dependence of post-stroke motor recovery on the initial corticospinal tract connectivity from a computational model by Dongwon Kim, Leah M. O’Shea, Naveed R. Aghamohammadi

“…In contrast, if the residual CST connectivity is insufficient, hand/arm dexterity barely recovers, even as the phases of stroke progress. Instead, the functional upregulation of the reticulospinal tract (RST) often occurs. …”
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On optimization of substrate removal in a bioreactor with wall attached and suspended bacteria by Alma Mašić, Hermann J. Eberl

“…The solution of the associated singular optimal control problem in the class of measurable functions is impractical to determine and infeasible to implement in real reactors. Instead, we solve the simpler problem to optimize reactor performance in the class of off-on functions, a choice that is motivated by the underlying biological process. …”
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Cascade Delayed Controller Design for a Class of Underactuated Systems by G. Ochoa-Ortega, R. Villafuerte-Segura, A. Luviano-Juárez, M. Ramírez-Neria, N. Lozada-Castillo

“…Also, it can reduce the complexity of the global control design, through the use of a cascade connection of two second-order controllers instead of designing a global controller of the fourth-order system. …”
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Post-joining thermal characteristics and repair integrity of carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites during ultrasonic reconsolidation at 20 kHz by Balaji Ragupathi, Lena Burger, Frank Balle

“…Temperature, a characteristic variable, is a key factor influencing the quality of joints in ultrasonic welding of thermoplastic composites. In this study, instead of measuring temperature during the joining process, the focus was on post-joining analysis on temperature at various hold times and holding forces. …”
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Open-world disaster information identification from multimodal social media by Chen Yu, Bin Hu, Zhiguo Wang

“…It is worth noting that in real-world scenarios, sudden disaster events may differ from the training data, which may require the multimodal network to predict them as unknown classes instead of misclassifying them to known ones. Previous studies have primarily focused on model accuracy in a closed environment and may not be able to directly detect unknown classes. …”
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Microbial Surface Treatment of Sand with Sporosarcina pasteurii to Improve the Wind Erosion Resistance in Urmia Lake by Hooshang Katebi, Ahmad Fahmi, Ahad Ouria, Alireza Babaeian Amini, Hossein Samadi Kafil

“…The advanced biotechnology application of this bacterium can be used as an environmentally friendly and safe method instead of other methods.…”
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Is there a relationship between human development and dependence on fisheries? by Can Mehmet Fatih, Mazlum Yavuz, Erkan Birol

“…To improve the human development of the countries and maintain the food security around the world, the following points could be suggested: i) to increase the aquaculture production both in inland and marine environments where possible, ii) for low and medium developed countries, instead of raw material exporting, to support increasing the production capacity of processed fisheries products that have higher global market prices.…”
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