Áreas de preservação permanente (APPs) no Brasil e na França: um comparativo by Sidnei Luís Bohn Gass, Roberto Verdum, Jeannine Corbonnois, François Laurent

“…Comparing the legislation model and its application, on the theme of APPs in Brazil and France, it is observed that there are different aspects of the environment, environmental legislation and management needs associated with the reality of each country, which are result of historical processes of occupation and land use. It is, finally, a question: what are the similarities between the management models of both countries? …”
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A cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility genes for benign prostatic hyperplasia by Li Wang, Si-yu Chen, Jian-wei Yang, Kang-yu Wang, Kun-peng Li, Shun Wan, Xiao-ran Li, Li Yang

“…Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) analysis explores the differential expression of genes. Finally, The GeneMANIA tool was utilized to further understand the functional roles of these susceptibility genes. …”
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Diversidade na formação em saúde: vivências de estudantes de graduação de uma universidade federal by Caroline Izabela Silva, Natália Sevilha Stofel, Flávio Adriano Borges, Irai Maria de Campos Teixeira, Natália Rejane Salim

“…Um dos pontos evidenciados é a presença da diversidade no espaço universitário como forma de mobilização e mudanças no ensino. CONSIDERAÇÕES FINAIS: O estudo mostrou a necessidade da elaboração de estratégias que garantam a discussão das temáticas de diversidade na formação em saúde de forma institucionalizada, bem como parte integrante do projeto mais amplo da universidade. …”
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Intraoperative visualisation and treatment of salivary glands in Sjögren’s syndrome by contrast-enhanced ultrasound sialendoscopy (CEUSS): protocol for a phase I single-centre, sin... by Arjan Vissink, K Hakki Karagozoglu, Tim Forouzanfar, Henk S Brand, Derk Hendrik Jan Jager, Marco Helder, Joseph Bot, Otto Kamp, Seunghee Cha, Gary Weisman, Imke Bartelink

“…Secondary outcomes will consist of determinations of unstimulated whole mouth saliva flow, stimulated whole mouth saliva flow, stimulated parotid saliva flow, clinical oral dryness, reported pain, xerostomia, disease activity, salivary cytokine profiles and clinical SS symptoms. Finally, salivary gland topographical alterations will be evaluated by US.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the Medical Ethics Committee of the Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (NL68283.029.19). data will be presented at national and international conferences and published in a peer-reviewed journal. …”
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Identifying Incident Causal Factors to Improve Aviation Transportation Safety: Proposing a Deep Learning Approach by Tianxi Dong, Qiwei Yang, Nima Ebadi, Xin Robert Luo, Paul Rad

“…Then, we take an open-source natural language model, which is well trained with a large corpus of Wikipedia texts, as the baseline and fine-tune it with the texts in incident reports to make it more suited to our specific research task. Finally, we build and train an attention-based long short-term memory (LSTM) model to identify primary and contributing factors in each incident report. …”
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Research on Optimization of Injection Molding Process Parameters of Automobile Plastic Front-End Frame by Kai Yang, Lingfeng Tang, Peng Wu

“…A back propagation (BP) neural network model with input as a process parameter and output as an evaluation index is established by MATLAB and optimized by a genetic algorithm (GA). Finally, the optimized neural network model was used to predict the combination of process parameters with the minimum volume shrinkage and warpage amount. …”
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CONTINGENCY FACTORS AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRACTICES OF LISTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN LAGOS STATE by Mustapha Abdulrasaq, Abdullahi Adio Babatunde, Isaac Biodun Ogunshola

“…It is important for management that as firms are growing older, extensive use of management accounting should be encouraged to effectively manage complexity inherent in firm’s expansion and finally, management should try to acquired more managerial skills to improve the optimum use of management accounting techniques …”
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Strategi Partai Nasional Demokrat dalam Menghadapi Pilkada Serentak Tahun 2015 Provinsi Sumatera Utara by Roslinda Wati Malau, Muhammad Aswin Hasibuan, Irwan Nasution

“…A strategy of political is a set of the approach overall related to the implementation of the idea of, planning to a political party can win a fight between a variety of thepower of political process of reform happened where the political process be coming more berdinamika and demokrasi colored by a fight between the very open, until finally neededthe existance of a strategy of political using different approaches in which included noticed a political issue that will be sold to the group voters, take account of the power of her own, and observe the ability of the party of the competitors being political rival. …”
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Impact of Hemoglobin, Leucocyte and Thrombocyte Levels at Diagnosis on the Survival Outcomes of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients by Taha Ulutan Kars, Atakan Tekinalp, Rafiye Ciftciler, Sinan Demircioğlu

“…Background:Since the development of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), the prognosis for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has significantly improved. …”
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Arginine–NO pathway modulated energy metabolism in the hepatopancreas and muscle of female Litopenaeus vannamei by Haitao Fan, Xin Zhang, Yanan Yin, Lefei Jiao

“…The gene expression of cellular energy sensor AMP-activated protein kinase was up-regulated in muscle and hepatopancreas. …”
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Acceptance of international criminal justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina by G. Šimić

“…That severe crimes like systematic rape, torture, and massive destruction of cultural heritage and property would finally culminate with genocide. Consequently, Bosnia and Herzegovina (and the countries of the former Yugoslavia) triggered an immense boost in international criminal law and international criminal justice. …”
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Arapça Edebi Metinlerde Üslup Değişimi Göstergesi Olarak Söz Sanatları Yoğunluğu: Bânet Su’âd ve Kasîde-i Bürde Örneği by Nazife Nihal İnce, Ömer Göktur

“…İnceleme neticesinde Bânet Su’âd kasidesinde kinâye sanatının yoğun olarak kullanıldığı, Kasîde-i Bürde’de ise İstiâre sanatının yoğun olarak kullanıldığı tespit edilmiştir. …”
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Global Warming: The Balance of Evidence and Its Policy Implications by Charles Keller

“…It makes the point that in each area new information could come to light that would change our thinking on the quantitative magnitude and timing of anthropogenic warming, but it is unlikely to alter the basic conclusions.Finally, there is a very brief discussion of the societal policy response to the scientific message, and the author comments on his 2-year email discussions with many of the world’s most outspoken critics of the anthropogenic warming hypothesis.…”
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Uncovering potential causal genes for undiagnosed congenital anomalies using an in-house pipeline for trio-based whole-genome sequencing by Jeong-Min Kim, Hye-Won Cho, Dong Mun Shin, Oc-Hee Kim, Jihyun Kim, Hyeji Lee, Gang-Hee Lee, Joon-Yong An, Misun Yang, Heui Seung Jo, Ja-Hyun Jang, Yun Sil Chang, Hyun-Young Park, Mi-Hyun Park

“…Among them, 10 variants of seven coding genes were selected as possible causal variants by variant pathogenicity, genotype–phenotype analysis, and a multidisciplinary team. Finally, functional validation of six genes including RYR3, NRXN1, FREM2, CSMD1, RARS1, and NOTCH1, revealed various phenotypes in zebrafish models that aligned with those observed in each patient. …”
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Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of hydrogen imported by maritime transportation: A South Korean case study by Gyuna Kwak, Juha Lee, Yujin Jung, Wonjae Choi

“…Importing ammonia is generally more advantageous than liquid hydrogen, unless the grid electricity emissions are exceptionally low, specifically below 332.1 g-CO2-eq./kWh. Finally, hydrogen requires emissions below 8.55 and 11.89 kg-CO2-eq.…”
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Water quality model-based methodology to assess assimilative capacity of wastewater discharges in rivers by F.M. Torres-Bejarano, M. Verbel-Escobar, M.C. Atencia-Osorio

“…The model calibration process was tested applying the Root Mean Square Error and after calibrating the model, scenarios of increase and decrease of discharge concentrations and flows, and river flows were simulated. Finally, the results were compared to water quality reference limits.FINDINGS: Results show that the model accurately represented the real conditions of the studied river section for all the evaluated parameters. …”
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Clean energy development and low-carbon transition in China’s power industry by Yuxuan Cai, Edmund HoiNgan Loi, Chih-Lin Tung, Hao Wang, Jiansong Zheng

“…Research and development (R&D) investment plays a significant mediating role and thus helps to improve the level of clean electricity development and reduce carbon emissions. Finally, the policy implications are proposed to intensify R&D investment, promote crossregional cooperation in sharing of clean energy, implement differentiated clean energy development policies, and establish a sustainable monitoring and evaluation system.…”
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A high-throughput platform for single-molecule tracking identifies drug interaction and cellular mechanisms by David Trombley McSwiggen, Helen Liu, Ruensern Tan, Sebastia Agramunt Puig, Lakshmi B Akella, Russell Berman, Mason Bretan, Hanzhe Chen, Xavier Darzacq, Kelsey Ford, Ruth Godbey, Eric Gonzalez, Adi Hanuka, Alec Heckert, Jaclyn J Ho, Stephanie L Johnson, Reed Kelso, Aaron Klammer, Ruchira Krishnamurthy, Jifu Li, Kevin Lin, Brian Margolin, Patrick McNamara, Laurence Meyer, Sarah E Pierce, Akshay Sule, Connor Stashko, Yangzhong Tang, Daniel J Anderson, Hilary P Beck

“…Integrated pathway analysis recapitulated the network of known ER interaction partners and suggested potentially novel, kinase-mediated regulatory mechanisms. The sensitivity of htSMT revealed a new correlation between ER dynamics and the ability of ER antagonists to suppress cancer cell growth. …”
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Hydrogen reaction rate modeling based on convolutional neural network for large eddy simulation by Quentin Malé, Corentin J. Lapeyre, Nicolas Noiray

“…Third, a CNN is trained to approximate the filtered burning rates as a function of LES scalar quantities: progress variable, local equivalence ratio, and flame thickening due to filtering. Finally, the performances of the CNN model are assessed on test solutions never seen during training. …”
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Different activation of MAPKs and Akt/GSK3β after preload vs. afterload elevation by Nico Hartmann, Lena Preuß, Belal A. Mohamed, Moritz Schnelle, Andre Renner, Gerd Hasenfuß, Karl Toischer

“…Methods and results We therefore analysed the activation of classical cardiac signal pathways [mitogen‐activated protein kinases (MAPKs) (ERK, p38, and JNK) and Akt‐GSK3β] in in vitro of mechanical overload (ejecting heart model, rabbit and human isolated muscle strips). …”
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