ACTH4 -10, Substance P, and Dizolcipine (Mk-801) Accelerate Functional Recovery After Hemilabyrinthectomy in Goldfish by R. Mattioli, J. P. Huston, R. E. Spieler

“…The behavioral effects of two neuropeptides were tested–namely, of substance P and ACTH4-10, both of which are known to promote functional recovery in several other lesion models. …”
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From relaxed beliefs under psychedelics (REBUS) to revised beliefs after psychedelics (REBAS) by Richard J. Zeifman, Meg J. Spriggs, Hannes Kettner, Taylor Lyons, Fernando E. Rosas, Pedro A. M. Mediano, David Erritzoe, Robin L. Carhart-Harris

“…We report the first empirical evidence that the relaxation and revision of negative self-belief confidence mediates psilocybin's positive psychological outcomes, and provide tentative evidence for a neuronal mechanism, namely, increased neuronal entropy. Replication within larger and clinical samples is necessary. …”
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Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of the Leaf Exudate of Aloe megalacantha Baker by Demoze Asmerom, Tesfay Haile Kalay, Gebrehiwot Gebremedhin Tafere

“…Six bacterial strains, namely, S. aureus (standard), S. aureus (clinical isolate), E. coli ATCC 25922 (standard), E. coli (clinical isolate), K. pneumoniae (standard), and P. aeruginosa ATCC 27853 (standard), and four fungal strains such as C. albicans, C. glabrata, C. tropicalis, and C. krusei were studied. …”
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Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy-based evaluation of metabolic abnormalities in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus in treatment-naïve patients with... by Gagan Hans, Uma Sharma, Novy Gupte, Ragul Ganesh, Vaibhav Patil, Pratap Sharan

“…Methods: The present study investigated the metabolic profile of two brain regions, namely right DLPFC and CN, by using single voxel in-vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) in drug-naive patients with OCD (n = 17, mean age = 30.71 ± 10.104 years) and compared it with healthy controls (n = 13, mean age = 30.77 ± 5.449 years). …”
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Changes in Tolaki People Burial in Southeast Sulawesi: From Boat-Shaped Grave Coffin (Soronga) to Boat-Shaped Islamic Tomb (Koburu Bangga) by Syahrun Syahrun, Basrin Melamba

“…There were also four models of tomb types, namely circle (buboto/loelole), rectangular (konahuu), rectangular step pyramid, elongated (menda’a), and boat-shaped (obangga). koburu bangga tomb. …”
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Problem-Solving Skills and Productive Struggle of Students in Solving Mathematical Problems in Elementary School by Rosiana Mufliva, Turmudi Turmudi, Tatang Herman, Sandi Budi Iriawan, Andhin Dyas Fitriani

“…Researchers selected students based on their level of productive struggle, namely high, medium, and low. The result revealed that students who have high productive struggle can answer the three questions correctly according to the problem-solving stages, starting from the understanding stage, transformation stage, process skills stage, and conclusion stage. …”
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A Hybrid Three-Staged, Short-Term Wind-Power Prediction Method Based on SDAE-SVR Deep Learning and BA Optimization by Ruiqin Duan, Xiaosheng Peng, Cong Li, Zimin Yang, Yan Jiang, Xiufeng Li, Shuangquan Liu

“…In order to improve the prediction accuracy of WPP, in this paper we propose a three-step model named SDAE-SVR-BA to be applied in short-term WPP based on stacked-denoising-autoencoder (SDAE) feature processing, bat algorithm (BA) optimization and support vector regression (SVR). …”
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Ammonia Volatilization Losses from Paddy Fields under Controlled Irrigation with Different Drainage Treatments by Yupu He, Shihong Yang, Junzeng Xu, Yijiang Wang, Shizhang Peng

“…Three drainage treatments were implemented, namely, controlled water table depth 1 (CWT1), controlled water table depth 2 (CWT2), and controlled water table depth 3 (CWT3). …”
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Nutritional Assessment and Antioxidant Activities of Different Varieties of Vigna radiata by Riaz Ullah, Zain Ullah, Salem S. Al-Deyab, Muhammad Adnan, Akash Tariq

“…Three cultivars of Vigna radiata, namely, NM-92, NM-98, and NM-06, were analyzed for their proximate composition. …”
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Study of Zuojin Pill in Treating Chronic Atrophic Gastritis by UPLC-Q-TOF/MS Based on Serum and Urine Metabolomics Combined with Network Pharmacology by Shihua Wu, Xing Chen, Honghong Liu, Ruilin Wang, Jianyu Li, Jianxia Wen, Tao Yang, Ying Wei, Sichen Ren, Shizhang Wei, Manyi Jing, Haotian Li, Min Wang, Houlin Xia, Yanling Zhao

“…Metabolomic results indicated that the therapeutic effects of ZJP were mainly related to ten metabolites, namely, choline, L-threonine, hydroxypyruvic acid, creatine, taurine, succinic acid, cis-aconitic acid, citric acid, succinic acid semialdehyde, and uric acid. …”
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Egyptian Novel Goose Parvovirus in Immune Organs of Naturally Infected Ducks: Next-Generation Sequencing, Immunohistochemical Signals, and Comparative Analysis of Pathological Chan... by Mohamed A. Lebdah, Amal A. M. Eid, Reham M. ElBakrey, Abd Elgalil. El-Gohary, Mohamed G. Seadawy, Mohamed R. Mousa, Hagar F. Gouda, Nehal I. A. Goda, Mostafa F. El-Hosseny, Ahmed S. El-tahlawy, Rokayya Sami, Rasha A. Al-Eisa, Sarah S. Helal

“…Next-generation sequencing and phylogenetic analysis revealed that the detected virus was a variant of GPV, globally named novel GPV (NGPV), and closely related to Chinese NGPV isolates. …”
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Factors influencing street-vended foods quality and safety in developing countries: a review by O. A. Bassitou Koumassa, Romaric Ouétchéhou, Mathias Hounsou, Oscar Zannou, D. Sylvain Dabadé

“…To achieve this goal, a literature search was carried out on various databases, namely PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar, focusing on articles published on specific aspects of street food in developing countries. …”
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Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of Artemisia annua (L.) essential oil against different fish pathogens by F. Sakhaie, M. Adel, R. Safari, F. Firouzbakhsh, A. Nosrati Movafagh, T. Stadtlander

“…In the current study, the antimicrobial activity of A. annua was tested against 4 fish pathogenic bacteria including: Streptococcus iniae, Yersinia ruckeri, Aeromonas hydrophila and Lactococcus garvieae and 3 fish pathogenic fungi namely Saprolegnia sp., Fusarium solani and Aspergillus flavus. …”

Investigating the Relationship between Traffic Violations and Crashes at Signalized Intersections: An Empirical Study in China by Ze-Hao Jiang, Xiao-Guang Yang, Tuo Sun, Tao Wang, Zheng Yang

“…Among the chosen 7 independent variables, four are significantly related to the dependent variable, namely, driving commercial vehicle during internship, wrong-way entry, speeding, and traffic-light violation. (3) With the increase of annual average daily traffic (AADT), the number of total crashes goes up; however, the injury-or-fatality rate decreases, which means that intersections with smaller traffic volumes tend to have higher traffic crash severity. …”
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Effects of Volatile Components on Mixing State and Size Distribution of Individual Black Carbon Aerosols by Kangning Li, XiaoFei Wang, Xiaohui Lu, Hong Chen, Xin Yang

“…However, several low-volatile non-BC substances remained, namely organic species, potassium chloride, potassium nitrate, and other nonvolatile substances. …”
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PB: A Message Transmission Method Based on Area Layer Division in UAV Networks by Lisong Wang, Feifei Zhu, Qing Zhou, Kui Li, Liang Liu

“…In view of the above problems, this paper proposes a method named PB (Popularity Balance Method for UAVs in the same area layer) based on division of the whole search area. …”
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Research on the Pore Evolution of Sandstone in Cold Regions under Freeze-Thaw Weathering Cycles Based on NMR by Zheng Pan, Keping Zhou, Rugao Gao, Zhen Jiang, Chun Yang, Feng Gao

“…The evolution characteristics of porosity can be divided into three stages, namely, the abrupt decrease in porosity, the slow decrease in porosity, and the steady increase in porosity. …”
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Environmental Factors Affecting the Phytoplankton Composition in the Lake of Tibetan Plateau by Qinghuan Zhang, Zijian Xie, Chunhua Li, Chun Ye, Yang Wang, Zishu Ye, Weiwei Wei, Hao Wang

“…There were five dominant phytoplankton species in the Selin Co Lake, namely, <i>Microcystis</i> sp., <i>Navicula</i> spp., <i>Chlorella vulgaris</i>, <i>Ankistrodesmus falcatus</i>, and <i>Westella</i> sp. …”
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Can geopolymer mixture be a solution for utilizing waste glass and basic oxygen furnace slag as aggregates? by Manap Islambek, Galymzhankyzy Anel, Omarova Zhaniya, Ualiyev Dulat, Temirbekov Doszhan, Shon Chang-Seon, Zhang Dichuan, Kim Jong Ryeol

“…This research studies the influence of aggregate proportions, namely Waste Glass Sand (WGS) and Basic Oxygen Furnace Slag (BOFS), on the expansion and compressive strength characteristics of both geopolymer and Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) mixtures. …”
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LEGAL STABILITY OF THE STATE STATUS IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE GLOBALIZATION CRISIS: REVIEW OF THE BOOK «CRIMINAL LEGAL GUARANTEES OF SOVEREIGNTY STATES (COMPARATIVE LEGAL STUDY)» by Stanislav O. Gavrilov, Petr Y. Naumov

“…This article reviews the named scientific and practical manual, highlights the starting points of the generalizations made, notes the positive aspects of the publication and issues that remained debatable after reading it. …”
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