Bangladesh Climate Research: The Role of IRBs by Md. Matiur Rahman, Mohammad Mahbub Ur Rahim, Md. Anup Rahman Chowdury, Md. Abdul Mazid, Md. Amirul Islam, Md. Kaoser Bin Siddique

“…This study systematically reviewed peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, institutional reports, and policy documents published within the last decade, focusing on ethical challenges in climate studies and the function of IRBs. Thematic analysis revealed key areas: the paramount importance of research ethics (including informed consent and privacy), the multifaceted impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies, the complexities and challenges faced by IRBs (especially in developing countries), the critical consideration of vulnerability in research participants, the issue of corruption in adaptation efforts, and the necessity of effective stakeholder engagement. …”
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Radio Wave Propagation Scene Partitioning for High-Speed Rails by Bo Ai, Ruisi He, Zhangdui Zhong, Ke Guan, Binghao Chen, Pengyu Liu, Yuanxuan Li

“…Further work on theoretical analysis based on radio wave propagation mechanisms, such as reflection and diffraction, may lead us to develop the standard of radio wave propagation scene partitioning for HSR. …”
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Burrowing Behavior as Robust Parameter for Early Humane Endpoint Determination in Murine Models for Pancreatic Cancer by Jakob Brandstetter, Lisa Hoffmann, Ingo Koopmann, Tim Schreiber, Benjamin Schulz, Stephan Patrick Rosshart, Dietmar Zechner, Brigitte Vollmar, Simone Kumstel

“…Their welfare was monitored before any intervention, during tumor progression, and on the days before the individual humane endpoint for each mouse by assessing body weight change, distress score, perianal temperature, burrowing behavior, nesting activity, and mouse grimace scale. The data was retrospectively analyzed via receiver operating characteristic curve analysis to quantify the predictability of each parameter for humane endpoint determination. …”
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A Novel, Sensitive Assay for Behavioral Defects in Parkinson's Disease Model Drosophila by Ronit Shaltiel-Karyo, Dan Davidi, Yotam Menuchin, Moran Frenkel-Pinter, Mira Marcus-Kalish, John Ringo, Ehud Gazit, Daniel Segal

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Prolonged apnea in a boy with epilepsy and a novel gain-of-function missense CACNA1A variant indicating SUDEP risk by Simone Pelizzari, Marta Campiglio, Yousra El Ghaleb, Tatjana Bierhals, Maja Hempel, Jonas Denecke, Bernhard E. Flucher, Jessika Johannsen

“…In mice harboring the homozygous gain-of-function variant p.Ser218Leu, seizures leading to SUDEP triggered by brainstem spreading depolarization with subsequent apnea and cardiac arrest have been reported.MethodsClinical, genetic and functional data are presented.Results and discussionThe 9-year-old boy with global developmental delay and congenital ataxia developed recurrent seizures and status epilepticus with prolonged, life-threatening apnea implying a high risk for SUDEP. …”
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Optimal Power Flow Based on a Metaheuristics Optimization Approach for the Iraqi Super High Voltages Network by Ali Almosawi, Mesut Cevik, Aysel Ersoy

“…Therefore, many tools have been developed to assist operators to make decisions for different objectives. …”
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Game-Based Learning to Promote Clinical Reasoning: An Innovative Educational Proposal in Pediatric Dentistry by Nicoletta Zerman, Roberta Silva, Elisa Bonfadelli, Susanna Puecher, Gianna Marogna, Rachele De’Manzoni, Marinella Beccherle, Luigina Mortari

“…Adopting a phenomenological approach, it focused on participants’ lived experiences, gathering their reflections on solving clinical problems through two structured questions. The data, analyzed using content analysis, revealed that sometimes students focused on operational steps rather than reflecting on them, and underscored the necessity of innovating university teaching methods to enhance reflective moments. …”
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Effect of Deformation of Ti-3Al-8V-6Cr-4Zr-4Mo Alloy under Varying Thermo-Mechanical Conditions on its Microstructure and Deformation Behavior by S. Tomasik, A. Łukaszek-Sołek, T. Śleboda, Ł. Lisiecki

“…The alloy was deformed in compression at various temperatures and strain rates, and the flow stress curves were elaborated basing on the testing data. The analysis of the material behavior at different temperature and strain rate ranges was performed taking into account various criteria of stability and instability of the material flow ­(Semiatin-Lahoti criterion and Murty’s criterion) under various thermomechanical conditions. …”
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3D Jones-matrix thesiography of biological fluid facies by Alexander Ushenko, Iryna Soltys, Alexander Dubolazov, Yuriy Ushenko, Viacheslav Bilookyi, Olexander Bilookyi, Olexandra Litvinenko, Ivan Mikirin, Jun Zheng, Zhebo Chen, Lin Bin

“…Within the framework of statistical analysis of experimental data, new objective markers (asymmetry and excess of optical anisotropy parameter distributions) for diagnostics of pathological changes in the optical anisotropy of biological fluid facies were defined and clinically tested. …”
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Surgical site infection among hospitalized patients in palestine: association with in-hospital preoperative time stay, biological and clinical characteristics by Alaeddin Abu-Zant, Hamzeh Al Zabadi, Mariam Hassan, Neven Halabi, Niveen Zaqah, Ibrahim Taha, Mohammad Abuawad

“…Results Out of 200 surgical patients, 7% developed SSIs. Most participants were male (66%), over 50 years old (48%), and underwent elective surgery (88.5%). …”
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Penetration-deflagration coupling damage performance of rod-like reactive shaped charge penetrator impacting thick steel plates by Tao Sun, Haifu Wang, Shipeng Wang, Jie Gong, Wenhao Qiu, Yuanfeng Zheng

“…The penetration-deflagration coupling damage performance of rod-like reactive shaped charge penetrator (RRSCP) impacting thick steel plates is investigated by theoretical analysis and experiments. A penetration-deflagration coupling damage model is developed to predict the penetration depth and cratering diameter. …”
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On-Orbit Real-Time Signal Processing for Spaceborne Digital Beamforming Scatterometer by Yongqing Liu, Peng Liu, Risheng Yun, Te Wang, Xiangkun Zhang

“…The developed real-time signal processing algorithms demonstrate excellent performance, achieving high accuracy and reliability in data acquisition. …”
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Wastewater Treatment by using Membrane Bioreactor (MBR): State of the Technology and the Industrial Challenges by Sima Yekta, Forough Borhanifar, Rozita Madadi, Atila Fazeli, Nikta Shahcheraghi, Mohammad Mahjouri, Saba Akbarzadeh, Amirarsellon Pardakhti

“…It conducts a detailed analysis of MBR strengths and weaknesses, supported by relevant studies and data. …”
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Experimental and Thermodynamic Investigation on CO2 Absorption in Aqueous MEA Solutions by Kai Zhu, Changhai Yue, Zhenhao Wei, Jingjing Huang, Meng Hu, Yufan Ji, Hanfei Liu, Hao Zhu, Wanxiao Guo, Feng Zhou, Chaoqun Yao, Yiping Huang

“…A modified Kent-Eisenberg model was developed based on the measured solubility data, showing good predictions over the liquid phase speciation for the CO2-H2O-MEA system. …”
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Research and Application of Intelligent Monitoring System Platform for Safety Risk and Risk Investigation in Urban Rail Transit Engineering Construction by Yong Wu, Liang-Yun Zhao, Ye-Xiang Jiang, Wei Li, Ye-Sheng Wang, Huan Zhao, Wei Wu, Xiong-Jian Zhang

“…It realizes the intelligent collection and analysis of engineering field monitoring data, the dynamic early warning management of engineering risk sources, the process embedding “dual control” mechanism of safety risk and hidden danger investigation, the real-time supervision of large equipment operations such as shield and hoisting, and the real-time control of high-risk operation sections such as contact channels. …”
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Fuzzy Modeling to Predict Severely Depressed Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction following Admission to the Intensive Care Unit Using Clinical Physiology by Rúben Duarte M. A. Pereira, Cátia M. Salgado, Andre Dejam, Shane R. Reti, Susana M. Vieira, João M. C. Sousa, Leo A. Celi, Stan N. Finkelstein

“…To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study predicting severely impaired LVEF using multivariate analysis of routinely collected data in the ICU. We recommend inclusion of these findings into triaged management plans that balance urgency with resources and clinical status, particularly for reducing the time of echocardiographic examination.…”
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A genome‐scale yeast library with inducible expression of individual genes by Yuko Arita, Griffin Kim, Zhijian Li, Helena Friesen, Gina Turco, Rebecca Y Wang, Dale Climie, Matej Usaj, Manuel Hotz, Emily H Stoops, Anastasia Baryshnikova, Charles Boone, David Botstein, Brenda J Andrews, R Scott McIsaac

“…We observed that strains with inducible essential genes that have low native expression can often grow without inducer. Analysis of data from eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems shows that native expression is a variable that can bias promoter‐perturbing screens, including CRISPRi. …”
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Exploring the association of erythrocytic NO-ferroheme, a surrogate marker of endothelial function with perioperative cardiovascular events in low/intermediate risk patients underg... by Hasnae Boughaleb, Jerome Linden, Arvind Soni, Nathalie Fabian, Irina Lobysheva, Virginie Montiel, Mona Momeni, Marie-Agnès Docquier, Annie Robert, Nancy Van Overstraeten, Jean-Luc Balligand

“…Among the 1,066 patients kept for the final analysis, 23 subjects developed a peri-operative CVE up to 30 days after surgery (p-30d CVE). …”
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Quality control checkpoints for high throughput DNA methylation measurement using the human MethylationEPICv1 array: application to formalin-fixed paraffin embedded prostate tissue by Robert L. O’Reilly, Fleur Hammet, Neil O’Callaghan, Robert J. MacInnis, Damien Bolton, Graham G. Giles, Pierre-Antoine Dugué, Melissa C. Southey

“…We sought to incorporate a third, previously developed bisulfite conversion quality check prior to processing 255 FFPE tissue derived DNA samples. …”
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<i>Culex quinquefasciatus</i> Density Associated with Socioenvironmental Conditions in a Municipality with Indeterminate Transmission of Lymphatic Filariasis in Northeastern Brazil by Amanda Xavier, Cristine Bonfim, Pablo Cantalice, Walter Barbosa Júnior, Filipe Santana da Silva, Vítor Régis, André Sá, Zulma Medeiros

“…This study offers an SDI for the density of <i>C. quinquefasciatus</i> mosquitoes, which can help reduce the costs associated with data collection and allows for identifying priority areas for vector control actions.…”
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