Development of a patient reported outcome instrument for chronic sialadenitis by Fatemeh Ramazani, Amr Hamour, Caroline C. Jeffery, Vincent Biron, Yaser Alrajhi, Daniel O’Connell, David W. J. Côté

“…Lastly, the questionnaire was completed in Phase IV by cognitive interviewing of five new chronic sialadenitis patients; ensuring ease of understanding and clarity. Results Patients identified 15 domains of QoL impacted by chronic sialadenitis, divided into three sub-scales: physical symptoms, psychosocial symptoms, and activity restriction. …”
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Multifunctional properties of cotton fabric tailored via green synthesis of TiO2/curcumin composite by Barbara Simončič, Brigita Tomšič, Marija Gorjanc, Mateja Kert

“…The synthesis conditions at 70 °C ensured the formation of predominantly amorphous TiO2, while curcumin promoted TiO2 crystallisation despite the low synthesis temperature. …”
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DIGITAL HUMANISM IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT by Mykyta Slyusar, Vitaliia Nikitenko, Valentyna Voronkova

“…This research underscores its capacity to address contemporary challenges while ensuring a harmonious coexistence of technological progress and human-centric values.…”
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Waste Coir Nanofiller Fused Gallus-Gallus Fibres Reinforced PMC by V. Vijayan, T. Sathish, R. Saravanan, Kuldeep Kumar, Ganesh K. Jadhav, V. Sharun, R. Elangovan, K. Chellamuthu, Mandeep Singh, Aklilu Teklemariam

“…The composites are strong in tension (760.89 MPa) and sufficiently flexible (flexural modulus 5441.32 MPa), absorbed less moisture (5.8 g), high wear-resistant (least weight loss upon abrasion with a value of 0.1989 g), secured good results in dynamic analysis, and ensured homogeneous distribution of fibres in the matrix through a scanning electron microscopy image. …”
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Advance care planning readiness among older adults in aged service centers: A cross-sectional study by Kalok Wong, Haobin Yuan, Stephen Tee, Sinkei Cheong

“…Health education and improved family communication are vital for promoting ACP, which ensures individuals receive care when they lack the capacity to make that choice. …”
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Evaluating Normalization Methods for Robust Spectral Performance Assessments of Hyperspectral Imaging Cameras by Siavash Mazdeyasna, Mohammed Shahriar Arefin, Andrew Fales, Silas J. Leavesley, T. Joshua Pfefer, Quanzeng Wang

“…We then compared the measured spectra to the reference to evaluate the capability of each normalization method in ensuring a consistent, standardized performance evaluation. …”
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Biosafety Management Practices Among Clinical Laboratory Professionals in Debre Berhan Town Governmental Hospitals, Ethiopia: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Mahlet Tewodros Tadesse, Libse Lemma Ayalke, Beza Fitiwi Tedla, Fikrite Adefris Weldemeskel, Ahmed Seid Yirdaw, Tsegahun Asfaw Abebe

“…Conclusion The findings underscore the importance of enhancing training programs, improving access to safety equipment, and ensuring the consistent application of biosafety protocols to protect laboratory personnel from hazardous biological materials and maintain public health.…”
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Performance Enhancement of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) through TiO2/rGO Hybrid: Comprehensive Study on Synthesis and Characterization by Rustan Hatib, Khairil Anwar, Ramang Magga, Muh Anjas Astak, Denny Widhiyanuriyawan, Wardoyo Wardoyo

“…This method overcomes the loss of rGO during sintering, ensuring its beneficial properties are retained. Overall, this study shows that low-temperature thermal reduction is an efficient technique to improve DSSC performance through the incorporation of reduced graphene oxide.…”
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Metabolic pathways of eicosanoids—derivatives of arachidonic acid and their significance in skin by Michał Biernacki, Elżbieta Skrzydlewska

“…The integrity and, consequently, the effective metabolic activity of skin cells is ensured by the cell membrane, the important structural and metabolic elements of which are phospholipids. …”
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NavBLIP: a visual-language model for enhancing unmanned aerial vehicles navigation and object detection by Ye Li, Li Yang, Meifang Yang, Fei Yan, Tonghua Liu, Chensi Guo, Rufeng Chen

“…Furthermore, NavBLIP employs a multimodal control strategy that dynamically selects context-specific features to optimize real-time performance, ensuring efficiency in high-stakes operations.Results and discussionExtensive experiments on benchmark datasets such as RefCOCO, CC12M, and Openlmages reveal that NavBLIP outperforms existing state-of-the-art models in terms of accuracy, recall, and computational efficiency. …”
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Factores de riesgo asociados con el bajo peso al nacer. Municipio Cienfuegos. 2010-2014 by Yanet Villafuerte Reinante

“…<br /> <strong>Métodos:</strong> estudio descriptivo de corte transversal, que incluyó a todas las gestantes que aportaron los nacimientos con bajo peso del municipio Cienfuegos en el periodo de enero 2010 a diciembre 2014. Se analizaron: edad materna, antecedentes patológicos maternos, ganancia de peso durante la gestación, evaluación nutricional al inicio del embarazo, periodo intergenésico, edad gestacional al momento del parto y enfermedades asociadas al embarazo. …”
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End-to-end 3D instance segmentation of synthetic data and embryo microscopy images with a 3D Mask R-CNN by Gabriel David, Emmanuel Faure

“…Our implementation is open source, ensuring reproducibility and facilitating further research in 3D deep learning.…”
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Resource constraints, patient emotions, and therapy: experiences of healthcare providers in the screening and management of gestational diabetes mellitus in northern Ghana by Mohammed Bukari, Abdulai Abubakari, Hawa Malechi, Thomas Hinneh, Humphrey Garti, Faith Agbozo

“…Face-to-face interviews were conducted with the aid of an interview guide, and the data were analysed via thematic analysis. We ensured trustworthiness through reflexivity, member checking, peer-debriefing, providing rich text, and keeping an audit trail. …”
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Settlement and Release in European Legislation by V. V. Rasskazova

“…Since the current contractual practice demonstrates the active use of settlement and release construction by the parties of civil legal relations as one of the most flexible instruments of termination of an obligation, the issue of ensuring unity in the interpretation and practice of this legal institution remains relevant. …”
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Digital Transformation of Education and Challenges of the 21st Century by A. D. Korol, Yu. I. Vorotnitsky

“…The authors describe the information infrastructure of BSU, which ensures the implementation of innovative pedagogical technologies: telecommunications infrastructure and a “cloud” data center, an educational process management system integrated with corporate systems and services, its own video conferencing system, an integrated automated information system developed by the university.…”
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Reorganisation of a legal entity: the essence and understanding of its manifestation (creation or termination) by T. S. Stupak

“…The problematic issues related to the legislator’s priority task of regulating changes in the property status of a legal entity in the course of its reorganisation are outlined, which ensures the organisational and legal transformation of the organisation through effective redistribution of resources and enhancing the modernisation of the country’s economic stability as a whole. …”
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Mf-net: multi-feature fusion network based on two-stream extraction and multi-scale enhancement for face forgery detection by Hanxian Duan, Qian Jiang, Xin Jin, Michal Wozniak, Yi Zhao, Liwen Wu, Shaowen Yao, Wei Zhou

“…Comparison experiments with multiple methods on other benchmark datasets confirm the superior generalization performance of our proposed method while ensuring model detection accuracy. Our code can be found at: https://github.com/1241128239/MFNet .…”
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“No estamos tan mal como Barcelona”: análisis de la proliferación y regulación de las viviendas de uso turístico en Madrid y Barcelona by Alvaro Ardura Urquiaga, iñigo Lorente Riverola, Inmaculada Mohino Sanz, Javier Ruiz Sanchez

“…En Barcelona, la presión vecinal motivó la aprobación del Plan Especial Urbanístico de Alojamiento Turístico (PEUAT) en enero de 2017. En Madrid se aprobó el Plan Especial de Hospedaje (PEH) dos años después. …”
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Fully Automated Production of (((<i>S</i>)-1-Carboxy-5-(6-([¹⁸F]fluoro)-2-methoxynicotinamido)pentyl)carbamoyl)-<span style="font-variant: small-caps">l</span>-glutamic... by Philipp Krapf, Thomas Wicher, Boris D. Zlatopolskiy, Johannes Ermert, Bernd Neumaier

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> We have established a highly reliable, GMP-compliant process for the automated radiosynthesis of [¹⁸F]JK-PSMA-7 on the Trasis AllinOne (AIO) synthesizer, ensuring consistent and efficient production of this radioligand.…”
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Current status and development trends of deep coalbed methane research in China by Wei JU, Shu TAO, Zhaobiao YANG, Jiayao CHENG, Haiyan SHANG, Weike NING, Chunlong WU

“…Conducting geology and engineering integrated research for deep CBM exploration and development, based on the quantitative characterization of geological and engineering parameters and using three-dimensional geological and geomechanical modeling, is a critical pathway to ensuring profitable development. The production state and development degree of natural fractures in coal reservoirs significantly affect fracturing transformation. …”
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