Development of a Gastro-retentive Dosage Form of a New Promising Anti-tuberculosis Drug Macozinone by V. G. Nesterenko, R. N. Bolgarin, B. A. Rudoy, D. K. Salakhetdinov, Yu. G. Kazaishvili, V. S. Scherbakova, N. A. Nikitina, Yu. V. Medvedev, E. N. Fisher, E. A. Malashenko, I. E. Shohin

“…According to the results of the experiments, samples of high-dose (500 mg) swellable and mucoadhesive tablets created by the technology of two-stage granulation with the inclusion of macozinone - hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin mixtures in the primary granules and introduction of combinations of soluble and insoluble hydrophilic matrix agents into the intergranular space were recognized as the most promising for subsequent pharmacokinetic studies.…”
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Expression and functional study of FKBP10 in oral squamous cell carcinoma by FANG Zhikai, JIN Hui, YANG Shan, JIANG Nan, ZHANG Mingyu, ZHOU Shuang, LI Chang, LI Lili

“…Objective To investigate the expression and functional role of FK506 binding protein 10 (FKBP10) in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), and to provide a research basis for the estimated prognosis and targeted therapy of OSCC. Methods A total of 284 OSCC samples and 19 normal samples were selected from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database, and diagnostic analysis was performed to determine mRNA expression. …”
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Job satisfaction amongst special education teachers by Z. S. Alkayed, S. M. Al Ali, M. M. Al Masa’deh

“…Methodology and research methods. The authors developed a questionnaire to measure the level of job satisfaction, and a scale to measure the attitudes towards working with children with disabilities in the sample, validity and reliability were verified. …”
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Study on the behavior of impurities in the process of refining indium by zone melting by Jinliang Fang, Lingxin Kong, Bin Yang

“…In this paper, the migration and distribution behavior of Cu, Fe, Si and Mg impurities in the process of preparing high purity indium by the zone melting method in an argon atmosphere was studied. The temperature distribution at the location of the indium samples during the zone melting process was simulated using Fluent software, and the temperature required to maintain the stability of the molten zone length of the samples during the experiment was determined to be 162 °C. …”
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Economic and industrial assessment of common plum and cherry plum in the foothill zone of Adygea by V. V. Sherstobitov

“…Mathematical processing of data on the yield of fruits of common plum and cherry plum has been carried out using the method of field experiment. Statistical processing of one-factor experiment has been carried out by the method of deviation from the average one according to the variant. 3 groups of plum and cherry plum varieties have been identified at the standard level: low-productive, medium-productive, high-productive. …”
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Chronobiological approach to study the physiological activity of <i>Candida</i> species by M. V. Nikolenko, N. V. Baryshnikova, O. I. Malishevskaya, E. M. Vaseva

“…In order to determine the periodicity of the parameters studied, the data was statistically processed by Student’s t-test, using Mann–Whitney criteria and nonparametric method of least square method.It was found out that biofilming activity during 24 hours (р &lt; 0.05) of fungi exists and that all species have many principles in common. …”
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Impacts of different organic amendments on soil degradation and phytotoxicity of metribuzin by Mohammad Mehdizadeh, Ebrahim Izadi-Darbandi, Mohammad Taghi Naseri Pour Yazdi, Mehdi Rastgoo, Bizhan Malaekeh-Nikouei, Hooriyeh Nassirli

“…Method In degradation studies, soil samples were mixed separately with amendments at a rate of 2.5% (w/w) and metribuzin at a concentration of 5 mg kgâ1 soil was used for fortification of selected samples. …”
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Identification of glass eel capture equipment in the Yangtze River estuary based on high-spatial -resolution imagery and an improved YOLOv8 model by Pengfei Zhu, Weifeng Zhou

“…Thereupon the detection speed and accuracy are both improved. So the experiment was carried out based on the sample dataset using the improved YOLOv8 model, which showed that the average precision (mAP@50 %) is 94.8 %, 4.5 % higher than that of the original YOLOv8. …”
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Interventions that challenge established and accepted clinical practice: lessons learnt from a process evaluation of the STOP-APE trial by Agnieszka Ignatowicz, Sheila Greenfield, Pooja Gaddu, Clare Prince, Mark Toshner, Graham Robinson, Jonathan Rodrigues, Susan Jowett, Simon Noble, Michael Newnham, Alice Turner, Daniel Lasserson

“…Limitations Small sample size of patients and clinicians across limited study sites; single method of data collection. …”
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Study on Stress Management in Sport Organizations by Maria Daniela MACRA-OȘORHEAN, Ildiko MANASSES, Adrian-Claudiu PAȘCAN, Ana-Maria NEAGU, Velu-Sebastian BARTHA

“…Objectives: The primary objective of this research was to assess athletes’ perceived stress using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-14) and to classify stress levels into low, moderate, and high categories. Materials and Methods: The study employed a quantitative design, distributing the PSS-14 via Google Forms to a sample of 50 athletes. …”
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Purification and Component Analysis of Total Flavonoids from Sea Buckthorn Peel Residue and Its Anti-Pancreatic Lipase by Jiali SUN, Junfeng JIANG, Xiaojuan MOU, Zehui ZONG, Siyu YAN, JIALALIDING·Remuzha, Xiaowei BAO

“…The results showed that the optimal purification conditions for AB-8 macroporous resin were a sample concentration of 2.2 mg/mL, a sample pH of 5.0, a sample volume of 140 mL, and a sample flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. …”
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Evaluating Factors Affecting Interior Architectural Space Quality to Enhance Spatial Resilience and Human Productivity: An Application of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs by Moharam Ghahremani Drvish, Farhang Mozafar, Ceyed bagher Hoseini, Fateme Mahdizadeye seraj

“…</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Methodology.3</strong></p> <p style="text-align: left;">In the present study, the data and information was collected through document analysis, in-depth semi-structured interviews and formation of a focus group. The sample selection was done using snowball sampling method. …”
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A Novel Technology for Measurements of Dielectric Properties of Extremely Small Volumes of Liquids by Wei-Na Liu

“…Using this sensor, quantitative measurements of the dielectric properties at 5.8 GHz are demonstrated of LUTs. Experiments show that the proposed method only requires the volume of 160 nanoliters for liquids. …”
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Photopolymerization as an innovative detection technique for low-density microarrays by Laura R. Kuck, Amber W. Taylor

“…Proof of principle experiments are detailed and followed by the use of a simple influenza microarray to demonstrate the technique for the first time with clinical samples. …”
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The effect of chosen parameters of a telephone channel on voice identification by Czesław BASZTURA, Wojciech MAJEWSKI

“…In the experiments on voice samples of 10 speakers (men) a speech signal was represented by the amplitude correlation matrix and the distribution of time intervals between the zero-crossings of the speech signal. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF ISTIGHFAR DHIKR TO ADOLESCENT ANXIETY AT BETA WAVE ACTIVITY USING ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG) EXAMINATION by Alvania Nabila Tasyakuranti, Heni Sumarti, Hamdan Hadi Kusuma, Istikomah Istikomah, Irman Said Prastyo

“…The method in this research is an experiment with quantitative data collection. …”
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Textures Recognition using Elman Neural Network by Fawziya Ramo, Alaa Mohamed

“…The system consists of two phases: phase extraction important feature of each texture by using an algorithm Principal Components Analysis (PCA)   and recognition phase which recognize these feature by using  Elman network were trained network on a number of various texture  models down to the steady-state network  and then test the network by input  samples  of textures.  The experiments show that the method achieves high performance and produces 92% recognition rate.…”
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Credit Risk Management Practices and Loan Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda. A Case Study of Commercial Banks in Mbarara City by Francis, Agaba

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Credit Risk Management Practices and Loan Performance of Commercial Banks in Uganda. A Case Study of Commercial Banks in Mbarara City by Agaba, Francis

“…Hence, the study used a quantitative approach to collect numeric and categorical data using structured questionnaires to generate inferential statistics (correlations and regressions).xiii Quantitative method have been used because it produces results that are easy to summarize, compare, generalize and confirm whether the hypotheses hold true or false. …”
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Discrimination of different storage time of the pork by electronic nose by HONG Xue-zhen, WANG Jun, ZHOU Bo, WANG Yong-wei

“…By applying one-way ANOVA and discrimination power (DP), the optimum experimental parameters were acquired: 10 g sample with 5 min headspace-generated time. The later experiment was taken under the optimum experimental parameters, and the principle components analysis (PCA), as well as linear discriminant analysis (LDA) were employed. …”
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