Predictive simulation of groundwater contamination due to landfill leachate: A case study on the Robinson Deep Landfill, Johannesburg, South Africa by Osman Abdullahi OSMAN, G. M. OCHIENG, S RWANGA

“…The Robinson Deep landfill (RDL) in Johannesburg lacks necessary leachate collection and handling facilities, has a shallow groundwater table, and no groundwater quality forecast tool. This situation poses a risk of groundwater contamination. …”
Get full text

Constructing a fall risk prediction model for hospitalized patients using machine learning by Cheng-Wei Kang, Zhao-Kui Yan, Jia-Liang Tian, Xiao-Bing Pu, Li-Xue Wu

“…Conclusion Machine learning algorithms, particularly Random Forest, are effective in predicting fall risk among hospitalized patients. …”
Get full text

Presence of Professional Burnout Syndrome in COVID-19 Care Areas by Elsy Labrada González, María Isabel Fong Betancourt, Lina Espinoza Pire, María del Carmen Yabor Labrada

“…Data was collected online using Google forms, tabulated in Microsoft Excel, and analyzed using the SPSS statistical package. …”
Get full text

Necessary and sufficient conditions for the oscillation of delay differential equation with a piecewise constant argument by H. A. Agwo

“…The characteristic equation for an equation with continuous and piecewise constant argument in the form x˙(t)+px(t−τ)+qx([t−k])=0    where  p, q∈ℜ, τ∈ℜ+and  k∈ℵ is presented, which when q=0 reduces to f(λ)=λ+e−λτ=0 and when p=0 reduces to λ−1+qλ−k=0. …”
Get full text

A Review of "The Challenge of Modernity, the Quest for Authenticity in the Arab World " by Ahmad Biglari, Ebrahim Barzegar

“…Louay Safi reviewed the formation of the mentality of development in ideas of Descartes and Kant, then he discussed the comparison of two theoretical models of Marxian and Weberian development. …”
Get full text

Where do we go from here? Method and pedagogy in language teaching by Ur Penny

“…Language-teaching methods such as audio-lingualism or task-based instruction have been promoted at different times as the ‘best’ way to teach a foreign language. Each such method prescribes a set of learning procedures rooted in a particular theoretical conceptualization of the nature of language and language acquisition, based on linguistic and applied linguistics research. …”
Get full text

Wenía: o surgimento dos antepassados - Leitura e tradução de um canto narrativo ameríndio (Marubo, Amazônia Ocidental) by Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino

“…En el ensayo de presentación se abordan algunos de los problemas conceptuales involucrados, tales como el estatuto de la metáfora, las formas de clasificación y los procesos de surgimiento sobre los que se construye la poética narrativa marubo.…”
Get full text

Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage by Holly C Olivarez, Nicole S Lovenduski, Elizabeth Maroon, Jens D Müller, Amanda R Fay, Kristen M Krumhardt, Michael N Levy, Keith Lindsay, Galen A McKinley, Jamin K Rader

“…Our findings reveal that the externally forced, decadal changes in storage are largest in the Atlantic (2–4 mmol m ^−3 decade ^−1 ) and positive nearly everywhere. …”
Get full text

ENERGY ABSORPTION OF PRE-FOLDED TUBE WITH STIFFNESS GRADIENT by MEN Heng, CHEN WeiDong, TIAN XiaoGeng

“…The results show that,compared with the square tube,the introduction of crease reduces the maximum peak force P_max,increases the mean crushing force P_m,and forms the stiffness gradient crease tube,which produces a small crush force in the early stage of compression,which is beneficial to protect the main structure. …”
Get full text

Simulation of Turbulent Convection at High Rayleigh Numbers by Sergey Dmitriev, Andrey Kozelkov, Andrey Kurkin, Nataliya Tarasova, Valentin Efremov, Vadim Kurulin, Roman Shamin, Maksim Legchanov

“…This advantage is most pronounced for cases of a vertical temperature difference with the formation of a large zone of convection of strong intensity. …”
Get full text

Mucosal Immunization with an Influenza Vector Carrying SARS-CoV-2 N Protein Protects Naïve Mice and Prevents Disease Enhancement in Seropositive Th2-Prone Mice by Mariia V. Sergeeva, Kirill Vasilev, Ekaterina Romanovskaya-Romanko, Nikita Yolshin, Anastasia Pulkina, Daria Shamakova, Anna-Polina Shurygina, Arman Muzhikyan, Dmitry Lioznov, Marina Stukova

“…Protection was associated with the formation of specific IgA and the early activation of virus-specific effector and resident CD8+ lymphocytes in mouse lungs. …”
Get full text

Efeito agudo do exercício físico aeróbio de diferentes intensidades na proliferação linfocitária de adultos by Amanda Archeleiga Guedes, Beatriz Augusta Pozzolo, Vanessa Ferrari da Fonseca, Debora Sales Silva Coutinho, Fabiola Iagher, Anderson Zampier Ulbrich

“…O objetivo do estudo é observar a resposta da proliferação linfocitária à prática de sessões de exercício físico aeróbio de diferentes intensidades. Para tal, foram avaliados dez voluntários (23,50 ± 3,43 anos), que realizaram sessões de exercício aeróbio em bicicleta indoor nas intensidades moderada (40-59% da frequência cardíaca de reserva - FCr) e vigorosa (60-89% da FCr). …”
Get full text

Трансформация трагического: русская классика в мировоззренческих концепциях украинского модернизма... by Halina Korbicz

“…The ideas of these writers were considered conformable to the perception of the fin-de-siècle world with its tragic background and helped Ukrainian writers form their own philosophical and aesthetic views. …”
Get full text

MAT2A inhibitor AG-270/S095033 in patients with advanced malignancies: a phase I trial by Mrinal Gounder, Melissa Johnson, Rebecca S. Heist, Geoffrey I. Shapiro, Sophie Postel-Vinay, Frederick H. Wilson, Elena Garralda, Gerburg Wulf, Caroline Almon, Salah Nabhan, Elia Aguado-Fraile, Peng He, Mathilde Romagnoli, Mohammad Hossain, Rohini Narayanaswamy, Amel Sadou-Dubourgnoux, Michael Cooper, Vasileios Askoxylakis, Howard A. Burris, Josep Tabernero

“…Secondary objectives included safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD), and efficacy. Forty patients were treated with AG-270/S095033. …”
Get full text

Application of microbially induced calcite precipitation to mitigate soil frost heave by M.F. Nikshoar, M.A. Rowshanzamir, S.M. Abtahi, S. Soleimanian-Zad

“…The minimum frost heave was achieved in 108 colony-forming units per milliliter bacteria concentration, 0.6 mole per litre cementing solution concentration, and 21 days of curing.CONCLUSION: The findings indicated that the used method could be efficiently used to reach the desired objective. …”
Get full text

Adapting educational practices for Generation Z: integrating metacognitive strategies and artificial intelligence by Sarah Chardonnens

“…The results reveal that active learning strategies such as project-based learning and formative assessment significantly enhance engagement and autonomy in Generation Z students. …”
Get full text

Recent Developed Strategies for Enhancing Chondrogenic Differentiation of MSC: Impact on MSC-Based Therapy for Cartilage Regeneration by Kangkang Zha, Zhiqiang Sun, Yu Yang, Mingxue Chen, Cangjiang Gao, Liwei Fu, Hao Li, Xiang Sui, Quanyi Guo, Shuyun Liu

“…However, MSCs tend to lose their multipotency, and the composition and structure of cartilage-like tissues formed by MSCs are far from those of native cartilage. …”
Get full text

Monostotic Fibrous Dysplasia of the Rib: A Case Report by Asha Mahadevappa, Sapna Patel, Sunila Ravishankar, Gubbanna V. Manjunath

“…As with many bone abnormalities, it can be superimposed by the formation of aneurysmal bone cysts. We report a case of a 70-year-old lady who presented with swelling on the chest wall of 20-ear duration and sudden increase in size for 8 months. …”
Get full text

Les bonobos se rappellent-ils la voix de leurs anciens partenaires ? by Florence Levréro, Sumir Keenan, Nicolas Mathevon, Jeroen MG Stevens, Jean Pascal Guéry, Klaus Zuberbühler

“…For non-human primates who live in dense forest environments, visual access to one another is often limited, and recognition of social partners over distances largely depends on vocal communication. …”
Get full text

Comparative Analysis of Mechanisms of Schumpeterian Evolution by Agnieszka Lipieta, Andrzej

“…The results of our theoretcal research can be useful in economic analyses, among others, in the case of the lack of the sufcient access to statstcal data. Due to both the formal conceptual apparatus of the general equilibrium theory and Hurwicz’s approach to the problem of designing economic mechanisms, the paper takes the form of an axiomatc deductve system of mathematcal theorems interpreted in the language of economics.…”
Get full text