Quantitative design and production methods for sustainably increasing maize grain yield and resource use efficiency by Huaxiang JI, Guangzhou LIU, Wanmao LIU, Yunshan YANG, Xiaoxia GUO, Guoqiang ZHANG, Zhiqiang TAO, Shaokun LI, Peng HOU

“…Due to continuous increases in the global population and the limited availability of arable land resources, issues related to food security have attracted increasing attention. …”
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MRI Compatibility Research of Ultrasonic Motor and Material for DBS Surgical Robot by PENG Renyuan, ZHANG Juzhong, WANG Zhisen, CHU Yuyi, WU Yuwen, PENG Haoran, LIN Jun, YANG Hongbo

“…However, since most existing robots are incompatible with MRI, their use in assisting DBS surgeries necessitates moving patients between the MRI scanning room and the operating room. This process is time-consuming and laborious and introduces issues such as contamination of the surgical area, surgery interruption, and re-registration of positioning. …”
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Unveiling the Cuproptosis in Colitis and Colitis-Related Carcinogenesis: A Multifaceted Player and Immune Moderator by Jingwen Liu, Hairuo Huang, Xiaojie Zhang, Yang Shen, DeMing Jiang, Shurong Hu, Shuyan Li, Zelin Yan, Wen Hu, Jinhua Luo, Haibo Yao, Yan Chen, Bufu Tang

“…Unlike other cell death mechanisms, its distinct process has drawn considerable interest for its promising applications in managing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colorectal cancer (CRC). …”
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Moisture Ingress in Building Envelope Materials: (II) Transport Mechanisms and Practical Mitigation Approaches by Itzel Lopez-Carreon, Esrat Jahan, Mohammad Hossein Yari, Elnaz Esmizadeh, Marzieh Riahinezhad, Michael Lacasse, Zhe Xiao, Elena Dragomirescu

“…Moisture ingress remains a critical issue due to its impact on the structural integrity of buildings and the health and safety of occupants. …”
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Improvement of Surface Roughness and Cracking Study of Nb₃Sn SRF Films by Ziyu Wang, Gai Wang, Shengwen Quan, Lin Lin, Manqian Ren, Jiankui Hao, Fang Wang, Feng Zhu, Fei Jiao, Senlin Huang

“…The surface roughness reduction and mechanical stability of Nb₃Sn films are two important issues to improve the cavity RF performance and reliability in the application of conduction-cooling accelerators. …”
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Can a Commercially Available Smartwatch Device Accurately Measure Nighttime Sleep Outcomes in Individuals with Knee Osteoarthritis and Comorbid Insomnia? A Comparison with Home-Bas... by Céline Labie, Nils Runge, Zosia Goossens, Olivier Mairesse, Jo Nijs, Anneleen Malfliet, Dieter Van Assche, Kurt de Vlam, Luca Menghini, Sabine Verschueren, Liesbet De Baets

“…Sleep is a vital physiological process for recovery and health. In people with knee osteoarthritis (OA), disrupted sleep is common and linked to worse clinical outcomes. …”
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Health Justice Partnership: An Opportunity to Respond to Childhood Adversity by Sarah Loveday, Suzie Forell, Rebecca Bosward, Lingling Chen, Leanne N. Constable, Wilhelmina Ebbett, Ashraful Kabir, Hueiming Liu, Alexandra Preddy, Natalie White, Harriet Hiscock

“…Methods: A mixed-method evaluation of new HJPs was conducted across two sites in Australia. Process data were collected regarding the use of the legal services. …”
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How and why do participatory women’s groups (PWGs) improve the quality of maternal and child health (MCH) care? A systematic review protocol by Rebecca Evans, Sarah Larkins, Karen Carlisle, Judy Taylor, Robyn Preston, Sam Rannard, Catrina Felton-Busch, Karla Canuto, Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Nalita Nungarrayi Turner, Lee Yeomans, Emma Sanguineti, Megan Passey, Jane Farmer

“…Less is known about how PWGs exert their effects in LMICs and virtually nothing is known about the contextual issues, processes and power relationships that affect PWG outcomes in high resource settings. …”
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Prospects and Challenges of Proton Conducting Cerates in Electrochemical Hydrogen Devices for Clean Energy Systems: A Review by M. Khalid Hossain, Ranjit C. Das, M. Imran Hossain, M. Atikur Rahman, Prabhu Paramasivam, Ripel Chakma, Mongi Amami, Mohamed H. H. Mahmoud, R. Bousbih, Rajesh Haldhar, Kenichi Hashizume

“…Abstract The growing demand for green energy and global concern about environmental issues raise the demand for alternative, environmentally friendly energy sources. …”
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Effects of precipitation morphology and matrix texture on mechanical performance for high-boron steel by Benxian Song, Xiang Geng, Chunyi Xie, Haiyang Fu, Jing Wang, Weijun Wang, Qiang Qi, Hai-Shan Zhou, Guang-Nan Luo

“…Due to the brittle fracture issues of high-boron steel, there are still many challenges to overcome in engineering-scale production. …”
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Enhanced Catalytic Performance of Sn Single-Atom Doped CuO with Oxygen Vacancies for Efficient Epoxidation of α-Olefins by Min Zhang, Gaolei Qin, Pengfei Li, Xiangjie Zhang, Hongying Chang, Ziyu Zhou, Wei Zhao, Xumeng Huang, Kui Tang, Yonghe Ning, Chang Song, Peng He

“…Epoxidation of long-chain α-olefins (LAOs) is a process of paramount importance, particularly in the preparation of epoxides. …”
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Bioinspired porous hip implants design: A systematic review of mechanical testing and additive manufacturing by Nik Nur Ain Azrin Abdullah, Muhammad Imam Ammarullah, Zatul Faqihah Mohd Salaha, Muhammad Hanif Baharuddin, Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir, Muhammad Hanif Ramlee

“…In conclusion, the use of lattice structure as well as the implementation of additive manufacturing processes for porous hip implant development are promising methods in terms of mechanical properties (31–62% better than conventional). …”
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A Novel Two-Stage Learning-Based Phase Unwrapping Algorithm via Multimodel Fusion by Chao Yan, Tao Li, Yandong Gao, Shijin Li, Xiang Zhang, Xuefei Zhang, Di Zhang, Huiqin Liu

“…Phase unwrapping (PhU) is one of the key steps in interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data processing, and it is a considerable challenge for PhU in regions with high-noise and large-gradient changes. …”
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Integrating a Mobile App to Enhance Atrial Fibrillation Care: Key Insights From an Implementation Study Guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research by Sumudu Hewage, Sanjeewa Kularatna, William Parsonage, Tomos Walters, Steven McPhail, David Brain, Michelle J Allen

“…Interoperability with other devices and design issues, for example, limited customization options, also negatively impacted the uptake. …”
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Designing a human resource scorecard: An empirical stakeholder-based study with a company culture perspective by Hasan Boudlaie, Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji, Sabihe Shamsi, Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, Alexeis Garcia-Pereze

“…The six-step Clarke-Braun process and the three-step Attride-Stirling thematic classification method were combined into a thematic network, and a seven-step research process was created. …”
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Understanding Barriers and Facilitators for Ethnic Minority Groups to Audio Recording Recruitment Discussions in Clinical Trials: A Participatory Approach to Improving Informed Con... by Saba Faisal, Giles Birchley, Julia Wade, Athene Lane, Frida Malik, Tom Yardley, Shoba Dawson

“…To address gaps in knowledge about trials and streamline the educational process, we developed storyboards and multilingual video resources. …”
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Retos y oportunidades de la tecnología móvil en la educación física (Challenges and opportunities of mobile technology in physical education) by José Díaz Barahona

“…Future debates, reflections, and research issues are also raised, focusing on the pedagogical dimension of mobile learning, and analyzing the ethical, social, and legal repercussions arising from the process of digital immersion. …”
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Analysis of Technologies for Applying High-Entropy Coatings by Physical Deposition Method by K. N. Polityko, I. V. Kolesnikov, D. S. Manturov

“…At the first stage, the literature on the vacuum arc coating method was considered. The issues of creating a vacuum arc discharge, its technological features, disadvantages, as well as processes in the cathode region of the arc were studied. …”
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Reform of the Vatican media, a difficult search for a new path by Leszek Gęsiak

“…Similarly, the Vatican media could not remain indifferent to the issues mentioned above. For several years the Vatican has initiated a process of preparation for a general reform of its media institutions. …”
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Hyaluronic acid as a versatile building block for the development of biofunctional hydrogels: In vitro models and preclinical innovations by Noémie Petit, Yu-yin Joanne Chang, Franz Acker Lobianco, Tom Hodgkinson, Shane Browne

“…In vitro, HyA-based hydrogels can support the development of models to understand fundamental processes in health and mechanisms behind disease progression, serving as highly tuneable extracellular matrix mimetics. …”
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