Determination of Iodine Concentration in Commonly Consumed Salt and Its Potential Impact on Household Consumers: An Examination and Assessment of Consumed Salt by Md Shahedul Islam, Mohammad Asadul Habib, Mohammad Anwar Ul Alam, Oumma Halima, Nusrat Parvin, Md. Rezaul Karim, Abdur Rahman Shanna, Rifat Jahan Romel, Abdur Rahman Sakib, Mohammad Ariful Islam

“…ABSTRACT Introduction Iodine deficiency disorder (IDD) can lead to health issues as it is necessary for metabolic functions. …”
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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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Electrochemical Sensors Based on Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Voltammetric Ascorbic Acid Tests by Natalia V. Ivanova, Elizaveta A. Martynova, Anna I. Vershinina, Maksim V. Lomakin, Galina O. Eremeeva, Olesya R. Gordaya, Sergey D. Shandakov

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A Comparative Effect of Child-to-Child and Health Educator to-Child Teaching Approaches on Nutritional Status in Elementary School Students by Mandana Farrokhmanesh, Nasrin Mokhtari Lakeh, Shahla Asiri, Ehsan Kazem Nezhad Leyli, Alireza Ghaemi, Siamak Afzali

“…Introduction: Nutritional problems are one of the most important health issues among school-aged children, and modification of the nutritional status in children is as well important. …”
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Posture Status Differences Between Preschool Boys and Girls by Anida Kapo-Gurda, Amin Efendić, Indira Mahmutović, Siniša Kovač, Husnija Kajmović, Safet Kapo, Jožef Šimenko

“…<b>Methods</b>: The sample of participants consisted of 92 children (n = 46 boys and n = 46 girls); the average age for girls was 5.41 ± 0.30 years and for boys it was 5.53 ± 0.31 years. …”
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Towards a standard benchmark for phenotype-driven variant and gene prioritisation algorithms: PhEval - Phenotypic inference Evaluation framework by Yasemin Bridges, Vinicius de Souza, Katherina G. Cortes, Melissa Haendel, Nomi L. Harris, Daniel R. Korn, Nikolaos M. Marinakis, Nicolas Matentzoglu, James A. McLaughlin, Christopher J. Mungall, Aaron Odell, David Osumi-Sutherland, Peter N. Robinson, Damian Smedley, Julius O. B. Jacobsen

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Improving the Ex Vitro Adaptation Technology for Vaccinium Angustifolium and Vaccinium Corymbosum on the Field by Sergey S. Makarov, Anton I. Chudetsky, Irina B. Kuznetsova, Elena I. Kulikova, Andrey N. Kulchitsky, Natalia R. Sungurova

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Water quality assessment in Benue South, Nigeria: An investigation of physico-chemical and microbial characteristics by Augustine O. Edegbene, Doowuese Yandev, Temidayo O. Omotehinwa, Hajara Zakari, Blessing O. Andy

“…Therefore, there is the need for regulatory action to address water quality issues within the study area.…”
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Decoding bacterial methylomes in four public health-relevant microbial species: nanopore sequencing enables reproducible analysis of DNA modifications by Valentina Galeone, Johanna Dabernig-Heinz, Mara Lohde, Christian Brandt, Christian Kohler, Gabriel E. Wagner, Martin Hölzer

“…Recent advances in basecalling models, particularly v5 models as part of Dorado, have reduced these issues, improving the reliability of methylation detection in bacterial genomes. …”
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“Voice of Student” in the Analysis of Components of Digital Educational Environment during Online Learning by Olga I. Popova, Galina S. Timokhina, Natalya B. Izakova, Larisa M. Kapustina

“…Comparison of the results of the empirical quantitative study “Student’s Voice”, conducted in 2020 and 2023, was carried out on the basis of representative non-probability quota samples of 400 units using descriptive statistics methods. …”
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The role of thyroid hormones in assessing the survival of intensive care unit patients by Bartolović Daniela, Jovičić Snežana, Terzić Branka

“…This is crucial because it opens the possibility of implementing specific therapies to rectify issues stemming from hormonal deficiencies.…”
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Health effects and mediating mechanisms of smart wearable devices on older people: evidence from China by Enkai Guo, Enkai Guo, Enkai Guo, Shiyi He, Shiyi He, Shiyi He, Lan Zheng, Lan Zheng, Lan Zheng

“…BackgroundWith the aging of the population, health issues among older people have drawn increasing societal attention. …”
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Soil Nutrients in Sandy Plantations Are Related to the Species, Diameter at Breast Height or at Base, and Distance from the Tree Base in Horqin by Hongshun Liu, Rencang Bu, Yu Chang, Li Qi, Chang Chang, Zhibin Zhang, Lujia Zhao

“…Correctly understanding existing plantations and improving the cycles and effects of ecological restoration in sandy areas have become important scientific issues. Consequently, we selected different diameters at breast height (DBHs) for <i>Populus</i> spp. and <i>Pinus sylvestris</i> var. …”
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Navigational health literacy and health service use among higher education students in Alentejo, Portugal - A cross-sectional study. by Jorge Rosário, Sara Simões Dias, Sónia Dias, Ana Rita Pedro

“…The study data were analysed using independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, and post hoc Bonferroni test, followed by multiple linear regression analyses at a significance level of 0.05. …”
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Interfacial Chemical and Electrical Performance Study and Thermal Annealing Refinement for AlTiO/4H-SiC MOS Capacitors by Yu-Xuan Zeng, Wei Huang, Hong-Ping Ma, Qing-Chun Zhang

“…The gate reliability issues in SiC-based devices with a gate dielectric formed through heat oxidation are important factors limiting their application in power devices. …”
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The Phytoplankton Community Exhibited Restored Species Diversity but Fragile Network Stability Under Potential Sustainable Aquaculture Approach of Marine Ranching by Dongqun Wei, Zeping Xie, Jialin Li, Diansheng Ji, Lin Qu, Baoquan Li, Xiao Wei, Song Qin

“…Mariculture is currently experiencing rapid growth in response to the rising global food demand, while simultaneously posing significant challenges to environmental issues, such as pollution stress and ecological degradation. …”
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Enhancing Cross-Domain Remote Sensing Scene Classification by Multi-Source Subdomain Distribution Alignment Network by Yong Wang, Zhehao Shu, Yinzhi Feng, Rui Liu, Qiusheng Cao, Danping Li, Lei Wang

“…Discriminant Semantic Transfer (DST) loss is exploited to force the model to effectively extract semantic information among target and source domain samples, while Class Correlation (CC) loss is introduced to reduce the feature confusion from different classes within the target domain. …”
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A study of the degree of inflammatory response of atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary artery in patients with impaired metabolism of homocysteine and vitamin D by O. S. Nykonenko, A. O. Nykonenko, K. O. Chmul, V. V. Osaulenko

“…However, to date, in medical publications, the issues of the influence of hyperhomocysteinemia (HHC) and vitamin D deficiency on the degree of the inflammatory response of atherosclerotic plaque (AsP) are insufficiently covered, which requires a detailed study of this problem. …”
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Heterologous immunization with Covishield and Pfizer vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 elicits a robust humoral immune response by Ali Toloue Ostadgavahi, Ryan Booth, Gary Sisson, Nichole McMullen, Michelle Warhuus, Peter Robertson, Matthew Miller, Wanda C Allen, May El Sherif, Robert Brownlie, Darryl Falzarano, Christopher D Richardson

“…Serum samples were collected 25 days following the primary vaccination and 13 days after the secondary Pfizer vaccination. …”
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Eliminating geometric distortion with dual-orbit Sentinel-1 SAR fusion for accurate glacial lake extraction in Southeast Tibet Plateau by Renzhe Wu, Guoxiang Liu, Xin Bao, Jichao Lv, Age Shama, Bo Zhang, Wenfei Mao, Jie Chen, Zhihan Yang, Rui Zhang

“…A total of 600 refined samples were used for comparative verification. The results demonstrate that this method is capable of reliably identifying the active and passive geometric distortions in SAR imagery. …”
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