Identifying leaks in the STEM recruitment pipeline among sexual and gender minority US secondary students. by Casey D Xavier Hall, Christine V Wood, Manuel Hurtado, David A Moskowitz, Christina Dyar, Brian Mustanski

“…<h4>Results</h4>Roughly 50% of the sample intended to enter a STEM field (compared to 25% in previous general samples). …”
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Difference in life skills of young volleyball athletes (gender orientation) and identification of supporting factors for their improvement: A mixed method study by Muhamad Ilham, Amung Ma’mun, Yunyun Yudiana, Mustika Fitri, Jusuf Blegur

“…The quantitative study sample totaled 51 young athletes (23 males and 28 females). …”
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Potential of Shredded Ramie Fibers as Reinforcement in Recycled Polypropylene Composites: Analysis of Tensile and Bending Strength by Rina Afiani Rebia, Faroh Sabila, Ade Primananda

“…This shift is driven by growing awareness of environmental issues and the scarcity of petroleum resources, prompting researchers to explore the potential of natural fibers. …”
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FLY ASH WASTE FOR OBTAINING BUILDING MATERIALS WITH IMPROVED DURABILITY by MARIA HARJA, MIHAELA CAFTANACHI, MIHAELA FANACHE VASILIU, GABRIELA CIOBANU

“…As a result, treated fly ash is suitable as a potential building material, saving disposal-related issues. Using treated fly ash is environmentally friendly method conserving a large amount of cement, used in the production of building materials and reducing the CO2 emissions.…”
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A Descriptive Review of Common Knowledge Construction Model Studies in Science Education: The Case of Türkiye by Tolunay Sezen, Ahmet Taşdere

“…While the science subjects taught varied socio-scientific issues (SSIs), such as water pollution, greenhouse effects, and human-environment relations were found to be the most frequently taught science content. …”
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Analysis of a Mixture of Banana Peel and Rice Straw Extracts for Inhibiting Corrosion of Carbon Steel in Hydrochloric Acid Solution by Maral Dazdari, Azizollah Khormali, Akram Taleghani

“…Preventing metal corrosion is one of the most pressing issues in the modern world. One of the most effective ways to combat corrosion is to use inhibitors. …”
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Low-Shot Weakly Supervised Object Detection for Remote Sensing Images via Part Domination-Based Active Learning and Enhanced Fine-Tuning by Peng Liu, Boxue Huang, Tingting Jin, Hui Long

“…Specifically, we designed a part domination-based adaptive active learning (PDAAL) strategy to discover the most informative and challenging samples for instance-level annotation. PDAAL also applies an adaptive threshold to balance sampling frequencies for long-tailed class distributions. …”
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Preserving History: Assessments and Climate Adaptations at the House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts, USA by Paul Wright, Susan Baker, Stephen S. Young

“…This process included the use of data from groundwater monitoring wells and a tidal gauge installed on-site, along with soil samples and a detailed survey base plan including topography and subsurface infrastructure. …”
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Effectiveness of a yoga-based intervention on academic burnout syndrome in medical students: A pilot study by Patricia A. Sánchez Ruíz, Laura D. Zapata de la Rosa, Lessa A. Méndez Lara, Ángel A. Puig-Lagunes

“…Further studies are needed, and consideration should be given to incorporating wellness programs as an integral part of medical education to address mental health issues are recommended.…”
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Landslide susceptibility assessment using lightweight dense residual network with emphasis on deep spatial features by Shenghua Xu, Zhuolu Wang, Jiping Liu, Xinrui Ma, Tingting Zhou, Qing Tang

“…Therefore, it is of great practical significance to perform landslide susceptibility assessment. In addressing issues such as limited training samples, inadequate utilization of spatially effective features, and high computational costs associated with existing methods, we propose a landslide susceptibility assessment method (DS-DRN), which uses a lightweight dense residual network with emphasis on deep spatial features. …”
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BioGAN: Enhancing Transcriptomic Data Generation with Biological Knowledge by Francesca Pia Panaccione, Sofia Mongardi, Marco Masseroli, Pietro Pinoli

“…Synthetic data generation offers a promising solution to these issues. However, existing approaches based on generative artificial intelligence often fail to incorporate biological knowledge, limiting the realism and utility of generated samples. …”
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Accurate Arrhythmia Classification with Multi-Branch, Multi-Head Attention Temporal Convolutional Networks by Suzhao Bi, Rongjian Lu, Qiang Xu, Peiwen Zhang

“…The subtle differences in characteristics among various types of arrhythmias, coupled with class imbalance issues in datasets, often hinder existing models from effectively capturing key information within these complex signals, leading to a bias towards normal classes. …”
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Tracing human genetic histories and natural selection with precise local ancestry inference by Jon Lerga-Jaso, Biljana Novković, Deepu Unnikrishnan, Varuna Bamunusinghe, Marcelinus R. Hatorangan, Charlie Manson, Haley Pedersen, Alex Osama, Andrew Terpolovsky, Sandra Bohn, Adriano De Marino, Abdallah A. Mahmoud, Karatuğ O. Bircan, Umar Khan, Manfred G. Grabherr, Puya G. Yazdi

“…Finally, Orchestra enables us to map selection signatures, identifying trace Scandinavian ancestry in British samples and unveiling an immune-rich region linked to respiratory infections passed down from the Viking conquests. …”
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Extraction of Bioactive Substances from Medicinal Plants with Whey: Selecting Optimal Parameters by Natalia S. Velichkovich, Ann A. Stepanova, Oksana V. Kozlova, Veronika A. Lutz, Timothy A. Larichev

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Optimization of process parameters for sink marks and shrinkage reduction in family molds using Grey-based Taguchi method by Quoc-Nguyen Banh, Van-Keo Dong, Xuan-Hiep Tran, Anh-Son Tran, Minh-Tuan Ho

“…As material testing demand increases, efficient methods for producing multiple samples are crucial. Family molds enable multiple sample production in a single cycle but pose challenges in achieving balanced flow, leading to sink marks and shrinkage that affect test accuracy. …”
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Contemporary features of predicting the development of luteal insufficiency and related gestational disorders by Zoya S. Rumyantseva, Anna N. Sulima, Nadezhda I. Volotskaya, Sergey S. Anikin, Olga V. Soiko, Leviza I. Seytumerova, Alexander I. Eskenderov, Leya E. Sorokina

“…Early diagnosing of potential issues would allow clinicians to take preventive measures, along with initiating timely treatment. …”
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Exploring Genomic Differences between a Pair of <i>Vitis vinifera</i> Clones Using WGS Data: A Preliminary Study by Daniela Araya-Ortega, Felipe Gainza-Cortés, Gonzalo Riadi

“…Utilising genome sequencing data from tissue samples, we identified genomic positions differing between the clones and their cultivar reference genome, meeting the filtering criteria. …”
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Difference in life skills of young volleyball athletes (gender orientation) and identification of supporting factors for their improvement: A mixed method study by Muhamad Ilham, Amung Ma’mun, Yunyun Yudiana, Mustika Fitri, Jusuf Blegur

“…The quantitative study sample totaled 51 young athletes (23 males and 28 females). …”
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Anthelmintic efficacy of mebendazole and levamisole in Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) infected with Trichuris trichiura. by Sohail Afzal, Uzma Farid Durrani, Asim Khalid Mahmood, Amber Fatima, Raheela Akhtar, Abdul Mateen, Amira S H Hassenin

“…Poor growth and health disorders are commonly reported issues in olive baboons in captivity mainly because of gastrointestinal infections and endo-parasites. …”
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MW‐SAM:Mangrove wetland remote sensing image segmentation network based on segment anything model by Yu Zhang, Xin Wang, Jingye Cai, Qun Yang

“…Furthermore, field data collection and annotation in wetlands in complex intertidal zones pose challenges, and the lack of high‐quality training samples limits the application of deep learning methods in this field. …”
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