Determination of an unstability area of a system by using the expansion of a n-th order determinant by k-th order determinants by Algis Kavaliauskas

“… The article deals with a proof of a formula, devoted to expansion of a determinant by any of k rows and k columns. By its help the area of unstability in a electromechanical system can be determined. …”
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Antidiabetic Potential of Marine Brown Algae—a Mini Review by Thilina L. Gunathilaka, Kalpa Samarakoon, Pathmasiri Ranasinghe, L. Dinithi C. Peiris

“…Due to the adverse side effects of currently available antidiabetic drugs, search for an effective natural-based antidiabetic drug is important to combat diabetes and its complications. Therefore, in lieu with herbal drug development, it is important to find the potential benefits of seaweeds for the management of type 2 diabetes as they are underexplored yet in Sri Lanka. …”
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Just a SNP away: The future of in vivo massively parallel reporter assay by Katherine N. Degner, Jessica L. Bell, Sean D. Jones, Hyejung Won

“…The massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) has been employed to characterize the function of noncoding variants at unprecedented scales, but its application has been largely limited by the in vitro context. …”
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Activity of the Tyumen Commodity Exchange (1910–1917) by L. V. Merkulova

“…The article analyzes the factors and reasons that influenced the opening of the commodity exchange in Tyumen, as well as its activities in the period from 1910 to 1917. …”
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PFAS contamination in tap water: Target and suspect screening of zwitterionic, cationic, and anionic species across Canada and beyond by Termeh Teymoorian, Gabriel Munoz, Sébastien Sauvé

“…Between 2021–2023, an expanded list of 76 target PFAS was screened in tap water samples mainly from Canada, but also including tap water samples from the Eastern United States, Mexico, South America (Argentina), the Caribbean (Dominican Republic, Cuba), Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Morocco, Rwanda, Tunisia), Europe (France, Greece, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) and Asia (Japan, Vietnam, Iran, and Türkiye). …”
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Attitudes towards Donor Breast Milk in an Inner City Population by Abhinav Pal, Kultida Soontarapornchai, Lawrence Noble, Ivan Hand

“…The purpose of our study was to identify attitudes towards donor breast milk in our population and identify barriers to its acceptance. Methods. The study sample was comprised of a convenience sample of 174 postpartum women. …”
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Regulation of Lithuania and Czechoslovakia trade relations: Negotiations and agreements in 1931-1939 by Dalia Bukelevičiūtė

“… The world great economic depression had influence on Lithuanian economics only in 1931, and then in Czechoslovakia became aware of its negative results earlier. In 1931 the highest possible negative trade balance for Lithuania was a result of great economic depression and the difference between import and export of goods, i.e., 19 mln. …”
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Ajuga reptans: Common Bugle, Bugleweed, Carpet Bugleweed by Edward Gilman, Ryan W. Klein, Gail Hansen

“…It describes the plant’s characteristics, including its dark green to purple leaves, small blue flowers, and its growth habit as a ground cover. …”
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Monitoring of Ozone Risk for Forests in the Czech Republic: Preliminary Results by Vít Šrámek, Radek Novotný, Emilie Bednárová, Hana Uhlírová

“…Ozone (O3) is supposed to represent a significant risk for the health of forest ecosystems in Central Europe. So far, however, its impact on stands growing under natural conditions has not been clearly proved. …”
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Pengembangan LKS Berbasis Inkuiri Terbimbing Berbantuan E-Learning Untuk Meningkatkan Pemahaman Konsep Pada Siswa kelas X SMA by Wimpi Calesta, Patricia H M Lubis, Sugiarti Sugiarti

“…The results of the LKS practicality questionnaire obtained a score of 85.81% in the very practical category. And for its potential effect in increasing concept understanding using the N-Gain formula, it obtained a value of 0.87 with the high category. …”
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Increased Toll-Like Receptor 2 Expression in Peptidoglycan-Treated Blood Monocytes Is Associated with Insulin Resistance in Patients with Nondiabetic Rheumatoid Arthritis by Shih-Wei Wang, Tsun-Mei Lin, Chiou-Huey Wang, Hsiao-Han Liu, Jer-Yiing Houng

“…Accordingly, TLR-2 receptor and its related inflammatory cytokines could be potential therapeutic targets in managing insulin resistance in RA patients.…”
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Chloroplast Vesiculation and Induced Chloroplast Vesiculation and Senescence‐Associated Gene 12 Expression During Tomato Flower Pedicel Abscission by Magda Tušek Žnidarič, Maja Zagorščak, Živa Ramšak, Katja Stare, Marko Chersicola, Maruša Pompe Novak, Aleš Kladnik, Marina Dermastia

“…ABSTRACT Abscission is a tightly regulated process in which plants shed unnecessary, infected, damaged, or aging organs, as well as ripe fruits, through predetermined abscission zones in response to developmental, hormonal, and environmental signals. Despite its importance, the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. …”
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初次单侧全膝关节置换术后慢性疼痛围术期危险因素分析 by 张劲军, 梁成杰, 李伟红, 余婕, 邬培慧, 安珂, 孙来保

“…围术期相关24项非手术因素中，术前术侧膝关节 NRS评分高、自控镇痛泵有效按压率低、术后3个月术侧膝关节肿胀和术后3天C-反应蛋白（CRP）水平低是 TKA 后 CPSP 的独立危险因素，<italic>P</italic>＜0.05。结论初次单侧TKA患者术后3个月的CPSP发生率仍较高，15.4%的有可疑的神经病理性疼痛。…”
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Effect of Simultaneous Use of Different Amounts of Biochar and Soil Application of Common Sulfur and Spraying of Nanosulfur on Yield and Yield Components and Some Phytochemical Cha... by Vahid Mohammadzadeh Kakhki, mohmmad Hossein Aminifard, Mohamad Behzad Amiri

“…Introduction Savory (Satureja hortensis L.) is an annual aromatic medicinal plantbelonging to the Lamiaceae family. Its essential oil is used widely in medicine, food, health industries, and therapeutic processes. …”
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East and West: global technological confrontation by S. S. Belikova, A. V. Belikov

“…As China’s economy grows and its technological capabilities expand, the USA is increasingly concerned about the consequences of China’s rapid technological growth for national security, economic competitiveness and for global dominance of the USA. …”
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FAIRness Along the Machine Learning Lifecycle Using Dataverse in Combination with MLflow by Lincoln Sherpa, Valentin Khaydarov, Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn

“…Typical Machine Learning (ML) approaches are characterized by their iterative and exploratory nature: continuously refining and adapting not only code but also ML models to optimize the results and the performance on new data. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Visibility, Artifacts, and Overall Safety of the Self-Locating Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter with a Tungsten Tip by Maurizio Gallieni, Umberto G. Rossi, Massimo Tonolini, Andrea Ianniello, Roberta Miglio, Gianmarco Sabiu, Maurizio Cariati

“…The effects of magnetic resonance (MR) on the catheter were evaluated, emphasizing its MR signal, artifacts, ferromagnetism, and possible heating production during the MR sequences. …”
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A pilot randomized controlled trial of the iPeer2Peer program in adolescents with sickle cell disease: A mixed method study by Lauren Kelenc, Brittany Wiles, Fareha Nishat, Chitra Lalloo, Anya Nair, Craig Eling, Melanie Kirby-Allen, Ewurabena Simpson, Roona Sinha, Richard Ward, William T. Zempsky, Sara Ahola Kohut, Jennifer N. Stinson

“…Conclusion: The results from this pilot study suggest that the current iteration of the iP2P SCD program lacks feasibility. …”
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Dragons, witches, and sorcerers in the advocacy space of national mythology [Review: Breeva Т.N., Khabibullina L.F. 'Russian Myth' in Slavic Fantasy. Moscow, Flinta, 2016] by O.E. Osovskiy

“…This is the way the mass propaganda uses to make fiction and mass media a part of its own space. The authors have traced the genetic connection of contemporary Russian fantasy with Old Slavic folklore, European medieval literature, and Western mass culture. …”
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An Optimal DoS Attack Strategy Disturbing the Distributed Economic Dispatch of Microgrid by Yihe Wang, Mingli Zhang, Kun Song, Tie Li, Na Zhang

“…This paper studies the distributed economic dispatch problem (EDP) under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks for the microgrid, in which each generator can communicate with its neighbors and has the computational capability to implement local operation. …”
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