HEROIC: a 5-year observational cohort study aimed at identifying novel factors that drive diabetic kidney disease: rationale and study protocol by Neil Ashman, Ben Caplin, David Wheeler, Tahseen Ahmad Chowdhury, Kieran Mccafferty, Sinead Knight, Paul Hockings, Stanley L Fan, Johannes Hulthe, Robert Kleta, Vasilios Papastefanou, Hemal Mehta, Alan Salama, Sinela Hadzovic, Lisa Jarl, Robert Unwin, Benjamin Challis, Anna K Sundgren, Muhammad Magdi Yaqoob

“…To investigate the heterogeneity of DKD we have set up The East and North London Diabetes Cohort (HEROIC) Study, a secondary care-based, multiethnic observational study of patients with biopsy-proven DKD. …”
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ZINQ-L: a zero-inflated quantile approach for differential abundance analysis of longitudinal microbiome data by Shuai Li, Runzhe Li, John R. Lee, John R. Lee, Ni Zhao, Wodan Ling

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A new potential of sodium anthraquinone-2-sulfonate as a corrosion inhibitor for carbon steel in 0.5 M H2SO4 by Nikolay Akatyev, Roza Kenzhegalieva, Meruyet Khapiyeva, Gauhar Uzakbay, Aruzhan Talapova, Ruben Vardanyan

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Democracy and digital disintegration: Platforms, actors, citizens by Widholm Andreas, Ekman Mattias

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An exploratory analysis of citizen journalists as editorial gatewatchers by Maritha Pritchard, Charmaine du Plessis

“…As gatewatchers of mainstream media content, press releases and other background information, citizen journalists may reintroduce debate in the public sphere and introduce new insights previously overlooked by the mainstream media. …”
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EXPLORING CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SAUDI PODCASTERS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY by Merfat ALARDAWI

“…However, podcasting has prospects of job creation and social relationships for the Saudi population, pivotal for developing business opportunities. The study found that the Saudi podcasters used two effective techniques of digital marketing to promote their podcasting such as capitalizing on YouTube as a global platform for wider access to their content and generating audience interaction through Electronic Word of Mouth on their social media accounts such as Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, LinkedIn.…”

Analytical model for helical particle array assessment for EMI shielding applications by Ayoub Hamidi, Ahmad Cheldavi, Asghar Habibnejad Korayem, Mohammad Baharian

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Study and Test on Energy-Saving Technology of Optical Access Network by Yan Jiang, Zhanhai Zhuang

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Information manipulation on TikTok and its relation to American users' beliefs about China by Danit Finkelstein, Sonia Yanovsky, Jacob Zucker, Anisha Jagdeep, Collin Vasko, Ankita Jagdeep, Lee Jussim, Joel Finkelstein

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Study on the direction of artificial intelligence technology based on network evolution by Zhen YANG, Jianjun ZHAO, Yongjun HUANG, Jie LI, Nan CHEN

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Unraveling the linguistic features of Facebook comments amidst live press conferences by Shin Yi Chew, Jie Ting Jiang, Siak Bie Soh

“…In this study, a total of 1339 comments were collected during the live streaming of COVID-19 press conferences by New Straits Times on Facebook. …”
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Study on extended reality enhancement technology in 5G-Advanced by XIAO Yang

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NUMERICAL SIMULATION STUDY ON COAL AND ROCK CRUSHING OF COAL PLOUGH by HAO ZhiYong, WANG ShuaiLing, CHEN ZhiQiang, YUAN Zhi

“…In order to study the crushing process and its influencing factors of the coal rock ploughing and planing by the plough cutters,the planing process is analyzed by numerical simulation, in view of the fact that coal and rock are heterogeneous media, coal rock images are identified, the three-dimensional model of coal rock is established by image reconstruction method, the accuracy of simulation is increased, it provides a new theory and method for three-dimensional finite element modeling of heterogeneous materials, and obtains more accurate simulation data. …”
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Academics’ motivation to research: a study on public universities in Panama by Gabisel Barsallo, Gabisel Barsallo, Elisa Mendoza, Maritzabel Arboleda, Monica Torreiro-Casal, Ciara Ordoñez

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Study of dynamics and rigidity of multifunctional coating of protective element of aircraft by A. V. Kupryashov

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“I just want to be the friendly face of national socialism” by Askanius Tina

“…This article is based on a case study of the media narratives of the neo-Nazi organisation Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) and situates this particular actor within the broader landscape of violent extremism in Sweden today. …”
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Study of an arginine- and tryptophan-rich antimicrobial peptide in peri-implantitis by Qian Zhang, Yalei Jiang, Xiaotong He, Liwei Liu, Xi Zhang

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Explosives and their compositions in the Russian-Ukrainian war by Ya. O. Holovach

“…The article investigates modern explosives and their compositions used in the Russian-Ukrainian war since the spring of 2014, taking into account new means of destruction that appeared after the full-scale invasion of 2022. …”
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Centralized Management For Effective Public Diplomacy: Case of Hasabara by V. V. Kabernik

“…The evolution of modern public diplomacy in new media and the ways of its practical implementation reviewed, stating the raising power of non-government actors and mass media with their greater influence developing political agenda. …”
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Relative Permeability of Hydrogen and Aqueous Brines in Sandstones and Carbonates at Reservoir Conditions by Amin Rezaei, Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband, Ian Molnar, Zeinab Derikvand, R. Stuart Haszeldine, Katriona Edlmann

“…Abstract Geological hydrogen storage in depleted gas fields represents a new technology to mitigate climate change. It comes with several research gaps, around hydrogen recovery, including the flow behavior of hydrogen gas in porous media. …”
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