Coral Reef Degradation Due to ‘Ship Grounding' in Indonesia: Case Study of Ship Aground in Bangka-Belitung Waters by Mother Vessel MV Lyric Poet by Idris Idris, Neviaty P. Zamani, Suharsono Suharsono, Fakhrurrozi Fakhrurrozi

“…Abstract Ship grounding on coral reefs often results in physical and biological damage, including dislodging and removal of corals from reefs, destruction of coral skeletons, erosion and removal of sediment deposits, and loss of three-dimensional complexity. …”
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« Doctrine des scandales » et scandale de la doctrine : Les sermons de John Donne sur Mathieu 18.7 by Guillaume Fourcade

“…Preached in 1620-1621, Donne’s two sermons on Matthew 18.7 (“Woe unto the world because of offences”) map out the complexities of spiritual scandals. …”
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Improvement of the Method of Calculation of Steady-State Modes of Urban Electric Networks Taking into Account Consumer Energy Sources by M. I. Fursanov, A. A. Zalotoy

“…The method of calculation of the steady-state mode of the open city distribution electric network with small generation sources is offered. It is shown that the city electric network consists of passive and active physical elements. …”
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A CLINICAL CASE OF HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA CAUSED BY KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIA, DUE TO CONTACT WITH A FAMILY MEMBER by N.D. Gerasymenko, N.I. Digtiar

“…As a preventive measure, medical personnel should follow the regimes of ventilation and wet cleaning in the premises, wash their hands and rinse their nasal passages as often as possible with saline solutions, use a mask to protect the respiratory organs, disinfect hands with alcohol.…”
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CalciumZero: a toolbox for fluorescence calcium imaging on iPSC derived brain organoids by Xiaofu He, Yian Wang, Yutong Gao, Xuchen Wang, Zhixiong Sun, Huixiang Zhu, Kam W. Leong, Bin Xu

“…It streamlines the entire analysis process, offering full automation with just one click after parameter optimization. …”
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Low-density parity-check representation of fault-tolerant quantum circuits by Ying Li

“…We outline the procedure for generating LDPC codes from circuits using the Tanner graph notation, alongside proposing graph-theory tools for constructing fault-tolerant quantum circuits from classical LDPC codes. These findings offer a systematic approach to applying classical error correction techniques in optimizing existing fault-tolerant protocols and developing new ones. …”
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The Effect of Surface Functionalization of Magnesium Alloy on Degradability, Bioactivity, Cytotoxicity, and Antibiofilm Activity by Morena Nocchetti, Michela Piccinini, Donatella Pietrella, Cinzia Antognelli, Maurizio Ricci, Alessandro Di Michele, Layla Jalaoui, Valeria Ambrogi

“…Moreover, the risk of microbial infections, often following the implant surgery and hard to eradicate, is another challenge. …”
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Rethinking the <i>Unio Mystica</i>: From McGinn to Ibn ʿArabī by Arjun Nair

“…By contrast, tradition-specific vocabularies are profuse and often difficult to represent in interlinguistic contexts without significant explanation. …”
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VSRDiff: Learning Inter-Frame Temporal Coherence in Diffusion Model for Video Super-Resolution by Linlin Liu, Lele Niu, Jun Tang, Yong Ding

“…In particular, current DM-based VSR methods often neglect inter-frame temporal coherence and reconstruction-oriented objectives, leading to visual distortion and temporal inconsistency. …”
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Biology and Control of Goosegrass in Sugarcane by Dennis Calvin Odero, Ron Rice, Les Baucum

“…Goosegrass is an annual plant that produces a prostrate, mat-like rosette with flattened stems radiating from a central point. It is often described as looking like someone has stepped in the middle of the plant, flattening it out. …”
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An Exploratory-Descriptive Analysis of Training Programs for Leadership in Health Research and Services in India by Archisman Mohapatra, Jaspreet Kaur, Ritika Mukherjee, Ram Suresh Aravind, Vaishali Deshmukh, Shikha Bassi, Sumant Swain, Rebecca Wig, Sanjiv Kumar, Narendra Kumar Arora

“…Materials and Methods: We used an exploratory-descriptive design to identify and review leadership training programs for health researchers and service providers/managers that had been offered by Indian institutions between 2013 and 2018. …”
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A Geometric Derivation of the Irwin-Hall Distribution by James E. Marengo, David L. Farnsworth, Lucas Stefanic

“…Many applications arise since round-off errors have a transformed Irwin-Hall distribution and the distribution supplies spline approximations to normal distributions. …”
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High-Dose Methotrexate for the Treatment of Relapsed Central Nervous System Erdheim-Chester Disease by Prahlad Ho, Carole Smith

“…CNS involvement is a major complication, which is often rapidly progressive and confers a poor prognosis. …”
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Embodied Coloniality by Nezihat Bakar-Langeland

“…By addressing the intersection of coloniality, racism, and the lived experiences of Muslim minority women, this research offers valuable contributions to the academic discourse on decolonial feminist studies of affect, providing a nuanced understanding of the complex dynamics at play in contemporary Norway. …”
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Ukrainian SSR police activities in combating crime in the late 1950s by V. A. Grechenko

“…By 1959, the criminogenic situation had improved, the number of serious crimes had decreased, and police officers had used a wide arsenal of tools to combat crime, including active search and investigative work using the secret service.…”
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Synergistic anticancer effects of cisplatin and phenolic aglycones of the aerial part of Rumex dentatus L. in tongue squamous cell carcinoma: insights from network pharmacology and... by Amany E. Ragab, Ghada M. Al-Ashmawy, Sherin R. El Afify, Ola A. El-Feky, Amera O. Ibrahim

“…Cisplatin is the standard chemotherapy for OSCC, but resistance often reduces its efficacy, necessitating new treatments with fewer side effects. …”
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La incorporación de las mujeres a la visita médica en España (1915-2000) by Raúl Rodríguez Nozal, Ignacio Romero Jiménez

“…Para ello, nos hemos valido de los expedientes franquistas de encuadramiento de laboratorios farmacéuticos, conservados en el Archivo General de la Administración, de los periódicos oficiales y, también, de la prensa generalista y profesional del sector, tanto la médica, como la farmacéutica y la más específica relacionada con la visita médica y los viajantes de comercio. …”
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Promoting COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance through Community Engagement: An Ethnographic Study in Ghana by Matilda Aberese-Ako, Wisdom Ebelin, Phidelia Theresa Doegah, Mawulom Kuatewo, Lebene Kpodo, Atsu Godsway Kpordorlor, Robert Kaba Alhassan, Atubiga Alobit Baba, Senanu Djokoto, Evelyn K. Ansah

“…This qualitative study employed face-to-face in-depth interviews among thirty-six respondents comprising of government officials and community leaders and ten focus group discussions among 87 people made up of men and women most of whom were natives and some migrants in two administrative municipalities in Ghana. …”
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Extrinsic mortality and senescence: a guide for the perplexed by de Vries, Charlotte, Galipaud, Matthias, Kokko, Hanna

“…Here we provide heuristics as well as simple models that outline when the Williams prediction holds, why there is a ‘null model’ where extrinsic mortality does not change the evolution of senescence at all, and why it is also possible to expect the opposite of William’s prediction, where increased extrinsic mortality favours slower senescence. We hope to offer intuition by quantifying how much delaying the ‘placement’ of an offspring into the population reduces its expected contribution to the gene pool of the future. …”
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Inmigración y asociacionismo (Notas de viaje) by William Fredy Pérez Toro

“…A partir de la información obtenida mediante observación directa y entrevistas, y en el marco del proyecto de investigación sobre las organizaciones de inmigrantes colombianos en España, el artículo ofrece una reflexión derivada de las notas de un “diario de campo” en el que convergen los lugares, las prácticas, las percepciones y las formas de organización de los inmigrantes colombianos en Cataluña, examinados a partir de los enfoques del tema migratorio y la acción colectiva.…”
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