New Values of Cultural Heritage and the Need for a New Paradigm Regarding its Care by Iwona Szmelter

“…Valuation plays a crucial role in recognition, strategic decision-making, and in complex negotiations devoted to the care of cultural heritage, which can often be very difficult in theory and also in conservation practice.  …”
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Bond Strength between Hybrid Fiber-Reinforced Lightweight Aggregate Concrete Substrate and Self-Compacting Concrete as Topping Layer by Slamet Widodo

“…The tensile strength was tested using pull-off test, while concrete cohesion was investigated based on modified bisurface shear test, and dual L-shaped shear test was used to determine the effect of normal force on the shear strength of concrete interface. …”
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First assessment of biofouling assemblages in the northern Red Sea, an important region for marine non-indigenous species transfer by Juan Sempere-Valverde, Juan Sempere-Valverde, Eva Aylagas, Vitaly Syomin, Vitaly Syomin, Marcos A. L. Teixeira, Glafira D. Kolbasova, Glafira D. Kolbasova, Sofía Ruiz-Velasco, Sahar Chebaane, Arthur Anker, João Curdia, Ronald Cadiz, Dylan M. Cottrell, Andrea Desiderato, Luiz F. Andrade, Chakkiath Paul Antony, Carolina Bocanegra-Castano, Matilde Marzucchi, Angelo Poliseno, Doaa Baker, Basmah Alabdulaziz, Flor Torres, Ameer A. Eweida, Ameer A. Eweida, Susana Carvalho, Susana Carvalho

“…However, the lack of information might prevent effective monitoring in data-limited regions, particularly in areas experiencing demographic growth, where monitoring biofouling communities could offer crucial insights into the dynamics of NIS invasions. …”
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Inhibition of programmed cell death by melanoma cell subpopulations reveals mechanisms of melanoma metastasis and potential therapeutic targets by Yuepeng An, Fu Zhao, Hongling Jia, Siyu Meng, Ziwei Zhang, Shuxiao Li, Jiusi Zhao

“…Furthermore, the development and progression of malignant melanoma were closely associated with various forms of programmed cell death (PCD), including apoptosis, autophagic cell death, ferroptosis, and pyroptosis. Melanoma cells often resisted cell death mechanisms, maintaining their growth by inhibiting apoptosis and evading autophagic cell death. …”
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Application of Minimax Optimization Mechanism in Chinese-English Machine Translation Quality Estimation by Xiaomei Zhang

“…Traditional MTQE models often suffer from incoherent optimization goals due to their dual phase architecture, limiting their effectiveness. …”
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A long road to educational equity: Tracking trends through PISA 2000–2018 by Ekaterina Enchikova, Tiago Neves, Cibelle Toledo, Gil Nata

“…This study analyses data from the 2000 to 2018 PISA rounds, offering an overview of educational socioeconomic-related equity — specifically equality of opportunity (assessed through the relationship between R-squared and ESCS) — trends across 87 countries, comprising 37 OECD members and 50 partner countries. …”
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Manganese-pyrochloric acid photosensitizer nanocomplexes against osteosarcoma: achieving both high activatability and high effectiveness by Xuran Zhang, Xuran Zhang, Jian Wang, Qun Feng, Li Lei, Zhiyong Zhu

“…Intravenous nano-drug delivery systems (NDDSs) hold promise for enhancing the delivery efficiency of photosensitive drugs, but often result in aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) effects, preventing site-specific activation.MethodsWe exploited manganese (Mn2+)–pyrochloric acid (PPa) nanocomplexes coordinated using the photosensitizer PPa and metal Mn ion for the treatment of osteosarcoma. …”
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Macroscopic neutrinoless double beta decay: Long range quantum coherence by Gordon Baym, Jen-Chieh Peng

“…While MDBD is clearly not a viable replacement for traditional 0νDBD experiments, analysis of the concept of MDBD offers new perspectives on the physics of neutrinoless double beta decays.…”
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Proposta de Patrimônio Alimentar no Mercado São Sebastião, em Fortaleza (CE): registrar para não desaparecer by Ana Paola Vasconcelos Campelo, Adriana Camurça Pontes Siqueira

“…Com mais de 400 boxes, o mercado oferece uma variedade de produtos característicos das regiões cearenses, sertão, serra e litoral, incluindo hortifrútis, carnes, laticínios, peixes, frutos do mar, pratos e preparações tradicionais. …”
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Insights from a Decade of Optimizing Emergency Medical Services Across Three Major Regions in Switzerland by Christoph Strauss, Michael Schmid, Daniel Kliem, Martin Müller

“…Strategies aimed at improving prehospital care management emphasize the efficient utilization of resources, but often overlook the long-term implications for the prehospital healthcare system, encompassing emergency medical services, emergency departments, and healthcare authorities. …”
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Lost Pathways of Urban Development by Erik Harms

“…The trees and pathways in these photographs evoke an aspect of sociality often overlooked in the logocentric anthropological and geographical literature on development-induced evictions. …”
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Bilateral Symptomatic Mucoid Degeneration of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament with Anterior Knee Pain but No Limited Knee Flexion by Koshiro Shimasaki, Tomokazu Yoshioka, Akihiro Kanamori, Masashi Yamazaki

“…Some case reports have been published; however, it is difficult to diagnose and is often underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed because of its pathophysiological ambiguity. …”
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Conciencia moral y libertad de conciencia en Locke by Manfred Svensson

“…John Locke es célebre como defensor de la libertad de conciencia, pero no ofrece una concepción robusta de la conciencia moral. …”
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Assessment of information needs in public health in Germany: results of a nationwide survey. by A. Scheiber, R. Schneemann, R. Wischer

“…Since Public Health in Germany is a new multidisciplinary area, there is no well established informational infrastructure to offer researchers, as well as other experts, an overview of current research activities and recently published literature. …”
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Preventing unrestricted and unmonitored AI experimentation in healthcare through transparency and accountability by Donnella S. Comeau, Danielle S. Bitterman, Leo Anthony Celi

“…Abstract The integration of large language models (LLMs) into electronic health records offers potential benefits but raises significant ethical, legal, and operational concerns, including unconsented data use, lack of governance, and AI-related malpractice accountability. …”
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Dawstwo narządów w świetle polskiej ustawy transplantacyjnej by Piotr Ochotny

“…Po pierwsze, pobieranie organów od dawców zmarłych regulowane jest zgodnie z modelem tzw. zgody domniemanej, na podstawie której przyjmuje się, iż dany człowiek za życia wyraził się aprobująco o możliwości ofiarowania swoich organów, a więc faktycznie nie złożył odpowiedniego sprzeciwu, podważającego domniemanie zgody. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Wind Power Prediction Based on Machine Learning: Models, Applications, and Challenges by Zongxu Liu, Hui Guo, Yingshuai Zhang, Zongliang Zuo

“…By addressing existing challenges and leveraging advanced machine learning techniques, this work provides valuable insights into the current state of wind power prediction research and offers strategic guidance for enhancing the applicability and reliability of prediction models in practical scenarios.…”
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Hegemonías y “Ejemonías”: las relaciones entre el Estado Central y las Regiones (Bolivia, 1825-1952) by Rossana Barragán R

“…By studying the budgets, this article analyses the source of income and its regional distribution, offering methodological and historiographical observations. …”
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Rooftop Photovoltaic for Residential Electricity Self-Sufficiency: Assessing Potential Benefits in Major Japanese Cities by Samuel Matthew G. Dumlao, Chuyue Yan, Seiichi Ogata

“…However, estimating the self-sufficiency potential of each city is challenging due to the trade-off between target accuracy and data availability, which limits the scalability of existing methods. …”
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THE EFFECT OF SUBTITLED ANIMATED CARTOON VIDEOS ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION (A Quasi Experimental Study at The Sixth Grade Students of SDIT Al- Hasanah Kota Bengkulu) by Gustian Pelani

“…The  sampleswere  52 studentsthatwere taken fromtwo classes.Theexperimentalclass receiveda treatmentby usinganimatedcartoonvideoswithbimodalsubtitles, while thecontrolclasswas taught byusinganimatedcartoonvideoswithoutsubtitles.A pre-testwasgiven tobothclasses beforetreatment.Thedata wereanalyzedbyusingSPSS16for t-testformula.Theresults show that, firstly, therewasa statistically significantdifferencebetween thegroups in readingcomprehension scores.Therefore, itwasconcluded thattheuse ofsubtitled animated cartoon videoscould improvestudents’ reading comprehension. …”
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