Stinging and Venomous Caterpillars of the Southeast by Rebecca Perry, Adam G. Dale

“…Unlike wasps and bees with stingers, these caterpillars have urticating hairs, which are barbed and easily break off the caterpillar’s body, causing sudden or gradually building pain. …”
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Dynamic Wetting Behavior of Vibrated Droplets on a Micropillared Surface by Zhi-hai Jia, Wei Lei, Hui-nan Yang, Gang Wang

“…The droplet undergoes a Wenzel-Cassie wetting transition in restoring process and the droplet bounces off from the surface in bouncing process. Meanwhile, the wetting and dewetting models during vibration are proposed. …”
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Multi-Modal Social Media Analytics: A Sentiment Perception-Driven Framework in Nanjing Districts by Meng Xia, Zhengyang Lu, Feng Wang

“…These findings contribute to theories of post-reform Chinese urbanization while offering practical insights for targeted urban planning strategies. …”
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Development and test of reliability and validity of the Health Belief Scale for Prostate Cancer Screening by YU Lina, LUO Cui, LIU Shuangtai, XU Huan, LI Xiaoyan, ZHANG Xiaomeng, WANG Ting

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AFF-LightNet: A Lightweight Ship Detection Architecture Based on Attentional Feature Fusion by Yingxiu Yuan, Xiaoyan Yu, Xianwei Rong, Xiaozhou Wang

“…Recently, the most advanced learning-based methods have markedly improved the accuracy of ship detection, but these models often face huge challenges on resource limited mobile devices due to their large size and high computational requirements. …”
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Recent advances on the oxide film of ignition-proof magnesium alloys: A review by Jiaxuan Han, Bo Hu, Zhenfei Jiang, Fanjin Yao, Zixin Li, Dejiang Li, Xiaoqin Zeng, Wenjiang Ding

“…Magnesium and its alloys offer lightweight advantage and have extensive development prospects, particularly in aerospace. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Anlotinib and PD-1/L1 Inhibitors as Maintenance Therapy for Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients who Have Achieved Stable-Disease After First-Line... by Yi Peng MD, De Wu MD, Jing Tang MD, Xiaobing Li MD

“…Conclusion The combination of anlotinib and PD-1/L1 inhibitors offers promising efficacy and manageable AEs in MT, making it a viable option for ES-SCLC patients who achieve SD post-initial therapy. …”
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Multilevel and Spatially Heterogeneous Factors Influencing Poor Households’ Income in a Frontier Minority Area in Northeast China by Binyan Wang, Mark W. Rosenberg, Shijun Wang, Peifeng Yang, Junfeng Tian

“…More specifically, the sex, health condition, and labor capacity of the household head, household size, the dependency ratio, social welfare, and off-farm work are significantly associated with household income. …”
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Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of Cement-Solidified Remolded Soil Reinforces by Polyvinyl Alcohol Fiber by Ling Mei, Xin Dong, Shuyan Yang, Jie Deng

“…As a reusable resource, remolded soils are often not utilized on a large scale due to their high water content and low bearing capacity. …”
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An Ontology-Based GIS for Genomic Data Management of Rumen Microbes by Saber Jelokhani-Niaraki, Mojtaba Tahmoorespur, Zarrin Minuchehr, Mohammad Reza Nassiri

“…Such a GIS-ontology application offers powerful capabilities for visualizing, managing, reusing, sharing, and querying genome-related data.…”
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Environmental Education Model Based on Local Wisdom of the Dayak Paramasan Tribe Indonesia by D. F. Wardhani, D. Arisanty, A. Nugroho and U. B. L. Utami

“…Further exploration of implementing environmental education models within school settings will offer valuable insights for Indigenous communities and society, fostering environmentally conscious behaviors.…”
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A Case of Chemotherapy-Refractory “THRLBCL like Transformation of NLPHL” Successfully Treated with Lenalidomide by Mamatha Siricilla, Lydia Irwin, Andres Ferber

“…NLPHL can look morphologically and immunologically similar to THRLBCL and often poses a diagnostic challenge. Neoplastic cells in both NLPHL and THRLBCL express B cell markers and are typically scattered in a background of reactive cells. …”
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A Study of Missing Collaborative Data Imputation Models based on Same-City Delivery by Xintong Zou, Hui Jin

“…However, in practice, the inventory balance of each warehouse can be affected by other warehouses in the same city, and there is often a lack of data in the inventory management system due to equipment and other issues resulting in a poor response from the company to handle emergencies. …”
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Wind farms reduce grassland plant community diversity and lead to plant community convergence by Xuancheng Zhao, Fengshi Li, Yuan Yuan, Guna Ari, Yongzhi Yan, Qing Zhang, Aruhan Olhnuud, Pengtao Liu

“…This study highlights the negative consequences of wind farms in Inner Mongolia on plant diversity, aiming to offer scientific recommendations for the optimal arrangement of wind farms to safeguard biodiversity.…”
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The Impact of Business Strategic Orientation on Innovation-Driven Mergers and Acquisitions: An Empirical Study by Zhuozhu Liu, Yiran Li, Zhaoyang Zhang, Rongying Zhao

“…This paper analyzes the innovation-driven motivation from the perspective of business strategy, enriching the research of M&A and offering a method to predict the possibility of innovation-driven M&A by measuring business strategy.…”
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COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR OBTAINING GENETIC DIVERSITY FOR BREEDING WINTER-HARDY WHEAT IN SIBERIA by V. E. Kozlov

“…Gibberellin stress in two consecutive generations induced a long deep rest in some survivors, comparable to the duration of wintering, which ensured high survival of their offspring. These changes were inherited. The harder was the selection for the duration of deep rest in «gibberellic» lines, the higher proportion of them was constituted by highly frost-resistant forms that survived under conditions of poor snow cover in the steppe. …”
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Challenging the curve: can ChatGPT-generated MCQs reduce grade inflation in pharmacy education by Dalia Almaghaslah

“…However, careful review of AI-generated content remains essential to ensure alignment with course objectives and accuracy.ConclusionAI tools like ChatGPT offer promising opportunities to enhance assessment integrity and support fairer evaluations in pharmacy education.…”
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Strengthening the Resilience of Objective-Oriented Health System Reforms. Analysis of the Left-Turn in the Health Reform Proposals in Mexico (2019) and Colombia (2023) by Laura Flamand, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Natalia Losada-Trujillo, Diana Pinto, Edson Serván-Mori, Diego Cerecero-García, Thomas Hone, Sumit Mazumdar

“…Based on these findings, we offer initial recommendations for safeguarding objective-oriented health system reforms in lower-middle and upper-middle-income countries facing stark political change, especially in polarized contexts. …”
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Genetic advancements in breast cancer treatment: a review by Marzieh Shokoohi, Sadaf Sedaghatshoar, Homaira Arian, Milad Mokarami, Fatemeh Habibi, Fatemeh Bamarinejad

“…Despite their potential, gene therapies face challenges, including off-target effects, delivery issues, and ethical concerns. …”
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Enhanced energy storage in relaxor (1-x)Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-xBaZryTi1-yO3 thin films by morphotropic phase boundary engineering by Herbert Kobald, Alexander M. Kobald, Ivana Panzic, Marco Deluca

“…Abstract Perovskites at the crossover between ferroelectric and relaxor are often used to realize dielectric capacitors with high energy and power density and simultaneously good efficiency. …”
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