Effects of taurine on growth performance, body composition and physiological responses of western white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei broodstock by Vahid Morshedi, Mahmoud Nafisi Bahabadi, Mansour Torfi Mozanzadeh, Amin Oujifard, Naser Agh, Khalegh Maneii, Ahmad Qasemi, Nehzat Bakhshi, Hadi Ebrahimi, Rezvan Tamadoni, Shirin Hamedi, Reza Bagherpour, Fatemeh Solimani

“…In aquaculture, the balance of nutrients in the diet of aquatic animals guarantees optimal growth and health improvement. Taurine (Tau = 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid) is an amino sulfonic acid, which has been proven to be conditionally essential for some aquatic animals when these animals are fed with diets containing high plant protein levels, due to taurine deficiency in plant-based protein sources. …”
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Pregnancy outcomes following surgical repair of female genital fistula in UgandaAJOG Global Reports at a Glance by Abner P. Korn, MD, Justus K. Barageine, PhD, Hadija Nalubwama, MPH, Jaffer Okiring, PhD, Florence Nalubega, MMed, Shane Ian Asiimwe, MMed, Alphonsus Matovu, MMed, Alison M. El Ayadi, ScD

“…We compared outcomes to two external data sources: a meta-analysis and propensity-score matched Ugandan women of reproductive-age. …”
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Advances in Minimally Invasive Treatments for Prostate Cancer: A review of the Role of Ultrasound Therapy and Laser therapy by Corneliu-Dan Blendea, Mohammad Tazim Khan, Marius Stoian, Teodor Claudiu Ion Gligore, Ștefan Cuculici, Ion Lucian Stanciu, Mirela Gabriela-Irina Protosevici, Marius Iordache, Anca Buliman, Carmen Costea-Firan, Ioana Simona Cazacu, Liviu-Constantin Iordache, Doroteea Teoibaș-Șerban

“…While promising for both primary and salvage settings, ongoing research and technological refinements are crucial to optimize their efficacy and expand their clinical utility. …”
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Performance Efficiency of an Energy-Saving Mini Dryer with a Combined Heat Supply System by Umudvar R. Gasanov, Sevil A. Magerramova

“…In the first variant, the drying process was carried out only by the conductive method using the heat from a traditional energy source. …”
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Stabilization effect and mechanism of heavy metals by microbial consortium of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria and urease-producing bacteria by Xuezhe Zhu, Xuezhe Zhu, Xuezhe Zhu, Xuezhe Zhu, Xuezhe Zhu, Xuezhe Zhu, Yupin Zhou, Yupin Zhou, Yupin Zhou, Yupin Zhou, Yupin Zhou, Yupin Zhou, Zhenghao Yan, Yongfang Yan, Shuangquan Li, Shuangquan Li, Shuangquan Li, Shuangquan Li, Shuangquan Li, Mingjiao Yu, Mingjiao Yu, Mingjiao Yu, Mingjiao Yu, Mingjiao Yu, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, Mingjiang Zhang, Mingjiang Zhang, Mingjiang Zhang, Mingjiang Zhang, Mingjiang Zhang

“…Microbial consortium of PSB and UPB were constructed for the stabilization of heavy metals by optimizing carbon and nitrogen sources. The microstructural and compositional changes during the biostabilization process were more deeply analyzed using XRD, FT-IR and SEM-EDS.Results and discussionThe precipitation of heavy metals could be promoted effectively when soluble starch (10.2 g/L) was used as carbon source and urea (7.8 g/L) as nitrogen source. …”
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Facile Synthesis of Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots with High Product Yield Using a Solid-Phase Strategy by Haitao Ren, Fan Qi, Xiangbo Feng, Jiaxiang Liu, Yuzhen Zhao

“…The liquid-phase method is the most commonly utilized strategy for synthesizing fluorescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs). …”
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Three-dimensional Measurement of Specular Surfaces Based on the Light Field by Panyu Zhou, Lingbao Kong, Xiang Sun, Min Xu

“…The experimental results show that the depth map error can be greatly reduced, which further verifies the feasibility of the proposed method and system. The present study can be extended to the traditional optical system or other machine vision measurement methods involving specular light.…”
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Human thermal comfort indicator in high-temperature environments in deep mining by Naiping Li, Hongmei Shu, Daoyuan Sun

“…Future research will integrate multi-source data fusion and multi-field coupling analysis to advance precision and intelligence in deep mining thermal comfort studies.…”
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The Photocatalytic Inactivation Effect of Fe-Doped TiO2 Nanocomposites on Leukemic HL60 Cells-Based Photodynamic Therapy by Kangqiang Huang, Li Chen, Meixiang Liao, Jianwen Xiong

“…The Fe-doped TiO2 nanocomposites synthesized by a deposition-precipitation method were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscope (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and UV-vis adsorption spectra and then were taken as a new “photosensitizer” for photodynamic therapy (PDT). …”
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Hyperspectral and Multispectral Remote Sensing Image Fusion Based on a Retractable Spatial–Spectral Transformer Network by Yilin He, Heng Li, Miaosen Zhang, Shuangqi Liu, Chunyu Zhu, Bingxia Xin, Jun Wang, Qiong Wu

“…Fusion that aims to emphasize spatial–spectral heterogeneous characteristics may significantly enhance the robustness of joint representation for multi-source data. To address these issues, this study proposes a hyperspectral and multispectral remote sensing image fusion method based on a retractable spatial–spectral transformer network (RSST) and introduces the attention retractable mechanism into the field of remote sensing image fusion. …”
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High-throughput generation of sequence indexes from T-DNA mutagenized Arabidopsis thaliana lines by Nicolai Strizhov, Yong Li, Mario G. Rosso, Prisca Viehoever, Koen A. Dekker, Bernd Weisshaar

“…The GABI-Kat collection of T-DNA mutagenized A. thaliana plants was used as a source of independent transgenic lines. The pipeline included robotized extraction of genomic DNA in a 96-well format, an adapter-ligation PCR method for amplification of plant sequences adjacent to T-DNA borders, automated purification and sequencing of PCR products, and computational trimming of the resulting sequence files. …”
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Arabic Teaching Curriculum for Indonesian General Educational Stages in the Society Era 5.0 by Rodhy Harisca, Ahmad Bukhari Muslim, Abdulahi Hussein Moalim Shariif

“…The importunateness of this article was to investigate the  development of Arabic teaching. Descriptive method was adopted in this article. Literature study was used in the data collection technique with four steps by Zed, such as collecting the data, conceptualizing the data, analyzing data and interpreting the data. …”
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Determinant factors affecting employee’s performance in the state-owned banks sector: mediated by job satisfaction by Herizal Herizal, Al Asri Abubakar, Nita Hernita

“…Purpose – This study analyses job satisfaction, mediating the influence of work-life balance, workplace culture, and compensation on employee performance. Method – This study used a causally associative methodology and a quantitative approach. …”
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Analisis Tingkat Kesulitan Guru Bimbingan Konseling dalam Memberikan Layanan BK di Sekolah Inklusif SMA Muhammadiyah Curup by Beni Azwar

“…For technical data validity with source and technique triangulation, then the data is verified and displayed descriptively. …”
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Total Phenolic Content and Antioxidant Activity of Different Extracts of Aronia melanocarpa L. Fruit by Nurcan Kılıç Baygutalp, Mehmet Şekeroğulları, Lale Duysak

“…More research is needed to elucidate the exact mechanisms of action, optimum extraction method, optimal dosage, and potential side effects of the extracts.…”
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Tracking laying hens with ArUco marker backpacks by Arjen van Putten, Mona F. Giersberg, T. Bas Rodenburg

“…For research and semi-commercial settings, ArUco markers could provide a powerful method to identify and track hens.…”
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DC sputtered WTi nanoparticles for solar thermal absorption: Synthesis and characterization by Abbas AL-Rjoub

“…This study presents a method for tungsten-titanium (WTi) nanoparticles synthesis by DC-magnetron sputtering in a plasma gas condensation cluster-source at room temperature. …”
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Evaluation of Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Frame Structures in the Context of Big Data by Du Guangqian, Zheng Meng, Wang Shijie

“…In the era of big data, the efficient use of idle data in reinforced concrete structures has become a key issue in optimizing seismic performance evaluation methods for building structures. …”
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Geopolitics and Muslim Countries: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in Contemporary International Political Dynamics by Yahdi Qolbi, M. Ibnu Ashari. R, Diana, Imaro Sidqi

“…The study employs a qualitative analysis approach with a literature review method. Data is sourced from secondary materials such as academic journals, books, policy reports, and articles relevant to the geopolitical issues of Muslim countries. …”
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Data extraction from polymer literature using large language models by Sonakshi Gupta, Akhlak Mahmood, Pranav Shetty, Aishat Adeboye, Rampi Ramprasad

“…Leveraging a corpus of  ~ 2.4 million full text articles, our method successfully identified and processed around 681,000 polymer-related articles, resulting in the extraction of over one million records corresponding to 24 properties of over 106,000 unique polymers. …”
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