Nanocellulose derived from agricultural biowaste by-products–Sustainable synthesis, biocompatibility, biomedical applications, and future perspectives: A review by Md. Meraj Ansari, Yunji Heo, Kyoungtag Do, Mrinmoy Ghosh, Young-Ok Son

“…Moreover, the strategic integration of nanocellulose into composites and its structural functionalization enable customizing its properties for specific functions, further expanding its utility. …”
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Unlocking Pinus ponderosa (Douglas ex C. Lawson) potential: a comprehensive review of results from native and introduced areas by Karol Tomczak, Karol Tomczak, Karol Tomczak, Zdeněk Vacek, Jan Cukor, Jan Cukor, Stanislav Vacek, Václav Bažant, Aleš Zeidler, Václav Trojan, Josef Gallo, Jakub Černý

“…We reviewed 229 research sources to analyze P. ponderosa’s potential for utilization in new areas. …”
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Causal relationship between breast cancer and acute myeloid leukemia based on two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization and transcriptome overlap analysis by Xin’an Pan, Cuihan Huang, Xinyi Bai, Fei Li

“…Additionally, we applied the Bayesian Weighted Mendelian Randomization (BWMR) approach to validate the results of the MR analysis. Subsequently, we utilized RNA-seq data from various sources to explore the potential molecular signaling pathways between breast cancer and AML. …”
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Principles of carbon catabolite repression in the rice blast fungus: Tps1, Nmr1-3, and a MATE-family pump regulate glucose metabolism during infection. by Jessie Fernandez, Janet D Wright, David Hartline, Cristian F Quispe, Nandakumar Madayiputhiya, Richard A Wilson

“…Carbon catabolite repression (CCR) is a global regulatory mechanism found in a wide range of microbial organisms that ensures the preferential utilization of glucose over less favourable carbon sources, but little is known about the components of CCR in filamentous fungi. …”
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Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production tripled those from household consumption in the Eurasian desert steppe by Lulu Wang, Xinchao Liu, Susie Wu, Tsegaye Gemechu Legesse, Zhuwen Xu, Jiquan Chen, Yaoqi Zhang, Xiaoping Xin, Xiaobing Dong, Yun Liu, Kexin Cao, Changliang Shao

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Comparative analysis of Propp’s perspective with Greimas and Bermond about narration from Structuralism viewpoint by Reza Ghanbari Abdolmaleki, Ailin Firoozian Pouresfahani

“…This method in which the functions of narrative design were taken into consideration, was changed in Greimas’s and Bremond’s works. …”
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Multi-route method of work organization for transport vehicles by Sergei A. Azemsha

“…Methods of analysis and generalization of literary sources, the principles of graph theory, formalization and mathematical formulation of the objective function and constraints were used while writing.Conclusions. …”
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Typologation and Analysis of the Significance of Risks and Threats to the Energy Security of the Republic of Belarus Taking into Account the Integration of Belarusian NPP in the E... by T. G. Zoryna, V. V. Panasyuk, S. G. Prusov

“…It was determined that the most significant production risks are: depreciation of fixed assets; reduction in the utilization of own generating capacities and reliability of the generating equipment and network; outages that lead to disruption of the functioning of facilities for ensuring the vital activity of the population. …”
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A Comparative Study of Banking Sectors of Pakistan and India: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis by Aamir Shahzad, Tahir Mahmood, Mehwish Shahzad

“… The main aim of this paper is to investigate the efficiency, change in productivity, and the sources of efficiency in the commercial banking sector of Pakistan and India. …”
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240 An environmental scan of translational science storytelling in a Clinical Translational Science Award Hub by Boris Volkov, Martin-Gatton Jennifer Cieslak

“…We triangulated data from diverse data sources: grant applications, reports, and publications; public stories/news related to CTSI activities and impact; scientific publications; organizational/policy documents; and interviews with CTSI stakeholders featured in published sources. …”
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Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids effect on cecal microbiome profile of maturing broiler chicken by Vidya V. Jadhav, Yewande O. Fasina, Scott H. Harrison

“…Four dietary fat sources were evaluated and compared to a control dietary fat source of poultry fat. …”
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Refined prognostication of pathological complete response in breast cancer using radiomic features and optimized InceptionV3 with DCE-MRI by Satyabrata Pattanayak, Tripty Singh, Rishabh Kumar

“…To optimize the model’s performance, we experimented with different combinations of loss functions, optimizer functions, and activation functions. …”
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Theoretical and technical concept of cemented backfill material for flexible enhanced thermal energy storage in coal underground space by Chao LYU, Wenyu LYU, Qiang SUN, Panshi XIE, Ding LANG, Songtao JI, Jianjun HU

“…The cemented backfill material for enhanced thermal energy storage not only improves the utilization rate of coal-based solid waste resources, but also ensures the efficient consumption and utilization of renewable energy. …”
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Multipath2.0: Extending Multilayer Reproducible Pathway Models with Omics Data by Zaynab Hammoud, Mohammad Al Maaz, Alicia D'Angelo, Frank Kramer

“…Although the model showed remarkable utility, including further data sources ensures enriching and expanding its capabilities. …”
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The conflict between oral health and patient autonomy in dentistry: a scoping review by Szilárd Dávid Kovács, Anggi Septia Irawan, Szilvia Zörgő, József Kovács

“…Two researchers developed a hierarchical coding scheme, where the parent and grandparent codes were designated deductively as: Case (situations involving the researched ethical dilemma), Judgement (decisions made in the ethical dilemma), and Principle (ideas, rules, propositions explaining the judgements); child codes were developed inductively. After coding the sources, we utilized thematic analysis to construct code constellations. …”
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L.S. Vygotsky on Giftedness as “A Higher Order Formation” by E.P. Fedorova

“…This article emphasizes the importance of utilizing these archival sources for contemporary research on the issue of giftedness. …”
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Microbial responses to ocean deoxygenation: Revisiting the impacts on organic carbon cycling by Quanrui Chen, Kai Tang, Weidong Zhai, Zhuoyi Zhu, Jin-Yu Terence Yang, Zhili He, Meng Li, Shuh-Ji Kao, Jun Yang, Qiang Zheng, Christian Lønborg, Helmuth Thomas, Nianzhi Jiao

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Water use strategies and water conservation in Picea schrenkiana forests in the Kashi River Basin, China by Yinxia Li, Yuhui Yang, Mao Ye, Ying Li, Bin Zou

“…New hydrological insights: The results showed that (1) in spring 2024, Picea schrenkiana mainly utilized 0–60 cm of soil water; the utilization rate of each layer was 20.5 %, 21.0 %, and 20.6 %, respectively; in summer 2024, 0–40 cm of soil water was utilized, with the utilization rate of each layer reaching 25.1 % and 21.1 %, respectively; and in autumn 2024, 0–20 cm of soil water was utilized and the rate rose to 29.6 %. (2) The evaporation loss of soil water was lower than that of river water during the same period. …”
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Building sustainable ecosystems through community education by Richard Hennery,  Ochen Mayaini, Isabelle Voorspuy

“…Many of the current generation of pastoralists believe that the degraded rangelands in their landscape are normal, not realizing that the rangelands should be covered with grass that would retain moisture, sequester carbon, secure water sources, and support biodiversity, if properly utilized and the livestock carrying capacity were reduced to the ideal balance. …”
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Distributionally robust optimal scheduling of flexible distribution networks considering dynamic spatio-temporal correlation of renewable energy by Shunxiang Yu, Xiaoming Dong, Chengfu Wang, Tianguang Lu

“…By utilizing the 1-norm and ∞-norm to characterize the uncertainty sets between sources and loads, this strategy effectively minimizes operational costs while ensuring robust performance. …”
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