Light brightened aggregates extracted from by-products of kaolin raw material classification processes, used to reduce urban heat islands by Agata Stempkowska, Tomasz Gawenda, Ewelina Pabiś-Mazgaj, Damian Krawczykowski, Dariusz Foszcz

“…Drainage systems, especially in old towns, do not always show the required capacity to receive large amounts of water after intense and heavy rainfall or snowmelt. …”
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Dust detection in western and southwestern Iran based on DAI index algorithm and Modis spectral data by Azar Faryabi, Hamid Reza Matinfar, Seyyed Kazem Alavi Panah, Ali Akbar Norouzi

“…The western and southwestern Iran are always exposed to dusty systems due to its vicinity to the deserts of neighboring countries. …”
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Meal skipping among adolescents in the Philippines: prevalence, associated factors, and associations with dietary, mental health, and health risk behavioural outcomes by Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer, Thanh-Thao Nguyen-Thi, Isareethika Jayasvasti

“…Exposure to skipping breakfast, lunch, dinner, or any meal increased the odds of low vegetable, soft drink, and fast-food intake, overweight, obesity, suicidal ideation, plan, attempt, psychological distress, sedentary behaviour, alcohol use, drug use, physical injury, poor hand, and oral hygiene, and not always wearing a seatbelt. Conclusion Almost seven in 10 adolescents skipped any meal in the past month. …”
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Accumulation of yam viruses in different parts of white yam and the practice of positive selection technique in seed yam production by Atta Kwesi Aidoo, Richard Tuyee Awuah, Joseph Nee Lamptey, Marian Dorcas Quain, Allen Oppong, Ruth Naa Ashiokai Prempeh, Jakpasu Victor Kofi Afun, Esther Agyemang Marfo, Linda Appianimaa Abrokwah

“…The success of Positive Selection Technique (PST) depends on the visual selection of virus-free plants, which may not always be possible due to virus accumulation in plant parts apart from the leaves. …”
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Sanguinarine–Chelerythrine from <i>Coptis chinensis</i> Offers Analgesic and Anti-Inflammatory Effects Without Gastrotoxicity by Maciej Danielewski, Sylwia Zielińska, Anna Merwid-Ląd, Marta Szandruk-Bender, Wojciech Słupski, Maciej Włodarczyk, Tomasz Sozański, Piotr Ziółkowski, Adam Szeląg, Beata Nowak

“…The available therapies are not always effective and are often associated with the multiple adverse effects that reduce their clinical application. …”
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From applause to disappointment – appreciation among healthcare providers that provided end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on well-being – a longitudinal... by Masha S. Zee, Bregje D. Onwuteaka Philipsen, Erica Witkamp, Yvonne N. Becqué, Anne Goossensen, H. Roeline Pasman

“…Interviews revealed that nurses did not always feel understood and appreciated by society, employers, patients and their families, as well as their own friends and family, leading to feelings of sadness, anger, and frustration. …”
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“There’s just such a mismatch”: a qualitative exploration of health systems and organizational-level barriers to accessing cancer services among people experiencing structural marg... by Tara C. Horrill, Jess Crawford, Scott Beck, Amber Bourgeois, Jagbir Kaur, Leah K. Lambert, Michael McKenzie, Kelli I. Stajduhar, Annette J. Browne

“…Results Four interrelated themes were developed through our analysis, with the overarching thread of a ‘mismatch evident throughout: (1) the design of cancer services does not always account for social contexts and structural determinants of health; (2) discourses of operational efficiency are competing with equity-oriented care; (3) the physical spaces of cancer care matter; and (4) experiences of stigma and discrimination are incompatible with accessing cancer care. …”
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A retrospective analysis of vortioxetine utilization in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder in clinical practice by Xianmei Luo, Shu Yu, Keliang Pan, Lin Cheng, Fan Luo, Handi Zhang, Mingjun Duan, Yajun Zhang

“…Abstract Background Treating depression in children and adolescents has always been a challenge in clinical pharmacotherapy. …”
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Revisiting the potential impact of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis on the selection of doxycycline resistance in Neisseria commensals by Leah R. Robinson, Caroline J. McDevitt, Molly R. Regan, Sophie L. Quail, Makenna Swartz, Crista B. Wadsworth

“…High-level doxycycline resistance (> 8 µg/mL) was always associated with the ribosomal protection protein (tetM) and pConj. …”
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Islamic Banking in Global Economic Context (Critical Studies of Operational System and Performance of Islamic Banking) by Jamal Abdul Aziz

“…In order to remain able to survive in the future, Islamic banks need to evaluate itself continuously by always open to criticism addressed to them. The conception of Islamic banking oriented too much to the doctrine must be balanced with an awareness of the facts and the demands of modern business, both local and global scale. …”
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Petrophysical evaluation of clastic formations in boreholes with incomplete well log dataset by using joint inversion technique and machine learning algorithms by Felipe Santana-Román, Ambrosio Aquino López, Manuel Romero Salcedo (+), Raúl del Valle García, Oscar Campos Enriquez

“…Unfortunately, it is not always possible to fulfill these conditions, and in many cases the set of well logs is incomplete. …”
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Schistosoma mansoni and soil-transmitted helminth infections among schoolchildren living along the shore of Lake Hawassa, southern Ethiopia by Belay Beyene, Susana Vaz Nery, Tariku Lambiyo, Techalew Shimelis

“…STH infections were more common among children who sometimes (vs. always) washed their hands before meals (AOR 1.89; 95% CI 1.01–3.54) and those who regularly played with soil (AOR 2.56; 95% CI 1.47–4.46). …”
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Knowledge, attitude, and practice toward hepatitis B virus among obstetricians and gynecologists: a cross-sectional study by Mohamed Farouk, Mohamed Abdelghani, Eman Marwan, Manal M. Darwish, Waleed Ahmad Ali, Mostafa Seleem, Hossam Abdou, Ahmed M. A. Sobh, Mohamed El-Kassas

“…More than 80% of obstetricians always inform HBV pregnant women that their newborn infants need to receive prophylaxis to prevent perinatal HBV transmission. …”
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Insulin resistance in rheumatoid arthritis: relationship to lipid metabolism disorders and metabolic syndrome by L. V. Kondratyeva, T. V. Popkova, E. L. Nasonov

“…The use of the criteria for MS could not always allows suspect IR in patients with RA.…”
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Effectiveness of probiotic therapy in chronic purulent maxillary sinusitis in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus by O.O. Mazur, N.V. Pashkovska, O.H. Plaksyvyi, I.O. Tsaryk, I.V. Kalutskyi, N.M. Kaspruk, Ya.M. Teleki

“…Chronic sinusitis in patients with T1DM can be particularly difficult, and conventional treatments do not always provide the desired results. The practical significance of the obtained results is that in order to achieve the maximum effect of probiotic therapy for a certain nosology, it is important to choose probiotics containing specific strains of bacteria that have proven their effectiveness in clinical studies. …”
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Impact of functional re-education and environmental adaptation in cancer patients with respiratory pathology: Study protocol. by Eduardo Jose Fernandez-Rodriguez, Maria Isabel Rihuete-Galve, Alberto Garcia-Martin, Celia Sanchez-Gomez, Fausto Jose Barbero-Iglesias, Roberto Mendez-Sanchez, Ana Silvia Puente-Gonzalez, Susana Saez-Gutierrez, Emilio Fonseca-Sanchez, Juan Jesus Cruz-Hernandez

“…While traditional clinical approaches, primarily focused on pharmacological interventions, are commonly employed to manage dyspnoea, we argue that these methods may not always provide optimal symptomatic relief. Therefore, we propose a study protocol to implement an interdisciplinary intervention for these patients. …”
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A Near-Real-Time Model for Predicting Electricity Disruptions in Texas During Winter Storms by Jangjae Lee, Sangkeun Lee, Supriya Chinthavali, Stephanie Paal

“…In results, when comparing Group 2 (the optimized group) with Group 1 (the non-optimized group), it was found that optimization did not always lead to a reduction in RMSE and Mean Absolute Error (MAE). …”
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Land Surface Temperature Super-Resolution With a Scale-Invariance-Free Neural Approach: Application to MODIS by Romuald Ait-Bachir, Carlos Granero-Belinchon, Aurelie Michel, Julien Michel, Xavier Briottet, Lucas Drumetz

“…Most of them are trained at low resolution but applied at fine resolution, and so they require a scale-invariance hypothesis that is not always adapted. The main contribution of this work is the introduction of a Scale-Invariance-Free approach for training neural network (NN) models, and the implementation of two NN models, called Scale-Invariance-Free Convolutional Neural Network for Super-Resolution (SIF-CNN-SR) for the super-resolution of MODIS LST products. …”
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Tolerance to a Diet of Toxic <i>Microcystis aeruginosa</i> in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> by Jordan Balson, Jeffrey R. Boudreau, Ian D. Chin-Sang, Yuxiang Wang, Daniel D. Lefebvre

“…The ecological and human impact of algal blooms is immense, and traditional CHAB remediation methods are not always adequate in eutrophic regions such as Lake Erie in North America. …”
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Targeting phosphatidylserine in tumor cell membranes with a zinc-containing molecule to efficiently combat tumor metastasis by Xiao-Hong Zhou, Jia-Wei Wang, Wei You, Fan Gao, Zhe Wang, Hong-Jie Gao, Ai-Zong Shen, Yang-Huan Ou, Xiang Zhan, Xuan Nie, Li-Qin Tang, Ye-Zi You

“…Nevertheless, membranolytic drugs always cause significant cytotoxicity. In this study, we developed a zinc-containing molecule to selectively kill tumor cells by targeting phosphatidylserine in the tumor cell membrane, which is commonly distributed in the outer cell membrane of tumor cells. …”
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