Virtual reality platforms for K-12 STEM education by Tyler Ward, Jorge A. Ortega-Moody, Sam Khoury, Mykelti Wheatley, Kouroush Jenab

“… Providing K-12 students with proper science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is important to ensuring an innovative and prosperous economy. …”
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Influenza Vaccination Rates, Perceptions, and Vaccine Hesitancy in K-12 Teachers and Staff by Kevin Cleveland, Kathy Eroschenko, Dalys Davenport, Elaine Nguyen

“…Previous immunization events at various K-12 schools carried out by Idaho State University L.S. …”
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Towards high-quality informatics K-12 education in Europe: key insights from the literature by Demetrios Sampson, Panagiotis Kampylis, Jesús Moreno-León, Stefania Bocconi

“…Finally, the paper offers recommendations for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners (school leaders and educators) related to the key open issues of high-quality K-12 informatics education. Overall, the paper contributes to the discussion on high-quality informatics K-12 education in Europe towards identifying and addressing major challenges for equitable access to quality informatics education for all European K-12 students.…”
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THE EFFECT OF ANAGRAM GAMES ON SECONDARY LEVEL STUDENTS’ READING ACHIEVEMENT by Endang Sulistianingsih, Rizki Dwi Juliani, Toto Pradjarto

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Simple and Fail-safe Method to Transform Miniprep Escherichia coli Strain K12 Plasmid DNA Into Viable Agrobacterium tumefaciens EHA105 Cells for Plant Genetic Transformation by Beenzu Siamalube, Emmanuel Ehinmitan, Maina Ngotho, Justus Onguso, Steven Runo

“…This approach involves a streamlined plasmid miniprep procedure to isolate high-quality plasmid DNA from Escherichia coli K12 strain, followed by a target-specific transfer into A. tumefaciens EHA105 strain. …”
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An Emerging Theory of School-Based Participatory Science by P. Sean Smith, Christine L. Goforth, Sarah J. Carrier, Meredith L. Hayes, Sarah E. Safley

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Increased distribution of carbon metabolic flux during de novo cytidine biosynthesis via attenuation of the acetic acid metabolism pathway in Escherichia coli by Tong Ye, Wei Ding, Zhengxu An, Haojie Zhang, Xiaobo Wei, Junnan Xu, Huiyan Liu, Haitian Fang

“…To mitigate carbon source loss, the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique was employed to knock out the poxB and pta genes in E. coli, generating the engineered strains K12ΔpoxB and K12ΔpoxBΔpta. After 39 h of fermentation in 500 mL shake flasks, the cytidine yields of strains K12ΔpoxB and K12ΔpoxBΔpta were 1.91 ± 0.04 g/L and 18.28 ± 0.22 g/L, respectively. …”
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Development of a scale of teachers’ perceived training quality from the perspective of TPACK by Jielin Yang, Hongju Wei

“…The validity and reliability of the scale were verified with a sample of 426 K-12 teachers in Henan, China. Explanatory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and item discrimination were also conducted. …”
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The Feasibility of Farmer-Led Cooperatives for Southwest Florida Farm to School Procurement by Jonathan Adam Watson, Danielle D. Treadwell, Catherine Campbell, Ray Bucklin

“… Florida’s K–12 schools provide a potential opportunity to increase market channel options for small- and mid-sized diversified farms, but processing, storage, and distribution resources are extremely limited for smaller producers. …”
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The Feasibility of Farmer-Led Cooperatives for Southwest Florida Farm to School Procurement by Jonathan Adam Watson, Danielle D. Treadwell, Catherine Campbell, Ray Bucklin

“… Florida’s K–12 schools provide a potential opportunity to increase market channel options for small- and mid-sized diversified farms, but processing, storage, and distribution resources are extremely limited for smaller producers. …”
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Prevalence of resistance-associated substitutions (RAS) in hepatitis C virus in the Former Soviet Union countries by Sten H Vermund, Salima Davlidova, Syed Hani Abidi, Syed Ali, Robert Heimer, Aidana Mustafa, Dinara Begimbetova

“…The most prevalent NS5A RAS was 30K (12.69%) in genotype 3a, associated with resistance to daclatasvir, elbasvir and ledipasvir, followed by 62S (8.96% in genotype 3a), linked with resistance to daclatasvir, and 93H (3.95% and 6.72% in genotypes 1b and 3a, respectively), conferring resistance to daclatasvir, ombitasvir, elbasvir, ledipasvir and velpatasvir. …”
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Catalytic epoxidation of unsaturated fatty acids in palm stearin via in situ peracetic acids mechanism by Norin Hafizah Rahim, Mohd Jumain Jalil, Nabisab Mujawar Mubarak, Intan Suhada Azmi, Gnanasambandam Anbuchezhiyan

“…After 100 iterations, the reaction rate constant obtained as follows: $$\:{k}_{11}$$ =0.01 mol⋅L−1⋅min−1, $$\:{k}_{12}$$ = 1.85 mol⋅L−1⋅min−1, $$\:{k}_{2}$$ = 29.90 mol⋅L− 1⋅min− 1, and $$\:{k}_{3}$$ = 0.04 mol⋅L−1⋅min−1.…”
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Vitrification affects the post-implantation development of mouse embryos by inducing DNA damage and epigenetic modifications by Yurong Chen, Haibo Zhu, Fucheng Guo, Luyao Wang, Wenli Zhang, Ruizhi Liu, Xiaoling Zhang, Xiangpeng Dai

“…Vitrification elevated H3K4me2/3, H4K12ac, and H4K16ac levels and reduced m6A modification in blastocysts. …”
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Supporting a state in developing a working theory of improvement for promoting equity in science education by William R. Penuel, Tiffany N. Neill, Todd Campbell

“…External partners supported leaders of a single state in the US Northeast to support a process of articulating aims, specifying primary and secondary drivers, and identifying change strategies to promote a more equitable system of science education in the state, grounded in the vision of A Framework for K-12 Science Education (National Research Council, 2012). …”
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Exploring MAP3K genes in gastric cancer: biomarkers, tumor microenvironment dynamics, and chemotherapy resistance by Senhui Wei, Ying Li, Jing Zhou, Yongming Xia

“…Results Utilizing RT-qPCR analysis, we observed significant up-regulation of MAP3K1, MAP3K4, MAP3K5, MAP3K6, MAP3K7, MAP3K8, MAP3K9, and MAP3K10 in GC cell lines, while MAP3K2, MAP3K3, MAP3K11, MAP3K12, MAP3K13, MAP3K14, and MAP3K15 exhibited down-regulation. …”
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Potential pharmacological effect of Quercetin Phytosome™ in the management of hyperuricemia: results from real-life clinical studies by Francesco Di Pierro, Francesco Di Pierro, Francesco Di Pierro, Fazle Rabbani, Meherullah Tareen, Roohi Nigar, Amjad Khan, Nicola Zerbinati, Maria L. Tanda, Massimiliano Cazzaniga, Alexander Bertuccioli, Alexander Bertuccioli, Paolo Falasca, Gabriele Damiani, Nicola Villanova

“…Cohort 1 consisted of 164 healthy participants (87 QP-treated, 77 probiotic Streptococcus salivarius (S. salivarius) K12-treated) who were monitored for 90 days. Cohort 2 included 22 mildly hyperuricemic adults with metabolic disorders receiving QP, while Cohort 3 comprised 64 obese adults with hypercholesterolemia, further divided into moderately hyperuricemic QP-treated group (n = 20), a moderately hyperuricemic Berberine Phytosome™ and monacolins (BM)-treated group (n = 22), and a normouricemic BM-treated group (n = 22). …”
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