Scientific and Technological Development of Egypt in the XXI Century by VOLKOV Sergey Nikolaevich

“…The author analyzes the scientific and technological development of modern Egypt, which the country’s leadership considers to be one of the main means for building a knowledge economy and ensuring national sovereignty. The current Constitution of Egypt contains a provision on the priority development of science and technology, as well as the obligation of the state to increase the share of spending for these purposes to 1% of GDP. …”
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Enhancing investment through cyber security policies – Case of Albania by Vilma TOMCO, Klorenta Janushi PASHAJ

“…Moreover, in order to analyze benefits of increasing the investment on cyber security, different cases from the region and Europe will be shown. …”
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DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW OF FLUOROQUINOLONES AMONG THE OUT-PATIENTS IN A PUBLIC SECTOR HOSPITAL, PAKISTAN by Awais Arshaad, Shahzaib Sharafat, Ayesha Mustafa, Hamza Mahmood, Fatima Mustafa, Sonia Tariq, Ammara Asif

“… Background: The increase in antibiotic resistance is a challenging threat to the healthcare system. …”
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Précipitations intenses sur le Bassin Méditerranéen : quelles tendances entre 1950 et 2013 ? by Florian Raymond, Albin Ullmann, Pierre Camberlin

“…In the current context of global warming, changes in intense Mediterranean precipitation events remain less obvious, with no significant evolutions in the number and intensities of such events. …”
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ChatGPT's perspectives on real numbers, straight lines, and probability—A quantitative study on the influence of prompting by Frederik Dilling

“…The use of appropriate prompts can significantly increase or decrease the occurrence of perspectives. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF A METHOD FOR THE INTERACTIVE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPLANATIONS IN INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS BASED ON THE PROBABILISTIC APPROACH by Serhii Chalyi, Volodymyr Leshchynskyi

“…Results: A model of the explanation pattern is proposed, which contains temporal regulations reflecting the sequence of user interaction with an intelligent system, which allows the formation of explanations based on a comparison of the actions of the current user and other well-known users. …”
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SIMPLIFIED METHOD FOR CALCULATING CLOSING IN OF SWITCH-GEAR FLEXIBLE BUSES AT SHORT CIRCUIT BY IMPULSE OF ELECTRODYNAMIC FORCES by I. I. Sergey, E. G. Ponomarenko, W. M. Sammur, P. I. Klimkovich

“…The paper contains description of a simplified method for calculating closing-in of switch-gear flexible buses at short circuit. …”
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How STEM content is presented in mathematics textbooks from the U.S. and China: a comparative study by Shuhui Li, Lianghuo Fan, Jietong Luo

“…The enriched-level STEM content (i.e., full integration of in-depth and a wide range of content knowledge) was very limited. The PEP series contained more from engineering and agriculture, and presented more in the main text; the BIM series presented more in statistics and probability, placed more in chapter previews, had more moderate-level content (i.e., partial integration of content knowledge) and a balanced distribution of authentic and non-authentic contexts in enriched-level content. …”
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ACCELERATED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF PHANTOM «ROZI» BY OS-SART METHOD USING ORDERED SUBSET PROJECTIONS by S. A. Zolotarev, M. M. Mieteeg, A. N. Al-Nadfa

“…One of the popular approaches used to increase the rate of convergence of these algorithms is to perform a correction of the current approximation of the reconstructed object on subsets of the projection data. …”
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PRIVATIZED VIOLENCE: THE ESSENCE AND TYPES OF ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN MODERN WORLD by Микола Адамович Козловець, Вадим Миколайович Слюсар

“…The conclusion is made about the social conditionality of privatized violence and the feasibility of forming a culture of nonviolence, tolerance and consent in the current context.…”
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Analyzing outcomes for peripheral versus central administration of vasopressors: A narrative review by Jack Dryden, Jose Navas-Blanco

“…There is an emerging body of evidence to suggest that the peripheral administration of vasopressors is safe and effective in many clinical contexts and often superior to central administration. …”
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Campus microenvironmental factors and their effects on people’s outdoor thermal perceptions under different conditions by Yang Zhang, Shuangyan Feng, Jiaying Liu, Quanzhang Mo, Hui Yin, Jian Zhang

“…LAI was usually negatively correlated with TSV. The increase in LAI by 1 point contributed to the decrease of 0.171 in TSV (10:00, R2 = 0.295, p < 0.001, summer) and increasing the distance by 1 caused a rise of 0.076 in TSV (9:00, R2 = 0.367, p < 0.001, summer). …”
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Development of <i>OptiCon</i>: A Mathematical Model with a Graphical User Interface for Designing Sustainable Portland Cement Concrete Mixes with Budget Constraint by Angie Pineda, Rita Peñabaena-Niebles, Gilberto Martínez-Arguelles, Rodrigo Polo-Mendoza

“…The production of Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) generates significant environmental impacts that increase climate change and decrease people’s quality of life. …”
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Design of an Automatic Defect Identification Method Based ECPT for Pneumatic Pressure Equipment by Bo Zhang, YuHua Cheng, Chun Yin, Xuegang Huang, Sara Dadras, Hadi Malek

“…In this paper, in order to achieve automatic defect identification for pneumatic pressure equipment, an improved feature extraction algorithm eddy current pulsed thermography (ECPT) is presented. The presented feature extraction algorithm contains four elements: data block selection; variable step search; relation value classification; and between-class distance decision function. …”
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Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Simulation of the Tuberculosis Epidemic as a Function of Population Coverage with Screening by A. A. Starshinova, I. F. Dovgalyuk, N. N. Osipov, D. A. Kudlay

“…The adjusted coefficient of determination of the model (adjusted R-squared) was 0.9969, which meant that the model contained almost no random components. It showed that tuberculosis cases missed due to low population coverage with preventive screening lead to future spread of tuberculous infection and a significant increase in the number of new tuberculosis cases. …”
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Disproporations and Development of Regional Insurance Markets and Managing Them by V. G. Khalin, G. V. Chernova, E. L. Prokopjeva

“…The current stage of development of the Russian insurance market in most regions is accompanied by imbalances in its development — a mismatch between the level of development of the regional insurance market and the needs of the region for insurance protection, as well as large deviations of insurance indicators at the regional level from their reference values, for example, the best or average across the insurance market countries. …”
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Does the Experience of Being Phubbed by Friends Affect Psychological Well-Being? The Mediating Roles of Loneliness, Relationship Satisfaction, and Self-Esteem by Yeslam Al-Saggaf

“…An increase in levels of loneliness or a decrease in levels of friendship satisfaction was also negatively associated with self-esteem and, in turn, with psychological well-being. …”
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Essay. The Vicious Circles of Bureaucratic Circular Economy: The Case of Packaging Waste Euro-Targets for Romania by Octavian-Dragomir Jora, Alexandru Pătruți, Mihaela Iacob

“…In spite of its probably good intentions, the circular economy package contains at least one directive which under current economic conditions is practically inapplicable in countries such as Romania. …”
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DC serial arc fault recognition in aircraft using machine learning techniques by Raul Carreira Rufato, Thierry Ditchi, Cyril Van de Steen, Thierry Lebey, Yacine Oussar

“…The analysed database contains both current signal measurements of arc faults and nominal behaviours. …”
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Hydrazides as Powerful Tools in Medicinal Chemistry: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Biological Applications by Sofia Teixeira, Elisabete M. S. Castanheira, M. Alice Carvalho

“…The increase in drug resistance and the high toxicity of current drugs have inspired the scientific community to develop new drugs for various diseases. …”
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