Energy-driven circular design in the built environment: rethinking architecture and infrastructure by Williams Chibueze Munonye, George Oche Ajonye

“…This study explores the integration of energy-driven circular design principles within the built environment, aiming to foster sustainable, low-carbon cities and buildings. Currently as urbanization accelerates and environmental concerns heighten, the need for circular economy practices that promote energy efficiency, resource optimization, and waste reduction becomes increasingly urgent. …”
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Curious Travellers: New Journeys for the Home Tour by Mary-Ann Constantine

“…The creation of new editions continues to generate new topics and research questions, including Anglophone/Celtic-language interactions; the writings of women tourists; the role of material objects (specimens and souvenirs) and of visual culture in knowledge exchange and production. Increasingly, project researchers are relating their work to broader global contexts of colonialism and environmental history. …”
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Trends of compressive word formation in modern Russian language by Natalia A. Nikolina

“…The increasing frequency of contaminated formations in modern Russian speech is revealed. …”
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Social sensing a volcanic eruption: application to Kīlauea, 2018 by J. Hickey, J. Young, M. Spruce, M. Spruce, R. Pandit, R. Pandit, H. Williams, R. Arthur, W. Stovall, M. Head

“…Here we use social sensing of Twitter (currently known as X) posts to track changes in social action and reaction throughout the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea on the island of Hawai`i. …”
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Evaluation of intestinal tissue safety during the compression process of circular end-to-end anastomosis stapler based on finite element simulation by Yuanda Zhou, Yuanda Zhou, Yuanda Zhou, Yuanda Zhou, Zhen Tan, Peishi Jiang, Yi Sun, Yi Sun, Yi Sun, Yi Sun, Dewang Wu

“…ObjectiveCurrently, there is no standardized finite element analysis method for investigating the safe compression range of circular end-to-end anastomosis stapler. …”
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A second horizon scan of biogeography: Golden Ages, Midas touches, and the Red Queen by Michael N Dawson, Jan C. Axmacher, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Jessica L. Blois, Bethany A. Bradley, Anna F. Cord, Jürgen Dengler, Kate S. He, Lawrence R. Heaney, Roland Jansson, Miguel D. Mahecha, Corinne Myers, David Nogués-Bravo, Anna Papadopoulou, Björn Reu, Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Alycia Stigall, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Daniel G. Gavin

“…., advances in genetics, remote sensing, modeling) that promote studies with increasing detail and at increasing scales; disciplinary breadth is being diversified (e.g., by developments in paleobiogeography and microbiology) and integrated through the transfer of approaches and sharing of theory (e.g., spatial modeling and phylogenetics in evolutionary–ecological contexts). …”
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Cybercrime as a New Object of Statistical Analysis by A. E. Lyapin

“…The real damage from cybercrimes is currently difficult to calculate, while the number of these crimes is growing rapidly from year to year. …”
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Letter to readers by Francesca Gorini

“…The evolution of educational technologies and their impact on the educational system is, also, a topic that personally involves me, having dedicated part of my research job in exploring which skills are essential to preserve and develop in order to interact appropriately with AI – a tool which is becoming increasingly pervasive even in teaching and educational contexts. …”
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Microvesicles produced by natural killer cells of the NK-92 cell line affect the phenotype and functions of endothelial cells of the EA.Hy926 cell line by K. L. Markova, V. A. Mikhailova, A. V. Korenevsky, Yu. P. Milyutina, V. V. Rodygina, E. P. Aleksandrova, A. S. Markov, O. A. Balabas, S. A. Selkov, D. I. Sokolov

“…The results revealed significant differences in the proteomic profiles of cells of the NK-92 cell line and their MV product. Contact between ECs and MVs derived from cells of the NK-92 cell line is accompanied by the following events: a) expression of granzyme B in ECs, b) activation of caspase-9 and caspase-3, with partial EC death, c) appearance of the panleukocyte marker CD45 on ECs, d) decrease in CD105 expression, and increase in CD34 and CD54 expression, and e) inhibition of EC migration. …”
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Facilitators to Accessibility of HIV/AIDS-Related Health Services among Transgender Women Living with HIV in Yogyakarta, Indonesia by Nelsensius Klau Fauk, Maria Silvia Merry, Theodorus Asa Siri, Fabiola Tazrina Tazir, Mitra Andhini Sigilipoe, Kristin Oktanita Tarigan, Lillian Mwanri

“…Educating and broadly disseminating this information in other settings in the country will also increase accessibility to the HIV/AIDS services among Waria, their families, and communities addressing the currently existing inequities in health. …”
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Ultrastructural analysis of the structure and distribution of the adherens junctions in the rats’ ventricular myocardium during postnatal stages of ontogeny after the infl uence of... by N. S. Petruk

“…Hypoxic damage of the cardiovascular system occurs in 40-70% of newborns. Currently we observe the increase of meaning of the morphological studies for the prenatal diagnosis of human’s heart diseases. …”
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Monkeypox virus (MPXV) isolation from longitudinal samples of 11 patients to infer risk of onwards transmission by Dr Helen Callaby, Dr Janie Olver, Ms Kirsty Emery, Dr Kevin Richards, Dr Marian Killip, Dr Natalie Groves, Dr Jake Dunning, Professor Malcolm G Semple, Professor J Kenneth Baillie, Dr Tommy Rampling, Dr Catherine F Houlihan

“…Human-to-human transmission occurs, primarily through contact with infectious lesions. The cycle threshold (Ct) value at which mpox virus can be isolated varies in the literature. …”
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Рreventive efficacy of interferon -2b in the COVID-19 pandemic by Zh. B. Ponezheva, A. A. Grishaeva, I. V. Mannanova, A. N. Kupchenko, S. B. Yatsyshina, S. V. Krasnova, V. V. Malynovskaya, V. G. Akimkin

“…The amount of infected people has already exceeded 48 million, and more than 1 million deaths have been registered. A steady increase of new cases of COVID-19 is currently observed on the territory of the Russian Federation. …”
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Analysis of Damage Characteristics and Fragmentation Simulation of Soybean Seeds Based on the Finite-Element Method by Yuxuan Chen, Zhong Tang, Bin Li, Shiguo Wang, Yang Liu, Weiwei Zhou, Jianpeng Jing, Xiaoying He

“…The experimental results indicate that as the contact area decreases, the crushing load increases, with soybeans in the horizontal orientation being able to withstand the highest ultimate pressure. …”
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Preferences for life-sustaining treatments in advance decisions: a cross-sectional survey of Taiwanese general public by Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, Yu-Chen Juang, Chun-Tung Kuo, Ping-Hsueh Lee, Duan-Rung Chen

“…Results Of the 3188 individuals contacted, 2440 declined to participate, and 748 (24.3%) respondents were successfully interviewed. …”
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Determination of Ethanol Content in Fuels with Phononic Crystal Sensor by N. V. Mukhin, A. Oseev, M. M. Kutia, E. S. Borodacheva, P. G. Korolev

“…In-line analysis of ethanol content in gasoline blends is currently one of the urgent needs of fuel industry. …”
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Recent advances in the biosynthesis and production optimization of gentamicin: A critical review by Feng Xu, Kaihao Hu, Ali Mohsin, Jie Wu, Lihuan Su, Yuan Wang, Rong Ben, Hao Gao, Xiwei Tian, Ju Chu

“…Subsequently, the article encapsulates a spectrum of strategies currently deployed to augment gentamicin yields. These strategies include mutation screening, molecular biological techniques, and optimization of the fermentation process. …”
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What ‘unexplored’ means: mapping regions with digitized natural history records to look for ‘biodiversity blindspots’ by Laymon Ball, Sheila Rodríguez-Machado, Diego Paredes-Burneo, Samantha Rutledge, David A. Boyd, David Vander Pluym, Spenser Babb-Biernacki, Austin S. Chipps, Rafet Ç. Öztürk, Yahya Terzi, Prosanta Chakrabarty

“…We also argue for increased scientific infrastructure so that more reference collections with vouchers can be kept in the countries of origin (particularly those countries lacking such infrastructure currently).…”
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How do patients, medical assistants and physicians accept and experience tablet-based cognitive testing by medical assistants in general practice? - A qualitative study by Kristin Rolke, Carolin Rosendahl, Klaus Weckbecker, Alexander Hanke, Michael Wagner, Leon Nissen, Lara Marie Reimer, Stephan Jonas, Philipp Schaper, Jochen René Thyrian, Florian Schweizer, Judith Tillmann

“…Abstract Background Approximately 1.8 million people with dementia live in Germany and the number is expected to increase in the coming years. Between 360,000 and 440,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. …”
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Perceptions of family physicians in Istanbul about e-cigarettes as smoking cessation aids: a qualitative study by Melis Selamoglu, Ayse Emel Onal, Bircan Erbas, Selma Karabey, Meryem Merve Oren, Mahmut Talha Ucar, Chris Barton

“…Abstract Background Family physicians (FPs) are the first point of contact for people who smoke who are seeking to quit smoking in Türkiye. …”
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