Progress in visible-light-activated photocatalytic coatings to combat implant-related infections: From mechanistic to translational roadmap by Bruna E. Nagay, Samuel S. Malheiros, Maria H.R. Borges, Conrado Aparicio, Jeroen J.J.P. van den Beucken, Valentim A.R. Barão

“…Biomedical and dental implants have enhanced healthcare but concurrently increased the risk of infections. Innovations in smart biomaterials, especially those responding to light stimuli through photocatalytic mechanisms, are emerging as promising solutions for activating targeted antimicrobial responses. …”
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Stochastic simulation to optimize rice breeding at IRRI by Fallou Seck, Fallou Seck, Parthiban Thathapalli Prakash, Giovanny Covarrubias-Pazaran, Tala Gueye, Ibrahima Diédhiou, Sankalp Bhosale, Suresh Kadaru, Jérôme Bartholomé, Jérôme Bartholomé, Jérôme Bartholomé

“…Specifically, it resulted in a 22%, 24%, and 27% increase over the current scheme in the zero, intermediate, and high genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) contexts, respectively. …”
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Interleukin-35 impairs human NK cell effector functions and induces their ILC1-like conversion with tissue residency features by Valentin Picant, Lara Revol-Bauz, Laurie Tonon, Timothée Casini, Aurélien Voissière, Dominique Poujol, Emilie Picard, Céline Rodriguez, Cyril Degletagne, Emily Sible, Uzma Hasan, Anthony Ferrari, Christophe Caux, Nathalie Bendriss-Vermare

“…Abstract Natural Killer (NK) cells play pivotal immunological roles including direct cytotoxic effector function and secretion of inflammatory and immunomodulating cytokines. In the context of chronic inflammation, NK cell fitness decreases during disease progression through currently unknown mechanisms. …”
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The convergence of climate, recreation and health: La Niña, crab catching and necrotising fasciitis, a case series by Daniel Bermingham, Bruno De Vidal Chaves, Anamika Ganju, Arifuzzaman Khan, Angela Ratsch

“… Context: Necrotising fasciitis is a rapidly progressing, life-threatening soft tissue infection that carries a high morbidity and mortality, especially in susceptible populations. …”
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The impact of acid activation on manganese ion extraction from natural water and industrial wastewater by L. A. Pimneva, A. A. Zagorskaya, E. V. Zherebchuk

“…Increased manganese concentration is characteristic not only of fresh water, but also of wastewater. …”
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Federated Deep Learning for Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Detection in Internet of Things Networks by Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi, Abdulwahab Ali Almazroi, Nasir Ayub, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Eesa Alsolami, Faisal S. Alsubaei, Riad Alharbey

“…Industry-wide IoT networks have altered operations and increased vulnerabilities, notably DDoS attacks. IoT systems are decentralised. …”
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Citizens’ Perceptions of Public Administration Ethics, Public Service Quality and Politicization of Public Organizations: A Study in Diyarbakır by Müslüm Kayacı

“…Field studies in different contexts can provide evidence for new public management scholars to expand theory and for governments to improve current policies and operations in the bureaucracy. …”
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Primary methods of internationalisation of higher legal education by A. I. Gorylev, E. V. Kalinina

“…To date, an understanding has been reached of the need to internationalise higher education in the context of globalization to increase the competitiveness of the Russian higher education system, as evidenced by the Federal project to maximise the competitive position of Russian universities among the world’s leading scientific and educational centres (The Russian Academic Excellence Project 5-100). …”
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Memory-Based Navigation in Elephants: Implications for Survival Strategies and Conservation by Margot Morel, Robert Guldemond, Melissa A. de la Garza, Jaco Bakker

“…This review synthesises current literature on elephant navigation and decision-making, exploring how their behavioural strategies contribute to resilience amid increasing anthropogenic pressures. …”
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Assessment of The Potential Interference and Conflict of Artificial Intelligence With Human Rights and Citizenship: Challenges and Solutions by Hossein Khazaei, Mojtaba Hemmati

“…However, it should not be forgotten that no matter how advanced AI becomes, it must adhere to certain limitations in its personhood status, similar to legal entities. In the context of the legal status of artificial intelligence in Iran, there are currently no definitive regulations. …”
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Value added medicines: what value repurposed medicines might bring to society? by Mondher Toumi, Cécile Rémuzat

“…Discussion & conclusions: There is currently a gap between increasing regulatory authority interest in capturing value added medicines’ benefits and the resistance of HTA bodies/payers, who tend to ignore this important segment of the pharmaceutical field. …”
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BEHAVIORAL AND COGNITIVE FACTORS IN THE FORMATION OF THE HEURISTIC MODEL OF THE EFFECTIVE INTERPRETER IN INVESTING IN HIGH-TECH COMPANIES by S. V. Ilkevich

“…As the heuristic model of the effective interpreter can be perceived as generally increasing the risks in the system for all stakeholders at the current stage of the evolution of the investment system, the author focuses on the most negative manifestations of cognitive and behavioural factors in his description in the publication. …”
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Enhancing Smart Cities with IoT and Cloud Computing: A Study on Integrating Wireless Ad Hoc Networks for Efficient Communication by Haider Mohammed Abdulhadi, Yousra Abdul Alsahib S. Aldeen, Maryam A. Yousif, Mays jalal jaseem, Syed Hamid Hussain Madni

“…IoT data is first collected in the context of smart cities. The data that is gathered is uniform. …”
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Lipidomic markers of obesity and their dynamics after bariatric surgery by T. V. Saprina, A. S. Bashirova, V. V. Ivanov, S. I. Pekov, I. A. Popov, S. R. Bashirov, E. A. Vasilyeva, O. A. Pavlenko, D. V. Krinitskii, M. Chen

“…Currently available studies and their results suggest that we are only at the very start of studying this promising biomedical field.…”
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Physicians’ experiences of assessing and supporting fatigued patients in primary care: a focus group study by Conrad Samuelsson, Lisa Gunnarsson, Frank Svärdman, Christian Rück, Elin Lindsäter

“…Abstract Background Fatigue is a common symptom in primary healthcare, affecting 10–30% of patients, and is associated with increased healthcare consumption and functional disability. …”
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Modeling Customer Purchase Behavior in the Insurance Industry Using System Dynamics by Shabnam Jalalat, Kambiz Shahroodi, Mehdi Fadaei, Mahdi Homayounfar

“…The first scenario showed that of continuing the current conditions would lead to an increase in the gap between life insurance expenses and revenue. …”
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Regulation and governance for the implementation and management of point-of-care testing in Australia: a scoping review by Jacqueline Prestedge, Claire Kaufman, Deborah A. Williamson

“…Of the grey literature sources, fifteen current PoCT governance documents comprising of six standards, five guidelines and four frameworks at the international, national and jurisdictional level were included with an increasing number of grey literature sources since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. …”
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Study on the Leakage Diagnosis of a Chilled Water Pipeline Network System Based on Pressure Variation Rate Analysis for Climate Change Mitigation by Xuan Zhou, Fei Liu, Lisheng Luo, Shiman Peng, Junlong Xie

“…In the context of increasing climate variability and extreme weather, chilled water systems face mounting challenges due to amplified heating and cooling demands and prevalent pipe leakages. …”
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The Impact of brain-gut microbiota composition on depression by Aleksander Ptasiński, Marta Targońska, Oskar Targoński, Adrianna Madej, Adrian Suława, Julia Furgalska, Sebastian Fedorowicz, Aneta Basiak, Rafał Niekurzak, Agnieszka Buczek

“…It is important to note the significant individual variability in the context of changes in the depressive microbiome and the response to various modification methods. …”
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The specificity and flexibility of l1 reverse transcription priming at imperfect T-tracts. by Clément Monot, Monika Kuciak, Sébastien Viollet, Ashfaq Ali Mir, Caroline Gabus, Jean-Luc Darlix, Gaël Cristofari

“…Third, efficient priming in the context of duplex DNA requires a 3' overhang. This suggests the possible existence of additional DNA processing steps, which generate a single-stranded 3' end to allow L1 reverse transcription. …”
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