International Practice of Storing Human Cell Lines Intended for Clinical Use by O. A. Rachinskaya, A. A. Chaplenko, E. V. Melnikova, I. S. Semenova, Yu. V. Olefir

“…Currently, the Russian Federation does not have a well-established state-controlled market for cell banks (CB) containing cell material that is potentially applicable for clinical purposes. …”
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The Effect of Monetary Rewards on the Performance of Employees in an Organisation: A Case Study of Kabale District Local Government. by Nayebare, Gaston

“…Though, some of the major goals of training employees contain, increase in production, lesser labor turnover rate, higher confidence and better management and training facilitates to decrease cost as it enhances productivity, and promotes objective congruency. …”
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Bicomponent ZnO-Ag janus nanoparticles with high antitumor activity <I>in vitro</I> by O. V. Bakina, V. R. Zhou, M. I. Lerner

“…Using bicomponent ZnO-Ag nanoparticles, one can increase the efficiency due to the occurrence of a synergistic antitumor effect. …”
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The Indirect Risk of Wind Turbines to Seveso Establishments by Karola Imbrechts, Bruno Reiners

“…Currently, climate change and renewable energy are hot topics. …”
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Modern Hypertext Poetry: Aspects of Relations between Author’s Text and In-ternet Resources by E. A. Abrosimova

“…The novelty is seen in the appeal to currently little-studied non-utilitarian hypertext works. …”
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Strategic Elements in Holocene Sediments of the Tinto River Estuary (SW Spain) by Verónica Romero, Francisco Ruiz, María Luz González-Regalado, Joaquín Rodríguez Vidal, Luis Miguel Cáceres, Antonio Toscano, Paula Gómez, Manuel Abad, Tatiana Izquierdo, Gabriel Gómez

“…River mouths act as containers for pollution episodes that have occurred in their drainage basins over time. …”
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HIV-1 Drug Resistance Mutations: Potential Applications for Point-of-Care Genotypic Resistance Testing. by Soo-Yon Rhee, Michael R Jordan, Elliot Raizes, Arlene Chua, Neil Parkin, Rami Kantor, Gert U Van Zyl, Irene Mukui, Mina C Hosseinipour, Lisa M Frenkel, Nicaise Ndembi, Raph L Hamers, Tobias F Rinke de Wit, Carole L Wallis, Ravindra K Gupta, Joseph Fokam, Clement Zeh, Jonathan M Schapiro, Sergio Carmona, David Katzenstein, Michele Tang, Avelin F Aghokeng, Tulio De Oliveira, Annemarie M J Wensing, Joel E Gallant, Mark A Wainberg, Douglas D Richman, Joseph E Fitzgibbon, Marco Schito, Silvia Bertagnolio, Chunfu Yang, Robert W Shafer

“…The increasing prevalence of acquired and transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance is an obstacle to successful antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) hardest hit by the HIV-1 pandemic. …”
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Hair loss: The role of nutritional support in a comprehensive approach to hair loss treatment by Anna I. Krylova, Spartak F. Kaiumov, Maria I. Vasil’eva

“…There are various causes of hair loss, the main one being nutritional deficiencies, micro-, macronutrients and vitamins (zinc, iron, vitamin D, essential amino acids). Currently, there are no generally accepted clinical guidelines for the treatment of telogen effluvium, which makes it difficult to choose a therapeutic algorithm. …”
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Optical Identification of Plasmodium falciparum Malarial Byproduct for Parasite Density Estimation by Jerry Opoku-Ansah, Moses Jojo Eghan, Benjamin Anderson, Johnson Nyarko Boampong, Raymond Edziah, Peter Osei-Wusu Adueming, Charles Lloyd Yeboah Amuah

“…Empirical computation of ratio of the ODs for the blood absorption bands revealed reduction in the ODs with increasing PD. Multispectral images containing uninfected red blood cells (u-RBCs) and P. falciparum‐infected red blood cells (i-RBCs) on unstained blood smear slides exhibited spectrally determined decrease in both reflected and scattered pixel intensities and increase in transmitted pixel intensities with increasing PD. …”
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Advances in CO-SCR Catalysts and Reaction Mechanisms by Dong HAN, Hao LI, Xiaole WENG, Guobo LI, Honggen PENG

“…It also analyzes the reaction mechanisms and approaches for mitigating catalyst poisoning under different reaction conditions, such as oxygen-rich, water-containing, sulfur-containing, and various complex environments. …”
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Microbiological Characteristics of Intestinal Biocenosis of Ambulator Patients Having Behavioral Risk Factors for Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases by I. A. Krylova, V. I. Kupaev, A. V. Ljamin

“…When using a metaprebiotic complex containing inulin and oligofructose, an improvement in the composition of the intestinal microflora was found due to a decrease in the frequency of release of conditionally pathogenic enterobacteria and other gram-negative microorganisms (median degree of contamination: from 0.45 (0.3-0.98) to 0.3(0.21-0.7) at low suboptimal status and from 0.5(0.7-1.7) to 0.31 (0.2-1.3) at high) and increase the frequency of enterococcal excretion (median degree of contamination: from 5,58 (4,16-7,0) tо 6,3 (4,8-7,8) at low suboptimal status and from от 4,5 (2,8-6,3) tо 5,1 (3,8-6,4) at high). …”
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Influence of the Electric Field on the Properties of Hydrogenated Graphene by V. V. Muravyov, V. N. Mishchenka

“…Graphene is currently considered as one of the most promising materials for the creation of new semiconductor devices for various frequency ranges. …”
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Accelerated weathering of PP based nanocomposites: Effect of the presence of maleic anhydryde grafted polypropylene by N. Tz. Dintcheva, M. Morreale, F. P. La Mantia

“…Polymer nanocomposites are currently a topic of great interest. The increasing importance they are gaining also in the standpoint of industrial applications, is giving concerns regarding their environmental stability and, in general, their behaviour in outdoor applications, under direct solar irradiation. …”
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Performance of epoxy-nanocomposite under corrosive environment

“…Nanocomposite materials consisting of polymeric matrix materials and natural or synthetic layered minerals like clay are currently an expanding field of study because these new materials often exhibit a wide range of improved properties over their unmodified starting polymers. …”
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Bulking agents in case of treatment of female stress urinary incontinence by A. Yu. Tsukanov, A. A. Mirzakadiev, A. V. Dunkurs

“…The review discusses the currently available volumeforming substances, methods of use, effectiveness and known complications. …”
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Developing and evaluating a campus-based health management app for nursing students: A pilot study on usability and user experience by Andrew Ke-Ming Lu, Yi-Ling Chung, Yu-Hsia Wang, Sheng-Kai Lin, Jeng-Long Hsieh

“…Introduction The application of technology to healthcare is becoming increasingly common. Apps designed for health monitoring among nursing students are currently under development. …”
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Evaluation of New Derivatives of 2,4-dioxobutanoic Acid Salts in Behavioral Studies of Laboratory Animals by A. I. Krasnova, V. D. Polezhaeva, N. A. Pulina

“…Correction of pathological anxiety is currently an important task of modern pharmacology, since anxiety disorders are among the most common mental illnesses. …”
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An Improved Time-Frequency Identification Method for Pipeline Weld EMAE Aliasing Modes With a Focused Electromagnetic Excitation Device by Houshi Ding, Pan Hu, Tongyu Zhao, Yuchao Jin, Xu Gui

“…The results show that EMAE signals from circumferential cracks contain multiple modes, with the first three wave packets containing the F(1,1), F(1,2), F(1,3), and L(0,1) modes. …”
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A New Source of Inoculum for <i>Stemphylium vesicarium</i>: Consequences for the Management of Brown Spot of Pear by Federico Cavina, Serena Baiocco, Lorenzo Tomba, Fabio Ravaglia, Christian Moretti, Rosario Raso, Valentino Giorgio Rettore, Martina Parrilli, Gianfranco Pradolesi, Riccardo Bugiani

“…Brown spot of pear (BSP), caused by <i>Stemphylium vesicarium</i>, is one of the most dangerous pear fungal diseases, being responsible for huge losses in production. Currently, in order to increase its containment, chemical control is implemented in conjunction with agronomic techniques able to reduce BSP inoculum sources (e.g., orchard grass sanitation, litter removal or application of biocontrol agents). …”
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Multi-contrast machine learning improves schistosomiasis diagnostic performance. by María Díaz de León Derby, Charles B Delahunt, Ethan Spencer, Jean T Coulibaly, Kigbafori D Silué, Isaac I Bogoch, Anne-Laure Le Ny, Daniel A Fletcher

“…Schistosomiasis currently affects over 250 million people and remains a public health burden despite ongoing global control efforts. …”
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