An Overview of Heavy Metal Contamination of Water and Its Effect on Human Health by Danjuma, M.S., Abdulkadir, B.

“…Industrial activities that includes; tannery, textile and other industries use chemicals must of which contains certain amount of heavy metals, discharges their untreated effluents into the nearest water bodies and lead to modification and increase in the background concentration of the metals (including those naturally in the water body). …”
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Electrical Model Analysis for Bifacial PV Modules Using Real Performance Data in Laboratory by Valentina González Becerra, Patricio Valdivia-Lefort, Rodrigo Barraza, Jesús García García

“…The evaluation of various models revealed that shadowing from frames and junction boxes contributes to an increase in the error of modeled IV curves. However, among the three evaluated bifacial electrical models, one exhibited superior performance, with current errors approaching approximately <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>20</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. …”
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Beliefs and perception about mental health issues: a meta-synthesis by Choudhry FR, Mani V, Ming LC, Khan TM

“…The implications of the studies and recommendations based on current findings are also discussed. Keywords: mental health perception, mental health beliefs, mental health attitudes, meta-synthesis, mental disorders…”
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MULTIETHNOLECT, ETHNOLECT, PIDGIN AND CONTACT LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF USING UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE AMONG FOREIGN STUDENTS IN LVIV by Nazar R. Danchyshyn

“…The analyzed phenomena contains a large amount of foreign vocabulary, which is not in the literary version of the language. …”
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The social-economic burden of spinal muscular atrophy in Russia by A. S. Kolbin, D. V. Vlodavets, A. A. Kurylev, Yu. Ye. Balykina, M. A. Proskurin, S. A. Mishinova, O. Yu. Germanenko, N. Yu. Kolbina

“…The two following calculation scenarios were evaluated: 1) none of the patients with SMA receive pathogenic therapy 2) the share of pathogenic therapy is stable during the time horizon at the current level.Results. National SMA register contains the information about 998 patients; 21% of them have SMA I type. …”
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PATHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR EVALUATION OF CANINE PARVOVIRUS IN SOUTH OF IRAQ by Mansoor Al-Khaled, ِِAsmaa Al-Jawasim, Marid Auda, Jihad Ahmed

“…The microscopical resultof enteric CPV lesion showed sever infiltration of inflammatory cells in themucosal layer of intestine ,hypertrophy of goblet cells in the villi andnecrotizing area in the tip of villi as well to hyperplasia of goblet cells alsoedematous fluid in mucosal layer. cardiac CPV lesion showed infiltration ofinflammatory cells in myocardial cell fibers ,also there was an area ofvacculation of some myocardial cells in addition to edematous fluid in themyocardial interstitiaum .significant increases of biochemical cardiacmarkers(cTi-1,AST,LDH and CPK) showed cardiac troponin I (cTnI), aspartatetransaminase AST, creatinine phosphatkinase (CPK), and lactate dehydrogenaseLDH which showed (0.024 &plusmn; 0.003),( 50.5&plusmn;4.49),( 327.9 &plusmn; 55.01) and (467.9 &plusmn;49.1) respectively when it is compared to healthy group which showed cardiactroponin I (cTnI), aspartate transaminase AST, creatinine phosphatkinase(CPK), and lactate dehydrogenase LDH were (0.004&plusmn; 0.0003),( 24.2&plusmn;1.74),(90&plusmn; 13.58) and (289 &plusmn;15.5), the Parvovirus contains 400 bp of matrimonialbases after being diagnosed using the polymerase chain reaction PCR and thistechnical method widely applied to provide rapid diagnosis The current studyconducts that the CPV-2 is endemic in south of Iraq ,the disease shows veryimportant clinical ,pathological and biochemical feature that lead to increasemorbidity and mortality rate.…”
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CochleaSpecNet: An Attention-Based Dual Branch Hybrid CNN-GRU Network for Speech Emotion Recognition Using Cochleagram and Spectrogram by Atkia Anika Namey, Khadija Akter, Md. Azad Hossain, M. Ali Akber Dewan

“…Furthermore, to improve the performance of this network, a multi-head attention mechanism has been incorporated following the GRU layer. Despite increasing interest in SER, there is a notable lack of studies using Bangla language datasets, revealing a significant gap in current research. …”
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Trends in the choice of a balanced nutrition by consumers of the hospitality industry by H.М. Tarasiuk, A.О. Chahaida

“…Therefore, it is important for catering establishments to take this into account when forming rations and menus both at the current stage of society's development and in the future. …”
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THE CENOZOIC CRUSTAL STRESS STATE OF MONGOLIA ACCORDING TO GEOLOGICAL AND STRUCTURAL DATA (REVIEW) by V. A. Sankov, A. V. Parfeevets

“…At the Late Cenozoic and current stages, the maximum horizontal compression axis (SHmax) has varying orientations, from submeridional (Western Mongolia) to NE and ENE (Eastern Mongolia). …”
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Electromagnetic Compatibility of Compensating Devices and Converters of an Adjustable Electric Drive in Electrical Networks of Industrial Enterprises by V. P. Schasny, A. I. Zhukouski

“…Due to the nonlinearity of the current-voltage characteristics, the above devices consume a non-sinusoidal current from the network, which causes harmonic distortion of the supply voltage, including the fundamental harmonic component and higher harmonic components that are multiples of the fundamental frequency. …”
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Cutaneous Adverse Effects From Diabetes Devices in Pediatric Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Systematic Review by Alicia Podwojniak, Joseph Flemming, Isabella J Tan, Hira Ghani, Zachary Neubauer, Anne Jones

“…ConclusionsThe dermatologic complications of CGM and CSII pose a potential risk to long-term glycemic control in T1D, especially in young patients where skin lesions can lead to discontinuation. Increased manufacturer transparency is critical and further studies are needed to expand upon the current preventative measures such as device site rotation and steroid creams, which lack consistent effectiveness.…”
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EVALUTION OF MICROBIAL ACTIVITY IN ORGANIC SOLID FRACTION DURING COMPOSTING PROCESS TO BIOFERTILIZER USING COMPOSTING BIN METHODS by Aseel N. A., F. M. Hassan, N. H. Hyder

“… The current study aim to evaluating the composting in bins for organic fraction municipal solid waste and tracking the changes in physio-chemical and microbial characteristics such as Temperature, pH, C/N ratio and total viable count, total streptomyces, total coliform and pathogenic microorganisms as total Salmonella Shigella count. …”
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Self-healing of concrete incorporating seashells as partial cement replacement by Abbas Ali, Abdalla Khalid, Sigdel Anish

“…The current experimental study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a bacteria-based self-healing admixture in low-carbon concrete to minimise maintenance demands on concrete structures. …”
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BUDGETARY POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN CONDITIONS OF ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY by O. A. Polyakova, R. A. Alandarov

“…Current rules of budgetary and tax legislation contain some shortcomings which are especially conspicuous in the period of stagnation. …”
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The epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in the United States during 2008–2023: an analysis of active, laboratory, population-based, multistate surveillance dataResearch in context... by Namrata Prasad, Miwako Kobayashi, Jennifer P. Collins, Amy B. Rubis, Gordana Derado, Miranda J. Delahoy, Daniel C. Payne, Lesley McGee, Sopio Chochua, Henju Marjuki, Lucy A. McNamara, LeAnne M. Fox, Arthur Reingold, Megan Barnes, Susan Petit, Monica M. Farley, Lee H. Harrison, Ruth Lynfield, Jessica Houston, Bridget J. Anderson, Ann Thomas, Keipp H. Talbot, William Schaffner, Adam L. Cohen, Stephanie J. Schrag, Melissa Arvay

“…Between 2008–2009 and 2010–2019, overall bacterial meningitis incidence declined from 1.3 to 1.1, driven by decreases in S. pneumoniae meningitis caused by serotypes contained in the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) and N. meningitidis meningitis. …”
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Sub-monolayers of iridium electrodeposited on Ti2AlC substrate as catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction in sulfuric acid solution by Vladimir D. Jović, Pajić Mila N. Krstajić

“…Polarization curves for iridium sub-monolayers equal, or higher than 6 ML showed low Tafel slope of -14 to -16 mV dec-1 up to about -0.1 A cm-2, while at higher current densities the Tafel slopes increased, varying between -40 and -72 mV dec-1. …”
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Modelling growth and form of the scleractinian coral Pocillopora verrucosa and the influence of hydrodynamics. by Nol Chindapol, Jaap A Kaandorp, Carolina Cronemberger, Tali Mass, Amatzia Genin

“…As a result, we found a similar trend associated with the increasing Péclet for both simulated forms and in situ corals; that is uni-directional current tends to facilitate asymmetrical growth response resulting in colonies with branches predominantly developed in the upstream direction. …”
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Electrospun PAN@Ferrites Nanofibers for Rectifier and Humidity Devices by Ban Abbas Rijah, Iftikhar M. Ali

“…For PAN NFs, there is no effect when relative humidity percentage increases and decreases, but with adding ferrite materials PAN@ZnFe2O4 and PAN@ZnCoFe2O4 where, there is a significant change in resistance when humidity increases and decreases. …”
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Study of chemical properties of hybrid nanofluid flow between two permeable disks with suspension of carbon nanotubes using Yamada Ota and Xue models by A. Naeem, Z. Abbas, M.Y. Rafiq

“…Temperature increases with a rise in the heat source parameter, while it decreases due to thermal radiation effects. …”
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Study on the microstructure and corrosion behavior of newly designed (Si, Ti) micro-alloyed hot-dipped Zn–6Al–3Mg alloy coating by Haotian Chen, Yuanyuan Liang, Renbo Song, Xinwei Wang

“…(Al,Si)3Ti, acting as a cathode in the corrosion process, leads to a decrease in the rate of corrosion by decreasing the current density at the anode. …”
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