Saccharomyces boulardii supplementation does not affect anaerobic power gain induced by short-term sprint interval training in physically active individuals by A.S.R. Hudson, A.M.T. Lisboa, P.V.R. Andrade, R.S. Bruzzi, Y.A.T. Martins, D.D. Soares, F.S. Martins, S.P. Wanner

“…During the training period, participants ingested a capsule containing PLA or at least 1×109 Sb cells daily for 14 days. …”
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Relationship of Individual Athlete External Load, Session Rating of Perceived Exertion, and Athlete Playing Status Across a Collegiate Women’s Basketball Season by Faith S. A. Brown, Jennifer B. Fields, Andrew R. Jagim, Erica L. King, Robert E. Baker, Angela Miller, Margaret T. Jones

“…Across all athletes, IL increased across the season (40.11 AU) and for each 1 unit of change in EL, IL increased by 1.04 AU. …”
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Corrosion Resistance, Friction and Wear Properties of Cemented Carbide Coatings under Variable Temperature by ZHANG Shuai, MA Yu - shan, DAI Wan - xiang, HE Tao, CHANG Zhan - dong, LIU Hai - bo, JIA Hua, JI Hua

“…Result showed that when temperature changed from 25 ℃ to 60 ℃, the corrosion current density in 0.5 mol/L H2SO4 solution increased 2.7 times for WC - 10Co4Cr coating and 23.9 times for NiCr - Cr3C2 coatings, respectively. …”
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GC-Faster RCNN: The Object Detection Algorithm for Agricultural Pests Based on Improved Hybrid Attention Mechanism by Bolun Guan, Yaqian Wu, Jingbo Zhu, Juanjuan Kong, Wei Dong

“…Experiments have shown that compared with the original Faster RCNN model, GC-Faster RCNN has improved the average accuracy mAP0.5 on the Insect25 dataset by 4.5 percentage points, and mAP0.75 by 20.4 percentage points, mAP0.5:0.95 increased by 20.8 percentage points, and the recall rate increased by 16.6 percentage points. …”
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Cocoa bean shell waste as potential raw material for dietary fiber powder by Lienda Handojo

“…Purpose The shell of cocoa beans is one of the cocoa industry byproducts that currently still become waste. Through this research, utilization of cocoa bean shell for producing alkalized fiber powder was observed. …”
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Conference “Africa in the Context of the Formation of a Polycentric World” by VOLKOV Sergey Nikolaevich, DEYCH Tatyana Lazarevna

“…A wide range of issues was discussed, including various aspects of the African countries’ foreign policy, issues of African integration, Africa’s role and place in new geopolitical conditions, the policy of the leading economically developed and developing countries and Russia’s current policy on the African continent. The discussion on the first block of themes “Africa: global problems and current trends in the world economy” was opened with RUDN Prof. …”
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Registry-based surveillance of paediatric home respiratory support in Switzerland: methodology and initial findings by Sophie Guerin, Christian Bieli, Regula Corbelli, Thomas Ferry, Miriam Giaranna, Matthias Horn, Silvia Miano, Nicolas Regamey, Daniel Trachsel, Sylvain Blanchon

“…This first publication aims to present the SwissPedHRS methodology and describe the current paediatric population with home respiratory support in Switzerland and its evolution from 2001 to 2023. …”
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Changes in tree-ring wood density of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), silver fir (Abies alba Mill.), and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.) in European mountain forests... by Chiara Torresan, Torben Hilmers, Admir Avdagić, Edmondo Di Giuseppe, Matija Klopčič, Mathieu Lévesque, Florian Motte, Enno Uhl, Tzvetan Zlatanov, Hans Pretzsch

“…Abstract Key message We found a significant increase in the latewood density of European beech, and a decrease in the latewood and mean wood density of silver fir and Norway spruce in European mountain forests over the period 1901–2016. …”
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Influence of Silicon NanoSheet (SiNS) on the toughness of Biphasic Calcium Phosphate (BCP) composites by Anwer AL-Obaidi, Hussein K. Dalfi, Nazar Abdulridha, Amer Alomarah

“…This increase gave sufficient motivation to adopt this composition and addition in biomedical applications.…”
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RETRACTED: Biodiversity Loss with Habitat and Risk of New Diseases by Darshit Ram

“…The degradation of nature is among the most serious issues that the world faces, but current targets and consequent actions amount, at best, to a managed decline. …”
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Effect of Tapuy (Philippine Rice Wine) Lees on the Gut Microbiota Profile and Lifespan under Normal and Stress Conditions in Drosophila melanogaster by Ma Carmela P. Dela Cruz, Paul Mark B. Medina

“…These lees have been reported to contain high concentrations of proteins and dietary fibers. …”
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Humidity effect on epiphytic microflora development and seed germination of spring bread wheat by O. F. Khamova, P. V. Popolzukhin, O. S. Dmitrenko

“…There was found out that the seed germination on 88% depended on the moisture content during storage and a number of fungi on their surface. On increasing the initial moisture content of seeds to 17%, the number of microorganisms on them increased significantly, and germination decreased after three years of storage in plastic containers to 0–1.9% in 28 months (2.3 years). …”
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Identification of novel antiviral host factors by functional gene expression analysis using in vitro HBV infection assay systems. by Takuto Nosaka, Tatsushi Naito, Yu Akazawa, Kazuto Takahashi, Hidetaka Matsuda, Masahiro Ohtani, Tsutomu Nishizawa, Hiroaki Okamoto, Yasunari Nakamoto

“…Knockdown of STAT1 increased viral products in HBV-transfected HepG2 cells, but decreased in HBV-infected PXB cells. …”
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Petal stomata of Hemerocallis citrina Baroni are sensitive to abscisic acid by Lei Gong, Lei Gong, Ye Hua, Ye Hua, Yun-Yun Su, Yun-Yun Su, Bo Zhang, Bo Zhang, Li-Ting Yao, Li-Ting Yao, Basmah M. Alharbi, Basmah M. Alharbi, Md. Mahadi Hasan

“…The study showed that stomata are primarily located in the lower epidermis of the petals, arranged in a strip near the central vein, and exhibit relatively low density; the guard cells contain a large number of chloroplasts. Exogenous ABA induced stomatal closure in the petal stomata, and the gas exchange assay indicated that stomatal conductance decreased when exogenous ABA was introduced into the transpiration stream. …”
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New application of smart packaging by using sumac extract for detecting lactic cheese aging by Shaghayegh Roozbahani, Mahnoosh Parsaeimehr, Ashkan Jebelli Javan, Mohammad Ali Hesarinejad

“…The use of smart packaging allows the consumer to know the storage conditions of the package in the past and the current quality of the food inside the package. Changes in food quality can be detected by detecting changes in their pH. …”
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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

“…Large language models like ChatGPT are currently a hot topic in mathematics education research. …”
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Ethnozootechnical Perspectives on the Decline of Traditional Knowledge About Local Goat and Sheep Breeds in the Semi-Arid Region of Paraíba, Brazil by Raissa C. Silva, Marilene N. Melo, Carlos F. T. de Oliveira, José V. Cardoso, Luis A. C. Cevallos, Laura L. da Rocha, Janaina K. G. Arandas, Maria N. Ribeiro

“…Two workshops were held to assess the diversity of breeds in the past landscape (PP) and current landscape (PA), using the Recall technique. …”
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Noninvasive Self-Powered Iontophoresis Mask Based on a Water-Driven Fiber Battery by Yiwen Wang, Yalin Tang, Ming Li, Tong Xu, Xuyan Lu, Deteng Zhang, Ning Yu, Mingwei Tian

“…However, most microcurrent stimulation masks contain a direct current power supply and require external power sources, resulting in inconvenient portability and use. …”
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Costs of switching to low global warming potential inhalers. An economic and carbon footprint analysis of NHS prescription data in England by Alexander J K Wilkinson, James Smith, Rory Braggins, Ingeborg Steinbach

“…We also reviewed available data on the carbon footprint of inhalers from scientific publications, independently certified reports and patents to provide more accurate carbon footprint information on different types of inhalers.Results If MDIs using HFA propellant are replaced with the cheapest equivalent DPI, then for every 10% of MDIs changed to DPIs, drug costs decrease by £8.2M annually. However if the brands of DPIs stay the same as 2017 prescribing patterns, for every 10% of MDIs changed to DPIs, drug costs increase by £12.7M annually. …”
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A Case-Based Reasoning Approach for Automatic Adaptation of Classifiers in Mobile Phishing Detection by San Kyaw Zaw, Sangsuree Vasupongayya

“…Currently, the smartphone contains lots of sensitive information. …”
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