Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…The field of disorders of consciousness is pervaded by much uncertainty due to limitations on our current diagnostic tools, treatments, and outcome measures. …”
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Flavor Quality of Scomberomorus niphonius by Shanyu WANG, Chong JIAN, Yong XUE, Ling ZHAO, Huihui SUN, Rong CAO

“…In addition, seafood contains essential nutritional lipids, including phospholipids, triglycerides, and essential fatty acids, which is an important feature distinguishing it from other species. …”
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Intermittent pneumatic compression for venous thromboembolism prevention: a systematic review on factors affecting adherence by Richard Greenall, Rachel E Davis

“…These findings could be used to inform future research and quality improvement efforts to increase adherence in this very important, but currently under-researched area.…”
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Influence of coal macerals on carbonization process and sodium storage behavior by Rundong HE, Hang GUO, Zhongchao SUN, Wencui LI

“…The excellent electrochemical properties attributed to its increased interlayer sodium storage sites and concentration of oxygen-containing functional groups.…”
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Spraying macro and micro fertilizers affects positively fruit yield and quality of ‘Page’ mandarin by Mohsen MOHAMMAEI, Babak VALIZADEHKAJI

“…In the current work, the effects of foliar application of two commercial fertilizers [CalfalB (containing calcium and boron) and Rice (containing macro- and micronutrients)] on leaf minerals, chlorophyll content, yield, and fruit quality, as well as some phytochemical characteristics of mandarins ‘Page’ was investigated for two consecutive years. …”
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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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Patterns of childhood trauma co-occurrence and its predictivity for suicidality: A machine learning approach by Wenbang Niu, Yi Feng, Shicun Xu, Xin Cui, Zhihao Ma, Yuanyuan Wang

“…The relationship between different CT patterns and suicidality remains largely undiscovered. The current study aims to identify distinct CT overlapping patterns and to explore their association with suicidality in a comprehensive multivariable context. …”
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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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Evaluating the impact of mine tailings wastes on the development of sustainable Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced concrete by Osama Zaid, Mohd Ahmed, Ahmed. M. Yosri, Talal. O. Alshammari

“…Mercury intrusion Porosimetry reveals increased total pore volume, especially in larger pore sizes, with the highest intrusion observed in the mix containing 5% MTP and 20% MTS. …”
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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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Small Extracellular Vesicles with a High Sphingomyelin Content Isolated from Hypertensive Diabetic db/db Mice Inhibits Calcium Mobilization and Augments Amiloride-Sensitive Epithel... by Hunter Ramsay, Ling Yu, Faisal F. Alousi, Abdel A. Alli

“…The amiloride-sensitive transepithelial current was increased in mpkCCD cells treated with small uEVs with abundant sphingomyelin content from hypertensive diabetic db/db mice in a dose- and time-dependent manner. …”
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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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A Rotated Object Detection Model With Feature Redundancy Optimization for Coronary Athero-Sclerotic Plaque Detection by Xue Hao, Haza Nuzly Abdull Hamed, Qichen Su, Xin Dai, Linqiang Deng

“…These redundant features interfere with plaque feature extraction, resulting in decreased performance and increased computational complexity. Current methods for addressing redundant features rely mostly on simple feature selection or reduction methods, overlooking the significance of redundant features in model training. …”
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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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Digital platforms and news publishers: uneasy relationship by Petros Iosifidis

“…Whereas many of these activities were conducted through legacy news media, entities such as Google, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram currently dominate in most national contexts. The business models of digital platforms, their global nature and the pace that digital technologies and services evolve challenge existing regulatory frameworks concerning consumer protection, transparency, and power imbalances, especially in ensuring that substantial market power does not reduce competition in media and advertising services markets. …”
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White Rabbit FMC mezzanine as an interface for the new 10G WR-NIC to remote WR DAQ nodes by Bawaj Mateusz, Chiarusi Tommaso, Travaglini Riccardo

“…The White Rabbit protocol (WR), developed at CERN for the distribution of sub-nanosecond timing to thousands of nodes displaced over large geographic areas, is becoming increasingly reliable and is being utilized in various contexts, notably in modern multi-messenger astronomy experiments in progress such as KM3NeT, CTAO and ET. …”
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Innovation and Resignification: Social Entrepreneurship for Reincorporating Women into Peace Communities by Luz Elena Malagón-Castro, José Carlos Vázquez-Parra, Gloria Clemencia Valencia-González, Luis Guillermo Restrepo-Jaramillo

“…Educational strategies that foster Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Complex Thinking are increasingly recognized as essential tools in this process, helping to rebuild social cohesion and empower local leadership. …”
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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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Conceptual approaches to the complex of restoration of the affected territories as a result of military actions in Ukraine by Liudmyla Datsenko, Svitlana Titova, Marharyta Dubnytska

“…Results and conclusions: The land relations during the reconstruction of Ukraine should be based on the following principles and approaches: openness of the public cadastral map of Ukraine; simplification of permit procedures; assessment of land and soil quality, inventory; continuation of the trend of decreasing arable land; conservation of lands, the use of which could harm human life and health as well as the state of the environment; expropriation of land from tenants who are connected to Russia or Belarus; soil conservation in the context of war; introduction of the state system for the control of land resources and the responsibility of land users.…”
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Attributing climate and weather extremes to Northern Hemisphere sea ice and terrestrial snow: progress, challenges and ways forward by Kunhui Ye, Judah Cohen, Hans W. Chen, Shiyue Zhang, Dehai Luo, Mostafa Essam Hamouda

“…Both sea ice and spring snow in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) have been decreasing at an alarming rate in a changing climate. …”
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