ESG performance and dividend stability of the world’s largest enterprises by Agnieszka Matuszewska-Pierzynka, Urszula Mrzygłód, Aleksandra Pieloch-Babiarz

“…The financial ratios, such as a return on assets, current ratio, and debt-to-equity ratio, are considered control variables in the model specifications. …”
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¿Consolidación o retroceso? Explorando las actitudes sociales hacia la diversidad sexual en España (1980-2022) by José María Ramírez-Dueñas, Guillermo Cordero

“…However, the new sociopolitical context in Spain—characterized by the increasing politicization of LGTBIQ+ rights and the legitimization of the radical right-wing party VOX—may have triggered resistance among certain groups, and even reversals of previously observed trends. …”
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Les routes forestières au Québec : Les impacts environnementaux, sociaux et économiques by Laurence Bourgeois, Daniel Kneeshaw, Gaétane Boisseau

“…In Quebec, the kilometers of forest roads built per year are consistently increasing despite the fact that they have important ecological and socio-economic impacts. …”
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Aircraft overrun warning systems capabilities and disadvantages by S. F. Borodkin, A. I. Volynchuk, M. A. Kiselev, Yu. V. Petrov

“…Currently, attention of the aviation community and authorities is being increasingly focused on flight safety in the landing phase. …”
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Effect of Educational Program on Nurses' Performance Regarding Prevention and Management of Intravenous Extravasation Chemotherapy by Nehal M. Abo El-Fadl

“… Context: Systemic chemotherapy plays a pivotal role in curative therapy for patients with hematological neoplasms and several types of advanced solid tumors. …”
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The Effect of Utilitarian and Social Motives on the Perception of the Quality of the Mobile Phone Application Brand through the Value and Type of Use by Tourists (Snap Food Case St... by Yazdan Shirmohammadi, Neda Sotoudeh

“…On the other hand, organizations and companies are increasingly using dedicated mobile phone applications to introduce their products so that they can maintain their communication with consumers and customers as much as possible. …”
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The link between impact-induced tensile strain and dendritic spine morphology in porcine brain tissue. by Brendan Hoffe, Gia Kang, Hannah Thomson, Rohan Banton, Thuvan Piehler, Oren E Petel, Matthew R Holahan

“…These neural components are contained within a very viscous environment that upon impact, can result in a variety of tensile, compressive and rotational forces. …”
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Synthesis, Thermal Adsorption, and Energy Storage Calibration of Polysulfone Nanocomposite Developed with GNP/CNT Nanofillers by L. Prabhu, R. Saravanan, A. Anderson, A. Senthilkumar, V. N. Aneesh, Avinash Malladi, A. Mohana Krishnan, Manaye Majora

“…Interestingly, the increased temperature of the glass transition decreased the thermal expansion of the nanocomposite.…”
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Evidence of slow millennial cliff retreat rates using cosmogenic nuclides in coastal colluvium by R. Bossis, R. Bossis, V. Regard, S. Carretier, S. Choy

“…<p>The erosion of rocky coasts contributes to global cycles of elements over geological times and also constitutes a major hazard that may potentially increase in the future. Yet, it remains a challenge to quantify rocky coast retreat rates over millennia – a time span that encompasses the stochasticity of the processes involved. …”
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The GWAS-MAP platform for aggregation of results of genome-wide association studies and the GWAS-MAP|homo database of 70 billion genetic associations of human traits by T. I. Shashkova, D. D. Gorev, E. D. Pakhomov, A. S. Shadrina, S. Zh. Sharapov, Y. A. Tsepilov, L. C. Karssen, Y. S. Aulchenko

“…To address these issues, we developed GWAS-MAP, a high-throughput platform for aggregating, storing, analyzing, visualizing and providing access to a database of big data that result from region- and genome-wide association studies. The database currently contains information on more than 70 billion associations between genetic variants and human diseases, quantitative traits, and “omics” traits. …”
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Quality evaluation of snack bars prepared using different proportions of Khudri dates and fried green lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) by Rehab F. M. Ali

“…The current study aimed to determine the impact of adding fried green lentil powder (FGLP) into date paste on the nutritive and sensory aspects of date bars. …”
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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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Lifelong Learning and Employability in the Danube Region Countries: Influences and Correlations by Constanţa-Nicoleta Bodea, Maria-Iuliana Dascălu, Gordana Velikic, Stelian Stancu

“…The conclusions of the current study are particularly important in the Romanian context, as the employment rate of recent graduates is in a decreasing trend, but also for all the Danube Region ex-communist countries, which have to boost their employment rates as well, to assure their economical growth. …”
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Distribution of urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin and post-translationally modified fetuin-A in outpatients with acute kidney disease detected using a nationwide a... by Ya-Chi Lin, I-Wen Ting, David Ray Chang, Ya-Luan Hsiao, Yu-Ting Lin, Mei-Chuan Hsieh, Shu-Woei Ju, Jie-Sian Wang, Chang-Cheng Jiang, Hsuan-Jen Lin, Cheng-Ting Lu, Che-Chen Lin, Tzu-Ling Tseng, Hung-Chieh Yeh, Hsiu-Yin Chiang, Chin-Chi Kuo

“…Background: Developing criteria for acute kidney disease (AKD) in the outpatient setting (AKDOPT) remains challenging due to the fragmented interoperability of current health information systems. We introduced an acute kidney injury detection system (AKIDS) for AKDOPT within Taiwan's Cloud-based Health Information Exchange Platform to automate serum creatinine (S-Cre) monitoring. …”
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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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Battery Cathode with Vertically Aligned Microstructure Fabricated by Directional Ice Templating by Guanting Li, Jin Su, Chun Huang

“…The DIT cathode breaks the trade‐off between high energy densities and fast discharging, exhibiting higher areal capacities (12 mAh cm−2) than the SC electrode (7.0 mAh cm−2) at a discharge current density of 1.4 mA cm−2, and maintains higher capacities at 9.8 mAh cm−2 and 186 mAh g−1 than 2.1 mAh cm−2 and 64 mAh g−1 for SC when the current is increased to 5.7 mA cm−2.…”
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Optimized bio-signal reconstruction and watermarking via enhanced fractional orthogonal moments by Gaber Hassan, Khalid M. Hosny, Islam S. Fathi

“…The findings indicate that the proposed methodology exhibits significantly higher performance levels than current methodologies, with a 64.3% improvement in PSNR (reaching 147.08 dB compared to 89.74 dB in existing approaches), 89.7% reduction in MSE (0.0092 versus 0.09 average), and 84.1% decrease in bit error rate (0.25 versus 1.57) for watermarking applications. …”
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University students’ physical features- reasons, consequences, solutions by Cristiana Lucretia Pop, Viorela Popescu, Rela Ciomag, Cristina Filip, Cristina Nae

“…This study adds evidence to the limited literature investigating university students' attitudes, opinions, and contexts that contribute to a decrease in their physical potential. …”
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Artesunate-loaded Fe3O4 nanoparticles: A novel approach for combating 4T1 breast cancer cells in vitro and in vivo by Amirreza Safdarian, Massoumeh Ebtekar, zouhair Mohammad Hassan, Hossein Naderi Manesh, Hashemi Seyed Ali, Saeed Samaeinasab, Danial Habibi, Hossein Khorramdelazad

“…Results: The nanoparticle made in this article had good anticancer effects and caused apoptosis in cancer cells in breast cancer, and also strengthened the cellular immune system and further increased interferon gamma and increased the half-life of mice with cancer, while this nanoparticle It did not have the side effects of chemotherapy drugs.Conclusion: Artesunate-containing nanoparticles decreased 4T1 cell viability and increased apoptosis to a greater extent than nanoparticles without the drug. …”
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