Streptomyces rimosus-rich soil exposure alleviates depression-like behaviors by modulating neuroinflammation and synaptic plasticity in mice with stress by Jin Hee Kim, Jin Se Kim, Hyeyoon Eo, Sowon Yang, Choong Hwan Lee, Sin-Ae Park, Myung Sook Oh

“…Among the soil microbes, Streptomyces rimosus is known to produce geosmin, which have a unique odor and positive effects on mental status. In this context, this study aimed to investigate the effects of direct exposure to soil containing S. rimosus on depression-like behavior and depression-related factors in the mouse. …”
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Hamlet (Un-)Masked: SPAC’s Hamlet under COVID-19 Restrictions by Tomoka Tsukamoto, Ted Motohashi

“…More specifically, in the current context of the declining Western hegemony, symbolized by regional military conflicts and environmental degradation, among other crises, the urgency to freshly produce and interpret this play seems to be increasing. …”
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Adapting to crisis and unveiling the digital shift: a systematic literature review of digital competence in education related to COVID-19 by Yu Zhao, María Cruz Sánchez-Gómez, Ana María Pinto-Llorente, Raúl Sánchez Prieto

“…The results indicate that most research on digital competence in educational contexts related to COVID-19 focused on the current state of the digital competence of teachers and students, especially those in higher education and formal learning context. …”
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Gender issues in French geography by Dominique Creton

“…This situation calls for an inquiry into the increased visibility of current research. How have developments been influenced by factors such as scientific, sociological, national and international contexts, and by the changing demographic make up of French geographers (by sex, generation, and status) ? …”
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Constitution of police sciences in the Slovak Republic by M. Lisoň, A. Vaško

“…Therefore, the authors of this paper accept that the theoretical and methodological development of police sciences requires them to be confronted and independently dealt with the current state in the theory and methodology of science in the early 21st century, to be sensitive to the current development of the overall scientific atmosphere and independently and critically. …”
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Cross-country analysis of sustainable innovation and female entrepreneurship and their influence on the presence of women in managerial positions by Inna Alexeeva-Alexeev, Pilar Guaita-Fernandez, Cristina Mazas-Perez-Oleaga

“…Despite the global increase of women in business, there is still a very small proportion of female business leaders, although the distribution varies greatly by region and sector. …”
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Measurement Stand, Method and Results of Composite Electrotechnical Pressboard-Mineral Oil Electrical Measurements by P. Rogalski

“…This allowed to reduce the step of measurement temperature change and thus to increase the accuracy of determining the activation energy of the measured parameters.The article also contains basic information on the analysis of the direct and alternating current electrical parameters of the composite electrotechnical pressboard-mineral oil-water nanoparticles. …”
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Clear Aligner Treatment: Indications, Advantages, and Adverse Effects—A Systematic Review by Clara Rasborg Hartogsohn, Liselotte Sonnesen

“…The aim of the present study was to systematically review the literature regarding current viewpoints on indications, contraindications, advantages, disadvantages, and adverse effects in CAT. …”
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The Catalog of Aquatic Mollusca (Bivalvia and Gastropoda) in the Limnology Museum of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (COMULM) by Songül Biçer, Deniz Anıl Odabaşı, Buğra Öztürk

“…Objective: Natural History Museums are important organizations that increase the awareness of the public on biodiversity, nature, and its conservation. …”
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A sustainable approach in pumpkin seed oil processing line: Recent advances in pumpkin seed oil and oil processing by-products by Guoqiang Zhang, Jingbo Guo, Jinying Guo

“…Pumpkin seed oil (PSO) has gained popularity worldwide for its nutritional profile and biological effects, significantly increasing its market demand and consumption. However, pumpkin seed oil cake (PSOC), as the secondary by-product from oil processing, contains high potential value and is scarcely utilised. …”
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Scientific and Technological Development of Egypt in the XXI Century by VOLKOV Sergey Nikolaevich

“…The author analyzes the scientific and technological development of modern Egypt, which the country’s leadership considers to be one of the main means for building a knowledge economy and ensuring national sovereignty. The current Constitution of Egypt contains a provision on the priority development of science and technology, as well as the obligation of the state to increase the share of spending for these purposes to 1% of GDP. …”
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Enhancing investment through cyber security policies – Case of Albania by Vilma TOMCO, Klorenta Janushi PASHAJ

“…Moreover, in order to analyze benefits of increasing the investment on cyber security, different cases from the region and Europe will be shown. …”
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DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW OF FLUOROQUINOLONES AMONG THE OUT-PATIENTS IN A PUBLIC SECTOR HOSPITAL, PAKISTAN by Awais Arshaad, Shahzaib Sharafat, Ayesha Mustafa, Hamza Mahmood, Fatima Mustafa, Sonia Tariq, Ammara Asif

“… Background: The increase in antibiotic resistance is a challenging threat to the healthcare system. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF A METHOD FOR THE INTERACTIVE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPLANATIONS IN INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS BASED ON THE PROBABILISTIC APPROACH by Serhii Chalyi, Volodymyr Leshchynskyi

“…Results: A model of the explanation pattern is proposed, which contains temporal regulations reflecting the sequence of user interaction with an intelligent system, which allows the formation of explanations based on a comparison of the actions of the current user and other well-known users. …”
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SIMPLIFIED METHOD FOR CALCULATING CLOSING IN OF SWITCH-GEAR FLEXIBLE BUSES AT SHORT CIRCUIT BY IMPULSE OF ELECTRODYNAMIC FORCES by I. I. Sergey, E. G. Ponomarenko, W. M. Sammur, P. I. Klimkovich

“…The paper contains description of a simplified method for calculating closing-in of switch-gear flexible buses at short circuit. …”
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How STEM content is presented in mathematics textbooks from the U.S. and China: a comparative study by Shuhui Li, Lianghuo Fan, Jietong Luo

“…The enriched-level STEM content (i.e., full integration of in-depth and a wide range of content knowledge) was very limited. The PEP series contained more from engineering and agriculture, and presented more in the main text; the BIM series presented more in statistics and probability, placed more in chapter previews, had more moderate-level content (i.e., partial integration of content knowledge) and a balanced distribution of authentic and non-authentic contexts in enriched-level content. …”
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ACCELERATED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF PHANTOM «ROZI» BY OS-SART METHOD USING ORDERED SUBSET PROJECTIONS by S. A. Zolotarev, M. M. Mieteeg, A. N. Al-Nadfa

“…One of the popular approaches used to increase the rate of convergence of these algorithms is to perform a correction of the current approximation of the reconstructed object on subsets of the projection data. …”
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Factors associated with variation in single-dose albendazole pharmacokinetics: A systematic review and modelling analysis. by Charles Whittaker, Cédric B Chesnais, Sébastien D S Pion, Joseph Kamgno, Martin Walker, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Michel Boussinesq

“…This variation might have implications for the efficacy of albendazole treatment, but current understanding of the factors associated with this variation remains incomplete.…”
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Maternal and paternal infant directed speech is modulated by the child’s age in two and three person interactions by Manuela Filippa, Hervé Tissot, Tiffany Mancinelli, Nicolas Favez, Didier Grandjean

“…Across contexts and parental roles, intensity, pitch, and their variability consistently increased from 3 to 9 months. …”
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Design of an Automatic Defect Identification Method Based ECPT for Pneumatic Pressure Equipment by Bo Zhang, YuHua Cheng, Chun Yin, Xuegang Huang, Sara Dadras, Hadi Malek

“…In this paper, in order to achieve automatic defect identification for pneumatic pressure equipment, an improved feature extraction algorithm eddy current pulsed thermography (ECPT) is presented. The presented feature extraction algorithm contains four elements: data block selection; variable step search; relation value classification; and between-class distance decision function. …”
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