Utilization of SiO₂ Nanoparticles in Developing Superhydrophobic Coatings for Road Construction: A Short Review by Nazerke Kydyrbay, Mergen Zhazitov, Muhammad Abdullah, Zhexenbek Toktarbay, Yerbolat Tezekbay, Tolagay Duisebayev, Olzat Toktarbaiuly

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Understanding what really helps to ensure access to diagnostic services in the Indian Public Health System: a realist synthesis of the Common Review Mission reports (2007-2021) by Erin Hannah, Nisha Basheer, Neha Dumka, Atul Kotwal

“… # Results The major themes that emerged include (i) the approach to health systems strengthening, (ii) efficiency of procurement and distribution systems, (iii) infrastructure, (iv) modes of service delivery, (v) implementation of Free Diagnostic Service Initiative, Comprehensive Primary Health Care and Biomedical Equipment Management and Maintenance Program, and (vi) quality of care , and (vii) diagnostic service outcomes…”
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Simulation and Analysis of Imaging Process of Phosphor Screens for X-Ray Imaging of Streak Tube Using Geant4-Based Monte Carlo Method by Zichen Wang, Riyi Lin, Yuxiang Liao, Lin Tang, Zhenhua Wu, Diwei Liu, Renbin Zhong, Kaichun Zhang

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Presenting a model of political behavior based on the theory of shadow management in the public sector with a hybrid method by Ghorbanali Khazaei Pool, davood kiakojouri, Mohammad Javad Tghipourian

“…Based on the research findings, political behavior in the public sector has 72 components in three different dimensions: the white political behavior dimension with 28 components that has a practical function and is based on political behavior knowledge and helps achieve organizational goals; the black political behavior dimension with 26 components that are harmful and act in favor of groups under the supervision of shadow managers and prevent the achievement of the organization's goals; and the gray political behavior with 18 components that may be both beneficial and detrimental to the organization's goals. …”
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Spatial Analysis of the Concentration of Knowledge-Based Firms in Iran by Najmoddin Yazdi, Mahdi Fateh-rad, Jamal Kadkhodapour, Siamak Tahmasbi

“…Notably, over half of the knowledge-based firms (51.5%) were located in Tehran Province followed by Isfahan (9.3%) and Razavi Khorasan (5.3%). This distribution aligned with the presence of metropolitan areas (cities with populations exceeding one million). …”
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Reuse of Retired Wind Turbine Blades in Civil Engineering by Xuemei Yu, Changbao Zhang, Jing Li, Xue Bai, Lilin Yang, Jihao Han, Guoxiang Zhou

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A spiking photonic neural network of 40 000 neurons, trained with latency and rank-order coding for leveraging sparsity by Ria Talukder, Anas Skalli, Xavier Porte, Simon Thorpe, Daniel Brunner

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A Modular and Scalable Approach to Hybrid Battery and Converter Integration for Full-Electric Waterborne Transport by Ramon Lopez-Erauskin, Argiñe Alacano, Aitor Lizeaga, Giuseppe Guidi, Olve Mo, Amaia Lopez-de-Heredia, Mikel Alzuri

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Automated Overtake Assist System Using YOLOv4 and Mask R-CNN for Enhanced Autonomous Driving by Navya Thirumaleshwar Hegde, Kapileswar Rana, S. S. Barath, Florence Nishmitha, Vishnu G. Nair

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Accurate detection of critical LLFs and LGFs in PV arrays based on deep reinforcement learning using proximal policy optimization (PPO) by Sherko Salehpour, Aref Eskandari, Amir Nedaei, Mohammad Gholami, Mohammadreza Aghaei

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EMPLOYER BRANDING IN FORMATION OF THE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL OF THE TOUR OPERATOR: THE CASE STUDY OF UKRAINE by H. Mykhailichenko, S. Kravtsov, S. Melnychenko, N. Vedmid, Yu. Zabaldina

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Architectural Synergies in Bi-Modal and Bi-Contrastive Learning by Yujia Gu, Brian Liu, Tianlong Zhang, Xinye Sha, Shiyong Chen

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Genetic Breeding to Improve Freeze Tolerance in Blueberries, a Review by Ye Chu, Josh Clevenger, Kendall Lee, Jing Zhang, Changying Li

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Drone Electric Propulsion System with Hybrid Power Source by Jenica-Ileana Corcau, Liviu Dinca, Andra-Adelina Cucu, Dmitrii Condrea

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DEPANet: A Differentiable Edge-Guided Pyramid Aggregation Network for Strip Steel Surface Defect Segmentation by Yange Sun, Siyu Geng, Chengyi Zheng, Chenglong Xu, Huaping Guo, Yan Feng

“…DEPANet adopts an end-to-end encoder-decoder framework, where the encoder consisting of three key components: a backbone network, a Differentiable Edge Feature Pyramid network (DEFP), and Edge-aware Feature Aggregation Modules (EFAMs). …”
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SCH-Hunter: A Taint-Based Hybrid Fuzzing Framework for Smart Contract Honeypots by Haoyu Zhang, Baotong Wang, Wenhao Fu, Leyi Shi

“…(ii) For detection capabilities, SCH-Hunter is not only roughly on par with HoneyBadger in terms of precision and recall rate but also capable of detecting a wider variety of smart contract honeypot techniques. (iii) For the evaluation of components, we conducted three ablation studies to demonstrate that the proposed modules in SCH-Hunter significantly improve the framework’s detection capability, code coverage, and detection efficiency, respectively.…”
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Scalable Video Processing and Frame Analysis System for Automated Monitoring of Chicken Behavior Based on Artificial Intelligence Technologies by Svitlana Antoshchuk, Oleksii Danchuk, Tetiana Kunup

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THE MAIN TASK IS THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND ECONOMIC MECHANISM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIAN ENTERPRISES by G. B. Kleiner, N. L. Pirogov

“…According to the authors, this will improve the efficiency of the use of human capital in terms of all its components: ordinary workers, managers, specialists, owners.Conclusions and Relevance: currently, there is a situation in which the owners of enterprises (mainly large ones) have practically unlimited rights and very limited liability for the results of the work of their enterprises. …”
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Investigating the Effects of Sleep Health Education Based on Mobile Application on Sleep Quality of the Elderly: A Quasi-Experimental Study by Shahla Asiri, Hananeh Rahimi, Ehsan Kazemnezhad Leyli, Negar Pourvakhshoori

“…The intervention group received training on using the mobile-based sleep health educational application during two face-to-face sessions and was instructed to implement its programs daily for four weeks. Results The results of the study indicated that the average age of the elderly participants was 68.98±6.52 years, with the majority being female (60.1%), married (83.3%), living in urban areas (91.5%), and having a university education (52%). …”
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ASSESSMENT OF ENTRY LEVEL OF MARKETOLOGIST LEADERSHIP COMPETENCE FORMATION by Olena I. Kazakevych

“…It was found that approximately the same number of students have sufficient (EG – 51,7%, KG –52,9%) and low (EG – 36,9%, KG –35,3%) levels of leadership competence development indicators for all components, only a small number of students showed high level (EG – 10,02%, KG –11,8%). …”
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