ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS (TNCS) AND DEVELOPMENT EQUATION IN THE NIGER DELTA by Prince Eze, Ewelie C. Justice

“…What is sadder in this situation is that the government has not been effective in monitoring and regulating their activities to minimize the negative impact of their operations on the environment, it is in this regard that it is recommended among other things, that government must insist that TNCs adopt international best practices and innovation in their operations, and beyond political speeches and conference communiqué government must also be proactive in enacting and implementing relevant environmental laws and policies that will help in minimizing the harm done to the Environmentenvironment. …”
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Design and Simulation of an Optimized Reliable Microgrid System for Kabale University Using Solar and Battery Storage. by Aturinde, Alban

“…The microgrid integrates solar photovoltaic (PV) energy, a battery energy storage system (BESS), and the utility grid, with a focus on minimizing grid dependence and maximizing the utilization of renewable energy. …”
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Use of spent yeasts from bioethanol production plant as low-cost nitrogen sources for ethanol fermentation from sweet sorghum stem juice in low-cost bioreactors by Thanawat Thanapornsin, Rattanaporn Phongsri, Lakkana Laopaiboon, Pattana Laopaiboon

“…Two spent yeasts from an ethanol production plant, spent yeast after distillation (SY-AD) and spent yeast after fermentation (SY-AF), were used as low-cost nitrogen sources for ethanol fermentation from sweet sorghum stem juice (SSJ) by a commercial dry yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) in air-locked flasks. SY-AF was the more effective nitrogen source for ethanol fermentation, giving ethanol concentration (PE) and ethanol productivity (QE) values of 95.22 g/L and 1.98 g/L·h, respectively. …”
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Increased distribution of carbon metabolic flux during de novo cytidine biosynthesis via attenuation of the acetic acid metabolism pathway in Escherichia coli by Tong Ye, Wei Ding, Zhengxu An, Haojie Zhang, Xiaobo Wei, Junnan Xu, Huiyan Liu, Haitian Fang

“…After 39 h of fermentation in 500 mL shake flasks, the cytidine yields of strains K12ΔpoxB and K12ΔpoxBΔpta were 1.91 ± 0.04 g/L and 18.28 ± 0.22 g/L, respectively. …”
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Patient-derived follicular lymphoma spheroids recapitulate lymph node signaling and immune profile uncovering galectin-9 as a novel immunotherapeutic target by Cèlia Dobaño-López, Juan García Valero, Ferran Araujo-Ayala, Ferran Nadeu, Fabien Gava, Carla Faria, Marine Norlund, Renaud Morin, Pascale Bernes-Lasserre, Fabian Arenas, Marta Grau, Cristina López, Irene López-Oreja, Neus Serrat, Ares Martínez-Farran, Lluís Hernández, Heribert Playa-Albinyana, Rubén Giménez, Silvia Beà, Elías Campo, Jean-Michel Lagarde, Armando López-Guillermo, Laura Magnano, Dolors Colomer, Christine Bezombes, Patricia Pérez-Galán

“…FL-PDLS allowed uncovering that soluble galectin-9 limits rituximab, rituximab, plus nivolumab/TIM-3 antitumoral activities. Blocking galectin-9 improves rituximab efficacy, highlighting galectin-9 as a novel immunotherapeutic target in FL. …”
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Complete or incomplete revascularization in patients with left main culprit lesion acute myocardial infarction with multivessel disease: a retrospective observational study by Sun Oh Kim, Hong-Ju Kim, Jong-Il Park, Kang-Un Choi, Jong-Ho Nam, Chan-Hee Lee, Jang-Won Son, Jong-Seon Park, Sung-Ho Her, Ki-Yuk Chang, Tae-Hoon Ahn, Myung-Ho Jeong, Seung-Woon Rha, Hyo-Soo Kim, Hyeon-Cheol Gwon, In-Whan Seong, Kyung-Kuk Hwang, Seung-Ho Hur, Kwang-Soo Cha, Seok-Kyu Oh, Jei-Keon Chae, Ung Kim

“…The components of MACCE and major bleeding were also not significantly different. Conclusion There was no significant difference in clinical outcomes between the groups treated with complete or incomplete revascularization for LM culprit lesion AMI with multivessel disease.…”
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Own Experience in the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Diagnosis of Esophageal Achalasia by O. A. Storonova, N. I. Kanevskii, A. S. Trukhmanov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The technical characteristics of the model (hyperparameters) were selected using the GridSearchCV method. The model with the best results was integrated into a web application.Results. …”
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Deteksi Cepat Kadar Alkohol Pada Minuman Kopi dengan Metode Dielektrik dan Jaringan Syaraf Tiruan by Sucipto Sucipto, Yuyun Rohmawati, Dyah Ayu Widyaningrum, Danang Triagus Setiyawan

“…Sensitivity analysis with bioelectric properties as input (inductance, capacitance, resistance, and impedance) and alcohol and also pH as output obtained the best ANN topology, 4-10-30-2. The best ANN topology had Mean Standard Error (MSE) of training of 0.000948 and validation MSE of 0.0011 with the correlation coefficient (R) of training and validation of 0.99929 and 0.99985, respectively. …”
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Multi-Media Tools and Service Delivery in Academic Libraries: A Case Study of Bishop Berham University. by Barigye, Damas

“…This biographic data was essential for the researcher and the study to describe the best respondents selected for the study. Respondents outlined massive sensitization, which was identified as the best solution among the respondents. …”
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Impact of early arterial-phase multidetector CT in blunt spleen injury: a clinical outcomes-oriented study by Yu-Hao Wang, Yu-Tung Wu, Huan-Wu Chen, Yu-San Tee, Chih-Yuan Fu, Chien-Hung Liao, Chi-Tung Cheng, Chi-Hsun Hsieh

“…After adjusting for covariates using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW), the comparison between the add-on arterial phase and portal phase CT groups revealed similar overall NOM failure rates (3.0% vs. 2.2%, p = 0.721), NOM-OBS failure rates (3.8% vs. 6.2%, p = 0.703), and intra-abdominal bleeding-related mortality rates (4.8% vs. 2.1%, p = 0.335). …”
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Effect of periodontal therapy on endothelial function and serum biomarkers in patients with periodontitis and established cardiovascular disease: a pilot study by Ana Molina, Nagore Ambrosio, María Molina, Eduardo Montero, Leire Virto, David Herrera, Elena Figuero, Mariano Sanz

“…In the test group, improvements in pocket depth, bleeding on probing and suppuration at 6 months were significantly better than in control patients. …”
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Nucleic Acid Aptamers for Human Norovirus GII.4 and GII.17 Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) Exhibit Specific Binding and Inhibit VLPs from Entering Cells by Cheng C, Sun M, Li J, Xue Y, Cai X, Liu J, Wang X, Xu S, Xie Y, Zhang J

“…Here, we screened nucleic acid aptamers against the widespread HuNoV GII.4 and emerging HuNoV GII.17.Methods: After ten rounds of sieving for HuNoV GII.4 and GII.17 virus-like particles (VLPs), eight ssDNA aptamers were generated and characterized for each genotype.Results: Four of the eight aptamers generated for GII.4 VLP had dissociation constants (Kd) less than 100 nM, and all aptamers for GII.17 VLP had Kd less than 10 nM. …”
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CytoSorb hemoadsorption of apixaban during cardio-pulmonary bypass for heart transplantation by Anouk Frering, MD, Antoine Abi Lutfallah, MD, Aude Carillion, MD, PhD, Daniel Wendt, MD, Pascal Leprince, MD, PhD, Adrien Bougle, MD, PhD, Guillaume Lebreton, MD, PhD

“…No primary graft dysfunction was observed, and during the post-operative period of 72 hours, the patient did not have any bleeding events requiring reintervention or transfusion. …”
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The Opportunity of Using Diode Laser with the Length of 1940 nm in the Treatment of Hemorrhoids by S. A. Frolov, A. M. Kuzminov, D. V. Vyshegorodtsev, O. A. Mainovskaya, Yu. L. Trubacheva, O. Yu. Fomenko, V. Yu. Korolik, I. S. Bogormistrov, I. A. Mukhin, A. M. Battalova, E. M. Bogdanova

“…Intraoperative complications in the form of hemorrhoidal node bleeding were noted in 3 patients. In the early postoperative period, inflammatory edema of external hemorrhoids was diagnosed in 4 patients. …”
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The prevalence and distribution of malaria in Mpumalanga Province before and during COVID-19 (2017 - 2022) by I Kleinhans, S Mahanjana, F Els, M Mabona, L A Pitso, G Malatje, G Kok, J Raman

“…Additionally, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of drug and insecticide resistance have been identified as potential stumbling blocks in the achievement of this goal. The impact of COVID-19 on the prevalence and distribution of malaria in SA is unclear. …”
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An automatic pipeline for temporal monitoring of radiotherapy-induced toxicities in head and neck cancer patients by Parsa Bagherzadeh, Khalil Sultanem, Gerald Batist, Shirin Abbasinejad Enger

“…Pre-trained language models such as BERT, Clinical BioBERT, and Clinical Longformer were fine-tuned. Our best model achieves an F1 score of 90% for automatic extraction of toxicity mentions. …”
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Four Central Nanocavity of Ultra-Sensitive Refractive Index Biosensor for Cancer Detection in Hexagonal Photonic Crystal by William Matsui, Jianqiao Fang

“…The power loss in the proposed structure is less than 2%, and the delay time is 2ps. At best, the sensitivity and quality factor parameters are 734nm/RIU and Q.f=2330.09, respectively. …”
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Analysis of the non-linear higher dimensional fractional differential equations arising in dusty plasma using the Atangana–Baleanu fractional derivative by Attiya Nazneen, Rashid Nawaz, Laiq Zada, Nasir Ali, Mohamed Benghanem, Hijaz Ahmad

“…The devised method yields the best approximate solutions shown numerically and graphically through tables and graphs respectively. …”
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A hammerhead ribozyme selects mechanically stable conformations for catalysis against viral RNA by Man Lu, Zhiqiang Cao, Luoan Xiong, Hongying Deng, Kangkang Ma, Ning Liu, Yanding Qin, Shen-Bo Chen, Jun-Hu Chen, Yao Li, Yijin Liu, Zhongbo Yu

“…Among them, hammerhead is the smallest and best characterized ribozyme. However, the structure and biochemical data of ribozymes have been disagreed on, making the understanding of its catalysis mechanism a longstanding issue. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF EFFICIENCY OF COMPOST PREPARED FROM ANIMAL WASTE IN THE REDUCTION OF TOTAL PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON IN CRUDE OIL IMPACTED SOIL by ADEBOLA ADEKUNLE, IHEOMA ADEKUNLE, SUHAIB AROGUNDADE

“…The result depicted that the contaminated soil experienced an enhanced natural bioremediation due to the applied bioremediation agents and the contaminated soil treated with SPW-SD gave best results. Samples remediated with SPW-SD and GTW-SD showed a Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon (TPH) removal efficiency of 55.4% and 7.9% respectively. …”
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