Combination pulse therapy with methotrexate and dexamethasone in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis and poor prognostic factors: an open-label randomized trial by Aleksey Leonidovich Maslyansky, E P Ilivanova, V I Rokomanyuk, O V Reshetnyak, A V Alekseyeva, S V Lapin, I L Dzhalalova, V I Mazurov

“…Objective: To study the efficiency and tolerance of two pulse therapy regimens: combination pulse therapy with highdose methotrexate (MT) and high-dose dexamethasone and pulse therapy with dexamethasone. …”
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TRANSBOUNDARY IRTYSH RIVER AS A SOURCE OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES by Olga P. Bazhenova, Valentina V. Kosterova, Alexander M. Adam

“…Materials and methods. The composition and content of ecosystem services of the Irtysh River were determined using the UN methodology (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). …”
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Optimization of phosphorus adsorption on honeycomb briquette ash by application of response surface methodology by Yu Li, Jianfa Yang, Zemin Zhang, Jie Yuan

“…The structural, physical and chemical properties of coal ash were determined by SEM, BET and XRF analysis methods. The response surface methodology (RSM) was applied for experimental design of phosphorus adsorbent. …”
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Optimization of Plant Regeneration in Different Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) Lines by Tolga İzgü, Hülya İlbi, Yeşim Yalçın Mendi

“…Development of an efficient plant regeneration protocol is essential for vegetable crop advancement by biotechnological methods. …”
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Mechanism and Experimental Studies of HFC-134a Oxidative Decomposition Mechanism by Xu Yunting, Zhang Kai, Dai Xiaoye, Shi Lin

“…There is significant emphasis on the destruction of HFC refrigerants in China, culminating in an urgent need to explore efficient and mild HFC refrigerant degradation methods. …”
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Progressive multi-scale attention neural network for pneumonia classification in chest X-rays by Mohammad Reza Mahdiani

“…These substantial performance gains, along with a significant reduction in misdiagnoses, underscore the clinical potential of our efficient and accurate approach in supporting radiologists and improving patient outcomes.…”
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Investigation of heat exchange processes in vertically arranged heat exchangers by K.M. Shaimerdenova, E.R. Schrager, A.S. Tussypbaeva, Zh.K. Nausharban

“…The use of heat pump technology in heat energy development is one of the most efficient energetic methods. In order to save energy, it makes possible to use heat of subsurface water, reservoirs, natural water flows, etc. …”
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Yttria stabilized zirconia membrane stability in molten fluoride fluxes for low-carbon magnesium production by the SOM process by Milshtein J., Gratz E., Pati S., Powell A.C., Pal U.

“…These modeling and experimental methods allowed for the determination of the optimum YF3 concentration in the flux to minimize yttria diffusion and improve membrane stability. …”
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Optimasi Biaya Distribusi pada HFVRP Menggunakan Algoritma Particle Swarm Optimization by Ismanitami Lukman, Rosmalina Hanafi Hanafi

“…PSO algorithm was applied because of the high number of customers served, and therefore the exact methods may not be sufficient. PSO parameter setting which produced the optimum result was with the number of swarms 50, C1 1,5, and C2 2 determined through the design of the experiment. …”
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Designing reliability of transport and technological process in construction by S. M. Kuznetsov, O. V. Demidenko, N. E. Alekseev

“…To assess the reliability of transport and technological process there is offered a functional approach realized by means of the generalized structural method. On the basis of the conducted research as the indicators of reliability of transport and technological process it is offered to use a coefficient of operational readiness and probability of no-failure operation. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of CaO-SiO₂ Heterogeneous Catalyst of Blood Cockle Shells and Coconut Fiber Ash for Biodiesel Production from Crude Palm Oil by Nurhayati Nurhayati, Muhdarina Muhdarina, Amilia Linggawati, Siti Saidah Siregar

“…The utilization of sustainable and renewable materials, specifically CaO derived from blood clam shells and SiO2 extracted from coconut fiber, as catalysts for biodiesel production not only promotes waste valorization but also enhances catalytic efficiency, providing an eco-friendly and effective solution for biodiesel synthesis. …”
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Development and Validation for the Simultaneous Quantification of Nebivolol Hydrochloride and Hydrochlorothiazide by UV Spectroscopy, RP-HPLC and HPTLC in Tablets by B. Dhandapani, N. Thirumoorthy, D. Jose Prakash

“…Simultaneous quantification of nebivolol hydrochloride (NEB-H) and hydrochlorothiazide (HCT) in tablets by UV spectroscopy, RP-HPLC and HPTLC methods were developed. In UV spectrophotometric determination NEB-H and HCT was quantified by simultaneous equation method and absorbance ratio method. …”
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Evolution of Budget Expenditures and Budget Investment in the Context of Structural Transformation of the National Economy of Ukraine by Ivanchenkov Viacheslav S.

“…The article substantiates the directions for improving the efficiency of budget policy to ensure sustainable economic growth in Ukraine. …”
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Therapy for psoriatic arthritis with infliximab by V V Badokin, Yu L Korsakova, V G Barskova, M S Eliseyev, F M Kudayeva

“…Inflammatory activity was determined by DAS 4 and the efficiency of therapy was evaluated by the ACR and EULAR criteria. …”
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THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS RADON DANGER MAP by L. A. Chunikhin, A. L. Chekhovsky, D. N. Drozdov

“…In the world practice, the radon risk or radon potential mapping are used for the radon dose assessment.The aim of this work was a radon danger mapping of the Republic of Belarus to assess the radiation situation and determine the radon hazard critical areas.Materials and methods: The mapping is based on measured values of radon volume activity in the living rooms of different buildings on the territory of the six regions of the Republic of Belarus. …”
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Statistic Model of Homodyne Acousto-Optic Spectrum Analyzer by L. A. Aronov, Yu. S. Dobrolensky, G. V. Kulak

“…One needs to optimize their relation by taking into account light source power, acousto-optical modulator diffraction efficiency and photosensor saturation charge. Presented noise model gives more accurate estimation of the dynamic range with an error of 1 dB.…”
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Image key information processing using convolutional neural network and rotational invariant-hierarchical max pooling algorithm. by Guangmei Ma

“…This indicated that the research method had higher accuracy in processing key image information and higher efficiency. …”
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Strawberry Freshness Assessment by Hyperspectral Imaging by Georgiy V. Nesterov, Anastasia V. Guryleva, Milana O. Sharikova, Svetlana A. Sukhanova, Alexander S. Machikhin

“…Model evaluation was done using the coefficients of determination (R2), relative error (RE), and root mean squared error (RMSE). …”
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Quantification of intra-amniotic inflammation in late preterm prelabour rupture of membranes by Marie Vajrychova, Jaroslav Stranik, Rudolf Kupcik, Michaela Sadibolova, Rudolf Kukla, Radka Bolehovska, Marian Kacerovsky

“…Levels of amniotic fluid proteins determined by MS were put into the correlation with IL-6 concentration determined by electrochemiluminescence immunoassay method (ECLIA). …”
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Precision hole-machining of SiCf/SiC composite using single-layer brazed diamond core drill dressed by pulsed laser by Ning QIAN, Jingyuan HE, Honghua SU, Yuting SUN, Lama ANGGEI, Wenfeng DING, Jiuhua XU

“…A laser dressing device is constructed, and a method is proposed. Using a graphite rod as the standard rod for determining the laser dressing depth reduces the diameter deviation. …”
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