Technical and cost efficiency analysis of irrigated onion production insight from smallholders irrigated onion farmers in north East Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia by Kindye Ayen, Tariku Kidane, Adane Wubet

“…Cost efficiency, on the other hand, was determined by the age and educational status of the household head, family size in man equivalent, and the size of irrigated land owned by the onion farmer. …”
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Experimental Study of Interphase Heat Transfer with Free Vapor Bubble Condensation Caused by Rapid Pressure Increase by DENG Jiewen1, 2, HUANG Tao3, ZHU Longxiang1, 2, PAN Liangming1, 2, SUN Wan1, 2, , ZHANG Luteng1, 2, MA Zaiyong1, 2

“…A method was employed to calculate the interphase heat transfer coefficient of bubble condensation caused by pressure increase. …”

Social capital as a determinant of quality of life in greek cancer patients: a cross-sectional study by Athanasios Pitis, Maria Diamantopoulou, Aspasia Panagiotou, Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Foteini Tzavella

“…The EU Cancer Inequalities Registry indicates that social determinants of health significantly influence the cancer burden in Greece, thus affecting quality of life.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study; the Social Capital Questionnaire Greek version was used for the evaluation of individual social capital, and the EORTC Core Quality of Life questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) was used for the assessment of quality of life. …”
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Critical Resolved Shear Stress and Work Hardening Determination in HCP Metals: Application to Zr Single Crystals by Jean-Sébastien Lecomte, Jérôme Crépin, Pierre Barberis

“…This paper presents a novel approach to determine CRSS and specific hardening matrix coefficients for commercially pure zirconium (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>α</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>-Zr) at room temperature. …”
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Role of ELT and Life Skills in Developing Employability Skills through Integrating Self Determination and Experiential Learning by Dev Brat Gupta, Vinod Bhatt, Shreya Mathur, Jyoti Badge, Asmita Sharma

“…The article proposes insightful suggestions to educators and policy makers to put into practice efficient methods for incorporating experiential learning and self-determination theory into ELT and life skills curriculum. …”
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Hydro-Lipophilic Properties of Chlorinated and Brominated 1-Hydroxynaphthalene-2-Carboxanilides by Lucia Vrablova, Tomas Gonec, Josef Jampilek

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Sustainable Biopolymer-Based Electrochemical Sensors for Trace Heavy Metal Determination in Water: A Comprehensive Review by Rabiaa Helim, Ali Zazoua, Hafsa Korri-Youssoufi

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The Optimal Design of an Inclined Porous Plate Wave Absorber Using an Artificial Neural Network Model by Senthil Kumar Natarajan, Seokkyu Cho, Il-Hyoung Cho

“…The trained model was subsequently utilized to predict the averaged reflection coefficient using a larger dataset, aiding in the determination of the optimal wave absorber design. …”
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Determination of the Optimal Spraying Application Rate for Improving the Vegetative Growth of Maize Crop Using Knapsack sprayer by Majid H. Alheidary, Sadiq J. Muhsin, Anhar M. Alshummary

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Are Rice Farming and Production in the Urban Farming Areas Still Efficient? A Stochastic Production Function Choice by Tamy Erissanti, S Supadi, S Suharno

“…This study’s sample was determined using the simple random sampling method with a total sample size of 80 respondents. …”
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Determinants of non-accessibility to primary health care in the Ikela Health Zone, Ikela, Democratic Republic of the Congo by Louison Lofoka Botuli, Basua Babintu Mukandu, Gerard Eya Matangelo Eloko, Monizi Mawunu, Jean-Paul Koto-Te-Nyiwa Ngbolua

“…Additionally, it aims to present an overview of the healthcare services available to the population within this area. Methods This study follows a descriptive, cross-sectional design and was conducted in the Ikela Health Zone between January 1 and September 30, 2024. …”
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The Role of Ferritin and Folate in Determining Stem Cell Collection for Autologous Stem Cell Transplant in Multiple Myeloma by Charles J. Weeks, Mohammad Mian, Michael Stokes, Matthew Gold, Anvay Shah, Rohan Vuppala, Katherine J. Kim, Abigayle B. Simon, Jorge Cortes, Anand Jillela, Vamsi Kota

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A humidity resistant radon source developed by ion exchange of radium in a membrane by Yanliang Chen, Linfeng He, Gang Han

“…Objective: To develop a humidity resistant radon source on a membrane based on the ion exchange technique. Methods: 226Ra in its standard solution was adsorbed in the HP membrane through cation exchange. …”
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Airflow direction influence on aerodynamic forces acting on a vehicle by А. O. Shimanovsky, V. U. Dzemyanchuk

“…The main purpose of the study is to determine the values of the longitudinal and transverse forces acting on the car for the entire possible range of changes in the angle of attack of the airflow.Materials and methods. …”
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Crashing Fault Residence Prediction Using a Hybrid Feature Selection Framework from Multi-Source Data by Xiao Liu, Xianmei Fang, Song Sun, Yangchun Gao, Dan Yang, Meng Yan

“…Extensive experiments on seven open-source software projects show that the SCM framework outperforms seven baseline methods, which include four classifiers and three ranking approaches, across four evaluation metrics such as F-measure, g-mean, MCC, and AUC. …”
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Incorporating social determinants of health into agent-based models of HIV transmission: methodological challenges and future directions by Anna L. Hotton, Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Arindam Fadikar, Nicholson T. Collier, Aditya S. Khanna, Darnell N. Motley, Eric Tatara, Sara Rimer, Ellen Almirol, Harold A. Pollack, John A. Schneider, John A. Schneider, John A. Schneider, Robert J. Lempert, Robert J. Lempert, Jonathan Ozik

“…Using examples from our ongoing work, we will discuss Uncertainty Quantification and Robust Decision Making methods to address some of the above-mentioned challenges and suggest directions for future methodological work in this area.…”
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The Effect of Lesion Length on Doppler Velocities Used Routinely to Determine Carotid Stenosis Cross-Sectional Severity by Wladyslaw Dabrowski, Lukasz Tekieli, Anna Kablak-Ziembicka, Justyna Stefaniak, Karolina Dzierwa, Adam Mazurek, Piotr Paluszek, Krzysztof Zmudka, Piotr Pieniazek, Piotr Musialek

“…We tested the hypothesis that lesion length (LL) may affect PSV and EDV. <b>Methods</b>: CARUS (Carotid Artery IntravasculaR Ultrasound Study) prospectively enrolled 300 consecutive patients (age 47–83 years, 64.3% men, 63.3% symptomatic) with carotid stenosis ≥50% by Doppler ultrasound considered diagnostic (corelab analyst). …”
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Fungicidal protection of sunflower against the main leaf diseases by S. Retman, N. Bazykina

“…The observations were conducted according to generally accepted methods; the incidence and severity of diseases, technical efficiency were determined. …”
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Investigation of the Boundary Value Problem for an Extended System of Stationary Nernst–Planck–Poisson Equations in the Diffusion Layer by Evgenia Kirillova, Natalia Chubyr, Roman Nazarov, Anna Kovalenko, Makhamet Urtenov

“…A numerical investigation of the boundary value problem was conducted using the finite element method. With an increase in the initial solution concentration, the value of the small parameter entering singularly decreases, reaching values on the order of 10⁻¹² and below, leading to computational difficulties that prevent a comprehensive analysis of the influence of changes in the equilibrium coefficient on salt ion transport. …”
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Efficient Behavior Factor Estimation in Moment-Resisting Reinforced Concrete Frames through Gene Expression Programming by Niloufar Azhdari, Seyed Shaker Hashemi, Saeid Javidi, Abdorreza Fazeli

“…The study's findings indicated that the GEP method effectively predicted the behavior coefficient of RC frames.…”
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