A New Mutagenesis Tool for Songpu Mirror Carp (<i>Cyprinus carpio</i> L.) for Selective Breeding: Atmospheric-Pressure Room-Temperature Plasma Mutagenesis Technology by Xiaona Jiang, Chitao Li, Mei Shang, Xuesong Hu, Yanlong Ge, Zhiying Jia

“…As a new, safe, and efficient method, Atmospheric-Pressure Room-Temperature Plasma (ARTP) mutagenesis has been widely applied in the field of microbial breeding and industrial applications, but it is rarely used in fish. …”
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Recycling Particleboard by Acid Hydrolysis: Effects on the Physical, Thermal, and Chemical Characteristics of Recycled Wood Particles by Gustavo E. Rodríguez, Rosilei Garcia, Alain Cloutier

“…The effect of the recycled particles on the urea-formaldehyde (UF) curing was assessed using differential scanning calorimetry and the gel time method. The recycled particles exhibited a higher thermal degradation beyond 200 °C, indicating their thermal stability for manufacturing new panels. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization and Antimicrobial Activity of New 4-aminoantipyrine Derivatives Using Ultrasonic Mediation by Naween M. Youns

“…Using the broth microdilution and disc diffusion method, the antibacterial and anti-fungal activities of the compounds were evaluated against Gram-positive, Gram-negative, in comparison to conventional medicines (Ampicillin, Ciprofloxacin and Amoxycilline). …”
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Study on ultrasonic-assisted deep eutectic solvent extraction process and in vitro antioxidant of Anchusa italica Retz. Flowers by Linyang Wang, Pin Chen, Ainiwaer Aikemu, Haiyan Zhang, Shuge Tian

“…The comprehensive evaluation value (CEV), derived from the total polyphenol content (TPC) and RA, was optimized under the aforementioned conditions, yielding a CEV of 222.452.The optimized extraction method presents a sustainable and efficient protocol for the isolation of bioactive compounds from natural sources, thereby underscoring the significance of this research in the field of natural product chemistry and ultrasonics Sonochemistry.…”
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Changes and representativeness of mountain glaciation parameters by V. G. Konovalov

“…The method of revealing the hydrological representativeness of local Ab/Bs measurements described in the paper may be used for glaciers from the existing WGMS network.…”
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Assessing the industry 4.0 strategies for a steel supply chain: SWOT, game theory, and gap analysis by Sima Motallebi, Mostafa Zandieh, Akbar Alem Tabriz, Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee

“…The components of I4.0 are determined based on a review of existing literature and interviews with experts from the Iranian steel industry, utilizing the fuzzy Delphi method. …”
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Purification of a Fc-Fusion Protein with [Bathophenathroline:metal] Complexes by Thisara Jayawickrama Withanage, Ron Alcalay, Olga Krichevsky, Ellen Wachtel, Ohad Mazor, Guy Patchornik

“…In this study, we assess an alternative Fc-fusion protein purification method that does not rely on chromatographic media or ligands. …”
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Effect of potato tuber greening on blackleg development by Dickeya solani and Pectobacterium brasiliense by Anna Maria Grupa-Urbańska, Renata Lebecka, Dorota Sołtys-Kalina

“…In conclusion, the present study showed that tuber greening could be an effective non-chemical method for controlling blackleg, particularly against Ds. …”
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Assessment of plant diversity index in degraded desert grassland using UAV hyperspectral multimodal data and Encoder-CNN by Zhaohui Tang, Chuanzhong Xuan, Tao Zhang, Xinyu Gao, Suhui Liu, Mengqin Zhang

“…To this end, this study proposed a novel method for assessing plant diversity index in degraded desert grassland based on multimodal UAV hyperspectral data and Encoder-CNN. …”
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Association of Omega-3 Index and Blood Cell Count-Derived Systemic Inflammatory Indexes among Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Survivors by Milica Zeković, Marko Živković, Marija Takić, Sanja Stanković, Nebojša Bojanić, Aleksandar Janičić, Uroš Bumbaširević

“…A negative association was determined between the total content of polyunsaturated fatty acids and SIRI (r = −0.221, <i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Possibilities of Discriminant Analysis in the Differential Diagnosis of Chronic Aspergillosis and Nonmicotic Lung Lesions by N. G. Nikolaeva, O. V. Shadrivova, Yu. V. Borzova, S. G. Grigoryev, I. E. Itskovich, N. N. Klimko

“…Material and methods. The prospective study included 74 patients with CPA (57% women, median age 53 years) meeting the ERS/ESCMID criteria (2016). …”
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Current state of plantations of state protective forest strips and problems of protective afforestation in the south of Western Siberia by Alexander S. Manaenkov, Polina M. Podhayetskaya, Valery N. Petrov

“…The purpose of the work is to determine the current state of stands, to identify the most effective methods of their creation and cultivation in broadband plantations on the lands of the arid zone. …”
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Development and validation of mPCR-CEFA for detecting multiple deletion and non-deletion thalassemia genotypes by Jingping Xu, Jingping Xu, Baoyan Ren, Qixun Fang, Kangfeng Lin, Kangfeng Lin, Xingan Xing, Xingan Xing, Jingting Lin

“…It successfully detected complex compound genotypes like αCD 74α/−α4.2, βCD 17/βN and αWSα/--SEA, βCD 37/βN (or αWSα/--SEA, βCD 37/βCD 37), which were challenging for traditional approaches.ConclusionThe mPCR-CEFA method is a reliable, efficient, and scalable tool for genetic diagnosis of thalassemia. …”
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Identification of Major Bleeding Events in Postoperative Patients With Malignant Tumors in Chinese Electronic Medical Records: Algorithm Development and Validation by Hui Li, Haiyang Yao, Yuxiang Gao, Hang Luo, Changbin Cai, Zhou Zhou, Muhan Yuan, Wei Jiang

“…Given the higher sensitivity of the LR method (89.47%) and the higher specificity of the CNN method (89.24%) in the test set, both models hold promise for practical application, depending on specific clinical priorities.…”
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An Effective CDS Heuristic for the Fuzzy Flow Shop Scheduling Problem With Ordered Precedence Constraints Using Pentagonal Fuzzy Processing Time by K. Ranjith, K. Karthikeyan

“…The findings indicate that the proposed methods consistently yield better results.…”
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Optimizing SVC placement for enhanced voltage stability using a novel index and hybrid ABC-PSO algorithm by Hafizur Rahman, Roman Mia, Mustafizur Rahman, Md. Faiyaj Ahmed Limon, Md. Shahid Iqbal, Md. Fahad Jubayer, Md. Rabiul Karim, Md. Janibul Alam Soeb

“…The optimization is led by four objective functions prioritized by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and a novel recovery time calculation method to assess the economic viability of SVC investments. …”
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Mitigation of Atmospheric Effects in Deformation Monitoring Using Dual-Polarization MTInSAR and Improved Wavelet Correlation Analysis by Guanxin Liu, Xiaoli Ding, Songbo Wu, Haiqiang Fu, Jianjun Zhu

“…However, the traditional WCA-based method fails to separate the APS when the deformation signal existed. …”
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Detecting changes in retinal function: Analysis with Non-Stationary Weibull Error Regression and Spatial enhancement (ANSWERS). by Haogang Zhu, Richard A Russell, Luke J Saunders, Stefano Ceccon, David F Garway-Heath, David P Crabb

“…Furthermore, the spatial correlation utilised in ANSWERS was shown to improve the ability to detect deterioration, compared to equivalent models without spatial correlation, especially in short follow-up series. ANSWERS is a new efficient method for detecting changes in retinal function. …”
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Synthesis, physicochemical properties and antimicrobial activity of a di-aminopropionic acid hydrogen tri-iodide coordination compound by Seitzhan Turganbay, Sabina Kenesheva, Аrdak Jumagaziyeva, Alexandr Ilin, Dana Askarova, Amir Azembayev, Assel Kurmanaliyeva

“…In vitro antimicrobial activity evaluation was performed using two-fold serial dilution method. The obtained results demonstrated efficiency against both gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus) and gram-negative (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii) bacteria including MDR strains that cause infectious disease. …”
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Application of a Three-Stage Procedure for Extracting a Small-Sized Anchor Object on a Noisy Image by Sotnikov O.M., Vorobiov O.M., Udovenko S.G., Kobzev I.V., Vlasiuk V.V., Kurbatov A.A.

“…It is proposed to refine the maximum of the decision function based on the iteration method. The most significant results are the obtained dependences of the probability of choosing a fragment of the reference image on the threshold value and the signal-to-noise ratio, as well as the analytical relation for the asymptote of this dependence. …”
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