Integrating Environmental Covariates into Adaptability and Stability Analyses: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach for Cotton Breeding by Matheus Massariol Suela, Moysés Nascimento, Ana Carolina Campana Nascimento, Camila Ferreira Azevedo, Paulo Eduardo Teodoro, Francisco José Correia Farias, Luiz Paulo de Carvalho, Diego Jarquin

“…Breeding programs rely on genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) to recommend cultivars for specific locations. …”
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Dental Immunisation: Evaluation of a Community-Driven Strategy for Addressing Caries Burden in Indonesian School Children by Irene Adyatmaka, Jilen Patel

“…Global oral health disparities, often exacerbated by a lack of access to essential dental care, present a challenge that resonates on a worldwide scale.Aims This study explores how community-driven strategies can actively support the global oral health goals set forth by the WHO.Methods The RE-AIM framework was applied to evaluate a “Dental Immunisation” program in Bali, Indonesia. …”
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Experiences Receiving and Delivering Virtual Health Care For Women: Qualitative Evidence Synthesis by Karen M Goldstein, Sharron Rushton, Allison A Lewinski, Abigail Shapiro, Tiera Lanford-Davey, Jessica N Coleman, Neetu Chawla, Dhara B Patel, Katherine Van Loon, Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Catherine Sims, Sarah Cantrell, Susan Alton Dailey, Jennifer M Gierisch

“…MethodsWe conducted a qualitative evidence synthesis using a best-fit framework approach based on the Nonadoption, Abandonment, Scale-up, Spread, and Sustainability (NASSS) framework and concepts from the Public Health Critical Race Praxis. …”
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Functional work disability from the perspectives of persons with systemic lupus erythematosus: a qualitative thematic analysis by Behdin Nowrouzi-Kia, Aaron S. Howe, Anson Li, Jeremy Tan, Natalia Saade-Cleves, Kevon Jules, Malak Sadek, Ali Bani-Fatemi, Antonio Avina-Zubieta, Mary T. Fox, William Shaw, Derek Haaland, Janet Pope, Paul R. Fortin, Kathleen S. Bingham, Christine Peschken, Jennifer Reynolds, Catherine Ivory, Dafna D. Gladman, Murray B. Urowitz, Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero, Lily S. H. Lim, Stephanie Keeling, Patti Katz, Mahta Kavkan, Dennisse Bonilla, Wils Nielsen, Zahi Touma

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A proof-of-concept study of personalized dosimetry for targeted radioligand therapy using pre-treatment diagnostic dynamic PET/CT and Monte Carlo simulation by Thanh Tai Duong, Danny De Sarno, Hatim Fakir, Glenn Bauman, Martin Martinov, Rowan M. Thomson, Ting-Yim Lee, Ting-Yim Lee, Ting-Yim Lee

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An integrated approach for very high cardiovascular risk patients. Intermediate results by E. I. Usova, M. V. Ionov, A. S. Alieva, N. G. Avdonina, N. V. Orbeladze, А. A. Khodyreva, A. N. Yakovlev, N. E. Zvartau

“…To establish a comprehensive personalized follow-up framework for patients recovered from an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) that integrates telehealth software and to test its clinical and patient-centered efficacy.Material and methods. …”
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Comparison between Duncan and Chang’s EB Model and the Generalized Plasticity Model in the Analysis of a High Earth-Rockfill Dam by Weixin Dong, Liming Hu, Yu Zhen Yu, He Lv

“…Nonlinear elastic analyses were also performed with Duncan and Chang's EB model in the same program framework. The comparisons of FEM results and in situ monitoring data showed that the modified PZ-III model can give a better description of deformation of the earth-rockfill dam than Duncan and Chang’s EB model.…”
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Resident Satisfaction in Eco-Friendly Housing: Informing Sustainable Decision-Making in Urban Development by Dan Wang, Yunbo Zhang, Radzi Ismail, Mohd Wira Mohd Shafiei, Terh Jing Khoo

“…This research uses a comprehensive framework that includes psychological, environmental, and social components to make it stand out. …”
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Model‐Informed Paradigm in Drug Development—An End‐To‐End Case Study From Upadacitinib Development by Sumit Bhatnagar, Sven Stodtmann, Yuli Qian, Patrick Marroum, Wei Liu, Mohamed‐Eslam F. Mohamed

“…The lessons learned can provide a framework for the clinical development of other drugs.…”
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Analysis of the Contextual Factors Influencing the Expansion of Construction Violations with an Emphasis on the Role and Position of Key Urban Stakeholders (Case Study: Isfahan Met... by Ahmad Shahivandi, Afsaneh Talebi Varnosfaderani

“…Key weaknesses in these policies included the failure to consider low-income groups in urban planning and housing programs, restrictions on bank credits for loans related to purchasing and building housing, inadequate performance in public housing provision, and lack of systems to mitigate the impact of inflation on housing costs.The absence of robust legal and regulatory frameworks with a regression weight of 0.46 was identified as the 5th most influential factor contributing to building violations in Isfahan. …”
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QInfoMating: sexual selection and assortative mating estimation software by A. Carvajal-Rodríguez

“…Recognizing this gap, I have developed QInfoMating which provides a comprehensive solution for analyzing and interpreting mating data within the framework of sexual selection theory. Results The program QInfoMating incorporates a user-friendly interface for performing statistical tests, best-fit model selection, and parameter estimation using multimodel inference for both discrete and continuous mating data. …”
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Evaluating Mathematical Concordance Between Taxonomic and Functional Diversity Metrics in Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities by Gonzalo Sotomayor, Henrietta Hampel, Raúl F. Vázquez, Christine Van der heyden, Marie Anne Eurie Forio, Peter L. M. Goethals

“…Integrating metrics with differing structural properties and environmental sensitivities can enhance the robustness of freshwater biomonitoring frameworks, especially in systems undergoing ecological transition or habitat degradation.…”
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Evaluation capacity building in a rural Victorian community service organisation: A formative evaluation. by Bianca E Kavanagh, Vincent L Versace, Hannah Beks, Carly Dennis, Marley J Binder, Andrea L Hernan, Kevin Mc Namara

“…Implementation strategies included training, creation of measurement frameworks, implementation of data collection tools, academic support, and emergence of evaluation champions. …”
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Leveraging Dynamic Pricing and Real-Time Grid Analysis: A Danish Perspective on Flexible Industry Optimization by Sreelatha Aihloor Subramanyam, Sina Ghaemi, Hessam Golmohamadi, Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam, Birgitte Bak-Jensen

“…This paper presents a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)-based optimization framework for a flexible asset in an industrial setting, aiming to minimize operational costs and enhance energy efficiency. …”
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Do jumps matter in discrete-time portfolio optimization? by Marcos Escobar-Anel, Ben Spies, Rudi Zagst

“…Besides a Gaussian noise, the framework allows for various jump increments, including infinite-activity jumps. …”
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New species of the genus <i>Calycomyza</i> Hendel (Diptera, Agromyzidae) in the South Caucasus fauna by N. M. Grigoryan, K. V. Balayan, M. Z. Magomedova, P. D. Magomedova, V. T. Hayrapetyan

“…To study the diversity of agromizids (leaf miners) in the South Caucasus, the species external morphological features, their host plants, the development of larvae and pupae and to assess the degree of crop infestation by leaf‐miners.The study was carried out within the framework of the scs 21‐002 scientific program “Leaf miners as pests of agricultural plants (Diptera: Agromyzidae): the latest control measures”. …”
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An Automated Load Restoration Approach for Improving Load Serving Capabilities in Smart Urban Networks by Ali Esmaeel Nezhad, Mohammad Sadegh Javadi, Farideh Ghanavati, Toktam Tavakkoli Sabour

“…The proposed framework is implemented on a modified IEEE 33-bus test system and the results show that the model is fast and accurate enough to be utilized in real-life situations without a loss of accuracy.…”
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Fault-tolerant and mobility-aware loading via Markov chain in mobile cloud computing by Ning Wang, Ya Li, Yuanbang Li, Huanxin Nie

“…This involves moving some program logic to the cloud, which improves performance and saves power. …”
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Optimization of Soft Actuator Control in a Continuum Robot by Oleksandr Sokolov, Serhii Sokolov, Angelina Iakovets, Miroslav Malaga

“…This study presents a quasi-static optimization framework for the pressure-based control of a multi-segment soft continuum manipulator. …”
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New tariff regulation for natural monopolies: what should it be? by I. A. Dolmatov, I. YU. Zolotova, I. V. Maskaev

“…The authors attempt to analyze the short-term and long-term effects of the tariff regulation and present the results obtained in the framework of the basic research program of the Higher School of Economics on the impact of tariffs in the energy sector on the main macroeconomic indicators, most often used as arguments in favor of tariff restraint. …”
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