Current Directions of Selected Plant-Origin Wastes’ Valorization in Biotechnology of Food Additives and Other Important Chemicals by Dominika Popielarz, Pavol Farkaš, Anna Bzducha-Wróbel

“…However, further research is needed to explore more efficient and environmentally friendly methods, especially in the utilization of lignocellulose in biotechnology. …”
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Designing a Platform for Additional Subject Training of Schoolchildren Based on Professional Requests of Teachers by P. S. Lomasko, A. L. Simonova, D. A. Barkhatova, L. B. Khegay

“…The purpose of the research is to determine the needs of teachers and concretize the structural, content, technological and ergonomic characteristics of the new regional platform for the implementation of additional subject training of schoolchildren in the Krasnoyarsk region, functioning in a digital society. Despite the fact that today online education resources are gaining more and more popularity, providing unlimited access to sources of knowledge for all segments of the population, their use in the real educational process, including additional subject training of schoolchildren, is not gaining such popularity as among the adult contingent of students. …”
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Development of a hydrogel-based three-dimensional (3D) glioblastoma cell lines culture as a model system for CD73 inhibitor response study by Marjan Bahraminasab, Samira Asgharzade, Ali Doostmohamadi, Atefeh Satari, Farkhonde Hasannejad, Samaneh Arab

“…Conclusion Our current research demonstrates the great potential of CD73 inhibitor for clinical translation of cancer studies by analyzing the behavior and function of 3D tumor cells, and thus for more effective treatment protocols for GBM.…”
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Altered Metabolism in Knockdown Lines of Two HXXXD/BAHD Acyltransferases During Wound Healing in Potato Tubers by Jessica L. Sinka, Indira Queralta-Castillo, Lorena S. Yeung, Isabel Molina, Sangeeta Dhaubhadel, Mark A. Bernards

“…HXXXD/BAHD acyltransferases occupy a unique place in suberization, as they function to crosslink phenolic and aliphatic monomers during suberin assembly. …”
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SK-TreePCN: Skeleton-Embedded Transformer Model for Point Cloud Completion of Individual Trees from Simulated to Real Data by Haifeng Xu, Yongjian Huai, Xun Zhao, Qingkuo Meng, Xiaoying Nie, Bowen Li, Hao Lu

“…Among the various point cloud completion methods evaluated, SK-TreePCN exhibits outstanding performance regarding the Chamfer distance (CD) and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi><mn>1</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> Score. The generated point clouds display a more natural appearance and clearer branches. …”
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CLOUD COMPUTING AND BIG DATA AS CONVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR RETAIL PRICING STRATEGIES OF SMEs by George SUCIU, Gyorgy TODORAN, Adelina OCHIAN, Victor SUCIU, Janna CROPOTOVA

“…The analysis makes not only customer profiling possible, but also brand promotion in the form of coupons, discounts or upselling to generate more sales, thus providing the opportunity for retailer SMEs to connect directly to its customers in real time. …”
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Sliding window constrained fault-tolerant filtering of compressor vibration data by Shaolin Hu, Xianxi Chen, Guoxi Sun

“…By utilizing a sliding window constraint function, the method produces a smoothed estimate for the current moment within the window. …”
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Case Report: Subcutaneous ofatumumab for patients with immunosuppressant-dependent or ineffective primary membranous nephropathy by Jie Chen, De-tian Li, Xin Feng, Bei-Ru Zhang

“…However, some patients either fail to respond to rituximab or experience adverse reactions, indicating that newer-generation CD20 mAbs may offer a more effective alternative. …”
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The probability to initiate X chromosome inactivation is determined by the X to autosomal ratio and X chromosome specific allelic properties. by Kim Monkhorst, Bas de Hoon, Iris Jonkers, Eskeatnaf Mulugeta Achame, Wouter Monkhorst, Jos Hoogerbrugge, Eveline Rentmeester, Hans V Westerhoff, Frank Grosveld, J Anton Grootegoed, Joost Gribnau

“…<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>To obtain more insight in the role of the XratioA ratio in initiation of XCI, we generated triploid mouse ES cells by fusion of haploid round spermatids with diploid female and male ES cells. …”
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Perturbation based privacy preservation and classification using Jaya Algorithm and Dragonfly Inspired Algorithm by Dipanwita Sen, Bhupati Bhusan Mishra, Prasant Kumar Pattnaik

“…They form the initial population of Jaya Algorithm. The objective function is defined and we opt for a minimization problem. …”
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Unveiling Surface Roughness Trends and Mechanical Properties in Friction Stir Welded Similar Alloys Joints Using Adaptive Thresholding and Grayscale Histogram Analysis by Haider Khazal, Azzeddine Belaziz, Raheem Al-Sabur, Hassanein I. Khalaf, Zerrouki Abdelwahab

“…This study attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the nature of the surface formation and roughness of aluminum joints during FSW processes. In order to form more efficient joints, the frictional temperature generated was monitored until reaching 450 °C, where the transverse movement of the tool and the joint welding began. …”
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Clarifying the Actual Situation of Old-Old Adults with Unknown Health Conditions and Those Indifferent to Health Using the National Health Insurance Database (KDB) System by Mio Kitamura, Takaharu Goto, Tetsuo Ichikawa, Yasuhiko Shirayama

“…In the comparison of health assessments between UHCs and KUs, “body weight loss” and “cognitive function” were more prevalent among KUs, and “smoking” and “social participation” were more prevalent among UHCs. …”
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Effect of random terms on the shape of dendrites analyzed by the phase-field model. by Shinya Fujiwara, Kiyoshiro Okada, Katsuhiro Endo, Kenta Hirayama, Mayu Muramatsu

“…The probability density function of random numbers does not affect the shape of dendrites. …”
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A Dynamic Load Modulation Power Amplifier with Ferroelectric-Based Tunable Matching Network by Pavel Turalchuk, Irina Filipiuk, Bayazet Iskakov

“…Measurement studies of the dynamic load modulation power amplifier have demonstrated an efficiency of at least 50% at 8 dB back-off and more than 60% at peak power at 2.5 GHz. Furthermore, it was found that the modulator output voltage adjustment function on input power of the bias modulator affects the linearity of the output power. …”
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Genetic clustering algorithm by M. A. Anfyorov

“…As a result, it has been found that stabilization of splitting into clusters is reached when the number of completed generations of evolution is 200 and more, and the population size is rather small: from 150 chromosomes (in this case no considerable amount of random-access store is required). …”
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Operational monitoring of acoustic sensor networks by V. A. Boltenkov, G. Kh. M. Al-Jasri

“…TDOA estimates as argmaximum of cross-correlation function (CCF) for signals on each microphone sensors pair. …”
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Specific Cell Targeting Therapy Bypasses Drug Resistance Mechanisms in African Trypanosomiasis. by Juan D Unciti-Broceta, José L Arias, José Maceira, Miguel Soriano, Matilde Ortiz-González, José Hernández-Quero, Manuel Muñóz-Torres, Harry P de Koning, Stefan Magez, José A Garcia-Salcedo

“…Current therapies are characterized by high drug toxicity and increasing drug resistance mainly associated with loss-of-function mutations in the transporters involved in drug import. …”
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Strategies for choice of antiretroviral therapy in patients with HIV infection and concomitant cardiovascular disease: A review by Vasily I. Shakhgildyan, Simon T. Matskeplishvili

“…Comorbidity is gradually becoming one of the main drivers for premature mortality in HIV patients: in Russia, from 2007 to 2022, mortality rates in HIV patients not related to opportunistic infections increased more than twofold. People living with HIV have all the common cardiovascular risk factors, moreover, special attention should be paid to kidney function, since its impact on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk is frequently underestimated. …”
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Campus risk detection using the S-YOLOv10-SIC network and a self-calibrated illumination algorithm by Qiang Zhao, Sha Liu, Shihao Zhang, Baijuan Wang

“…The experimental results show that compared with the original YOLOv10 network, the classification loss of the model generated by the improved algorithm is reduced by about 20%, the feature point loss is reduced by about 16%, and the Parameters, Gradients and GFLOPs are reduced by more than 80%. …”
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Age-related changes in Kv4/Shal and Kv1/Shaker expression in Drosophila and a role for reactive oxygen species. by Maximiliano J Vallejos, Abdunaser Eadaim, Eu-Teum Hahm, Susan Tsunoda

“…We show that Kv4/Shal protein levels decline sharply from 3 days to 10 days, then more gradually from 10 to 40 days after eclosion. …”
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