Analysis of the Relationship Between Energy Consumption in Transport, Carbon Dioxide Emissions and State Revenues: The Case of Poland by Anna Borucka, Sebastian Sobczuk

“…After cointegration test, the Impulse Response Function was used to examine dynamics and identify system shocks. …”
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External debt-growth nexus: Empirical evidence from Ethiopian economy by Wondatir Atinafu

“…Hence, this study recommended the government of Ethiopia and local policy makers to improve the existing policies on public external debt management such as to invest in productive activities and sectors, to implement structural change, public sector reform and tax reform, should try to minimize the dependence on external borrowing through diversifying the economy so as to generate more revenue in the domestic.…”
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Policy Options for Contributory Health Insurance Schemes in Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries to Enable Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage by Agnes Gatome-Munyua, Joseph Kutzin, Cheryl Cashin

“…The promise of contributory health insurance to generate additional, self-sustaining funding for the health sector has not been achieved in many low- and lower-middle-income countries. …”
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Unpacking media bias in the growing divide between cable and network news by Homa Hosseinmardi, Samuel Wolken, David M. Rothschild, Duncan J. Watts

“…Abstract The potential for a large, diverse population to coexist peacefully is thought to depend on the existence of a public sphere in which citizens are exposed to similar facts about similar topics. A generation ago, broadcast television news was widely considered to serve this function; however, since the rise of cable news in the 1990s, critics and scholars have worried that the corresponding fragmentation and segregation of audiences has caused this baseline of common understanding to be lost. …”
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Femtosecond laser ablation of nitrocellulose for spatio-temporal flow control in µPADs by Esteban Builes Münden, Andreas Dietzel

“…Microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (μPADs) are gaining popularity due to their low cost and ease of use, but controlling fluid flow for more complex biochemical assays within these devices remains challenging. …”
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Turkish scene text recognition: Introducing extensive real and synthetic datasets and a novel recognition model by Serdar Yıldız

“…In addition, we propose the Synthetic Turkish Scene Text Recognition (STS-TR) dataset, an enormous collection of 12 million samples created using a novel histogram-based method, more efficient than common synthetic data generation methods. …”
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Characterization of sucrose binding protein as a seed-specific promoter in transgenic tobacco Nicotiana tabacum L. by Nasibeh Chenarani, Abbasali Emamjomeh, Hassan Rahnama, Katayoun Zamani, Mahmoud Solouki

“…Moreover, the SBP promoter function in the seed oil content was evaluated by the expression of DGAT1. …”
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Magmatic lithospheric heating and weakening during continental rifting: A simple scaling law, a 2‐D thermomechanical rifting model and the East African Rift System by Harro Schmeling, Herbert Wallner

“…This heating enhances viscous weakening by one order of magnitude or more. In a feedback mechanism rifting is dynamically enforced, leading to a significant increase of rift induced melt generation. …”
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A UAV path planning algorithm for bridge construction safety inspection in complex terrain by Wenyuan Xu, Chuang Cui, Yongcheng Ji, Xiang Li, Shuai Li

“…To ascertain the efficacy of the enhanced algorithm, 14 standard test function convergence comparison experiments were conducted, as well as three-dimensional path planning simulation experiments under multi-scenario conditions of bridge construction by UAV. …”
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DIAGNOSTIC COMPLEX FOR IDENTIFING FAULTS OF MODERN CARS ENGINES by G. G. Musayelyants, E. A. Pavlenko, D. K. Sysoyev

“…Diagnostic practice shows that every year in order to improve environmental safety becomes more complicated engine design and its systems, and in particular the electronic control systems. …”
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Genome-wide association studies are enriched for interacting genes by Peter T. Nguyen, Simon G. Coetzee, Irina Silacheva, Dennis J. Hazelett

“…Results We used genetic algorithms to measure fitness of gene-cell set proposals against a series of objective functions that capture data and annotations. The highest information objective function captured protein-protein interactions. …”
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The Small RNA MicF Represses ObgE and SeqA in <i>Escherichia coli</i> by Aaron Y. Stibelman, Amy Y. Sariles, Melissa K. Takahashi

“…Our study suggests that, beyond its established role in membrane permeability management, MicF exerts control over chromosome dynamics in response to distinct environmental cues, implicating a more multifaceted regulatory function in bacterial stress adaptation.…”
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Knowledge Map and Future Avenue of Cognitive Literary Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis (1975–2024) by Zhou Qiaoqiao, Noritah Omar, Zainor Izat Zainal, Ida Baizura Bahar

“…Scholars such as Zunshine, Palmer, Fauconnier & Turner and their works are most frequently co-cited; (3) The four dominant research topics are cognitive/theoretical/ontological foundations of narrative, intersection between cognitive poetics and cognitive linguistics, affective cognition in literary studies, and extended cognition and the environment; (4) The five developing trends are the neurocognitive poetics model of literary reading, expansion of scope in CLS, second-generation approaches to CLS, neuroesthetics and literary perception, and cognitive function of imagination. …”
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Social Perception of Zoos and Aquariums: What We Know and How We Know It by Ana Villarroya, Rafael Miranda, Andrea Pino-del-Carpio, María Casas

“…At the same time, the functions they fulfill and the way they do that have been subject to scrutiny from different fields of knowledge. …”
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Transfer Path Analysis and Contribution Evaluation Using SVD- and PCA-Based Operational Transfer Path Analysis by Wei Cheng, Diane Blamaud, Yapeng Chu, Lei Meng, Jingbai Lu, Wajid Ali Basit

“…This allows the presented OTPA to be more accurate than its traditional counterpart. Once the transmissibility function is obtained, the response synthesis is determined, and the transfer path analysis and path contribution evaluation can be effectively carried out. …”
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Daily reference evapotranspiration prediction using empirical and data-driven approaches: A case study of Adana plain by Semin Topaloğlu Paksoy, Deniz Levent Koç

“…The RF and ANN methods generally demonstrated better estimation accuracy than other data-driven methods. …”
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Self-organization and applications of neural organoids by Hideya Sakaguchi

“…“Organoid” is a coined word which means organ like-tissue (Organ+oid), and organoid is determined as stem cell-derived three-dimensional (3D) tissues that recapitulate developmental processes and tissue specific function in vivo. Generally, they are derived from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) including induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and embryonic stem cells (ESCs), or from tissue stem cells. …”
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Optimal control of a reaction-diffusion epidemic model with non-compliance by Marcelo Bongarti, Christian Parkinson, Weinan Wang

“…The existence of optimal control is then established in an abstract framework for a fairly general class of objective functions. Necessary first–order optimality conditions are obtained via a Lagrangian-based stationarity system. …”
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Helix Folding in One Dimension: Effects of Proline Co-Solvent on Free Energy Landscape of Hydrogen Bond Dynamics in Alanine Peptides by Krzysztof Kuczera

“…Overall, this work provides new insights into effects of proline co-solvent on helix folding, complementary to more standard approaches based on three-dimensional molecular structures.…”
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Quantitative Assessment of Soil and Water Loss in the Nanpan and Beipan River Basins Based on CSLE Model by LIU Xiaolin, SHI Yandong, ZENG Xiaolei, HUANG Hairong, YIN Bin

“…The quantitative assessment of soil and water loss can provide a scientific basis for preventing and controlling soil and water loss disasters and implementing ecological environmental construction.Based on the spatial analysis and data management functionalities on the ArcGIS platform with multisource remote sensing imagery used as the information source,the data of land use,vegetation cover,and terrain slope in the Nanpan River and Beipan River basins were obtained.The soil erosion modulus was calculated by employing China soil loss equation (CSLE),yielding monitoring results for soil and water loss in the Nanpan River and Beipan River basins.The results show that in 2021, the total area affected by soil and water loss in the Nanpan River and Beipan River basins was 23 966.97 km²,primarily characterized by mild erosion intensity.Soil and water loss in the northeast part of the basins was more severe than that in the southwest part.The phenomenon mainly occurred in arable land,woodland,and grassland,accounting for over 90% of the total soil and water loss area,with vegetation cover at all levels showing a prevalence of mild and moderate erosion.Soil and water loss in the entire region mainly occurred in slope grades ranging from 6° to 35°.In general,the issue of soil and water loss remains prominent in specific regions of the Nanpan and Beipan River basins.It is necessary to adopt a combined approach of prevention and remediation to address this issue and improve the overall situation.…”
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