Solubility Characteristics and Microstructure of Bitumen: A Review by Han Liu, Haibo Ding, Yanjun Qiu, Hinrich Grothe

“…The paper also highlights the development of solubility theories and various characterization tests for bitumen, as well as the distribution of functional groups of solvents and their parameters. …”
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Partial Cell Fate Transitions to Promote Cardiac Regeneration by Jianchang Yang

“…Heart disease, including myocardial infarction (MI), remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, necessitating the development of more effective regenerative therapies. Direct reprogramming of cardiomyocyte-like cells from resident fibroblasts offers a promising avenue for myocardial regeneration, but its efficiency and consistency in generating functional cardiomyocytes remain limited. …”
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Forelimb feathering, soft tissues, and skeleton of the flying dromaeosaurid Microraptor by Maxime Grosmougin, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Matthieu Chotard, Luke A. Barlow, T. Alexander Deccechi, Michael B. Habib, Juned Zariwala, Scott A. Hartman, Xing Xu, Michael Pittman

“…These results serve as a starting point to conduct more precise and integrative analyses (e.g., including hindwings and/or tail) on the locomotor behaviours of Microraptor.…”
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Design and simulation of CsPb.625Zn.375IBr2-based perovskite solar cells with different charge transport layers for efficiency enhancement by M. Khalid Hossain, Md Aminul Islam, M. Shihab Uddin, Prabhu Paramasivam, Junainah Abd Hamid, Razan A. Alshgari, V. K. Mishra, Rajesh Haldhar

“…We also examine the effects of temperature, shunt resistance, series resistance, generation rate, recombination rate, current-voltage (JV) curve, and quantum efficiency (QE) properties to learn more about the performance of the optimized device. …”
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Understanding Factors Affecting the Use of Urban Parks Through the Lens of Ecosystem Services and Blue–Green Infrastructure: The Case of Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia by Diana Dushkova, Mina Taherkhani, Anastasia Konstantinova, Viacheslav I. Vasenev, Elvira A. Dovletyarova

“…The park was mostly attractive to the younger generation (the highest number of visitors), whereas visitors over 60 years old were hardly represented. …”
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Formation control method for multiple flight vehicles based on adaptive dynamic programming by Jie XIAO, Qingpu TANG, Jiale LI, Guofei LI

“…For complex nonlinear multivehicle systems, even with incomplete basis functions, the method’s efficacy is also demonstrated.…”
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Transcriptional Sequencing and Gene Expression Analysis of Various Genes in Fruit Development of Three Different Black Pepper (Piper nigrum L.) Varieties by Choy Yuen Khew, Jennifer Ann Harikrishna, Wei Yee Wee, Ee Tiing Lau, Siaw San Hwang

“…The high-quality assembly of 66,906 of unigenes included 64.4% of gene sequences (43,115) with similarity to one or more protein sequences from the GenBank database. …”
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Cognitive and neuroimaging profile of a Brazilian family with CADASIL by Júlio César Vasconcelos da Silva, Emerson L. Gasparetto, Charles André

“…The MRI study suggests greater involvement of frontal lobes in more severely affected individuals. Even functionally independent individuals may exhibit significant neuropsychological and neuroimaging changes. …”
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A kinetic model for USP14 regulated substrate degradation in 26S proteasome. by Di Wu, Qi Ouyang, Hongli Wang, Youdong Mao

“…The model elucidates that USP14 typically reduces the substrate degradation rate and reveals the functional dependence of this rate on the concentrations of substrate and adenosine triphosphate (ATP). …”
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The hidden ontological variable in quantum harmonic oscillators by Gerard ’t Hooft

“…The classical states can form the basis of Hilbert space that can be adopted in describing the quantum model. Wave functions in the quantum system generate probability distributions in the classical one. …”
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New Farming as an Example of Social Innovation Responding to Challenges of Inner Mountain Areas of Italian Alps by Alessandro Gretter, Cristina Dalla Torre, Federica Maino, Andrea Omizzolo

“…Emerging common elements identified include multi-functionality, new job opportunities and profiles, more substantial social effects and the presence of a series of barriers. …”
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MOSRS: An engineering multi-objective optimization through Einsteinian concept. by Vahid Goodarzimehr, João Luiz Junho Pereira, Nima Khodadadi

“…The literature shows they are the best, and there is space for new algorithms to deliver Pareto Fronts (PFs) with more convergence and coverage at lower computational costs. …”
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Education Between Cultural “Canon” and the Future: “Classics” and Their Didactic Value by Lech Witkowski

“…The latter is to be perceived as invisible environment constituting symbolic soil for the memory of signifiers which serve for self-expression, understanding of the Other and for creative autotranscendence and enrichment of the cultural patrimony for the next generations. The basic message of the text requests more profound educational perception and treatement of tradition in order to make it participate in influences becoming the energetic and symbolic background of cultural development at the same time critically revisited in order to meet the challenges of the future.…”
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An efficient eigenvector-based crossover for differential evolution: Simplifying with rank-one updates by Tae Jong Choi

“…Experiments conducted on 57 benchmark functions demonstrated that our method finds quicker and more accurate solutions than previous methods. …”
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Evolutionary changes in the complexity of the tectum of nontetrapods: a cladistic approach. by Caio Maximino

“…Those findings shed new light on the evolution of an functionally important structure in nontetrapods, the most basal radiations of vertebrates.…”
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SUSTAINABILITY IN AGRICULTURAL WORK - OUR SHARED RESPONSIBILITY by Cristiana Silvia BUZATU, Iulian Virgil GHIULEANU, Valentina Constanța TUDOR, Nicoleta OLTENACU, George VLAD

“…With climate change and economic challenges on the rise, it is vital to focus on sustainable agricultural practices to ensure food security and well-functioning ecosystems. Throughout the article we highlight global and local initiatives that encourage sustainable agriculture, as well as the benefits to the environment and society, highlighting our shared responsibility to future generations, highlighting collaboration between farmers, communities, governments and international organizations. …”
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Development of Bio-Economics and Training Highly-Qualified HR in Russian Regions by E. S. Titova

“…It was pointed out that for bio-economics development we need not only the generation of effective bio-technologies but also their translation – knowledge proliferation. …”
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Heterogeneous Driver Modeling and Corner Scenarios Sampling for Automated Vehicles Testing by Jingwei Ge, Huile Xu, Jiawei Zhang, Yi Zhang, Danya Yao, Li Li

“…Then, to simulate the variability in driving behaviors, we design utility functions with several hyperparameters and generate aggressive, conservative, and normal driving strategies by adjusting hyperparameters. …”
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Potential of Bone-Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Maxillofacial and Periodontal Regeneration: A Narrative Review by Hamid Reza Khorasani, Mahboubeh Sanchouli, Javad Mehrani, Davood Sabour

“…Bone-marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) are one of the most widely studied postnatal stem cell populations and are considered to utilize more frequently in cell-based therapy and cancer. …”
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The Relationship between Work Experience, Qualifications, Performance, and Staff Perception of Digital Talent in the Workplace by Irwan Noor, Nur Ambulani

“…However, qualitative analysis revealed that the activities carried out were more directed at fulfilling the main duties and functions. …”
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