Overview of corrosion behaviour of ceramic materials in molten salt environments by Agha Inya Ndukwe, Chukwuma Daniel Okolo, Benjamin Uchenna Nwadirichi

“…The processes of corrosion resistance of various ceramic compositions subjected to various molten salt compositions and temperatures were also scrutinized. …”
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Wolverines on the Move: A Multi‐Scale Analysis of Forest and Landscape Factors Influencing Wolverine Occurrence in Finland by Pinja‐Emilia Lämsä, Audrey Mercier, Andreas Lindén, Aarne Hovi, Miina Rautiainen

“…Occupied and unoccupied sites were distinguished by landscape fragmentation, tree volume, tree species composition, and distance to clearcuts. Sites were more likely to become occupied when forests were less fragmented and had broadleaved trees, while the probability of occurrence decreased if the total volume of trees was high or fresh clearcuts were in close proximity. …”
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Assessment of Patient's Knowledge about Avoidance of Recurrent Urolithiasis by Jumah Abdulrida, Haleema Kadhim

“… Objectives : To assess the patient's knowledge about avoidance of recurrent Urolithiasis, and to identify the relationship between some variables (age, gender, level of education) and patient's knowledge. …”
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Effects of Relative Precipitation Changes on Soil Microbial Community Structure in Two Alpine Grassland Ecosystems by Jianyu Xiao, Zhishu Wang, Fusong Han, Shaolin Huang, Chengqun Yu, Gang Fu

“…Precipitation variability profoundly influences soil microbial diversity, community assembly processes, and co-occurrence networks. …”
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Deterministic Processes Dominantly Shape Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Community Associated with <i>Pinus tabuliformis</i>, an Endemic Tree Species in China by Yongjun Fan, Zhimin Yu, Jinyan Li, Xinyu Li, Lu Wang, Jiani Lu, Jianjun Ma, Yonglong Wang

“…A high proportion of unique EM fungal OTUs (33, 31.4% of total OTUs) were detected, and some abundant OTUs preferred to exist in specific sites. The composition of EM fungal communities was significantly different among the sites, with soil, climatic, and spatial variables being related to the community variations. …”
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Ecological correlates of taxonomic and functional beta diversity of wetland breeding birds in central part of Inner Mongolia wetlands by Ling-Ying Shuai, Yu-Xin Luo, Yue Luo, Jing-Wen Bai, Di Meng, Fu-Jia Sha, Ke Shi, Wan-Lan Ma, Fu-Shun Zhang

“…Species-poor lakes tended to contribute more to the overall beta diversity. While large lakes with high richness are normally considered important, our results highlighted the importance of protecting small, species-poor lakes with high ecological uniqueness.…”
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Specific soil factors drive the differed stochastic assembly of rhizosphere and root endosphere fungal communities in pear trees across different habitats by Yunfeng Liu, Yunfeng Liu, Zhenzhou Wang, Xiang Sun, Xueli He, Yuxing Zhang

“…Procrustes analysis, variance partitioning analysis, and ordination regression analysis were employed to explore the ecological relationships between soil factors and fungal community composition.ResultsThe rhizosphere fungal community exhibited higher richness, greater diversity and lower structural variability compared to the root endosphere. …”
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Natal soil consumption shifts gut microbiome in captive Ōkārito kiwi (Apteryx rowi) by Stephen P. Rowe, Matthew B. Stott, Bethany Brett, Priscilla A. San Juan, Anastasija Podolyan, Manpreet K. Dhami

“…The fungal community in the Ōkārito kiwi gut was more transitory, changing rapidly following soil amendment. …”
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Coupling between evapotranspiration, water use efficiency, and evaporative stress index strengthens after wildfires in New Mexico, USA by Ryan C. Joshi, Annalise Jensen, Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell, Joshua B. Fisher

“…We found that the land cover composition of the areas burned by the 10 studied wildfires differs from the land cover composition of New Mexico as a whole (p < 0.05). …”
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Distinct foliar fungal communities in Pinus contorta across native and introduced ranges: evidence for context dependency of pathogen release by Ruirui Zhao, Susan J. Nuske, Martín A. Nuñez, Alex Fajardo, Jaime Moyano, Anne C. S. McIntosh, Marie-Charlotte Nilsson, Michael J. Gundale

“…In Patagonia, the incomplete co-invasion of fungal taxa from the USA emerges as a principal driver of the observed variability in fungal community composition and pathogen release following the introduction of P. contorta. …”
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Modeling, Simulation, and Kinetic Studies of Solvent-Free Biosynthesis of Benzyl Acetate by Vijay Kumar Garlapati, Annapurna Kumari, Paramita Mahapatra, Rintu Banerjee

“…A nonlinear response surface model has been successfully developed based on central composite design with transesterification variables, namely, molarity of alcohol, reaction time, temperature, and immobilized lipase amount as input variables and molar conversion (%) as an output variable. …”
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Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNNs) for Modeling Aleatoric Uncertainty in Scientific Machine Learning by Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki, Jamal F. Husseini, Scott E. Stapleton

“…Contributions of this paper include the development of a probabilistic distance metric to optimize PNN architecture, and the deployment of PNNs in controlled data sets as well as a practical material science case involving fiber-reinforced composites. The findings confirm that PNNs effectively model aleatoric uncertainty, proving to be more appropriate than the commonly employed Gaussian process regression for this purpose. …”
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Application of Response Surface Methodology to Study the Effects of Brisket Fat, Soy Protein Isolate, and Cornstarch on Nutritional and Textural Properties of Rabbit Sausages by Joseph M. Wambui, Edward G. Karuri, Margaret M. M. Wanyoike

“…Sausage samples were prepared using a five-level three-variable Central Composite Rotatable Design with 16 combinations, including two replicates of the center point, carried out in random order. …”
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Adhesive contact between two-dimensional anisotropic elastic bodies by Nguyen Dinh Duc, Nguyen Van Thuong

“…Since the composite materials are generally anisotropic and contact bodies are all deformable, it is more practical to consider the adhesive contact of two anisotropic elastic materials. …”
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A multivariate framework for measuring international mobility in tertiary education with neutrosophic sentiment assessment by Álvaro Toledo-San-Martin, Claudio Ruff-Escobar, Purification Galindo-Villardon, Purificación Vicente-Galindo

“…This study analyzes the international mobility of tertiary education in 29 countries from 2013 to 2020 using international students as a percentage of enrollment as a primary dependent variable. The goal is to evaluate trends across nations and subsequently propose a composite index of the multidimensional phenomenon. …”
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Innovative Suspension Structures: The Role of Straight Elements Under Asymmetric Loads by Algirdas Juozapaitis, Alfonsas Daniūnas

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Determining boride layer thicknesses formed on XC38 steel with artificial neural network by Yassine El Guerri, Bendaoud Mebarek

“…They are achieved by a process known as boriding in which boron atoms are diffused into the material until saturation, where a layer that may be mono or dual-phased begins to thicken over time depending on the period of treatment, the temperature held, the media applied, the composition of the material with its impurities, and more. …”
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Effects of replacing rye silage with mixed rye-vetch-straw silage on feed intake, milk production, digestion processes, and blood metabolites in dairy cows by G. Terler, T. Gruber, T. Hartinger, Q. Zebeli

“…This research sought to evaluate the effects of feeding mixed rye-vetch-straw silage (RVSS) in replacement of whole crop rye silage on feed intake, ECM yield, milk composition, nutrient digestibility, and metabolic variables of dairy cows. …”
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Quantitative Detection of Water Content of Winter Jujubes Based on Spectral Morphological Features by Yabei Di, Huaping Luo, Hongyang Liu, Huaiyu Liu, Lei Kang, Yuesen Tong

“…Secondly, the multiple regression terms with high significance levels were used as the characteristic variables to be fused with the extracted characteristic wavelength variables for the data fusion. …”
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Heritability and tissue specificity of expression quantitative trait loci. by Enrico Petretto, Jonathan Mangion, Nicholas J Dickens, Stuart A Cook, Mande K Kumaran, Han Lu, Judith Fischer, Henrike Maatz, Vladimir Kren, Michal Pravenec, Norbert Hubner, Timothy J Aitman

“…Trans-eQTLs generally show smaller effects than cis-eQTLs and have a higher false discovery rate, particularly in more heterogeneous tissues, suggesting that small biological variability, likely relating to tissue composition, may influence detection of trans-eQTLs in this system. …”
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