Risk analysis of road traffic accidents in Ukraine by Oleg Lyashuk, Dmytro Mironov, Volodymyr Martyniuk, Viktor Aulin, Oleg Tson, Pavlo Maruschak

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Evaluation of the quality of standing trees using an Arbotom acoustic stress tomograph by Michajlová Katarína, Gejdoš Miloš, Gergeľ Tomáš, Gretsch Dominik

“…Combining the acoustic tomography method with other precision forestry techniques could potentially yield more satisfactory results, paving the way for the development of automated systems for assessing tree quality in forest stands. …”
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Assessing the Role of Electronic Banking on Performance of Micro Financial Institutions: A Case Study of Pride Micro Finance Limited Kabale District. by Twagirayesu, Bertin

“…The study found that The study findings on the importance of electronic banking methods in microfinance institutions. the results were obtained from; a digital signature for security. convenience way of operating banking transactions, faster transfer, reliability, and time factor. the study went ahead to find the types of electronic banking methods adopted in microfinance towards their performance and the responses were obtained from mobile/SMS banking. electronic funds transfers. self Service (PC) banking, POS Banking (Credit and Debit cards), internet banking, and an automated teller machine the study findings on the relationship between electronic banking on the performance of microfinance institutions, the results revealed that there is a very high positive significant relationship between electronic banking on the performance of microfinance institutions that is 0.853 significant at 0.0I level of a two-tailed test with 50 degrees of freedom. …”
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Survival of Expiratory Aerosols in a Room: Study Using a Bi-compartment and Bi-component Indoor Air Model by Sreekanth Bathula, Srinivasan Anand, Thaseem Thajudeen, Yelia Shankaranarayana Mayya, Probal Chaudhury, Chaturvedi Shashank

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Incommensurable matter-wave jets in quasi-1D geometry by Tadej Mežnaršič, Rok Žitko, Katja Gosar, Jure Pirman, Katja Arh, Matevž Jug, Erik Zupanič, Peter Jeglič

“…Abstract Bose-Einstein condensates subjected to modulation of the interaction between atoms exhibit the emergence of density waves and matter-wave jets with a velocity proportional to the square root of the modulation frequency. …”
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Equilibrium Sorption Studies of Hg (II) Ions from Aqueous Solution using Powdered Swamp Arum (<i>Lasimorpha senegalensis</i>) Seeds by Timi Tarawou, Young Erepamowei

“…The influence of initial metal  concentration on the percent adsorption of Hg (II) ions onto powdered swamp arum seeds was studied in a batch system and the filtrate was analyzed using Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS). The percent adsorbed for 10, 20, 40, 60 and 80 mg/L of the aqueous solution were 97.7, 98.9, 99.3, 99.7, and 96.5% respectively. …”
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Prokaryotic cellulase gene clusters derived from 2,305 metagenomes by Bing Song, Fernando D. K. Tria, Josip Skejo

“…However, it is a difficult task for any organism to get carbon atoms from the cellulose as it has a highly complex structure. …”
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Physicochemical, Major Anions and Heavy Metals in Surface Water and Groundwater at Pb – Zn Mining areas of Ebonyi State, Nigeria by SU Opoke, AD Osayande

“…Heavy metals in borehole samples were analysed using Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS). Physico-chemical parameters determined. …”
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Coalescence of carbon nanotubes while preserving the chiral angles by Akira Takakura, Taishi Nishihara, Koji Harano, Ovidiu Cretu, Takeshi Tanaka, Hiromichi Kataura, Yuhei Miyauchi

“…Abstract Atomically precise coalescence of graphitic nanocarbon molecules is one of the most challenging reactions in sp 2 carbon chemistry. …”
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Characterizing absolutely irreducible integer-valued polynomials over discrete valuation domains by Hiebler, Moritz, Nakato, Sarah, Rissner, Roswitha

“…Rings of integer-valued polynomials are known to be atomic, non-factorial rings furnishing examples for both irreducible elements for which all powers factor uniquely (absolutely irreducibles) and irreducible elements where some power has a factorization different from the trivial one. …”
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Descriptive Analysis of Heavy Metals Content of Beef from Eastern Uganda and their Safety for Public Consumption. by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Paul, Bogere

“…Our entry point was to assess by atomic absorption spectrophotometry the levels of essential elements copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn), and non-essential elements lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), and cadmium (Cd) in 40 beef samples collected from within and around Soroti (Uganda). …”
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Inorganic Pollutants in Edible Grasshoppers (Ruspolia nitidula) of Uganda and their Major Public Health Implications. by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Namazi, Catherine, Basemera, Elizabeth, Atuheire, Collins, Odwee, Ambrose, Majalija, Samuel, Kateregga, John N.

“…Lead (Pb), Chromium (Cr), Zinc (Zn) and Cadmium (Cd) using atomic absorbance spectrometric (AAS) method on the heads and abdomen of the insects. …”
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AI-Driven Meat Food Drying Time Prediction for Resource Optimization and Production Planning in Smart Manufacturing by Rajnish Rakholia, Andres L. Suarez-Cetrulo, Manokamna Singh, Ricardo Simon Carbajo

“…Therefore, implementing an automation solution by developing a predictive model for drying times in meat manufacturing is essential for optimizing the production lifecycle. …”
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The First Saint Petersburg Regional Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Registry on the Basis of the Regional Health Information System: Principles of Functioning, Testing Results, Plan of... by Yu. P. Uspenskiy, A. M. Sarana, L. N. Melentyeva, A. V. Yazenok, S. V. Petrov, Yu. A. Fominykh, S. V. Ivanov, A. V. Shotik, A. M. Segal, T. V. Gorbacheva, S. D. Plotnikova, K. V. Dronov

“…The accumulation of prospective data in the Clinical Module continues, which in the near future will make it possible to test and configure the automated analytical block of the registry.Conclusion. …”
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Experimental implementation of a non-ideal three-waveplate array as a polarization disturbance corrector by J.A. Jiménez-Arias, M. Vázquez-Ibarra, S.A. Salazar-Altamirano, P. Moreno-Martínez, J.M. López-Romero, K. Jiménez-García, N.V. Corzo

“…Our work sets the theoretical and experimental foundations for developing automated optical correction systems with precise polarization control in polarization-based experiments.…”
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DockCADD: A streamlined in silico pipeline for the identification of potent ribosomal S6 Kinase 2 (RSK2) inhibitors by El Mehdi Karim, Meriem Khedraoui, Abdelkbir Errougui, Yasir S. Raouf, Abdelouahid Samadi, Samir Chtita

“…Herein, we developed an open-source computational pipeline, identified as DockCADD (available at https://github.com/mehdikariim/DockCADD), which enables the identification of potent RSK2 inhibitors by automated virtual screening, ADME-Tox profiling, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. …”
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First-principles investigation of Ra doping effects on structural, electronic, and optical properties of BaTiO3 perovskite for solar cell applications by Sonia Chahar, Krishna Kumar Mishra, Rajnish Sharma

“…The orbital nature of Ba, Ra, Ti, and O atoms was analyzed through density of state and projected density of state analyses for pure BaTiO _3 , RaTiO _3 , and Ra-doped BaTiO _3 (x = 0.25, 0.50, 0.75). …”
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Amorphization dependent recrystallisation of Sb2Te3 by Nur Qalishah Adanan, Simon Wredh, Joel K W Yang, Robert E Simpson

“…We show how the level of amorphousness (disorder) of antimony-telluride (Sb _2 Te _3 ) can be controlled using pulsed laser heating, and that the recrystallisation temperature strongly depends on the local atomic configurations in the amorphous structure. …”
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Inter-individual Variability in Psychological Outcomes of Supervised Exercise in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes / Variabilidad interindividual en los efectos psicológicos del ejercici... by Marco Guicciardi, Romina Lecis, Davide Massidda, Lucina Corgiolu, Adelina Porru, Matteo Pusceddu, Francesca Spanu

“…These results support the need to develop customized programs of exercise in T2DM that take into account different phases of the exercise process and individual variability.   …”
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Immune profiling of human vestibular schwannoma secretions identifies TNF-α and TWEAK as cytokines with synergistic potential to impair hearing by Sasa Vasilijic, Richard Seist, Zhenzhen Yin, Lei Xu, Konstantina M. Stankovic

“…The most promising effector molecules were validated in vivo in an anatomically accurate mouse model of VS, and in vitro with mouse fibroblasts (L929) and auditory cell lines representing pro-sensory precursors of hair cells (UB-OC1) and auditory neuroblasts (US-VOT-N33). …”
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