Seasonal Particle Size Distribution and its Influencing Factors in a Typical Polluted City in North China by Wenxin Wang, Xiaohua Wang, Xue Li, Chao Chen, Yu Wang, Zhiwen Xing, Kun Li, Min Wei, Xiao Sui, Houfeng Liu

“…Abstract In this study, the particle size distribution and its influencing factors were conducted using a multi-channel particle size sensor coupled with Pearson and generalized additive model (GAM) during winter 2021 to autumn 2022 in Jinan, North China. …”
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Multicriteria assessment of recently implemented conservation agriculture cropping systems across farmers’ plots in northwestern Cambodia by Sambo Pheap, Alexis Thoumazeau, Jun Murase, Vang Seng, Jean-Pierre Sarthou, Veng Sar, Linda Kimbo, Soklin Kheam, Pheakdey Chan, Pao Srean, Samrith Leang, Lyda Hok, Florent Tivet

“…Selected components of soil health, agronomic and economic performances were used for multi-criteria analysis. On this Mollisols, SHI was positively impacted under CA (15% and 6% higher in 2021 and 2022), but with some soil parameters varied from one year to the next. …”
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Electronic Records Management and Office Organization: A Case Study of Rugarama Hospital. by Nimusiima, Talent

“…The study finding on the possible solutions to the challenges faced in implementing records management practices at Uganda College of Commerce Kabale were; retention and durability, provision of storage and security, establishing ongoing programs for training in managing records, recognizing this multi-format reality of paper and electronic records, maintaining the authenticity and trustworthiness of records management practices, proper disposal and use of a computer based records management practices. …”
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Procurement Planning and Service Delivery in Local Governments in Uganda: A Case Study of Kabale District Local Government. by Ashaba, Shillen

“…According to the study, 100% of respondents agreed on the roles undertaken by different stakeholders during procurement planning in Kabale District Local Government, such as each user department preparing a multi-annual work plan based on the approved budget, each entity defining its procurement requirements, and the procuring entity dividing requirements allocated to a single procurement process into separate lots. …”
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Transitioning health workers from PEPFAR contracts to the Uganda government payroll by Everd, Bikaitwoha Maniple

“…At the national level, multi-sectoral engagements (incorporating the influential Ministry of Finance), developing a joint transition road map, aligning with GoU salary scales and recruitment processes emerged as facilitators of the transition process. …”
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Propaganda ve Emperyalizmin Kültürel Boyutu: Baby TV “Mini Matinee” Örneği by Feyza Ünlü Dalaylı

“…Batı tahakkümü kendisini bütün kültürlerde göstermektedir. …”
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Cat Scratch Disease: A Diagnostic Challenge in Cervical Lymphadenopathy by Bipin Kishore Prasad, Yamuna Ranganathan, Gunjan Dwivedi, Devika Gupta

“…Radiological investigation showed lymph nodal conglomeration involving level II, III and IV with non-enhancing necrotic areas within it. Mass was abutting Internal Jugular Vein, which was attenuated cranially. …”
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Gorivo kao element sigurnosti i pouzdanosti funkcionisanja raketnog sistema by Miloš Čolaković

“…Najbolja rešenja u tom slučaju dobiju se numeričkim metodama koje moraju biti praćene većim brojem eksperimenata da bi se definisali parametri goriva u uslovima identičnim uslovima čuvanja i eksploatacije raketnog motora. …”
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Ulusaşırı Göçler ve Çok Kültürlü Toplumlarda Etnik Medya: Kuramsal Yaklaşımlar by Oya Hacer Adıgüzel

“…Bu makalenin amacı, mevcut literatürdeki tartışmalar üzerinden küresel göçler sonucunda Batı toplumlarında ortaya çıkan çok kültürlü toplumlardaki etnik medyayı üç temel perspektifle analiz etmektir. …”
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Evaluating the impact of Bt rice straw return on Eisenia fetida: AHP analysis, biomarkers, and Bt protein fate by Chuanjun Shi, Junfei Li, Huiru Zhan, Yuanjiao Feng, Jianwu Wang, Zhengao Xiao, Yinghua Shu

“…A 90-d laboratory experiment was carried out using Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) rice straws (BTTY and GK775) and non-Bt rice straws (MXZ2, HH1179, and HH38). …”
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Prevalence and molecular characterization of Beta-lactamase resistance gene in multidrug resistance bacteria, Proteus spp. by Sabiha S. Salih, Shno J. Mohammed, Imad M Noori, Lana MA Mohammed, Taib A. Hama Soor

“…Existing of drug resistance bacteria in meat is a series of health concern and beta-lactamase is responsible to generate multi drug resistances in bacteria. Meat is a source of delivering food born pathogen bacteria including Proteus species. …”
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Land use transition and its driving mechanisms in China’s human-elephant conflict areas by WANG Yuan, WANG Yahui, YANG Aoxi, FAN Hui, XIE Fei

“…In the core conflict areas, a multi-crop structure dominated by rubber has formed (accounting for 69.8% of the planting area). (2) Land use in the core conflict zone exhibits relatively extensive patterns, with land transfer rates and input-output efficiency demonstrating significantly lower values compared to those observed in peripheral regions. (3) Land use transition is influenced by multiple factors, including Asian elephant activities, economic development, and agricultural policy adjustments. …”
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Efficient Feature Selection and Hyperparameter Tuning for Improved Speech Signal-Based Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis via Machine Learning Techniques by Deepak Painuli, Suyash Bhardwaj, Utku Kose

“…This study investigates 12 machine learning models—logistic regression (LR), support vector machine (SVM, linear/RBF), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), Naïve bayes (NB), decision tree (DT), random forest (RF), extra trees (ET), gradient boosting (GbBoost), extreme gradient boosting (XgBoost), adaboost, and multi-layer perceptron (MLP)—to develop a robust ML model capable of reliably identifying PD cases. …”
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The Cost of an Operating Room Minute for Heart Valve Procedures by Eugene A. Grossi, Matthew Moore, Peter J. Mallow, John A. Rizzo

“…**Conclusions:** Quantifying the variable cost of an OR minute from a multi-institution database provides researchers with an important benchmark to use in economic evaluations of valvular procedures.…”
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Formulation Optimization and Quality Analysis of Dendrobium officinale Chewable Tablets by Wenyu ZHANG, Xianshu FU, Xue BAI, Shiwen WU, Jiabin LI, Xiaoping YU, Mingzhou ZHANG, Zihong YE

“…A single-factor experiment was used to study the effects of excipients on the appearance, taste, hardness, and weight difference of chewable tablets, and the optimal formula was selected by combining the response surface optimization and multi-index weight methods. Results showed that the optimal compound ratio of the main ingredients of D. officinale chewable tablets (mass fraction) was D. officinale:P. sibiricum:Z. jujuba=35%:10%:5%, and the corresponding total mass fractions of polysaccharides, flavonoids, and polyphenols were 159.64±0.14, 79.44±0.35, and 78.10±0.28 mg/g, respectively. …”
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Understanding stakeholder views of the use of digital therapeutic interventions within children and young people’s mental health services by Brioney Gee, Brioney Gee, Tim Clarke, Tim Clarke, Jess Garner, Bonnie Teague, Bonnie Teague, Georgianna Coote, Aoife Dunne, Rachel McGuire, Andrew Laphan, Manjul Rathee, Jon Wilson, Jon Wilson

“…Increased use of digital technology in the delivery of children and young people’s mental health services has been proposed as a means of increasing access to treatment.MethodsWe conducted three interrelated studies to provide multi-perspective insights into the use of digital therapeutic interventions within children and young people’s mental health services in the UK. …”
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InceptionDTA: Predicting drug-target binding affinity with biological context features and inception networks by Mahmood Kalemati, Mojtaba Zamani Emani, Somayyeh Koohi

“…InceptionDTA utilizes a multi-scale convolutional architecture based on the Inception network to capture features at various spatial resolutions, enabling the extraction of both local and global features from protein sequences and drug SMILES. …”
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Interval combined prediction of mine tunnel's air volume considering multiple influencing factors. by Zhen Wang, Erkan Topal, Liangshan Shao, Chen Yang

“…The grey correlation method is selected as the optimization criterion, and the preference coefficients are used to transform the multi-objective optimization problem into a single-objective optimization problem. …”
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Target Detection Using Fused Unidentical Photonics-Based LFM Sub-Band Radar Signals With an Adaptive Feed Forward Network Equalizer by Bikash Nakarmi, S. M. Rezwanul Islam, Hum Nath Parajuli, Ikechi Augustine Ukaegbu, Aigerim Ashimbayeva, Carlo Molardi, T. D. Subash, Xiangchuan Wang, Shilong Pan

“…Experimental results demonstrate the FFNE’s superior performance in enhancing range resolution and PSL in multi-sub-band radar systems compared to scenarios without FFNE.…”
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Optimizing the selection of quantitative traits in plant breeding using simulation by Rafael Augusto Vieira, Ana Paula Oliveira Nogueira, Roberto Fritsche-Neto

“…For low heritability traits, multi-trait analysis improves accuracy, especially when correlated with high heritability traits. …”
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