Biodiversity of colon microbiota in residents of Arkhangelsk by N. N. Kukalevskaya, T. A. Bazhukova, A. M. Grjibovski, N. V. Davidovich, S. N. Pisareva, M. A. Sabanaev

“…The sample included young people from 18 to 45 years old, BMI within normal limits, without acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. Data presented in the form of quantitative data (lg CFU/g) and categorical (not detected, normal, less and more than normal). …”
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Glacial debris flows in Zailiysky Alatau over the past 120 years by A. P. Medeu, V. P. Blagovechshenskiy, N. E. Kasatkin, V. P. Kapitsa, M. K. Kasenov, Zh. T. Raymbekova

“…Of the nine mudflows with a volume of more than 1 million m3, seven were glacial mudflows. …”
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Exploring the role of spirituality and the meaning of life of family caregivers: a qualitative study in Germany by Jenny Kubitza, Verena Steinmaier, Natascha Lauer, Anna Pendergrass, Eckhard Frick

“…There is currently a lack of studies examining how family caregivers experience the meaning of life and how spirituality helps them to cope. More research is needed to provide quality care to people in need of care and their family caregivers. …”
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Multi-Stage Simulation of Residents’ Disaster Risk Perception and Decision-Making Behavior: An Exploratory Study on Large Language Model-Driven Social–Cognitive Agent Framework by Xinjie Zhao, Hao Wang, Chengxiao Dai, Jiacheng Tang, Kaixin Deng, Zhihua Zhong, Fanying Kong, Shiyun Wang, So Morikawa

“…While acknowledging the current constraints, such as the need for enhanced emotional modeling and multimodal inputs, our framework lays a foundation for more nuanced, empirically grounded analyses of risk perception and response patterns. …”
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Environmental racism: associations between poverty, pollution, and pediatric gun violence by Amelia Bray-Aschenbrenner, Jinli Wang, Mary E. Bernardin

“…The high firearm incidence zip codes had significantly higher percentages of residents living below the poverty level (22.9% vs. 5%), more Black occupants (90.8% vs. 7%), fewer White occupants (6.4% vs. 81.4%), fewer married households (21.5% vs. 44.1%), and more female-headed households (30.9% vs. 9.3%) compared to the other 70 zip codes. …”
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Interaction of laser radiation with the material during production powders and fibers by Y. D. Chernichenko, M. N. Vereschagin, S. N. Tselueva, M. Yu. Tseluev

“…Reducing the level of energy impact to 5–6 J and increasing the thickness of the workpiece more than 500 microns does not provide the distribution of temperature fields required for the implementation of the spraying process.…”
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A Novel Smart Molecular Fuzzy Decision Support System for Solid-State Battery Investments in Grid-Level Renewable Energy Storage by Gang Kou, Hasan Dincer, Serhat Yuksel, Edanur Ergun, Serkan Eti

“…The proposed MORAN method introduces a novel molecular geometry-inspired ranking logic, which enables a more flexible modeling of performance indicators compared to linear or ratio-based methods. …”
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN SCOLIOSIS DIAGNOSIS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN CHATGPT AND SURGEONS by LUCAS SILVEIRA RABELLO DE OLIVEIRA, RAFAEL CARBONI DE SOUZA, ANDRÉ EVARISTO MARCONDES CESAR, BRUNO VIEIRA MOTTER, WILKER HERKSON DE ALMEIDA OLIVEIRA, GUILHERME FOIZER, GABRIELLE DO AMARAL VIRGINIO PEREIRA, LUCIANO MILLER REIS RODRIGUES

“…However, agreement was significantly lower in more complex cases (Cases 3 and 5), with only 11.1% and 18.8% of the specialists accepting the Al’s recommendations, respectively. …”
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A Systematic Review on Smart and Predictive Maintenance in Tool Condition Monitoring by Dhanalekshmi Prasad Yedurkar, Thomas Schlech, Markus G. R. Sause

“…This puts organizations in a position to decide between undertaking preventive replacement of parts that could have been used for some more time or running the machine till it dies (run to failure). …”
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The Effects of Group-Based versus Individual-Based Tai Chi Training on Nonmotor Symptoms in Patients with Mild to Moderate Parkinson’s Disease: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial... by Jing Hui Yang, Ya Qun Wang, Sai Qing Ye, You Gen Cheng, Yu Chen, Xiao Zhen Feng

“…Group-based Tai Chi training is considered to be a more effective and a more labor-saving method in the clinical settings, and patients tend to have a higher compliance rate in their home exercise program. …”
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Effect of Psychoeducational Training Program on Coping Skills, Spiritual Well-being, and Levels of Anxiety among Patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder by Shimaa Mohamed, Hanaa Ewise, Samah Ali

“…They were used for data collection: A Structured Interview questionnaire, a Coping Strategies Questionnaire, a Spiritual Well-being Scale, and a Beck Anxiety Scale. Results: The present study shows that more than half of patients with generalized anxiety disorder under study were in the age of <30 years (57.5%) with a mean age of 24.5±8.33. …”
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SEISMIC PICTURE OF A FAULT ZONE. WHAT CAN BE GAINED FROM THE ANALYSIS OF FINE PATTERNS OF SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF WEAK EARTHQUAKE CENTERS? by Gevorg G. Kocharyan, Svetlana B. Kishkina, Aleksey A. Ostapchuk

“…Association of earthquake hypocenters with fault zones appears more pronounced in cases with more accurately determined positions of the earthquakes. …”
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Partnerskapssamarbeid om "fagspesifikk lek" som arbeidsmåte i naturfag på småtrinnet by Nina Helgevold, Kristine Marie Olsen

“…The term third space, or more specifically a community of inquiry, is used to describe and discuss the collaboration that developed. …”
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Calculating Value in Hand and Wrist Care: A Systematic Review on the Current Literature by Zachary Chen, BS, Mithil Gudi, BS, Alex Lindahl, BS, Charles S. Day, MD, MBA

“…Studies assessing distal radius fracture care highlighted reduced imaging strategies as more cost effective than traditional methods and bandaging as more cost effective than rigid immobilization. …”
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Blastocyst selection through an interpretable artificial intelligence method versus traditional morphology grading: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Lei Chen, Yu Sun, Shanshan Wang, Chen Sun, Hang Liu, Guanqiao Shan, Haixiang Sun

“…On the fifth day of embryo culture, participants with two or more usable blastocysts will be randomised in a 1:1 ratio to either the conventional morphology group or the AI group. …”
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Change from semi‐rigid to soft collars for prehospital management of trauma patients: An observational study by Biswadev Mitra, Stephen Bernard, Cassandra Yankoff, Abha Somesh, Cara Stewart, Christine Koolstra, Carly Talarico, Ziad Nehme, Mark C. Fitzgerald, Peter A. Cameron

“…Conclusions Following a change from prehospital semi‐rigid collars to soft collars, more patients were investigated with a CT scan and more frequent clearance of the cervical spine occurred in the ED. …”
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Development of Language and Pragmatic Communication Skills in Preschool Children with Developmental Language Disorder in a Speech Therapy Kindergarten—A Real-World Study by Dieter Ullrich, Magret Marten

“…Rather, the investigations provide evidence for two groups of preschool children with DLD and communication disorder: One group demonstrated a predominantly verbal communication related disorder, where pedagogical intervention might be the more important treatment. The second group showed predominantly DLD, therefore making speech therapy the more effective intervention. …”
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Designing a work program for the discipline based on the elements of competencies by A. M. Polyanskiy, E. A. Smirnova

“…According to the authors, the use of the elements of competences allocated from the texts of standards, scientific and methodological developments and other sources of the subject field of activity of the university graduate, allows to determine the set and content of knowledge, skills and knowledge necessary for training in the field of preparation more fully, rationally distribute them among educational disciplines and practices, to form the main didactic units of the work program of the academic discipline, to ensure the traceability of the requirements to the results of mastering the disciplines to a specific source of requirements.In the process of research, a methodology for the collection, processing and systematization of information necessary for the preparation of documents for the organization of the educational process at the department of the university was developed and approved; the analysis of professional and branch standards of software engineering is carried out; an array of elements of competencies required by the graduate training directions 09.03.04 is formed; software tools for processing and structuring information, managing changes in the elements of competences, taking into account the interrelations between them are proposed.The article describes the structure of the data array of competencies required by the graduate of the bachelor’s degree in the direction of training 09.03.04 “Software Engineering”; the results of the analysis of the main types of competence sources are presented: the educational standard in the specified direction of bachelor’s degree, professional standards and branch standards of software engineering, ontological and architectural models of entities of the subject domain; an algorithm for the collection, processing and systematization of information necessary for the formation of competency elements; examples of forming various types elements of competences are given.The study has showed that the competence approach, expanded in the proposed methodology, to the formation of working programs of educational disciplines and practices of the basic professional educational program of higher education allows to ensure the completeness, relevance and consistency of the requirements for the preparation of students, the rational distribution of the subject matter of the teaching material between disciplines and their mutual coherence in the educational process.…”
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ENGLISH VERSION: AGE FEATURES OF RADIOACTIVE IODINE (131I) ABSORPTION BY RAT THYROID GLANDS IN CORRECTION OF THE DIETARY IODINE DEFICIENCY WITH ORGANIC IODINE by O.I. Ryabukha

“…Intake of organic iodine regardless of the rats’ age is accompanied by a decrease in radioiodine accumulation and acceleration of its excretion from the thyroid gland, which indicates a decrease in functional stress, but the glands of older rats absorb more iodine and excrete it more slowly, indicating less effective correction of iodine deficiency with age. …”
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Subclinical Hypothyroidism and Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Cheng Han, Xue He, Xinghai Xia, Yongze Li, Xiaoguang Shi, Zhongyan Shan, Weiping Teng

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>T2DM patients are more likely to have SCH when compared with healthy population and SCH may be associated with increased diabetic complications. …”
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