Alterations in Immune-Related Defensin Alpha 4 (DEFA4) Gene Expression in Health and Disease by Fatemah Basingab, Abeer Alsaiary, Shahad Almontashri, Aisha Alrofaidi, Mona Alharbi, Sheren Azhari, Khloud Algothmi, Safiah Alhazmi

“…DEFA4 has a strong preference to kill Gram-negative bacteria more than Gram-positive bacteria. In addition, DEFA4 exhibits antiviral activity against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in vitro. …”
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Evaluation of Chemical and Nutritional Changes in Chips, Chicken Nuggets, and Broccoli after Deep-Frying with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Canola, and Grapeseed Oils by Florencia de Alzaa, Claudia Guillaume, Leandro Ravetti

“…Results showed that there is a transference between food and oils regarding fatty acid profile and antioxidant content as well as trans fatty acids (TFAs) and polar compounds (PCs). All food presented more antioxidants and monounsaturated fatty acids after having been cooked with EVOO than after cooking with canola and grapeseed oils. …”
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System Dynamics Method: A Comprehensive Approach to Performance Management in Construction Projects by Shohreh Moradi, Ramin Ansari, Roohollah Taherkhani

“…Also, considering that construction projects are always progressing and becoming more complex and have many linear and non-linear relationships and structures, these projects can be considered a type of dynamic systems. …”
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An Analysis of the Literature Data on the Impact of Steel and Polypropylene Fibers on the Thickness Design of Airfield Concrete Pavements by Angeliki Armeni, Christina Plati

“…Against this background, the present study aims to quantify the effect of polypropylene and steel fibers on the thickness of airfield concrete pavements. …”
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Dynamics of Livestock Production in Molotov Region in 1946–1950 by Vladimir Pavlovich Motrevich, Vladimir Nikolaevich Mamyachenkov

“…This allows the authors to study the resource base of the industry, including the number of livestock of its main types, show the activities of party and Soviet bodies to restore the industry in the first postwar years, characterise measures taken to strengthen various ways of encouraging workers, trace the development of animal husbandry as a branch of the economy and the dynamics of the main types of its products in the study area for all categories of public and individual sector farms. The data presented by authors demonstrate that collective farm livestock farming turned out to be much more effective in the postwar crisis than livestock farming on state farms. …”
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Critical behavioral traits foster peer engagement in Online Mental Health Communities. by Aseem Srivastava, Tanya Gupta, Alison Cerezo, Sarah Peregrine Grin Lord, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty

“…Intriguingly, we observe that individuals who explicitly express their need for help are 18.01% more likely to receive assistance compared to those who present "surveys" or engage in "rants." …”
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Incidence of Deformation and Fracture of Twisted File Adaptive Instruments after Repeated Clinical Use by Gianluca Gambarini, Lucila Piasecki, Dario Di Nardo, Gabriele Miccoli, Gianni Di Giorgio, Everdan Carneiro, Dina Al-Sudani, Luca Testarelli

“…The untwisting of flutes was significantly more frequent than fracture, which might act as prevention for breakage. …”
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Vibration Analysis of a Postbuckled Microscale FG Beam Based on Modified Couple Stress Theory by R. Ansari, M. A. Ashrafi, T. Pourashraf, M. Hemmatnezhad

“…A comparison is also made between the present results and those obtained via the classical beam theories.…”
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Disentangling the Range of Responses to Threats, Hazards and Disasters. Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation in question by Magali Reghezza-Zitt, Samuel Rufat

“…Responses are not a set of global solutions, large strategic plans or textbook prescriptions, but a vast project undertaken to mobilize more robust tools and understand risk as socially produced and constructed.…”
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Conditions and consequences of Türkiye’s transnational TV production: A study of American women audiences by Uğur Baloğlu, Lee Artz

“…While dizi Turkish TV dramas--promote intercultural dialogue and support a more inclusive global media environment, the potential for cultural exchange is shaped by the commercial purposes underlying transnational media collaborations and joint ventures.…”
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The rarity of mutations and the inflation of bacterial effective population sizes by Rui Borges

“…Our analyses further reveal that the boundary mutation model tends to overestimate the effective population size, particularly in bacteria, where estimated population sizes can be more than five times larger than those expected by the recurrent mutation model. …”
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Study of Sweep and Induced Dihedral Effects in Subsonic Axial Flow Compressor Passages—Part II: Detailed Study of the Effects on Tip Leakage Phenomena by P. V. Ramakrishna, M. Govardhan

“…In particular, the effect of flow coefficient is more predominant on this effect. Tip vortex-related flow blockage is less with the swept rotors. …”
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A Systematic Review of Weight-Based Metoprolol for Acute Atrial Fibrillation with Rapid Ventricular Rate by Alexandra Burum, Jasmine Carino, Mackenzie McBeth, Nephy Samuel, Trager D. Hintze

“…Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia encountered in the emergency department (ED) and when patients present in acute AF with rapid ventricular rate (RVR), it can result in significant morbidity and mortality. …”
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Complete-arch implant-supported dental rehabilitations assisted by navigated surgery: a satisfaction study by Douley J., Boisramé S., Guiol J.

“…Regarding the satisfaction questionnaire, 82% of the patients feeling more comfortable at work and/or in their social life whereas 31% had difficulties pronouncing certain words. …”
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Leveraging a collaborative consortium model of mentee/mentor training to foster career progression of underrepresented postdoctoral researchers and promote institutional diversity... by Laurie E Risner, Xenia K Morin, Evelyn S Erenrich, Philip S Clifford, Jeffrey Franke, Imogen Hurley, Nancy B Schwartz

“…Changing institutional culture to be more diverse and inclusive within the biomedical academic community is difficult for many reasons. …”
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Children’s food gardening: valuing experiential, intergenerational and multi-cultural learning by Emma Sharp, Sophia Tsang, Victoria Egli

“…Despite a resurgence of research into adults’ food-growing in urban environments, there is limited literature examining where and how children grow food, with whom, what it means to them, and what they want to know more about. Here we present the results of 20 focus groups with culturally-diverse urban primary school students (aged 5–11 years old) from across Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, conducted as part of the 2022 Soilsafe Kids Three-Day Programme on soil education. …”
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The effect of noise stress on anxiety behavior and the volume of the amygdale nuclei in male rats by Mohammad Hosseini-sharifabad, abdoreza sabahi

“…In territory discrimination test, noise stressed group had more latency to enter in unknown compartment. The volume of lateral nucleus of amygdale was significantly higher in noise stressed group compared to control animal. …”
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Space and the planet: taking the extra-planetary seriously in planetary thinking by J. Lossau

“…Conceptualising the extra-planetary as imagined-and-real counter-space, planetary scholars are finally being called upon to connect with off-Earth ecosystems, weaving their non-human and more-than-human components into a cosmopolitical ethics of care and responsibility. …”
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NIVOLUMAB IN THE TREATMENT OF REFRACTORY RECURRENT AND METАSTATIC HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA. THE RESULTS OF A PHASE III CLINICAL TRIAL (CHECKMATE 141) by A. M. Mudunov

“…Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is one of the most common causes of cancer death. More than 50% of patients with locally advanced tumors relapse. …”
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Prototyping the Power Hall: a decision-making process by Christina Buckingham

“…The author labels the investigated evaluation phase as ‘proto-scoping’ and explores its potential to guide the direction of audience-driven, interactive interpretation design before formal design briefs have been written, developers commissioned, and the more common, iterative prototyping begins. …”
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