The Effects of HLA-G Gene Polymorphism and sHLA-G Level in Women with Threatened Abortion by Ahmed H. Merdas, Mayada N. Iqbal, Nisreen Sherif Alyasiri

“…In approximately 20-25 percent of confirmed pregnancies, threatened miscarriage is indeed a risk factor that may develop or resolve. …”
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Investigating the Antiscale Magnetic Treatment Controversy: Insights from the Model Calcium Carbonate Scalant by M. ElMassalami, M. S. Teixeira, A. Elzubair

“…Based on these considerations, we clarify the controversy by showing that each side holds a valid piece of the overall picture of the ASMT process. Indeed, the two viewpoints on magnetic field’s influence on scaling can be explained along the following scenarios: (i) Within a non-contaminated, supersaturated solution, there is no significant field influence because, under typical laboratory conditions, the Lorentz force does not practically affect the scaling process. …”
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Soil degradation risk prediction in an arid region (Northern Tataouine, Tunisia): using an empirical model coupling with remote sensing and GIS by Amal Gammoudi, Hanen Guesmi, Ahmed Tebini, Rafla Attia, Thouraya Sahli Chahed, Hosni Trabelsi

“…The application of this combination in the Ferch watershed (Southern Tunisia) indicates that the whole studied watershed has low soil erosion hazard (90.4%). Indeed, the high to severe soil erosion hazard are mainly characterized the mountainous zones. …”
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La diversion comme genre : L’écriture et ses labyrinthes à l’époque élisabéthaine by Sophie Chiari-Lasserre

“…Gradually, the myth pervaded reality: under the Tudors, several kinds of mazes entertained Shakespeare’s compatriots. Indeed, knots and maze gardens proliferated, literally provoking the amazement of people contemplating their twists and turns. …”
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Feeding strategies and associated cognitive capacities among Plio-Pleistocene hominins: toward new perspectives using the ventromedial prefrontal cortex by Margot Louail

“…We suggested that the capacity to switch foraging behaviors using memorized information may have been particularly favored among hominins of the Late Pliocene and especially Early Pleistocene, a period marked by several time intervals of increased climatic instability. Indeed, as these hominins faced critically changing environments, the ability to switch foraging behaviors and to fall back on alternative resources during periods of food scarcity probably played a strong influence on their diversity and evolution. …”
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Success or Failure in the City? Social Mobility and Rural-Urban Migration in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Groningen, the Netherlands by Richard Paping, Jacek Pawlowski

“…For Groningen, the findings oppose the pessimistic view of nineteenth and early-twentieth century rural-urban migrants mainly being pushed to the city by local circumstances, although their social opportunities in the countryside were indeed limited. The detailed database shows also that even a temporary movement to the city resulted on average in an improved social mobility performance, an indication that urban migrants of nearly all social backgrounds often accrued extra human capital during their stay in a large city.…”
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The Impact of Conflicts of Interest on the Developments of the Elections Law of the Islamic Consultative Assembly: A Case Study of the Conditions for Candidates by Alireza Mazinani, Mohammad Bahadori Jahrami, Mohammad Shabani Jahrami

“…Considering this evidence and indications, it can be asserted that conflicts of interest may indeed be one of the main factors influencing changes in the Elections Law of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. …”
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The Interplay between Defensins and Microbiota in Crohn’s Disease by Lorena Coretti, Alessandro Natale, Mariella Cuomo, Ermanno Florio, Simona Keller, Francesca Lembo, Lorenzo Chiariotti, Raffaela Pero

“…It is largely accepted that the intestinal microbiota is involved in the onset of the pathology. Indeed, a reduced immune tolerance to components of the intestinal commensal microbiota and inflammation of the intestinal barrier typifies patients with CD. …”
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Les langues de la diffusion scientifique : une question pour les géographes et les géographies by Nathalie Lemarchand, Antoine Le Blanc

“…It invited all French-speaking geographers, from different "national" and "linguistic" contexts, but also all geographers and geographies interested in sharing their views and experience on the diffusion and production of knowledge in the global context. Indeed, globalization affects both the production and diffusion of scientific knowledge in all regions of the World, where English has become the de facto lingua franca of science. …”
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Simultaneous Classification of Objects with Unknown Rejection (SCOUR) Using Infra-Red Sensor Imagery by Adam Cuellar, Daniel Brignac, Abhijit Mahalanobis, Wasfy Mikhael

“…Instead, we introduce a second network (trained using regression) that uses the decision of the primary classifier to produce a class conditional score that indicates whether an input object is indeed a known object. This is performed in a Bayesian framework where the classification confidence of the primary network is combined with the class-conditional score of the secondary network to accurately separate the unknown objects from the known target classes. …”
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A Ray of New Hope for the Parents of Children with Intellectual Disability by Nancy Thakur, Kamli Prakash, Sanchita Pugazhendi, Achla Gaikwad

“…The pivotal aim is to determine that the parenting intervention has a meaningful impact on parents’ care of their intellectual disabled child and also to improve the parenting abilities of intellectual developmentally disabled children. It is indeed crucial to strengthen parenting skills through various means or strategies. …”
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Efficient Artificial Neural Network for Smart Grid Stability Prediction by Saeed Mohsen, Mohit Bajaj, Hossam Kotb, Mukesh Pushkarna, Sadam Alphonse, Sherif S. M. Ghoneim

“…This neural network with the utilized dataset indeed provides an accurate and quick approach of predicting grid stability to analyze DSGC systems.…”
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Diagnosis of induction motor stator faults around rotor slot harmonics using the Matrix Pencil method by Mohamed Kouadria, Zakaria Chedjara, Chun-Lien Su, Mohamed Benbouzid, Josep M. Guerrero, Babul Salam KSM Kader Ibrahim, Hafiz Ahmed

“…This method aims to avoid the limitations of the classical method based on power spectral density estimation using the periodogram. Indeed, the proposed approach offers very high frequency resolution even for very short acquisition times, thus allowing improved detection even for low amplitudes. …”
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Too beautiful to be fake: Attractive faces are less likely to be judged as artificially generated by Dominique Makowski, An Shu Te, Ana Neves, Stephanie Kirk, Ngoi Zi Liang, Panagiotis Mavros, S.H. Annabel Chen

“…Despite all images being pictures of real faces from the same database, most participants did indeed rate a large portion of them as ‘fake’ (often with high confidence), with strong intra- and inter-individual variability. …”
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A Graphical Approach for Hybrid Simulation of 3D Diffusion Bio-Models via Coloured Hybrid Petri Nets by Amr Ismail, Mostafa Herajy, Elsayed Atlam, Monika Heiner

“…Although this approach may be computationally efficient and has been employed by many researchers over the years, it is not always intuitive since it does not provide a visual depiction of the modelled systems. Indeed, a visual modelling can help to conceive a mental image which eventually contributes to the understanding of the problem under study. …”
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STEADFAST: Psychotherapeutic Intervention Improves Postural Strategy of Somatoform Vertigo and Dizziness by Christoph Best, Regine Tschan, Nikola Stieber, Manfred E. Beutel, Annegret Eckhardt-Henn, Marianne Dieterich

“…Posturographic measurements indeed indicated a pathological postural strategy. …”
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Clinicoepidemiological Observational Study of Acquired Alopecias in Females Correlating with Anemia and Thyroid Function by Kirti Deo, Yugal K. Sharma, Meenakshi Wadhokar, Neha Tyagi

“…Though lack of vitamin B12 testing was a limitation of our study, its deficiency could be the probable cause of iron deficiency as the majority (58, 64.4%) of these cases, as indeed majority (89, 65.4%) of our study population, were vegetarians. …”
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Experimental investigation on polymer coated fibre bragg grating sensor for temperature measurement in sewer environment by Bharathi Raju, R Kumar, Samiappan Dhanalakshmi, Roman Hrbac, Lukas Demel, Narayanamoorthi R

“…Robust and precise monitoring of environmental factors is indeed crucial in sewer structures to identify and mitigate conditions that accelerate Microbial Induced Corrosion (MIC), thereby ensuring the durability and structural integrity of the infrastructure. …”
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Experimental assessment of the effects of water quality and PV panel orientation on green hydrogen production by Sahbi Ben Abdelwahed, Mehrez Gassoumi, Fakher Hamdi, Ridha Ennetta

“…The results showed that the PV panel orientation is the most critical parameter that affect the green hydrogen production rate. Indeed, a variable orientation of the PV panel gave an increase in hydrogen production from distilled water, by >45 %, compared to fixed PV panel. …”
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Pig herd management and infection transmission dynamics: a challenge for modellers by Sicard, Vianney, Picault, Sébastien, Andraud, Mathieu

“…Results highlighted the importance to account for spatial and temporal structuring and herd management policies in epidemiological models. Indeed, disease-related abortions, inducing reassignments of sows in different batches, was shown to enhance the transmission process, favouring the persistence of the virus at the herd level. …”
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