Investigation of gas natural separation process unsteady features by means of an experimental rig and mathematical modeling by V. A. Ivanov, V. S. Verbitsky, R. A. Khabibullin, K. A. Goridko, E. I. Nikonov

“…It is revealed that at small time intervals (<1 s) the regimes with slug-churn flow pattern are characterized by significant nonstationarity. …”
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The effects of stimulus variability on the perceptual learning of speech and non-speech stimuli. by Karen Banai, Sygal Amitay

“…We hypothesized that speech and non-speech training would result in a similar pattern of learning if they were trained using the same training regimen. …”
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Fcγ receptor I alpha chain (CD64) expression in macrophages is critical for the onset of meningitis by Escherichia coli K1. by Rahul Mittal, Sunil K Sukumaran, Suresh K Selvaraj, David G Wooster, M Madan Babu, Alan D Schreiber, J Sjef Verbeek, Nemani V Prasadarao

“…Neonatal meningitis due to Escherichia coli K1 is a serious illness with unchanged morbidity and mortality rates for the last few decades. The lack of a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms involved in the development of meningitis contributes to this poor outcome. …”
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ON THE SPECIFIC STATE OF CRUSTAL STRESSES IN INTRACONTINENTAL OROGENS by Yu. L. Rebetsky

“…If the regional strain rates currently recorded by the GPS-geodesy are taken into account, such additional stresses need to be applied for about 10 million years to fulfill the transition.…”
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Antibiotics resistance in El Tor Vibrio cholerae 01 isolated during cholera outbreaks in Mozambique from 2012 to 2015. by Liliana Candida Dengo-Baloi, Cynthia Amino Semá-Baltazar, Lena Vania Manhique, Jucunu Elias Chitio, Dorteia Luísa Inguane, José Paulo Langa

“…However, an increase in resistance rates to antibiotics by Vibrio cholerae has been reported in several epidemic outbreaks worldwide. …”
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Development of approaches to the evaluation of pharmacotherapy effectiveness for chronic hepatitis C by I. A. Narkevich, E. A. Tsitlionok

“…Objective: to analyse the consumption pattern of antiviral therapy (AVT) for chronic hepatitis C on the example of an infectious hospital.Material and methods. …”
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Gut–Vaginal Microbiome Crosstalk in Ovarian Cancer: Implications for Early Diagnosis by Hao Lin, Zhen Zeng, Hong Zhang, Yongbin Jia, Jiangmei Pang, Jingjing Chen, Hu Zhang

“…Ovarian cancer remains a formidable global health burden, characterized by frequent late-stage diagnosis and elevated mortality rates attributable to its elusive pathogenesis and the critical lack of reliable early-detection biomarkers. …”
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Valley-filling Potential Evaluation of Urban Public Charging Stations Based on Price Incentive by Dawei SU, Yihui FAN, Tianhui ZHAO, Hongjin PAN, Youhui HUANG, Gang WANG, Yongyong JIA

“…Then, the typical load characteristic indicators including valley-period and flat-period load rates are proposed, and the charging load valley-filling potential evaluation parameters are introduced to carry out valley-filling potential evaluation of urban public charging stations. …”
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Body mass change over winter is consistently sex-specific across roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) populations by Hewison, A.J. Mark, Bonnot, Nadège C., Gaillard, Jean-Michel, Kjellander, Petter, Lemaitre, Jean-François, Morellet, Nicolas, Pellerin, Maryline

“…We suggest that allocation to antler growth and territory establishment drives this pattern, providing a likely explanation to account for the lower rates of male adult survival that are consistently reported in this weakly dimorphic species.…”
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Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model physiological markers of affective experience by Nicholas A. Coles, Bartosz Perz, Maciej Behnke, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Soo Hyung Kim, Tu N. Vu, Chirag Raman, Julian Tejada, Van-Thong Huynh, Guangyi Zhang, Tanming Cui, Sharanyak Podder, Rushi Chavda, Shubham Pandey, Arpit Upadhyay, Jorge I. Padilla-Buritica, Carlos J. Barrera Causil, Linying Ji, Felix Dollack, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Huakun Liu, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Hideaki Uchiyama, Xin Wei, Houwei Cao, Ziqing Yang, Alessia Iancarelli, Kieran McVeigh, Yiyu Wang, Isabel M. Berwian, Jamie C. Chiu, Dan-Mircea Mirea, Erik C. Nook, Henna I. Vartiainen, Claire Whiting, Young Won Cho, Sy-Miin Chow, Zachary F. Fisher, Yanling Li, Xiaoyue Xiong, Yuqi Shen, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Leandro A. Bugnon, Raydonal Ospina, Nicolas M. Bruno, Tomas A. D'Amelio, Federico Zamberlan, Luis R. Mercado Diaz, Javier O. Pinzon-Arenas, Hugo F. Posada-Quintero, Maneesh Bilalpur, Saurabh Hinduja, Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Shaun Canavan, Liza Jivnani, Stanisław Saganowski

“…In 46% of tests, teams also outperformed baseline models that relied on the simple average of ratings from training datasets. More notably, results uncovered a methodological challenge: multiplicative constraints on generalizability. …”
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Air-for-water substitution in characterizing lake heatwaves in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin by Zihan Zhu, Wei Wang, Heng Lyu, Bo Wang, Zhiwen Wen, Qiuxiang Jin

“…But the difference in long-term change rates between two heatwaves exhibits no discernible spatial pattern. …”
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Integrated Control of <i>Aedes albopictus</i> in a Residential Area Through a Community-Based Approach: NESCOTIGER, a Large-Scale Field Trial in Valencia, Spain by Marcos López-de-Felipe, Pedro María Alarcón-Elbal, Isaac García-Masiá, Anna Flor-Sánchez, Pilar Mateo-Herrero, Juan Pablo Serna-Mompeán, Juan Pablo Orán-Cáceres, Rubén Bueno-Marí, Ignacio Gil-Torró

“…<i>Aedes albopictus</i> has established populations in several European countries with a sustained spreading pattern through the continent. This invasive mosquito is a public health threat due to its vector competence for multiple arboviruses. …”
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Gut Microbiota Contribute to Heterosis for Growth Trait and Muscle Nutrient Composition in Hybrid Largemouth Bass (<i>Micropterus salmoides</i>) by Jixiang Hua, Qingchun Wang, Yifan Tao, Hui Sun, Siqi Lu, Yan Zhuge, Wenhua Chen, Kai Liu, Jie He, Jun Qiang

“…Growth, digestive enzyme activity, and muscle nutrient composition were compared between the hybrid groups (NC and CN) and the purebred groups (NN and CC), and the gut microbiota was investigated. The heterosis rates of body length, body height, and body thickness in hybrid largemouth bass were statistically significant. …”
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Regulation of Nav1.7: A Conserved SCN9A Natural Antisense Transcript Expressed in Dorsal Root Ganglia. by Jennifer Koenig, Robert Werdehausen, John E Linley, Abdella M Habib, Jeffrey Vernon, Stephane Lolignier, Niels Eijkelkamp, Jing Zhao, Andrei L Okorokov, C Geoffrey Woods, John N Wood, James J Cox

“…The Nav1.7 voltage-gated sodium channel, encoded by SCN9A, is critical for human pain perception yet the transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms that regulate this gene are still incompletely understood. …”
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Adherence to the Singapore Integrated 24 h Activity Guidelines for Pre-Primary School Children Before, During and After the COVID-19 Lockdown in Singapore by Seow Ting Low, Terence Buan Kiong Chua, Dan Li, Michael Chia

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted the lives of pre-primary school children in Singapore where increased infection rates prompted lockdown measures that altered children’s daily routines. …”
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Optical and photoluminescence characteristics of Pr3+-doped P2O5 +BaO+La2O3 glasses by C.R. Kesavulu, Ch. Basavapoornima, Pikkili Ramprasad, C.J. Deviprasad, Shobha Rani Depuru, C.K. Jayasankar

“…A luminescence peak at 600 nm was used as a monitoring level, and a 445 nm excitation was used to assess the decay curves. The decay rates exhibit a bi-exponential pattern, meaning that as the concentration of Pr3+ ions increase, the lifetimes become shorter. …”
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What can COVID‐19 teach us about patient satisfaction in the emergency department? A mixed‐methods approach by Maureen O. Grissom, Morgan Farra, Eric S. Cruzen, Erin Barlow, Sanjey Gupta

“…Methods A mixed‐methods design, integrating qualitative and quantitative data analyses, was employed to explore a total of 289 patient satisfaction survey ratings and 421 comments based on care that took place in the ED during the initial phase of the COVID‐19 epidemic. …”
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Numerical Study on the Influence of Inlet Blockage Ratios and Flow Conditions on Scour Development in Circular Culverts by Salam Hussein Sulaiman, Kaywan Othman Ahmed, Mohsen Isari, Jamil Bahrami

“…Each hydrograph included seven different flow discharges, and steady flow tests were conducted at the maximum rates observed during the unsteady scenarios. This study examined circular culverts subjected to inlet blockages of 0%, 25%, and 50% and compared the numerical result from Flow-3D simulations utilizing the Renormalization Group (RNG) turbulence model with observed data. …”
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Use of complementary medicine and uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among US adults by Holger Cramer, Holger Cramer, Mirela Bilc, Mirela Bilc

“…Visiting a massage therapist was not a significant predictor of either COVID-19 or flu vaccine uptake (p = 0.128 and p = 0.232, respectively). Overall, the pattern of associations between CM use and COVID-19 vaccination uptake was comparable to that of flu vaccination uptake.…”
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Distalization with Clear Aligners: Accuracy, Impact of Mini-Screws, and Clinical Outcomes by Teresa Pinho, Diana Melo, Sofia Ferreira, Maria Gonçalves

“…Additionally, no significant associations were found between distalization outcomes and skeletal pattern (<i>ANB angle</i>) or <i>facial biotype</i>. …”
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