Isolation and characterization of bacteriophages with lytic activity against multidrug-resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella from Nairobi City county, Kenya by Michael Mugo, Abednego Musyoki, Angela Makumi, Ivy Mutai, Kelvin Kering, Peter Muturi, Collins Kebenei, Kristin Weber, Michael Pietsch, Tanja Pilz, Oliver Drechsel, Tobias Hoffmann, Lothar Wieler, Cecilia Mbae, Antje Flieger, Samuel Kariuki

“…Allergenicity screening identified no allergenic hits across most phages, with exception of KE23, which showed potential allergenic regions in its tail fiber and endolysin proteins. …”
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Effectiveness of an educational asthma management program (CuidAR): the protocol for a cluster-randomized trial in the Brazilian primary healthcare setting by Ana Paula Tussi Leite, Géssica Luana Antunes, Amanda Paz Santos, Ingrid Rodrigues Fernandes, Lauren Sezerá Costa, Tássia Rolim Camargo, Camila Bonalume Dall’ Aqua, Fernando Rovedder Boita, Alessandra da Silva Mota, Mariana Motta Dias da Silva, Mariah Prata Soldi Passos Taube, Bruna Silveira da Rosa, Marcus Herbert Jones, Álvaro A. Cruz, Frederico Friedrich, Paulo M. Pitrez

“…Abstract Background Asthma is one of the most prevalent chronic pulmonary diseases, affecting approximately 20 million Brazilian people. …”
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The study of promising secure information systems based on signal modeling by V. A. Sizov, D. M. Malinichev, Kh. K. Kuchmezov

“…The main objective of each modulation method of signals is to ensure high bandwidth, proper transmission quality in a noisy communication channel, using the minimum amount of energy. One of the most effective indicators of increasing the level of information security in wireless networks is quadrature modulation, which is used in such networks as: LTE, WiMAX, McWill, DVB-T (T2), Wi-Fi and other radio access networks [1].One of the promising directions for the development of 5G networks is the use of higher frequency ranges, such as the range of millimeter waves (from 30 to 300 GHz) [2, 3]. …”
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Letter from the editor by Carlos A. Vargas Jiménez

“…This special issue on Frontiers in Earth Sciences will publish articles on the most outstanding discoveries across a broad research spectrum in the field. …”
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A novel method for quantifying the contribution of regional transport to PM_2.5 in Beijing (2013–2020): combining machine learning with concentration-weighted trajectory... by K. Hu, H. Liao, D. Liu, J. Jin, L. Chen, S. Li, Y. Wu, C. Wu, S. Zhao, X. Jiang, P. Tian, P. Tian, K. Bi, K. Bi, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, D. Zhao, D. Zhao

“…Regional transport pollution events were most frequent in spring, up to 1.8 times higher than in winter. …”
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CD2AP shapes a stromal reduced tumor microenvironment and contributes to immunotherapy in gastric cancer by Haoliang Li, Hua Chen, Ting Zhao, Wenqi Zhang, Jing Deng, Wangkai Xie, Jianing Fan, Han Lou, Pingping Dong, Zheng Han, Dong Xing, Sunzhong Mao, Xian Shen, Xiangyang Xue, Mingdong Lu

“…Abstract Gastric cancer (GC) ranks as the fifth most prevalent malignant tumor and stands as the fourth leading contributor to cancer-related fatalities on a global scale. …”
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Analysis of the Contextual Factors Influencing the Expansion of Construction Violations with an Emphasis on the Role and Position of Key Urban Stakeholders (Case Study: Isfahan Met... by Ahmad Shahivandi, Afsaneh Talebi Varnosfaderani

“…This suggested that poverty and low financial capacity were not primary drivers of these violations.Legal and Regulatory Deficiencies: Among the seven loading variables analyzed, the inconsistency between urban planning laws and other existing laws in the country emerged as the most significant factor in this dimension with a substantial factor loading of 0.834. …”
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Increasing uptake of self-management education programmes for type 2 diabetes in primary care: the Embedding research programme including an RCT by Melanie J Davies, Shona Agarwal, Danielle H Bodicoat, Alan Brennan, Simon Dixon, Helen Eborall, Agnieszka Glab, Laura J Gray, Michelle Hadjiconstantinou, Lisa Huddlestone, Nicky Hudson, Anju Keetharuth, Kamlesh Khunti, Caroline Kristunas, Graham Martin, Alison Northern, Mike Patterson, Daniel Pollard, Rebecca Pritchard, Sally Schreder, Jane Speight, Bernie Stribling, Jackie Sturt, Jess Turner, Christina Weis

“…Background Self-management education and support programmes help people with type 2 diabetes to manage their diabetes better. However, most people do not attend these programmes. Objective Increase type 2 diabetes self-management programme attendance. …”
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The Psychosocial Impact of the Romanian Government Measures on the Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Armenia Androniceanu, Doina-Mihaela Marton

“… The Covid-19 pandemic generated a global crisis involving most countries in the world. State governments worldwide were forced to take appropriate measures impacting different fields. …”
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Relationship Between Quality of Palliative Care for Children with Malignancies and Mothers’ Level of Education by Hadeer Rasheed, Zaid W. Ajil

“…Results: The study results display that the palliative care is good from the perspectives of most of mothers (n = 114; 76.0%), followed by those who perceive it as fair (n = 31; 20.7%), and those who perceive it as poor (n = 5; 3.3%).The study results reveal that there is a statistically significant difference in the Psychosocial and spiritual dimensions among mothers’ level of education groups (p-value = .016). …”
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Pedagogical Projecting of the Model of a Future Specialist by Oleksandr Mozolev

“…It is established that pedagogical design is one of the most common types of research. It is considered as an alternative to the classroom system in educational institutions. …”
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Spatial differences in the distribution of leads in the ice cover in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic basin by L. N. Dyment, S. M. Losev

“…It was found that along the continental slope, approximately from the meridian 70° E to the Lincoln Sea, there is a well-defined area of high density, which remains throughout most part of the ice cycle. In this area, the values of the specific gap length averaged over two-month periods exceeded 24 m/km2. …”
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Predicting potato plant vigor from the seed tuber properties by Elisa Atza, Rob Klooster, Falko Hofstra, Frank van der Werff, Hans van Doorn, Neil Budko

“…However, these relatively large data and prediction correlations are mostly due to the strong dependence of the seedlot vigor on the tuber genotype. …”
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Innovations and Export Performance: Firm Level Evidence from China by Andrzej Cieślik, Yi Qu, Ting Qu

“… Objective: The goal of this article is to study the relationship between innovations and exporting of Chinese firms and identify which type of innovation contributes most to the probability of exporting. Research Design & Methods: We refer to the recent strand in the new trade theory literature that stresses the importance of firm productivity in entering export markets. …”
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An Improved Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for Disease Detection and Diagnosis for Multi-crop Plants by Florence Choong Chiao Mei, Bryan Ng Jan Hong

“…These requirements would likely deter most users in remote areas or poorer economic states. …”
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Composition Design and Property Prediction for AlCoCrCuFeNi High-Entropy Alloy Based on Machine Learning by Cuixia Liu, Meng Meng, Xian Luo

“…Through the interpretability method, it is found that the contributions of Al and Ni are the most prominent. When the Al content exceeds 0.18 mol, it has a positive promoting effect on hardness, while Ni and Cu exhibit a critical effect of promotion–inhibition near 0.175 mol and 0.14 mol, respectively, revealing the nonlinear regulation law of element contents. …”
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Structure-guided approach on the role of substitution on amide-linked bipyrazoles and its effect on their anti-inflammatory activity by Souraya A. Domiati, Khaled H. Abd El Galil, Mohammed A. S. Abourehab, Tamer M. Ibrahim, Hanan M. Ragab

“…The fluoro and methyl derivatives were the most active candidates. The in vivo formalin-induced paw edoema model confirmed the anti-inflammatory activity of the synthesised compounds. …”
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Toward trustworthy COVID-19 interventions: Building vaccine trust through community-university partnerships. by Laura A Bray, Lori L Jervis, Amanda E Janitz, Laura Ross, Gloria Tallbull, Timothy M VanWagoner, CATCH-UP Vaccines Team

“…We find that community partners perceived local universities as trustworthy institutions because of their association with popular sports programs, academic credentials, and proximity, creating opportunities to address vaccine-related distrust through community-university partnerships. The most promising intervention strategies for building interpersonal trust included engaging in one-on-one dialogue and using autonomy enhancing approaches. …”
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Ranking-Based Case Retrieval with Graph Neural Networks in Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning by Maximilian Hoffmann, Ralph Bergmann

“…This paper is motivated by the fact that these GNNs are mostly used for predicting the similarity between two workflows (query and case), while the retrieval in CBR is only concerned with the ranking of the most similar workflows from the case base w.r.t. the query. …”
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