Evaluating the impact of policy interventions on CO2 emissions in Sub-Saharan Africa by Sidique Gawusu, Mohammed Abdul-Fatawu, Moomin Solahudeen Tando, Ishmael Ackah, Marizuk Waris Tizumah, Oluwakayode Jasanya

“…Sensitivity analysis revealed that emissions outcomes are most responsive to energy efficiency improvements, moderately sensitive to renewable energy adoption, and less sensitive to policy effectiveness. …”
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Development and Validation of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Method for Quantification of Lithium in Whole Blood from Forensic Postmortem Cases by Cherrie Cheuk Yiu Chang, Sys Stybe Johansen, Brian Schou Rasmussen, Kristian Linnet, Ragnar Thomsen

“…Germanium was determined to be the most optimal internal standard. The method was validated in terms of linearity, accuracy, precision, and lower limit of quantification. …”
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Hot electron-driven SERS enhancement of non-SERS-active creatinine using Ag-decorated ZnO nanorods by N.A. Abdullah, M.Z.A. Razak, T.H.T. Aziz, A.R.M. Zain, M.S.M. Jamil, M.M. Salleh

“…The AgZnO nanorods synthesized with 0.13 M AgNO₃ demonstrated the most favorable AgNPs distribution, achieving a high-density configuration that significantly enhanced the Raman signal, yielding an enhancement factor (EF) of 5.07 × 103 for 1.0 × 10−2 M non-SERS-active creatinine molecules, representing a 56.90 % improvement in sensitivity. …”
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Novel functional drainage density for Blue Carbon Ecotones by Jiaqi Zhang, Matteo Convertino

“…Positive functional feedback for co-occurring BCEs suggest that their co-occurrence is highly beneficial for co-dependent habitats such as oyster reefs, and ecosystem-scale restoration projects.The ocean-land ecotone, as much as riparian areas, is home to the vast majority of people and is the most prone to critical risks and opportunities. Our results emphasize that the optimal BCE portfolio should consider FDD for enhancing BCEs function and services, as well as other ecotones at the basin-scale, via conservation and restoration strategies.…”
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Effects of regular, glulisine, and aspart insulin on vascular endothelial growth factor and angiotensinogen expression in hyperglycemic retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) and human r... by Fatemeh Sanie-Jahromi, Abtin Khosravi, Hooman Hadianfard, M. Hossein Nowroozzadeh

“…Regarding AGT, aspart insulin showed the most consistent suppressive effect, reducing expression in both RPE (0.15-fold, P < 0.001) and HRECs (0.22-fold, P = 0.004). …”
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Constitutive Study of Limestone Damage in Karst Areas under Acidic Dry-Wet Cycles by ZHANG Yan, YUAN Pu-long, HUANG Lan-tao

“…[Results] (1)Mechanical degradation behavior: peak stress and elastic modulus exhibited exponential decay with increasing cycle count. The most significant degradation occurred at pH 3, where the elastic modulus decreased by 29.6% after 30 cycles. …”
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From Transformative Agency to AI Literacy: Profiling Slovenian Technical High School Students Through the Five Big Ideas Lens by Stanislav Avsec, Denis Rupnik

“…Embedding autonomy-supportive, mastery-oriented, student-centered projects and explicit metacognitive training into AI curricula could shift control inward and benefit students with low skills, helping to forge an agency-driven pathway to higher levels of AI literacy among high school students. The most striking and unexpected finding of this study is that students with a strong sense of competence—manifested as high self-efficacy—can achieve foundational AI literacy levels equivalent to those possessing broader, more holistic agentic profiles, suggesting that competence alone may be sufficient for acquiring essential AI knowledge. …”
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Evaluation and Treatment of Vascular Cognitive Impairment by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation by Mariagiovanna Cantone, Giuseppe Lanza, Francesco Fisicaro, Manuela Pennisi, Rita Bella, Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Giovanni Di Pino

“…Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is deemed to be the most common cognitive disorder in the elderly since it encompasses any degree of vascular-based cognitive decline. …”
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Factors impacting employee productivity in the UAE public sector embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Khalifa Al-Suwaidi, Imad Alsyouf, Zain Tahboub, Abdallah Alsaad, Adi Alsyouf

“…The findings reveal that HRM, WFC, and PL significantly affect four key outcomes: productivity, quality of work life, distributive fairness (DF), and work-from-home arrangements (WHA). Notably, the most influential factor across all domains was a positive work environment (RII = 0.902), followed by job security (RII = 0.894) and supervisory behavior (RII = 0.889). …”
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RNA Interference-Mediated Downregulation of sAC Gene Inhibits Sperm Hyperactivation in Male Rats (Rattus norvegicus) by Jing YU, Xiao-qiang JIANG, Shuai ZHOU, Gen-lin WANG

“…Hyperactivation is one of the most critical parts for fertilization. cAMP generated by soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC) is necessary to activate sperm and is a prerequisite for sperm hyperactivation. …”
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Burden of Emergency Department Visits and Their Outcomes Among Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Insights From the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample by Vishwesh Bharadiya, Parul Berry, Aman Dev Singh, Dominique Feterman, Grant Hughes, Alison Bays, Rachael Stovall, Rashmi Dhital, Namrata Singh

“…Older age, male sex, and comorbidities were associated with higher admission odds, whereas Black race, lowest income quartile, and Medicaid coverage correlated with lower odds of admission. Septicemia was the most common primary ED diagnosis in patients with RA. …”
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A Rare Case of Orf Virus Precipitating Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia Superinfection Leading to Native Hip Joint Septic Arthritis by Alexander Price, Cónan Marren, Stephen Mulligan, Dorarca Lynch, Gerard A. Sheridan

“…Transmission to humans is most commonly caused by direct contact with infected animals or fomites. …”
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Unveiling the Kadaknath Gut Microbiome: Early Growth Phase Spatiotemporal Diversity by Amruta Nair, Swapnil Prakash Doijad, Mangesh Vasant Suryavanshi, Anwesha Dey, Satya Veer Singh Malik, Bas E. Dutilh, Sukhadeo Baliram Barbuddhe

“…The results revealed <i>Firmicutes</i> as the most abundant phylum and <i>Lactobacillus</i> as the dominant genus across all stages. …”
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Hepatitis C virus infection epidemiology among people who inject drugs in Europe: a systematic review of data for scaling up treatment and prevention. by Lucas Wiessing, Marica Ferri, Bart Grady, Maria Kantzanou, Ida Sperle, Katelyn J Cullen, EMCDDA DRID group, Angelos Hatzakis, Maria Prins, Peter Vickerman, Jeffrey V Lazarus, Vivian D Hope, Catharina Matheï

“…Nine of 27 countries had data on HCV incidence among PWID, which was often high (2.7-66/100 person-years, median 13, Interquartile range (IQR) 8.7-28). Most common HCV genotypes were G1 and G3; however, G4 may be increasing, while the proportion of traditionally 'difficult to treat' genotypes (G1+G4) showed large variation (median 53, IQR 43-62). …”
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Large-scale single-nuclei profiling identifies role for ATRNL1 in atrial fibrillation by Matthew C. Hill, Bridget Simonson, Carolina Roselli, Ling Xiao, Caroline N. Herndon, Mark Chaffin, Helene Mantineo, Ondine Atwa, Harshit Bhasin, Yasmine Guedira, Kenneth C. Bedi, Kenneth B. Margulies, Carla A. Klattenhoff, Nathan R. Tucker, Patrick T. Ellinor

“…Abstract Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia in humans, yet the molecular basis of AF remains incompletely understood. …”
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Adverse clinical outcomes and associated factors among older adults undergoing hemodialysis in Brazil: A single-center experience. by Laurisson Albuquerque da Costa, Andre Faro, Thaisa Leite Valverde, Somkanya Tungsanga, Aminu K Bello

“…The bloodstream infection rate was 0.18 episode/patient-year, predominantly due to gram-positive organisms, with coagulase-negative Staphylococcus being the most common.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Among patients undergoing HD, older age is associated with a high risk of all-cause mortality. …”
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Electrospun scaffolds for heart valve tissue engineering by Betül Gürbüz, Elif Balikci, Erkan Türker Baran

“…Despite the fact that natural biomaterials provided excellent biocompatibility, nanofibers from synthetic materials provided the required mechanical compatibility. Accordingly, most studies highlighted the benefits of designing composite heart valves using biological and synthetic polymers. …”
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Explainable Machine Learning for Efficient Diabetes Prediction Using Hyperparameter Tuning, SHAP Analysis, Partial Dependency, and LIME by Md. Manowarul Islam, Habibur Rahman Rifat, Md. Shamim Bin Shahid, Arnisha Akhter, Md Ashraf Uddin, Khandaker Mohammad Mohi Uddin

“…To tackle the challenge of designing an improved diabetes classification algorithm that is more accurate, random oversampling and hyper‐tuning parameter techniques have been used in this study. Whereas most of the existing methods were built upon considering any single dataset, for getting more acceptability in general, our proposed model has been designed based on two benchmark datasets: the BRFSS dataset, which has multiple classes, and the Diabetes 2019 dataset, which has binary classes. …”
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Development and Validation of the Children’s Emotions Database (CED): Preschoolers’ Basic and Complex Facial Expressions by Nadia Koltcheva, Ivo D. Popivanov

“…Different databases of images of facial emotion expressions exist worldwide; however, most of them are limited to only adult faces and include only the six basic emotions, as well as neutral faces, ignoring more complex emotional expressions. …”
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Concomitant Sjögren’s Syndrome Was Not Associated with a Poorer Response or Outcomes in Ursodeoxycholic Acid-Treated Patients with Primary Biliary Cholangitis by Ping Ni, Ruoting Men, Mengyi Shen, Tingting Wang, Chen Huang, Xiaoli Fan, Li Yang

“…Patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) have at least 60% probability of having an autoimmune extrahepatic condition, with the most common being Sjögren’s syndrome (SS). The impacts of SS on the response and outcomes in ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA)-treated patients with PBC, however, remain unclear. …”
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