“The Founder and Father of his Empire”: Voltaire on the Peace of Nystad and the Imperial Status of Russia by S. A. Mezin

“…It was found that Voltaire drew a more optimistic picture of Peter I’s imperial title recognition, than it actually was. According to Voltaire, the specific feature of the Russian Empire, created by Peter I, lies in the fact that it was a self-civilizing empire, bringing enlightenment on the neighboring «barbaric» peoples.The author of the paper, reviewing specific cases, arrives at a conclusion, that Voltaire’s works of high confidence for their time took a worthy standing in the world historiography of the Petrine era, due to a wide range of sources, the historian’s ability for their critical assessment, his seeking to maintain a certain evaluation independence in the description of events from different perspectives, his commitment to historical truth, his talent of a writer.The work is carried out within the project, aimed at publishing a first complete scientific edition of «The History of the Russian Empire under Peter the Great» in Russian.…”
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FERA-Net: A Novel Algorithm for Mars Water-Ice Cloud Segmentation Integrating Feature Enhancement, Residual, and Attention Mechanisms by Xu Ma, Jialong Lai, Zhicheng Zhong, Feifei Cui

“…The SC, incorporating spatial attention blocks (SAB) and channel attention blocks (CAB), along with the AG, improves the model's ability to capture key features. The R2CBL, through double convolution operations and residual connections, addresses the gradient vanishing problem and enhances feature extraction. …”
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Effects of the auxin-dependent degradation of the cohesin and condensin complexes on the repair of distant DNA double-strand breaks in mouse embryonic stem cells by A. V. Smirnov, A. S. Ryzhkova, A. M. Yunusova

“…Contrary to expectations, in our setting, Rad21 depletion did not increase deletion/inversion frequencies, not even for the region with an active Ctcf boundary. We actually observed a 12 % decrease in deletions (but not inversions). …”
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Cataract surgery in Australia: a review of the regional literature and outcomes from 5018 cases at a tertiary teaching hospital by Chameen Samarawickrama, Muhammad A Khan, Brendon W H Lee, Lauren Sartor

“…The lack of a regional cataract surgery registry represents a critical need in assessing and claiming key performance indicators, capturing emerging trends and identifying region-specific risk factors to deliver the best patient outcomes.…”
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METHODOLOGY OF PROFESSIONAL PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE (THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF VOCATIONAL TEACHER EDUCATION) by E. M. Dorozhkin, E. F. Zeer

“…This conceptual setup allows determining the main directions for teacher training modernization of vocational schools.The authors note that the current socio-economic situation in our country has actualized the problem of personnel training. Politicians, economists and scientists’ speeches are all about the shortage of skilled personnel. …”
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Allergic Rhinitis and Its Associated Co‐Morbidities Among Patients Attending the ENT Department at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Northern Tanzania: Cross‐Sectional Study... by Kenneth Mlay, Gasper Temba, Adrian Matasha, Pendael Mzonge, Denis Katundu, Desderius Chussi

“…Methods A cross‐sectional hospital‐based study was done, a total of 221 patients received Ear, Nose And Throat services at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center during the study period all patients with a clinical diagnosis of allergic rhinitis were captured; Data was collected using a pre‐tested coded questionnaire (Score For Allergic Rhinitis). …”
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CO₂ Sequestration in a Carbonate Saline Aquifer: An Investigation into the Roles of Natural Fractures and Well Placement by Abdulrahim K. Al Mulhim, Mojdeh Delshad, Kamy Sepehrnoori

“…This study reflects a unique perspective on sequestering CO₂ while capturing the roles of natural fractures and well placement in depicting the migration path of the CO₂ plume. …”
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Criminal procedural consequences of the court’s return of an indictment to the prosecutor by O. M. Drozdov, N. V. Glynska, I. V. Basysta

“…It has been argued that a prosecutor may not, by abusing his/her rights (powers), i.e. contrary to the scope and procedure for exercising his/her discretionary powers, use the return of the above documents to actually continue the pre-trial investigation and eliminate its shortcomings. …”
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Predictors for abundance of host flea and floor flea in households of villages with endemic commensal rodent plague, Yunnan Province, China. by Jia-Xiang Yin, Alan Geater, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Xing-Qi Dong, Chun-Hong Du, You-Hong Zhong

“…A total of 315 floor fleas were captured in 104 households. Xenopsylla cheopis and Ctenocephalides felis felis were the predominant flea species on the host and the floor flea, respectively. …”
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Music Activities for Language Learning in the Spanish Classroom by Manuel Vidal, Christine Ericsdotter Nordgren

“…The purpose of this study was to collect examples of music activities that actually take place and are regarded as beneficial for language development in Spanish in a Swedish school context, and what conditions are central to them being used. …”
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Comparing the Fiscal Consequences of Controlled and Uncontrolled Osteoarthritis Pain Applying a UK Public Economic Perspective by Rui Martins, Nikos Kotsopoulos, Melodi Kosaner Kließ, Craig Beck, Lucy Abraham, Samuel Large, Patricia Schepman, Mark P. Connolly

“…**Background:** Individuals experiencing osteoarthritis (OA) pain can pose significant costs for governments due to reduced work activity in these individuals and increasing reliance on public support benefits. In this analysis we capture the broader economic impact of OA pain by applying a government perspective, public economic framework to assess controlled and uncontrolled pain. …”
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Exploration of Heart Rate Recovery After Maximal Treadmill and Three-Minute All-Out Shuttle Tests in Firefighters by Benjamin J. Mendelson, Kyle T. Ebersole, Scott D. Brau, Nathan T. Ebersole

“…Nine male CON and nine male FF participants completed height (m), weight (kg), body fat percent (BF%), normalized handgrip (GRIP_NORM, kg/kg), and MAX-TM with direct gas analysis to capture aerobic capacity (VO_2PEAK, mL/kg/min). …”
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Muscle Activity and Kinematics During Three Hamstring Strengthening Exercises Compared to Sprinting: A Cross-Sectional Study. by Adelso Jorge, Eric Lichtenstein, Oliver Faude, Ralf Roth

“… # Methods Muscle activity of the posterior kinetic chain (biceps femoris, semitendinosus, gluteus maximus, and medial gastrocnemius) was measured with surface electromyography (sEMG) during the exercises and treadmill running at 75% of the individual maximal sprint velocity in male athletes. sEMG data were normalized to maximal sprinting. 3D-motion capture was employed to assess hip and knee angles…”
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A Hybrid Contextual Embedding and Hierarchical Attention for Improving the Performance of Word Sense Disambiguation by Robbel Habtamu Yigzaw, Beakal Gizachew Assefa, Elefelious Getachew Belay

“…Our findings underscore the significance of linguistic features in contextual information capture for WSD. While Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging has a limited impact, word embeddings significantly influence performance. …”
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The impact of neuroscience education therapy, behavioral economics, and digital navigators on patient migraine treatment adherence to a mobile health application: a prospective pil... by Mia T. Minen, Erin K. Waire, John Torous, Jessica Fishman, Richard B. Lipton, Scott W. Powers

“…Our outcomes were the number of diary entries and behavioral exercises completed/week captured via back-end analytics of the mHealth application. …”
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Measurement of pressure dependent variations in local pulse wave velocity within a cardiac cycle from forward travelling pulse waves by Rahul Manoj, Kiran V. Raj, P. M. Nabeel, Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam, Jayaraj Joseph

“…The carotid blood flow for WSA was captured with an ultrasound imaging system. The reference PWV was derived from the Bramwell-Hill equation. …”
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Tibial acceleration alone is not a valid surrogate measure of tibial load in response to stride length manipulation by Jean Tu, Olivia L. Bruce, W. Brent Edwards

“…Methods: Twenty-seven physically active participants ran 10 trials at preferred speed in each of 5 stride length conditions: preferred, ±5%, and ±10% of preferred stride length. Motion capture, force platform, and tibial acceleration data were directly measured, and ankle joint contact forces were estimated using an inverse-dynamics-based static optimization routine. …”
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In Praise of Diversity in Participatory Heritage Planning Empowered by Artificial Intelligence: Windcatchers in Yazd by Mahda Foroughi, Tong Wang, Ana Pereira Roders

“…However, effectively involving diverse stakeholders and capturing the cultural significance they attribute to heritage remains a challenge, particularly when dealing with extensive datasets and multiple stakeholders. …”
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Dry eye post-cataract surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Hillary Ta, Paul McCann, Mengli Xiao, Tiffany Lien, Kaleb Abbott, Darren G. Gregory, Riaz Qureshi, Tianjing Li

“…The review is limited by variability in follow-up timeframes which were unable capture potential clinical course like peak occurrence and duration. …”
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Spatiotemporal air quality prediction using stochastic advection–diffusion model for multimodal data fusion by Byeongseong Choi, Michelle A Hummel

“…For the second scenario, error is reduced by 40% compared to the nearest regulatory-grade monitor and 11% compared to the nearest low-cost sensor located approximately 1 km away. The model captures 78% of observed data within a 75% confidence interval across both scenarios, demonstrating its ability to accurately represent uncertainty. …”
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