Case reports indicate that magnets in smartphones could be a source of electromagnetic interference (EMI) for active implantable medical devices (AIMD), which could lead to device malfunction, compromising patient safety. Recognizing this challenge,...
The positron annihilation lifetimes were measured using a
The relationship between emissivity, delay time, and surface growth for metastable solidification of CoSi-62 at. % eutectic alloys is reported from undercooling experiments conducted using electrostatic levitation. A fraction of the undercooled melt...
It has been over a decade since COSI-Corr, the Co-Registration of Optically Sensed Images and Correlation, was first used to produce a raster map of sand dune movement, however, no studies have yet applied it to the full Landsat archive. The orthorec...
Objectives: The aim of our investigation was to explore the relationship between unaided pure-tone and speech audiometry and self-reported aided performance measured according to five predetermined COSI categories among first-time hearing aid users a...
Velocity dictates the destructive potential of a landslide. A combination of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), optical, and GPS data were used to maximize spatial and temporal coverage to monitor continuously-moving portions of the Portuguese Bend land...
Kuh-e-Namak (Dashti) namakier is one of the most active salt diapirs along the Zagros fold–thrust belt in Iran. Its surface deformation should be measured to estimate its long-term kinematics. Ten Sentinel-2 optical images acquired between October 20...
Optical metrology is a key element for many areas of modern production. Preferably, measurements should take place within the production line (in-process) and keep pace with production speed, even if the parts have a complex geometry or are difficult...
The aim of the study was to examine changes in obesity prevalence among primary school children in Serbia between 2015 and 2019 rounds of the national WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI-Serbia). Cross-sectional studies were...
A flavanone and a flavanone glycoside, together with vomifoliol, have been isolated for the first time from the aerial parts of the plant Echiochilon fruticosum and identified. Their structures were established on the basis of spectroscopic measureme...
Background/Objectives: A worldwide epidemic of overweight and obesity is an ongoing global health concern. This rise in overweight and obesity among children contributes to the increasing pattern of current and future physiological and psychological...
The Vere River basin in Tbilisi, Georgia, experienced a major cascading landslide–flood disaster in June 2015, emphasizing the need to evaluate the present stability of slopes adjacent to the former source area. This study combines small-baseli...
Chinese short-form dramas (duanju) drive a growing demand for automated Japanese dubbing that preserves each character’s voice. The decisive component is zero-shot cross-lingual voice cloning: synthesising Japanese speech from a short Chinese r...
We have investigated the oxidative behaviour of natural compounds such as methyl abietate (1), farnesyl acetate (2), α-ionone (3), β-ionone (4), methyl linolelaidate (5), methyl linolenate (6) and bergamottin (7) with the oxidant system methyltrioxo-...
The synthesis, chromatographic isolation, and structure elucidation of β,β-substituted isomers of dinitro-5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrin complexes are described. meso-Tetraphenyl-porphyrin chelates (CuII, NiII, CoII) upon reaction wit e.g., nitric a...
The authors developed four variants of the qNMR technique (1H or 13C nucleus, DMSO-d6 or CDCl3 solvent) for identification and quantification by NMR of 22R and 22S epimers in budesonide active pharmaceutical ingredient and budesonide drugs (sprays, c...
The reaction of aliphatic aldehydes with the tautomers 6,6-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-2H-thiopyrane-2-thione and 6,6-dimethyl-2-mercapto-4H-thiopyrane-4-one is reported to yield spiro compounds. However, the spiro compound of the reaction with formaldehyde i...
Background: Obesity is a complex, multifactorial and widespread condition that affects all age groups of children. The rising prevalence of childhood obesity has become an important public health challenge because it affects the physical and mental h...
The present investigation on chemical constituents of the soft coral Sarcophyton cherbonnieri resulted in the isolation of seven new cembranoids, cherbonolides F–L (1–7). The chemical structures of 1–7 were determined by spectroscop...
A new Schiff base, (E)-2-(((1,10-phenanthrolin-5-yl)imino)methyl)-4,6-di-tert-butylphenol (Fen-IHB), was designed to incorporate an intramolecular hydrogen bond (IHB) between the phenolic OH and the azomethine nitrogen with the goal of modulating its...
In this study, we used an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to collect a time series of high-resolution images over four years at seven epochs to assess landslide dynamics. Structure from Motion (SfM) was applied to create Digital Surface Models (DSMs) o...
A series of polymers containing nunchaku-like unit with an azo chromophore and a mesogen group was successfully prepared and photoinduced anisotropy of the obtained polymers was minutely investigated. Firstly, monomers containing nunchaku-like unit w...
A series of new gemini surfactants without a spacer group, disodium 2,3-dialkyl-1,2,3,4-butanetetracarboxylates, were synthesized in a green chemistry context minimizing the use of organic solvents and applying microwaves (MW) when activation energy...
Thiazolin-4-ones and their derivatives represent important heterocyclic scaffolds with various applications in medicinal chemistry. For that reason, the synthesis of two 5-substituted thiazolidin-4-one derivatives was performed. Their structure assig...
Pseudoshikonin I, the new bioactive constituent of Lithospermi radix, was isolated from this methanol extract by employing reverse-phase medium-pressure liquid chromatography (MPLC) using acetonitrile/water solvent system as eluents. The chemical str...
This paper aimed to investigate the potential antifungal influences of new alkaloids from Delphinium peregrinum L. var. eriocarpum Boiss. New Diterpenoid alkaloids Delcarpum (1), Hydrodavisine (4) and known alkaloids Peregrine (2), Delphitisine (3) w...
Unhealthy diets, physical inactivity and high body mass index (BMI) are preventable risk factors for non-communicable diseases throughout a person’s lifespan. The higher prevalence of these risk factors in children from lower socio-economic gro...
Regarding our growing interest in identifying biologically active leads from Amaryllidaceous plants, the flowers of Pancratium maritimum L. (Amaryllidaceae) were investigated. Purification of the cytotoxic fractions of the alcoholic extract of the fl...
To date, the phytochemical composition of the aerial parts of Nanophyton iliense U.P. Pratov has not been comprehensively investigated. In the present study, qualitative metabolite profiling of the methanolic extract of the aerial parts was performed...
The commercial copolymers Eudragit® E 100 and Eudragit® PO are widely used materials in the pharmaceutical field as coating systems. Such materials derived from amino-methacrylate groups under acidulated conditions may acquire an ionisable fr...
The study’s aim was to synthesize new unsymmetrical sulfanyl zinc(II) porphyrazines and subject them to physicochemical and electrochemical characterization and also an initial acute toxicity assessment. The procedure was initiated from a comme...
The High Intensity Muon Beams (HIMB) project at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) will deliver muon beams with unprecedented intensities of up to
Recent measurements performed by the LUNA(Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics) collaboration between 2019 and 2024 have provided the most precise direct determinations to date of several key reaction rates in the NeNa cycle, specifically...
Over the last 10 years, the accessibility of high spatial resolution remote sensing images has strongly increased. These images are available in ortho-rectified format which do not necessitate any further geometrical processing to be analyzed. In par...
Background and objective: Body mass index (BMI) is one of the key indicators used to measure the growth of children. It could be affected by the children’s nutrition, which is essential for the proper development of the child. Nutrition of chil...
Electrospinning is a versatile technique used to manufacture nanofibers by applying an electric field to a polymer solution. This method has gained significant interest in the biomedical, pharmaceutical, and materials engineering fields due to its ab...
A metal-free porphyrazine derivative with peripheral phthalimide substituents was metallated with a nickel(II) ion. The purity of the nickel macrocycle was confirmed using HPLC, and characterized by MS, UV–VIS, and 1D (1H, 13C) and 2D (1H&ndash...
Obesity is a rapidly growing problem in European countries, Croatia being among them. According to the latest CroCOSI data, every third child in Croatia aged 8.0–8.9 years is overweight or obese. The Mediterranean diet (MeDi) and its impact on...
The escalation of global obesity is driving research to understand environmental influences on this process, particularly during vulnerable developmental stages such as childhood and adolescence. Efforts include the development of various structured...
Wheat canopy chlorophyll content (CSPAD) is an important physiological parameter characterizing the photosynthetic capacity and nutritional status of crops. Precision agricultural technologies are widely used for non-destructive monitoring of wheat S...
The main goal of this work was to measure the total alkaloid content (TALC) from pulp, peel, seed, and columella of soursop fruit (Annona muricata L.) by ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) and to obtain the best conditions of the UAE with the respo...
Understanding the relationship between climatic conditions and dune ecosystems requires the large-scale monitoring of spatiotemporal patterns of dune velocities. Due to their large extent and remoteness, dune fields are ideal for remote sensing techn...
Unsaturated polyester resins (UPRs) represent challenging systems for reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) because chain propagation, branching, and localized gelation may occur concurrently. This study systematically investigates th...
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Background: Schools are important settings for the promotion of a healthy diet and sufficient physical activity and thus overweight prevention. Objective: To assess differences in school nutrition environment and body mass index (BMI) in primary scho...
A biological/synthetic hybrid graft copolymer was obtained by grafting poly(acrylic acid) (PAA, synthesized via reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization) to amylopectin (AMP). The novel graft copolymer presents amphiphil...