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Spain has one of Europe’s most extraordinary biodiverse environments and a significant risk of fires in its forests. At the same time, rural areas are affected by several challenges, such as desertification, population decrease, and loss of inc...

GNSS-R (Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry) has been demonstrated to be a new and powerful tool to sense soil moisture in recent years. Multi-antenna pattern and single-antenna pattern have been proposed regarding how to receive and pro...

The aim of this study was to assess whether the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents had decreased four years after the initial assessment. This study aimed to determine if children with an active lifestyle and pa...

In order to investigate the infection status of Cryptosporidium in O. curzoniae and B. grunniens in Zoige County, Sichuan Province, fecal samples from B. grunniens and gastrointestinal contents from captured O. curzoniae were collected between March...

Free-living amoebae (FLAs) are widely present in the environment and may be pathogenic for animals and humans. Studies on the prevalence of FLAs in European soils are few in number. This study aimed to molecularly identify the species and genotypes o...

Over the years, cases of autochthonous leishmaniasis have been dramatically increasing in Thailand. Recently, several publications have claimed certain species of the phlebotomine sand flies and biting midges potentially serve as natural vectors of L...

Current work environments, driven by globalization, demographic changes, and digitalization, demand substantial adaptation, which leads to decreased employee well-being. While occupational psychology research has identified supportive mechanisms, it...

R. Stephen Berry [1] became 70 years old on April 9, 2001.[...]

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Introduction: Monitoring cerebral perfusion in patients with brain injury is a major clinical challenge. Monitoring cerebral oxygenation (rSO2) via NIRS was introduced in the early 1980s, and many clinicians believed it to be a valuable method for as...

Heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) systems provide physical environment comfort for the occupants at a possible expense of large amount of energy consumption [...]

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been investigated as a potential treatment for chronic tinnitus for 20 years. Numerous studies have reported that repetitive TMS (rTMS) has demonstrated efficacy for reducing the severity of tinnitus and it...

Chinese Christianity, or Sinophone Christianity, has gained increasing attention in recent decades as both a socio-cultural phenomenon and a subject of inquiry [...]

The purpose of this publication is to quantify and compare the market risk on the external government debt of Kazakhstan and Bulgaria in the conditions of COVID-19, the emerging energy crisis, and the coup attempt in the first country. In particular,...

Restoring sufficient vascularity of the ischemia/hypoxia flap is always the critical issue in flap surgeries. In a previous studies microRNA-21 (miR-21) expression was upregulated after rat skin flap surgery. MiR-21 has been reported to be induced by...

A new satellite-based product containing daily sea surface net radiation ($R_n$) values at a spatial resolution of 0.25° from 1988 to 2013, named the Japanese Ocean Flux Data Sets with Use of Remote Sensing Observations, version 3 (J-OFURO3), was recent...

We examined the extent to which companies in the paper processing sector, operating in printing, packaging, labeling, and paper bagging, comply with the requirements of Greek legislation for reporting information on ESG issues. The overall average co...

Hole cleaning for the majority of vertical and directional drilling wells continues to be a substantial difficulty despite improvements in drilling fluids, equipment, field techniques, and academic and industrial research. Poor hole cleaning might ca...

This Special Issue of Pharmaceuticals presents eight original articles and three reviews, underscoring the ongoing robust interest in research on cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB₁R) and type 2 (CB₂R) more than 30 years after their discovery [...]

This paper discusses the optimal control issue for elliptic $k\times k$ cooperative fractional systems. The fractional operators are proposed in the Laplace sense. Because of the nonlocality of the Laplace fractional operators, we reformulate the issue...

The PASCAL VOC Challenge performance has been significantly boosted by the prevalently CNN-based pipelines like Faster R-CNN. However, directly applying the Faster R-CNN to the small remote sensing objects usually renders poor performance. To address...

Sci (ISSN 2413-4155) is an international, open-access journal that covers most fields of scientific research. It has set out to challenge the conventional single- and double-blind peer review processes by adopting a post-publication public peer revie...

The development and pathogenesis of atherosclerosis are significantly influenced by lifestyle, particularly nutrition. The modern level of science and technology development promote personalized nutrition as an efficient preventive measure against at...

This Special Issue aims to highlight new avenues in the management of Ischemia/Reperfusion (I/R) injury [...]

Air pollution significantly affects public health in many countries. In particular, indoor air quality can be equally, if not more, concerning than outdoor emissions of pollutant gases. However, monitoring the air quality in homes and apartments usin...

Despite the improvement in survival outcomes, multiple myeloma (MM) remains an incurable disease. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy targeting B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) represents a new strategy for the treatment of relapsed/refrac...

The widespread use of automobiles and the increased duration spent within automobiles equipped with air conditioning systems have prompted various countries to enforce regulations that advocate for eco-friendly cooling substances (refrigerants) chara...

Range value at risk (RVaR) is a quantile-based risk measure with two parameters. As special examples, the value at risk (VaR) and the expected shortfall (ES), two well-known but competing regulatory risk measures, are both members of the RVaR family....

The purpose of this study is to determine the current state of angler knowledge, opinions, awareness, and use of catch-and-release (C&R) best practices and to identify the main socio-economic factors that determine attitudes and willingness to us...

Spirituality and religiousness (S/R) are resources for finding meaning and hope in suffering and have been identified as key components in the process of psychological recovery. However, religion may also be associated with psycho-pathology, sufferin...

The exceptional increase in molecular DNA sequence data in open repositories is mirrored by an ever-growing interest among evolutionary biologists to harvest and use those data for phylogenetic inference. Many quality issues, however, are known and t...

Cloud computing (CC) is the delivery of computing services on demand and is charged using a “pay per you use” policy. Of the multiple services offered by CC, SaaS is the most popular and widely adapted service platform and is used by bill...

Chagas disease affects about eight million people. In view of the issues related to the influence of anthropogenic changes in the dynamics of the distribution and reproductive interaction of triatomines, we performed experimental crosses between spec...

Inversion with respect to a unit sphere is a powerful tool when dealing with many problems in Mathematics. This inversion preserves harmonicity in ${\mathbb{R}}^2,$ but it does not in ${\mathbb{R}}^n,$ for $n>2.$ Lord Kelvin overcame this problem by defining a new (at the time...

The mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene is frequently used as a barcoding gene for the identification of numerous taxa, including crustaceans such as amphipods. The gene’s variability, which makes it useful for barcoding, can also cre...

Photocatalytic materials can effectively decompose water to produce hydrogen and degrade pollutants, ameliorating environmental issues. These materials are currently a popular research topic for addressing energy shortages and water pollution issues...

This study aimed to review and critically appraise the current methodological issues undermining the suitability of the measurement of serum/plasma glutathione, both in the total and reduced form, as a measure of systemic oxidative stress in chronic...

This study introduces the Meiji Nutritional Profiling System (Meiji NPS), which was specifically designed to respond to age-related shifts in nutrient requirements among Japanese adults (<65 years old) and older adults (≥65 years old). Japan ha...

Liquid biopsy-based biomarkers, such as microRNAs, represent valuable tools for patient management, but often do not make it to integration in the clinic. We aim to explore issues impeding this transition, in the setting of germ cell tumors, for whic...

Data quality assessments (DQA) are necessary to ensure valid research results. Despite the growing availability of tools of relevance for DQA in the R language, a systematic comparison of their functionalities is missing. Therefore, we review R packa...

The most commonly used refrigerants are potent greenhouse gasses that can contribute to climate change. Hydro-Fluoro-Olefins are low Global Warming Potential fluids. A summary of our experimental research activity on the thermodynamic properties of t...

This paper aims to take the longitudinal development history of the Lenovo Cross-border complex nested R&D organization as the research object, to explore the development rules of enterprise niche. Strategic positioning is the core issue of enter...

This study investigates the impact of Research and Development (R&D) investment on the performance of Portuguese companies, specifically addressing the gap in understanding how R&D influences a company’s value and performance. We employ...

The Toileting Habit Profile Questionnaire Revised (THPQ-R) identifies sensory integration issues in children with defecation problems. Sensory integration issues are recognized as a factor linked to some defecation disorders and identifying such issu...

Polypharmacy (intake of ≥5 drugs) is an important issue for patients with chronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). We aimed to assess the prevalence of polypharmacy with regard to the severity of anxiety/depression and to comorbidities. T...

Emotion Dysregulation (ED) and Problematic Smartphone Use (PSU) are two rising global issues requiring further understanding on how they are linked. This paper aims to summarize the evidence pertaining to this relationship. Five databases were system...

This paper addresses the controversial issue of the direct and indirect effects of public R&D on growth. We look at six variables of R&D-driven growth jointly for 14 OECD countries using methods of dynamic systems for panel data analysis: GDP...

This paper describes a long-range directional wake-up radio (LDWuR) for wireless mobile networks. In contrast to most wake-up radios (WuR) to date, which are short range, ours is applicable to long-range deployments. Existing studies achieve long dis...

Back in 1969, the president of the American Podiatric Medical Association, Dr. Charles R. Turchin of Washington, DC, issued the call for members of our association to become more involved in public health endeavors [...]