Continuous cooling transformation diagrams of HSLA steel for seamless tubes production by Schindler I., Kawulok R., Seillier Y., Kawulok P., Opěla P., Rusz S., Vodárek V., Turoň R.

“…The CCT and two DCCT diagrams were constructed for the HSLA steel containing Cr, V, Nb, and N microadditions, taking into account industrial processing parameters of this material in a seamless tubes rolling mill. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 Case Numbers on the Emission of Pollutants from a Medical Waste Incineration Plant by Monika Załuska, Anna Justyna Werner-Juszczuk, Katarzyna Gładyszewska-Fiedoruk

“…This correlation finding highlights additional costs to the environment and public health as the number of COVID-19 cases increase, which can be taken into account for pandemic planning by governments in the future.…”
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Digital competencies: perceptions of primary school teachers pursuing master’s degrees from eight African countries by Andresa Sartor Harada, Juliana Azevedo Gomes, Oscar Ulloa Guerra, Roberto Ruiz, Rubén Calderón

“…To advance the development of digital competencies it is necessary to take account of how teachers perceive these. In addition, systematic reviews of the literature on ICT and education show an imbalance regarding the amount of research from Africa compared to other regions of the world. …”
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Food apps took a free ride on the first phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil by Michele Bittencourt Rodrigues, Juliana de Paula Matos, Paula Martins Horta

“…Objective: Analyze the marketing content posted by three online food delivery (OFD) companies in Brazil on their official accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Lichen Sclerosus Atrophicus with Vitiligo in Pediatrics by Juan Carlos Yanes Macías, Mery Rosa Betancourt Trujillo, Lino Arístides Sánchez Galván, Damarys Díaz Leonard, Tamara Sánchez Estrada, Hugo Almeida Leyva

“…Age expressed in years, sex, race, genital involvement, evolution time in years, associated symptoms, other associated diseases were taken into account: vitiligo, dermatomyositis, scleroderma, lupus erythematosus, type of lesions, morphea, koebner and treatment. …”
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New anti-friction self-lubricating composite based on EP975 nickel alloy powder with CaF2 solid lubricant – Thermal and dilatometric behavior by Adam Kurzawa, Mateusz Stachowicz, Maciej Roszak, Tetiana Roik, Oleg Gavrysh, Iulia Maistrenko, Krzysztof Jamroziak, Mirosław Bocian, Grzegorz Lesiuk

“…The data obtained opens up the possibility of clearly selecting the operating temperatures of a bearings made from new composite, taking into account dilatometric phenomena in specific temperature ranges.…”
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Women are worse off in developing and recovering from temporomandibular disorder symptoms by Anna Lövgren, Simon Vallin, Birgitta Häggman-Henrikson, Flavia P. Kapos, Christopher C. Peck, Corine M. Visscher, Per Liv

“…The finding of a poorer prognosis in women, as well as previously reported potential gender differences in pain perception and reporting, reinforces that gender differences should be accounted for in the treatment planning stage for patients with onset of TMDs.…”
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Sex Differences in Vascular Compliance in Normal-Weight but Not Obese Boys and Girls: The Effect of Body Composition by Jeanie B. Tryggestad, David M. Thompson, Kenneth C. Copeland, Kevin R. Short

“…To determine the effect of sex and obesity on vascular function in children and explore potential mechanisms that account for differences in vascular function. Methods. …”
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Load Deflection Analysis of Beam-Column using Total Potential Energy (TPE) Principle by Manar A. Al-Fadul, Haider H. Darwash, Furat Y. Al-Ghalibi

“…The proposed approach utilizes the energy principal method and takes into account the geometric nonlinearity including the effects of axial force on bending stiffness, the end moments on axial stiffness (bowing), and the initial imperfection. …”
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Passivation of substrates with hydrogen to reduce the number of electron traps in the buffer layer at the contact of silicon with Ba1-xSrxTiO3 by Dmitry A. Belorusov, Evgeniy I. Goldman, Galina V. Chucheva, Mikhail S. Afanasyev, Vladimir A. Pilipenko, Alina V. Semchenko

“…The capacities of the test specimens have proven to be low sensitive to hydrogen saturation of the wafers. This is accounted for by long-term heating of the silicon wafers at 500–600 °C during ferroelectric deposition. …”
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Needs of older adults in Kazakhstan: analysis and psychometric properties of the localized version of the EASYCare standard 2010 instrument by Kerbez Kimatova, Lyudmila Yermukhanova, Dorota Talarska, Marzena Dworacka, Gulnar Sultanova, Gulzat Sarsenbayeva, Yerlan Bazargaliyev, Perizat Aitmaganbet, Aleksandra Suwalska, Katarzyna Wieczorowska-Tobis, Katarzyna Wieczorowska-Tobis, Ian Philp, Slawomir Tobis

“…The study also underscores the need for sustainable, comprehensive eldercare policies in Kazakhstan that account for the growing older population.…”
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NAVA: A Network-Adaptive View-Aware Volumetric Video Streaming Framework by Nguyen Long Quang, Truong Thu Huong, Duc Nguyen

“…The rate allocation problem is formulated as a optimization problem by taking into account the visible area of individual sequences as well as the network constraint. …”
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Interrelationship of the Kinin System, Nitric Oxide and Eicosanoids in the Antigen-Induced Arthritis in Rabbits by Fernando Alfonso Salamea Palácios, Gilberto Santos Novaes, Maria Luiza Guzzo, Ieda Maria Magalhães Laurindo, Suzana Beatriz Verissimo de Mello

“…Our results suggest that pressoric alterations induced by L-NAME could not account for all its anti-inflammatory action in this model of experimental arthritis. …”
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Bridging the digital divide: analyzing public participation in Indonesia's e-government through the e-participation index by Nurhidayat Nurhidayat, Achmad Nurmandi, Umar Congge

“…To overcome these challenges, it is necessary to improve regulations, integrate data, reduce the digital divide, and increase government transparency and accountability. What is new about this study lies in its comprehensive analysis of the E-Participation Index in the Indonesian context, which provides a unique perspective on the correlation between e-government infrastructure and public participation levels. …”
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Examining the relationships between self-stigma, loneliness, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation among people with bipolar disorder by Piotr Świtaj, Paweł Grygiel, Joanna Leciak, Izabela Stefaniak, Sylwia Opozda-Suder, Marta Anczewska

“…Our findings clearly indicate that interventions aiming to reduce the risk of suicide among people with BD should be comprehensive and take into account not only psychiatric symptoms, but also social context and the psychological aspects of living with this diagnosis.…”
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Neuroinflammation in Autism: Plausible Role of Maternal Inflammation, Dietary Omega 3, and Microbiota by Charlotte Madore, Quentin Leyrolle, Chloé Lacabanne, Anouk Benmamar-Badel, Corinne Joffre, Agnes Nadjar, Sophie Layé

“…However, more recent work has highlighted that certain environmental exposures early in life may also account for some cases of autism. Environmental insults during pregnancy, such as infection or malnutrition, seem to dramatically impact brain development. …”
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Subsequent commutation failure suppression strategy of hybrid cascaded HVDC system based on coordinated control of CEC and VDCOL by He Wang, Daqian Zhang, Jing Bian, Jiazhi Guo, Shiqiang Li

“…Therefore, through the analysis of the controller interaction process during the system fault, this paper proposes a multi‐controller coordinated control strategy based on the inverter side of the hybrid cascaded HVDC system, which can suppress the subsequent commutation failure of the system and take into account the recovery characteristics of the system during the fault, which has certain practical application value. …”
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Body mass change over winter is consistently sex-specific across roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) populations by Hewison, A.J. Mark, Bonnot, Nadège C., Gaillard, Jean-Michel, Kjellander, Petter, Lemaitre, Jean-François, Morellet, Nicolas, Pellerin, Maryline

“…We suggest that allocation to antler growth and territory establishment drives this pattern, providing a likely explanation to account for the lower rates of male adult survival that are consistently reported in this weakly dimorphic species.…”
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Hook plate fixation and tension band wiring in the treatment of Mayo type II olecranon fractures by Jianyu Zhang, Xigong Zhang, Kehan Hua, Chen Chen, Maoqi Gong, Yejun Zha, Xieyuan Jiang

“…Abstract Background Olecranon fractures account for 8 ∼ 10% of all elbow fractures and usually require surgical intervention. …”
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Two-Step Method for Millimeter-Wave Antenna Performance Assessment in 5G Smartphones by Filipa S. S. Fernandes, Christian Rom, António Rodrigues, Simon Svendsen, Ole Jagielski

“…For enhanced accuracy, mmWAESI accounts simultaneously for several communication aspects: antenna type, realistic radiation patterns, mobile phone form factor constraints, phone orientation, and user influence. …”
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