<i>Armastus, Andestus, Alandlikkus</i>: The Rediscovery of the Orthodox Christianity in Post-Soviet Estonia by Milena Benovska-Sabkova

“…The restoration of the autonomous Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church, beginning in the 1990s, is due to the historic presence of Orthodoxy in Estonia, but also has the particularities of a new project that seeks contemporary horizons and copes with specific postsocialist problems. …”
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Segment, Compare, and Learn: Creating Movement Libraries of Complex Task for Learning from Demonstration by Adrian Prados, Gonzalo Espinoza, Luis Moreno, Ramon Barber

“…This process requires no prior knowledge, it is entirely autonomous, and supports multimodal information. The algorithm enables generating trajectories suitable for robotic tasks, establishing simple primitives that encapsulate the structure of the movements to be performed. …”
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A comprehensive transcriptional reference for severity and progression in spinal cord injury reveals novel translational biomarker genes by Rubén Grillo-Risco, Marta R. Hidalgo, Beatriz Martínez-Rojas, Victoria Moreno-Manzano, Francisco García-García

“…Abstract Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition that leads to motor, sensory, and autonomic dysfunction. Current therapeutic options remain limited, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive understanding of the underlying SCI-associated molecular mechanisms. …”
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Unlocking practical wisdom through the inner voice of robots by Arianna Pipitone, Irene Seidita, John P. Sullins, Antonio Chella

“…Abstract As Artificial Intelligence and Robotics evolve, the ethical implications of autonomous systems are becoming increasingly paramount. …”
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Prediction of Trolling behavior from sadism and Internet addiction in young adults of Buenos Aires by Pablo Christian González Caino, Santiago Resett

“…Method: For this purpose, an intentional sample of 708 adults of both genders (56% women, age M = 25 years SD = 8.7), from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) and Greater Buenos Aires (GBA), Argentina is selected. …”
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Antidisturbance Vibration Suppression of the Aerial Refueling Hose during the Coupling Process by Zikang Su, Honglun Wang

“…In autonomous aerial refueling (AAR), the vibration of the flexible refueling hose caused by the receiver aircraft’s excessive closure speed should be suppressed once it appears. …”
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Modelling and Simulation of Distributed UAV Swarm Cooperative Planning and Perception by Haifeng Ling, Hongchuan Luo, Haisong Chen, Linyuan Bai, Tao Zhu, Yanjun Wang

“…As an emerging topic, the swarm of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been attracting great attention. …”
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Multimodal Multiobject Tracking by Fusing Deep Appearance Features and Motion Information by Liwei Zhang, Jiahong Lai, Zenghui Zhang, Zhen Deng, Bingwei He, Yucheng He

“…Multiobject Tracking (MOT) is one of the most important abilities of autonomous driving systems. However, most of the existing MOT methods only use a single sensor, such as a camera, which has the problem of insufficient reliability. …”
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Breaking New Ground in Monocular Depth Estimation with Dynamic Iterative Refinement and Scale Consistency by Akmalbek Abdusalomov, Sabina Umirzakova, Makhkamov Bakhtiyor Shukhratovich, Azamat Kakhorov, Young-Im Cho

“…Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical task in computer vision with applications in autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. …”
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Prediction of mental strength from the satisfaction of basic needs in CABA and GBA esports players by Pablo Christian González Caino

“…This study aimed to determine the relationship and predictors of mental toughness from the satisfaction of basic needs in amateur esports players from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. …”
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Transmission dynamics and optimal control of brucellosis in Inner Mongolia of China by Linhua Zhou, Meng Fan, Qiang Hou, Zhen Jin, Xiangdong Sun

“…The global threshold dynamics are completely characterized by theory of asymptotic autonomous systems and Lyapunov direct method. We then formulate a multi-objective optimization problem and, by the weighted sum method, transform it into a scalar optimization problem on minimizing the total cost for control. …”
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Brain Tumor Detection Using a Deep CNN Model by Sonia Ben Brahim, Samia Dardouri, Ridha Bouallegue

“…This underscores the need for an autonomous model for brain tumor diagnosis. Our study involves the application of a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) to diagnose brain tumors from MR images. …”
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The Relationship between Heart Rate Variability and Adiposity Differs for Central and Overall Adiposity by B. Gwen Windham, Stefano Fumagalli, Alessandro Ble, John J. Sollers, Julian F. Thayer, Samar S. Najjar, Michael E. Griswold, Luigi Ferrucci

“…While frank obesity is associated with reduced HRV, indicative of poorer autonomic nervous system (ANS) function, the association between body mass index (BMI) and HRV is less clear. …”
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Guest editorial: Advanced signal processing for integration of radar and communication (IRC) by Bin Liao, Wei Liu, Ziyang Cheng, Tianyao Huang

“…Besides the military field, radar has been widely employed in daily life including weather service, air traffic control, autonomous driving and security monitoring. Meanwhile, these applications rely Largely on information transmission through wireless communications. …”
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Research of Laser Beam Combining in Ring Fiber-Optic Delay Line by M. R. Zaripov, V. A. Alekseev, A. I. Kirillov, A. V. Oficerova

“…At present time widespread use of autonomous laser systems supposes reducing of supply energy, consumed by laser sources that are included in their composition and at the same time increasing of their output energy characteristics. …”
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The Contribution of α-Synuclein Spreading to Parkinson’s Disease Synaptopathy by Francesca Longhena, Gaia Faustini, Cristina Missale, Marina Pizzi, PierFranco Spano, Arianna Bellucci

“…In addition, recent findings indicate that α-synuclein pathology spreads into the brain and can affect the peripheral autonomic and somatic nervous system. Indeed, monomeric, oligomeric, and fibrillary α-synuclein can move from cell to cell and can trigger the aggregation of the endogenous protein in recipient neurons. …”
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A Novel Technique for Identifying Patients with ICU Needs Using Hemodynamic Features by A. Jalali, P. Ghorbanian, A. Ghaffari, C. Nataraj

“…Further, four criteria from the hemodynamic variables are introduced: circle criterion, estimation error criterion, Poincare plot deviation, and autonomic response delay criterion. For each of these criteria, three fuzzy membership functions are defined to distinguish patients from healthy subjects. …”
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Bilingual Education Programs in Primary Education: What Do Parents Think? by Martina Soledad Ramírez-Orduña, Daniel Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Batista-Espinosa, Laura Barboyon Combey

“…Therefore, the objective of this research is to determine parental opinions on bilingual (English-Spanish) programs used in schools in the monolingual Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Spain). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 136 parents of students in the final stage of Elementary Education to gather their perceptions of bilingual education programs. …”
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Routing Protocol for Intelligent Unmanned Cluster Network Based on Node Energy Consumption and Mobility Optimization by He Dong, Baoguo Yu, Wanqing Wu

“…Nevertheless, due to factors such as multipath propagation, electromagnetic interference, and frequency band congestion in high dynamic scenarios, unmanned cluster networks experience frequent topology changes and severe spectrum limitations, which hinder the provision of connected, elastic and autonomous network support for data interaction among unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) nodes. …”
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Critical Study of the Implementation of the Right of Self-Determination in Protecting Indonesia’s Environmental and Economic Sovereignty by Sudarmo Sudarmo, Febrianty Yenny, Putri Viorizza Suciani, Muhtar Mohamad Hidayat, Salahuddin Salahuddin

“…As foreign nations and corporations enter through investment and employment contracts, they often gain equal footing with domestic entities, which undermines Indonesia’s control over its environmental resources. The lack of autonomous management of these resources, coupled with policies favoring foreign interests, raises concerns about Indonesia’s environmental sovereignty. …”
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