Relation Between Quality of Transportation and Nano-Scale Air Pollution by Elif Cicek, Semra Ide, Cem Küçük, Oğuzhan Yorulmaz, Murat Vedat Yurttaş, Özge Zorlu Kaymak, Dilem Ergün

“…Additionally, the study reported important outcomes, such as a new designed filter mask material, which prevents the nanoparticles waste material, the critical distance from the exhaust sources and the importance of different fuel usage. …”
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Understanding Psychological Wellbeing Among Iranian Healthcare Workers: The Role of Resilience and Social Capital by Maryam Akbari, Mohammad Hossein Kaveh, Rosanna Cousins, Hamidreza Mokarami, Mehdi Jahangiri, Changiz Rahimi Taghanaki

“…Promoting individual empowerment and developing resilience skills should be considered an essential approach in designing and implementing intervention programs to improve the psychological well-being of healthcare workers.…”
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Effectiveness of a comic book intervention on mental health literacy among adolescents and youth in Burkina Faso: a randomized controlled trial protocol by Irene Brandt, Sylvain Some, Ourohiré Millogo, Oumar Sourabié, Jacob Burns, Sachin Shinde, Matthias Haucke, Nathan Sivewright, Christine Neumann, Shraddha Bajaria, Katian Napon, Clarisse Dah, Marina Taonda, Jason T. Siegel, Mary Mwanyika Sando, Till Bärnighausen, Ali Sié, Shuyan Liu

“…Our study will provide evidence on novel interventions designed to enhance mental health literacy among adolescents and young adults in low-resource settings. …”
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Nanotechnology and LSTM machine learning algorithms in advanced fuel spray dynamics in CI engines with different bowl geometries by Harish Venu, Manzoore Elahi M. Soudagar, Tiong Sieh Kiong, N. M. Razali, Hua-Rong Wei, Armin Rajabi, V. Dhana Raju, T. M. Yunus Khan, Naif Almakayeel, Erdem Cuce, Huseyin Seker

“…This interdisciplinary approach provides a robust framework for designing next-generation CI engines with improved efficiency and sustainability. …”
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A Structurally Flexible Occupancy Network for 3-D Target Reconstruction Using 2-D SAR Images by Lingjuan Yu, Jianlong Liu, Miaomiao Liang, Xiangchun Yu, Xiaochun Xie, Hui Bi, Wen Hong

“…Furthermore, the pluggable module is designed to include a complex-valued (CV) long short-term memory (LSTM) submodule and a CV attention submodule, where the former extracts structural features of the target from multiple azimuthal SAR images, and the latter fuses these features. …”
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Environment-friendly Ca2+/Cr3+ co-doping LaAlO3 ceramics with excellent infrared radiation performance for energy-saving by Xinglai Yuan, Qinghu Wang, Runke Wu, Shaobai Sang, Yibiao Xu, Xiong Liang, Liping Pan, Bingbing Fan, Yawei Li, Rui Zhang, Jiangtao Li, Olena Volkova

“…This work offers a promising approach for designing environmentally friendly IR ceramics with excellent IR performance for energy-saving applications in the high-temperature industry.…”
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A Comparative Study of the Metabolic and Skeletal Response of C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N Mice in a Diet-Induced Model of Type 2 Diabetes by Elizabeth Rendina-Ruedy, Kelsey D. Hembree, Angela Sasaki, McKale R. Davis, Stan A. Lightfoot, Stephen L. Clarke, Edralin A. Lucas, Brenda J. Smith

“…These substrain differences should be considered when designing experiments and are likely to have implications on data interpretation and reproducibility.…”
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Feasibility of implementing a decision aid for advanced cancer patients in a comprehensive cancer centers' outpatient setting: Valuable lessons learned by K. Laryionava, R. Boekels, J. Schildmann, M. Wensing, U. Wedding, B. Surmann, K. Mehlis, C. Gebel, M. Cinci, K. Krug, E. C. Winkler

“…This study focuses on perspectives of oncologists and other healthcare providers on the hindering and facilitating factors for implementing a customizable DA. This DA is designed to support discussions about whether patients with advanced, incurable cancers should pursue or forgo further anticancer treatment. …”
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Dynamic Key Replacement Mechanism for Lightweight Internet of Things Microcontrollers to Resist Side-Channel Attacks by Chung-Wei Kuo, Wei Wei, Chun-Chang Lin, Yu-Yi Hong, Jia-Ruei Liu, Kuo-Yu Tsai

“…To address this critical vulnerability, this study proposes a novel dynamic key replacement mechanism specifically designed for lightweight IoT microcontrollers. The mechanism integrates Moving Target Defense (MTD) with a lightweight Diffie–Hellman (D-H) key exchange protocol and AES-128 encryption to provide robust protection against SCAs. …”
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Constructing benzothiadiazole‐based donor‒acceptor covalent organic frameworks for efficient photocatalytic H2 evolution by Yanchang Huang, Bin Gao, Qihang Huang, De‐Li Ma, Hongwei Wu, Cheng Qian

“…As a comparison, DHU‐COF‐TB without benzothiadiazole moieties was also designed and synthesized. Impressively, the photocatalytic H2 production rate of DHU‐COF‐BB reaches 12.80 mmol g−1 h−1 under visible light irradiation (≥420 nm), which was nearly 2.0 and 3.1 times higher than that of DHU‐COF‐BP (6.47 mmol g−1 h−1) and DHU‐COF‐TB (4.06 mmol g−1 h−1), respectively. …”
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Association of Cardiovascular Risk Factors With Major and Minor Electrocardiographic Abnormalities: A Report From the Cross‐Sectional Phase of Tehran Cohort Study by Pooria Ahmadi, Sajjad Ahmadi‐Renani, Parmida Sadat Pezeshki, Sepehr Nayebirad, Arash Jalali, Akbar Shafiee, Aryan Ayati, Arian Afzalian, Farshid Alaeddini, Soheil Saadat, Farzad Masoudkabir, Ali Vasheghani‐Farahani, Saeed Sadeghian, Mohamamdali Boroumand, Abbasali Karimi, Boshra Pourbashash, Kaveh Hosseini, Frits R. Rosendaal

“…Methods We used the Tehran cohort study baseline data, an ongoing multidisciplinary, longitudinal study designed to identify cardiovascular disease risk factors in the adult population of Tehran. …”
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Molecular mobility and dielectric properties of dendronized side chain liquid crystalline polyamines with benzoate groups as lateral spacers by Xavier Montané, Robert Graf, Borja Pascual-José, Roberto Teruel-Juanes, Jordi Guardià, Marta Giamberini, José Antonio Reina, Amparo Ribes-Greus

“…The results obtained demonstrated that the adjustment of the aforementioned parameters is essential for designing membranes intended for ion transport applications.…”
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High Stability Single-Port Dual Band Microwave Sensor Based on Interdigital Capacitor Structure With Asymmetry Branch Feedline by Syah Alam, Indra Surjati, Lydia Sari, Raden Deiny Mardian, Teguh Firmansyah, Muhammad Iqbal, Slamet Widodo, Mudrik Alaydrus, Zahriladha Zakaria

“…The microwave sensor is designed using a single-port resonator operating at two different resonant frequencies <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{r1} = 1.61$ </tex-math></inline-formula> GHz and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{r2} = 2.52$ </tex-math></inline-formula> GHz. …”
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Ocular inoculation of toad venom: toxic cataract and proteomic profiling by Danni Lyu, Danni Lyu, Shuang Ni, Shuang Ni, Jia Xu, Jia Xu, Sha Zhu, Sha Zhu, Jing-Wei Xu, Jing-Wei Xu, Yixuan Feng, Yixuan Feng, Ce Shi, Ce Shi, Wen Xu, Wen Xu

“…Anterior capsule, nucleus, and cortex specimens from the patient (designated as PT_CAP, PT_PHACO, and PT_CTX, respectively) and age-related cataract controls (C_CAP, C_PHACO, and C_CTX, respectively) were collected and subjected to 4D label-free quantitative proteomics.ResultsA multitude of differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) were identified in the patient’s lens compared to those in the controls. …”
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Effects of plant- and animal-based-protein meals for a day on serum nitric oxide and peroxynitrite levels in healthy young men by Tomoko Kaneko, Masaki Yoshioka, Futo Kawahara, Natsumi Nishitani, Shoya Mori, Jiyeon Park, Takashi Tarumi, Keisei Kosaki, Seiji Maeda

“…The standard and test meals consisted of breakfast, lunch, and dinner and were designed to be isocaloric. Plant-based-protein meals contained no animal protein. …”
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Specific and sensitive detection of bovine coronavirus using CRISPR-Cas13a combined with RT-RAA technology by Zili Liang, Ruxing Luo, Qifu He, Cheng Tang, Zhidong Zhang, Yanmin Li, Zijing Guo

“…The specific primers for RT-RAA and CRISPR RNA (crRNA) were designed in the conserved region of the BCoV nucleocapsid (N) gene.ResultsThe detection limit of the RT-RAA CRISPR/Cas13a assays for BCoV detection was 1.72 copies/μl, and there were no cross-reactions with the other 10 common bovine enteric and respiratory disease-associated pathogens. …”
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Image-based anomaly detection in low-light industrial environments with feature enhancement by Dinh-Cuong Hoang, Phan Xuan Tan, Anh-Nhat Nguyen, Son-Anh Bui, Ta Huu Anh Duong, Tuan-Minh Huynh, Duc-Manh Nguyen, Viet-Anh Trinh, Quang-Huy Ha, Nguyen Dinh Bao Long, Duc-Thanh Tran, Xuan-Tung Dinh, Van-Hiep Duong, Tran Thi Thuy Trang

“…In this paper, we present DarkAD, a novel end-to-end approach specifically designed to address the difficulties of anomaly detection under low-light conditions. …”
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ConvXGB: A novel deep learning model to predict recurrence risk of early-stage cervical cancer following surgery using multiparametric MRI images by Ji Wu, Jian Li, Bo Huang, Sunbin Dong, Luyang Wu, Xiping Shen, Zhigang Zheng

“…Methods: The clinicopathologic data and multiparametric MRI images of 406 cervical cancer patients from three institutions were collected. We designed a novel deep learning model called “ConvXGB” for predicting recurrence risk by combining the convolutional neural network (CNN) and eXtreme Gradient Boost (XGBoost). …”
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Impact of empiric antibiotics on risk of Clostridioides difficile—a causal inference observational analysis by Matthew A. Pappas, Shoshana J. Herzig, Andrew D. Auerbach, Abhishek Deshpande, Eunice Blanchard, Michael B. Rothberg

“…Causal inference observational study designs can be used to estimate patient-level harms of interventions such as empiric antimicrobials. …”
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Evaluation of a PCR-based lateral flow device for detecting Aspergillus and Candida species from clinical specimens by Ariff Khalid, Jacinta Santhanam, Mohd Nizam Tzar, Ang-Lim Chua, Sharifah Fadilah Abdul Wahid, Wan Rahiza Wan Mat, Raha Abd Rahman, Petrick Periyasamy

“…Methods: Three separate multiplexed PCR reactions were designed together with a testing algorithm, using biotin, digoxigenin and Tamra fluorophore-labelled fungal internal transcribed spacer universal fungal primers, fungal genera-specific primers, and species-specific primers to produce labelled PCR products that were detected on the LFA dipstick. …”
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