Sustainable Development and Flood Risk Assessment in Haripur District: A Multicriteria Analysis Using AHP and Geospatial Techniques by Zulqarnain Jehan, Ali Husnain, Muhammad Waseem, Sareer Ahmad, Megersa Kebede Leta

“…Extreme flooding is becoming a more serious hazard to the world’s infrastructure, especially in high-risk locations, and is linked to global warming and human activity. …”
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Ince-Gaussian laser beams as superposition of Hermite-Gaussian or Laguerre-Gaussian beams by E.G. Abramochkin, V.V. Kotlyar, A.A. Kovalev

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Unilateral Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome Resulting in Cataract and Urrets-Zavalia Syndrome after Sequential Uneventful Implantation of a Posterior Chamber Phakic Toric Intraocula... by Kepa Balparda, Claudia Marcela Vanegas-Ramirez, Johny Márquez-Tróchez, Tatiana Herrera-Chalarca

“…Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome (TASS) is a rather unusual sterile anterior segment inflammation after uneventful intraocular surgery, extremely rarely reported after P-IOL implantation. …”
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Function Spaces with Bounded Lp Means and Their Continuous Functionals by Massimo A. Picardello

“…The supremum of such means defines a norm (or a seminorm, in the case of the full Marcinkiewicz space) that makes the respective spaces complete. …”
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Case studies of communications systems during harsh environments: A review of approaches, weaknesses, and limitations to improve quality of service by Zayan EL Khaled, Hamid Mcheick

“…The failure of communications systems may cause catastrophic damage to human life and economic activities as people are unable to communicate with each other in a timely manner and with a convenient quality of service. …”
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Study of the flood in Golestan province from a statistical and synoptics point of view (Case study: March 2019) by Akram Hedayati Dezfuli, Zahra Ghassabi

“…The analysis of the synoptic maps showed the severe sea level pressure and mid- level height drop with a deep trough in the study area, which led to extreme rainfall. …”
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Radiation-Induced Wavelength Shifts in Fiber Bragg Gratings Exposed to Gamma Rays and Neutrons in a Nuclear Reactor by G. Berkovic, S. Zilberman, Y. London, M. Rosenfeld, E. Shafir, O. Ozeri, K. Ben-Meir, A. Krakovich, T. Makmal

“…Gratings inscribed on pure silica core fibers using near-IR femtosecond pulses through a phase mask showed the smallest shifts (<30 pm), indicating that these FBGs are suitable for temperature measurement even under extreme ionizing radiation. …”
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Strawberry cultivars with <i>Fragaria orientalis</i> Losinsk. in their pedigrees by A. A. Kharchenko, V. I. Belevtsova, I. G. Chukhina

“…Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR) has developed and is implementing a program to establish nomenclatural standards for domestic cultivars of vegetatively propagated crops. …”
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Methodology for the Analysis and Assessment of the Reliability of the State and Prediction the Service Life of Reinforced Concrete Structures by A. G. Tamrazian

“…If a safety assessment of such structures is to be carried out in order to be able to continue in service, the main challenge would be to ensure that they can withstand future extreme loads over their intended lifetime with a level of reliability sufficient for safety.There are currently no methodologies for such an assessment.This methodology is proposed to facilitate quantitative assessments of the current and future structural reliability and load-bearing capacity of reinforced concrete structures. …”
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LittleFaceNet: A Small-Sized Face Recognition Method Based on RetinaFace and AdaFace by Zhengwei Ren, Xinyu Liu, Jing Xu, Yongsheng Zhang, Ming Fang

“…To address the challenges of occlusion and low-resolution person identification, this paper proposes a new face recognition framework by reconstructing Retinaface-Resnet and combining it with Quality-Adaptive Margin (adaface). …”
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The Development of a Customization Framework for the WRF Model over the Lake Victoria Basin, Eastern Africa on Seasonal Timescales by R. Argent, X. Sun, F. Semazzi, L. Xie, B. Liu

“…Of particular interest is an asymmetrical rainfall pattern across the lake basin, due to a diurnal land-lake breeze. The main aim is to present a customization framework for use over the lake. …”
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A Novel Classification of Uncertain Stream Data using Ant Colony Optimization Based on Radial Basis Function by Tahsin Ali Mohammed Amin, Sabah Robitan Mahmood, Rebar Dara Mohammed, Pshtiwan Jabar Karim

“…The ant colony optimization algorithm is then used to train a recurrent neural network. Finally, we evaluate our proposed method against some of the most popular ML methods, including a k-nearest neighbor, support vector machine, random forest, decision tree, logistic regression, and extreme gradient boosting (Xgboost). …”
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A cross-sectional survey on the effects of ambient temperature and humidity on health outcomes in individuals with chronic respiratory disease by Samantha Mekhuri, Shirley Quach, Caroline Barakat, Winnie Sun, Mika L Nonoyama

“…Negative responders to weather extremes were *a priori* defined as having a change of ≥ 2 points in the CAT…”
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Dominance of Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria, <i>Thiomicrorhabdus</i>, in the Waters Affected by a Shallow-Sea Hydrothermal Plume by Chih-Ching Chung, Gwo-Ching Gong, Hsiao-Chun Tseng, Wen-Chen Chou, Chuan-Hsin Ho

“…The shallow-sea hydrothermal vent at Guishan Islet, located off the coast of Taiwan, serves as a remarkable natural site for studying microbial ecology in extreme environments. …”
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The Impact of Courtyard Spatial Characteristics Across Historical Periods on Summer Microclimates: A Case Study from China by Qian Zhang, Xuan Ma, Duo Xu, Dian Zhou, Yujun Yang, Weile Jiang

“…This study investigates the impact of spatial changes over a 400-year period on the summer microclimate of a residential courtyard in China. …”
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A novel inverse method for Advanced monitoring of lubrication conditions in sliding bearings through adaptive genetic algorithm by Zhenpeng Wu, Bowen Dong, Liangyi Nie, Adnan Kefal

“…The lubrication states of the experimental sliding bearing under loads of 100 N, 200 N, 300 N, and 400 N were successfully predicted, highlighting the method’s reliability in real-world applications. This study provides a new approach and perspective for health monitoring and fault diagnosis of sliding bearings, especially under extreme conditions.…”
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Colonic Polyps in Children and Adolescents by Carol A Durno

“…Attenuated familial adenamatous polyposis (AFAP) can occur either by a mutation at the extreme ends of the adenomatous polyposis coli gene or by biallelic mutations in the mutY homologue (MYH) gene. …”
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Constructing a machine learning model for systemic infection after kidney stone surgery based on CT values by Jiaxin Li, Yao Du, Gaoming Huang, Yawei Huang, Xiaoqing Xi, Zhenfeng Ye

“…Abstract This study aims to develop a machine learning model utilizing Computed Tomography (CT) values to predict systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) after endoscopic surgery for kidney stones. …”
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Current prevalence and determinants of generalized anxiety disorder from a nationally representative, population-based survey of India by Pavithra Jayasankar, Satish Suhas, Lakshmi P. Nirisha, Sharad Philip, Narayana Manjunatha, Girish N. Rao, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Mathew Varghese, Vivek Benegal, NMHS National Collaborators Group

“…Among respondents with current GAD in the past 6 months across three domains, around 2/5th has mild and moderate disability, 1/10th has a severe disability, and 1/20th has an extreme disability. …”
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Uncovering glycolysis-driven molecular subtypes in diabetic nephropathy: a WGCNA and machine learning approach for diagnostic precision by Chenglong Fan, Guanglin Yang, Cheng Li, Jiwen Cheng, Shaohua Chen, Hua Mi

“…Abstract Introduction Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a common diabetes-related complication with unclear underlying pathological mechanisms. …”
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