Doctoral Supervision in Russian Universities: to the Problem of Balancing Activity and Performance by B. I. Bednyi, N. V. Rybakov

“…The findings imply that there is a great disparity in distribution of supervisors by number of students and by performance level (number of dissertation defenses), which is found to conform to Pareto – Zipf law. …”
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Regolith-Rich PEEK Composite Bricks: Steps Towards Space-Ready Lunar Construction Materials by Roberto Torre, Carlo Giovanni Ferro, Lorenzo Bono, Aidan Cowley

“…This shows that the composite, with an organic binder content as low as 5 wt%, has great potential. Notably, the improvements achieved through vacuum curing ensure compliance with lunar environmental conditions and alignment with most Earth-based engineering standards. …”
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Multi-Step-Ahead Prediction of Chaotic Time Series: Self-Healing Algorithm for Restoring Values at Non-Predictable Points by Vasilii A. Gromov, Korney K. Tomashchuk, Alexey Rukavishnikov A.

“…In this work, we say that it is necessary to be of great help regarding the exemption and development of the scientific university. …”
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A Review on Inverse Kinematics, Control and Planning for Robotic Manipulators With and Without Obstacles via Deep Neural Networks by Ana Calzada-Garcia, Juan G. Victores, Francisco J. Naranjo-Campos, Carlos Balaguer

“…Robotic manipulators are highly valuable tools that have become widespread in the industry, as they can achieve great precision and velocity in pick and place as well as processing tasks. …”
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A low-cost printed circuit board-based centrifugal microfluidic platform for dielectrophoresis by Nicklas Rondot, Songyuan Yan, Dario Mager, Lawrence Kulinsky

“…The integration of electrokinetic handling such as dielectrophoresis (DEP) greatly benefits microfluidic point-of-care systems as many modern assays require cell handling. …”
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The Potential of Menstrual Blood-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Cartilage Repair and Regeneration: Novel Aspects by I. Uzieliene, G. Urbonaite, Z. Tachtamisevaite, A. Mobasheri, E. Bernotiene

“…These cells have attracted a great deal of attention due to their exceptional advantages including easy access and frequently accessible sample source and no need for complex ethical and surgical interventions, as compared to other tissues. …”
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An Innovative Approach to Estimate Chloride Diffusion Coefficient in Submerged Concrete Structures Using Soft Computing by Seyyed Ali Habibi, Ali Hemmati, Hosein Naderpour

“…Among all kinds of structures, corrosion of submerged structures is of great importance and prevalence due to the impossibility of direct visibility, high reconstruction cost and special environmental conditions. …”
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New sanctions of the European Union and United States against Russia and their impact on Tajikistan’s socio-economic development by A. Kh. Rakhmonov

“…After gaining independence, Tajikistan’s economy suffered greatly from the civil war in the republic. Russia is one of the main donors to Tajikistan’s economy. …”
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Post operatory analgesia in caesarean surgery. by Bárbara Lucía Cabezas Poblet, Guyen Cuellar Chang, Rolando T. Espín González, María Antonia Cabezas Poblet

“…The tendency to find new therapeutic techniques to alleviate pain has lead scientists to make and use a great variety of analgesics which are administered by different vias. …”
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Study on the Migration Law of Overlying Strata on the Working Surface of Large Mining Height in Y.C.W Coal Mine by Hongtao Liu, Tianhong Huo, Yang Liu, Zhou Han, Zijun Han, Wanliang Liang

“…The migration law of overlying strata on working face is of great significance for safe mining of working face. …”
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Complexity to Forecast Flood: Problem Definition and Spatiotemporal Attention LSTM Solution by Yirui Wu, Yukai Ding, Yuelong Zhu, Jun Feng, Sifeng Wang

“…Essentially, growing data category and size greatly contribute to solve problems happened in physical space. …”
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Centrifuge Model Tests of the Effect of the Ground Motion Coherence Function on the Amplification of a Saturated Soil–Water Site by Xijun Song, Juan Liu, Jingyan Lan, Ting Wang

“…The results showed that the ground response results of the two groups of typical free site centrifugal models were greatly influenced by the coherence function. In the low frequency phase, the coherence function of the amplification spectrum of the site response decreased significantly, while in the high frequency phase, the decrease trend decreased. …”
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A Review of the Self-Adaptive Traffic Signal Control System Based on Future Traffic Environment by Yizhe Wang, Xiaoguang Yang, Hailun Liang, Yangdong Liu

“…The development of information technologies on computing science, autonomous driving, vehicle-to-vehicle, and mobile Internet has created a sufficient abundance of acquisition means for traffic data. Great improvements for data acquisition include the increase of available amount of holographic data, available data types, and accuracy. …”
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Superfoods: exploring sustainability perspectives between nutrient synthesizers and accumulators by G. Santunione, G. Montevecchi, G. Montevecchi

“…Since animal-based food production is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in the agro-food sector and a major driver of deforestation and water use, it is advisable to focus on plant organisms as the primary and direct sources of beneficial compounds. Nevertheless, great attention must be paid to vegetable crops that imply an overexploitation of soil and water and induce the degradation of entire ecosystems.…”
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A Hybrid LSTM-Based Ensemble Learning Approach for China Coastal Bulk Coal Freight Index Prediction by Wei Xiao, Chuan Xu, Hongling Liu, Xiaobo Liu

“…Empirical results show that domestic and overseas thermal coal spot prices and crude oil prices have great influences on daily, weekly, and monthly CBCFI values. …”
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Evaluation of Cross-Border Transport Connectivity and Analysis of Spatial Patterns in Latin America by Changqi Miao, Yinbao Zhang, Xinjia Zhang, Jianzhong Liu, Shike Zhang

“…Comprehensive connectivity evaluations are lacking and insufficient attention has been paid to Latin American connectivity, so it is of great practical importance to comprehensively and rationally evaluate Latin American connectivity. …”
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Modeling and Predicting Stochastic Merging Behaviors at Freeway On-Ramp Bottlenecks by Jian Sun, Kang Zuo, Shun Jiang, Zuduo Zheng

“…In this study, however, analyses not only focus on the accepted gaps, but also take the rejected gaps into account, and the impact on merging behavior with multi-rejected (more than once rejecting behavior) gaps was investigated; it shows that the multi-rejected gaps have a great influence on the estimation of critical gap and merging prediction. …”
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Evaluation of Public Welfare Level of Urban Rail Transit considering Operation Management by Ran Meng, Baohua Mao, Qi Xu, Yang Yang

“…Evaluating the public welfare level of the urban rail transit systems has not only great significance for the government to provide fair and reasonable subsidies but for the better operation and management of urban rail transit enterprises. …”
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Lip-Reading Classification of Turkish Digits Using Ensemble Learning Architecture Based on 3DCNN by Ali Erbey, Necaattin Barışçı

“…Understanding others correctly is of great importance for maintaining effective communication. …”
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Molecular epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease (review) by A. V. Scherbakov

“…The FMD virus, which has come to the Russian Federation from other countries, is characterized by great genetic diversity and belongs to three serotypes, five topotypes and eight genetic lineages: O/Cathay, O/ME-SA/PanAsia, O/SEA/Mya-98, O/ME-SA/Ind-2001, O/ME-SA/unnamed, A/Asia/Iran-05, A/Asia/Sea-97, Asia1/V. …”
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