Telemedicine in Diabetic Retinal Screening: Pre- and Post-COVID-19 Challenges a New Perspective by Arshi Baig, Azhar Zafar

“…However, most telemedicine, in the field of diabetic retinopathy, has largely been reliant on human graders for triage purposes. With the advent of COVID-19, patients with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, were disproportionately affected. …”
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Optimal Skipping Rates: Training Agents with Fine-Grained Control Using Deep Reinforcement Learning by Adil Khan, Jiang Feng, Shaohui Liu, Muhammad Zubair Asghar

“…The experiments show that the profitable and optimal frame skipping rate falls in the range of 3 to 11 that provides the best balance between the learning speed and the final performance of the agent which exhibits human-like behavior and outperforms an average human player and inbuilt game agents.…”
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Three-Dimensionally Printed Mini Air Scrubbing Cartridges Based on Nano-Graphite for Air Pollution Monitoring by Emiliano Zampetti, Mattia Ammiraglia, Marco Conti, Cassandra Montiroli, Paolo Papa, Daniele Bianconi, Antonella Macagnano

“…Ecosystems and environments are impacted by atmospheric pollution, which has significant effects on human health and climate. For these reasons, devices for developing portable and low-cost monitoring systems are required to assess human exposure during daily life. …”
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Illustration with the Emotion of Grief and Regret in Poems of Siavash Kasraei by mohammadamin ehsani estahbanati, Manijeh Abdollahi

“…This feature explains and points out the attitude of the human person, including the artist, to the phenomena and concepts of existence. …”
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Bioinspired Implementation and Assessment of a Remote-Controlled Robot by Yves Rybarczyk, Diogo Gil Carvalho

“…This study is aimed at assessing the quality of the remote control of a mobile robot whether the artefact exhibits a human-like behavior or not. The bioinspired behavior implemented in the robot is the well-described two-thirds power law. …”
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Plant Sources, Extraction Methods, and Uses of Squalene by M. Azalia Lozano-Grande, Shela Gorinstein, Eduardo Espitia-Rangel, Gloria Dávila-Ortiz, Alma Leticia Martínez-Ayala

“…The inclusion of SQ in the human diet is recommended without causing health risks; however, its intake is low due to the lack of natural sources of SQ and efficient extraction methods which limit its commercialization. …”
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Teachers’ pedagogical practices for including learners with Cerebral Palsy at a primary school in the Chipinge district, Zimbabwe by Erinet Mambwerere, Loveness Dube

“…Recommendations include stakeholders pursuing rights-based inclusive education awareness and parental educational programmes and providing appropriate human and material resources.…”
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Emergence of the North Pacific heat storage pattern delayed by decadal wind-driven redistribution by Jing Duan, Yuanlong Li, Yilong Lyu, Zhao Jing, Fan Wang

“…Abstract Storage of anthropogenic heat in the oceans is spatially inhomogeneous, impacting regional climates and human societies. Climate models project enhanced heat storage in the mid-latitude North Pacific (MNP) and much weaker storage in the tropical Pacific. …”
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Incorporating “Security” in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): Insights from Food Security and Climate Change by Ayfer Genç YILMAZ YILMAZ, Gülşah SEDEFOĞLU

“…The diagram unveils the interaction between development and human and state dimensions of security, arguing that the definition of security cannot be limited to nonviolence or peace. …”
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Glucocorticoid-Induced Tumour Necrosis Factor Receptor-Related Protein: A Key Marker of Functional Regulatory T Cells by Simona Ronchetti, Erika Ricci, Maria Grazia Petrillo, Luigi Cari, Graziella Migliorati, Giuseppe Nocentini, Carlo Riccardi

“…Therefore, when evaluating changes in the number of Tregs in human diseases, GITR expression must be evaluated. …”
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Christianity and medical science: A historical quest for remedy in time of epidemics by V.U. Iheanacho

“…In such moments of universal terror and dread, human beings, in their helplessness and regardless of place and time, instinctively seek to escape their fate. …”
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En Afrique, pourquoi meurt-on ? Essai sur l’histoire d’un mythe africain by Jean-Loïc Le Quellec

“…According to this first type, Moon mandates Hare to deliver to humanity a message of life; Hare alters the message, which introduces death among men, who hate Hare since this fateful day; in punishment, Hare is hit and keeps a split lip. …”
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Sentinel Events in Ophthalmology: Experience from Hong Kong by Shiu Ting Mak

“…Many of these incidents were attributed to human error. Surgeon’s awareness and willingness to prevent occurrence of sentinel events are warranted.…”
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The State's Efforts to Realize Boum Publicum Through Preventing the Occurrence of Corruption Crimes by Sandita Azistasari, Diana Septaviana

“…This irony should be able to open Indonesian eyes to the deterioration of human resources. As a citizen and future generation who were desperately hoping for the progress of our beloved country, then we did a case study related to the corruption against COVID-19 social aid that was committed by The Minister of Social Department, which later we arranged in a simple journal, in the hope this journal able to provide readers’ understanding that corruption can conduce not only state detriment but also a deterioration of human resources. …”
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CT-Scan Method-based Artificial Neural Network for Diagnosis of COVID-19 by Humam Adnan Sameer, Ammar Hussein Mutlag, Sadik Kamel Gharghan

“…Where the World Health Organization announced after confirming the results of human infections in December 2019 that it hurts all aspects of life in general and human health in particular. …”
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Effect of Phenylephrine on the Accommodative System by José J. Esteve-Taboada, Antonio J. Del Águila-Carrasco, Paula Bernal-Molina, Teresa Ferrer-Blasco, Norberto López-Gil, Robert Montés-Micó

“…This manuscript reviews and summarizes the main research studies that have been performed to analyze the effect of PHCl on the accommodative system and provides clear conclusions that could help clinicians know the real effects of PHCl on the accommodative system of the human eye.…”
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“Baboons on the road again”: Survey of vehicle occupants on a road crossing a national park in Uganda by Jovia Nabuule, Fantine Benoit, Louise Robinet, Peter Isingoma, David Mwesigye Tumusiime, Harold Rugonge, Sabrina Krief, Odile Petit, Audrey Maille

“…Infrastructures such as roads or railways fragment the forests, but they are also places of encounter between humans and wildlife. Some populations of primates, especially macaques and baboons, are regularly seen on roadsides. …”
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Research on Mandatory Lane-Changing Behavior in Highway Weaving Sections by Wei Hao, Zhaolei Zhang, Zhibo Gao, Kefu Yi, Li Liu, Jie Wang

“…As the accident-prone sections and bottlenecks, highway weaving sections will become more complicated when it comes to the mixed-traffic environments with connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven vehicles (HVs). In order to make CAVs accurately identify the driving behavior of manual-human vehicles to avoid traffic accidents caused by lane changing, it is necessary to analyze the characteristics of the mandatory lane-changing (MCL) process in the weaving area. …”
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Microplastic contamination in commercial marine fish: A case study in Johor, Malaysia by Ezraneti Riri, Hassan Noor Artika, Miskon Mohd Fuad, Mohamed Juliana

“…Microplastic contamination in marine ecosystems endangered marine organisms such as fish and poses a risk to humans. This research aims to investigate the presence of microplastic contamination in commercial marine fish caught around Johor, Malaysia. …”
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Characterization of a Y-Family DNA Polymerase eta from the Eukaryotic Thermophile Alvinella pompejana by Sayo Kashiwagi, Isao Kuraoka, Yoshie Fujiwara, Kenichi Hitomi, Quen J. Cheng, Jill O. Fuss, David S. Shin, Chikahide Masutani, John A. Tainer, Fumio Hanaoka, Shigenori Iwai

“…Human DNA polymerase η (HsPolη) plays an important role in translesion synthesis (TLS), which allows for replication past DNA damage such as UV-induced cis-syn cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs). …”
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