The socio-ecological complexity of facing climate change: a case study from Pima County (Arizona, USA) by Le Tourneau, François-Michel, Fisher, Larry A., Zuniga-Teran, Adriana A., Wilder, Benjamin T., Boyer, Anne-Lise, Blanchon, David, Dubertret, Fabrice

“…“Human-environment observatories” (Observatoires Hommes-Milieux, OHM) are an ideal setting to develop such studies since they are inherently interdisciplinary and develop both short and long-term perspectives on specific socio-ecological systems. …”
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Reinforcing the brittle resistance of high-strength concrete using agricultural waste fiber by Radwa Defalla Abdel Hafez, Ali Shubbar, Mohammed Salah Nasr, Raghda Osama Abd-Al Ftah

“…The utilization of natural fiber wastes could be an ideal way to tackle two problems. Firstly, this may be a solution to the issue of environmental challenges related to agricultural wastes. …”

Red Blood Cell Alloimmunization and Autoimmunization in Blood Transfusion-Dependent Sickle Cell Disease and β-Thalassemia Patients in Al-Ahsa Region, Saudi Arabia by Fahd A. Kuriri, Abdulrahman Ahmed, Fehaid Alanazi, Fahad Alhumud, Mohammed Ageeli Hakami, Osama Atiatalla Babiker Ahmed

“…Blood transfusion-related alloimmunization and autoimmunization compromise the proper management of chronically transfused patients. Ideally, extended matched phenotyping should be implemented to prevent alloimmunization and reduce the risk of developing blood transfusion-related alloantibodies.…”
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Automatic Tracking Method of Basketball Flight Trajectory Based on Data Fusion and Sparse Representation Model by Cuiping Cao, Hai Yu, Yun Liu

“…The appearance model of flying basketball obtained by the traditional basketball flight trajectory tracking method is not accurate, which leads the anti-interference performance of trajectory tracking not ideal. Based on data fusion and sparse representation model, a new automatic trajectory tracking method is proposed. …”
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Polydiacetylene (PDA) Embedded Polymer-Based Network Structure for Biosensor Applications by Huisoo Jang, Junhyeon Jeon, Mingyeong Shin, Geonha Kang, Hyunil Ryu, Sun Min Kim, Tae-Joon Jeon

“…In particular, polydiacetylene (PDA) is gaining attention as an ideal material for label-free colorimetric biosensor development due to its unique color-changing properties in response to external stimuli. …”
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Cancer Vaccine by Fusions of Dendritic and Cancer Cells by Shigeo Koido, Eiichi Hara, Sadamu Homma, Yoshihisa Namiki, Toshifumi Ohkusa, Jianlin Gong, Hisao Tajiri

“…The fusion of DCs with whole tumor cells represents in many ways an ideal approach to deliver, process, and subsequently present a broad array of tumor-associated antigens, including those yet to be unidentified, in the context of DCs-derived costimulatory molecules. …”
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Predicting CO2 Permeation through an Enhanced Ionic Liquid Mixed Matrix Membrane (IL3M) by Dzeti F. Mohshim, Hilmi Mukhtar, Binay K. Dutta, Zakaria Man

“…The MWS model, which considers the shape factor, was modified to incorporate the volume fraction of the wetted dispersed phase and the ideal shape factor. A direct relationship was found between the filler concentration and the shape factor. …”
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Simultaneous determination of ten nucleosides and bases in Ganoderma by micellar electrokinetic chromatography by Feiya Sheng, Songsong Wang, Xiao Luo, Jianbo Xiao, Linfeng Hu, Peng Li

“…By optimizing the borate concentration, the sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) concentration and the pH value of running buffer, 10 nucleosides and bases achieved an ideal separation. In real sample analysis, the developed method was successfully used to determine the 10 target analytes in 23 batches of Ganoderma samples from different regions. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Polypropylene Macrofiber-Reinforced Concrete by Zhishu Yao, Xiang Li, Cao Fu, Weipei Xue

“…The test results show that PPMFRC is an ideal material for the lining structure of a mine shaft under complex geological conditions, and we have provided technical parameters for engineering applications.…”
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Dynamics of the Indonesian Parliament in Formulating Food Laws to Achieve Food Security at the End of the New Order by Agustina Wilujeng Pramestuti, Yety Rochwulaningsih, Singgih Tri Sulistiyono

“…Furthermore, government policies should ideally be oriented towards food sovereignty. Research findings reveal that the Food Law formulated and passed at the end of the New Order era actually attempted to be oriented towards food security and was critical of capitalism. …”
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Pilot-Based Time Domain SNR Estimation for Broadcasting OFDM Systems by Abid Muhammad Khan, Varun Jeoti, Muhammad Zaka Ur Rehman, Muhammad Taha Jilani, Omer Chugtai, Mubashir Hussain Rehmani

“…The results indicate that the proposed scheme generates near-ideal accuracy; especially in low SNR regimes, in terms of the normalized mean square error (NMSE). …”
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Identification of novel saltiness/saltiness enhancing peptides in egg proteins: Molecular docking, action mechanism and in vitro activity validation by Yaxin Cao, Linyuezhi Yan, Di Liu, Qian Zhang, Wenzhu Zhao, Lin Yuan, Yiding Yu, Zhipeng Yu

“…The study indicated that the peptides VESQTNGIIR and NQITKPNDVY may be ideal saltiness/saltiness enhancing peptides.…”
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Myocardial Regeneration via Progenitor Cell-Derived Exosomes by Janita A. Maring, Christien M. Beez, Volkmar Falk, Martina Seifert, Christof Stamm

“…The conceptual advantage is that they may be produced in industrial quantities and stored at the point-of-care for off-the-shelf application, ideally without eliciting a relevant recipient immune response or other adverse effects associated with viable cells. …”
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HCV and Lymphoproliferation by Anna Linda Zignego, Carlo Giannini, Laura Gragnani

“…Analogously with Helicobacter pylori related lymphomagenesis, the study of the effects of viral eradication confirmed the etiopathogenetic role of HCV and showed it is an ideal model for better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved. …”
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EPS System of Tractor Automatic Driving: An Improved LMI with Mixed Sensitivity Control Method by Huanxiao Pang, Guangfei Xu, Zhicai Song, Dianbao Zhao, Wenjun Wang, Peisong Diao

“…Also, the power steering characteristic of the H∞ controller with hybrid sensitivity design method is better than that of an unoptimized one, and its robustness is better, and under external pavement interference, the following ability is stronger for the ideal hand torque and the steering is more stable.…”
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Experimental Study on Gas Transport in Shale Matrix with Real Gas and Klinkenberg Effects by Xiaojun Wu, Qing Wang, Fangtao Lyu, Zhengfu Ning, Zongxiao Ren

“…Then, the intrinsic permeability and Klinkenberg coefficient were effectively obtained by maintaining high expanding speed of gas in apparatus and eliminating the negative effect of low filling degree of sample. By analysis, the ideal gas transports faster than real gas due to the viscosity difference at low pressure and the deviation factor difference at high pressure. …”
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Seismic Capacity Assessment of Confined Brick Masonry Building: An Experimental Approach by Asfandyar Ahmed, Imad Ahmad, Khan Shahzada, Muhammad Tayyab Naqash, Bashir Alam, Muhammad Fahad, Sajjad Wali Khan

“…The response of the model was interpreted through a hysteresis curve, which was then idealized by a bilinear curve. A comparison of the results has been made with four different studies done on the similar model made of unreinforced brick masonry before and after retrofitting and unreinforced concrete block masonry before and after retrofitting previously tested at the same testing facility.…”
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Enhancing fingerprint identification using Fuzzy-ANN minutiae matching by S.P. Singh, Dinesh Kumar Nishad, Saifullah Khalid

“…Utilizing a combination of minutiae-based matching and neural network algorithms, the system is designed to overcome the limitations of traditional methods, which often fail under less-than-ideal conditions. The system's core lies in its ability to train an artificial neural network to learn an improved similarity function for minutiae matching. …”
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Umbrella-Shaped Wideband MIMO Wireless Communication Antenna by Hussein Mohammed Naser, Oras Ahmed Al-Ani, Mahmood Farhan Mosleh, Faiz Arith

“…Additionally, the outcomes demonstrate that the MIMO system may operate in a sub-6 band that is ideal for smart device applications. …”
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Approaches to evaluate nutrition of minerals in food by Xuan Wang, Yifan He, Qian Gao, Dong Yang, Jianfen Liang

“…Although no single bioavailability method is ideal for all micronutrients, certain methods under proper operation can indeed be employed to minimize the differences between simulated results and reality for effective evaluation of the bioavailability of minerals.…”
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