Masked face recognition: Human versus machine by Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros, Marius Süßmilch, Meiling Fang, Florian Kirchbuchner, Arjan Kuijper

“…Abstract The recent COVID‐19 pandemic has increased the focus on hygienic and contactless identity verification methods. However, the pandemic led to the wide use of face masks, essential to keep the pandemic under control. …”
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From Information Overload to Lucidity: A Survey on Leveraging GPTs for Systematic Summarization of Medical and Biomedical Artifacts by Balamurugan Palanisamy, Arjab Chakrabarti, Anushka Singh, Vikas Hassija, G. S. S. Chalapathi, Amit Singh

“…In medical research, the rapid proliferation of condition-specific studies has led to an information overload, making it challenging for researchers and practitioners to stay abreast of the latest findings. …”
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Climate and population: risk exposure to precipitation concentration in mainland Spain (1950-2010) by Roberto Serrano Notivoli, María Zúñiga-Antón, Ángel Pueyo, Santiago Beguería, Miguel Ángel Saz, Martín de Luis

“…Results suggest that hazard (precipitation concentration) changes led most of the observed changes in risk exposure, except in those decades where population movements were massive and widespread. …”
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Advertising as a tool to stimulate the sales market of construction company services by N. M. Suray, M. A. Vasilenko

“…The results of the study led to the conclusion that advertising plays a key role in the successful promotion of services of construction organizations in the market. …”
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Mostashr al-Dawla’s View of Iran’s Backwardness: A Critical Review on the Book Modernism and Legalism by Mohammad Javad Tahsili, Maghsoud Ranjbar, Mohammad Torabi

“…The most important critique of the book, it is descriptive and the author lacks a critical approach to the work, while the treatise "One Word" by Mostashar al-Dawla can be criticized in various ways, which are discussed in this article and the most important critique of the above treatise is that Mostashar al-Dawla’s has become reductionist in understanding the law and its meaning and this has led to her serious misunderstanding of the place and meaning of law in the modern world. …”
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WOMEN OF UKRAINIAN ANTI-NAZI UNDERGROUND REFLECTED IN HISTORICAL ANTROPOLOGY by M. A. Slobodyanyuk, T. O. Radkevich

“…Permanent existence on the verge of life and death often led women to emotional actions, deviant forms of behaviour. …”
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Plants from Arid Zones of Mexico: Bioactive Compounds and Potential Use for Food Production by Isabel Márquez-Rangel, Mario Cruz, Alberto A. Neira-Vielma, Sonia N. Ramírez-Barrón, Pedro Aguilar-Zarate, Ruth Belmares

“…(1) Background: Climate change has several consequences; one of them is increasing the severity of droughts. This has led to an opportunity to study arid zone plants as food sources that have potential biological activities and improve consumer health. (2) Methods: In this work, we review recent research focused on the traditional use and importance of arid zone plants, their nutritional contribution, and their beneficial effects on health when they are consumed; these effects are primarily because of their antioxidant activity, which inhibits free radicals and contributes to improved nutrition and benefits consumer health. (3) Results: Several plant-based functional food studies have shown that the consumption of bioactive compounds is a complement to drugs for preventing some chronic degenerative diseases, such as gastrointestinal diseases, diabetes, and obesity. (4) Conclusions: Given all of the previously mentioned factors, plants from arid zones are potential sources for obtaining bioactive compounds with low water requirements.…”
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Continuous professional development in higher education: A systematic review of its conceptualizations, trends and challenges (2011- 2020) by Medhanit Adane Solomon, Amare Asgedom Gebremedhin, Kassahun Weldemariam Tigistu

“…Finally, we argue that effective CPD in higher education requires a systematic, comprehensive, and well-established policy-led approach to staff development. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Winding Structures in Dynamic Wireless Power Transmission in Electric Vehicle Applications by M. Rafinejad, A. Ghayebloo

“…In recent decades, problems such as air pollution and the reduction of fossil fuel resources led to the development of electric vehicles. Wireless power transmission is an efficient and reliable way to charge fixed and mobile electric vehicles. …”
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Oleraceins from Portulaca oleracea leaves: Quali-quantitative determination and antioxidant potential by Ciro Cannavacciuolo, Assunta Napolitano, Verena M. Dirsch, Elke H. Heiss, Milena Masullo, Sonia Piacente

“…An oleracein-enriched fraction from the infusion and its hydrolysed derivative exhibited radical scavenging activity in vitro and led to activation of the Nrf2 pathway in cells without apparent cytotoxicity. …”
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Development and optimization of the activated charcoal suspension composition based on a mixture design approach by Ronowicz Joanna, Kupcewicz Bogumiła, Pałkowski Łukasz, Krysiński Jerzy

“…A slight increase in the content of carboxymethylcellulose sodium led to a marked decrease in adsorption power. The obtained mathematical models and response surface allowed selection of the optimal composition of excipients in a final drug product…”
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Unruptured Cerebral Aneurysms: Evaluation and Management by Norman Ajiboye, Nohra Chalouhi, Robert M. Starke, Mario Zanaty, Rodney Bell

“…The evolution of imaging techniques and their increased use in clinical practice have led to a higher detection rate of unruptured intracranial aneurysms. …”
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Effect of pH and Monomer Dosing Rate in the Anionic Polymerization of Ethyl Cyanoacrylate in Semicontinuous Operation by Hened Saade, Suleidi Torres, Cynthia Barrera, Julieta Sánchez, Yolanda Garza, Raúl G. López

“…An increase in the monomer dosing rate led to larger and more stable particles in such way that only one population of nanoparticles with around 40 nm in average diameter was obtained.…”
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Prévention des TMS dans la durée : des acteurs institutionnels facilitent une démarche d’entreprise by Elisabeth Tayar, Christophe David, Marc Viel

“…This accompanying action focused on the creation of working groups led by private consultants to consider situations that could lead to musculoskeletal disorders and to share decisions for change.After the project had been conducted in a bovine slaughterhouse for 3 years, an adaptation process is now being carried out. …”
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A Combined Clearing Model of Electric Energy, Inertia, and Primary Frequency Regulation Considering Emergency Interruptible Load Service by ZHU Lan, ZHANG Xuehan, TANG Longjun, QIU Nianhang, TIAN Yingjie

“…The ever-increasing proportion of new energy units has led to prominent frequency safety issues in the power system. …”
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New Conflicts, New Orientalists: How Military Theorists Reproduced Orientalism in Twenty-First Century by Hasan Deniz Pekşen

“…Efforts to understand the twenty-first century conflicts have led to the appearance of many unconventional studies. …”
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Successful Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment in a Case of Generalized Dystonia due to a Novel ANO3 Mutation by Lizl Lasky, Lindsay Bliss, Christos Sidiropoulos

“…Ongoing adjustment of stimulation settings and medications led to good and sustained dystonia control; however the patient did suffer short term relapses, manifested as dystonic crisis, which necessitated inpatient admission. …”
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Treatment of Horizontal Canal Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo: A New Rehabilitation Technique by D. Testa, G. Castaldo, C. De Santis, A. Trusio, G. Motta

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new technical variant applied to the Gufoni's manoeuvre, in the treatment of horizontal canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (HSC-BPPV). 87 patients with BPPV of HSC (55 women and 32 men), aged between 21 and 80 years, were randomized either to modified Gufoni's manoeuvre or to the Gufoni's manoeuvre. 93% of patients treated with modified Gufoni's manoeuvre was cured after the first treatment session, of which only 2% had a conversion into PSC-BPPV, while the Gufoni's manoeuvre led to a symptoms resolution in 88% of cases, of which 16% had a conversion into PSC-BPPV. …”
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Facial Swelling as a Primary Manifestation of Multiple Myeloma by Anju E. Thomas, Seema Kurup, Renju Jose, Cristalle Soman

“…This paper reports a case of a patient with a unilateral facial swelling, which on investigation led to a diagnosis of multiple myeloma.…”
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A new probabilistic model with simulation study: Its practical implementations using the energy consumption in urban planning by Jiayi Zhang, Shensheng Chen, Tmader Alballa, Laila A. AL-Essa, Haifa Alqahtani, Hamiden Abd El-Wahed Khalifa

“…The rapid urbanization in China has led to an increase in the share of residential energy consumption in the overall energy consumption. …”
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