An opportunistic observational study of hospital switchboard hold messages, hold music and time spent waiting by Jordan P. Skittrall, Mary D. Fortune

“…We sampled outgoing calls from our regional infectious diseases service to other hospital switchboards over a 3-month period. Wait times varied substantially. Two calls were cut off unanswered. …”
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Exact Solutions of the Time Fractional BBM-Burger Equation by Novel (G′/G)-Expansion Method by Muhammad Shakeel, Qazi Mahmood Ul-Hassan, Jamshad Ahmad, Tauseef Naqvi

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Challenges in detecting wind turbine power loss: the effects of blade erosion, turbulence, and time averaging by T. H. Malik, C. Bak

“…This study suggests that 10 min time-averaging periods can mask performance and that analysing unsteady-rotor data with shorter time periods, such as 1 s periods, is preferable. …”
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An Improved Clutter Suppression Method for Weather Radars Using Multiple Pulse Repetition Time Technique by Yingjie Yu, Yong Li

“…The suppression method is constructed using maximum likelihood methodology in time domain and is called parametric time domain method (PTDM). …”
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Battling time restrictions with collective discourse: collaborative quizzes in a condensed human anatomy course by Zi Guo, Natascha Heise

“…Conclusions To address time constraints within the pre-clerkship curricula effectively, it is crucial for educators to explore smaller adjustments to core learning principles. …”
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Rainfast Time for Postemergence Herbicides Commonly Used in the Everglades Agricultural Area: Quick Reference Sheet by Dennis C. Odero

“…And they each differ in their time requirements for rain-free periods following application. …”
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Delta-Nabla Type Maximum Principles for Second-Order Dynamic Equations on Time Scales and Applications by Jiang Zhu, Dongmei Liu

“…Some delta-nabla type maximum principles for second-order dynamic equations on time scales are proved. By using these maximum principles, the uniqueness theorems of the solutions, the approximation theorems of the solutions, the existence theorem, and construction techniques of the lower and upper solutions for second-order linear and nonlinear initial value problems and boundary value problems on time scales are proved, the oscillation of second-order mixed delat-nabla differential equations is discussed and, some maximum principles for second order mixed forward and backward difference dynamic system are proved.…”
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Formation Tracking for High-Order Time-Invariant Swarm Systems with Limited Energy and Fixed Topologies by Jianye Yang, Cheng Wang, Hongtao Dang, Xinzhong Han

“…Especially, time-invariant formation tracking criteria are further deduced. …”
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Dynamic Response and Lubrication Performance of Spur Gear Pair Under Time-Varying Rotation Speeds by Jiaxing Pei, Yuanyuan Tian, Hongjuan Hou, Yourui Tao, Miaojie Wu, Zhigang Guan

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Dirichlet Type Problem for 2D Quaternionic Time-Harmonic Maxwell System in Fractal Domains by Yudier Peña Pérez, Ricardo Abreu Blaya, Paul Bosch, Juan Bory Reyes

“…We investigate an electromagnetic Dirichlet type problem for the 2D quaternionic time-harmonic Maxwell system over a great generality of fractal closed type curves, which bound Jordan domains in R2. …”
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Fisher Discriminant Analysis for Extracting Interpretable Phenological Information From Multivariate Time Series Data by Conor T. Doherty, Meagan S. Mauter

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Effect of refrigeration, room temperature, and processing time on serum immunofluorescent antibody titers for Sarcocystis neurona by Claudia Valderrama‐Martinez, Andrea Packham, Shichen Zheng, Woutrina Smith, Magdalena Plancarte, Monica Aleman

“…Abstract Background Evaluating antibody titers for Sarcocystis neurona for the diagnosis of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis from serum samples is a common practice. However, ensuring timely and proper refrigeration is not always possible. …”
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Dynamic Analysis for a Kaldor–Kalecki Model of Business Cycle with Time Delay and Diffusion Effect by Wenjie Hu, Hua Zhao, Tao Dong

“…First the conditions of time-independent and time-dependent stability are investigated. …”
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Author Correction: Observation of two-dimensional time-reversal broken non-Abelian topological states by Yuze Hu, Mingyu Tong, Tian Jiang, Jian-Hua Jiang, Hongsheng Chen, Yihao Yang

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Transformation of Prayer Time Schedules: from A Static-Passive to A Dynamic-Variative Perspective by Muhammad Himmatur Riza, Thomas Djamaluddin, Ahmad Izzuddin

Subjects: “…prayer time schedule, static-passive, dynamic-variative…”
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Real-Time Monitoring and Early Warning Method Utilizing FBG Sensors in the Retrofitting Process of Structures by Shuli Fan, Liang Ren, Hongnan Li, Biao Song

“…Associated with a project, the application of real-time monitoring and early warning system in the retrofitting process of structures was investigated. …”
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Solitary Wave Solutions of Conformable Time Fractional Equations Using Modified Simplest Equation Method by Waseem Razzaq, Mustafa Habib, Muhammad Nadeem, Asim Zafar, Ilyas Khan, Patrick Kandege Mwanakatwea

“…This study presents a modified simplest equation method (MSEM) to investigate some real and exact solutions of conformable time fractional Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation and Chan-Hilliard (CH) equation. …”
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Evaluation of an artificial intelligence-based system for real-time high-quality photodocumentation during esophagogastroduodenoscopy by Byeong Yun Ahn, Junwoo Lee, Jeonga Seol, Ji Yoon Kim, Hyunsoo Chung

“…In conclusion, APT provides clear, high-quality endoscopic images while minimizing blind spots during EGD in real-time.…”
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Necessary and sufficient conditions for global-in-time existence of solutions of ordinary, stochastic, and parabolic differential equations by Yuri E. Gliklikh

“…We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for global-in-time existence of solutions of ordinary differential, stochastic differential, and parabolic equations. …”
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PSYCHOACOUSTICALLY MOTIVATED TIME-FREQUENCY DICTIONARY BUILDING FOR UNIVERSAL SCALABLE AUDIOCODER BASED ON THE SPARSE APPROXIMATION by V. Y. Herasimovich, Al. A. Petrovsky

“…The article studies the process of creating a perceptually-motivated dictionary of the timefrequency functions based on the wavelet packet transform optimized for the input signal frame and its utilization in the universal scalable real-time audiocoder. The article points out the importance of the topic, great attention is paid to the psychoacoustic modelling. …”
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