Experimental Study and Application of Inorganic Solidified Foam Filling Material for Coal Mines by Hu Wen, Duo Zhang, Zhijin Yu, Xuezhao Zheng, Shixing Fan, Bin Laiwang

“…With an increasing water–cement ratio, the initial setting time was gradually extended while the final setting time firstly shortened and then extended. …”
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Differences in Physical Activity between Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease and Healthy Subjects by Sumiko Shiba, Akiko Shiba, Atsutoshi Hatada

“…Our study highlights the importance of spending more time walking in daily life.…”
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Serum Levels of VWF, t-PA, TNF-α, and ICAM-1 in Patients Receiving Hemocoagulase Combined with Platelet-Rich Plasma during Total Hip Replacement by Yaobin Huang, Bin Zhou, De Zhang, Yu Chen

“…A lower value of prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time was revealed in the test group compared with the control group (P<0.05). …”
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Displacement and Stress Characteristics of Tunnel Foundation in Collapsible Loess Ground Reinforced by Jet Grouting Columns by Youyun Li, Shuoshuo Xu, Houquan Liu, Enlin Ma, Lixin Wang

“…Settlement of the tunnel foundation also gradually increases with time, and it tends to be stable at 50 days from the time of construction. …”
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Conventional steam activation for conversion of oil palm kernel shell biomass into activated carbon via biochar product by A.C. Affam

“…Further extension of time was not significant whereas increasing temperature was able to increase the pores found on the biochar. …”
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Depth of Anesthesia as a Risk Factor for Perioperative Morbidity by Argyro Petsiti, Vassilios Tassoudis, George Vretzakis, Dimitrios Zacharoulis, Konstantinos Tepetes, Georgia Ganeli, Menelaos Karanikolas

“…However, the impact of deep hypnotic time (time when Bispectral Index values are less than 40) has not been well evaluated. …”
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Long Short-Term Memory Projection Recurrent Neural Network Architectures for Piano’s Continuous Note Recognition by YuKang Jia, Zhicheng Wu, Yanyan Xu, Dengfeng Ke, Kaile Su

“…Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is a kind of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) relating to time series, which has achieved good performance in speech recogniton and image recognition. …”
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Investigating the blockchain technologies influences on the performance of road freight transportation management systems using network analysis technique by Ahmad Negravi, Omid Titidezh

“…The digital infrastructure technology reduced time and cost waste by 46.44% and 53.56%, respectively. …”
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Analysis of Household Daily Water Consumption Dynamics in the Tropical Environment by Timothy O. Ogunbode, Victor O. Oyebamiji, Olumide A. Oluwole, John A. Akande

“…The factors in descending order were (i) closeness to water source; (ii) night time baths; (iii) household cooking; (iv) Sunday activities; (v) water demands of the dry season; (vi) morning time water use; (vii) household size; (viii) respondents’ attitude; (ix) water availability in the dry season; (x) break in water flow; (xi) social events; and (xii) source of water. …”
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Artificial Neural Network Modeling for Spatial and Temporal Variations of Pore-Water Pressure Responses to Rainfall by M. R. Mustafa, R. B. Rezaur, H. Rahardjo, M. H. Isa, A. Arif

“…Measurements of soil pore-water pressure data are challenging, expensive, time consuming, and difficult task. This paper evaluates the applicability of artificial neural network (ANN) technique for modeling soil pore-water pressure variations at multiple soil depths from the knowledge of rainfall patterns. …”
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Bidirectional relationships between phonological processing and basic number knowledge in kindergarten children: a longitudinal study by Xin Chen, Chi Ma, Zihan Yang, Xiujie Yang

“…Specifically, early phonological awareness at time 1 could predict later number identification, and early number comparison at time 1 was a significant predictor of later phonological memory. …”
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Hydrothermal Synthesis of CuO Nanoparticles: Tailoring Morphology and Particle Size Variations for Enhanced Properties by Tijen Ennil Bektaş, Uğur Cengiz, Gürkan Akarken

“…The effect of temperature and time on synthesis process was characterized and discussed. …”
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Temporal Foraging and Ranging Patterns Suggested the Niche Partitioning of Two Sympatric Herbivores, Axis axis and Bubalus bubalis, in the Nijhum Dweep National Park of Bangladesh by Aftab Hossain, Syeda Ismat Ara, Biswajit Nath, Kazi Fayzatul Zannat, Md. Farid Ahsan

“…Spotted deer spent most of their time inside the forest and forest edges, whereas, buffalos mostly spent their time in the open grazing grounds. …”
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Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: The Learning Curve of a Low Volume Surgeon by Anuar I. Mitre, Mario F. Chammas, José Eugênio A. Rocha, Ricardo Jordão Duarte, Gustavo Xavier Ebaid, Flavio Trigo Rocha

“…An enhancement of estimated blood loss, surgery length, and presence of a positive surgical margin were all considered as a function of surgeon’s experience. Results. Operative time was 267 minutes for group A, 230 minutes for group B, and 159 minutes for group C, and the operative time decreased over time, but a significant difference was present only between groups A and C (). …”
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The landscape of family medicine in India - A cross-sectional survey study. by Archna Gupta, Raman Kumar, Ramakrishna Prasad, Sunil Abraham, Nisanth Menon Nedungalaparambil, Paul Krueger, Carolyn Steele Gray, Megan Landes, Sanjeev Sridharan, Onil Bhattacharyya

“…We had 272 respondents. 61.0% of respondents completed a full-time in-person residency program, while 39.0% completed a part-time distance or blended-type program. …”
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Regeneration of Deteriorated Internal Combustion Engine Components used in Thermal Power Plants by William Quitiaquez, Hugo Meneses, Patricio Quitiaquez, Isaac Simbaña

“…In addition to this time, the time used in the initial preparation and final machining must be added; however, the time is substantially less than the manufacturing of a new spare part, which brings with it an increase in the availability of these spare parts to perform scheduled maintenance in the engines for power generation, contributing to improve the efficiency of the national electric system. …”
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Gorilla Troops Optimizer Combined with ANFIS for Wire Cut EDM of Aluminum Alloy by Elango Natarajan, V. Kaviarasan, Wei Hong Lim, S. Ramesh, K. Palanikumar, T. Sekar, V. H. Mok

“…Different combinational options of pulse-on time (P1), pulse-off time (P2), servo wire feed (WF), and current (I) were investigated and surface roughness after machining was observed. …”
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Exploring the Performance of Different On-Demand Transit Services Provided by a Fleet of Shared Automated Vehicles: An Agent-Based Model by Senlei Wang, Goncalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Hai Xiang Lin

“…Comparing the TVTS system, which has inconvenient access in peak hours, with the PTS systems, which always makes available door-to-door transport, we conclude that the latter could achieve a similar system performance as the former in terms of average waiting time, service time and system capacity.…”
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Predatory ability of <i>Sycanus annulicornis</i> Dohrn. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) on nettle caterpillar prey (<i>Setora nitens</i> Walker.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the laboratory by Rusli Rustam, Dwi Yuwanda Nasution, Yunandra Yunandra, Mukhlis Ibrahim

“…The treatments involved S. annulicornis imago [N1=one male imago, N2=one female imago, and N3=one pair of imago (male and female)], with observation parameters including first and second prey search time, prey handling time, predation ability, and total predation. …”
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Gender and Authorship in Annals of Surgery: A nineteen-year review including the pandemic by Jane W. Liang, PhD, Marcello Chang, MD, MCS, Sharon L. Stein, MD, Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

“…This gap widened until the number of submissions peaked in 2020, after which submissions from men appeared to decrease at a faster rate than those from women. Acceptance rates and time to decision have generally declined over time, but articles by women experienced, on average, higher acceptance rates and longer time to decision during recent years compared with those by men. …”
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