Virtually Connected: Do Shared Novel Activities in Virtual Reality Enhance Self-Expansion and Relationship Quality? by Rhonda N. Balzarini, Anya Sharma, Amy Muise

“…However, in today’s globalized modern world, partners spend less time together and are more likely to live apart than in previous generations, limiting opportunities for shared novel experiences. …”
Get full text

Nonlinear Dynamic Behaviors of Rotated Blades with Small Breathing Cracks Based on Vibration Power Flow Analysis by Hailong Xu, Zhongsheng Chen, Yeping Xiong, Yongmin Yang, Limin Tao

“…Firstly, local flexibility due to a crack is derived and then time-varying dynamic model of the rotated blade with a small breathing crack is built. …”
Get full text

Prevalence and Associated Factors of Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Myasthenia Gravis: A Cross-Sectional Study of Two Tertiary Hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Mohammed H. Alanazy

“…Data were collected with a two-part standardized questionnaire: the first part included data on sociodemographic and clinical features of MG including disease type and duration, therapies, prednisolone dose, time of the last relapse, previous critical care unit admissions, MG status (controlled, partially controlled, or uncontrolled), and comorbid diseases; the second part included items from the previously validated Arabic version of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). …”
Get full text

Removal of a fractured file beyond the apical foramen using robot-assisted endodontic microsurgery: a clinical report by Mei Fu, Shen Zhao, Xubing Zhou, Benxiang Hou, Chen Zhang

“…This technology has the potential to improve positioning accuracy, minimize the need for invasive bone removal, reduce intraoperative time, and facilitate successful endodontic microsurgical procedures.…”
Get full text

Classification of Projects in the Oil and Gas Industry by A. V. Vlasov

“…Therefore, for a detailed classification of oil and gas projects us presents the author's classification criteria for projects that have a significant impact on the financial costs and timing of oil and gas project.…”
Get full text

Oferta de sódio na alimentação em creches municipais: um risco à saúde by Anabelle Retondario, Débora Letícia Frizzi Silva, Márcia Aurelina de Oliveira Alves, Cláudia Choma Bettega Almeida, Suely Teresinha Schmidt, Sila Mary Rodrigues Ferreira

“…Sodium content was determined by the method of chlorides by volumetry and the results were compared to 4 parameters, as follows: 1) maximum sodium value recommended by PNAE to full-time school feeding, 2) tolerable upper intake level (UL) for the age group, 3) compliance to maximum 70% of tolerable upper intake level (UL) for the age group, and 4) maximum sodium value recommended by PNAE to a single meal. …”
Get full text

Association between Particulate Matter Pollution Concentration and Hospital Admissions for Hypertension in Ganzhou, China by Chenwei Li, Xinye Zhou, Kun Huang, Xiaokang Zhang, Yanfang Gao

“…NO2, O3, CO, and SO2 had different significant effects on the number of hospitalizations over the same time period, and PM2.5 and PM10 still showed robust significant effects after adjustment of gas pollutants through a two-pollutant model. …”
Get full text

Toward efficient authentication for space-air-ground integrated Internet of things by Baokang Zhao, Puguang Liu, Xiaofeng Wang, Ilsun You

“…Experimental results showed that, MASIT outperforms the existing identity-based encryption schemes significantly, that is, the signature verification time can be reduced by 50% to 60%, and the user signature size can be reduced by 13% to 50%.…”
Get full text

Improved Adsorption Capacity of Nannochloropsis sp. through Modification with Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide on the Removal of Methyl Orange in Solution by Buhani, Suharso, Nurul Miftahza, Desy Permatasari, Sumadi

“…The optimum conditions for MO removal from the solution occurred at an adsorbent quantity of 0.1 g, pH of 5, and an interaction time of 60 min. MO adsorption kinetic data by AlgN and AlgN-CTAB tended to take the kinetic model of pseudo-second-order (PSO) with PSO rate constant (k2) values of 0.56 and 2.17 g mg-1 min-1, serially. …”
Get full text

Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Particulate Matter (PM10) and Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) Concentrations in Ankara Using Climate Parameters by Olgu Aydın, Nussaïbah Begum Raja

“…The spatial-temporal KED analysis of PM10 and SO2 concentrations using meteorological factors is crucial for understanding the changes in air pollution and comprehending the relationships between spatial variables and their interactions over time. …”
Get full text

Rising congenital syphilis rates in Canada, 1993–2022 by Ashorkor Tetteh, Nadifa Abdi, Victoria Moore, Geneviève Gravel

“…Infectious syphilis data from the same time period for females of reproductive age were also analyzed.ResultsThe national rate of confirmed early congenital syphilis was 127-fold higher in 2022 than in 1993, increasing from 0.3 to 32.7 cases per 100,000 live births. …”
Get full text

Mechanical Coupling between Endoderm Invagination and Axis Extension in Drosophila. by Claire M Lye, Guy B Blanchard, Huw W Naylor, Leila Muresan, Jan Huisken, Richard J Adams, Bénédicte Sanson

“…Here we further characterized the AP cell elongation patterns during GBE, by tracking cells and quantifying their apical cell deformation over time. AP cell elongation forms a gradient culminating at the posterior of the embryo, consistent with an AP-oriented tensile force propagating from there. …”
Get full text

Optimized Wideband Beamforming for mm-wave Communication Systems with Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces by Hiba A. Alsawaf, Saad Ahmed Ayoob

“…The basic idea is to introduce time delay (TD) and phase shift units into the IRS elements to perform common phase and pre-delay modulation instead of traditional phase shift. …”
Get full text

The Child Evaluation Checklist (CHECK): A Screening Questionnaire for Detecting Daily Functional “Red Flags” of Underrecognized Neurodevelopmental Disorders among Preschool Childre... by Sara Rosenblum, Irit Ezra Zandani, Tsofia Deutsch-Castel, Sonya Meyer

“…Use of the CHECK allows for timely identification of suspicious (“red flags”) invisible neurodevelopmental disorders. …”
Get full text

Late pregnancy analysis with Yunban’s remote fetal monitoring system by Qiuping Wang, Weihua Yang, Lie Li, Guokai Yan, Huihui Wang, Jianqiang Li

“…So, it is necessary to analyze the health status of women in the late pregnancy on time. To analyze the effect on using remote fetal monitoring on women in the late pregnancy, we selected women in the late stage of pregnancy in our hospital as research subjects. …”
Get full text

Air Quality Status in Wuhan City during and One Year after the COVID-19 Lockdown by Crystal Jane Ethan, Kingsley Katleho Mokoena, Yan Yu

“…At different periods post lockdown, particulate matter pollution varied, with some time-spans observing lower concentrations and others higher concentrations than the lockdown. …”
Get full text

Clinical-surgical characterization of acute cholecystitis in patients treated in the General Surgery Service. Cienfuegos, 2017-2019 by Jorge Luis Estepa Pérez, Tahiluma Santana Pedraza, Jorge Luis Estepa Ramos, José Antonio Feliú Rosa

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> acute cholecystitis is more frequent in the elderly, early diagnosis and timely treatment can reduce the percentage of complications; surgical treatment is the treatment of choice, combined with antibiotic therapy.…”
Get full text

The Impact of Lower Atmosphere Forecast Uncertainties on WACCM‐X Prediction of Ionosphere‐Thermosphere System During Geomagnetic Storms by Wonseok Lee, In‐Sun Song, Ja Soon Shim, Guiping Liu, Geonhwa Jee

“…Results of the analysis runs are used as initial conditions for forecast runs initialized on 20, 10, 5, 2, and 1 day before the storm onset time. The forecast runs show that errors in TEC compared to the analysis run appear in the equatorial region within 1–2 days after forecast starts with differences of about 10%. …”
Get full text

Effect of census-based correction of population figures on mortality rates in Germany by Andreas Stang, Markus Deckert

“…The Census 2011 in Germany corrected population figures, which have only been updated over a long period of time. The aim of this work is to show the effect of the census-based correction of the population figures on the magnitude of mortality rates in Germany 2011–2013. …”
Get full text

Registered report protocol: A scoping review to identify potential predictors as features for developing automated estimation of the probability of being frail in secondary care. by Dirk H van Dalen, Angèle P M Kerckhoffs, Esther de Vries

“…Using these in clinical practice takes time. Automated estimation of the probability of being frail using routinely collected data from hospital electronic health records (EHRs) would circumvent that. …”
Get full text