Synthesis and Characterization of CeO2-SiO2 Nanoparticles by Microwave-Assisted Irradiation Method for Photocatalytic Oxidation of Methylene Blue Dye by R. M. Mohamed, E. S. Aazam

“…CeO2-SiO2 nanoparticles were synthesized for the first time by a facile microwave-assisted irradiation process. …”
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Study on the Optimizing Operation of Exhaust Air Heat Recovery and Solar Energy Combined Thermal Compensation System for Ground-Coupled Heat Pump by Kuan Wang, Nianping Li, Jinqing Peng, Yingdong He

“…The thermal compensation quantity per unit energy consumption (TEC) of ESTC under the proposed method was 1.25 times as high as that under the traditional operation method. …”
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Treating Facial Scars using Polydioxanone Threads by Mohammad Khaled Hamolaila, Mazen Zenati, Asaad Shehada

“…The treatment method is safe and minimally invasive, with short recovery times. Clinical studies showed significant improvements in atrophic facial scars with high patient satisfaction.…”
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Torque Prediction In Deep Hole Drilling: Artificial Neural Networks Versus Nonlinear Regression Model by Ngoc Hung- Chu, Hoai Nam- Nguyen, Van Du- Nguyen, Dang Binh- Nguyen

“…Results show that the ANN model has better predictive capability, the average MAPE value approximately four times smaller and higher reliability with a standard deviation approximately 3.5 times smaller than the exponential function model. …”
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Smart Cooking and Kitchen Safety Using Arduino Nanotechnology and Voice Recognition by Jumriati Jum, Abdul Latief, Imran Taufiq

“…Cooking tests were conducted with chicken curry, vegetable soup, and tuna, each cooked three times to determine average cooking times. Cooking 2 kg of chicken took an average of 35.38 minutes, with a maturity level delay of 18 minutes, while 1 kg of chicken took 20 minutes, with an 8-minute delay. …”
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Accuracy of smartwatches in predicting distance running performance by Jiansong Dai, Gangrui Chen, Zhonghe Gu, Yuxuan Qi, Kai Xu

“…After wearing the HUAWEI WATCH GT Runner for a minimum of six weeks, the runners' actual completion times for 5 km, 10 km, and half marathon distances were measured, resulting in 288 test instances. …”
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Advanced Shuttle Strategies for Parallel QCCD Architectures by Weining Dai, Kevin A. Brown, Thomas G. Robertazzi

“…The consequent reduction in shuttle operations leads to lower energy consumption and an enhancement in the quantum computer's fidelity, ultimately accelerating program execution times.…”
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Procedural Memory: Computer Learning in Control Subjects and in Parkinson’s Disease Patients by C. Thomas-Antérion, B. Laurent, N. Foyatier-Michel, S. Laporte, D. Michel

“…There was a significant time difference between the scales of age but improvement was the same for all subjects. …”
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Adhesive Property and Road Performance Evaluation of Asphalt Overlay Pavement with Geotextile Interlayer by Haiwei Zhang, Bowei Sun, Yongxiang Li, Yanli Li

“…The higher paving temperature is beneficial for the geotextile interlayer adhesion performance when the SBS-modified asphalt is sprayed at one time, while the paving temperature has almost no effect when the SBS-modified asphalt is sprayed at two times. …”
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The Outcome of Thoracentesis versus Chest Tube Placement for Hepatic Hydrothorax in Patients with Cirrhosis: A Nationwide Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample by Ali Ridha, Yasir Al-Abboodi, Matthew Fasullo

“…The mortality in those who received a chest tube was two times higher than that in thoracentesis group with a P value of ≤0.001 (CI 1.43–312). …”
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A Verifiable Discrete Trust Model (VDTM) Using Congruent Federated Learning (CFL) for Social Internet of Vehicles by Mohammed Mujib Alshahrani

“…The learning does this check over and over to make sure there is discrete trust in information-sharing times between vehicles, between vehicles and infrastructure, or between vehicles and platforms. …”
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Postoperative Endophthalmitis after Combined Cataract Extraction and iStent Inject Implantation by Johnson Huang, Minh T. Nguyen, Mai Tsukikawa, Andrew Chen

“…Prednisolone 1% eye drops were increased from four times a day to every two hours while awake. Overnight, he developed worsening vision and severe eye pain. …”
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Use of Micronization and Complex Coacervation to Preserve Antioxidant Properties of Flavonoids by Rinat Fatkullin, Irina Kalinina, Natalya Naumenko, Ekaterina Naumenko

“…In addition to their antioxidant properties, other pharmacobiological properties have been established for these substances. At the same time, taxifolin and rutin are chemically labile. …”
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A hardware prototype of wideband high‐dynamic range analog‐to‐digital converter by Satish Mulleti, Eliya Reznitskiy, Shlomi Savariego, Moshe Namer, Nimrod Glazer, Yonina C. Eldar

“…The authors’ system operates at six times below the Nyquist rate of the signal and can accommodate eight times larger signals than the ADC's dynamic range.…”
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Travel Matrix Enabled Delta-Based Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Case of Kigali City by Evariste Twahirwa, Moyukh Laha, James Rwigema, Raja Datta

“…A travel matrix technique is proposed to trace vehicles’ routeways and travel times in some points of interest (POI). Our intention is to seek an approach that reduces the required number of RSUs and ensures greater network performance effectiveness in terms of packets delivery ratio, throughput, message delay, and jitter; from our study, travel matrix delta-based placement of RSUs becomes the best in our case study scenario. …”
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Elevated Aminotransferase Activity as an Indication of Muscular Dystrophy: Case Reports and Review of the Literature by S Zamora, C Adams, JD Butzner, H Machida, Rb Scott

“…The serum level of ALT, generally considered to be specific for hepatocellular injury, was increased two to 25 times above normal in all the reported cases. Paradoxically, the increase in ALT activity was greater than that of serum aspartate aminotransferase (three to 16 times normal), an enzyme whose elevation is generally recognized as being less specific and indicative of muscle, cardiac, kidney, pancreatic, red blood cell or hepatic injury. …”
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Height of Mining-Induced Fractured Zones in Overlying Strata and Permeability of Rock with Nonpenetrative Fractures by Yu Liu, Qimeng Liu, Wenping Li, Youbiao Hu

“…The results showed that the height of NFZ ranged from 11.55 to 21.20 m, which was approximately 0.17 times the combined height of the TFZ and the CZ. …”
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THERAPY LOW BACK PAIN WITH SWEDISH MASSAGE, ACUPRESSURE AND TURMERIC by Dyah Ayu Rhomandhoni Putri, Ario Imandiri, Rakhmawati Rakhmawati

“…In the treatment of low back pain, massage and acupressure are performed 2 times a week 12 times. While herbal therapy is given for 42 days taken once a day with a dose of 9 grams of turmeric simplicia. …”
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Insurance market as a tool for the development of the socio-economic sphere of Tajikistan by G. A. Yusupova

“…The basic concepts of the insurance market have been substantiated and also the structure of the insurance market, indicators of insurance premiums and payments, level of payments, expenses of insurance organizations have been analysed, the main indicators of insurance market development have been assessed.One of the problems of assessing the activity of the insurance market in the Republic of Tajikistan is an insufficiently developed system for collecting and processing statistical information. At the same time, in 2015-2019, insurance premiums increased by 2.5 times, insurance payments by 1.05, but the level of payments decreased by 3.3 times. …”
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Bloom filter–based efficient broadcast algorithm for the Internet of things by Anum Talpur, Faisal K Shaikh, Thomas Newe, Adil A Sheikh, Emad Felemban, Abdelmajid Khelil

“…In addition, it helps to reduce energy usage evenly throughout the network, 1/100 times, when compared with conventional broadcast (non-bloom-based) and, 1/10 times, when compared with bloom-based broadcast. …”
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