Comparison of Sn-5Sb and Sn-10Sb Alloys in Tensile and Fatigue Properties Using Miniature Size Specimens by Tatsuya Kobayashi, Kyosuke Kobayashi, Kohei Mitsui, Ikuo Shohji

“…The low cycle fatigue lives of Sn-5Sb and Sn-10Sb alloys obey the Manson–Coffin equation, and the fatigue ductility exponent, α, was 0.54 for Sn-5Sb and 0.46 for Sn-10Sb in the temperature range from 25°C to 150°C. …”
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An Intelligent Gesture Classification Model for Domestic Wheelchair Navigation with Gesture Variance Compensation by H. M. Ravindu T. Bandara, K. S. Priyanayana, A. G. Buddhika P. Jayasekara, D. P. Chandima, R. A. R. C. Gopura

“…It is important to uplift their living standards by improving the confidence towards daily activities. …”
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The Maritime Cultural Ecology of the Biak People: A Historical Study of the Sowek Region, Supiori Regency, Papua by Endang Susilowati, Haryono Rinardi, Albert Rumbekwan, Ismail Ali, Rabith Jihan Amaruli

“…The Biak people in Sowek Village, who identify as the Sowek people, have lived in the Aruri Archipelago of Supiori Island for centuries. …”
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Assessment of School Readiness in Chronic Cholestatic Liver Disease: A Pilot Study Examining Children with and without Liver Transplantation by Anna Gold, Alaine Rogers, Elizabeth Cruchley, Stephanie Rankin, Arpita Parmar, Binita M. Kamath, Yaron Avitzur, Vicky Lee Ng

“…LT recipients had significantly greater visual based difficulties, poorer caregiver rated daily living skills (p=0.04), and higher levels of executive function based difficulties (e.g., inattention, inhibition). …”
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Bird Utilisation of Vertical Space in Urban Environments by Annalise J. Re, Andrew M. Rogers, Hugh P. Possingham, Salit Kark

“…Urban areas, modified for higher density living, are characterised by buildings, airborne vehicles, and other uses of the airspace. …”
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GPS Trajectory-Based Spatio-Temporal Variations of Traffic Accessibility under Public Health Emergency Consideration by Luqi Dong, Ying Lv, Huijun Sun, Danyue Zhi, Tingting Chen

“…Medical services are essential to public concerns and living qualities. Facing new public health events, the spatio-temporal variation of healthcare accessibility can be different, which is ignored in the previous accessibility studies. …”
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Synchronization-based graph spatio-temporal attention network for seizure prediction by Jie Xiang, Yanan Li, Xubin Wu, Yanqing Dong, Xin Wen, Yan Niu

“…So, designing accurate and reliable prediction methods can provide early warning for patients, which is crucial for improving their lives. In recent years, a large number of studies have been conducted using deep learning models on epileptic open electroencephalogram (EEG) datasets with good results, but due to individual differences there are still some subjects whose seizure features cannot be accurately captured and are more difficult to differentiate, with poor prediction results. …”
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Prevalence of Dermatological Presentations of Canine Leishmaniasis in a Nonendemic Area: A Retrospective Study of 100 Dogs by Roberta Perego, Daniela Proverbio, Giada Bagnagatti De Giorgi, Eva Spada

“…In this study dermatological manifestations of CanL were very commonly reported, and their prevalence is similar to previous studies in endemic areas despite the fact that dogs living in nonendemic areas are not exposed to repeated infectious bites and continuous stimulation of the dermal immune system.…”
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Evaluation of Provider Screening Practices for Fracture Risk Assessment among Patients with HIV Disease by Faryal Mirza, Sabina Zawadzka, Anne Abbate, Michael Thompson, Dorothy Wakefield, Lisa M. Chirch

“…People living with HIV are known to have greater risk of low bone mineral density than HIV-negative peers. …”
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Shaping the human gut microbiota: The role of canine companionship, lifestyle choices, and Blastocystis sp. by Zuzana Pavlíčková, Barbora Pafčo, Vladislav Ilík, Lee O'Brien Andersen, Milan Jirků, Kristýna Brožová, David Modrý, Oldřiška Kadlecová, Christen Rune Stensvold, Kateřina Jirků

“…In relation to lifestyle, urban dwellers had higher levels of Akkermansia, while people living in villages had a more diverse gut microbiota. …”
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Nutritional and medicinal characteristics of Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) for applications in healthcare industry by artificial cultivation: A review by Dong He, Wenming Zhu, Wen Zeng, Jun Lin, Yang Ji, Yi Wang, Chong Zhang, Yuan Lu, Daoquan Zhao, Nan Su, Xin-Hui Xing

“…Artificially cultivated CGS can either be released to the CGS living environment to increase the population in nature or legally applied in food and medicinal industry as a feedstock due to the unique nutritional and medicinal values of CGS as recorded historically. …”
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Ruthenium(II) Lipid‐Mimics Drive Lipid Phase Separation to Arouse Autophagy‐Ferroptosis Cascade for Photoimmunotherapy by Yue Zheng, Wen‐Jin Wang, Jing‐Xin Chen, Kun Peng, Xiao‐Xiao Chen, Qing‐Hua Shen, Bing‐Bing Liang, Zong‐Wan Mao, Cai‐Ping Tan

“…This study presents an unprecedented discovery of small molecules capable of inducing and monitoring lipid phase separation, thereby eliciting robust immune responses in living cells. It provides a biosimulation strategy for constructing efficient metal‐based immune activators.…”
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A Single Perioperative Injection of Dexamethasone Decreases Nausea, Vomiting, and Pain after Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy by Shigeyoshi Yamanaga, Andrew Mark Posselt, Chris Earl Freise, Takaaki Kobayashi, Mehdi Tavakol, Sang-Mo Kang

“…We performed a retrospective cohort study of living donors who underwent LDN between 2013 and 2015. …”
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IoT-based automated system for water-related disease prediction by Bhushankumar Nemade, Kiran Kishor Maharana, Vikram Kulkarni, Surajit mondal, G S Pradeep Ghantasala, Amal Al-Rasheed, Masresha Getahun, Ben Othman Soufiene

“…Although industrialization, durable infrastructure, and rapid development have increased living standards, the water problem has left humanity defenseless. …”
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Delayed onset of ocean acidification in the Gulf of Maine by Joseph A. Stewart, Branwen Williams, Michèle LaVigne, Alan D. Wanamaker, Aaron L. Strong, Brittany Jellison, Nina M. Whitney, Diana L. Thatcher, Laura F. Robinson, Jochen Halfar, Walter Adey

“…To address this, we present coastal water pH proxy records using boron isotope (δ11B) measurements in long-lived, annually banded, crustose coralline algae (1920–2018 CE). …”
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Inonotus hispidus (Bull.) P. Karst. - bioecological characteristics, significance and possibility of use for medical purposes (medicinal properties) by Radulović Zlatan, Karadžić Dragan, Milenković Ivan

“…Inonotus hispidus develops as a parasite on living trees and causes white, central rot. Infections occur through injuries on branches or stems. …”
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Diversity across Seasons of Culturable Pseudomonas from a Desiccation Lagoon in Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico by Alejandra Rodríguez-Verdugo, Valeria Souza, Luis E. Eguiarte, Ana E. Escalante

“…Altogether, the results indicate seasonal changes in diversity of free-living aquatic Pseudomonas populations from CCB.…”
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Ischemia Elicits a Coordinated Expression of Pro-Survival Proteins in Mouse Myocardium by Deborah Lyn, Shaojia Bao, Nicole A. Bennett, Xiaowei Liu, Nerimiah L. Emmett

“…Cardiomyocytes are post-mitotic, long-lived cells until disruptions to pro-survival factors occur after myocardial ischemia. …”
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The Influence of Maternal Knowledge Increase about Pregnant Women's Nutrition on Pregnancy Outcomes in Bengkulu City by Desri Suryani, Arie Krisnasary, Bintang Agustina Pratiwi, Yandrizal Yandrizal

“…This study involved pregnant women who lived in the working area of ​​Bengkulu City health centers (five health centers). …”
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First detection and phylogenetic analysis of Trypanosoma species in European wolves and bears: discovery of novel haplotypes by Blanka Orłowska, Magdalena Świsłocka-Cutter, Katarzyna Filip-Hutsch, Daniel Młocicki, Adam Olszewski, Marek Asman, Krzysztof Anusz, Joanna Werszko

“…The aim of this study was to expand on the ecological or zoonotic significance of detecting Trypanosoma in large carnivores. Samples from free-living carnivores (n = 26) were collected. The diversity and occurrence of Trypanosoma species among wildlife in Europe were investigated through the analysis of 18S rRNA gene sequences. …”
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