Toward Endless Life: Population, Machinery, and Monumental Time by Thomas Allen

“…The “big history” has encouraged us to think about time on a longer scale, situating historical periods within extended arcs of centuries and human activity as a whole within millennia of natural history. …”
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Apocalypse Now: Dombey in the Twenty-First Century by Jennifer Gribble

“…Acts of unimaginable terror, catastrophic natural disasters and a global sense of humankind’s time running out might make us particularly receptive to the apocalyptic tone and message of Dombey and Son. …”
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The Prevalence of Concha Bullosa and Nasal Septal Deviation and Their Relationship to Maxillary Sinusitis by Volumetric Tomography by Kyle D. Smith, Paul C. Edwards, Tarnjit S. Saini, Neil S. Norton

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Typification of intraspecific taxa in <i>Solanum andigenum</i> Juz. et Buk. by N. A. Oskina, T. A. Gavrilenko, I. G. Chukhina

“…Taxonomic studies were carried out in the collection of cultivated potato species kept in the Herbarium of Cultivated Plants of the World, Their Wild Relatives, and Weeds (WIR). It allowed us to proceed with typifying the names of intraspecific taxa within Solanum andigenum Juz. et Buk., belonging to three geographical groups: Colombian, South Peruvian, and Bolivian. …”
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Extreme Temperatures, Hospital Utilization and Public Health Insurance Spending by Yusun Kim, Qing Miao, Ling Zhu

“…ObjectivesThis study examines the impact of extreme temperatures on hospital utilization and public health insurance program spending in a country with no universal health coverage.MethodsUsing nationwide U.S. county-level panel data and a fixed effects model, we estimate the impact of annual variations in the number of hot and cold days on hospital utilization and medical reimbursements for low-income and elderly beneficiaries of public health insurance.ResultsOur results show that extreme heat and mild cold increase medical reimbursements to low-income beneficiaries, while extreme cold increases benefit transfer to the elderly. …”
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Increased sagittal abdominal diameter is associated with a higher risk of kidney stones. by Wei Song, Shugen Li, Guangchun Wang, Shang Gao

“…<h4>Background</h4>This study investigates the relationship between sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD), a measure of abdominal obesity, and kidney stone disease (KSD) in the U.S. population. Additionally, it explores potential underlying mechanisms and evaluates the clinical utility of a predictive model.…”
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Development of Embedded CAPTCHA Elements for Bot Prevention in Fischer Random Chess by Ryan McDaniel, Roman V. Yampolskiy

“…However, the average number of moves to adjust to the distorted pieces was only 3.75. This tells us that, although it is difficult to read the pieces at first, it is easy to adjust quickly to the new image.…”
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On New Families of Integrals in Analytical Studies of Superconductors within the Conformal Transformation Method by Ryszard Gonczarek, Mateusz Krzyzosiak, Adam Gonczarek, Lucjan Jacak

“…A few infinite families of integrals are derived and allow us to express the fundamental equations by means of analytical formulas. …”
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Carp Edema Virus Disease (CEVD) / Koi Sleepy Disease (KSD) by Shohreh Hesami, Pedro Viadanna, Natalie K. Steckler, Staci Spears, Patrick M. Thompson, Karen L. Kelley, Roy P. E. Yanong, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Johnny Shelley, Joseph M. Groff, Andy Goodwin, Olga L. M. Haenen, Thomas B. Waltzek

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LONGPOP and IDS. Personal reflections on our collaboration With Kees Mandemakers. by Sam Jenkinson, Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs

“…We wish him a wonderful emeritus status, not only in academia, but also in the warm nest of his family, relatives, children, and grandchildren. The three of us have known Kees for some time, but most closely since 2014, when we became formally engaged as project partners under the so-called LONGPOP-project, an EU funded Marie Curie grant, named Methodologies and Data mining techniques for the analysis of Big Data based on Longitudinal Population and Epidemiological Registers. …”
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REGIONAL COOPERATION ON THE BLACK SEA: ACHIEVEMENTS, PROBLEMS, PROSPECTS by E. D. Eshba

“…A large-scale and fairly ambitious gas pipeline projects that are scheduled to take place on the territory of the Black Sea countries and across the Black Sea lead us to expect the increasing role of the Black Sea region in the world economic system. …”
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Surgical Treatment for Occipital Condyle Fracture, C1 Dislocation, and Cerebellar Contusion with Hemorrhage after Blunt Head Trauma by Shigeo Ueda, Nobuhiro Sasaki, Miyuki Fukuda, Minoru Hoshimaru

“…The resin-made occipital bone was used to secure a titanium plate and screws enabled us to perform posterior fusion of the craniovertebral junction. …”
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Obtaining More Realistic Cross-Layer QoS Measurements: A VoIP over LTE Use Case by F. Javier Rivas, Almudena Díaz, Pedro Merino

“…Analyzing the interlayer dependencies will allow us to identify optimal settings for the radio access network and service parameters. …”
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Amyloid Imaging in Aging and Dementia: Testing the Amyloid Hypothesis In Vivo by G. D. Rabinovici, W. J. Jagust

“…PIB binds specifically to fibrillar beta-amyloid (Aβ) deposits, and is a sensitive marker for Aβ pathology in cognitively normal older individuals and patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). PIB-PET provides us with a powerful tool to examine in vivo the relationship between amyloid deposition, clinical symptoms, and structural and functional brain changes in the continuum between normal aging and AD. …”
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The Impact of Family Setting and Local Opportunities on Leaving Home and Migration Destinations of Rural Youths, The Netherlands 1860-1940 by Bastian Mönkediek, Jan Kok, Kees Mandemakers

“…Dutch farmers and workers differ in the type of family economy in which children were integrated, and contrasting them will allow us to explain the speed, the directions, and the individual and family backgrounds of the process of leaving agriculture. …”
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TAUHID-BASED SELF-HEALING AS AN EFFORT TO OVERCOME NON-SUICIDAL SELF-INJURY: A STUDY ON THE STORY OF PROPHET YUSUF IN THE QUR'AN by Nunung Lasmana, Muhammad Yanuar Winata

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Une histoire oubliée : la genèse française du terme « film noir » dans les années 1930 et ses implications transnationales by Thomas Pillard

“…Can the forgotten history of this famous term’s French origins enlighten us on film noir’s identity and international dimension?…”
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Quantum-inspired fluid simulation of two-dimensional turbulence with GPU acceleration by Leonhard Hölscher, Pooja Rao, Lukas Müller, Johannes Klepsch, Andre Luckow, Tobias Stollenwerk, Frank K. Wilhelm

“…By utilizing NVIDIA's cuQuantum library to perform parallel tensor computations on GPUs, our adaptation speeds up simulations by up to 12.1 times. This allows us to study the algorithm in terms of its applicability, scalability, and performance. …”
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Genome-Wide Association Study of Coronary Artery Disease by Naomi Ogawa, Yasushi Imai, Hiroyuki Morita, Ryozo Nagai

“…Recently, the data from the International HapMap Project and the development of dense genotyping chips have enabled us to perform genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on a large number of subjects without bias towards any particular candidate genes. …”
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Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis of an Optimal Control Model for Capital Asset Management by Tolulope Latunde, Olabode Matthias Bamigbola

“…These parameters enable us to know the condition of risk involved in asset management and how to maintain and manage the assets in order to maximize expected present value of the utility of asset and minimize the risk involved to aid capital investment decision-making. …”
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