A Knotless Technique for Kidney Transplantation in the Mouse by Song Rong, Alfor G. Lewis, Uta Kunter, Hermann Haller, Faikah Gueler

“…By this modification of the suture technique, local thrombosis was significantly reduced (1.1% versus 6.6%), anastomosis time was less, and highly reproducible kidney graft survival was achieved (95% versus 84% with the classical approach). We believe that this knotless technique is easy to learn and will improve the success rates in the technically demanding model of mouse kidney transplantation.…”
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Enhancing Convolutional Neural Network Robustness Against Image Noise via an Artificial Visual System by Bin Li, Yuki Todo, Sichen Tao, Cheng Tang, Yu Wang

“…Although CNN architectures now have diverged from biological structures, we believe that the mechanism of feature extraction in the visual system can still provide valuable insights for enhancing CNN robustness and stability. …”
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Characteristics of the intestinal tract microbiota in calves with various forms of acute catarrhal bronchopneumonia by N. Yu. Rodionova, E. V. Kulikov, E. D. Sotnikova, I. E. Prozorovskiy, Yu. A. Vatnikov, V. B. Rudenko, P. A. Rudenko

“…During the clinical manifestation of subcompensated and decompensated acute catarrhal bronchopneumonia in calves, a significant quantitative and qualitative shift in the microbiome occurs in the intestines, which indicates the occurrence of dysbiosis. We believe that this area is quite relevant and requires further scrupulous research.…”
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Effect of Adsorption Characteristics of Rhodamine 6G Dye Solution in Fe3O4 Magnetic Nanoparticles on Fluorescence Quantum Yield by Suwaphit Phoemphoonthanyakit, Panpailin Seeharaj, Pattareeya Damrongsak, Kitsakorn Locharoenrat

“…The highest efficiency of dye removal was obtained at 10 mg/L Fe3O4, and the adsorption capacity was about 150 mg/g, together with a reduced treatment time of 30 min, owing to active adsorption of Fe3O4. We believe that our study makes a significant contribution to the literature because Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles were found to be able to quench rhodamine 6G dye molecules, which will aid in eliminating toxic and hazardous pollutants from dye wastewater, which are otherwise detrimental to the environment and human health.…”
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Medical imaging-based companion diagnostics for solid tumors by Rui Yin, Qingpeng Zhang, Shiyi Liao, Chang Lu, Cheng Zhang, Qingyun Cai, Guosheng Song

“…This review provides an overview of the recent advances in medical imaging-based CDx for solid tumors and summarizes the various tumor microenvironment biomarkers utilized in imaging-based CDx. We believe that this review offers additional details and directions for promoting medical imaging-based CDx development.…”
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Super-Resolution Raman Spectroscopy by Digital Image Processing by Motohiro Tomita, Hiroki Hashiguchi, Takuya Yamaguchi, Munehisa Takei, Daisuke Kosemura, Atsushi Ogura

“…We conclude that super-resolution Raman spectroscopy is a useful method for evaluating stress in miniaturized state-of-the-art transistors, and we believe that the super-resolution method will soon be a requisite technique.…”
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Lessons Learned Developing and Using a Machine Learning Model to Automatically Transcribe 2.3 Million Handwritten Occupation Codes by Bjørn-Richard Pedersen, Einar Holsbø, Trygve Andersen, Nikita Shvetsov, Johan Ravn, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth, Lars Ailo Bongo

“…We verify that the occupation code distribution found in our results matches the distribution found in our training data, which should be representative for the census as a whole. We believe our approach and lessons learned may be useful for other transcription projects that plan to use machine learning in production. …”
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Gaitmap—An Open Ecosystem for IMU-Based Human Gait Analysis and Algorithm Benchmarking by Arne Kuderle, Martin Ullrich, Nils Roth, Malte Ollenschlager, Alzhraa A. Ibrahim, Hamid Moradi, Robert Richer, Ann-Kristin Seifer, Matthias Zurl, Raul C. Simpetru, Liv Herzer, Dominik Prossel, Felix Kluge, Bjoern M. Eskofier

“…<italic>Conclusion:</italic> The published software projects represent a pioneering effort to establish an open-source ecosystem for IMU-based gait analysis. We believe that this work can democratize the access to high-quality algorithm and serve as a driver for open and reproducible research in the field of human gait analysis and beyond.…”
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Internal Tremor in Long COVID May Be a Symptom of Dysautonomia and Small Fiber Neuropathy by Svetlana Blitshteyn, Ilene S. Ruhoy, Lauren R. Natbony, David S. Saperstein

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> Based on this case, our clinical experience, and the limited literature available to date, we believe IT is a manifestation of POTS and SFN, which may be driven by hypovolemia, cerebral hypoperfusion, sympathetic overactivity, neuropathic pain, and mast cell hyperactivation. …”
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Subularia aquatica (Brassicaceae), a phantom species of the Ukrainian flora by Chorna H.A., Shynder O.I., Bagatska T.S.

“…In our country, currently there are no suitable ecological and coenotic conditions for natural habitats of this species. Therefore, we believe that S. aquatica should be excluded from the Red Data Book of Ukraine.…”
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CONSTRUCTIVISM GOES QUANTUM: THE APPROACH REFORM by T. A. Alekseeva, A. P. Mineev, A. V. Fenenko, I. D. Loshkariov, B. I. Ananyev

“…In the second part of the article we use the unleashed and underestimated potential of analytical philosophy. To conclude, we believe that today there are more questions than answers but the quantum paradigm is expected to be the important part of the political studies and IR theory as well.…”
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Metatheory and Classification of Digital Human Rights and Freedoms by G. V. Alexeyev

“…The methodology for refuting neoliberal utopias and totalitarian fantasies that shape the imaginary cyberspace or deny its existence can vary from classical dialectics to modern narrative analysis, but methods of participant observation demonstrate the existence of real and virtual rights and freedoms of man and citizen in a digital world. We believe that cyberspace was formed due to the implementation of natural freedom of creativity, on the basis of which, in the process of digitalization, real digital rights were recognized for individuals. …”
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Ureteroarterial Fistula by D. H. Kim, A. Mahdy, V. Mundra, M. Berman, G. M. Ghoniem

“…Being minimally invasive, we believe that endovascular stenting should be the preferred therapeutic option as it also corrects the source of bleeding while preserving distal blood flow.…”
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Evaluating the readability, quality, and reliability of online information on sjogren's syndrome by Erkan Ozduran, Volkan Hanci

“…Conclusion: The readability of SS-related information on the Internet was found to be considerably higher than that recommended by the National Health Institute's Grade 6, with moderate reliability and fair quality. We believe that online information should have some level of readability and must have reliable content that is appropriate to educate the public, particularly for websites that provide with patient education material.…”
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Immune Privilege and Eye-Derived T-Regulatory Cells by Hiroshi Keino, Shintaro Horie, Sunao Sugita

“…Furthermore, we examined the therapeutic potential of Tregs generated by RPE cells that express transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β), cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen-2 alpha (CTLA-2α), and retinoic acid for autoimmune uveoretinitis and evaluated a new strategy using human RPE-induced Tregs for clinical application in inflammatory ocular disease. We believe that a better understanding of the ocular immune privilege associated with Tregs might offer a new approach with regard to therapeutic interventions for ocular autoimmunity.…”
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An Experiment and Detection Scheme for Cavity-Based Light Cold Dark Matter Particle Searches by Masroor H. S. Bukhari, Zahoor H. Shah

“…Our suggested design also contains an overview of a simpler on-resonance dc signal read-out scheme replacing the complicated heterodyne read-out. We believe that all these factors and our propositions could possibly improve or at least simplify the resonance detection and read-out in cavity-based DM particle detection searches (and other spectroscopy applications) and reduce the complications (and associated costs), in addition to reducing the electromagnetic interference and background.…”
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The rise in incidence of pediatric type 2 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic and the virus as a potential causative factor by Andrew Kanouse, Joanna S. Fishbein, Parissa Salemi

“…Results: Our data showed an increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes (p < 0.0001) and a lower mean presenting age (p = 0.03) during the COVID-19 pandemic without differences in other parameters. Conclusion: We believe these results suggest that the development of type 2 diabetes following COVID-19 infection is due to mechanisms inherent to the virus itself and that younger patients are especially at an increased risk.…”
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The New Digital Documentality of Contemporary Film Scoring Practices. Preliminary Results Based on Participant Observation at the Studio of North American Composer Christopher Youn... by Gabriele, Giulia Ferdeghini, Ilario Meandri

“…Despite the difficulty of replicating such a large-scale study, both synchronically and diachronically, we believe this research can provide meaningful methodological guidance for musicology concerned with source criticism in contemporary productions. …”
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Procrustes' Bed Metaphor: Understanding the Problem of Creativity and Innovation in the Human Resources of Iran's State-Owned Enterprises by Mohsen Imeni, Ali Sorourkhah

“…The freedom of action to present creative and innovative ideas, the possibility of implementing innovative ideas, welcoming new ideas, supportive management, offering rewards to new ideas, and overall satisfaction with the current state are unfavourable.Originality/Value: Following the social sciences and especially structuring and problem-solving approaches, we believe that knowing the problem is the first and most crucial step in solving a problem. …”
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A large-scale dataset for Chinese historical document recognition and analysis by Yongxin Shi, Dezhi Peng, Yuyi Zhang, Jiahuan Cao, Lianwen Jin

“…Furthermore, extensive experiments demonstrate the high quality and practical utility of the proposed HisDoc1B. We believe that HisDoc1B could provide valuable resources to boost the advancement of research in this domain.…”
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