Explainable prediction model for punching shear strength of FRP-RC slabs based on kernel density estimation and XGBoost by Sheng Zheng, Tianyu Hu, Nima Khodadadi, Antonio Nanni

“…However, their mechanical properties are limited by their punching shear strength in the connection region with the columns. Researchers have attempted to add steel reinforcement in the form of studs and randomly distributed fibers to concrete slabs to improve the punching strength. …”
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South Africa’s Weekly Media: Front-Page Reporting 9/11, Preventing Islamophobia by Muhammed Haron

“…It first describes and discusses their front-page reports as they captured the tragic 9/11 event, before it reflects on their editorials –columns providing one with insights into the respective editors’ understanding of this event and their perceptions of Muslims nationally and globally. …”
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Organic pollutant oxidation on manganese oxides in soils – the role of calcite indicated by geoelectrical and chemical analyses by S. S. Altzitser, Y. G. Mishael, N. Schwartz

“…We aim to shed light on the underlying mechanisms of hydroquinone (a representative phenolic pollutant) oxidation in ambient, MnO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span>-rich sandy soil within soil columns designed for breakthrough experiments. Our innovative approach combines noninvasive electrical measurements, crystallographic and microscopic analyses, and chemical profiling to comprehensively understand soil–pollutant interactions. …”
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Differences in phenotypes of normal and malignant cells concerning chromosomal fragility and ganglioside expression by Iskra Sainova, Vera Kolyovska, Desislava Drenska, Dimitar Maslarov, Dimitrina Dimitrova-Dikanarova, Tzvetanka Markova

“…The average titers of gangliosides and of anti-ganglioside antibodies in extracts from experimental in vitro models of laboratory-incubated cultures of mouse embryonic 3T3 fibroblasts, of mouse malignant myeloma cells, as well as of mixed cultures of both cellular types, were determined after previous passing of each one through GSH-agarose columns about the “selection” of the molecules in each one of the described samples, possessing affinity to GSH. …”
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Estimation of expediency of taking into account the suppleness of outrigger metallic structures nodes in calculation of high-rise building structures by I. V. Astakhov, D. V. Kaliuzhny

“…In the design of high-rise buildings, outriggers are provided to distribute wind loads between the core and perimeter columns, reducing horizontal displacements. Considering the suppleness in the joints of the outrigger affects the distribution of forces in the building structure elements, as well as on the building deformations. …”
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The IclR-family transcriptional regulator XyrR controls flotation, motility, antibiotic production and virulence in Serratia sp. ATCC 39006 by Carlo Miguel Castro Sandoval, Carlo Miguel Castro Sandoval, George P. C. Salmond

“…It is also the only known enterobacterium that naturally produces intracellular gas vesicles (GVs), enabling cells to float in static water columns. Regulation of GVs and secondary metabolites in S39006 can be coordinated but such pleiotropy is still poorly understood. …”
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“And with all she lived with casual unawareness of her value to civilization”: Close-reading Eleanor Roosevelt’s Autofabrication by Sara Polak

“…I will close-read excerpts from Roosevelt’s “My Day” columns and magazine articles against contemporary and later representations of her invisible power and powerful invisibility. …”
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Planning and analysis methods of revenues and expenses by individual activities of railway transport companies by T. M. Rogulenko, A. A. Bondarenko

“…It has been proposed to introduce additional analytical columns in the forms of internal reporting of railway companies, which will reflect the absolute and relative deviations of the values of budget indicators.…”
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A SYNTHESIS METHOD OF BASIC TERNARY BENT-SQUARES BASED ON THE TRIAD SHIFT OPERATOR by O. N. Zhdanov, A. V. Sokolov

“…The developed bent-squares design method is also a basis for further theoretical research: development of methods of the permutation of rows and columns of basic bent-squares and their sign coding, synthesis of composite bent-squares. …”
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Pesticidal Activity of Sundarban Mangrove Plant Extracts against Sitophilus Pests and Identification of Active Constituents Using LC-MS by Md. Abdur Rahman, Rinku Rani Paul, Chaina Biswas, Hakima Akter, Razina Rouf, Sushmita Nath, Jamil A. Shilpi, Lutfun Nahar, Stayajit D. Sarker, Shaikh Jamal Uddin

“…All the active bark extracts were further fractionated using C-18 solid-phase extraction (SPE) columns and tested for their insecticidal activity against S. oryzae pest to identify the active fraction. …”
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Isolation, purification, structural characteristic and antioxidative property of polysaccharides from A. cepa L. var. agrogatum Don by Hongcheng Liu, Hongxiu Fan, Jing Zhang, Shanshan Zhang, Wenting Zhao, Tingting Liu, Dawei Wang

“…A novel acidic polysaccharide (named ALAP-21) was obtained from ALAP by ultrasonic and microwave-assisted extraction and purification using DEAE-52 anion exchange and Sephadex G-100 columns. The monosaccharide composition, structural and antioxidative properties of ALAP-21 were investigated by GC–MS chromatography, FT-IR and NMR spectroscopies and three antioxidative activity tests in vitro. …”
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Congenital Zika Syndrome: Insights from Integrated Proteomic and Metabolomic Analysis by Leticia Gomes-de-Pontes, Lucila Akune Barreiros, Lillian Nunes Gomes, Ranieri Coelho Salgado, Sarah Maria da Silva Napoleão, Paulo V. Soeiro-Pereira, Saulo Duarte Passos, Antonio Condino-Neto

“…EVs were isolated from CZS patient samples and control groups using Izon qEV size-exclusion chromatography columns. <b>Results:</b> The analyzed EVs presented distinct molecular profiles in patients with CZS. …”
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OCT Biomarkers in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A Narrative Review by Cristian Metrangolo, Simone Donati, Marco Mazzola, Liviana Fontanel, Walter Messina, Giulia D’alterio, Marisa Rubino, Paolo Radice, Elias Premi, Claudio Azzolini

“…The last part of the review will focus on how alterations of the vitreoretinal interface (vitreomacular adhesion and traction) and of the choroid (sub-RPE hyperreflective columns, prechoroidal clefts, choroidal caverns, choroidal thickness and choroidal volume, and choroidal vascular index) interact with nAMD progression. …”
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A strategy for selective screening of dual-target bioactive compounds against hypertrophic scar through inhibiting angiotensin II type 1 receptor while stimulating type 2 receptor... by Lejing Qu, Meizhi Jiao, Zilong Zhang, Yuanyuan Ou, Xue Zhao, Yajun Zhang, Xinfeng Zhao

“…Methods To this end, we immobilized AT1R or AT2R onto the surface of silica gel from cell lysates through a specific covalent bond by bioorthogonal chemistry. The columns containing immobilized AT1R or AT2R were jointly utilized to pursue potential bioactive compounds simultaneously binding to AT1R and AT2R from the extract of Rhei Radix et Rhizoma. …”
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Improving The Performance of Big Data Databases by Nzar Abdulqadir Ali, Dashne Raouf Arif

“…A relational database management system (RDBMS) stores data in a structured format using rows and columns. It is relational because the values of the tables are connected. …”
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Chromosomal Regions in Prostatic Carcinomas Studied by Comparative Genomic Hybridization, Hierarchical Cluster Analysis and Self-Organizing Feature Maps by Torsten Mattfeldt, Hubertus Wolter, Danilo Trijic, Hans‐Werner Gottfried, Hans A. Kestler

“…Another approach consists in a clustering of chromosomal regions by rewriting the original data matrix, where the cases are written as rows and the chromosomal regions as columns, in a transposed form. In this paper we applied hierarchical cluster analysis as well as two implementations of self‐organizing feature maps as classical and neuronal tools for cluster analysis of CGH data from prostatic carcinomas to such transposed data sets. …”
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SEAHORS: Spatial Exploration of ArcHaeological Objects in R Shiny by Royer, Aurélien, Discamps, Emmanuel, Plutniak, Sébastien, Thomas, Marc

“…The application includes functions to concatenate columns and to merge databases, for example when spatial data (XYZ coordinates) and analytical data (e.g. taxonomical attribution of faunal remains, typo-technological attributes of artifacts, etc.) are stored in separate files. …”
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Genome-Wide Association Study towards Genomic Predictive Power for High Production and Quality of Milk in American Alpine Goats by Y. Tilahun, T. A. Gipson, T. Alexander, M. L. McCallum, P. R. Hoyt

“…The initial dataset was composed of ~60,000 rows of SNPs and 21 columns of phenotypic traits and composed of 53,384 scaffolds containing other informative data points used for genomic predictive power. …”
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Novel Trade-offs in 5 nm FinFET SRAM Arrays at Extremely Low Temperatures by Shivendra Singh Parihar, Girish Pahwa, Baker Mohammad, Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Hussam Amrouch

“…Next, we develop a framework to perform simulations on the SRAM array by varying the number of rows and columns for examining the influence of leakage current (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$I$</tex-math></inline-formula>_leak) and parasitic effects of bit line (BL) and word line (WL) on the size and performance of the SRAM array under extremely low temperatures. …”
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NORDIC denoising on VASO data by Lasse Knudsen, Lasse Knudsen, Luca Vizioli, Federico De Martino, Lonike K. Faes, Daniel A. Handwerker, Steen Moeller, Peter A. Bandettini, Peter A. Bandettini, Laurentius Huber

“…The use of submillimeter resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is increasing in popularity due to the prospect of studying human brain activation non-invasively at the scale of cortical layers and columns. This method, known as laminar fMRI, is inherently signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)-limited, especially at lower field strengths, with the dominant noise source being of thermal origin. …”
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