OVERCOMING THE ANTINOMIES OF HUMAN EXISTENCE: ONTOLOGY OF TRICKSTER by T. V. Danylova

“…A trickster is free to move from one pole to another, he constructs reality and plays with it metaphorically overcoming the antinomy of life and death.…”
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Temporal and Spatial Assessment of Glacier Elevation Change in the Kangri Karpo Region Using ASTER Data from 2000 to 2024 by Qihua Wang, Yuande Yang, Jiayu Hu, Jianglong Zhang, Zuqiang Li, Yuechen Wang

“…In this study, we used ASTER L1A stereo images to construct a high-resolution elevation time series and provide a comprehensive spatial–temporal assessment of glacier elevation change from 2000 to 2024. …”
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An Effective Iterative Process Utilizing Transcendental Sine Functions for the Generation of Julia and Mandelbrot Sets by Khairul Habib Alam, Yumnam Rohen, Anita Tomar, Naeem Saleem, Maggie Aphane, Asima Razzaque

“…Moreover, we apply <i>s</i>-convexity to the iteration procedure to construct orbits under convexity conditions, and we present a theorem that determines the condition when a sequence diverges to infinity, known as the escape criterion, for the transcendental sine function <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo form="prefix">sin</mo><mo>(</mo><msup><mi>u</mi><mi>m</mi></msup><mo>)</mo><mo>−</mo><mi>α</mi><mi>u</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>β</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>u</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>α</mi><mo>,</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula><inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>β</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi mathvariant="double-struck">C</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>m</mi><mo>≥</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. …”
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Sign Language Recognition System for Deaf Patients: Protocol for a Systematic Review by Milena Soriano Marcolino, Lucca Fagundes Ramos Oliveira, Lucas Rocha Valle, Luiza Marinho Motta Santa Rosa, Zilma Silveira Nogueira Reis, Thiago Barbabela de Castro Soares, Elidéa Lúcia Almeida Bernardino, Raniere Alislan Almeida Cordeiro, Raquel Oliveira Prates, Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos

“…Additionally, a comprehensive chart table will be constructed to consolidate essential data related to the key variables extracted from the studies. …”
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Lactate Ameliorates Kainic Acid-Induced Neuroinflammation and Cognitive Impairment via the Chemokine Signaling Pathway in Mice by Chu X, Ge Y, Geng C, Cao P, Wei P, Fu B, Deng Z, Li Y, Zhao G

“…This study aims to investigate the impact of lactate intervention and its underlying mechanisms on epilepsy.Methods: HT22 cells were stimulated with glutamate to construct an excitotoxicity cell model. An acute epilepsy model was established in mice by kainic acid induction. …”
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Development and Evaluation of a Hypertension Prediction Model for Community-Based Screening of Sleep-Disordered Breathing by Feng T, Shan G, Hu Y, He H, Pei G, Zhou R, Ou Q

“…Hypertension was diagnosed using blood pressure monitoring or self-reported antihypertensive medication use. A nomogram was constructed using multivariate logistic regression after Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) regression identified six predictors: waist circumference, age, ODI, diabetes status, family history of hypertension, and apnea. …”
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Embrace the Era of Drones: A New Practical Design Approach to Emergency Rescue Drones by Zhiyuan Wang, Ke Yang, Yonggang Wang, Zechen Zhu, Xiuli Liang

“…Second, the QFD model is used to construct the quality house, analyse the key user requirements quantitatively, and obtain the design elements and weights of the emergency rescue drone product. …”
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Emotional exhaustion and turnover intentions among young ICU nurses: a model based on the job demands-resources theory by Xiaona Zhang, Haitao Huang, Songtao Zhao, Dan Li, Hua Du

“…AMOS 25.0 was employed to construct the Structural Equation Model and the Bootstrap test. …”
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Quantifying intratumoral heterogeneity within sub-regions to predict high-grade patterns in clinical stage I solid lung adenocarcinoma by Zhichao Zuo, Jinqiu Deng, Wu Ge, Yinjun Zhou, Haibo Liu, Wei Zhang, Ying Zeng

“…Next, univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were employed to identify clinical-radiological (Clin-Rad) features associated with the MP/S (+) group for constructing the Clin-Rad classification. Subsequently, a hybrid model which presented as a nomogram was developed, integrating the Clin-Rad classification and ITH score. …”
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Multitask Learning-Based Pipeline-Parallel Computation Offloading Architecture for Deep Face Analysis by Faris S. Alghareb, Balqees Talal Hasan

“…Furthermore, the multitask learning (MTL) approach is employed to construct a parallel multi-task classification network. …”
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MANAGING FRAUD IN CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, THE ROLE OF INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT: A STUDY OF QUOTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS (DMBs) IN NIGERIA by Onajero Kensington OHWO

“…Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficients for the constructs ranged from 0.864 to 0.952. Descriptive and inferential (multiple regression) statistics were used to analyze the data. …”

Research on Formation Mechanism and Evolution Pattern of Bed Separation Zone during Repeated Mining in Multiple Coal Seams by Jianshuai Ji, Zhihua Li, Ke Yang, Guanghua Zhou, Guojun Ma, Cheng Liu, Peng Zhou

“…Taking a mine in Ningdong as the engineering background, using the research methods of theoretical analysis, numerical simulated, and field measurement, four overburden structure models of single or multiple key strata with repeated mining and single or multiple key strata without repeated mining were constructed. The evolution pattern of bed separation zone was studied from four aspects: bed separation zone development mechanism, formation position, development form, and change of clearance. …”
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RNA-Sequence Reveals the Regulatory Mechanism of miR-149 on Osteoblast Skeleton under Mechanical Tension by Yifan Wang, Guanyin Zhu, Fang Pei, Yigan Wang, Jun Liu, Caixia Lu, Zhihe Zhao

“…Tree shrews were used to construct orthodontic models. We used RNA-seq to identify differentially expressed miRNAs in periodontal tissues of the treatment group and control group tree shrews. …”
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Green space is associated with new-onset stroke among Chinese middle-aged and older adults: data from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) by Qiong Lu, Qiong Lu, Cheng Lian, Xinglin Chen, Xinglin Chen

“…Multivariate Cox regression models were constructed to investigate the association between green space and stroke risk. …”
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Teacher competency and work engagement among secondary school physical education teachers: the multiple mediating roles of occupational stress, emotional exhaustion, and profession... by Weisong Chen, Zhen Huang, Bo Peng, Lin Li, Jingsong Chen

“…It also investigated demographic differences in these variables and tested the structural invariance of the proposed model across genders.MethodA total of 1,347 secondary school physical education teachers participated in the study, completing validated scales to measure the key constructs and providing demographic information such as gender, age, education level, professional title, and school location. …”
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An Integrated Stacking Ensemble Model for Natural Gas Purchase Prediction Incorporating Multiple Features by Junjie Wang, Lei Jiang, Le Zhang, Yaqi Liu, Qihong Yu, Yuheng Bu

“…By conducting four different feature combination experiments for each base model, including weather, time, regional, and usage features, we constructed 12 foundational models. Subsequently, we integrated these base models using a meta-learner to form the final stacking ensemble model. …”
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Identification of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Subtypes Based on Global Gene Expression Profiling to Predict the Prognosis and Potential Therapeutic Drugs by Cunzhen Zhang, Jiyao Wang, Lin Jia, Qiang Wen, Na Gao, Hailing Qiao

“…A subtype scoring formula and a nomogram were constructed, both of which showed an excellent predictive performance. …”
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Rapid Detection of microRNA-122 in Serum and Finger Blood Using a Lateral Flow Nucleic Acid Biosensor by Min Zhang, Meijing Ma, Jiahui Wang, Yurui Zhou, Xueji Zhang, Guodong Liu

“…In this study, a thiol-modified single-stranded detection DNA probe (Det-DNA), a biotinylated single-stranded capture DNA probe (Cap-DNA), and a biotinylated single-stranded control DNA probe (Con-DNA) are used to construct the LFNAB. A gold nanoparticle (AuNP) is a colored tag, which is used to label the Det-DNA probe. …”
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Correlation-guided decoding strategy for low-resource Uyghur scene text recognition by Miaomiao Xu, Jiang Zhang, Lianghui Xu, Wushour Silamu, Yanbing Li

“…This dual-decoder strategy can better guide the model in extracting effective features, enhancing the model’s ability to learn internal language knowledge and more fully utilize the useful information in the input data. (3) We constructed two Uyghur scene text datasets named U1 and U2. …”
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The bioinfomatics analysis of the M1 macrophage-related gene CXCL9 signature in cervical cancer by Wenxin Liao, Tingting Liu, Yang Li, Hua Liang, Juexiao Deng, Fujin Shen

“…And the CXCL9-expressing tumour-associated macrophage has been poorly reported in cervical cancer.Methods To clarify the regulatory gene network of M1 macrophage in cervical cancer, we downloaded gene expression profiles of cervical cancer patients in TCGA database to identify M1 macrophage coexpression genes. Then we constructed the protein–protein interaction networks by STRING database and performed functional enrichment analysis to investigate the biological effects of the coexpression genes. …”
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