MicroRNA-325-3p Targets Human Epididymis Protein 4 to Relieve Right Ventricular Fibrosis in Rats with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension by Yi Tang, Xiaowei Huo, Junyu Liu, Yijin Tang, Min Zhang, Wenlin Xie, Zhaofen Zheng, Jin He, Jiayan Lian

“…Then, the Ang II-treated myocardial fibroblast fibrosis model was constructed. miR-325-3p mimics and si-HE4 and oe-HE4 cell lines were constructed to investigate miR-325-3p and HE4 effects on myocardial cell fibrosis. …”
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Social Acceptance of Smart Glasses in Health Care: Model Evaluation Study of Anticipated Adoption and Social Interaction by Niek Zuidhof, Oscar Peters, Peter-Paul Verbeek, Somaya Ben Allouch

“…The tested hypotheses confirmed that social interaction constructs could explain a higher variance of users’ anticipated intention to use. …”
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Analysis of the lncRNA-Associated Competing Endogenous RNA (ceRNA) Network for Tendinopathy by Bing-Zhe Huang, Yang Jing-Jing, Xiao-Ming Dong, null Zhuan Zhong, null Xiao-Ning Liu

“…Background. We aimed to construct the lncRNA-associated competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) network and distinguish feature lncRNAs associated with tendinopathy. …”
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Developing institution-specific admission competency criteria for prospective health sciences students by Eunhee Kang, Ryan Jin Young Kim, Young-Seok Park, Shin-Young Park, Jihyun Lee

“…Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) identified the factor structure, and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) examined construct validity and assessed the model fit with the data. …”
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Resilience throughout COVID-19: Unmasking the realities of COVID-19 and vaccination facilitators, barriers, and attitudes among Black Canadians. by Obidimma Ezezika, Toluwalope Adedugbe, Isaac Jonas, Meron Mengistu, Tatyana Graham, Bethelehem Girmay, Yanaminah Thullah, Chris Thompson

“…Other frequently mentioned barriers to COVID-19 vaccines fell under the construct policies & laws, e.g., vaccine mandates as a condition of employment. …”
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Development and psychometric evaluation of a theory of planned behavior model-based instrument for evaluation of determinants of oral health behaviors in mothers of children younge... by Rusul Abdulameer Hadi Al-Sarray, Ahmadreza Shamshiri, Muhammad Alzubidi, Mahdia Gholami, Simin Z. Mohebbi

“…The content validity index (CVI) and content validity ratio (CVR) were calculated subsequently. The construct validity was examined by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). …”
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ТHE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HESIODS AS THE BIRTH OF PHILOSOPHICAL ONTOLOGY by Ігор ПАВЛЕНКО

“… The work of Hesiod, an ancient Greek epic poet, is considered, in particular, his poem “Theogony”, as one of the first cosmogonic constructions in European culture. Particular attention is drawn to the image and concept of Chaos – the initial state of the world, which also has a creative, creative essence. …”
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Correlation between Speeches of the President of Lithuania and the National Day Celebrations in the period 1920-1938: influential Communication by Vita Ulytė-Grigelevičienė

“…The article suggests and attempts to prove the hypothesis that the sender of a political speech strategically constructs the impact directed towards receivers of the speech. …”
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CAR T-cell detection scoping review: an essential biomarker in critical need of standardization by Naomi Taylor, Nirali N Shah, David P Turicek, Victoria M Giordani, Josquin Moraly

“…Across the array of CAR T-cell constructs, flow cytometry and quantitative PCR were identified as the two primary techniques for detecting CAR T-cells. …”
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Ship Target Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv3 for Maritime Image by Dehai Chen, Shiru Sun, Zhijun Lei, Heng Shao, Yuzhao Wang

“…The feature attention module was constructed by introducing the attention mechanism, which was embedded in Darknet-53 for feature recalibration, which improved the feature extraction ability of the model in the complex navigable background. …”
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Bifurcation and controller design in a 3D delayed predator-prey model by Jinting Lin, Changjin Xu, Yiya Xu, Yingyan Zhao, Yicheng Pang, Zixin Liu, Jianwei Shen

“…Based on previous studies, this article construct a novel delayed predator-prey model. By utilizing fixed point theory, inequality methods, and appropriate functions, this article examined the desirable properties of the solutions of the constructed delayed predator-prey system, including existence and uniqueness, boundedness, and non-negativity. …”
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Development and Validation of a Survey on Inclusive Judo: Judo Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Including Participants with Intellectual Developmental Disorders (J-TAID) by Gaston Descamps, Alain Massart, Terry Rizzo, Viktorija Pečnikar Oblak, Maria João Campos

“…Internal consistency regarding attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral Constructs ranged from 0,79 to 0.80, with test–retest reliability improving, demonstrating moderate to strong temporal stability (α = 0.679–0.813). …”
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Concurrent validity of a new screening test to evaluate the information processing speed by Camila Fernanda Cabrera Zavala, Oscar Agustín Porta, Alén Martín, Edison Vega Valderrama, María del Rosario Lis, Wilson Gualotuña Pachacama, Diana Soto

“…Methods: A new instrument to measure the IPS was constructed, automatic cashier test (AC-T), and for its validation, the DS-T was also carried out. …”
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Synergy between Embedded and Non-Embedded Sensors in IoT Networks for Structural Health Monitoring of Concrete Structures: A Literature Review by Najem Oumayma, Benbrahim Mohammed, Kabbaj Mohammed Nabil, Boumhidi Jaouad

“…The natural aging process of civil constructions results in material degradation, which lowers the structure’s resilience and serviceability. …”
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Joint Modeling of Precipitation and Temperature Using Copula Theory for Current and Future Prediction under Climate Change Scenarios in Arid Lands (Case Study, Kerman Province, Ira... by T. Mesbahzadeh, M. M. Miglietta, M. Mirakbari, F. Soleimani Sardoo, M. Abdolhoseini

“…Based on the results of goodness of fit test, the Frank copula function was selected for modeling of recorded and constructed data under RCP2.6 scenario and the Gaussian copula function was used for joint modeling of the constructed data under the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios.…”
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Spatial Spread of Tuberculosis through Neighborhoods Segregated by Socioeconomic Position: A Stochastic Automata Model by David Rehkopf, Alice Furumoto-Dawson, Anthony Kiszewski, Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander

“…A discrete spatial model representing neighborhoods segregated by levels of crowding and immunocompetence is constructed and used to evaluate prevention strategies, based on a number of assumptions about the spatial dynamics of tuberculosis. …”
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Managing Recurrent Congestion of Subway Network in Peak Hours with Station Inflow Control by Qingru Zou, Xiangming Yao, Peng Zhao, Fei Dou, Taoyuan Yang

“…This study provides a practical and useful method for operation agencies to construct SIC schemes in the subway system.…”
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Obstacle Aware Connectivity Restoration for Disjoint Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Mix of Stationary and Mobile Nodes by Guizhen Ma, Yang Yang, Xuesong Qiu, Zhipeng Gao

“…At first we construct and optimize the obstacle-avoiding minimum spanning tree of the segments and then determine the relays which keep static and the ones which act as MDCs. …”
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Cluster-driven non-uniform characteristic analysis of underwater target acoustic scattering field by Tianyang Xu, Hongjian Jia, Jixing Qin

“…First, the target echo features are extracted and feature vectors are constructed. Secondly, the t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding algorithm is employed to improve the internal connection of the feature vector in the low-dimensional feature space and to construct the visualized feature space. …”
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A 22 yr Cycle of the Network Topology of Solar Active Regions by Eduardo Flández, Alejandro Zamorano, Víctor Muñoz

“…In this paper, solar cycles 21–24 were compared using complex network analysis. A network was constructed for these four solar cycles to facilitate the comparison. …”
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