Stability of GaN HEMT Device Under Static and Dynamic Gate Stress by Linfei Gao, Ze Zhong, Qiyan Zhang, Xiaohua Li, Xinbo Xiong, Shaojun Chen, Longkou Chen, Huaibao Yan, Anle Zhang, Jiajun Han, Wenrong Zhuang, Feng Qiu, Hsien-Chin Chiu, Shuangwu Huang, Xinke Liu

“…In this work, we investigated the stability of a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${p}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-GaN gate with high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) including an internal integrated gate circuit. A circuit was designed to improve <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${p}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-GaN gate stability by using capacitance to release the hole into the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${p}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-GaN layer to mitigate the threshold voltage shift. …”
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End-to-End Mandarin Speech Reconstruction Based on Ultrasound Tongue Images Using Deep Learning by Fengji Li, Fei Shen, Ding Ma, Jie Zhou, Shaochuan Zhang, Li Wang, Fan Fan, Tao Liu, Xiaohong Chen, Tomoki Toda, Haijun Niu

“…Initially, ultrasound tongue images and speech data were collected simultaneously with a designed Mandarin corpus. Subsequently, a speech reconstruction model was built based on adversarial neural networks. …”
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The Effectiveness of Health, Educational, and Economic Awareness Programs to Reduce the Negative Effects of Internet Addiction on the Academic Achievement of Primary School Childre... by Fatma Salah Eldin Kassem Mohamed, Abdalmajeed Selmi Arrooqi, Atallah Alenezi, Mona Ahmed Elsemary, Manal Saleh Moustafa Saleh

“…Aim To investigate effectiveness of health, educational, and economic awareness program to reduce the negative effect of Internet addiction on the academic achievement of primary school children at Shaqra City. Research Design Quasi-experimental, included parents of primary schools’ children at Shaqra used to fulfill the aim of the present study, The study settings using a multistage random sampling technique. …”
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Thermally Conductive Shape-Stabilized Phase Change Materials Enabled by Paraffin Wax and Nanoporous Structural Expanded Graphite by Yilin Zhao, Shuhui Huang, Zhaoguo Jin, Zhongnan Xie, Hong Guo, Haofeng Xie

“…Two preparations of thermally conductive shape-stabilized PW/EG composites, using the pressure-induced method and prefabricated skeleton method, were designed in this paper. The expanded graphite formed a nanoscale porous structure by different methods, which enhanced the capillary action between the graphite flake layers, improved the adsorption and encapsulation of EG, and alleviated the leakage problem. …”
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A patient-led survey on information and communication needs of patients with metastatic breast cancer in Ireland and Northern Ireland (CTRIAL-IE 23–05) by Siobhan Gaynor, Yvonne O'Meara, Emer Mulvaney, Rachel J. Keogh, Catherine S. Weadick, Fran J. Duane, Ann Mc Brien, Helen Greally, Mary Jane O'Leary, Ieva Teiserskyte, Isabel Beristain, Jacinta Marron, Eibhlin Mulroe, Vicky Donachie, Sarah Mc Loughlin, Seamus O'Reilly

“…Methods: A 76 item questionnaire was designed by the lead author and a cohort of 41 other MBC patients in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. …”
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Adolescent girls’ explanations of high rates of low mood and anxiety in their population: a co-produced qualitative study by Ola Demkowicz, Rebecca Jefferson, Pratyasha Nanda, Lucy Foulkes, Jo Lam, Steven Pryjmachuk, Rhiannon Evans, Bernadka Dubicka, Liz Neill, Laura Anne Winter, Georgina Nnamani

“…Methods We adopted a co-produced qualitative design, guided by ecological systems theory, conducting focus groups in 2022 with 32 adolescent girls aged 16 to 18 years in England. …”
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Validation of a Questionnaire on COVID-19 Knowledge and Attitude for Dental Patients by Mohammad Reza Khami, Mahsa Karimi, Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan, Ahmad Reza Shamshiri, Prathip Phantumvanit, Armando E Soto-Rojas, Seyed Hossein Bassir, Heikki Murtomaa

“…Materials and Methods: Through a comprehensive literature review, we designed the primary questionnaire in English and then translated it into Persian. …”
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The Effects of Hyperacute Serum on the Elements of the Human Subchondral Bone Marrow Niche by Melinda Simon, Bálint Major, Gabriella Vácz, Olga Kuten, István Hornyák, Adél Hinsenkamp, Dorottya Kardos, Marcell Bagó, Domonkos Cseh, Adrienn Sárközi, Denes Horvathy, Stefan Nehrer, Zsombor Lacza

“…Hyperacute serum (HAS), a new serum derivative, has been designed to approximate the natural coagulation cascade with a single-step, additive-free preparation method. …”
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Inequity and vulnerability in Latin American Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations with rheumatic diseases: a syndemic approach by Bernardo A Pons-Estel, Rosana Quintana, Ruben Burgos-Vargas, Everardo Álvarez-Hernández, John Londono, Ana M Santos, Adalberto Loyola-Sanchez, Mario H Cardiel, Maria Victoria Goycochea-Robles, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas, Ysabel Granados, Flor Julián-Santiago, Celenia Rosillo, Jose Alvarez-Nemegyei, Natalia Santana, Mario Goñi, Ligia Cedeño, Romina Nieto, Silvana Conti, María Elena Calvo, Eugenia Picco, Rosa Chacón, Jorge Delgado, Alfonso Gastelum Strozzi, Sergio Guevara-Pacheco, Vicente Juarez, Mario Alberto Garza-Elizondo, Juan Camilo Rueda, Amaranta Manrique de Lara, Nora Mathern, Marisa Jorfen, Alvaro Sanabria, Cristina Prigione, Adriana MR Silvestre, Vanina García, Julio Miljevic, Daniel Dhair, Matias Laithe, Fadua Midauar, Maria Celeste Martin, Maria Cecilia Barrios, María Elena Crespo, Mariana Aciar, Emilio Buschiazzo, Natalia L Cucchiaro, Mario Ruiz, José Adolfo Sánchez, Rodolfo Franco, Natalia Estrella, Silvia Jorge, Cinthya Retamozo, Sofia Fernandez, Martina Fay, Cecilia Camacho, Graciela Gomez, Jazmin Petrelli, Andrés Honeri, Viviana Arenas Solórzano, Ana Bensi, Marcela Valdata, Rodrigo Giraldo, Ignacio Angarita, Jesus G Ballesteros, Sofia Arias, Andres Vásquez, Lina Valero, Ani Cortes, Estafania Castañeda, Elias Forero, Astrid Feicán, Fernando Vintimilla, Jaime Vintimilla, Veronica Ochoa, Angelita Lliguisaca, Holger Dután, Jacqueline Rodríguez-Amado, Julio Casasola-Vargas, Conrado Garcia, Imelda García-Olivera, César Pacheco, Susana Aidee Gonzalez-Chávez, Hazel Garcia Morales, Arturo Velasco Gutierrez, JF Moctezuma-Rios, Eduardo Navarro-Zarza, Angelia Angulo, Rosana Flores, Janeth Galván Padrón, B Lorena Pérez, Janett Riega, Brenda Vaquez Fuentes, Miguel A Villarreal, Cassandra Skinner Taylor, Sara Marín, Dionicio Galarza Delgado, Diana Flores Alvarado, Jorge A Esquivel Varerio, Luz Helena Sanín, Marco Maradiaga Ceceño, Jorge Zamudio Lerm, Ivan Stekman, Yanira Martínez, Gloris Sánchez

“…Objective To estimate health inequity and vulnerability among Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) in Latin America using the syndemic approach.Design This is a secondary analysis of a previously published large-scale study on the prevalence of RMD.Setting Studies carried out in five Latin American countries (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela). …”
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Predicting home delivery and identifying its determinants among women aged 15–49 years in sub-Saharan African countries using a Demographic and Health Surveys 2016–2023: a machine... by Adem Tsegaw Zegeye, Binyam Chaklu Tilahun, Makida Fekadie, Eliyas Addisu, Birhan Wassie, Berihun Alelign, Mequannet Sharew, Nebebe Demis Baykemagn, Abdulaziz Kebede, Tirualem Zeleke Yehuala

“…Methods This study used design science approaches. The data set obtained from demographic health survey in sub-Saharan African weighted sample of 299,759 women was included in the stud. …”
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Crowned dens syndrome: A case series of 72 patients at eight teaching hospitals in Japan by Hiroki Isono, Haruka Kuno, Takunori Hozumi, Ken Emoto, Sho Nishiguchi, Masahiro Sakai, Madoka Ito, Koichi Kitamura, Kazuhito Hirose, Eiji Hiraoka, Naoto Ishimaru, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Yasuharu Tokuda

“…The purpose of this study was to determine the annual incidence of CDS, time to diagnosis in CDS, as well as the features of CDS. Methods The study design was a retrospective case series study conducted at eight teaching hospitals in Japan. …”
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Influences on safety of intrapartum electronic fetal heart rate monitoring practices: a scoping review by Cathy Winter, Mary Dixon-Woods, Isla Kuhn, Guillaume Lamé, Elisa Liberati, Jenni Burt, Sarah Kelly, Alice Egerton, Tim J Draycott, Harry Kyriacou, Kathryn Jones, Harry Dunn, Xueying Nancy Zheng, Zi Qi Kok

“…We aimed to identify the range of influences on the safety of using EFM-CTG in practice.Design Scoping review to identify influences related to the practice of intrapartum EFM.Data sources MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, British Nursing Index, Cochrane Library, from 1 January 2001 to 25 August 2024, and grey literature.Eligibility criteria Articles that reported potential influences on the clinical practice of intrapartum EFM-CTG in hospital-based intrapartum maternity care settings, including primary studies, secondary analyses, reviews, reports, conference abstracts and investigations relevant to maternity and obstetrics, in English. …”
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Molecular mechanisms of cis-oxygen bridge neonicotinoids to Apis mellifera Linnaeus chemosensory protein: Surface plasmon resonance, multiple spectroscopy techniques, and molecular... by Xiangshuai Li, Shiyu Li, Yang Liu, Li Cui, Daibin Yang, Shuning Chen, Xusheng Shao, Huizhu Yuan, Xiaojing Yan

“…These findings offer critical insights for the design of cis-structured neonicotinoid compounds that are safer for pollinators, thus reducing the impact on non-target organisms such as bees. …”
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Theoretical evaluation of the impact of diverse treatment conditions by calculation of the tumor control probability (TCP) of simulated cervical cancer Hyperthermia-Radiotherapy (H... by Sergio Mingo Barba, Adela Ademaj, Dietmar Marder, Oliver Riesterer, Marco Lattuada, Rudolf M. Füchslin, Alke Petri-Fink, Stephan Scheidegger

“…This approach can be used to optimize HT treatments, design clinical trials, and interpret patient data.…”
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Rancher viewpoint diversity in human–wildlife coexistence management: The case of jaguar–livestock interaction in the region of Calakmul, Mexico by Elías J. Gordillo‐Chávez, Claudia Villanueva‐García, Enrique Melo‐Guerrero, Mircea G. Hidalgo‐Mihart, Miguel Lizana‐Avia, Fernando Rodríguez‐López, Victor J. Colino‐Rabanal

“…Therefore, conservation incentives must be designed to address local communities' fundamental needs, such as education, healthcare, women's empowerment and cultural preservation. …”
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Demonstration of Millimeter Wave 5G Setup Employing High-Gain Vivaldi Array by Waleed Tariq Sethi, Muhammad Ahmed Ashraf, Amr Ragheb, Amr Alasaad, Saleh A. Alshebeili

“…This antenna element is then used to design a 1 × 4 linear SCVA array matched to a 50 Ω impedance via a modified Wilkinson power divider (WPD). …”
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A multi-stage deep learning network toward multi-classification of polyps in colorectal images by Shilong Chang, Kun Yang, Yucheng Wang, Yufeng Sun, Chaoyi Qi, Wenlong Fan, Ying Zhang, Shuang Liu, Wenshan Gao, Jie Meng, Linyan Xue

“…Furthermore, we introduced a novel attention module, the Cross-Stage Weighted Attention (CSWA), designed to amplify the effectiveness of multi-stage feature fusion by focusing on the most informative features across different stages. …”
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The development and application of compound formulation of natural antioxidants in Idesia polycarpa maxim. Oil by Fangming Liu, Yurui Xie, Xiaodong Geng, Zhi Li, Yanmei Wang, Zhen Liu, Qifei Cai

“…The experiments were designed using the response surface method to compound three individual natural antioxidants with good anti-oxidative effects, namely rosemary extract, tea polyphenol palmitate, and ascorbic acid palmitate. …”
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Concordance of Australian state and territory government guidelines for classifying the healthiness of foods in public settings by Bettina Backman, Meg Adam, Jasmine Chan, Josephine Marshall, Emalie Rosewarne, Gary Sacks, Adrian J Cameron, Miranda R Blake

“… Abstract Objective: To investigate the concordance between Australian government guidelines for classifying the healthiness of foods across various public settings. Design: Commonly available products in Australian food service settings across 8 food categories were classified according to each of the 17 Australian state and territory food classification guidelines applying to public schools, workplaces, and healthcare settings. …”
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Efficient recovery of Ce(III) ions from acidic solutions using oxalic acid crosslinked chitosan by Tabtila Okta Rinila, Soon Kong Yong, Waheeba Ahmed Al-Amrani, Agustono Wibowo, Nurul Filzah Ghazali, Murat Yılmaz, Faiz Bukhari Mohd Suah, Megat Ahmad Kamal Megat Hanafiah

“…Kinetic and isotherm analyses specified that the Ce(III) ions adsorption onto CHOA is most accurately designated by the pseudo-second-order and Freundlich models. …”
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