An Overview of Neovaginal Reconstruction Options in Male to Female Transsexuals by Marta Bizic, Vladimir Kojovic, Dragana Duisin, Dusan Stanojevic, Svetlana Vujovic, Aleksandar Milosevic, Gradimir Korac, Miroslav L. Djordjevic

“…Transsexualism is a complex condition in which the person experiences the inconsistency between the desired gender and their biological gender. Absence of the vagina is devastating in male to female transsexuals. …”
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Position - Velocity Control for Two PMDC Motors Connected by a Cross-Coupling Technique with Butterflies Optimization Algorithm by Kareem Ghazi Abdulhussein, Naseer M. Yasin, Ihsan J. Hasan

“…The simulation results showed high accuracy to reach the desired position at a regular velocity of both the PMDC motors with accurate synchronization and tracking trajectory on the axes. …”
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Some phytochemicals and sugar contents of black mulberry (<i>Morus nigra</i> L.) genotypes from Simav District, Kütahya Province, Turkey by V. Okatan, M. A. Gündeşli, A. Yu. Melyanovskaya, O. V. Panfilova, N. G. Krasova

“…In terms of the most valuable chemical composition, the SIM01, SIM02 and SIM03 genotypes can be suggested and used for future breeding reasons. It is desirable to take actions in Turkey to conduct an extensive conservation program for Morus nigra biodiversity.…”
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Enabling Lambertian-Like Warm White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with a Yellow Phosphor Embedded Flexible Film by Cheng-Chang Chen, Huang-Yu Lin, Cheng-Hung Li, Jin-Han Wu, Zong-Yi Tu, Li-Ling Lee, Ming-Shan Jeng, Chien-Chung Lin, Jwo-Huei Jou, Hao-Chung Kuo

“…The warm white OLED exhibits the yield of 10.3 cd/A and the luminous power efficiency of 5.4 lm/W at a luminance of 1000 cd/m2. A desirable Lambertian-like far-field pattern is detected from the white OLEDs with the yellow phosphor containing PDMS film. …”
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An Improved Fuzzy Neural Network Compound Control Scheme for Inertially Stabilized Platform for Aerial Remote Sensing Applications by Xiangyang Zhou, Yating Li, Yuan Jia, Libo Zhao

“…In the design of improved FNN/PID compound controller, the variable universe method is firstly used for the design of the fuzzy/PID compound controller; then, the BP algorithm is utilized to finely tune the controller parameters online. In this way, the desired performances with good ability of disturbance rejection and high stabilization accuracy are obtained for the aerial ISP. …”
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MIMO Radar Transmit Beampattern Design for DOA Estimation with Sidelobe Suppression by Yuxiang Li, Shuainan Gu, Nae Zheng

“…The design of transmit beamspace matrix is based on minimizing the difference between a desired transmit beampattern and the actual one while keeping the sidelobe levels under control. …”
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Synthesis and Properties of a Reinforcing Dust-Cementing Material for Thin Spray-On Liners in Mine Roadways by Gang Zhou, Shuailong Li, Yunlong Ma, Jianfei Ding, Mingguang Zhang

“…A suite of experiment testing is carried out concerning the performance of the developed spray material, which reveals the supreme mechanical strength and desired properties of the hardened film developed from the spray material.…”
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A Compact Unconditionally Stable Method for Time-Domain Maxwell's Equations by Zhuo Su, Yongqin Yang, Yunliang Long

“…The development of accurate schemes with less computational expenditure is desirable. A compact fourth-order split-step unconditionally-stable finite-difference time-domain method (C4OSS-FDTD) is proposed in this paper. …”
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Energy Balanced Scheduling for Target Tracking with Distance-Dependent Measurement Noise in a WSN by Xiaoqing Hu, Ming Bao, Yu-Hen Hu, Bugong Xu

“…Extended simulation results indicate that this proposed joint scheduling and tracking algorithm is capable of delivering desired tracking performance while significantly extending the WSN lifespan.…”
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FK228 Analogues Induce Fetal Hemoglobin in Human Erythroid Progenitors by Levi Makala, Salvatore Di Maro, Tzu-Fang Lou, Sharanya Sivanand, Jung-Mo Ahn, Betty S. Pace

“…Fetal hemoglobin (HbF) improves the clinical severity of sickle cell disease (SCD), therefore, research to identify HbF-inducing agents for treatment purposes is desirable. The focus of our study is to investigate the ability of FK228 analogues to induce HbF using a novel KU812 dual-luciferase reporter system. …”
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Cross Validation Based Distributed Greedy Sparse Recovery for Multiview Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging by Lele Qu, Shimiao An, Yanpeng Sun

“…The proposed CV-CSOMP imaging algorithm not only can reduce the communication costs among radar units, but also can provide the desirable imaging performance without the prior information such as the sparsity or noise level. …”
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Circular Antenna Array Synthesis Using Multiverse Optimizer by Ahmet Emre Taser, Kerim Guney, Erhan Kurt

“…Antenna array synthesis is one of the most popular topics in the electromagnetic field. Since achieving a desired antenna radiation pattern is a mathematical problem, in the literature, there are various optimization algorithms applied to the synthesis process of different kinds of antenna arrays. …”
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Biological hydrogen synthesis as an alternative energy of the future without environmental pollution? by Horst J. Koch

“…Ultimately, only innovative ideas – which will also contribute to the understanding of photosynthesis – in the field of the photosynthetic hydrogenase system can help this environmentally friendly and desirable approach to hydrogen production to achieve lasting economic success.…”
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Theoretical Study of Pentacoordinated Lanthanide Single-Ion Magnets via Ab Initio Electronic Structure Calculation by Yu-Xi Wang, Yu-Fei Wang, Bing Yin

“…., the co-existence of long <i>τ</i>_QTM and high <i>U</i>_eff. To have the desired electronic structure favoring good SMM performance, the contribution from the equatorial coordinating atoms might be even more important than that from the axial coordinating atoms. …”
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The optimal design of an LNA by using of CAD tool based on the modified inclined planes system optimization by Najmeh Shahraki, Ali Mohammadi

“…Output results, compared with other studies, indicate a desirable achievement of design characteristics and constraints along with a variety of responses in the form of a Pareto Front. …”
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A Staged Finite-Time Control Strategy for Formation of Underactuated Unmanned Surface Vehicles by Hui Ye, Xiaofei Yang, Chunxiao Ge, Zhaoping Du

“…After each USV reaches its own starting point with desired orientation, the model of the vehicle is decomposed into two subsystems under the Serret-Frenet frame. …”
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Localized FCM Clustering with Spatial Information for Medical Image Segmentation and Bias Field Estimation by Wenchao Cui, Yi Wang, Yangyu Fan, Yan Feng, Tao Lei

“…Experimental results on synthetic and real images are given to demonstrate the desirable performance of the proposed algorithm.…”
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Stan i perspektywy wykorzystania biogazu jako nośnika energii do zastosowań stacjonarnych i środków transportu by Krzysztof Biernat, Izabela Różnicka

“…Direct biogas use in the production of hydrogen is possible because of prior purification from traces like hydrogen sulfide, except carbon dioxide, by which the reaction can proceed in the desired manner.…”
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Exponential Fields Formulation for WMR Navigation by Edgar A. Martínez-García, Rafael Torres-Cordoba

“…In fast dynamic environments, path planning needs algorithms able to sense simultaneously a diversity of obstacles, and use such sensory information to improve real-time navigation control, while moving towards a desired goal destination. The framework tackles 4 issues. 1) Reformulation of the Social Force Model (SFM) adapted to WMR; 2) the cohesion of a general inertial scheme to represents motion in any coordinate system; 3) control of actuators rotational speed as a general model regardless kinematic restrictions; 4) assuming detection of features (obstacles/goals), adaptive numeric weights are formulated to affect navigational exponential components. …”
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Predictive modeling and optimization of SI engine performance and emissions with GEM blends using ANN and RSM by Farooq Shaik, D. Vinay Kumar, N. Channa Keshava Naik, G. Radha Krishna, T. M. Yunus Khan, Abdul Saddique Shaik, Abdulrajak Buradi, Addisu Frinjo Emma

“…Under these conditions, the engine exhibited a brake thermal efficiency (B_The) of 34.63%, a brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) of 243.7 g/kW-hr, and minimal emissions of 1.5% CO, 108.13 ppm HC, and 1211.8 ppm NOx, with an overall desirability of 0.820, indicating a highly favorable combination of performance and emissions characteristics.…”
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