Do Anabolic Androgenic Steroids Really Cause Harm? A Comprehensive Examination of Adverse Effects by Paweł Siudziński, Mateusz Łyko, Alicja Skoczylas, Jakub Kurasz, Wojciech Maj, Wiktoria Tomaszewska, Wiktoria Podlasiewicz, Katarzyna Pala, Piotr Dudziak, Anna Nowak, Maria Golińska

“… Anabolic steroids, synthetic derivatives of testosterone, are frequently employed in clinical settings to address hormonal deficiencies and, controversially, in athletic contexts to augment physical performance. …”
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Advancements in End-to-End Audio Style Transformation: A Differentiable Approach for Voice Conversion and Musical Style Transfer by Shashwat Aggarwal, Shashwat Uttam, Sameer Garg, Shubham Garg, Kopal Jain, Swati Aggarwal

“…Methods: The proposed method employs an encoder–decoder architecture with a global conditioning mechanism. …”
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Newborn screening and the screening laboratory: past, present and future by Anita Boelen, Annemieke C Heijboer

“…Currently, worldwide, the majority of NBS programs for CH employ TSH as the primary screening marker. However, a select few programs still utilize T4 as the primary marker, enabling the detection of both primary and central CH. …”
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Casing Vibration Fault Diagnosis Based on Variational Mode Decomposition, Local Linear Embedding, and Support Vector Machine by Yizhou Yang, Dongxiang Jiang

“…Vibrational features are extracted from both VMD subsignals and the original one. LLE is employed here to reduce the dimensionality of these extracted features and make the samples more separable. …”
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Anti-Hyperglycemic Effect of Combination Etanolic Extract of Sambiloto (Andrographis paniculata) and Bitter Melon Fruit (Momordica charantia L) on Alloxan-Induced Wistar White Rats by Vicko Suswidiantoro, Mida Pratiwi, Wina Safutri, Ahmad Bayu Satriawan, Yuhana Sari

“…The data analysis in this study employed normality and homogeneity tests, obtaining a significance result of p>0.05. …”
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lncRNA localization and feature interpretability analysis by Jing Li, Ying Ju, Quan Zou, Fengming Ni

“…LncDNN uses three different encoding schemes and employs Shapley Additive Explanations for feature analysis and selection. …”
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Dynamic Drag Reduction Effects of Aerospikes and Aerodisks by Rong Han, Wei Liu, Xiaoliang Yang, Xinghua Chang

“…In order to investigate the dynamic characteristics of blunt aircraft mounted with aerospikes and aerodisks in large-amplitude force-pitching, the Roe spatial scheme and the lower-upper symmetric Gauss-Seidel (LU-SGS) method with dual time step are employed for discretization of unsteady Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations. …”
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An Elite Decision Making Harmony Search Algorithm for Optimization Problem by Lipu Zhang, Yinghong Xu, Yousong Liu

“…Extensive computational comparisons are carried out by employing various standard benchmark optimization problems, including continuous design variables and integer variables minimization problems from the literature. …”
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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Stock Returns of Africa: A Wavelet Coherence Analysis by Emmanuel Asafo-Adjei, Daniel Agyapong, Samuel Kwaku Agyei, Siaw Frimpong, Reginald Djimatey, Anokye M. Adam

“…This study explores how global economic policy uncertainty (EPU) shocks comove with stock returns (SR) of eight African countries—Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia. The study employed daily data from December 2010 to December 2019 using wavelet coherence analysis. …”
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Study of microwave absorption properties of strontium hexaferrite (SrFe12O19) and impure activated carbon composite in X-band range (8.2 – 12.4 GHz) by Jacob Rosarian Joy S, D. Rajan Babu

“…A simple synthesis procedure was employed to ensure that both components are evenly distributed throughout the composite. …”
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Performance Analysis of Compression Ignition Engines Using Emulsion Fuel Blended with Aluminium Oxide Nanoparticles by A. R. Sivaram, N. Prabhu, R. Praveen Kumar, G. Navaneethakrishnan, R. Palanisamy, Kareem M. AboRas, Mohit Bajaj, Repele Djidimbele, Kidmo Kaoga Dieudonné, V. Leela Vinodhan

“…This is then mixed with the ratio of 50 ppm and 100 ppm by mass with aluminium oxide nanoparticles by employing ultrasonication techniques. This work is carried out on compression ignition engines in different phases using biodiesel, nanoparticles, surfactants, and water. …”
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Trajectories of a magnetic sphere in a shaken three-dimensional granular bed under low gravity by Ke Cheng, Meiying Hou, Wei Sun, Zhihong Qiao, Xiang Li, Tuo Li, Mingcheng Yang

“…Abstract This present investigation employs an advanced magnetic particle tracking method to trace the trajectories of an intruder within a vibration-driven granular medium under artificial low-gravity conditions. …”
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PREDICTING USD/ TL EXCHANGE RATE IN TURKEY: THE LONG-SHORT TERM MEMORY APPROACH by Abdul-razak Bawa Yussif, Fatih Mangır, Zeynep Karaçor, Ayten Yağmur

“…In order to perform a more accurate exchange rate prediction, deep-learning methods have been employed withremarkable rates of success. In this paper, we apply the Long-Short Term Memory Neural Network to predict the USD/TL exchange rate in Turkey. …”
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Archimedean Spiral Antenna Calibration Procedures to Increase the Downrange Resolution of a SFCW Radar by Ioan Nicolaescu, Piet van Genderen

“…The antenna system made up of two Archimedean spirals is employed by SFCW radar that operates with a frequency step of 35 MHz.…”
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Trait Mindfulness and Counterproductive Work Behavior: The Role of Stop and Start Control by Endang Parahyanti, Muhammad Rizky

“…A correlational research design was employed, and the participants were full-time workers aged between 20 and 39 years. …”
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Model-Based Dependability Analysis of Physical Systems with Modelica by Andrea Tundis, Lena Buffoni, Peter Fritzson, Alfredo Garro

“…Furthermore, they allow exporting a Modelica-based system design as a Bayesian Network in order to analyze its dependability by employing a probabilistic approach. The proposal is exemplified through a case study concerning the dependability analysis of a Tank System.…”
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Periodic, Cross-Kink, and Interaction between Stripe and Periodic Wave Solutions for Generalized Hietarinta Equation: Prospects for Applications in Environmental Engineering by Guangping Li, Jalil Manafian, Mirmehdi Seyyedi, R. Sivaraman, Subhiya M. Zeynalli

“…In the current work, the modified (2 + 1)-dimensional Hietarinta model is considered by employing Hirota’s bilinear scheme. Likewise, the bilinear formalism is obtained for the considered model. …”
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Clinical management of bleeding manifestations in a family with the thrombomodulin C1611>A (p.Cys537Stop) mutation by Serge Pierre-Louis, Johalene Rabout, Octavio Labrada, Fatima Radouani, Emeline Chonville, Beatrice Ferrey, Olivier Pierre-Louis, Yesim Dargaud

“…We detail the hemostatic strategies employed during various bleeding episodes and surgical procedures. …”
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Are rare earth stocks efficient? Novel insights using asymmetric MF-DFA by Pengbo Wan, Ghulam Mujtaba, Saira Ashfaq, Song Liangrong, Rana Muhammad Nasir

“…We examine the scaling behavior across overall, upward (bullish), and downward (bearish) market states from 2013 to 2021, employing an asymmetric multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis approach. …”
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A Content Analysis of TV Series/Shows Watched by The Secondary and High School Students in Turkey by Alev Üstündağ, Özcan Doğan

“…It was a descriptive study employing the content analysis method. The study data were collected using a “Content Evaluation Form for Children Shows." …”
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