Optimal Covid-19 Control on Effectiveness of Detection Campaign and Treatment by Mouhamadou A. M. T. Baldé, Sidy Ly, Léna Tendeng

“…We prove the global stability of the Disease-Free Equilibrium (DFE) and the existence of optimal control and trajectories of the model. …”
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Identification of the Immune Cell Infiltration Landscape in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSC) for the Exploration of Immunotherapy and Prognosis by Chunli Huang, Jifeng Liu

“…Furthermore, ZAP70 is closely related to the overall survival (OS), progress-free interval (PFI), and disease-specific survival (DSS) of HNSC patients. …”
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Speech-based personality prediction using deep learning with acoustic and linguistic embeddings by Martin Lukac

“…We collected data from 2045 participants who completed a self-reported Big Five personality questionnaire and provided free-form speech samples by introducing themselves without constraints on content. …”
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Correction: Enhanced effects of slowly co-released TGF-β3 and BMP-2 from biomimetic calcium phosphate-coated silk fibroin scaffolds in the repair of osteochondral defects by Jiping Chen, Yanyi Wang, Tianyi Tang, Baochao Li, Banani Kundu, Subhas C. Kundu, Rui L. Reis, Xingnan Lin, Huang Li

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Brilliant Green Dye Biosorption Using Activated Carbon Derived from Guava Tree Wood by R. A. Mansour, Abeer El Shahawy, A. Attia, Mokhtar S. Beheary

“…It was found that the equilibrium data are best represented by the Freundlich isotherm, and the adsorption capacity (qe) was 90 mg dye/g AC. The values of the free energy (∆G), enthalpy (∆H), and entropy (∆S) were −86.188 kJ/mol, 43.025 kJ/mol, and 128 J/mol.K, respectively, at pH 7 for the BG dye. …”
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Surgical strategy in a patient with an aggressive tumor of the gastrointestinal tract in the fourth portion of the duodenum by Tomás Ariel Lombardo Vaillant

“…After one year the patient is free of tumor disease. The management strategy in patients with atypically located gastrointestinal stromal tumors represents a challenge for the surgeon as a member of the multidisciplinary group and depends on the extent of the tumor, the patient's condition, and the surgical team timely management.…”
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Effect of Monotherapy and Combination Therapy of Pantoprazole and Aprepitant in Gastric Esophageal Reflux Disease in Albino Rats by Kamleshwar Shukla, Prince Raj, Arun Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Gaurav Kaithwas

“…Animals were sacrificed after 8 h and evaluated for the gastric pH, volume of gastric juices, total acidity, esophagitis index, and free acidity. Esophageal tissues were further subjected to estimations of TBARS, GSH, catalase, and SOD. …”
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Research on Identification Method of Scour Depth for Bridge Based on ERA and SVM by Xiaozhong Zhang, Wenjuan Yao, Yimin Liu, Bo Chen

“…Firstly, a sample library about scour depth and upper structure vibration response was established using numerical methods and support vector machine method. Secondly, free response signal of bridge were extracted from random vibration signal of bridge upper structure using random decrement technique. …”
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Enhanced Ex Vivo Expansion of Human Hematopoietic Progenitors on Native and Spin Coated Acellular Matrices Prepared from Bone Marrow Stromal Cells by Samiksha Wasnik, Suma Kantipudi, Mark A. Kirkland, Gopal Pande

“…We have developed cell-free matrices from a BM stromal cell line (HS-5), which can be used as substrates either in native form or as tissue engineered coatings, for the enhanced ex vivo expansion of umbilical cord blood (UCB) derived HSPC. …”
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Optimal Conflict Resolution for Vehicles With Intersecting and Overlapping Paths by Johan Karlsson, Nikolce Murgovski, Jonas Sjoberg

“…It is shown that the controller provides smooth, collision free trajectories in scenarios with and without vehicles traveling in the same lane. …”
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Passivity and Semiconducting Behavior of a High Nitrogen Stainless Steel in Acidic NaCl Solution by Yanxin Qiao, Xiang Cai, Jie Cui, Huabing Li

“…The passivity and semiconducting behaviors of a high nitrogen-containing nickel-free stainless steel (HNSS) in 0.05 mol/L H2SO4 + 0.5 mol/L NaCl have been investigated. …”
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Reverse Sural Artery Flap – A Versatile Option in Distal Lower-limb Reconstruction by Om Prakash, Sheikh Sarfraz Ali, Mohammed Fahud Khurram, Mohd. Yaseen

“…Advancements in microsurgery techniques and low complication rates have made free tissue transfer the method of choice. However, the option of microsurgery may not be available at all centers. …”
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Untargeted metabolomics of Aloe volatiles: Implications in pathway enrichments for improved bioactivities by Nehal Batra, Priyankar Dey

“…The leaves of five highly utilized Aloe sp. were subjected to untargeted gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis followed by testing of free-radical scavenging effects against components of the Fenton and Haber-Weiss reaction. …”
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Mapping Surface Potential in DNA Aptamer–Neurochemical and Membrane–Ion Interactions on the SOS Substrate Using Terahertz Microscopy by Kosei Morita, Yuta Mitsuda, Sota Yoshida, Toshihiko Kiwa, Jin Wang

“…Our results highlight the capability of TCM as a powerful, label-free, and sensitive platform for the probing and mapping of surface potential arising from molecular interactions, with broad implications for biomedical diagnostics and research.…”
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Transcendence: what on earth are we talking about? by Daniël P. Veldsman

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Steepest-Ascent Revisited: Unconstrained Missile Trajectory by Elsayed M. Khalil, Hao Zhou, Wanchun Chen

“…The technique of changing of variables is adopted to convert the free-final-time optimization problem to a fixed-final-time one. …”
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Ultrasonic localization method based on receiver array optimization schemes by Xiaonan Luo, Hucheng Wang, Suqing Yan, Jianming Liu, Yanru Zhong, Rushi Lan

“…For small-scale or enclosed scenarios, there is an important phenomenon, that is, the ultrasonic wave may rapidly reflect back and forth between the walls to form different normal waves during the process of propagation, which may break the inverse square law of sound intensity (the sound intensity in free space is inversely proportional to the square of the distance). …”
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Collapse Analysis of Transmission Tower Subjected to Earthquake Ground Motion by Xiaohong Long, Wei Wang, Jian Fan

“…Simulation of the process of collapse is difficult using traditional finite element method (FEM), which is generated from continuum and variation principle, whereas the finite particle method (FPM) enforces equilibrium on each point. Particles are free to separate from one another, which is advantageous in the simulation of the structural collapse. …”
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Influence of Light Exposure during Cold Storage of Minimally Processed Vegetables (Valeriana sp.) by Angela Zappia, Alessandra De Bruno, Rosita Torino, Amalia Piscopo, Marco Poiana

“…During the manufacturing processing, Valeriana leaves were submitted to different dipping acid solutions and then were stored at cold temperature in dark and in light to study the influence of the light exposure on their quality in terms of total free acidity, dry matter percentage, colour, water activity, total bacterial count, antioxidant components, and total antioxidant activity. …”
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Metaplastic Carcinoma Breast in Polycythemic Octogenarian – Lessons Learnt: Case Report by Swarup Prabhu, Munish Malhotra, Naresh Saidha, Ritu Mehta, Surjeet Dwivedi, Tarun Mohan Gupta

“…Post operative patient showed good clinical recovery and was recurrence free at 6 months follow up although patient had all the poor prognostic factors with large size, LN involvement and high Ki 67. …”
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