Infrared Spectrum Analysis of Goji Berry during Electrohydrodynamic Drying by Jiabao Ni, Changjiang Ding, Yaming Zhang, Zhiyuan Cao, Zhiqing Song, Xiuzhen Hu, Tingjie Hao

“…Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy showed that the infrared spectra of goji berry in each treatment group were generally similar. The first-order infrared spectra of different treatment groups were mainly different in the range of 1740 cm−1 and 2800 cm−1–2950 cm−1. …”
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Epidemiologic trends of cleft lip and/or palate in Switzerland by Joël Beyeler, Anic Lauener, Christos Katsaros, Giorgio C. La Scala, Martin Degen

“…Except for cleft palate, which was more common in females, males were generally more affected by OFC than females. There was no discernible regional trend for any of the malformations, even though the prevalence differed throughout the seven Swiss regions. …”
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Measuring Children’s Computational Thinking and Problem-Solving in a Block-Based Programming Game by Kayla Teng, Gregory K. W. K. Chung

“…This study uses existing data from children’s gameplay in a block-based programming game called <i>codeSpark Academy</i> to examine the extent to which we can use children’s gameplay behavior to measure their CT and, more generally, their problem-solving skills. The objectives of the study are to operationalize CT and problem-solving constructs using gameplay data, investigate the relationship between CT and problem-solving, and position <i>codeSpark Academy</i> as a valid assessment tool. …”
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Emotion processing of facial affect expression in patients with somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain–An EEG-study by Eva Metzen, Mahboobeh Dehghan Nayyeri, Ralf Schäfer, Ulrike Dinger, Matthias Franz, Rüdiger Seitz, Jörg Rademacher

“…Patients do not show any differences in the way they process images with and without masks, which suggests that patients generally process this content more rudimentary.…”
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Migration, environment and rural gentrification in the Limousin mountains by Frédéric Richard, Julien Dellier, Greta Tommasi

“…In this instance, field surveys would tend to indicate that though this broad framework generally applies to the Limousin mountains, it remains necessary to determine firstly the nature of the gentrifiers, who could possibly be described as “alter-gentrifiers”, and secondly whether their impact is equally significant within the Parc Naturel de Millevaches as a whole.…”
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Interprofessional approach to personalized medication management and therapy optimization in IBD care by Daniel Fleischmann, Benedicta Binder, Muriel Huss, Tanja Elger, Claudia Wolf, Johanna Loibl, Hauke Christian Tews, Arne Kandulski, Stephan Schmid, Martina Müller, Alexander Kratzer

“…Despite this, pharmaceutical co-supervision—proven to mitigate adverse drug events and enhance patient adherence to treatment—is generally lacking in routine clinical settings. Furthermore, the assessment of individual therapy adherence, a crucial predictive factor for therapeutic outcomes, is frequently suboptimal. …”
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Fault Identification of Rotor System Based on Classifying Time-Frequency Image Feature Tensor by Hui Li, Xiaofeng Liu, Lin Bo

“…In the field of rotor fault pattern recognition, most of classical pattern recognition methods generally operate in feature vector spaces where different feature values are stacked into one-dimensional (1D) vector and then processed by the classifiers. …”
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Comparative use of different AI methods for the prediction of concrete compressive strength by Mouhamadou Amar

“…The simulations used artificial neural networks or deep learning, generalized linear, decision tree, random forest, support vector machine, and gradient-boosted tree models to predict the compressive strength of 8 concrete mix designs containing different SCMs. …”
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Relative Susceptibilities of ABO Blood Groups to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in Ghana by Richmond Afoakwah, Edmond Aubyn, James Prah, Ekene Kwabena Nwaefuna, Johnson N. Boampong

“…Participants with complicated falciparum malaria were generally anaemic and younger than those with uncomplicated disease.…”
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Characteristics of dynamic thickness change across diverse outlet glacier geometries and basal conditions by Donglai Yang, Kristin Poinar, Sophie Nowicki, Beata Csatho

“…Localized basal lubrication perturbations induce upstream thinning and downstream thickening up to 12 m a−1; the duration of the lubrication forcing generally has a greater effect than its intensity on induced thickness changes. …”
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Legionnaires' Disease with Facial Nerve Palsy by Shailesh R. Basani, Salwa Mohamed Ahmed, Eyassu Habte-Gabr

“…The most common manifestation is encephalopathy suggesting a generalized brain dysfunction but focal neurological manifestations have been reported. …”
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Ultraviolet-B Radiation and Nitrogen Affect Nutrient Concentrations and the Amount of Nutrients Acquired by Above-Ground Organs of Maize by Carlos M. Correia, João F. Coutinho, Eunice A. Bacelar, Berta M. Gonçalves, Lars Olof Björn, José Moutinho Pereira

“…At silking, UV-B increased N, K, Ca, and Zn concentrations, whereas at maturity Ca, Mg, Zn, and Cu increased and N, P and Mn decreased in some plant organs. Generally, at maturity, N, Ca, Cu, and Mn were lower, while P, K, and Zn concentrations in stems and nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) were higher in N-starved plants. …”
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Prediction of Dynamic Plasmapause Location Using a Neural Network by Deyu Guo, Song Fu, Zheng Xiang, Binbin Ni, Yingjie Guo, Minghang Feng, Jianguang Guo, Zejun Hu, Xudong Gu, Jianan Zhu, Xing Cao, Qi Wang

“…To avoid the overfitting and optimize the model generalization, 5,493 events during the period from September 2012 to December 2015 are adopted for division into the training set and validation set in terms of the 10‐fold cross‐validation method, and the remaining 1,044 events are used as the test set. …”
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MISO intuitionistic fuzzy inference system by Lakshmana Nayagam Velu, Daniel Paulraj

“…A Multi-Input Single-Output (MISO) intuitionistic fuzzy system is developed as a generalization of the Single-Input Single-Output (SISO) model. …”
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A study of Belarusian women’s perceptions of safety and its relationships with victimization and social gender by I. V. Golyakova, V. А. Karpiyevich

“…Methods used: analysis and synthesis, method of interview and psychological testing, results processing and generalization, tabular, etc. The psychological safety perceptions assessment has been studied with the help of N.E. …”
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Design of a thermal stress microfluidic platform to screen stability of therapeutic proteins in pharmaceutical formulations by O. Bortone, S. Fiorenza, M. Baldassarre, N. Falco, M. Amidi, T. Markkula, P.A. Netti, E. Torino

“…Among the causes of protein immunogenicity, their natural propensity to aggregation is crucial, indeed, to study their stability, pharmaceutical formulations are generally exposed to diverse environmental physicochemical conditions. …”
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The Feasibility of Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Rapid Discrimination of Aged Shiitake Mushroom (Lentinula edodes) after Long-Term Storage by Lu Xu, Xian-Shu Fu, Chen-Bo Cai, Yuan-Bin She

“…Moreover, the low model complexity and the high accuracy in predicting objects produced in different years demonstrate that the classification models had a good generalization performance.…”
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Insulator Defect Recognition Based on Vision Big-Model Transfer Learning and Stochastic Configuration Network by Siyuan Liu, Yihua Ma, Zedong Zheng, Xinfu Pang, Bingyou Li

“…In response to problems related to inefficient insulator positioning, limited robustness of insulator defect feature extraction methods, and the scarcity of defective insulator samples leading to poor classifier generalization, a method for insulator defect detection and recognition based on vision big-model transfer learning and a stochastic configuration network (SCN) is proposed. …”
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Farmers’ Willingness to Pay a High Premium for Different Types of Agricultural Insurance: Evidence from Inner Mongolia, China by Xinya Guo, Yuanfeng Zhao, Muhammad Umer Arshad, Yufei Gong

“…For many years, different insurance products have been promoted in China to manage the negative impact and risk associated with unpredictable natural events. Generally, different insurance products correspond to the various premium levels, and farmers are unaware of the insurance policies and premium calculations. …”
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Study on Spatial and Temporal Variation Laws of Water Yield in Forest Basin of Cold Region ——Taking Yongcui River Basin as an Example by ZHANG Lina, SUN Yingna, HU Jinhui, SHEN Zhipeng

“…In order to study the spatial and temporal variation laws of water yield in the forest basin of the cold region,a SWAT model was established based on the total measured runoff data of 22 years from 1994 to 2015 in Yongcui River Basin.The spatial and temporal characteristics of water yield in the basin were analyzed,and the effects of meteorological factors and land use changes on water yield were discussed.The results show that:① from 1994 to 2015,the interannual water yield in Yongcui River Basin fluctuates obviously, showing an upward trend.The annual water yield shows a unimodal distribution of increasing first and then decreasing;② the spatial distribution of water yield in Yongcui River Basin is generally high in the east and west but low in the middle.Among all land use types,the deciduous forest has the highest water yield,and the evergreen forest has the strongest water-yielding capacity;③ the area of the deciduous forest is the largest in Yongcui River Basin,and the area of forest cover is over 95%.The interannual change of land use types is not obvious,and its influence on water yield is not significant;④ the precipitation,potential evapotranspiration,and actual evapotranspiration in Yongcui River Basin show a decreasing trend in different degrees,and precipitation is the main factor influencing water yield.The results can provide a reference for the optimal allocation of water resources and ecological protection in the forest basin of the cold region.…”
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