Teaching and Learning English in Times of the Pandemic – A Case Study in a North-Macedonian Primary School by Rashit Emini, Sharon C. Lee

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A Time(s), space(s) and communication in Castells’s ‘Network Society’* by Bert Olivier

“…This, in turn, is related to what Castells labels ‘timeless time’, which is noticeable where customary time sequences are blurred in certain contemporary practices, such as virtually instantaneous financial transactions, ‘instant wars’ and virtual communication. …”
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A Cloud Detection System for UAV Sense and Avoid: Analysis of a Monocular Approach in Simulation and Flight Tests by Adrian Dudek, Peter Stütz

“…With the aim of developing cloud segmentation methods, datasets were created, one of which was made publicly available and features 5488 labeled, augmented cloud images from a real flight experiment. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in Foreign Language Teaching – Insights from an Interview with ChatGPT and Bard by Thomas Tinnefeld

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An Optimality-Theoretic Analysis of the Acquisition of English Sentence Stress Based on Acoustic Data by Wen Ji, Yun Liu

“…The acoustic software Praat is chosen to collect and label data as the basis of the empirical method. …”
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Ordinal Random Tree with Rank-Oriented Feature Selection (ORT-ROFS): A Novel Approach for the Prediction of Road Traffic Accident Severity by Bita Ghasemkhani, Kadriye Filiz Balbal, Kokten Ulas Birant, Derya Birant

“…In this study, we propose a novel approach, the Ordinal Random Tree with Rank-Oriented Feature Selection (ORT-ROFS), which utilizes the inherent ordering of class labels both in the feature selection and prediction stages for accident severity classification. …”
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Uncovering the Metabolic Footprint of New Psychoactive Substances by Metabolomics: A Systematic Review by Ana Sofia Almeida, Paula Guedes de Pinho, Fernando Remião, Carla Fernandes

“…New psychoactive substances (NPSs) emerged in the 2000s as legal alternatives to illicit drugs and quickly became a huge public health threat due to their easy accessibility online, limited information, and misleading labels. Synthetic cannabinoids and synthetic cathinones are the most reported groups of NPSs. …”
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Amyloid-Beta Induced Changes in Vesicular Transport of BDNF in Hippocampal Neurons by Bianca Seifert, Robert Eckenstaler, Raik Rönicke, Julia Leschik, Beat Lutz, Klaus Reymann, Volkmar Lessmann, Tanja Brigadski

“…To analyze the role of BDNF transport in AD, live cell imaging of fluorescently labeled BDNF was performed in hippocampal neurons of different AD model systems. …”
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Influence of the cleaning method employed prior to the use of ionomeric materials in micro filtration of cavities at the cervical level by María Muñoz Estrella, Alexander Cruz Gallegos, Ana del Carmen Armas Vega

“…Materials and Methods: In 40 human premolar teeth, cavities were prepared at the level of the cemetery amelo, the teeth were randomly divided into 4 groups (n: 10) received cleaning and restoration procedures according to the group, G1 cleaning with abrasive air and restoration with IV Ketac Molar Easy Mix (IVKM), G2 abrasive air and restoration with IV Gold Label 2 (IVGL), G3 pumice stone and IVKM, G4 pumice stone and IVGL. …”
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Chinese Mathematical Knowledge Entity Recognition Based on Linguistically Motivated Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers by Wei Song, He Zheng, Shuaiqi Ma, Mingze Zhang, Wei Guo, Keqing Ning

“…First, LERT provides context-related word vectors, and then the BiGRU captures both long-distance and short-distance information, the IDCNN retrieves local information, and finally the CRF is decoded to output the corresponding labels. Experimental results show that the accuracy of this model when recognizing mathematical concepts and theorem entities is 97.22%, the recall score is 97.47%, and the F1 score is 97.34%. …”
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A Clinical Study of Autologous Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cells for Cerebral Palsy Patients: A New Frontier by Alok Sharma, Hemangi Sane, Nandini Gokulchandran, Pooja Kulkarni, Sushant Gandhi, Jyothi Sundaram, Amruta Paranjape, Akshata Shetty, Khushboo Bhagwanani, Hema Biju, Prerna Badhe

“…The various mechanisms by which cellular therapy works include neuroprotection, immunomodulation, neurorestoration, and neurogenesis. We conducted an open label, nonrandomized study on 40 cases of cerebral palsy with an aim of evaluating the benefit of cellular therapy in combination with rehabilitation. …”
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Recovery and Biodistribution of Ex Vivo Expanded Human Erythroblasts Injected into NOD/SCID/IL2Rγnull mice by Barbara Ghinassi, Leda Ferro, Francesca Masiello, Valentina Tirelli, Massimo Sanchez, Giovanni Migliaccio, Carolyn Whitsett, Stefan Kachala, Isabelle Riviere, Michel Sadelain, Anna Rita Migliaccio

“…When splenectomized and intact NOD/SCID/IL2Rγnull mice were transfused using retrovirally labeled human EBs, human cells were visualized by bioluminescence imaging only in splenectomized animals. …”
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Substance P Increases Cell-Surface Expression of CD74 (Receptor for Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor): In Vivo Biotinylation of Urothelial Cell-Surface Proteins by Katherine L. Meyer-Siegler, Shen-Ling Xia, Pedro L. Vera

“…N-hydroxysulfosuccinimide biotin ester-labeled surface urothelial proteins in rats treated either with saline or substance P (SP, 40 μg/kg). …”
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of eribulin versus dacarbazine in patients with advanced liposarcoma by Miaomiao Zhang, Jinlong Huang, Xiaochun Zheng, Ping Huang, Xiuli Yang

“…Clinical data were sourced from a subgroup analysis of a multicenter, randomized, open-label phase 3 trials. Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) were computed. …”
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Insights into the Allosteric Regulation of Human Hsp90 Revealed by NMR Spectroscopy by Tjaša Goričan, Simona Golič Grdadolnik

“…The main aim of this review article is to discuss how solution NMR techniques, especially protein-based, and the advanced isotope labeling of proteins have been used to investigate the allosteric regulation of the cytosolic isoforms of human Hsp90 with allosteric modulators. …”
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SQL Injection Detection Based on Lightweight Multi-Head Self-Attention by Rui-Teng Lo, Wen-Jyi Hwang, Tsung-Ming Tai

“…Only SQL keywords and symbols are considered as tokens for removing noisy information from input queries. Moreover, semantic labels are assigned to tokens for highlighting malicious intentions. …”
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Fabrication of Core-Shell PLGA-Chitosan Microparticles Using Electrospinning: Effects of Polymer Concentration by Nguyen Thi Hiep, Nguyen Dai Hai, Vo Van Toi

“…Thickness of the chitosan shell can be controlled by changing the concentration of chitosan and measured by fluorescamine labeling method. Moreover, SEM observation showed that concentration of chitosan affected the size of PLGA-CS microparticles. …”
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Atmospheric air plasma pre-activation and customizable covalent functionalization of PVDF-membranes of microtiter filter plates by Bálint Árpád Ádám, Sára Spátay, Bálint Jávor, Szabolcs László, Levente Illés, Péter Fürjes, Tünde Tóth, Péter Huszthy, Ádám Golcs

“…The study was designed with future adaptability, and thus, industrially widespread atmospheric plasma and two different chemical treatments were investigated and compared in terms of practical implementation, polarization effects, extent of labeling, effects on morphology and porosity as well as on permeability. …”
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mmPrivPose3D: A dataset for pose estimation and gesture command recognition in human-robot collaboration using frequency modulated continuous wave 60Hhz RaDARMendeley Data by Nima Roshandel, Constantin Scholz, Hoang-Long Cao, Milan Amighi, Hamed Firouzipouyaei, Aleksander Burkiewicz, Sebastien Menet, Felipe Ballen-Moreno, Dylan Warawout Sisavath, Emil Imrith, Antonio Paolillo, Jan Genoe, Bram Vanderborght

“…These keypoints were extracted from RGB-D images captured by an Intel RealSense camera recorded at 30 frames per second using the Nuitrack SDK, and labeled with gestures. The dataset was collected from n = 15 participants. …”
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A Study to Compare the Analgesic Efficacy of Intrathecal Bupivacaine Alone with Intrathecal Bupivacaine Midazolam Combination in Patients Undergoing Elective Infraumbilical Surgery by Anirban Chattopadhyay, Souvik Maitra, Suvadeep Sen, Sulagna Bhattacharjee, Amitava Layek, Sugata Pal, Kakali Ghosh

“…In this prospective, randomized, double blinded, and parallel group and open label study of 90 adult patients aged 18–60 years, of American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) status I and II, scheduled for elective infraumbilical surgery, were randomly allocated in two groups. …”
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