Laboratory Tests for Subgrade Reaction Coefficient in Seismic Design of Underground Engineering Domain by Kunpeng Xu, Liping Jing, Xinjun Cheng, Haian Liang, Jia Bin

“…Conventional shaking table test for sandy free-field was performed, with the results indicating that the equivalent normal subgrade reaction coefficients derived from the experimental hysteretic curves are reasonable and verifying the deformation mode under seismic excitation. …”
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Geometrical Distances of Extragalactic Binaries through Spectroastrometry by Yu-Yang Songsheng, Jian-Min Wang, Yuan Cao, XueFei Chen, JianPing Xiong, Zhi-Xiang Zhang, Rong-Gen Cai

“…For a typical eclipsing binary in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the distance uncertainty is approximately 6% under reasonable observational conditions. Within a specific range of data quality and input parameters, the distance measurement precision of individual binary star systems is generally better than 10%. …”
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A stable open-shell peri-hexacene with remarkable diradical character by Jinji Zhang, Xiaojing Fang, Weiwei Niu, Yiming Yu, Yanlin Hu, Jiawen Sun, Ying Xu, Zhihua Zhou, Heyuan Liu, Xiaonan Fan, Baishu Zheng, Qing Jiang, Guangwu Li, Wangdong Zeng

“…Although the parent peri-hexacene is calculated to have a very large diradical character (y 0 = 94.5%), 1 shows reasonable stability (t 1/2 = 24 h under ambient conditions) due to the kinetic blocking. 1 exhibits an open-shell singlet ground state with a small singlet-triplet energy gap (−1.33 kcal/mol from SQUID measurements). 1 has also a narrow HOMO-LUMO energy gap (1.05 eV) and displays amphoteric redox behavior. …”
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Material Effects on Tangent Modulus of Steel Square Hollow Section by Seyed Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Milad Shakiba, Behrouz Zaeimdar

“…The numerical and the experimental curves were reasonably similar to each other.…”
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Admission Hyperglycemia and Acute Myocardial Infarction: Outcomes and Potential Therapies for Diabetics and Nondiabetics by Anjan K. Chakrabarti, Priyamvada Singh, Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Varun Kumar, Meagan Elizabeth Doherty, Cassandra Abueg, Weici Wang, C. Michael Gibson

“…There are a number of reasons that these trials may have fallen short, including the inability to reach glucose targets and inadequate power. …”
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Salvage of Failed Local and Regional Flaps with Porcine Urinary Bladder Extracellular Matrix Aided Tissue Regeneration by Gregory J. Kruper, Zachary P. VandeGriend, Ho-Sheng Lin, Giancarlo F. Zuliani

“…Local and regional flap failure can be a major complication in head and neck surgery, which continue to be prevalent for a number of reasons including poor flap design, improper surgical technique, and poor tissue vascularity. …”
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Determination of FMDV 146S particle concentration by spectrometric method during viral RNA quantification by M. I. Doronin, D. V. Mikhalishin, V. A. Starikov, D. A. Lozovoy, Yu. S. El’kina, A. V. Borisov

“…During FMD vaccine production, special attention is paid to the concentration of 146S particles bearing the critical biological features of FMDV and being the main components that have an effect on vaccine immunogenicity. For this reason, each batch of vaccine raw material is tested for 146S component concentration. …”
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Influence of Metro Vehicle Air Compressor Suspension Methods on Modal Parameters and Optimization of Vibration Reduction Forms by CHEN Lei, LIU Zhonghua, LIU Zheng

“…［Objective］ Air compressor is one of the main sources for metro vehicle vibration excitation. Reasonable modal matching design for air compressor is conducive to reducing the vehicle body vibration and noise, thereby improving the riding comfort of the vehicle. …”
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Concrete Mix Design for Service Life of RC Structures under Carbonation Using Genetic Algorithm by Seung-Jun Kwon, Byung Jae Lee, Yun Yong Kim

“…Through GA technique, simulated mix proportions are obtained for 12 cases of verification and they show reasonable results with average relative error of 4.6%. …”
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Research status of dietary nursing intervention of hyperphosphatemia in hemodialysis patients (血液透析患者高磷血症饮食护理干预的研究现状) by WANG Liwei (王丽伟), LIU Lin (刘玲), YANG Yufei (杨寓斐), E Haiyan (鄂海燕), TANG Ling (唐玲)

“…In clinical treatment and nursing, dietary nursing intervention can improve the prevention awareness of hyperphosphatemia in patients and their families, improve the level of blood phosphorus and nutritional status of patients, reduce the incidence of hyperphosphatemia in hemodialysis patients, and improve their quality of life under a scientific and reasonable diet planning. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the dietary nursing intervention of hyperphosphatemia in hemodialysis patients, summarize the dietary nursing intervention measures, and provide beneficial guidance for the practice of dietary nursing. …”
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Cells in Dengue Virus Infection In Vivo by Sansanee Noisakran, Nattawat Onlamoon, Pucharee Songprakhon, Hui-Mien Hsiao, Kulkanya Chokephaibulkit, Guey Chuen Perng

“…Though dengue normally causes a self-limiting infection, some patients may develop a life-threatening illness, dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF)/dengue shock syndrome (DSS). The reason why DHF/DSS occurs in certain individuals is unclear. …”
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A novel trapped field magnet enabled by a quasi-operational HTS coil by Hengpei Liao, Aleksandr Shchukin, Roshan Parajuli, Xavier Chaud, Jung-Bin Song, Min Zhang, Weijia Yuan

“…Unique distributions of current density and magnetic field are identified as the reason for the trapped field exceeding the applied field. …”
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Usability test of the “Denia-IS” mobile application for sustainability high-risk pregnancy early detection in rural areas by Dwi Anggraeni Mekar, Triyanto Endang, Iskandar Asep, Fatoni Amin, Niyomdecha Najwa

“…The respondents reported that the system helped them feel in control, and the information was useful. This App has reasonably good usability to asses and communicate high risk during pregnancy in a typically hard-to-reach population and personalized distance obstetrical care in rural areas.…”
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A Deep-Learning Prediction Model for Imbalanced Time Series Data Forecasting by Chenyu Hou, Jiawei Wu, Bin Cao, Jing Fan

“…This task is challenging because of two reasons: (1) the temporal dependency of series, and (2) the tradeoff between mining similar patterns and distinguishing different distributions between different periods. …”
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Proses Pemberian ASI pada Ibu Berusia Remaja: Studi Fenomenologi Interpretatif by Vetty Priscilla, Ira Mulya Sari, Hermalinda Hermalinda

“…The results identified five themes, namely: 1) perceived support from health workers, 2) reasons for teenage mothers to give other foods/drinks besides breast milk, 3) teenage mothers' perceptions of family support in breastfeeding, 4) emotional feelings of teenage mothers when breastfeeding, and 5) obstacles encountered by teenage mothers when breastfeeding. …”
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Forest Fire Risk Modeling Using Logistic Regression and Geographic Information Systems: A Case Study in Muğla - Milas by İlker Atmaca, Özge Işık Pekkan, Mehtap Özenen Kavlak, Yavuz Selim Tunca, Saye Nihan Çabuk

“…Negligence-accident is the primary cause of these fires. For this reason, in order to minimize the frequency of forest fires and prevent damages, areas with fire risk should be determined and it is necessary to be prepared for the precautions to be taken before, during and after the fire. …”
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Unsupervised Image Super-Resolution for High-Resolution Satellite Imagery via Omnidirectional Real-to-Synthetic Domain Translation by Minkyung Chung, Yongil Kim

“…The experimental results demonstrate that BLG-GAN-U effectively generates high-quality SR images with excellent perceptual quality and reasonable image fidelity, even with a relatively smaller network capacity.…”
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Yield Function of the DOSimetry TELescope Count and Dose Rates Aboard the International Space Station by A. S. Caprotti, M. Brüdern, S. Burmeister, B. Heber, K. Herbst

“…The flux of these particles is altered by the magnetized solar wind in the heliosphere and the Earth's magnetic field. For this reason, the ability of a particle to approach a spacecraft in low Earth orbit depends on its energy and the position of the spacecraft within the Earth's magnetosphere. …”
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Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Metastatic Lung Cancer as Oligo-Recurrence: An Analysis of 42 Cases by Wataru Takahashi, Hideomi Yamashita, Yuzuru Niibe, Kenshiro Shiraishi, Kazushige Hayakawa, Keiichi Nakagawa

“…All patients finished their SBRT course without interruptions of toxicity reasons. The median follow-up period was 20 months (range, 1–90 months). …”
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Pancreatic Cancer: Current Concepts, Trends, and Future Directions by Patrick Wenzel, Carolin Mogler, Kıvanç Görgülü, Hana Algül

“…The hallmarks of pancreatic cancer lead to tumor aggressiveness and therapeutic resistance. For this reason, the field has been focusing on multiple dimensions to generate better therapeutic approaches, including new adjuvant, neoadjuvant, and palliative concepts to extend the survival of PC patients. …”
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