Low Body Mass Index Can Identify Majority of Osteoporotic Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Missed by Current Guidelines by Ashish Atreja, Ashish Aggarwal, Angelo A. Licata, Bret A. Lashner

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Estimation of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Human Health Risk Assessment of Simulated Indoor Environment Consisting of Upholstered Furniture Made of Commercially Available... by Alena Capíková, Daniela Tesařová, Josef Hlavaty, Adam Ekielski, Pawan Kumar Mishra

“…The samples were collected using a small-space sampling chamber at a temperature of 23°C and a humidity of 50% depending on the aspect of time. …”
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Intraday Multireservoir Hydropower Management by Rodrigo Castro-Freibott, Álvaro García-Sánchez, Francisco Espiga-Fernández, Guillermo González-Santander de la Cruz

“…Our methodology evaluates three distinct action space formulations (continuous, discrete, and adjustments) implemented using modern RL algorithms (A2C, PPO, and SAC). …”
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Solar Drying and Sensory Attributes of Eland (Taurotragus oryx) Jerky by Iva Kučerová, Štěpán Marek, Jan Banout

“…The surface colour values of the jerky samples were measured in the CIE L⁎  a⁎  b⁎ colour space and the effect of the different pretreatments on the overall combined colour (ΔE) was calculated. …”
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From Social Infrastructure to Civic Center. The School as Laboratory of Collaborative Governance Models by Daniela Ciaffi, Emanuela Saporito, Ianira Vassallo

“…First of all, as the symbol of a public welfare service in crisis, it is simultaneously possible to recognize a certain habit of school communities taking part in the redevelopment of this service, through actions to care for the school building and its pertinent spaces. Secondly, the school also plays the role of a territorial actor, coming out of its own enclosures to take over urban space (that is, public gardens, parks, libraries, museums, cycle workshops, etc.) with educational projects at various levels. …”
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Substernocleidomastoid Muscle Neck Lipoma: An Isolated Case Report by Ferdinand Rico, Dustin Hoang, John Lung, Olivia Puccio, Michelle Brito, M. Haris Nazim, Alan Sbar

“…We report this large neck mass, located behind the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) within the posterior cervical space and anterior to the prevertebral fascia. The mass is displacing the carotid sheath and its neurovascular contents medially. …”
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Experimental studies of shell and tube heat exchanger with cylindrical flow turbulators by N. Yu. Nikulin, Yu. V. Elistratova

“…This was done at coolant velocities in the annular space of 0.16 and 0.32 m/s. Discrepancies are adequate, statistically significantly describe the results of the experiment. …”
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Improved Interconnected MRAS Parameter Identification for Speed Sensorless Control of Linear Induction Motor by Hailin Hu, Shiyan Yu, Liangjie Ren, Mingda Zhai, Yuhui Chen

“…To enhance the system’s dynamic performance, we designed an improvement to the MRAS observer based on the SOSTA, with a focus on the LIM state-space equation that considers dynamic edge-end effects. …”
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Association between meniscal extrusion and disease severity in knee osteoarthritis: a retrospective case-control study by Peng Wu

“…Results The study revealed significant associations between severe meniscal extrusion and measures of disease severity, including reduced cartilage thickness(3.24 ± 0.61 versus 3.78 ± 1.45; P = 0.019), increased meniscus degeneration grade (2.86 ± 0.54 versus 2.23 ± 1.63; P = 0.013), diminished joint space width (4.56 ± 0.73 versus 4.86 ± 0.52; P = 0.025), elevated meniscal extrusion(3.68 ± 1.78 versus 2.85 ± 1.54; P = 0.018), greater bone marrow lesion volume(6.13 ± 1.85 versus 5.21 ± 1.58; P = 0.011), advanced cartilage damage(t = 0.016), and impaired physical functioning. …”
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A Facile Review on the Sorption of Heavy Metals and Dyes Using Bionanocomposites by Uyiosa Osagie Aigbe, Kingsley Eghonghon Ukhurebor, Robert Birundu Onyancha, Benedict Okundaye, Kaushik Pal, Otolorin Adelaja Osibote, Ese Lawrence Esiekpe, Heri Septya Kusuma, Handoko Darmokoesoemo

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DIGITAL REPUTATION OF THE EXECUTIVE POWER BODIES: DISCURSIVE FACTORS AND COMMUNICATIVE TECHNIQUES OF MANAGEMENT by Elena A. Bazhenova, Mariya A. Shirinkina

“…The paper discusses the communicative techniques of reputation management of the executive power bodies in the Russian media space. Comparing the concepts of digital reputation and digital image, the authors argue that, unlike image which is purposefully implemented in the media environment, reputation reflects the internet users’ real opinion about the activities performed by state institutions. …”
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THE MEASURE OF ALL GODS: RELIGIOUS PARADIGMS OF THE ANTIQUITY AS ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS by A. V. Halapsis

“…I proceed from the fact that each historical community has a set of inherent ideas about the principles of reality, which found unique "universes of meanings". The historical space acquires anthropological properties that determine the specific mythology of the respective societies, as well as their spiritual successors. …”
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The Ne Bis In Idem Principle in Tax Law: European and Italian Frameworks by Stefania Lotito Fedele

“…Thus, talking about a European legal space means rethinking the idea of punitive power in a dimension that tends to be ‘solidarity-based’. …”
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Digital enhancement and photogrammetric recording of La Joquera Levantine rock art (Borriol, Castelló) by Inés Domingo, Peyman Javadi, Dídac Roman

“…This paper reports the technologies and methods used, the challenges faced (in terms of space available, lighting restrictions and the visual interference caused by the protective fence), and the results obtained at La Joquera rock art site as part of the 2D and 3D digital recording of the rock surface, the colour and the motifs depicted. …”
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Benchmarking human face similarity using identical twins by Shoaib Meraj Sami, John McCauley, Sobhan Soleymani, Nasser Nasrabadi, Jeremy Dawson

“…This network is trained on a tailored verification task designed to encourage the network to group together highly similar face pairs in the embedding space and achieves a test AUC of 0.9799. The proposed network provides a quantitative similarity score for any two given faces and has been applied to large‐scale face data sets to identify similar face pairs. …”
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A multi-objective robust possibilistic programming approach to designing sustainable and reliable closed-loop supply chain network (case study: aluminum industry) by Sajad Amirian, Maghsoud Amiri, Mohammad Taghi Taghavifard

“…The sensitivity analysis of the demand parameter showed that the proposed model achieved more economic profit, less social responsibility, and less reliability with increasing demand.Originality/Value: The variability of the justified decision space in the Me criterion has helped to solve the supply chain network design problem more flexibly and closer to reality through the possibility of exchange between the objective function and the risk-taking level of the managers.…”
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Integrating agent-based models and clustering methods for improving image segmentation by Erik Cuevas, Sonia Jazmín García-De-Lira, Cesar Rodolfo Ascencio-Piña, Marco Pérez-Cisneros, Sabrina Vega

“…Metaheuristic techniques, distinguished from classical clustering methods, possess the capability to adaptively navigate through a broad solution space to discover optimal clustering configurations. …”
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Building a foundation to study distributed information behaviour by Terry L. von Thaden

“…The distributed information behaviour framework provides a useful structure to study the patterning and organization of information distributed over space and time, to reach a common goal. This framework may allow researchers and investigators alike to identify critical information activity in the negotiation of meaning in high reliability safety critical work, eventually informing safer practice. …”
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Development and Feasibility of an Adolescent Dancer Screen by Kynaston Schultz, Kathleen Sun Worrall, Zoe Tawa, Joanna Binney, Jessica Boyle, Laurel Daniels Abbruzzese

“…The screen was practical, able to screen seven to eight dancers per hour utilizing nine assessors and requiring a one-hour commitment from dancers. Cost and space requirements were considered and kept to a minimum while utilizing portable equipment. …”
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Local endoreduplication of the host is a conserved process during Phytomyxea–host interaction by Michaela Hittorf, Andrea Garvetto, Marianne Magauer, Martin Kirchmair, Willibald Salvenmoser, Pedro Murúa, Sigrid Neuhauser

“…Biotrophic pathogens have been demonstrated to induce endoreduplication in plants to secure more space or nutrients.MethodsIn this study, we investigated the endoreduplication process triggered by two phylogenetically distant Rhizaria organisms—Maullinia spp. …”
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