The Effectiveness of Trunk and Balance Warm-up Exercises in Prevention, Severity, and Length of Limitation From Overuse and Acute Lower Limb Injuries in Male Volleyball Players by Yuki Muramoto, Hironobu Kuruma

“…Many volleyball players suffer from overuse injuries because of the strain placed on the lower extremities from repeated jumping. …”
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Enhancing counterfeit RFID tag classification through distance based cognitive risk control by Haifeng Wu, Siyuan Wang, Chongrong Pu, Jun Ma, Yu Zeng

“…Nonetheless, the performance of physical layer recognition method is significantly impacted by the conditions of the tag detection setting, especially in scenarios characterized by low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), where classification accuracy tends to suffer. To tackle this challenge head-on, this study proposes the implementation of a cognitive risk control strategy, which fine-tunes tag distance within the tag classification process to bolster the SNR and enhance recognition precision. …”
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A Case of Neuromyelitis Optica: Puerto Rican Woman with an Increased Time Lag to Diagnosis and a High Response to Eculizumab Therapy by Ramón Vega, Benjamín González, Kiara Ortiz, Viviana Martínez, David Carmona, Ivonne Vicente, Javier Chapa, Ángel Chinea

“…In addition, the patient suffered no new relapses, an improvement regarding disability, and a reduction of the cervical spinal cord lesion size. …”
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Partial Volume Reduction by Interpolation with Reverse Diffusion

“…<p>Many medical images suffer from the partial volume effect where a boundary between two structures of interest falls in the midst of a voxel giving a signal value that is a mixture of the two. …”
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Evaluation and Changes in the Comprehensive Ecological Effects of Agriculture in Urbanizing Areas: A Case Study of the Xi'an Metropolitan Zone, China by Zhongxue Zhou, Fangze Zhao, Bingjie Song

“…Current research across ecology, geography, and environmental science often suffers from overlapping or contradictory concepts, complicating comprehensive assessment. …”
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A scalable framework for secure and reliable wireless-based fog cloud communication by Kymbat Khairosheva, Abdul Razaque, Gulnara Bektemyssova, Joon Yoo

“…However, the fog cloud servers suffer from unreliable and non-secure routing and limited power resources when mobile users are mobile. …”
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TDOA-based WSN localization with hybrid covariance matrix adaptive evolutionary strategy and gradient descent distance techniques by V.G. Saranya, S. Karthik

“…However, its accuracy suffers in noisy environments. This study introduces an innovative hybrid methodology that integrates Covariance Matrix Adaptive Evolutionary Strategy (CMA-ES) with Gradient Descent Distance (GDD) optimization to enhance the accuracy of TDOA-based localization. …”
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Near-infrared germanium PIN-photodiodes with >1A/W responsivity by Hanchen Liu, Toni P. Pasanen, Tsun Hang Fung, Joonas Isometsä, Antti Haarahiltunen, Steven Hesse, Lutz Werner, Ville Vähänissi, Hele Savin

“…Abstract Even though efficient near-infrared (NIR) detection is critical for numerous applications, state-of-the-art NIR detectors either suffer from limited capability of detecting incoming photons, i.e., have poor spectral responsivity, or are made of expensive group III-V non-CMOS compatible materials. …”
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Study of the impact of drought on the runoff system and the dam on Oued Za using romote sensing techniques (Eastern Morocco) by Karboub Abdelaziz, Ghzal Mohammed, Sbai Abdelkader, Mouadili Omar

“…This phenomenon has an obvious impact, particularly in semi-arid areas, which suffer from scarcity of water resources and low precipitation rates. …”
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ProNDN: MCDM-Based Interest Forwarding and Cooperative Data Caching for Named Data Networking by Cong Pu

“…In addition, the default in-network caching strategy relies on storing each received Data packet regardless of various caching constraints and criteria, which causes the routers in the vicinity of data producers to suffer from excessive caching overhead. In this paper, we propose the ProNDN, a novel stateful forwarding and in-network caching strategy for NDN networks. …”
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La famille choisie toujours d’actualité ? Vers une diversification des formes de liens familiaux pour les minorités sexuelles et de genre au Québec by Marianne Chbat, Geneviève Pagé, Isabel Côté, Martin Blais

“…The chosen family has been historically important in the life trajectories of many LGBTQ+ people who have evolved in a social and legal context where they suffered a lot of discrimination. However, despite the increasingly favorable inclusion of LGBTQ+ communities within Québec customs, the chosen family still acts today as a support and safety net for the majority of people who identify with these communities, regardless of their age. …”
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The "conquest" of historical space in the 21st century Russia: negative historical identity? by Aurimas Švedas

“…The construction of a new historical identity, which now proceeds in contemporary Russia, can be considered as a typical process for the post-Soviet country, the particularity of which is created by several factors: traumatic experience and the particularities of sociopolitical life in a country that suffers transformation. The Russian State, which was built after the fall of the Soviet Union, had no clear ideology and value system for more than fifteen years. …”
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Reduction in Healthcare Resource Utilization Following Treatment With a Home-Based Footworn Device in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Claims Analysis by Josh Mark, Shirley Shema-Shiratzky, Joel Sommer, Tim Nolan, Ganit Segal

“…**Background:** One in 7 US adults has knee osteoarthritis (OA) and almost two-thirds of them suffer from low back pain. OA is the third most rapidly rising condition associated with disability and leads to a significant burden on the healthcare system and society. …”
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EXPLORING AUTOMATED SUMMARIZATION: FROM EXTRACTION TO ABSTRACTION by Svetlana G. Sorokina

“…Qualitative evaluation indicated that while the models generally captured the main ideas of the source texts, some summaries suffered from oversimplification or misplaced emphasis. …”
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Comparison of Instrumental Variable Methods With Continuous Exposure and Binary Outcome: A Simulation Study by Shunichiro Orihara, Atsushi Goto

“…The second pair showed a relatively good performance when strong IVs are available; however, the estimates suffered from a significant bias when only weak IVs are used. …”
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State of climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices in the North Central and Northwest zones Nigeria by Isaiah Gabriel, Frank Olajuwon, Dominik Klauser, Blessing Michael, Mara Renn

“…This is particularly the case for developing countries like Nigeria, which suffer from persistent food insecurity today while also facing substantial population growth and a high exposure to the adverse consequences of global warming. …”
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Retrospective of Human Rights Activities of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations by I. V. Periv

“…Special attention is paid to the struggle for the rights of women who have suffered from gender discrimination, violence or repression, particularly in the context of military conflicts, migration and other crisis situations. …”
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General Principles of Anti-Corruption in V4 Visegrad Countries: Experience of Hungary by V. S. Makarenko

“…Corruption in Hungary poses a significant risk to business, especially in the tax administration and public procurement sectors, which suffer from its high level. The public procurement process and the tendering process are insufficiently protected from irregularities at the local level due to strong informal relations between business and representatives of government at the local level. …”
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Autonomous security analysis and penetration testing model based on attack graph and deep Q-learning network by Cheng FAN, Guoqing HU, Taojie DING, Zhanhua ZHANG

“…With the continuous development and widespread application of network technology, network security issues have become increasingly prominent.Penetration testing has emerged as an important method for assessing and enhancing network security.However, traditional manual penetration testing methods suffer from inefficiency,human error, and tester skills, leading to high uncertainty and poor evaluation results.To address these challenges, an autonomous security analysis and penetration testing framework called ASAPT was proposed, based on attack graphs and deep Q-learning networks (DQN).The ASAPT framework was consisted of two main components:training data construction and model training.In the training data construction phase, attack graphs were utilized to model the threats in the target network by representing vulnerabilities and possible attacker attack paths as nodes and edges.By integrating the common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) vulnerability database, a “state-action”transition matrix was constructed, which depicted the attacker’s behavior and transition probabilities in different states.This matrix comprehensively captured the attacker’s capabilities and network security status.To reduce computational complexity, a depth-first search (DFS) algorithm was innovatively applied to simplify the transition matrix, identifying and preserving all attack paths that lead to the final goal for subsequent model training.In the model training phase, a deep reinforcement learning algorithm based on DQN was employed to determine the optimal attack path during penetration testing.The algorithm interacted continuously with the environment, updating the Q-value function to progressively optimize the selection of attack paths.Simulation results demonstrate that ASAPT achieves an accuracy of 84% in identifying the optimal path and exhibits fast convergence speed.Compared to traditional Q-learning, ASAPT demonstrates superior adaptability in dealing with large-scale network environments, which could provide guidance for practical penetration testing.…”
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Biochar application to soils can regulate soil phosphorus availability: a review by Lixin Zhang, Lei Chang, Huijia Liu, María de Jesús Puy Alquiza, Yuefen Li

“…However, agricultural lands worldwide currently suffer from P deficiency. The application of P fertilizers is not only poorly utilized, but also results in the gradual accumulation of P. …”
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