Severe Corticosteroid-Induced Ocular Hypertension Requiring Bilateral Trabeculectomies in a Patient with Takayasu’s Arteritis by Anna Maria Gruener, Pranev Sharma, Sally Ameen, Faisal Ahmed

“…We present a rare case of severe corticosteroid-induced ocular hypertension (OHT) after prolonged systemic corticosteroid use in a young woman with Takayasu’s arteritis. …”
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Performance Evaluation Indexes in Public Administration Some issues of their actual usefulness by Laura Tampieri

“…The paper examines the approach to usefulness of performance indicator systems in Public Administration (PA). There are many international studies about this subject, especially from the point of view of efficiency, effectiveness and adequacy. …”
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Spatio-temporal patterns with hyperchaotic dynamics in diffusively coupled biochemical oscillators by Gerold Baier, Sven Sahle

“…We present three examples how complex spatio-temporal patterns can be linked to hyperchaotic attractors in dynamical systems consisting of nonlinear biochemical oscillators coupled linearly with diffusion terms. …”
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La gestion communautaire de l’eau dans les páramos de Bogota (Colombie) by Angela Osorio

“…This work focuses on alternative systems of water services provision in the páramos of Bogotá, the country's capital. …”
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Physical Environment of Accreting Neutron Stars by J. Wang

“…Neutron stars (NSs) powered by accretion, which are known as accretion-powered NSs, always are located in binary systems and manifest themselves as X-ray sources. …”
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IEC 61499 as an Enabler of Distributed and Intelligent Automation: A State-of-the-Art Review—A Different View by Kleanthis Thramboulidis

“…The industrial and research activities around the IEC 61499 architecture for distributed automation systems are discussed by Vyatkin, (2011). Research results related to the design of this kind of systems as well as to the execution of IEC 61449 on embedded devices are reviewed. …”
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A Model Predictive Control Strategy for improvement Performance in PV-Battery-Hydrogen DC Islanded Microgrid by Errakkas Khalid, Kissaoui Mohammed, Lajouad Rachid, El Magri Abdelmounime, Atifi Youness, Khayat Ahmed

“…It focuses on integrating photovoltaic systems, battery storage, and hydrogen energy storage. …”
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Capped Fluorescent Carbon Dots for Detection of Hemin: Role of Number of –OH Groups of Capping Agent in Fluorescence Quenching by Upama Baruah, Neelam Gogoi, Gitanjali Majumdar, Devasish Chowdhury

“…We have successfully demonstrated the use of capped carbon dot systems, namely, CDs/β-cd, CDs/LMH, and CDs/Suc, as fluorescent sensors for the detection of hemin. …”
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Recent Advances in Array Antenna and Array Signal Processing for Radar by Elisa Giusti, Piotr Samczynski, Maria-Pilar Jarabo-Amores, Amerigo Capria

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Editorial Perspective: Advancements in Microfluidics and Biochip Technologies by Hyunil Ryu, Tae-Joon Jeon, Sun Min Kim

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Parallel Calculation of Random Vibration for Reentry Vehicles in Fluctuating Pressure Environment by Xuanhua Fan, Jun Liang, Keying Wang, Huan Zhou

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Experimental Research of Reliability of Plant Stress State Detection by Laser-Induced Fluorescence Method by Yury Fedotov, Olga Bullo, Michael Belov, Viktor Gorodnichev

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Using Cellular Automata to Investigate Pedestrian Conflicts with Vehicles in Crosswalk at Signalized Intersection by Xiaomeng Li, Xuedong Yan, Xingang Li, Jiangfeng Wang

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A Three-Stage Anomaly Detection Framework for Traffic Videos by Junzhou Chen, Jiancheng Wang, Jiajun Pu, Ronghui Zhang

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A Review of Subsequence Time Series Clustering by Seyedjamal Zolhavarieh, Saeed Aghabozorgi, Ying Wah Teh

“…Subsequence time series clustering is used in different fields, such as e-commerce, outlier detection, speech recognition, biological systems, DNA recognition, and text mining. One of the useful fields in the domain of subsequence time series clustering is pattern recognition. …”
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Electricity Load Forecasting Using Support Vector Regression with Memetic Algorithms by Zhongyi Hu, Yukun Bao, Tao Xiong

“…Electricity load forecasting is an important issue that is widely explored and examined in power systems operation literature and commercial transactions in electricity markets literature as well. …”
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Motion Planning for Omnidirectional Wheeled Mobile Robot by Potential Field Method by Weihao Li, Chenguang Yang, Yiming Jiang, Xiaofeng Liu, Chun-Yi Su

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Tungsten/Platinum Hybrid Nanowire Growth via Field Emission Using Nanorobotic Manipulation by Zhan Yang, Masahiro Nakajima, Yasuhito Ode, Toshio Fukuda

“…Hybrid nanowires have various applications in nanoelectronics, nanosensor devices, and nanomechanical systems.…”
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Exploring technology acceptance of flight simulation training devices and augmented reality in general aviation pilot training by Syed A. Q. Rizvi, Umair Rehman, Shi Cao, Bradley Moncion

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Author Correction: Giant converse magnetoelectric effect in a multiferroic heterostructure with polycrystalline Co2FeSi by Shumpei Fujii, Takamasa Usami, Yu Shiratsuchi, Adam M. Kerrigan, Amran Mahfudh Yatmeidhy, Shinya Yamada, Takeshi Kanashima, Ryoichi Nakatani, Vlado K. Lazarov, Tamio Oguchi, Yoshihiro Gohda, Kohei Hamaya

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