Characterization of the Scientific Output of Health Professionals from Cienfuegos Visible in the Scopus Database by Yuniet Rojas Mesa, María Elinor Dulzaides Iglesias, Ana María Molina Gómez, Carlos Caballero Díaz

“…A total of 141 authors are represented, 82 times as first authors and 230 as co-authors. Only 9.2 % appears five or more times. …”
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Study on the Optimizing Operation of Exhaust Air Heat Recovery and Solar Energy Combined Thermal Compensation System for Ground-Coupled Heat Pump by Kuan Wang, Nianping Li, Jinqing Peng, Yingdong He

“…The thermal compensation quantity per unit energy consumption (TEC) of ESTC under the proposed method was 1.25 times as high as that under the traditional operation method. …”
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Torque Prediction In Deep Hole Drilling: Artificial Neural Networks Versus Nonlinear Regression Model by Ngoc Hung- Chu, Hoai Nam- Nguyen, Van Du- Nguyen, Dang Binh- Nguyen

“…Results show that the ANN model has better predictive capability, the average MAPE value approximately four times smaller and higher reliability with a standard deviation approximately 3.5 times smaller than the exponential function model. …”
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Health Care for the Elderly People by María Aveiga Hidalgo, Clara Elisa Pozo Hernández, Olga Mireya Alonzo Pico, Erika León León

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> 75 % care about the care of the facilities. 62 % argued that the needs of the elderly are met in a timely manner. 56 % do not have adequate training. …”
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Perception Development of L2 English and L3 Polish Coda Obstruent by L1 German Adult Multilinguals by Romana Kopečková

“…Over ten months of instructed L3 learning, participants were tested four times using a timed forced-choice goodness task in both L2 and L3. …”
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Accuracy of smartwatches in predicting distance running performance by Jiansong Dai, Gangrui Chen, Zhonghe Gu, Yuxuan Qi, Kai Xu

“…After wearing the HUAWEI WATCH GT Runner for a minimum of six weeks, the runners' actual completion times for 5 km, 10 km, and half marathon distances were measured, resulting in 288 test instances. …”
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Post-mortem and histological lesions in the European minks (Mustela lutreola) induced by spontaneous infection with coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by I. A. Subbotina, I. N. Gromov

“…All this together will allow veterinary specialists not only to quickly and timely diagnose the disease in the population of fur animals (European mink), but also to take necessary therapeutic and preventive measures in a timely manner, to select the most effective means for symptomatic and pathogenetic therapy as well as the most rational and effective substances and disinfection procedures.…”
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Advanced Shuttle Strategies for Parallel QCCD Architectures by Weining Dai, Kevin A. Brown, Thomas G. Robertazzi

“…The consequent reduction in shuttle operations leads to lower energy consumption and an enhancement in the quantum computer&#x0027;s fidelity, ultimately accelerating program execution times.…”
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The Outcome of Thoracentesis versus Chest Tube Placement for Hepatic Hydrothorax in Patients with Cirrhosis: A Nationwide Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample by Ali Ridha, Yasir Al-Abboodi, Matthew Fasullo

“…The mortality in those who received a chest tube was two times higher than that in thoracentesis group with a P value of ≤0.001 (CI 1.43–312). …”
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Incerteza e Flexibilidade na Pecuária de Corte Brasileira: o Valor da Opção de Confinamento by Carlos de Lamare Bastian-Pinto, Alexandre Paula Silva Ramos, Luiz de Magalhães Ozorio, Luiz Eduardo Teixeira Brandão

“…Estes também apontam para a importância do timing correto do confinamento de forma a maximizar o retorno.…”
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Postoperative Endophthalmitis after Combined Cataract Extraction and iStent Inject Implantation by Johnson Huang, Minh T. Nguyen, Mai Tsukikawa, Andrew Chen

“…Prednisolone 1% eye drops were increased from four times a day to every two hours while awake. Overnight, he developed worsening vision and severe eye pain. …”
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Travel Matrix Enabled Delta-Based Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: A Case of Kigali City by Evariste Twahirwa, Moyukh Laha, James Rwigema, Raja Datta

“…A travel matrix technique is proposed to trace vehicles’ routeways and travel times in some points of interest (POI). Our intention is to seek an approach that reduces the required number of RSUs and ensures greater network performance effectiveness in terms of packets delivery ratio, throughput, message delay, and jitter; from our study, travel matrix delta-based placement of RSUs becomes the best in our case study scenario. …”
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Elevated Aminotransferase Activity as an Indication of Muscular Dystrophy: Case Reports and Review of the Literature by S Zamora, C Adams, JD Butzner, H Machida, Rb Scott

“…The serum level of ALT, generally considered to be specific for hepatocellular injury, was increased two to 25 times above normal in all the reported cases. Paradoxically, the increase in ALT activity was greater than that of serum aspartate aminotransferase (three to 16 times normal), an enzyme whose elevation is generally recognized as being less specific and indicative of muscle, cardiac, kidney, pancreatic, red blood cell or hepatic injury. …”
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Height of Mining-Induced Fractured Zones in Overlying Strata and Permeability of Rock with Nonpenetrative Fractures by Yu Liu, Qimeng Liu, Wenping Li, Youbiao Hu

“…The results showed that the height of NFZ ranged from 11.55 to 21.20 m, which was approximately 0.17 times the combined height of the TFZ and the CZ. …”
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The Functional outcome of arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with hamstring graft by Muhammad Shahid Khan, Wael Azzam

“…Basic idea for this project was to increase the awareness regarding timely management of ACL injury and good to excellent outcome of this minimal invasive technique. …”
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THERAPY LOW BACK PAIN WITH SWEDISH MASSAGE, ACUPRESSURE AND TURMERIC by Dyah Ayu Rhomandhoni Putri, Ario Imandiri, Rakhmawati Rakhmawati

“…In the treatment of low back pain, massage and acupressure are performed 2 times a week 12 times. While herbal therapy is given for 42 days taken once a day with a dose of 9 grams of turmeric simplicia. …”
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A qualitative exploration of the educational needs of people living with heart failure: BANDAIDD-Explore study. by Caleb Ferguson, Scott William, Sabine Allida, Peter S Macdonald, Gary Kilov, Clara K Chow, Anthony Keech, BANDAIDD Study Investigator team

“…Clinicians, patients, and their caregivers provided several suggestions for improvement, such as the importance of providing concise and timely education and building trust and relationships between clinicians and patients. …”
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The basic reproduction number $R_0$ and effectiveness of reactive interventions during dengue epidemics: The 2002 dengue outbreak in Easter Island, Chile by Gerardo Chowell, R. Fuentes, A. Olea, X. Aguilera, H. Nesse, J. M. Hyman

“…We found that the final epidemic size is highly sensitive to the timing of start of interventions. However, even when the control interventions start several weeks after the epidemic onset, reactive intervention efforts can have a significant impact on the final epidemic size. …”
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Bloom filter–based efficient broadcast algorithm for the Internet of things by Anum Talpur, Faisal K Shaikh, Thomas Newe, Adil A Sheikh, Emad Felemban, Abdelmajid Khelil

“…In addition, it helps to reduce energy usage evenly throughout the network, 1/100 times, when compared with conventional broadcast (non-bloom-based) and, 1/10 times, when compared with bloom-based broadcast. …”
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Learning model combined with data clustering and dimensionality reduction for short-term electricity load forecasting by Hyun-Jung Bae, Jong-Seong Park, Ji-hyeok Choi, Hyuk-Yoon Kwon

“…As a result, the prediction accuracy of the proposed method outperforms those of the existing methods by 1.01–1.76 times for summer data and by 1.03–1.36 times for winter data in terms of mean absolute percentage error (MAPE).…”
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