Optimal channel and feature selection for automatic prediction of functional brain age of preterm infant based on EEG by Ling Li, Jiahui Li, Hui Wu, Yanping Zhao, Qinmei Liu, Hairong Zhang, Wei Xu

“…Accurate assessment of brain maturity is crucial for timely intervention and treatment planning. Electroencephalography (EEG) is a noninvasive method commonly used for this purpose. …”
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Cross-sectional study on the risk of breast cancer and practices among young women in Central India by Arti Tiwari, Maharaj Singh, Bharati Sahu, Shatrughan Pareek

“…Moreover, launching screening programs is essential to facilitate timely detection and reduce mortality rates linked with breast cancer, especially among India’s younger female population.…”
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“Does the Response to Morning Medication Predict the ADL-Level of the Day in Parkinson’s Disease?” by Trine Hørmann Thomsen, Troels Wesenberg Kjær, Lene Bastrup Jørgensen, Anita Haahr, Kristian Winge

“…The combination of PD-drugs and precise, timely dosages must be considered in the improvement of the ADL-level in PD patients.…”
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Deterioration of the Internal Structure of Loess under Dry-Wet Cycles by Wanjun Ye, Yang Bai, Chenyang Cui, Xu Duan

“…The stress-strain curves of undisturbed loess samples at different cycling times vary under different compacted loess cycles. …”
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Estimating Left Ventricular Mass from the Electrocardiogram across the Spectrum of LV Mass from Normal to Increased LV Mass in an Older Age Group by Simon W. Rabkin, Jeremy C. J. Zhou

“…The four strongest and significant correlations between QRS and LV mass were S in V4, deepest S wave in any precordial lead plus S in V4, S in V3, and S in V3 plus R in AVL times QRS duration. For men, the strength of the relationships were S in V3 (F = 33.8), deepest S wave in any precordial lead plus S V4 (F = 33.7), S in V3 plus R aVL (F = 29.9), S in V4 (F = 29.79), and deepest S in precordial leads (F = 17.9). …”
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Active surveillance for adult low-risk papillary thyroid microcarcinoma—a review focused on the 30-year experience of Kuma Hospital— by Yasuhiro Ito, Akira Miyauchi, Makoto Fujishima, Masashi Yamamoto, Takahiro Sasaki

“…Medical costs for AS and IS vary regionally, and in Japan, the 10-year total cost of IS was 4.1 times greater than that of AS in 2017. Taken together, the existing findings demonstrate that AS can be appropriate for the initial management of patients with PTMC.…”
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The effect of manufacturing defects and license plate on the energy efficiency of solar vehicles by Burak İpek, Mehmet Yıldız, Tunahan Akış, Aytaç Gören

“… In recent times, research on the energy efficiency of solar vehicles has gained momentum. …”
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Orbital Lymphoma Masquerading as Orbital Cellulitis by B. D. Chaurasiya, Ganesh Agrawal, Santosh Chaudhary, Sangeeta Shah, Anju Pradhan, Poonam Lavaju

“…A multidisciplinary approach involving ENT consultation, radiological investigation, and pathological sampling can help achieve a timely diagnosis and appropriate management.…”
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Food security and dietary intake of a cohort of South African students during COVID-19 by Juanita Jonker, Corinna Walsh

“…Food security comprises having access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times. The COVID-19 containment measures negatively influenced economies, impacting citizens’ food security. …”
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Philosophical and Legal Interpretations of the Deformations of Legal Awareness in the XX - Early XXI Century by M. V. Melnyk

“…However, the deformations of legal awareness were not discussed at theoretical level, because they were considered a vestige of bourgeois times. Discussion about the deformation of legal awareness was initiated by the prominent Soviet legal scholar E. …”
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The Obesity Paradox and Cardiorespiratory Fitness by Paul A. McAuley, Nancy S. Smith, Brian T. Emerson, Jonathan N. Myers

“…However, compared to the reference group, nonobese and obese unfit men were 2.2 (𝑃=0.01) and 1.9 (𝑃=0.03) times more likely to die, respectively. Cardiorespiratory fitness altered the obesity paradox such that mortality risk was lower for both obese and nonobese men who were fit.…”
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Thabo Mbeki’s Decolonial Idea of an African in the African Renaissance by William Jethro Mpofu

“…It is the uprooted, displaced, and dispossessed African represented in Mbeki who makes the remark that: ‘At times, and in fear, I have wondered whether I should concede equal citizenship of our country to the leopard and the lion, the elephant and the springbok, the hyena, the black mamba and the pestilential mosquito.’ …”
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Prevalence of Hypertension in Area I Cienfuegos Municipality. Second Measurement of CARMEN Initiative by Hilda María Delgado Acosta, Karelis Lastre Navarro, María Lina Valdés Gómez, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Alain Francisco Morejón Giraldoni, Juan Rafael Zerquera Rodríguez

“…<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> it was detected a hidden prevalence of hypertension and lack of control in patients under treatment with predominance of the masculine sex, among the studied risk factors, the diabetics and the obese presented a prevalence of hypertension two times bigger than the ones that did not have these risk factors.…”
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Thermodynamic Molecular Switch in Sequence-Specific Hydrophobic Interaction: Two Computational Models Compared by Paul Chun

“…At ‹tm›, the thermal agitation energy is about five times greater than ΔH°(T0) in the Planck-Benzinger model, that is 465 K compared to 497 K in the Nemethy-Scheraga model. …”
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Vehicle maneuver recognition and correction algorithm for road quality measurement system optimization by Roland Nagy, István Szalai

“…To mitigate these effects and support timely pavement repairs, continuous road condition monitoring is essential. …”
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Measurement of dynamic characteristics of a steel-spring floating slab track and a monolithic roadbed track in a subway tunnel by Yongjian Zhou, Guan Xu, Tao Sheng, Hu Jiang, Chao Jin

“…Due to the increased quasi-static wheel-rail forces, vertical and transverse rail deformations on the floating slab track were separately 2.5 and 4 times larger than those of the monolithic roadbed track. …”
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Knowledge management in the field of risk management in a corporate environment, Iran’s oil industry by S. M. Daniali, K. F. Mohammadbeigi

“…This circumstance shows that the economic investments in this training course were reasonable and within 5 years, the organization returned 8.29 times of its investments.…”
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The 2020 IDS Release of the Antwerp COR*-Database. Evaluation, Development and Transformation of a Pre-Existing Database by Sam Jenkinson, Francisco Anguita, Diogo Paiva, Hideko Matsuo, Koen Matthijs

“…An important characteristic is the sample's large migrant population, including the timings of their demographic events and living arrangements, whilst resident in the district of Antwerp. …”
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Statistical analysis of stress–strength in a newly inverted Chen model from adaptive progressive type-Ⅱ censoring and modelling on light-emitting diodes and pump motors by Refah Alotaibi, Mazen Nassar, Zareen A. Khan, Ahmed Elshahhat

“…By analyzing the failure times of organic white light-emitting diodes and pump motors, we focus on the inferences of the stress–strength index $ \mathfrak{R} = P(Y < X) $, where: (1) the strength $ (X) $ and stress $ (Y) $ are independent random variables following inverted Chen distributions, and (2) the data are acquired using the adaptive progressive type-Ⅱ censoring plan. …”
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Narrowing the gap between machine learning scoring functions and free energy perturbation using augmented data by Ísak Valsson, Matthew T. Warren, Charlotte M. Deane, Aniket Magarkar, Garrett M. Morris, Philip C. Biggin

“…These strategies together are closing the performance gap with FEP calculations (FEP+ achieves weighted mean PCC and Kendall’s τ of 0.68 and 0.49 on the FEP benchmark) while being  ~400,000 times faster.…”
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