Perceived Mental Workload and Psychological Variables in Elite Individual and Team Bulgarian Athletes: An Exploratory Study by Antonio Núñez, Milena Kuleva, Tatiana Iancheva, Alejandro García-Mas

“…The concept of mental workload (MW) is a conceptual framework for evaluating the balance between the cognitive resources allocated to a task and those available to an individual. …”
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Use of Remote Assessment Tools to Substitute Routine Outpatient Care: Scoping Review by Jayne Barclay, Clair Sullivan, Michael Beckmann, Graeme Mattison, Rebecca Runciman, Elizabeth Martin

“…The interventions varied in length, from 4 weeks to 12 months, and demonstrated a range of functionalities, including symptom monitoring and postsurgical follow-ups. …”
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Management of severe pediatric Guillain-Barré syndrome in a low-income country: efficacy and safety of therapeutic plasma exchange in pediatric patients: a retrospective study by Tahani Ali, Faihaa Hkima Abou Fakher, Malek Alawir, Abdulsater Allababidi, Aya Sheikh Hasan

“…In this study, TPE was associated with the recovery of neurological functions, yielding positive outcomes with only minimal residual deficits. …”
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Whole-genome sequencing and genomic analysis of four Akkermansia strains newly isolated from human feces by Wenjing Lu, Biqing Zha, Jie Lyu, Chenxi LingHu, Jing Chen, Sisi Deng, Xiangling Zhang, Liang Li, Guoqing Wang

“…Moreover, 2,184 shared homologous genes were identified among the four isolates. Functional annotation using the COG, KEGG, and CAZy databases indicated that the functional genes of the four isolates were primarily associated with metabolism. …”
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Toward global rooftop PV detection with Deep Active Learning by Matthias Zech, Hendrik-Pieter Tetens, Joseph Ranalli

“…In the simulations, the entropy-based acquisition function shows the highest performance with only 3% of the data needed in case-imbalanced data, while remaining simple to implement. …”
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Exploring the Possibility of Medical Device Surveillance in Patients on Peritoneal Dialysis Using a Common Data Model by Seon Min Kim, Sooin Choi, You Kyoung Lee, Cheol Wan Lim, Byung Chul Yu, Moo Yong Park, Jin Kuk Kim, Seng Chan You, Seo Jeong Shin, Soo Jeong Choi

“…After implementing amended matching, these data were detected. <i>Conclusions</i>: While some PD-related medical data recorded in EHRs were misrepresented or omitted during the CDM database extraction, transformation, and loading process, the CDM shows potential to serve as a source of real-world data for active surveillance.…”
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Characterization and expression analysis of transcription factors in Spartina alterniflora unveil their critical roles in salt stress resistance by Yuanyuan Jiang, Yuanyuan Jiang, Yuanyuan Jiang, Shoukun Chen, Shoukun Chen, Shoukun Chen, Shuqiang Gao, Shuqiang Gao, Shuqiang Gao, Jiahui Geng, Jiahui Geng, Qin Shu, Qin Shu, Shang Gao, Shang Gao, Huihui Li, Huihui Li

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Nitrate-Nitrogen Leaching and Modeling in Intensive Agriculture Farmland in China by Ligang Xu, Hailin Niu, Jin Xu, Xiaolong Wang

“…Protecting water resources from nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) contamination is an important public health concern and a major national environmental issue in China. …”
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Research on underwater disease target detection method of inland waterway based on deep learning by Tao Yu, Yu Xie, Jinsong Luo, Wei Zhu, Jie Liu

“…Then, EIoU is used as the frame loss function to speed up the network convergence rate and solve the problem of difficult and easy sample imbalance. …”
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Characterization of hydrogeological units and hydrodynamics of a section of the aquifer system in the city of Cartago, Costa Rica by Ramírez-Granados Pablo Ignacio

“…The study focuses on the hydrogeological characterization of the aquifer system in the central sector of Cartago, Costa Rica. This area was selected due to its significant urbanization and agricultural activities, both of which heavily depend on groundwater resources. …”
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Nuclear structure study of even-even 24-42Si isotopes using Skyrme - Hartree - Fock and Hartree - Fock - Bogolyubov methods by Ali A. Abdul Hasan, Ehsan M. Raheem, Saad S. Dawood, Aqeel M. Jary, Rasha Z. Ahmed

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Allocating the Sample Size in Phase II and III Trials to Optimize Success Probability by Daniele De Martini

“…Being $r$ the rate of resources allocated to phase II, $OSP(r)$ is a concave function and there exists an optimal allocation $r_{opt}$ giving $\max\{OSP\}$. …”
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Multi-Locus GWAS Mapping and Candidate Gene Analysis of Anticancer Peptide Lunasin in Soybean (<i>Glycine max</i> L. Merr.) by Rikki Locklear, Jennifer Kusumah, Layla Rashad, Felecia Lugaro, Sonia Viera, Nathan Kipyego, Faith Kipkosgei, Daisy Jerop, Shirley Jacquet, My Abdelmajid Kassem, Jiazheng Yuan, Elvira de Mejia, Rouf Mian

“…The mapping panel of 144 accessions was gathered from the USDA Soybean Germplasm Collection, encompassing diverse geographical origins and genetic backgrounds, and was genotyped using SoySNP50K iSelect Beadchips. The lunasin content in soybean seeds was measured using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method, with lipid-adjusted soybean flour prepared from seeds obtained from the Germplasm Resource Information Network (GRIN) of USDA-ARS in 2003 and from North Carolina in 2021, respectively. …”
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A Data-Driven Front Tracking Algorithm for Autonomous Undersea Vehicles by Jieyang LU, Yongpeng WEN, Qian GUO, Xinke ZHU, Junsheng JIAO

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State of the art in remote sensing monitoring of carbon dynamics in African tropical forests by Thomas Bossy, Thomas Bossy, Thomas Bossy, Philippe Ciais, Philippe Ciais, Solène Renaudineau, Liang Wan, Bertrand Ygorra, Elhadi Adam, Nicolas Barbier, Marijn Bauters, Nicolas Delbart, Nicolas Delbart, Frédéric Frappart, Tawanda Winmore Gara, Eliakim Hamunyela, Suspense Averti Ifo, Gabriel Jaffrain, Philippe Maisongrande, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Theodomir Mugiraneza, Theodomir Mugiraneza, Cassandra Normandin, Conan Vassily Obame, Marc Peaucelle, Camille Pinet, Pierre Ploton, Le Bienfaiteur Sagang, Martin Schwartz, Valentine Sollier, Bonaventure Sonké, Bonaventure Sonké, Paul Tresson, Aurélien De Truchis, An Vo Quang, Jean-Pierre Wigneron

“…Future developments in remote sensing should examine how multi-sensor integration of high-resolution data from instruments such as Planet, Tandem-X, SPOT and improved AI methods can refine forest composition, carbon storage and function maps, enhance large-scale monitoring of tree height and biomass dynamics, and improve forest degradation and deforestation detection down to tree level. …”
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Empirical Analysis of Productivity among Broiler Farmers by Godfrey Onuwa

“…Profitability and productivity and analysis are important considerations in measuring efficiency or performance of a farm business; hence, improved output and income are not only a function of increase in the scale of production, but also how efficiently the resources are being utilized. …”
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Challenges and opportunities in adolescent intellectual disability care and rehabilitation by Rakgadi G. Malapela

“…Care and rehabilitation services are needed to improve this population’s normal functioning but have been scarce or non-existent in most communities. …”
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Enabling beam-scanning antenna technologies for terahertz wireless systems: A review by Dongze Zheng, Geng-Bo Wu, Zhi Hao Jiang, Wei Hong, Chi Hou Chan, Ke Wu

“…While producing a scannable highly-directive antenna beam proves to be indispensable in the period of microwaves, the significance of such functionality is more critical in the THz era, considering that THz waves have more intractable challenges such as the severity of free-space propagation losses, the susceptibility to atmospheric environments, and the unavailability of efficient signal sources. …”
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Multimessenger Signatures of a Deformed Magnetar in Gamma-Ray Bursts by Parisa Hashemi, Soroush Shakeri, Yu Wang, Liang Li, Rahim Moradi

“…It is shown that the GW and EM emissions evolve as a function of eccentricity and rotational frequency with time. …”
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Genome-wide identification and characterization of the Brassinazole-resistant gene family and associated responses to osmotic stress in Avena sativa by Shirui Xu, Shirui Xu, Shirui Xu, Zihao Wei, Zihao Wei, Mingchuan Ma, Mingchuan Ma, Mingchuan Ma, Lijun Zhang, Lijun Zhang, Lijun Zhang, Zhang Liu, Zhang Liu, Zhang Liu, Longlong Liu, Longlong Liu, Longlong Liu, Longlong Liu

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