The trajectory of intrinsic capacity and its related factors among elderly Chinese patients with cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study by Yanyin Cui, Shanyan Lei, Yubing Xia, Fang Yang

“…The analysis of associated factors show that non-time-varying characteristics such as educational level, residential area, housing type, toilet facilities, and energy sources, are significantly associated with the IC trajectories of CVD patients. …”
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Support for family members who are caregivers to relatives with acquired brain injury by Janet Walker, Lourens Schlebusch, Bernhard Gaede

“…A mixed methodology was utilized. It comprised cross-sectional descriptive and phenomenological approaches. …”
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MedAlmighty: enhancing disease diagnosis with large vision model distillation by Yajing Ren, Zheng Gu, Wen Liu

“…In this approach, we utilize DINOv2—a pre-trained large vision model—as a frozen teacher, and a lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) as the trainable student. …”
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Effects of climate change on goat production and mitigatory measures in semiarid savanna ecosystems by Alban Mugoti, Casper Nyamukanza, Anderson Munengwa, Sizo Moyo, Nation Chikumba

“…Climate change negatively affects goat productivity through decreased availability of high-quality forage, impaired reproductive function due to heat stress, and increased incidence of diseases associated with changing weather patterns. …”
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Real Time Fractional Robust Adaptive Scheme for Frequency Regulation in Double Area Hybrid Power System With Renewables by Ahmed Ragab, Dalia Allam, Ahmed F. Zobaa, Hazem Ali Attia

“…This robust-adaptive controller has utilized output feedback approach that requires only the output state without detailed system model information. …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Protein-Based Hydrogel: Cottonseed Protein Grafted with 2-Acrylamido-2-Methylpropanesulfonic Acid (AMPS) by Dehenenet Flatie Tassw, Tamrat Tesfaye, Murugesh Babu K.

“…To overcome these issues, researchers are exploring the synthesis of superabsorbent polymers from natural sources. Cottonseed protein is identified as a potential natural polymer for the synthesis of natural superabsorbent polymers. …”
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Construction and Completion of the Knowledge Graph for Cow Estrus with the Association Rule Mining by Zhiwei Cheng, Luyu Ding, Cheng Peng, Helong Yu, Baozhu Yang, Ligen Yu, Qifeng Li

“…To uncover potential relationships within the graph, we applied and compared two association rule algorithms: FP-Growth and Apriori. We utilized Boolean functions derived from association rule learning to validate the ability of the rules to identify normal estrus. …”
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Resveratrol from grape pomace: Mitigation of lead-induced oxidative stress-related renal toxicity: In silico and In vivo studies by Mohamed Seif, Hanan Y. Aati, Bin Wei, Mohamed A. Tantawy, Mohamed Sayed, Ziyu Guo, Sherien M. Bakry, Mahmoud Emam

“…Utilizing industrial agricultural waste is a beneficial approach that can reduce the negative environmental impact of agro-waste and valorize its potential for use in the food, health, and agricultural sectors. …”
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Presenting a model of political behavior based on the theory of shadow management in the public sector with a hybrid method by Ghorbanali Khazaei Pool, davood kiakojouri, Mohammad Javad Tghipourian

“…The statistical population of the study includes scientific articles, academic theses, and books; 167 sources were examined, and ultimately 51 sources identified through a purposeful method of metasynthesis, components related to power, politics, and political behavior based on shadow management, were finally approved for analysis. …”
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Harnessing greylag goose optimization for efficient MPPT and seven-level inverter in renewable energy systems by K. Rajaram, R. Kannan

“…Owing to the significant increase in energy consumption, contemporary power systems are transitioning to a new standard characterized by enhanced access to renewable energy sources (RESs). RESs require interfaces to regulate the power generation. …”
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Designing a new tomato leaf disease classification framework using ran-based adaptive fuzzy c-means with heuristic algorithm model by Kanti Rongali Divya, Rao Gottapu Sasibhushana, Aruna Singam

“…The images related to tomato leaves are aggregated in the initial phase through online sources. Then, the images are forwarded to the pre-processing phase. …”
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Assessing dynamic brain activity during verbal associative learning using MEG/fMRI co-processing by Sangeeta Nair, Jerzy P. Szaflarski, Yingying Wang, Diana Pizarro, Jeffrey F. Killen, Jane B. Allendorfer

“…Background: The abilities of individual neuroimaging methods to resolve spatial and temporal contributions of brain regions during cognitive processes are limited. Co-processing of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) may overcome some of the limitations by utilizing Multiple Sparse Priors (MSP) in a Bayesian framework that takes advantage of the temporal resolution of MEG and spatial resolution of fMRI. …”
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By-Products Valorization: Peptide Fractions from Milk Permeate Exert Antioxidant Activity in Cellular and In Vivo Models by Valeria Scalcon, Federico Fiorese, Marica Albanesi, Alessandra Folda, Gianfranco Betti, Marco Bellamio, Emiliano Feller, Claudia Lodovichi, Giorgio Arrigoni, Oriano Marin, Maria Pia Rigobello

“…Altogether, the results unveil novel recovery strategies for food by-products as sources of antioxidant bioactive peptides that might be utilized for the development of functional foods.…”
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Comprehensive behavioural study of senescence-accelerated mouse prone 8 and senescence-accelerated mouse prone 10 by Hiroshi Ueno, Yu Takahashi, Shinji Murakami, Kenta Wani, Tetsuji Miyazaki, Yosuke Matsumoto, Motoi Okamoto, Takeshi Ishihara

“…Conclusion: Together, these findings highlight the utility of SAMP8 and SAMP10 mice as models for studying age-related functional decline in the brain.…”
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Weighting Optimization for Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicles: Lifetime-Conscious Component Sizing and Energy Management by Xuanyu Xiao, Chen Shu, Huaiwei Dong, Yujun Tang, Jinfeng Feng, Hao Yuan, Shuzhan Bai, Sipeng Zhu, Guoxiang Li

“…This paper devises an integrated framework for optimizing component sizing and energy management in a fuel cell/battery hybrid passenger vehicle. A unified cost function is proposed, combining fuel economy and system durability through a weighting coefficient, based on a comprehensive model of the hydrogen consumption and degradation characteristics of fuel cells and batteries. …”
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Tokenization of creativity: user motivation, consensual value and Chinese copyright law by R. A. Budnik

“…We constructed the non-fungible token owner's moral right consisting of two powers: the right to designate one's name as the owner of a token for a specific creative product and to demand such an indication from others; and also, as a duty of NFT platforms to support the function of informing about the name or pseudonym of the token's owner.Analysis of the appropriate accumulated knowledge, development, and verification of formulated hypotheses on tokenized works' consensual value and additional economic utility, allowed us to achieve the goals of this study. …”
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The impact of urbanization on land use land cover change using geographic information system and remote sensing: a case of Mizan Aman City Southwest Ethiopia by Addis Bikis, Muluye Engdaw, Digvijay Pandey, Binay Kumar Pandey

“…Deforestation for urban functions, including timber production, construction materials, and firewood, adversely affects the environment. …”
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A Multiband Dual Linear-to-Circular Polarization Conversion Reflective Metasurface Design Based on Liquid Crystal for X-Band Applications by Xinju Wang, Lihan Tong, Peng Chen, Lu Liu, Yutong Yin, Haowei Zhang

“…The polarization conversion (PC) structure employs an orthogonal anisotropic design, utilizing logarithmic functions to create two pairs of bowtie microstrip patches for linear-to-circular polarization conversion (LCPC). …”
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An Improved Rule-Based Energy Management System: Effective Solution to Achieve Collaborative Control of Batteries in Multi-Prosumers Community Microgrid by Jiawei Huang, Chengxiong Mao, Bin Liu, Dan Wang, Rui Gao, Bo Gu

“…The integration of renewable energy sources into community microgrids is increasingly critical for reducing reliance on utility grids and promoting local energy consumption. …”
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Parent–Child Adaptive Responses for Digital Resilience by John P. Ziker, Jerry Alan Fails, Kendall House, Jessi Boyer, Michael Wendell, Hollie Abele, Letizia Maukar, Kayla Ramirez

“…Life history theory informs our approach to the development of parental control software that favors skill building and encourages parent–child discussions supporting child executive function and resilience to risks.…”
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