Risk assessment of an Aedes flavivirus and its effect on pathogenic flavivirus replication in mosquitoes by Yumei Fu, Wan Zhao, Shaohui Wu, Jinqian Li, Qing Liu, Feng Jiang, Hong Lu, Le Kang, Qianfeng Xia, Feng Cui

“…Abstract Background Mosquitoes are efficient vectors of medically significant flaviviruses and serve as hosts for insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFs). …”
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Secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary children’s hospital in Canada: a mixed-methods study by Catherine Diskin, Annie Fecteau, Eyal Cohen, Arpita Parmar, Jeremy Friedman, Blossom Dharmaraj, Tanvi Agarwal, Kelly McNaughton, Alia Sunderji, David Faraoni, Jason Fischer, Jason Maynes

“…Themes including (1) timeliness of care, (2) disruption of patient-centred care, (3) new pressures in the provision of safe and efficient care and (4) inequity in the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, each impacting patients, their families and healthcare providers.Conclusion Being aware of the breadth of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across all of the identified themes is important to enable the delivery of timely, safe, high-quality, family-centred paediatric care moving forward.…”
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Optimization of mix proportions and mechanical properties of coal gangue-based multi-solid-waste geopolymer mortars by Dan Wang, Kang Zou, Siao Zhu, Lanhui Guo

“…An orthogonal experimental design combined with gray relational analysis was employed to quantitatively evaluate the effects of coal gangue content, sodium silicate modulus, alkaline activator dosage, and desulfurization gypsum content on the mechanical properties of the geopolymer. …”
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Research on Coordinated Control of Dynamic Reactive Power Sources of DC Blocking and Commutation Failure Transient Overvoltage in New Energy Transmission by Shuqin Sun, Zhenghai Yuan, Dezhi Chen, Zaihua Li, Xiaojun Tang, Yunting Song, Guanghao Zhou

“…The findings provide robust theoretical foundations and practical guidance for the refined parameter tuning and high-efficiency coordinated control of dynamic reactive power sources in renewable energy transmission systems.…”
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Third Ventricle Width Measurements Based on YOLO and Localized Intensity Features by Xiao Zhou, Ao Wan, Xingang Mou, Hongling Gao, Zheng Xue

“…Transcranial ultrasound (TCS) imaging can quantitatively measure third ventricle width (TVW) in Parkinson’s (PD) patients, helping physicians detect cognitive dysfunction in PD patients as early as possible. …”
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Evaluation of electricity use and carbon emissions for agricultural water supply in South Korea: Focusing on Water for Food (W-F) nexus system by Pu Reun Yoon, Jin-Yong Choi, Sang-Hyun Lee

“…Electricity usage causes indirect carbon emissions; thus, to reduce carbon emissions in agriculture, it is necessary to quantitatively assess the direct and indirect carbon reduction effect. …”
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Individual and interactive action mechanisms of mechanical, chemical, and electrical factors in Co polishing by Fangjin Xie, Min Zhong, Wenhu Xu, Jianfeng Chen, Xiaobing Li, Meirong Yi

“…Then, the impact and proportion of individual and combined factors on the Co-ECMP are quantitatively analyzed. The experimental results show that mechanical action, rather than individual chemical or electrical action, plays a primary role in Co-ECMP. …”
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Investigation of important morphological traits and grain yield of lentil under shading and bio-priming by feresteh darabi, Ali Hatami, Mohammad Javad Zarea, Rahim Naseri

“…In general, using bio-fertilizers and manage integrated nourishment quantitatively and qualitatively is one of the efficient ways to improve plant production. …”
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Evaluating the effect of comprehensive land consolidation on spatial reconstruction of rural production, living, and ecological spaces by Pengfei Gao, Chaoxian Yang, Yong Liu, Guixin Xin, Rongrong Chen

“…This study aims to quantitatively evaluate the impact of CLC on the reconstruction of rural spaces, including production, living, and ecological spaces (PLES). …”
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Sericin/polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel optimization for enhanced angiogenesis: a promising strategy for treating chronic osteomyelitis. by Chayanee Noosak, Pavarish Jantorn, Suvimol Surassmo, Sittichat Chukaew, Jirut Meesane, Dennapa Saeloh Sotthibandhu

“…The expression levels of genes related to angiogenesis were quantitatively examined and results suggested that the hydrogels affected the eNOS pathway to promote angiogenesis. …”
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Overburden Damage Degree-Based Optimization of High-Intensity Mining Parameters and Engineering Practices in China’s Western Mining Area by Xiang He, Cun Zhang, Penghua Han

“…., mining height, panel width, and advancing speed) can not only improve the mining efficiency but also weaken the mining-induced deformation and failures of the overburden and surface. …”
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Numerical Study on Heat Transfer and Release Characteristics of Key Components in Electrically Heated Tobacco Products by Bo Zhang, Lingjun Xiao, Jiejie Huang, Zhiguo Wang, Naiping Gao, Wen Du, Bo Kong, Zhiwei Sun, Ping Huang, Jianxin Ren, Bin Li, Yihan Gao

“…The release rates of water, glycerol, and nicotine components are quantitatively described by the first-order Arrhenius formula, and the transport of heat and gas flow is simulated using the Navier-Stokes equation. …”
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Recognition of Concrete Surface Cracks Based on Improved TransUNet by Xuwei Dong, Yang Liu, Jinpeng Dai

“…Therefore, the proposed method better meets the needs of crack detection in practical engineering applications and provides a solution for improving the efficiency of crack detection.…”
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Employing a Carbon-Based Nanocomposite as a Diffusive Solid-Phase Extraction Adsorbent for Methamphetamine for Therapeutic Purposes by K. Lakshmi Kala, G. Anbuchezhiyan, Kavitha Pingili, Pradeep Kumar Singh, V. M. Vel, Kareem Yusuf, Ahmed Muteb Aljuwayid, Md Ataul Islam, David Christopher

“…The detection limits (LOD) and quantitation limits (LOQ), correspondingly, were 10 and 35.80 ng/mL. …”
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Basketball teaching methods based on 3D-Convolutional neural network by Chao Huang, Xian Wu

“…To address the shortcomings of current basketball teaching methods, which rely heavily on human experience, have low teaching efficiency, and make personalized feedback difficult to achieve, the intelligent recognition of technical actions has become an important development direction in teaching informatics. …”
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Application of 4PCS and KD-ICP Alignment Methods Based on ISS Feature Points for Rail Wear Detection by Jie Shan, Hao Shi, Zhi Niu

“…Then, ISS feature points are extracted from the processed point cloud data for 4PCS coarse alignment, and the feature points are quantitatively analyzed, which in turn provides good alignment conditions for fine alignment. …”
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Comparison of stochastic and deterministic models for gambiense sleeping sickness at different spatial scales: A health area analysis in the DRC. by Christopher N Davis, Ronald E Crump, Samuel A Sutherland, Simon E F Spencer, Alice Corbella, Shampa Chansy, Junior Lebuki, Erick Mwamba Miaka, Kat S Rock

“…However, while we move closer to achieving the ambitious target of elimination of transmission (EoT) to humans, pockets of infection remain, and it becomes increasingly important to quantitatively assess if different regions are on track for elimination, and where intervention efforts should be focused. …”
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Analysis of crop virtual water flow at dual scales in yellow river basin based on the SWAT model by Jing Liu, Tiantian Zi, Lan Wang, Xinchun Cao

“…This study used a SWAT semi-distributed hydrological model, focusing on sub-basins and secondary water resource divisions to quantitatively assess crop virtual water flow in Yellow River Basin (YRB), along with its network structure and water saving benefits. …”
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RootTracer: An intuitive solution for root image annotation by Maichol Dadi, Annalisa Franco, Giuseppe Sangiorgi, Silvio Salvi, Alessandra Lumini

“…Analyzing root growth quantitatively is increasingly vital for evaluating a plant's resilience to abiotic stresses and its efficiency in nutrient and water absorption. …”
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Cellular porosity in dentin exhibits complex network characteristics with spatio-temporal fluctuations. by Lucas Chatelain, Nicolas Tremblay, Elsa Vennat, Elisabeth Dursun, David Rousseau, Aurélien Gourrier

“…Residual errors were classified in 4 topological classes related to fluorescence staining and confocal detection efficiency, instrumental resolution and image processing. …”
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