Adaptive Fuzzy Path Tracking Control for Mobile Robots with Unknown Control Direction by Qifei Du, Lin Sha, Wuxi Shi, Liankun Sun

“…In order to synthesize controllers for wheeled mobile robots (WMRs), some design techniques are usually based on the assumption that the center of mass is at the center of the robot itself. …”
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Physical exercise behavior characteristics and influencing factors for participation in police officers by Yuliang Feng, Chao Chen, Yang Liu, Sen Li

“…ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to analyze police officers’ exercise participation behavior and influencing factors in order to better promote physical exercise participation and improve the health status of the police force.MethodsPolice officers (n = 3,682) were recruited from 16 district public security substations in a city in eastern China to investigate their physical exercise participation and influencing factors, and logistic regression analysis was used to investigate three aspects: exercise behavior, health cognition, and influencing factors.FindingsThe physical exercise behavior of police officers showed long duration of time, but low frequency and intensity. …”
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Valor diagnóstico de la ecografía en lesiones nodulares del tiroides by Rubén González Tabares, Olayma Fernández Cedeño, Libardo Castillo Lamas

“…Se identificó la relación entre las características clínicas, así como los sistemas de estratificación del riesgo y el diagnóstico con chi-cuadrado. …”
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Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation climatologies mapped by machine learning and Bayesian interpolation by E. Shehaj, E. Shehaj, S. Leroy, K. Cahoy, A. Geiger, L. Crocetti, G. Moeller, G. Moeller, B. Soja, M. Rothacher

“…Meteorologists routinely assimilate RO observations into numerical weather models. …”
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Peripheral endothelial dysfunction in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome by Nadja Scherbakov, Marvin Szklarski, Jelka Hartwig, Franziska Sotzny, Sebastian Lorenz, Antje Meyer, Patricia Grabowski, Wolfram Doehner, Carmen Scheibenbogen

“…Conclusions Peripheral ED is frequent in patients with ME/CFS and associated with disease severity and severity of immune symptoms. …”
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In Vitro Evaluation of Proliferation and Migration Behaviour of Human Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Presence of Platelet-Rich Plasma by Anh Thi Mai Nguyen, Ha Le Bao Tran, Thuy Anh Vu Pham

“…The proliferation of hBMSCs was examined by 2 methods: cell-number counting with the haemocytometer method and the colony-forming unit-fibroblast (CFU-F) assay. Cell migration was evaluated using the scratch wound healing (SWH) assay; after that, the recorded digital images were analysed by the Image-Analysis J 1.51j8 software to compare the cell-free areas between groups after 0, 24, and 48 hours. …”
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Uptake of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and contraception in South African hair salons: a study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial by Christina Psaros, Ingrid Bassett, Sabina Medal Govere, Jana Jarolimova, Joyce Yan, Sthabile Shezi, Lungile M Ngcobo, Shruti Sagar, Dani Zionts, Nduduzo Dube, RA Parker

“…We will measure intervention uptake as the proportion of eligible women who agree to salon-based PrEP and separately to salon-based contraception. We will assess feasibility by collecting process measures and evaluate retention as continued use of PrEP and contraception separately, defined as one additional visit within 6 months with continued use of PrEP and/or contraception.Ethics and dissemination The study has been approved by the University of KwaZulu-Natal Biomedical Research Ethics Committee and the Massachusetts General Brigham Institutional Review Board. …”
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One-Kind Hybrid Power Means of the Two-Term Exponential Sums and Quartic Gauss Sums by Xiaoxue Li, Li Chen

“…As applications, some asymptotic formulas are obtained.…”
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Challenges in the diagnosis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in individuals with obesity by Bas M. van Dalen, Jie Fen Chin, Praveen A. Motiram, Anneke Hendrix, Mireille E. Emans, Jasper J. Brugts, B. Daan Westenbrink, Rudolf A. de Boer

“…Abstract The rising prevalence of obesity and its association with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) highlight an urgent need for a diagnostic approach tailored to this population. …”
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Primary ciliary dyskinesia: Meeting the challenges of diagnosis in South Africa by Z Dangor, M Birkhead, C Verwey, D Gray, A Vanker, L Githinji, A Goga, R Masekela, M Zampoli

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The relationship between deltamethrin-induced behavioral changes and acetylcholinesterase activity in zebrafish embryos or larvae based on transcriptome by Chunyu Liu, Yantong Guo, Xue Zhang, Hongsong Chen, Maomao Han, Han Wang, Jieyao Niu, Jinfei He, Jingfeng Yang, Wu Dong, Jiangdong Xue

“…It also caused a decrease in the expression of acetylcholinesterase-associated genes and the activity of acetylcholinesterase, which also led to an increase in the acetylcholinesterase content. …”
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The Impact of the 2020 Medicaid Expansion in a Community Clinic Serving the Marshallese Population in a Rural State by Robert Brand, Samantha Robinson, Mohammod Mahmudur Rahman, Alshaimaa Hazaa, Sheena CarlLee, Hanna Jensen

“… Introduction In December of 2020, the US government passed into law a bill allowing states to enroll Compact of Free Association citizens (including citizens of the Republic of the Marshall Islands) into Medicaid. …”
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Preparation and Electronic Property Investigation of Zinc(II)-Schiff Base Complexes in the Confined Space by Peng Shang, Lei Zhang

“…The marked shift of the absorption onset was associated with a band-gap reduction between the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO). …”
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LRP11 facilitates lipid metabolism and malignancy in hepatocellular carcinoma by stabilizing RACK1 through USP5 regulation by Litao Liang, Wenbo Jia, Jinyi Wang, Yanzhi Feng, Deming Zhu, Wenhu Zhao, Chao Xu, Xiangyu Ling, Qingpeng Lv, Xiaoming Ai, Lianbao Kong, Wenzhou Ding

“…Nile red staining and lipid assays showed that LRP11 knockdown significantly reduces lipid accumulation in HCC cells, with a concurrent decrease in key lipid metabolism markers such as FSAN, ACLY and ACSL4, as demonstrated by Western blotting. …”
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Narrativas Mediáticas en la Formación Inicial de Educadores: Análisis de una Propuesta de Educación Mediática a través del Uso de Tecnobiografías by José Miguel Gutiérrez Pequeño, Eduardo García Zamora, Inés Ruiz Requies

“…Analizamos una serie de textos reflexivos autobiográficos elaborados con medios digitales -tecnobiografías- centrándonos en dos ejes principales de estudio: por un lado, las complejas relaciones entre lo público y lo privado a la hora de conformar la intimidad y la gestión del self y la construcción de la identidad en la sociedad-red respecto de asuntos relacionados con la autoimagen, la hipervisibilidad o la creación cultural; por otro, en su aprendizaje de la ciudadanía digital a través de su apropiación de los medios digitales. …”
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Du tourisme inattendu ? Quand la neige s’invite en ville by Romain Bérard

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»Hun plejer da at kunne tåle, at jeg truer med at hente en motorsav ...« – Vold og trusler mod offentligt ansatte undersøgt i en dansk retspsykiatrisk population by Diverse: Møllerhøj, Raben, Sørensen, Brandt-Christensen, Stølan

“…The types of assault against public servants examined in this sample are diverse, varying from mockery and verbal threats to physical attacks with severe injuries. …”
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Measures of concordance determined by D4-invariant copulas by H. H. Edwards, P. Mikusiński, M. D. Taylor

“…The construction examined here includes Spearman’s rho and Gini’s measure of association as special cases.…”
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Effect of glyphosate on renal function: A study integrating epidemiological and experimental evidence by Lin Hu, Mingcong Chen, Xiaoran Xue, Mingyi Zhao, Qingnan He

“…Glyphosate exposure is negatively associated with renal function in community adults. …”
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The Relationship of Conduction Disorder and Prognosis in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome by Wei-Chieh Lee, Yen-Nan Fang, Tien-Yu Chen, Yun-Yu Hsieh, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Hsiu-Yu Fang, Po-Jui Wu, Huang-Chung Chen, Ping-Yen Liu

“…Conduction disorders with a widened QRS are associated with poor prognosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). …”
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