The factors that affect the understanding of reading in elementary school by Susi Nugraha, Yan Yan Heryanti, Yunus Abidin

“…This study used 100 students in class V, consisting of 50 students from SD Negeri Sempur and 50 students from SDN Tanjungsari, as respondents who filled out the questionnaire, which was analyzed using SEM-PLS. …”
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The potential endocrine-disrupting of fluorinated pesticides and molecular mechanism of EDPs in cell models by Yalan Liu, Fengzhong Wang, Lin Li, Bei Fan, Zhiqiang Kong, Jianxin Tan, Minmin Li

“…Environmental endocrine disruptors constitute a category of exogenous compounds that interfere with the endocrine system's functions in organisms or cells. As a class of particularly representative endocrine-disrupting chemicals, the accumulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances potentially leads to adverse health effects, including hormonal disruptions, developmental issues, and cancer. …”
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Soft theorems for two-scalar sigma models by Karol Kampf, Jiri Novotny, Mikhail Shifman, Jaroslav Trnka

“…We further generalize the construction to two larger classes of such models and derive certain soft theorem sum rules, again avoiding the derivatives of amplitudes. …”
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Neutralization of Soybean Oil Deodorizer Distillate for Vitamin Supplement Production by Cibelem Iribarrem Benites, Bruno Colling Klein, Soely Maria Pissini Machado Reis

“…Soybean oil deodorizer distillate (SODD), a byproduct of the soybean oil refining process, is a complex mixture of compounds, such as free fatty acids (FFA), hydrocarbons, and sterols, such as tocopherols, a class of major natural antioxidants with vitamin E activity. …”
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Investigation of Droplets Distribution and Reaction Kinetics on SO2 Removal in Flue Gas via Venturi Scrubber by Shuo Zhang, Wenyue Cui, Chen Wang, Tao Wu, Xiaohang Zhao

“…Using venturi scrubber as the prototype, the population balance model (PBM) combined with the CFD is implemented to characterize the droplets behaviors. Discrete methods as class model (CM) and various quadrature-based moment models (QBMMs) are applied to numerically solve the population balance equations (PBEs). …”
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Testing Metaphorical Educational FPS Games by John R. Rankin, Sandra Sampayo Vargas, Paul F. Taylor

“…If testing of these metaphorical educational FPS games indicates that they would be beneficial in school classes then we intend to pursue the design of software tools and tutorials to enable teachers to develop their own metaphorical educational FPS games in two months or less.…”
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Branched PLGA derivatives with tailored drug delivery properties by Snejdrova Eva, Podzimek Stepan, Martiska Juraj, Holas Ondrej, Dittrich Milan

“…Most frequent attempts to improve their properties are blending with other polymers or synthesis of block copolymers. We introduce a new class of branched poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) derivatives as promising biodegradable carriers for prolonged or targeted drug release systems, employed as thin adhesive films, solid dispersions, in situ forming implants or nanoparticles. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Dzongkha Handwritten Digit Classification by Yonten Jamtsho, Pema Yangden, Sonam Wangmo, Nima Dema

“…In the study, the 3 layer set of CONV → ReLU → POOL, followed by a fully connected layer, dropout layer, and softmax function were used to train the digit. In the dataset, each class (0-9) contains 1500 images which are split into train, validation, and test sets: 70:20:10. …”
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A Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Based on Grid Technique and Multistrategy by Kangge Zou, Yanmin Liu, Shihua Wang, Nana Li, Yaowei Wu

“…The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has better convergence and distribution than CMOPSO, NSGAII, MOEAD, MOPSOCD, and NMPSO.…”
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Cyclone negative pressure pump for efficient purification of airborne contaminants by Gihyun Song, Kyungcheol Jang, Woobin Song, Wonchul Choi, Simon Song, Hyoungsoo Kim

“…To resolve this issue, we developed a novel class of negative pressure pump that creates a swirling cyclone flow at the front to efficiently collect pollutants and particles, which was confirmed by a smoke visualization experiment. …”
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Development of Risk-Situation Scenario for Autonomous Vehicles on Expressway Using Topic Modeling by Osung Chae, Junghwa Kim, Jeongah Jang, Hyunjeong Yun, Shinkyung Lee

“…Topic modeling was applied to the Edge Case class, i.e., the least likely to occur and thus difficult to predict, to analyze the characteristics of groups and develop risk-situation scenarios for autonomous vehicles based on actual accident data.…”
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Vulnérabilité du territoire littoral guyanais aux maladies infectieuses à transmission vectorielle : esquisses de problématiques et perspectives de recherches pluridisciplinaires... by Valérie Morel

“…The use of vulnerability for the knowledge of conditions for the emergence risk of vector-borne diseases (VBD) opens a way for systemic and multidisciplinary analysis of risk that exceeds the knowledge of traditional social criteria such as age, gender, social class or level of income taken into account in epidemiological studies. …”
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Imbalanced Data Problem in Machine Learning: A Review by Manahel Altalhan, Abdulmohsen Algarni, Monia Turki-Hadj Alouane

“…One of the prominent challenges encountered in real-world data is an imbalance, characterized by unequal distribution of observations across different target classes, which complicates achieving accurate model classifications. …”
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Soybean (Glycine max L.) Response to Fungicides in the Absence of Disease Pressure by W. James Grichar

“…Field studies were conducted during the 2010 and 2011 growing seasons along the Texas Upper Gulf Coast region to study the effects of fungicides on soybean disease development and to evaluate the response of four soybean cultivars to prothioconazole plus trifloxystrobin and pyraclostrobin. …”
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Heat Shock Protein 70 Neutralizes Apoptosis-Inducing Factor by Guido Kroemer

“…Deficient apoptosis participates in cancerogenesis, whereas excessive apoptosis leads to unwarranted cell loss accounting for disparate diseases including neurodegeneration and AIDS. …”
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Tracking Control Based on Recurrent Neural Networks for Nonlinear Systems with Multiple Inputs and Unknown Deadzone by J. Humberto Pérez-Cruz, José de Jesús Rubio, E. Ruiz-Velázquez, G. Solís-Perales

“…This paper deals with the problem of trajectory tracking for a broad class of uncertain nonlinear systems with multiple inputs each one subject to an unknown symmetric deadzone. …”
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Characteristics of Effective Elementary Mathematics Instruction: A Scoping Review of Experimental Studies by Branko Bognar, Sanela Mužar Horvat, Ljerka Jukić Matić

“…This can be achieved through a dynamic alternation of whole-class instruction and cooperative and individual learning with the use of manipulatives and visualizations to reach the level of abstraction. …”
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New Possibilities for the Treatment of Crohn’s Disease by Z. A. Mamieva, E. A. Poluektova, O. S. Shifrin

“…Ustekinumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody of the IgG1k class to the p40 subunit of IL-12 and IL-23. The drug interrupts the cascade of humoral and cellular reactions leading to transmural inflammation of the intestinal wall by blocking the interaction of the p40 subunit with the IL-12Rβ1 chain on the surface of T-lymphocytes and NK cells. …”
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Prostaglandin-Induced Cystoid Macular Edema Following Routine Cataract Extraction by Negin Agange, Sameh Mosaed

“…To our knowledge, we are reporting the first case of a 59-year-old man who developed recurrent CME with three separate trials of three different prostaglandin class drugs following uncomplicated phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation. …”
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Machine learning-driven optimization for predicting compressive strength in fly ash geopolymer concrete by Maryam Bypour, Mohammad Yekrangnia, Mahdi Kioumarsi

“…The analysis considered variables such as fly ash (FA) components, coarse and fine aggregates, alkaline activator molarity, and other additives. …”
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