Modeling the Viscoelastic Behavior of Quartz and Clay Minerals in Shale by Nanoindentation Creep Tests by Jianfeng Wang, Yuke Liu, Chao Yang, Wenmin Jiang, Yun Li, Yongqiang Xiong

“…Furthermore, the regression values for the viscoelastic parameters of clay minerals were lower than those of quartz and the bulk shale, suggesting the former facilitates the viscoelastic deformation of shale. …”
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Anatomical characteristics of mitral isthmus and its spatial relationship with the esophagus in patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation using CT angiography by Yilin Pan, Yilin Pan, Hong Zeng, Xin Liu, Xiaohang Fu, Liyuan Pan, Yanjing Wang

“…Detailed CTA scans were used to assess the MI's structure and proximity to the esophagus, employing various measurements like the MI's endocardial length, depth, and its relation to adjacent esophageal anatomy.ResultsThe study revealed significant differences in the MI's length and distance measurements between the experimental and control groups, with the former showing greater dimensions, potentially influencing ablation strategies. …”
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SYMBOLIC ANALYSIS OF CLASSICAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR DEEP LEARNING by Vladimir Milićević, Igor Franc, Maja Lutovac Banduka, Nemanja Zdravković, Nikola Dimitrijević

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Prematurity-Related Hypertension in Children and Adolescents by Karolina Poplawska, Karolina Dudek, Maja Koziarz, Dominik Cieniawski, Tomasz Drozdz, Sylwester Smialek, Dorota Drozdz, Przemko Kwinta

“…It has been proven that hypertension occurs more often in former preterm infants; however the etiologic pathways that cause this condition still remain unclear. …”
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The US Nuclear Policy in the XXI Century: Continuity and Change in the Strategies of the George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump Administrations by E. P. Buzhinsky, V. A. Veselov

“…Bush government but more assertive since the former considers nuclear weapons not only as a means of deterrence but as an efficient tool of military and political coercion. …”
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Impact of glycolysis enzymes and metabolites in regulating DNA damage repair in tumorigenesis and therapy by Fengyao Sun, Wen Li, Ruihang Du, Mingchan Liu, Yi Cheng, Jianxing Ma, Siyuan Yan

“…Abstract Initially, it was believed that glycolysis and DNA damage repair (DDR) were two distinct biological processes that independently regulate tumor progression. The former metabolic reprogramming rapidly generates energy and generous intermediate metabolites, supporting the synthetic metabolism and proliferation of tumor cells. …”
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Understanding Electric Bikers’ Red-Light Running Behavior: Predictive Utility of Theory of Planned Behavior vs Prototype Willingness Model by Tianpei Tang, Hua Wang, Xizhao Zhou, Hao Gong

“…The main findings in this paper are as follows: (i) Both PWM and TPB-PWM models could work better in characterizing e-bikers’ RLR behavior than the TPB model. The former two models explain more than 80% (81.3% and 81.4%, respectively) of the variance in e-bikers’ RLR behavior, which is remarkably higher than that of the TPB model (only 74.3%). …”
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General and Electrophysiological Toxic Effects of Manganese in Rats following Subacute Administration in Dissolved and Nanoparticle Form by Edina Horváth, Zsuzsanna Máté, Szabolcs Takács, Péter Pusztai, András Sápi, Zoltán Kónya, László Nagymajtényi, András Papp

“…Changes in evoked electrophysiological responses (cortical sensory evoked potential and nerve action potential) indicated that the 3 plus 3 weeks combined exposure caused equal or higher changes in the latency of these responses than 6 weeks of exposure, although the calculated summed Mn dose in the former case was lower. The results showed the importance of the physicochemical form of Mn in determining the toxic outcome, and suggested that neurofunctional markers of Mn action may indicate the human health effect better than conventional blood Mn measurement.…”
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Association of Social Engagement with Brain Volumes Assessed by Structural MRI by Bryan D. James, Thomas A. Glass, Brian Caffo, Jennifer F. Bobb, Christos Davatzikos, David Yousem, Brian S. Schwartz

“…We tested the hypothesis that social engagement is associated with larger brain volumes in a cohort study of 348 older male former lead manufacturing workers (𝑛=305) and population-based controls (𝑛=43), age 48 to 82. …”
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The narrative of the «Northern Territories» in the socio-political discourse of contemporary Japan by D. V. Streltsov

“…The humanitarian aspect of the problem, related to visits to graves by former islanders and members of their families, causes the greatest public outcry, but even this aspect, as the results of public opinion polls show, has a limited effect.…”
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Has the share of the working life expectancy that is spent receiving a partial or full disability pension changed in Finland over the period 2005–2018? A longitudinal register-base... by Eira Viikari-Juntura, Svetlana Solovieva, Taina Leinonen

“…Full disability pensioners spent a disproportionately large time in manual work, increasingly in the private sector, and partial pensioners in the public sector with lower non-manual and manual work, increasingly with the former. At the population level, the share of the FTE-WLE that is spent receiving a disability pension remained relatively small.Conclusions Increased work participation while receiving a disability pension is likely to have had important implications for prolonging individual working careers but only minor contribution to the length of working lives at the population level.…”
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Barbara Kingsolver’s. Homeland and Other Stories about Another America by Bénédicte Meillon

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Acro-osteolysis and its relationship with bone mineral density and peripheral vascularity in premenopausal females with systemic sclerosis by Rabab S Zaghlol, Sahar S Khalil, Rania M Almolla, Ahmed Mohamed El-Maghraby, Wafaa K Makarm

“…Results: Overall, 80% patients had AO; comparing patients with and without AO, the former had significant increase in the frequencies of Raynaud's phenomenon, calcinosis and digital pits (88.5, 94.7, 91.7) versus (11.5, 5.3, 8.3) in the latter, respectively. …”
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Fine Particle pH and its Impact on PM2.5 Control in a Megacity of Central China by Mingming Zheng, Ke Xu, Lianxin Yuan, Nan Chen, Menghua Cao

“…The pH has opposite influences on the effect of SO2 and NOx control in reducing PM2.5, the former being more effective at low pH and the latter being more effective at high pH due to ammonium and nitrate gas-particle partitioning. …”
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Serum amylase level measurement in acute abdominal pain by Taher Abdullah Hawramy, Dara Ahmed Mohammed, Botan H. Tahir

“…Elevated serum amylase levels can be observed with several medical and surgical problems in patients with acute abdominal pain, but high values are usually associated with acute inflammatory pancreatic and gallbladder conditions, with very high levels in the former, making it one of the important diagnostic tools that can be used by health-care providers when evaluating patients suspected to have acute pancreatitis or acute calculous cholecystitis.   …”
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POSITIVISM AND ITS ADVERSARIES: BRADLEY, COLLINGWOOD, NIETZSCHE AND HEIDEGGER by Evaldas Nekrašas

“…They belong to two main groups: members of the first group continue the philosophical tradition (mainly that of classical German philosophy) while representatives of the second group oppose the tradition but do so resting upon principles incompatible with those of positivists. In the article the former are represented by F. H. Bradley and R. G. …”
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Philosophy and Sociology Studies by S. A. Kravchenko, A. V. Shestopal

“…Shishkin, who was the founder and head of the Department of Philosophy. The former belonged to one of the best schools of antic history studies of the Petersburg (Leningrad) University. …”
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Medical Rehabilitation Impact Towards Dynamic Balance in Lateral Ankle Sprain Patients by Moses Rizky Haryanto, Jonathan Salim, Nana Novia Jayadi, Mirna Phandu

“…Two groups, consisting of 13 LAS subjects each, were purposively chosen. Only the former participated in the three sessions of the rehabilitation program. …”
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Fate of trace elements and emerging environmental pollutants (benzotriazoles and benzothiazoles) from a glacier-fed river in the mixing zone of an Arctic fjord system by Joséphine Amey, Øyvind Mikkelsen

“…A trend of higher concentrations of trace elements in sediment (ANOVA, p = 0.044) and seawater (ANOVA, p = 0.013), as well as 2-OH-BTH in seawater (t-test, p = 0.010) was observed in the vicinity of the town, where most anthropogenic activities have taken place due to former mining operations.…”
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Cohort profile: the Halland osteoarthritis (HALLOA) cohort–from knee pain to osteoarthritis: a longitudinal observational study in Sweden by Ann Bremander, Maria L E Andersson, S Bergman, Katarina Aili, Emma Haglund

“…The inclusion criteria were current knee pain, with no former known radiographic knee OA and no cruciate ligament rupture or rheumatological disorder. …”
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