Rapunzel Syndrome: A Rare Presentation with Giant Gastric Ulcer by Antonios Athanasiou, Adamantios Michalinos, Demetrios Moris, Eleftherios Spartalis, Nikolaos Dimitrokallis, Vaios Kaminiotis, Demetrios Oikonomou, John Griniatsos, Evangelos Felekouras

“…We performed a surgical laparotomy and successfully removed a huge trichobezoar extending into the small intestine.…”
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The Point of the Centre: Present and Past Discourses of “China”-hood by David Mervart

“…El continuo auge económico y geopolítico de China nos recuerda que lo que actualmente se denomina China fue hace un tiempo el Reino del Centro, el centro del mundo. …”
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Optimization of Meat and Poultry Farm Inventory Stock Using Data Analytics for Green Supply Chain Network by Rajnish Kler, Roshan Gangurde, Samariddin Elmirzaev, Md Shamim Hossain, Nhut V. T. Vo, Tien V. T. Nguyen, P. Naveen Kumar

“…Due to this imbalance, a huge amount is spent on balancing the requirements. …”
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Dynamic Spatiotemporal Causality Analysis for Network Traffic Flow Based on Transfer Entropy and Sliding Window Approach by Senyan Yang, Lianju Ning, Xilong Cai, Mingyu Liu

“…The potential information and regularity of traffic state evolution can be extracted from the huge traffic flow time series data and applied to intelligent transportation systems. …”
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Hawking-Page transition in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity by Xiao-yan Hu, Yuan-zhang Cui, Wei Xu

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ESTIMATED ELECTRICITY BILLING SYSTEM AND ITS EFFECTS ON CONSUMERS IN RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS CENTRES IN WUKARI METROPOLIS, TARABA STATE by Abubakar Ahmadu, Vyonkhen Tanko Nacho

“…A sample size 131 was determined using the Cochran’s formula for smaller population. …”
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Ethiopian Water Hyacinth Leaf Extract as a Potential Tannery Effluent Treatment Material by Fitsum Etefa Ahmed, Awoke Fenta Wodag, Gemeda Gebino Gelebo, Belay Meles Gebre

“…Tannery effluent contains a huge amount of pollutant compounds such as toxic substances which need to be treated using either synthetic or natural products. …”
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Modern vaccines and coronavirus infections by Yu. A. Belikova, Yu. V. Samsonov, E. V. Abakushina

“…Vaccines represent an outstanding success story in modern medicine and are responsible for a huge reduction in morbidity and mortality worldwide. …”
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A Novel Emerging Topic Identification and Evolution Discovery Method on Time-Evolving and Heterogeneous Online Social Networks by Xiaoyan Xu, Wei Lv, Beibei Zhang, Shuaipeng Zhou, Wei Wei, Yusen Li

“…Our method is proved to yield preferable results on both a huge amount of computer-generated test data and a great amount of real online network data crawled from mainstream heterogeneous social networks.…”
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Fuzzy Approach in Rail Track Degradation Prediction by Mostafa Karimpour, Lalith Hitihamillage, Najwa Elkhoury, Sara Moridpour, Reyhaneh Hesami

“…The rail track characteristics that have been collected over the years will be used in developing a degradation prediction model for rail tracks. …”
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Efficient Handling of Data Imbalance in Health Insurance Fraud Detection Using Meta-Reinforcement Learning by Supriya Seshagiri, K. V. Prema

“…The efficiency of the models is measured using imbalance-safe metrics like Geometric mean, Harmonic mean, and Mathew’s Correlation Coefficient (MCC), and metrics like Cohen’s Kappa score are used to gauge the consistency of the results. …”
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Efficacy of Bluetooth-Based Data Collection for Road Traffic Analysis and Visualization Using Big Data Analytics by Ashish Rajeshwar Kulkarni, Narendra Kumar, K. Ramachandra Rao

“…Effective management of daily road traffic is a huge challenge for traffic personnel. Urban traffic management has come a long way from manual control to artificial intelligence techniques. …”
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Carbon emissions assessment of concrete and quantitative calculation of CO2 reduction benefits of SCMs: A case study of C30-C80 ready-mixed concrete in China by Zuojiang Lin, Guangyao Lyu, Kuizhen Fang

“…This study elucidates the changes in carbon footprint variations in concrete production processes and component contributions due to the use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) and changes in raw material transport distances through the establishment of a large-scale concrete mix proportion database and life-cycle assessment (LCA). …”
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South African healthcare reforms towards universal healthcare – where to next? by G Solanki, T Wilkinson, N G Myburgh, J E Cornell, V Brijlal

“…The challenges faced by the South African healthcare system are huge, and we cannot afford to wait for NHI to address them all. …”
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Biofortification and fortification of wheat flour: Qualitative analysis for implementation and acceptance. by Rahima Yasin, Zahra A Padhani, Mushtaque Mirani, Muhammad Khan Jamali, Mahwish Memon, Sana Khatoon, Riya Rai, Areeba Rahman, Anushka Attaullahjan, Jai K Das

“…Various stakeholders involved in the wheat-flour industry including farmers, seed suppliers, owners of atta-chakkis and flour mills, grocers and flour merchants, bakers and hoteliers, consumers, and agronomists were interviewed to gauge their knowledge of bio-fortified and fortified wheat-flour. …”
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Biocomposite Polyvinyl Alcohol/Ferritin Hydrogels with Enhanced Stretchability and Conductivity for Flexible Strain Sensors by Qiang Fu, Junxiao Tang, Weimin Wang, Rongjie Wang

“…The strain sensor constructed from this hydrogel shows good sensitivity (gauge factor = 1.7 at 150% strain), accurate real-time resistance response, and good long cyclic working stability when used for joint motion monitoring. …”
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Deep Interest-Shifting Network with Meta-Embeddings for Fresh Item Recommendation by Zhao Li, Haobo Wang, Donghui Ding, Shichang Hu, Zhen Zhang, Weiwei Liu, Jianliang Gao, Zhiqiang Zhang, Ji Zhang

“…First, a fresh-item recommendation scenario usually faces the challenge that the training data are highly deficient due to low page views. In this paper, we propose a deep interest-shifting network (DisNet), which transfers knowledge from a huge number of auxiliary data and then shifts user interests with contextual information. …”
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The Cost Effectiveness of Hand Held Ultrasound Scanning for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Older Males with a History of Smoking by Denver Phiri, Peter J. Mallow, John A. Rizzo

“…New pocket mobile echocardiography (PME) devices may enhance the cost effectiveness of such scanning due to its low cost, ability to be used in primary care settings, and high degree of accuracy. …”
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Short-term stock market reaction to the announcement of green bond issue: evidence from Nordic countries by Vilija Aleknevičienė, Raimonda Vilutytė

“…Such reaction may not only be due to increased capital expenditures and financial risk but also to the shift of investments from stocks to green bonds, as the majority of green bonds were issued during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian–Ukrainian war. …”
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Interrelation of irritable bowel syndrome and bacterial overgrowth: is there any? by Yu. A. Kucheryavy, S. V. Cheryomushkin, Ye. A. Mayevskaya, Ye. A. Sutugina

“…Unfortunately, despite of huge quantity of studies, there is lack of convincing evidence to this for the present time. …”
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