Neuroplastic Effects of Combined Computerized Physical and Cognitive Training in Elderly Individuals at Risk for Dementia: An eLORETA Controlled Study on Resting States by Charis Styliadis, Panagiotis Kartsidis, Evangelos Paraskevopoulos, Andreas A. Ioannides, Panagiotis D. Bamidis

“…A significant training effect was identified only after the combined training scheme: a decrease in the post- compared to pre-training activity of precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex in delta, theta, and beta bands. This effect was correlated to improvements in cognitive capacity as evaluated by MMSE scores. …”
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Drought Monitoring and Analysis over Haihe River Basin Based on GRACE and MODIS Datasets by DU Yichen, CHEN Jiangzhaoxia, ZHANG Yuqi, SUN Ruiqi, YANG Haibo

“…The results show that: The water height of the Haihe River Basinindicates a significant annual change with a general downward trend; NDVI(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) shows a strong seasonal correlation inthe time series, and shows a northwest-southeast band distribution in the spatialseries; There was a slight drought in the Haihe River basin between 2003 and2015, of which 2014 was the most severe; In terms of spatial distribution, thedrought mainly occurs in the Daqing River and the northern part of Yongding Riverin summer, while in Luanhe River and Zhangwei River in spring and autumn. …”
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Traveling Wave Vibration and Experimental Analysis of the Diaphragm Disc Sun-gear Shaft of High-speed Planetary Gearbox by Wang Xiaopeng, Liu Shijun

“…The simulation model of the diaphragm disc sun-gear shaft of high-speed planetary gearbox is established.Based on the design principle of the floating structure of sun-gear shaft in planetary gearbox，three conditions including free-free，simple support-axial and simple support-fixed support are drawn up.The natural frequency and traveling wave vibration of sun-gear shaft were investigated，and the corresponding diagrams of mode of vibration and Campbell figure are drawn later.A gearbox test bench is built for experimental analysis.The result shows that when the main mode of sun-gear shaft with deformation of gear teeth resonates with one-fold frequency，the excitation force has largest amplitude，the two and three times followed.The vibration forms of teeth are torsional vibration，traveling wave vibration and bending vibration.A wide range of resonance points is produced between diaphragm or barrel shaft and multiple frequency of shaft.The resonance response is smaller by the greater multiple frequency of shaft.The experimental shows that during the process of increasing the speed from zero to working speed，the vibration value fluctuates significantly and then decreases to stable quickly，which indicates that the vibration of system is not expanded by exciting force and the influence on system stability is smaller.The geometric design of sun-gear shaft has a certain rationality and applicability.…”
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Assessment of the Ground Vulnerability in the Preveza Region (Greece) Using the European Ground Motion Service and Geospatial Data Concerning Critical Infrastructures by Eleftheria Basiou, Ignacio Castro-Melgar, Haralambos Kranis, Andreas Karavias, Efthymios Lekkas, Issaak Parcharidis

“…The EGMS, a new service of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, employs information from the C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-equipped Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B satellites. …”
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Carbon Nanosphere-Based TiO₂ Double Inverse Opals by Dániel Attila Karajz, Kincső Virág Rottenbacher, Klára Hernádi, Imre Miklós Szilágyi

“…Reflectance mode UV–visible spectroscopy showed that most IOs had photonic properties, i.e., a photonic band gap, and by the “slow” photon effect enhanced absorbance, except the 326 nm IO, even though it also had an increase in absorbance. …”
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Generalisation of EEG-Based Pain Biomarker Classification for Predicting Central Neuropathic Pain in Subacute Spinal Cord Injury by Keri Anderson, Sebastian Stein, Ho Suen, Mariel Purcell, Maurizio Belci, Euan McCaughey, Ronali McLean, Aye Khine, Aleksandra Vuckovic

“…EEG features were extracted based on either band power or Higuchi fractal dimension (HFD). Three levels of generalisability were tested: (1) classification PDP vs. …”
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Transconjunctival correction of involutional entropion: A video demonstration by Neelam Pushker, B. Mounica, Sahil Agrawal

“…The limitations of the procedure are mainly that it needs surgical expertise and excessive skin excision if needed cannot be conducted. …”
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Long-Term Evaluation of GCOM-C/SGLI Reflectance and Water Quality Products: Variability Among JAXA G-Portal and JASMES by Salem Ibrahim Salem, Mitsuhiro Toratani, Hiroto Higa, SeungHyun Son, Eko Siswanto, Joji Ishizaka

“…The Global Change Observation Mission-Climate (GCOM-C) satellite, launched in December 2017, is equipped with the Second-generation Global Imager (SGLI) sensor, featuring a moderate spatial resolution of 250 m and 19 spectral bands, including the unique 380 nm band. After six years in orbit, a comprehensive evaluation of SGLI products and their temporal consistency is needed. …”
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Study on Properties of Drainage SBS Modified Asphalt Mixture with Fiber by Zhenxia Li, Tengteng Guo, Yuanzhao Chen, Menghan Zhang, Qingyu Xu, Jing Wang, Lihui Jin

“…The modification effect was evaluated from the perspective of high and low temperature rheological properties by dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) and bending beam rheometer (BBR) tests. The high temperature stability, water stability, low temperature crack resistance, and drainage of basalt fiber SBS drainage asphalt mixture were evaluated and compared with nonfiber SBS drainage asphalt mixture and TPS drainage asphalt mixture. …”
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Calorimetric and Spectroscopic Studies of Water Adsorption onto Alkaline Earth Fluorides by Toshinori Mori, Yasushige Kuroda, Ryotaro Kumashiro, Koji Hirata, Hidehiro Toyota, Mahiko Nagao

“…The exposed surfaces of the alkaline earth fluoride samples, with which the (100) crystalline plane is mainly associated, were found to be fully covered with strongly adsorbed water molecules, resulting in characteristic IR bands at 3684, 2561, 1947 and 1000 cm −1 , respectively. …”
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Evaluation of Flexural Strength and Vickers Micro Hardness of Three Different Denture Base Resin Materials by Mohammed Ibrahim Mathar, Manish Chadha, AlMoataz Mohamed Amin Soliman, Saif H. Alharbi, R. Murali Karthik, Mohammed Ziauddeen Mustafa

“…Based on the three different denture base resin materials (n = 10/material) (30/flexural strength and 30/microhardness), the samples were split into six groups. The 3-point bending test was used to assess flexural strength, while Vickers microhardness test was used to assess surface hardness. …”
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Morphological and optical characterization of spin-coated CuO nanostructured thin films doped with V, Na, Ba, and Er for enhanced CO2 sensing by Nihed Allouche, Bouzid Boudjema, Radouane Daira, Adel M. El Sayed, Khaled Abdelkarem, Inas A. Ahmed, Mohamed Shaban

“…All the films displayed a monoclinic tenorite structure, with crystallite sizes ranging from 23.8 to 59.5 nm, and band gaps that increased from 1.7 eV for pure copper oxide to 2.1 eV for copper oxide doped with vanadium (CuO:V). …”
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Resistive flexible pressure sensor based on AgNWs–MXENE sponge for robot skin by Xiaoli Wang, Shuai Liu, Weidong Kang, Yanan Zhang, Hairong Kou

“…It can also accurately detect the tiny and large pressures generated by activities such as pressing, making sounds, swallowing, and bending. This is of great significance for the accurate operation of robots, the functional optimization of wearable devices, and the improvement of the accuracy of health monitoring, and it has broad application prospects in the fields of robot skin, wearable electronic devices, health monitoring, and human–machine interaction.…”
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Stochastic inversion method based on compressed sensing frequency division waveform indication prior by Minmin Huang, Leyi Xu, Yanhui Zhu, Ye He, Zhiye Li, Ying Lin

“…This method fully considers the geophysical mapping relationship between the observed seismic data and the parameters to be inverted across different frequency bands. And the correlation coefficients between the seismic data at the known points and the predicted points are obtained by solving the low-rank system of equations through the compressed sensing method. …”
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Wood flour / ceramic reinforced polylactic acid based 3D–printed functionally grade structural material for integrated engineering applications: A numerical and experimental charac... by Arunkumar Thirugnanasamabandam, B. Prabhu, Varsha Mageswari, V. Murugan, Karthikeyan Ramachandran, Kumaran Kadirgama

“…The mechanical properties of the printed laminates are examined using tensile, compression and three point bend tests. The microscopic investigation is used to assess fracture morphologies. …”
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2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid in the Gas and Crystal Phases and Its Intercalation in Montmorillonite—An Experimental and Theoretical Study by Claro Ignacio Sainz-Díaz, Nelly L. Jorge, Jorge M. Romero, André Grand, Alfonso Hernández-Laguna

“…From the theoretical IR spectra, a vibrational analysis of this molecular species was accomplished, and the bands were reassigned. ¹H and ¹³C NMR in the dissolution and solid states, respectively, showed intramolecular hydrogen bonds between carboxylic acid groups. …”
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Silicon Nitride Spot-Size Converter with Coupling Loss < 1.5 dB for Both Polarizations at 1W Optical Input by Enge Zhang, Yu Zhang, Lei Zhang, Xu Yang

“…Microwave photonics (MWP) applications often require a high optical input power (>100 mW) to achieve an optimal signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). However, conventional silicon spot-size converters (SSCs) are susceptible to high optical power due to the two-photon absorption (TPA) effect. …”
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Enhanced Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries Using 3D MoS₂/Conductive Polymer Composite by Tongxin Jiang, Sijie Li, Zexiang Luo, Xue Li, Lifeng Zhang, Haisheng San, Xin Li, Yifei Ma

“…MoS₂, a typical transition metal dichalcogenide, features a layered structure, multi-phase transition, and tunable band gap, which is a promising candidate for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs). …”
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O uso do geoprocessamento na espacialização e avaliação das Áreas de Preservação Permanente: Cidade de Porto Velho-RO by Helen Rose Oliveira da Silva, Siane Cristhina Pedroso Guimarães, Liliana Borges de Oliveira

“…The aim of this study is to delimit the Permanent Preservation Area (PPA) in the urban area of Porto Velho city, with bands of 15m to 30m. As a checking base geoprocessing was associated with the use of remote sensing. …”
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Comparative Performance of Sentinel-2 and Landsat-9 Data for Raw Materials’ Exploration Onshore and in Coastal Areas by Morgana Carvalho, Joana Cardoso-Fernandes, Francisco Javier González, Ana Claudia Teodoro

“…The demand for Critical Raw Materials (CRM) is increasing due to the need to decarbonize economies and transition to a sustainable low-carbon future achieving climate goals. …”
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