Design and Fabrication of a Novel Wideband DNG Metamaterial with the Absorber Application in Microwave X-Band by Ahmed Mahmood, Gölge Ögücü Yetkin, Cumali Sabah

“…A novel metamaterial, which exhibits a wideband double negative behavior in X-band, is proposed, designed, and investigated in this paper. …”
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Central Corneal Subepithelial Haze Following Keratoplasty With Interrupted Sutures: A Novel Clinical Finding by Kirat O, Hawsawi R, AlHilali S

“…Early suture adjustment or removal is essential to prevent permanent scarring. Further studies are needed to better understand this complication’s pathophysiology.Keywords: keratoplasty, sutures, subepithelial, haze…”
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A General Class of Derivative Free Optimal Root Finding Methods Based on Rational Interpolation by Fiza Zafar, Nusrat Yasmin, Saima Akram, Moin-ud-Din Junjua

“…The special cases of this class are obtained. These methods do not need Newton’s iterate in the …first step of their iterative schemes. …”
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Evaluation of Clinical and Radiographic Findings among Patients with Traumatic Dental Injuries Seeking Delayed Treatment by Sanjeeb Chaudhary, Harender Singh, Archana Gharti, Bhawana Adhikari

“…The aim of this study was to analyze clinical and radiographic findings related to complications of TDIs among patients seeking delayed treatment of such injuries. …”
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Ultra-Compact Slitted Flower-Shaped Dual-Band Monopole Antenna for Modern Portable Devices by Jeremiah O Abolade, Dominic B. O. Konditi

“…The proposed MSB antenna demonstrates a peak gain of 2.9 dBi at 5.2 GHz and an omnidirectional radiation pattern at both E-plane and H-plane in both operating bands. The fabrication and measurement of the proposed antenna prototype are presented. …”
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Turkish Mathematics and Science Teachers’ Technology Use in Their Classroom Instruction: Findings from TIMSS 2011 by Yasemin Tas, Esra Balgalmis

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Comparison of Different Adhesive Systems on Bond Strength of Resin Composite Posts Placed in Primary Teeth by Zahra Bahrololoomi, Fateme Mehravar

“…In this experimental study, sixty-eight primary lateral incisors were randomly allocated in four groups (n = 17): Adper Single Bond 2 (ASB), Clearfil SE Bond 2 (CSE), G-Premio Bond in etch-and-rinse mode (GP-ER), and G-Premio Bond in the self-etch mode (GP-SE). …”
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Peculiarities of the Protonation Reaction in the Interfacial Layer of a Silica Containing Covalently Bonded -Methylaminopropyl Groups by Vladimir N. Zaitsev, Viktoria D. Oleynik

“…The reaction between an aqueous solution of a strong acid and the methylaminopropyl groups chemically bonded to a silica surface (A-NHCH 3 ) was studied potentiometrically at various temperatures. …”
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Fabrication and Characterization of a W-Band Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna-Coupled Niobium Microbolometer by M. Abdel-Rahman, M. Kamran Saleem, Najeeb Al-Khalli, Nacer Debbar, Majeed A. S. Alkanhal, Abdelrazik Sebak

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FUZZY REGION MERGING WITH HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING TO FIND OPTIMAL INITIALIZATION OF FUZZY REGION IN IMAGE SEGMENTATION by Wawan GUNAWAN

“…In this study, fuzzy region merging using hierarchical clustering is proposed to find optimal initialization for fuzzy regions in image segmentation. …”
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Recovering Pulsar Periodicity from Time-of-arrival Data by Finding the Shortest Vector in a Lattice by Dotan Gazith, Aaron B. Pearlman, Barak Zackay

“…In this paper, we frame the timing recovery problem as the problem of finding a short vector in a lattice and obtain the solution using off-the-shelf lattice reduction and sieving techniques. …”
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Congenital Extrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts: Spectrum of Findings on Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Pankaj Gupta, Anindita Sinha, Kushaljit Singh Sodhi, Anupam Lal, Uma Debi, Babu R. Thapa, Niranjan Khandelwal

“…Type I is characterised by complete lack of intrahepatic portal venous blood flow due to an end to side fistula between main portal vein and the inferior vena cava. …”
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Numerical Analysis of Shear Contribution of CFRP-Strengthened RC Beams by Different Bond-Slip Models by Shengqiang Ma, Jianfeng Sun, Tiancai Xu

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Potential of Shredded Ramie Fibers as Reinforcement in Recycled Polypropylene Composites: Analysis of Tensile and Bending Strength by Rina Afiani Rebia, Faroh Sabila, Ade Primananda

“…Before use, the scraped ramie fiber (SRK) was subjected to pretreatment with 5% NaOH to improve the mechanical bonding. The hot press technique was used to fabricate the PP/SRK composite. …”
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Bending behavior and influence parameter optimization of connection joints of disc-buckle type formwork support by Jinfeng Dong, Zelong Liao, Haiqing Liu, Zhongwei Zhao, Ming Lei, Zimu Chen, Liang Wang, Xiangen Gong

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Compact Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna with Symmetric Parasitic Rectangular Patches for Ka-Band Applications by Rongling Jian, Yueyun Chen, Taohua Chen

“…The proposed antenna is suitable for CP applications in the Ka-band.…”
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Band anisotropy and effective mass renormalization in strained metallic VO2 (101) thin films by A. D’Elia, V. Polewczyk, A. Y. Petrov, G. Vinai, L. Li, C. W. Zou, S. J. Rezvani, A. Marcelli

“…Our findings reveal that reducing the thickness of VO2 films leads to a more isotropic band structure. …”
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Three Extensions of Tong and Richardson’s Algorithm for Finding the Optimal Path in Schedule-Based Railway Networks by J. Xie, S. C. Wong, S. M. Lo

“…The Tong and Richardson algorithm that is used in this model offers a promising method for finding the optimal path in a schedule-based transit network. …”
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Bending Response of Cross-Ply Laminated Composite Plates with Diagonally Perturbed Localized Interfacial Degeneration by Chee Zhou Kam, Ahmad Beng Hong Kueh

“…To account for the extent of both shear and axial weak bonding, a degeneration ratio is introduced in the interface formulation. …”
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Concurrent DNA hypomethylation and epigenomic reprogramming driven by androgen receptor binding in bladder cancer oncogenesis by Yu Xiao, Lingao Ju, Wan Jin, Hongwei Peng, Zongning Zhou, Mengxue Yu, Zilin Xu, Gang Wang, Kaiyu Qian, Yi Zhang, Xinghuan Wang

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