Simultaneous Photocatalytic Reduction of Cr(VI) and Oxidation of Benzoic Acid in Aqueous N-F-Codoped TiO2 Suspensions: Optimization and Modeling Using the Response Surface Methodol... by Maria Antonopoulou, Aris Giannakas, Ioannis Konstantinou

“…The results revealed the feasibility and the effectiveness of using N-F-codoped TiO2 as photocatalyst for simultaneous decontamination of Cr(VI) and organic pollutants such as BA due to the appropriate oxidation and reduction ability of the photogenerated h+VB-e−CB pairs.…”
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Predicting accrual success for better clinical trial resource allocation by Sisi Ma, Yinzhao Wang, John Wagner, Steve Johnson, Serguei Pakhomov, Constantin Aliferis

“…Failure to meet accrual goals have a significant impact on costs for sponsors, academic institutions, investigators, and society at large. The ability to predict trial accrual success with high precision before the trial starts would be highly valuable, preventing the allocation of critical resources for trials unlikely to meet accrual goals. …”
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Problems with studying directional natural selection in humans by S. V. Mikhailova

“…., for those associated with an immune response and cognitive abilities. Examination of the correlation between fertility and educational attainment yields conflicting results. …”
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Rapid and Nondestructive Determination of Egg Freshness Category and Marked Date of Lay using Spectral Fingerprint by Thomas O. S. Akowuah, Ernest Teye, Julius Hagan, Kwasi Nyandey

“…The potential of nondestructive prediction of egg freshness based on near-infrared (NIR) spectra fingerprints would be beneficial to quality control officers and consumers alike. In this study, handheld NIR spectrometer in the range of 740 nm to 1070 nm and chemometrics were used to simultaneously determine egg freshness based on marked date of lay for eggs stored under cold and ambient conditions. …”
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Disseminated Candida lusitaniae: Nosocomial Acquisition Secondary to an Indwelling Urinary Catheter by Ali Raja, Julia Park

“…Despite this lack of apparent, classic risk factors, our patient developed endocarditis of his native valve due to C. lusitaniae fungemia from an indwelling urinary catheter. The ability of this organism to form biofilms, and its rapid mutation rate, makes treating C. lusitaniae very difficult. …”
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Knowledge of ICU Nurses Regarding the Ongoing Nursing Assessment of ICU Patients in Khartoum City, 2020 by Ahmed Osman, Montaha Mohammed, Sahar Ahmed

“…It needs to be conducted accurately to guide professional nurses’ decision-making ability to further provide holistic nursing care to patients in the intensive care units (ICUs). …”
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Protection of long-term land ownership: some problematic aspects by Yu. I. Chalyi

“…The ability of Ukrainian current legislation and law enforcement practice to provide effective protection of the interests of titleless bona fide landowners was critically assessed. …”
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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Generation Strategy and Epigenetic Mystery behind Reprogramming by Pengfei Ji, Sasicha Manupipatpong, Nina Xie, Yujing Li

“…Possessing the ability of self-renewal with immortalization and potential for differentiation into different cell types, stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells (ESC), have attracted significant attention since their discovery. …”
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Machine Learning-Based Classification of Turkish Music for Mood-Driven Selection by Nazime Tokgöz, Ali Değirmenci, Ömer Karal

“…With advancing technology, the ability to choose from a diverse range of music has expanded. …”
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Seeking Culturally Safe Developmental Evaluation: Supporting the Shift in Services for Indigenous Children by Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Pascale Geoffroy, Luz Luz Marina Hoyos

“…A history of colonization in Canada has resulted in a loss of Indigenous child-rearing practices Intervention: The study was carried out in the context of a three-year initiative aimed at strengthening the abilities of pregnant women, mothers, fathers, extended family, community, and practitioners to create conditions for the holistic development of themselves and their children. …”
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A versatile site-directed gene trap strategy to manipulate gene activity and control gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans. by Haania Khan, Xinyu Huang, Vishnu Raj, Han Wang

“…The ability to manipulate gene activity and control transgene expression is essential to study gene function. …”
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An Inverted Residual Cross Head Knowledge Distillation Network for Remote Sensing Scene Image Classification by Cuiping Shi, Mengxiang Ding, Liguo Wang

“…First, an inverted residual attention module is designed to extract and leverage both local and global information effectively, enhancing the model's ability to capture complex details while retaining contextual information. …”
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Disentangled Contrastive Learning From Synthetic Matching Pairs for Targeted Chest X-Ray Generation by Euyoung Kim, Soochahn Lee, Kyoung Mu Lee

“…However, traditional generative models often struggle to independently disentangle these attributes while maintaining the ability to generate entirely new, fully randomized, and diverse synthetic data. …”
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Management of Consumers Embraces Drone Delivery

“…As the need for swift and reliable delivery options increases, drone delivery is an option that businesses and consumers alike should consider. This paper studies the underlying factors that influence consumers' intentions to adopt drone delivery services in Portugal. …”
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Effects of whole-body vibration training on lower limb motor function and neural plasticity in patients with stroke: protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial by Mingkai Zhang, Jianing Wei, Xueping Wu

“…Transcranial magnetic stimulation will be used to assess neural plasticity while lower limb motor function is assessed using indicators of strength, walking ability and joint activity. The assessments will be conducted at the period of baseline, week 6, week 12 as well as on 4 and 8 weeks, respectively, after intervention completion.Ethics and dissemination This study has been approved by the Shanghai University of Sport Research Ethics Committee (102772021RT067) and will provide data on the effects of WBVT relative to RRT in terms of the improvement of stroke patients’ lower limb motor function and neural plasticity. …”
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Acute correction of electromechanical dyssynchrony and response to cardiac resynchronization therapy by Ghassan Moubarak, Guillaume Viart, Frédéric Anselme

“…Abstract Aims Echocardiographic measures of dyssynchrony at baseline have not demonstrated a good ability to predict response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). …”
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Neural Network for Enhancing Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review by Nafizul Alam, Sk Hasan, Gazi Abdullah Mashud, Subodh Bhujel

“…The integration of neural networks into robotic exoskeletons for physical rehabilitation has become popular due to their ability to interpret complex physiological signals. …”
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Feature Extraction of Music Signal Based on Adaptive Wave Equation Inversion by Tianzhuo Gong, Sibing Sun

“…The features extracted by the wave equation inversion have a higher recognition rate than the features extracted based on the standard decomposition algorithm, which verifies that the wave equation inversion has a better decomposition ability.…”
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3D ophthalmic ultrasonography at the slit lamp using existing ultrasound systems. by Jack O Thomas, Josiah K To, Parsa Riazi Esfahani, Frithjof Kruggel, William C Tang, Andrew W Browne

“…Ophthalmic and non-ophthalmic ultrasound probes were tested for their ability to reconstruct 3DUS images of the posterior pole. …”
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Impact and perceptions of Active Learning Classrooms on reducing sedentary behaviour and improving physical and mental health and academic indicators in children and adolescents: A... by Mairena Sánchez-López, Jesús Violero-Mellado, Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno, Arto Laukkanen, Arja Sääkslahti, María Eugenia Visier-Alfonso

“…Prolonged sitting in school harms children's physical and mental health and reduces the ability to focus on classroom tasks. 'Active Learning Classrooms' (ALCs) aim to decrease sitting time, following current pedagogical trends, though research on the effects of ALCs on these aspects is still an emerging field. …”
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