Experimental Verification of the Field Robotic System for Pipeline Maintenance by Thanh Phuong Nguyen, Hung Nguyen, Nhat Minh Ngo, Ha Quang Thinh Ngo

“…As a result of these evaluations, both computer-based model and real-world model have been experimented. To guarantee the effectiveness and feasibility of our approach, three levels of validations are presented. …”
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Call to Action: Lead Pharmacy into the Next Decade by Kerry K Fierke, Gardner Lepp, Bridget McGugan, Marta Brooks

“… Introduction The pace of change in healthcare and throughout the world will only continue to escalate. This evolution of continuously changing information requires us to be responsive and innovative. …”
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Sex differences in prevalence and determinants of hypertension among adults: a cross-sectional survey of one rural village in Bangladesh by Jessica Yasmine Islam, M Mostafa Zaman, Jasim Uddin Ahmed, Sohel Reza Choudhury, Hasanuzzaman Khan, Tashfin Zissan

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Geographical Peer Matching for P2P Energy Sharing by Romaric Duvignau, Vincenzo Gulisano, Marina Papatriantafilou, Ralf Klasing

“…Our scalable algorithms thus provide one core building block for practical and data-efficient peer-to-peer energy sharing communities within large-scale optimization systems.…”
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Improving Performance of Real-Time Object Detection in Edge Device Through Concurrent Multi-Frame Processing by Seunghwan Kim, Changjong Kim, Sunggon Kim

“…Then, we allocate a group of frames per core to perform the object detection, resulting in parallel detection of multiple frames. We implement our scheme in YOLO (You Only Look Once), one of the most popular real-time object detection algorithms, on a state-of-the-art, resource-constrained IoT edge device, Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano, using real-world video and image datasets, including MS-COCO, ImageNet, PascalVOC, DOTA, animal videos, and car-traffic videos. …”
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Flood modeling prior to the instrumental era reveals limited magnitude of 1931 Yangtze flood by Ling Zhang, Zhongshi Zhang, Lu Li, Xiaoling Chen, Xijin Wang, Entao Yu, Pratik Kad, Odd Helge Otterå, Chuncheng Guo, Jianzhong Lu, Mingna Wu

“…We developed a dynamical approach, NorESM-WRF-SWAT, integrating a global climate, a regional, and a hydrologic model to investigate the 1931 Yangtze River flood (the deadliest in the world) and compared it with the 1998’s. …”
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Soil Conservation Benefits of Ecological Programs Promote Sustainable Restoration by Renjie Zong, Nufang Fang, Yi Zeng, Xixi Lu, Zhen Wang, Wei Dai, Zhihua Shi

“…Our analysis reveals that these restoration programs, with a total investment of $133 billion, have prevented 7.29 ± 1.01 Pg of soil erosion, valued at $243.0 ± 25.9 billion from 2000 to 2019. …”
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Multicamera Real-Time 3D Modeling for Telepresence and Remote Collaboration by Benjamin Petit, Jean-Denis Lesage, Clément Menier, Jérémie Allard, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Bruno Raffin, Edmond Boyer, François Faure

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Did Turkey Experience Reductions in Air Pollution During The Covid-19 Lockdown and Partial Lockdown? by İsmet Yener, Kazım Onur Demirarslan

“…The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has caused widespread illness and fatalities. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a state of emergency at the end of December 2019 following the first recognition of the virus in Wuhan. …”
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Microcontroller-Based Intravenous Fluid Monitoring System Design by Phisca Aditya Rosyady, Nurina Umy Habibah, Ahmad Raditya Cahya Baswara, Nuni Ihsana, Dedik Sulistiawan, Widya Rahayu Dinata

“…This has always been a problem because the limited number of medical personnel and the large number of patients often make it difficult for medical personnel to carry out their duties. The development of technology increases human creativity and creates various tools to help humans be more effective, including in dealing with problems in the medical world. …”
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Antibacterial Activity of Rationally Designed Antimicrobial Peptides by Marius B. Tincho, Thureyah Morris, Mervin Meyer, Ashley Pretorius

“…Many infectious diseases are still prevalent in the world’s populations since no effective treatments are available to eradicate them. …”
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Exploring Strategies to Improve Adherence to Immunization Schedule: A Study among Children Attending Maternal and Child Health Clinic at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya by Esther Cheptanui Muathe, Mary Kamau, Eve Rajula

“…Despite immunization guidelines put in place by the World Health Organization, globally, 1.5 million children die annually related to inadequate vaccination coverage. …”
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Novel Osteo Refurbishment Method and Choice of Colouring Materials for Anatomy Specimens by Dibakar BORTHAKUR, Rajesh KUMAR, Neerja RANI, Rima DADA

“…Objective: The introduction of competency-based medical education curriculum and a shifted focus towards self-directed learning (SDL) in medical schools across the world has necessitated a reduction of didactic teaching hours. …”
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Statistical Distribution of Urban Area Reveals a Converging Trend of Global Urban Land Expansion by Shengjie Hu, Zhenlei Yang, Sergio Andres Galindo Torres, Zipeng Wang, Haoying Han, Yoshihide Wada, Thomas Cherico Wanger, Ling Li

“…Abstract Urban land expansion is a major driver of many environmental and societal changes that challenge human well‐being and sustainable development, but its evolutionary process and dynamics are neither clear nor well‐integrated into urban science quantitatively. …”
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Numerical Assessment of a Safety System to Minimize Injuries during a Cyclist Run-Over by E. H. López-García, M. F. Carbajal-Romero, J. A. Flores-Campos, C. R. Torres-SanMiguel

“…Background. The World Health Organization has reported that 1.35 million people die on the roads every year due to road traffic accidents. …”
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Untreated Active Tuberculosis in Pregnancy with Intraocular Dissemination: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Shadi Rezai, Stephen LoBue, Daniel Adams, Yewande Oladipo, Ramses Posso, Tiffany Mapp, Crystal Santiago, Manisha Jain, William D. Marino, Cassandra E. Henderson

“…Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that affects hundreds of millions of people across the world. However, the incidence in developed countries has decreased over the past decades causing physicians to become unfamiliar with its unspecific symptoms. …”
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A Comparison of Penguin Swarm Optimization Algorithms for Enhancing Network Throughput by Talha Akhtar, Najmi Ghani Haider, Nadeem Kafi Khan, Rashid Uddin

“…The traffic throughput throughout peak hours was significantly enhanced by 62% when PeSO used the Circle multimodal function, as opposed to 62.37% when PeSO used the Raster-gin multi-modal function. …”
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Modern approaches to the therapy of computer visual syndrome by Zakharova M.A., Zh.G. Oganezova

“…Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution, Moscow<br> ² Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow<br> <br> In the modern world, computers and electronic devices have become universal tools that are actively used not only in professional activities, but during the rest. …”
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteraemia in a Young Boy following Mumps Infection: A Case Report by Jayakanthan Saravanan, AP Krithika, M Geetha

“…The boy was started on doxycycline, and the fever abated within 24 hours, leading to constitutional improvement. This unusual presentation of MRSA bacteraemia following a mumps infection underscores the importance of considering all possible differential diagnosis when a child does not follow the expected clinical course and continues to exhibit symptoms without improvement.…”
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Toward a new interdisciplinary model to understand Alzheimer’s disease: The interplay between neurobiology and socio-economic factors by Hyun Jee Han, Clive Shrubsole

“…Results: Our interdisciplinary model depicts a pathway through which specific socio-economic factors (poor residential conditions and geographical sites, low educational levels) and environmental factors (i.e. air pollution exposure) interact to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. …”
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