What can neurofeedback and transcranial alternating current stimulation reveal about cross-frequency coupling? by Mária Orendáčová, Eugen Kvašňák

“…Neurofeedback and tACS appear to be promising tools for studying CFC.…”
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Comparison of mechanical properties of recent and 400-year-old European larch wood by Enej Lipovec Zupanc, Gorazd Fajdiga, Miha Humar

“…Therefore, we compared the mechanical properties of fresh European larch (Larix decidua) and 400-year-old larch found in the Ruard manor house on the Stara Sava in Jesenice, where the renovation of the Upper Sava Museum is currently underway. In order to predict what will happen to the fresh wood over the long term, it is necessary to expose the wood to the same conditions, i.e. to change it with dynamic loads or material fatigue. …”
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Archaic Inventory in the Burials of the Yamnaya Culture in the Samara Trans-Volga Region and the Southern Ural by Nina L. Morgunova, Natalya P. Salugina, Airat A. Faizullin

“…They include archaic ceramics, some jewelry made of shells, boar tusk and rarely items made of copper. In addition to morphology, the technology of vessels with archaic features was analyzed and a conclusion was made about the continuity of traditions in the Eneolithic pottery of the Khvalynsk and Samara cultures in the Volga region and pottery technology at the early stage of the Yamnaya culture. …”
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Improvement of Core Performance by Introduction of Moderators in a Blanket Region of Fast Reactors by Toshio Wakabayashi

“…It was clear that the serious drawback did not appear from the viewpoints of the core characteristics and core safety.…”
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Variation in Macro and Trace Elements in Progression of Type 2 Diabetes by Khalid Siddiqui, Nahla Bawazeer, Salini Scaria Joy

“…The calcium, magnesium, sodium, chromium, cobalt, iodine, iron, selenium, manganese, and zinc seem to be low in type 2 diabetes while elements such as potassium and copper have no effect. In this review, we emphasized the status of macro and trace elements in type 2 diabetes and its advantages or disadvantages; this helps to understand the mechanism, progression, and prevention of type 2 diabetes due to the lack and deficiency of different macro and trace elements.…”
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Microscopic Texture of Polypropylene Fiber-Reinforced Concrete with X-Ray Computed Tomography by Yu Qin, Hua Wu, Yong Zheng, Weina Wang, Zhijian Yi

“…The results showed that the orientation of microcracks, which appear in the interfacial transition zone, are along the surface of the coarse aggregate. …”
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IS TRANSLANGUAGING LEGITIMATE IN ENGLISH LEARNING?: STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES FROM INDONESIA by Surya Asra, Rahmiati Rahmiati, Prima Nucifera, Fadlia Fadlia, Aina Mawaddah

“…As in Indonesian context, the practice of integrating Indonesian language (L1) into English classes (L2) or translanguaging practice is very common to happen. Many students think it is useful for them in learning a foreign language. …”
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Defective Laplacians and paradoxical phenomena in crowd motion modeling by Maury, Bertrand

“…In both continuous and discrete settings, Laplace operators appear quite commonly in the modeling of natural phenomena, in several context: diffusion, heat propagation, porous media, fluid flows through pipes, electricity.... …”
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Intuitionistic Fuzzy Hamacher Generalized Shapley Choquet Integral Operators Based Decision-Making Model for Feature Extraction and Automatic Material Classification in Mining Area... by Seema Khanum, M. Gunasekaran, S. V. Rajiga, A. Firos, Kafui Tsoeke Agbevanu

“…., vanadium(V), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), and nickel (Ni) in the study area than other methods. …”
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Application of Reverse Time Migration to Faults Imaging in Rakhine Basin, Myanmar by Seonghyung Jang, Donghoon Lee

“…Typically, these structures appear heavily blurred and are difficult to identify using normal stack and prestack time migration. …”
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Intraparenchymal Hematoma as the Beginning of an Arteriovenous Malformation. Case Report by Juan Ibrahim García Leonard, Ada Sánchez Lozano, Masleidy Valladares Valle

“…They are frequently located in the territory of the great cerebral arteries, but they can appear in any other vascular bed and are causes of intracerebral hemorrhages, epilepsy, focal neurological signs, and other symptoms. …”
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Mina Loy’s Surrealist Strategies of Renewal by Diane Drouin

“…Throughout her life, Loy paid tribute to many prominent artists, including Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, the sculptor Brancusi in her poem “Brancusi’s Golden Bird,” the German painter Richard Oelze, or the American Surrealist Joseph Cornell, who both appear in her Surrealist novel Insel. Relying on Loy’s lesser-known essays and notes on art, and on her own artworks, including her late assemblages, this article examines Loy’s linguistic, critical, spiritual, and material strategies of renewal. …”
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Long-Term Provision of Acidified Drinking Water Fails to Influence Autoimmune Diabetes and Encephalomyelitis by Sundararajan Jayaraman, Arathi Jayaraman

“…Thus, administration of acidic drinking water does not appear to be an option for treating autoimmune diseases.…”
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CHRISTIAN SELF-FORMATION: AN AUGUSTINIAN CONTRIBUTION by F. England

“…Rather, for Augustine, it appears that to be human is to pursue the quest of self-knowing in a relational formation that opens into the life of the being who called one into existence. …”
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Motion - Colonoscopic Surveillance is more Cost Effective than Colectomy in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis: Arguments Against the Motion by Anders Ekbom

“…Moreover, it is difficult to keep patients in surveillance programs, and those who withdraw from programs appear to be at high risk of developing cancer. Prophylactic colectomy should be strongly considered for patients with dysplasia, sclerosing cholangitis, longstanding pancolitis (especially if it began early in life) or a positive family history of colorectal cancer. …”
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Trends in Mortality from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Alberta: Back to the Future? by Tee L Guidotti

“…There is no obvious explanation that would explain all of the observed trends, but they appear more likely to be a consequence of social and environmental conditions, including changes in health-related behaviour, than of major changes in medical management at the time.…”
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Crack Initiation, Propagation, and Coalescence Experiments in Sandstone Brazilian Disks Containing Pre-Existing Flaws by Shijun Zhao, Qing Zhang, Limin Liu

“…The results reveal that wing cracks appear first and propagate toward the loading direction. …”
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Recovery of Lost Target Using Target Tracking in Event Driven Clustered Wireless Sensor Network by Shailaja Patil, Ashish Gupta, Mukesh Zaveri

“…However, the presence of a coverage hole(s) in the network may hamper tracking by causing temporary loss of target, which is a crucial issue in mission critical applications. …”
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The Utah Population Database. The Legacy of Four Decades of Demographic Research by Ken. R. Smith, Geraldine P. Mineau

“…This paper summarizes the unique characteristics of the Utah Population Database (UPDB) and how it has catalyzed demographic, social and medical research since the mid-1970s. …”
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A microscale thermophoresis-based enzymatic RNA methyltransferase assay enables the discovery of DNMT2 inhibitors by Zarina Nidoieva, Mark O. Sabin, Tristan Dewald, Annabelle C. Weldert, Sabrina N. Hoba, Mark Helm, Fabian Barthels

“…Yet, most frequently utilized RNA MTase assays are limited in their throughput and hamper this rapidly evolving field of medicinal chemistry. …”
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