Changes of Endothelin-1 and Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Concentrations in Patients with Cervical Radiculopathy after Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Hot Compression wit... by Wei Li, Chi Yao, Yanghong Zhou, Sishi Chen

“…The study group showed lower scores of the visual analogue scale (VAS), Northwick Park Neck Pain Questionnaire (NPQ), McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), numbness intensity assessment, and neck disability index (NDI) but higher scores of the Short Form-36 (SF-36) health survey questionnaire than the control group after treatment. …”
Get full text

FSAS: An IoT-Based Security System for Crop Field Storage by Chandra Prakash, Anurag Barthwal, Shwetank Avikal, Gyanendra Kumar Singh

“…The status and the alarms can be received by the farm owners, either on their smartphones as application alerts or as a short message/phone call, at any distance, and independent of whether their cell phones are connected to the Internet.…”
Get full text

Pulmonary Effects of Neonatal Hydrocortisone Treatment in Ventilator-Dependent Preterm Infants by Sandra E. A. de Jong, Floris Groenendaal, Frank van Bel, Karin J. Rademaker

“…Hydrocortisone, administered to ventilated preterm neonates to facilitate extubation, has no adverse long-term effects, but short-term pulmonary effects have not been described previously. …”
Get full text

The Debate on the Aesthetics of Business Brand Innovation Among the Millennial Generation for the Issuance of Halal Certification by Haryati Haryati, Heri Junaidi, Sheikh Mohammed Rateb

“…Millennials are becoming aware that brands with elements seen as forbidden can face public scrutiny, impacting their products. This often leads to short-lived success, with businesses fading away and ultimately financial loss.…”
Get full text

Sleep trajectories and frequency of non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents: a person-oriented perspective over two years by S. V. Bauducco, L. Tilton-Weaver, M. Gradisar, M. Hysing, D. Latina

“…The aim of this study was to explore the frequency of NSSI among different longitudinal trajectories of insomnia symptoms and short sleep duration to identify at-risk adolescents. …”
Get full text

Methodological Evaluation of the Final Examinations of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing by Margarita Rosa Romeu Escobar, Jose Aurelio Díaz Quiñones

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> The most common question format was the modified essay question requiring short answers. Of the 109 exams, 88.9 % had well-constructed stems, 59.6% well-designed items and 61.6% correct rating scales. …”
Get full text

Hierarchical quantitative prediction of photovoltaic power generation depreciation expense based on matrix task prioritization considering uncertainty risk by Yinming Liu, Wengang Wang, Xiangyue Meng, Yuchen Zhang, Zhuyu Chen

“…According to the calculated risk value, a double-layer photovoltaic power generation cost planning model is constructed, the upper and lower objective functions of the model are determined, and the constraint conditions are designed; Obtain a cost planning objective function solution base on a matrix task prioritization method, and generating a prioritization table; Prediction of photovoltaic power generation depreciation expense based on long-short memory neural network for each solution in the sorting table. …”
Get full text

Cardiomyocyte-Restricted Deletion of PPARβ/δ in PPARα-Null Mice Causes Impaired Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Defense, but No Further Depression of Myocardial Fatty Acid Oxidation... by Jian Liu, Peiyong Wang, Lan He, Yuquan Li, Jinwen Luo, Lihong Cheng, Qianhong Qin, Lawrence A. Brako, Woo-kuen Lo, William Lewis, Qinglin Yang

“…Moreover, PPARα-null did not alter the phenotypic development in adult mice with the short-term deletion of PPARβ/δ in their hearts, which showed mitochondrial abnormalities, depressed cardiac performance, and cardiac hypertrophy with attenuated expression of key factors in mitochondrial biogenesis and defense. …”
Get full text

NeuralACT: Accounting Analytics Using Neural Network for Real-Time Decision Making From Big Data by Leonidas Theodorakopoulos, Alexandra Theodoropoulou, Georgios Kampiotis, Ioanna Kalliampakou

“…It uses a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) network trained with Visegrad Group Companies (VGC) dataset customized and improved for accounting features prediction. …”
Get full text

Prognostic Relevance and Function of MSX2 in Colorectal Cancer by Jiancheng Liu, Huaying An, Wei Yuan, Qiang Feng, Lianzhen Chen, Jie Ma

“…Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that high mRNA expression of MSX2 was associated with short survival time (P=0.013). Chi-squared test analysis indicated that MSX2 expression was related to tumor size (P=0.04), tumor locus (P=0.025), clinical stage (P<0.001), tumor invasion (P=0.003), lymphatic metastasis (P=0.01), and distant metastasis (P=0.033). …”
Get full text

Full-color dynamic volumetric displays with tunable upconversion emission from RE3+-doped glasses (RE = Ho, Tm, Nd, Yb) under NIR laser excitation by Utku Ekim, Diğdem Özkutay, Miray Çelikbilek Ersundu, Ali Erçin Ersundu

“…Laser-based volumetric displays (VDs) offer a promising solution; nonetheless, existing screen materials fall short in meeting key requirements for long-term durability, full-color operation, and scalability. …”
Get full text

Predicting the correlation between neurological abnormalities and thyroid dysfunction using artificial neural networks by Dina Falah Noori Al-Sabak, Leila Sadeghi, Gholamreza Dehghan

“…The model features a sequential architecture, comprising a long short-term memory (LSTM) layer, a bidirectional LSTM layer, and several fully connected layers. …”
Get full text

ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL CARE IN EUROPEAN PRISONS IN THE LIGHT OF THE ECTHR JURISPRUDENCE by Florin PROCA

“…Perhaps because of this, once in detention, some begin to fake all sorts of medical problems in order to receive certain benefits such as better food for a falsely declared digestive problem, better accommodation in the unit's infirmary at least for a short amount of time etc. Others use this ruse and feign very serious medical problems to try to escape their penance and regain their freedom before the sentence set by the court expires.…”
Get full text

Thermal and ballistic characterization of epoxy matrix composites reinforced with babassu (Attalea speciosa) fiber: An experimental investigation by Lucas Moura Montenegro Reis, Pedro Henrique Poubel Mendonça da Silveira, Yago Soares Chaves, Rafael Travincas Pinto, Lucas de Mendonça Neuba, Sergio Neves Monteiro, Lucio Fabio Cassiano Nascimento

“…This work focused on developing lightweight and cost-effective ballistic shields using epoxy matrix composites reinforced with short babassu fibers. Composites containing 10, 20, and 30 vol% fiber content were produced via compression molding and assessed for their chemical composition, thermal properties, and ballistic performance. …”
Get full text

The creative history of Naki Isanbet’s comedy “Red-haired chichyan and Black-haired beauty” by Zamaletdinov R.R., Khabutdinova M.M.

“…Naki Isanbet’s comedy “Jiren chichan belan Karachach sylu” (“Red-haired chichyan and Black-haired beauty”, 1942) is a vivid evidence of the valorization of national cultural values during the Great Patriotic War. During the short period the playwright managed to perpetuate national images of heroes on the stage: Idegey, Tulyak, Jiren chichyan and Karachech sylu. …”
Get full text

Many winners, few losers: stable bird populations on an Afrotropical mountain amidst climate change by Mwangi Wambugu, Mwangi Wambugu, Laura Martínez-Íñigo, Bernard Amakobe, Bernard Amakobe, Mwangi Githiru, Mwangi Githiru

“…While mountain ecosystems are viewed as potential refugia for biodiversity in the face of a warming climate, further studies are needed to understand the drivers of short and long-term declines in bird populations at higher elevations, especially in tropical Africa.…”
Get full text

Counterfactual Based Approaches for Feature Attributions of Stress Factors Affecting Rice Yield by Nisha P. Shetty, Balachandra Muniyal, Ketavarapu Sriyans, Kunyalik Garg, Shiv Pratap, Aman Priyanshu, Dhruthi Kumar

“…LIME provided localized insights on immediate influences, such as average rainfall and nitrogen content, although it fell short in revealing broader causal interactions essential for targeted agricultural interventions. …”
Get full text

The Potential Use of the CRISPR-Cas System for HIV-1 Gene Therapy by Gabriela De Nardi Sanches-da-Silva, Luiza Fonseca Sales Medeiros, Fabio Mitsuo Lima

“…The CRISPR- (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat-) Cas system is a genome-editing method which uses a guide RNA, a complementary sequence to the interested site, recruiting a nuclease that can break the viral or the host cell genetic material. …”
Get full text

Research on the Policy Effect of Property Tax Reform: Take the Pilot Reforms in Chongqing and Shanghai as Examples by Wei Dong, Xinqi Fu, Yang Zhang, Guowei Qin

“…The levy of real estate tax has a certain effect in a short period of time, but it is not ideal in the long run. …”
Get full text

Rethinking the role of the media in South Africa by Pieter Jacobus Fourie

“…Yet, the historical development of the concept, the values associated with it, and its meaning and relevance in terms of the nature of present day society, including developing societies such as South Africa, are seldom investigated and debated. In short, the concept is taken for granted and dealt with as a matter of course without critical consideration of its content, the values it embodies and its applicability to modern democracies. …”
Get full text