Factors associated with prolonged length of stay following cardiac surgery in a major referral hospital in Oman: a retrospective observational study by Paul Aylin, Ahmed Almashrafi, Hilal Alsabti, Mirdavron Mukaddirov, Baskaran Balan

“…The second was to devise a predictive model for prolonged LOS in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) based on preoperative factors available at admission and to compare it against two existing cardiac stratification systems.Design Observational retrospective study.Settings A tertiary hospital in Oman.Participants All adult patients who underwent cardiac surgery at a major referral hospital in Oman between 2009 and 2013.Results 30.5% of the patients had prolonged LOS (≥11 days) after surgery, while 17% experienced prolonged ICU LOS (≥5 days). …”
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An Analysis of Students’ Challenges in Speaking English in the Tenth Grade of Madrasah Aliyah Al-Hariri Tebo by Lili Rahma Yulita, Alfian, Nisaul Fadillah

“…Then, there are five solutions for teachers to overcome these challenges, namely: Use group or pair work, based on the activity’s easy language, provide some dialogue or instruction in effective communication, keep students speaking the target language, and the last solution is to select a task and topic to pique attention carefully. …”
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Do caldeirão de culturas ao buffet de diversidade cultural: os usos das “brasilidades” como discurso na moda contemporânea by Miqueli Michetti

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Comprehensive Evaluation of Driver's Propensity Based on Evidence Theory by Jinglei Zhang, Xiaoyuan Wang, Song Gao, Yiqing Song

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Redefinice sexuálních deliktů: vznik, koncepce a (r)evolučnost redefiniční novely by Daniel Bartoň

“…Analyzuji hlavní rysy právní úpravy účinné od 1. 1. 2025: trestnost sexuálního jednání proti seznatelné vůli druhého, vyloučení nepenetrativních sexuálních aktivit z trestného činu znásilnění, doplnění zákonné definice bezbrannosti, určení, že děti do dvanácti let jsou vždy bezbranné a koncepční pročištění trestného činu sexuálního nátlaku. …”
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A Multi-Signature Scheme for Defending Malleability Attack on DeFi by Chen Zhang, Wenyu Liao, Xiaobin Liu, Huanrong Wu, Mohammed J. F. Alenazi

“…MSS improves transaction efficiency by allowing many signers to establish a joint signature, which has piqued interest. Despite the method’s complexity and time-consuming nature, this research has adapted MSS to the blockchain to safeguard against malleability attacks. …”
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Multiscale deformable registration of noisy medical images by Dana Paquin, Doron Levy, Lei Xing

“…Multiscale image registration techniques are presented for the reg-istration of medical images using deformable registration models. The tech-niques are particularly effective for registration problems in which one or bothof the images to be registered contains significant levels of noise. …”
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A New Algorithm and Its Application in Detecting Community of the Bipartite Complex Network by Zhongyi Lei, Haiying Wang

“…First, extract the adjacent node sequences from the matrix of relation and use the obtained adjacent node sequences to build a generalized suffix tree; second, traverse the established generalized suffix tree to obtain the bipartite cliques; third, adjust the bipartite cliques; finally, dispose the isolated edges, get the communities, and complete the division of the bipartite network. …”
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Pain Mechanism in Rheumatoid Arthritis: From Cytokines to Central Sensitization by Yanting Cao, Danping Fan, Yiqing Yin

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Determinantes de crédito agropecuario entre productores de leche en Colombia by Evelyn Johana Tique, Juan Carlos Barrientos Fuentes

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New restricted and extended soft set operations: restricted gamma and extended gamma operations by Aslıhan Sezgin, Fitnat Aybek

“…The core concept of the theory, soft set operations, has piqued the curiosity of researchers ever since it was developed. …”
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Történelem, filozófia, elkötelezettség. Lukács György az értelmiség szerepéről by Gábor Budai

“…Ehhez két olyan írását hívom segítségül, amelyben a modern értelmiség általa legfontosabbnak tartott szerepéről kívánt számot adni: az egyik az 1919-ben megjelent „A szellemi vezetés kérdése és a »szellemi munkások«” című cikk, a másik pedig az 1933-ban született „»Szakadék« Nagyszálló” című tanulmány. …”
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"PUBLISH OR PERISH": JAVANESE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE ON JAVANESE-ENGLISH CODE-SWITCHING SONG by Amalina Maharani, Emy Sudarwati

“…Language maintenance of the Javanese language in a song named Lathi can pique the public's interest in learning Javanese by creating Javanese language maintenance represented in its song lyrics. …”
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Avances en Iber para la clasificación de balsas: proyecto ACROPOLIS by Marcos Sanz-Ramos, Ernest Bladé, Nathalia Silva-Cancino, Fernando Salazar

“…Según la legislación vigente, usuarios y administraciones tienen la obligación de clasificarlas en función del riesgo potencial frente una eventual rotura si tienen más de 100.000 m3 o el dique mide más de 5 m. Con el objetivo de construir un sistema de ayuda para su clasificación que facilite y agilice este proceso, se ha llevado a cabo el proyecto ACROPOLIS. …”
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The Systematic Theory on Geomorphology with Emphasis on Glacial Areas (Case Study, Oshtorankuh region) by Ebrahim Moghimi, Mohamad Fathollahzadeh

“…Geomorphometric analysis of the glacier cirques of the Oshtorankuh region shows that these landforms, unlike the usual glacier cirques, have been expanded more horizontally and superficially than were investigated in depth direction to justify the genesis and lithology of the area. …”
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Modeling of Random Delays in Networked Control Systems by Yuan Ge, Qigong Chen, Ming Jiang, Yiqing Huang

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Emerging Roles of Immune Cells in Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction by Yue Liu, Yiqing Yin

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Characterization of Fatty Acid Profile of Argan Oil and Other Edible Vegetable Oils by Gas Chromatography and Discriminant Analysis by Ascensión Rueda, Isabel Seiquer, Manuel Olalla, Rafael Giménez, Luis Lara, Carmen Cabrera-Vique

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Model pruning techniques in the Internet of things: state of the art, methods and perspectives by ZHAO Junhui, LI Huaicheng, WANG Dongming, LI Jiamin, ZHOU Yiqing, SHU Feng

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