Experimental Study on Freeze-Thaw Cycle Duration of Saturated Tuff by Man Huang, Bin Tang, Jianliang Jiang, Renqiu Guan, Huajun Wang

“…The freezing process is divided into three phases: initial freezing, water-ice phase transition, and deep freezing. The melting process is also divided into three phases: initial melting, ice-water phase transition, and deep melting. …”
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Perceptions of Poultry Farmers on the Use of Growth Enhancers in Poultry Production in Rivers State, Nigeria by Favour Alapu, Angela Emodi

“… Proper feeding of domesticated animals is necessary in other to meet the nutritional needs of a growing human population. …”
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Psychological experience of inpatients with acute pancreatitis: a qualitative study by Yuanyuan Chen, Guotao Lu, Can Zhang, Yiwen Gao, Jingwen Qin, Weiwei Chen, Yan Ren, Shuli Ma, Weijuan Gong, Xiaoxi Yang, Hongmei He

“…We employed an adapted version of Colaizzi’s qualitative analysis approach to examine the data.Results We extracted three themes and eight subthemes regarding the participants’ psychological experiences: (1) feeling that their disease is unpredictable (the inability to recognise the disease, uncertainty about the illness and fear of progression or recurrence); (2) various kinds of stress and support (feeling different degrees of stress, perceiving social support, seeking and craving social support); and (3) developing self-adaptability in the disease process (treating one’s illness negatively or positively).Conclusions Cognitive and emotional responses vary in patients with AP during hospitalisation. …”
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Calcium and s100a1 Protein Balance in the brain– Heart axis in Diabetic Male Wistar Rats. by Keneth Iceland, Kasozi, Nakimbugwe, Dorothy, Ninsiima, Herbert Izo, Kasolo, Josephine, Matama, Kevin, Safiriyu, Abass Alao, Owembabazi, Elna, Ssempijja, Fred, Okpanachi, Alfred Omachonu, Valladares, Miriela Betancourt

“…The brain and heart tissues were harvested after five weeks and processed using standard methods. Results: Grain amaranth feed supplementation led to improved calcium levels in DM as compared to the positive control. …”
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Mild Late-Onset Sensory Neuropathy Associated with Heterozygous Missense GDAP1 Variants by Nivedita U. Jerath

“…The findings showed that clinical features demonstrated no pes cavus, no significant weakness in the hands or feet, normal reflexes in four out of the five subjects, and mild to normal electrodiagnostic findings. …”
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Stop, Look, and Listen: Tips for Talking to Older Adults by Carolyn S. Wilken

“…When you do, you will quickly find that you will feel less stressed. And, your older friend or family member will feel less frustrated and more understood. …”
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Distress, coping and emotional health during the gradual opening of university systems, post COVID19, in India by Shilpa Ashok Pandit, Amit A. Nanavati, Bijal Mehta, Sonal Yadav

“…Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA) and Binary Logistic Regression Analysis revealed that the key differentiator between the distressed group and others was whether the student reported their ability to share feelings with family members. Feeling excluded and having no one to talk to were the significant predictors for student distress.…”
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Neural Mechanisms of Temporomandibular Joint and Masticatory Muscle Pain: A Possible Role for Peripheral Glutamate Receptor Mechanisms by David K Lam, Barry J Sessle, Brian E Cairns, James W Hu

“…Chronic pain is common, and many people suffer from chronic pain conditions involving deep craniofacial tissues such as temporomandibular disorders or fibromyalgia. …”
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An Insight into the Sialomes of Bloodsucking Heteroptera by José M. C. Ribeiro, Teresa C. Assumpção, Ivo M. B. Francischetti

“…In the past 10 years, several salivary transcriptomes from bloodsucking Heteroptera and one from a seed-feeding Pentatomorpha were produced, allowing insight into the salivary potion of these organisms and the evolutionary pathway to the blood-feeding mode.…”
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Stop, Look, and Listen: Tips for Talking to Older Adults by Carolyn S. Wilken

“…When you do, you will quickly find that you will feel less stressed. And, your older friend or family member will feel less frustrated and more understood. …”
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A New Closed-Loop Control Paradigm Based on Process Moments by Damir Vrančić, Pavol Bisták, Mikuláš Huba, Paulo Moura Oliveira

“…The tracking control is achieved by additionally feeding the input of the process model by the scaled output signal of the process model. …”
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Pupils’ approach to teachers’ role as motivating factor in foreign language classes by Virginija Jurate Pukeviciute, Migle Antaneliene

“…Moreover, it turned out that the schoolchildren feel less secure talking of interaction with teachers: they usually turn to the teachers only for subject matters; they do not always feel free in the classroom. …”
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Multiple Congenital Epulis in Alveolar Ridges of Maxilla and Mandible in a Newborn: A Rare Case Report by Nader Saki, Somayeh Araghi

“…Though it is a benign lesion, the tumor may cause feeding and respiratory problems if there are too large or multiple tumors. …”
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Scalable network emulation on analog neuromorphic hardware by Elias Arnold, Philipp Spilger, Jan V. Straub, Eric Müller, Dominik Dold, Gabriele Meoni, Johannes Schemmel

“…We demonstrate the training of two deep spiking neural network models—using the MNIST and EuroSAT datasets—that exceed the physical size constraints of a single-chip BrainScaleS-2 system. …”
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Rice Bug (suggested common name) Leptocorisa acuta (Thunberg) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Alydidae) by Amelio Chi Serrano, Russell F. Mizell, Morgan A. Byron

“… Broad-headed bugs belong to a well-known but relatively small family of plant-feeding true bugs, usually seen feeding on the foliage and flowers of leguminous and graminaceous crops. …”
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External Parasites on Horses by Phillip E. Kaufman, Philip G. Koehler, Jerry F. Butler

“… Arthropod parasites of horses include internal bots that infest the digestive tract, mites that burrow in the skin and feed on the skin surface, ticks that infest the ears as well as the skin, lice that either suck blood or feed on skin, blood sucking flies and mosquitoes that range in size from biting gnats just observable with the naked eye to the large black horse flies which are almost one inch long. …”
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Le périple d’Edward Snowden by Timothée Giraud, Marta Severo

“…We propose to use RSS feeds of daily newspapers. In this paper, we present an analysis of Edward Snowden’s case that provides an optimal example of international media event. …”
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Rice Bug (suggested common name) Leptocorisa acuta (Thunberg) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Alydidae) by Amelio Chi Serrano, Russell F. Mizell, Morgan A. Byron

“… Broad-headed bugs belong to a well-known but relatively small family of plant-feeding true bugs, usually seen feeding on the foliage and flowers of leguminous and graminaceous crops. …”
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External Parasites on Horses by Phillip E. Kaufman, Philip G. Koehler, Jerry F. Butler

“… Arthropod parasites of horses include internal bots that infest the digestive tract, mites that burrow in the skin and feed on the skin surface, ticks that infest the ears as well as the skin, lice that either suck blood or feed on skin, blood sucking flies and mosquitoes that range in size from biting gnats just observable with the naked eye to the large black horse flies which are almost one inch long. …”
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Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Nanoantenna for Localized Fluorescence by Isa Kocakarin, Korkut Yegin

“…Surface plasmon-enhanced gold nanoantenna structures on glass substrate are studied for increased localized electric field and fluorescence at the feed gap locations of the antennas. Dipole, Archimedean balanced spiral, and bowtie and double bowtie geometries are studied for surface plasmon effect. …”
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