An Obesity Paradox of Asian Body Mass Index after Cardiac Surgery: Arterial Oxygenations in Duration of Mechanic Ventilation by Chiu-Hsia Chang, Fan-Yen Lee, Chin-Chou Wang, Ying-Ni Chen, Hsin-Chu Chen, Huei-Ling Hung, Meng-Chih Lin, Shih-Feng Liu

“…Under-normal weight patients had significantly better oxygenations of AaDO2 and P/F ratio in the DMV; however, they correlated with the longest DMV, older age, more female, lower LVSV, higher BUN, more dialysis-dependent, and poorer outcomes, namely, 1-year mortality, HAP, reintubation, tracheotomy, and LOS. …”
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ResNet15: Weather Recognition on Traffic Road with Deep Convolutional Neural Network by Jingming Xia, Dawei Xuan, Ling Tan, Luping Xing

“…A new simplified model named ResNet15 is proposed based on the residual network ResNet50 in this paper. …”
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An Incremental Self-Adaptive Wood Species Classification Prototype System by Peng Zhao, Zhen-Yu Li, Yue Li

“…Last, if one cluster of one unknown species has an adequate amount of wood samples, these wood samples are removed and identified by human experts or other schemes to ensure to get the correct wood species name. Then, these wood samples are considered as a new known species and are sent into the classifiers, SVDD and BP neural network, to train them again. …”
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Therapeutic effects of Salvadora persica (Miswak) on patients with mild to moderate gingivitis. by Kawa F. Dizaye, Zainab Yalman Othman

“… Background and Objectives: Miswak is the public name of Salvadora persica, which is beneficial for dental treatments and can thus be used to treat gingivitis. …”
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NEO-INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT by Y. I. Vaslavskiy, S. V. Gabuev

“…In this article substantiates the choice of neo-institutional approach to the study of the processes of implementation of information and communication technologies in the activity of state institutions, analyzes the differences of neoinstitutionalism from traditional institutional approach, considers the features of the different directions of neo-institutionalism, namely sociological, historical and rational choice theory. …”
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The Synergistic Effect of Nitrogen Dopant and Calcination Temperature on the Visible-Light-Induced Photoactivity of N-Doped TiO2 by Yao-Tung Lin, Chih-Huang Weng, Hui-Jan Hsu, Yu-Hao Lin, Ching-Chang Shiesh

“…N dopants could retard the transformation from anatase to rutile phase. Namely, N-doping effect is attributed to the anatase phase stabilization. …”
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DLiGRU-X: Efficient X-Vector-Based Embeddings for Small-Footprint Keyword Spotting System by Zong-En Wu, Shao-Jung Chan, Yeshanew Ale Wubet, Kuang-Yow Lian

“…This paper introduces an enhanced deep learning model based on the X-vector architecture, named dilated light-gated recurrent unit in X-vector (DLiGRU-X) to address these challenges specifically for small-footprint keyword spotting (KWS) tasks. …”
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Artificial Radionuclides Database in the Pacific Ocean: HAM Database by Michio Aoyama, Katsumi Hirose

“…The spatial variation of sampling stations in the HAM database is heterogeneous, namely, more than 80% of the data for each radionuclide is from the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, while a relatively small portion of data is from the South Pacific. …”
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Sarcopenia in IBD patients and the role of nutritional and physical activity interventions in its management – a systematic review by Michalina Jurkiewicz, Karolina Siembab, Julia Białeta, Katarzyna Rowińska, Agnieszka Napieralska, Wiktor Garbarczyk, Albert Kapla, Alicja Černohorská, Daria Bednarczyk, Wiktoria Pysiewicz

“… Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD), namely Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease, are chronic, relapsing, inflammatory conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, with multifactorial pathophysiology. …”
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Intrascleral Suture Anchoring: A Flapless/Grooveless Four-Point Intraocular Lens Fixation Technique by Xin Hu, Bo Zhao, Haiying Jin

“…We describe a minimally invasive suture fixation technique for four-point fixation of intraocular lenses (IOLs) in the treatment of aphakic eyes, namely, the intrascleral suture anchoring technique. …”
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Analisis Kompetensi Pedagogik Guru (PAI) Di SD Negeri Lubuk Rumbai Kecamatan Rupit Kabupaten Musi Rawas Utara by Erni Yuliansa, Fitriyani Fitriyani, Taufik Mukmin

“…Elements in pedagogical competence have five roles, namely the ability to understand the character of students, the ability to create learning designs, develop a curriculum, the ability to carry out educational learning and the ability to evaluate learning outcomes. …”
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Effect of Equal Channel Angular Pressing on the Surface Roughness of Solid State Recycled Aluminum Alloy 6061 Chips by Adel Taha Abbas, Mohamed Adel Taha, Adham Ezzat Ragab, Ehab Adel El-Danaf, Mohamed Ibrahim Abd El Aal

“…Box-Behnken experimental design was used to investigate the effect of three machining parameters (cutting speed, feed rate, and depth of cut) on the surface roughness of the machined specimens for four materials conditions, namely, extruded billet and postextrusion ECAP processed billets to one, two, and three passes. …”
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Optimizing Data Interoperability for System Efficiency: One Data Standard in the Government Environment by Herpita Wahyuni, Dyah Mutiarin, Ulung Pribadi, Wahyudi Kumorotomo, Herdin Arie Saputra

“…This research uses a qualitative research approach with in-depth analysis assisted by NVivo 12 Plus Software with various data sources that support the research results, namely Previous studies/literature reviews, news, and websites on the Satu Employment Data portal. …”
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Optimizing Cutting Conditions for Minimum Surface Roughness in Face Milling of High Strength Steel Using Carbide Inserts by Adel Taha Abbas, Adham Ezzat Ragab, Essam Ali Al Bahkali, Ehab Adel El Danaf

“…A full factorial design technique is used to investigate the effect of machining parameters, namely, spindle speed (N), depth of cut (ap), and table feed rate (Vf), on the obtained surface roughness (Ra and Rt) during face milling operation of high strength steel. …”
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Wireless Sensor Network of Typical Land Surface Parameters and Its Preliminary Applications for Coarse-Resolution Remote Sensing Pixel by Baocheng Dou, Jianguang Wen, Xiuhong Li, Qiang Liu, Jingjing Peng, Qing Xiao, Zhigang Zhang, Yong Tang, Xiaodan Wu, Xingwen Lin, Dongqin You, Hua Li, Li Li, Yelu Zeng, Erli Cai, Jialin Zhang

“…In this paper, a distributed sensor network system named CPP-WSN was established to capture the spatial and temporal variation of land surface parameters at coarse-resolution satellite pixel scale around the Huailai Remote Sensing Station, which locates in the North China Plain. …”
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DeepFusion: Fusing User-Generated Content and Item Raw Content towards Personalized Product Recommendation by Mingxin Gan, Hang Zhang

“…In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural architecture named DeepFusion to jointly learn user and item representations from numerical ratings, textual reviews, and item metadata. …”
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Poor Employment Conditions and Immigrant Health in Europe by Matthew D. Matsaganis, Maria Petraki, Dionysis Balourdos

“…Finally, to probe differences across countries, we examine how the effects of employment conditions on TCNs’ health vary across institutional settings, namely across different types of welfare state. Descriptive statistics and regression analyses of panel data reveal that employment conditions affect immigrants’ SPH and surface significant differences across countries. …”
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Self-Administered Information Sharing Framework Using Bioinspired Mechanisms by Huibo Bi, Yanyan Chen, Wen-Long Shang, Chengcheng Song, Wenbo Huang

“…Hence, this paper concentrates on optimising the behaviours of data packets and significant parameters in a widely tested routing protocol, namely, Cognitive Packet Network (CPN), with the aid of several bio-inspired algorithms to increase the efficiency of energy usage and information acquisition. …”
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Characterization of an Acetogenin-Carrying Nanosuspension and Its Effect on Bacteria of Interest in the Poultry Industry by Brandon A. López-Romero, Gabriela Aguilar-Hernández, Billy M. Hargis, María de Lourdes García-Magaña, Ulises M. López-García, Rosa I. Ortiz-Basurto, Adalberto Zamudio-Ojeda, Juan D. Latorre, Efigenia Montalvo-González

“…This work aimed to develop a nanosuspension (NSps) as an acetogenin (ACGs) carrier, using soy lecithin (SL) and hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (βCD) named NSps-βCDSL-ACGs. It was characterized by various spectroscopic techniques (DLS, FTIR, UV-vis diffuse reflectance). …”
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Mengoptimalkan pengetahuan tim pemberdayaan kesejahteraan keluarga (PKK) dalam produksi kue tradisional di era modern: studi kasus di Malang by Gumoyo Mumpuni Ningsih, Harun Rasyid

“…The data source used was primary data, namely the results of counseling and interviews with PKK mothers. …”
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