Investigation of the Effect of Lead Adsorption on Surface Modified Fish Bones by Bayram Kızılkaya, Evren Tan

“…Surface modification was performed with 4-Aminohippuric acid (MBA1) and 2-Thiophenecarboxaldehyde (MBA2). In this study, different methods were used for surface modification. …”
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Digital Skills of Medical Workers as a Staffing Priority in a Healthcare System by L. D. Gurtskoy, E. K. Smirnova, T. V. Baranova, A. S. Tykyl-Ool

“…Introduction. Digital transformation is now integrated into all aspects of modern society around the world, including healthcare. …”
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Transient Voltage Unit Protection Based on Fault Information Fusion by Zhenwei Guo, Ruiqiang Zhao, Haojie Li, Yongyan Jiang

“…To address these issues, a new method of transient voltage protection is proposed by mining the equipment configuration information of the bus and line, as well as the frequency characteristics of the line boundary. …”
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Saturated permeability and water retention capacity in biochar-methanotrophs-clay for new landfill cover system by Wenjing Sun, Gaoge Sun, Shuyun Zhang

“…Detected by mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning electron microscope (SEM), the differences displayed the changes of pore structures and extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). …”
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An Equivalent Dynamic Phasor Model for a Single-Phase Boost Power-Factor-Correction Converter by Udoka C. Nwaneto, Seyed Ali Seif Kashani, Andrew M. Knight

“…To overcome challenges arising from differing driving frequencies (line frequency for the DBR and switching frequency for the DC-DC converter) in the DP modeling of boost PFC converters, we employ the sign function to transform the dynamic model of the single-phase DBR and boost DC-DC converter into an equivalent single-phase active rectifier model. …”
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Dmitri Shostakovich’s Early Works: An Insight into the Creative Process through the Prism of Variants of Musical Works by Anton V. Lukyanov

“…The article makes use of the method of comparative analysis of autograph scores, and all the variants were classified in to 1) compositional and 2) those connected with orchestration. …”
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Tailored Morphology and Phase Evolution of Magnesium Whitlockite Granules via a Dissolution–Precipitation Approach by Ruta Raiseliene, Greta Linkaite, Akvile Ezerskyte, Inga Grigoraviciute

“…This study aimed to systematically modify a dissolution–precipitation synthesis method to produce Mg-WH granules with tailored morphologies and controlled phase compositions for possible use in bone regeneration applications. …”
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Assessing patient-reported adverse events in oncology – a review of the PRO-CTCAE instrument by Knoerzer, Dietrich, Kron, Martina, Schüler, Armin, Huschens, Susanne, Bullinger, Monika

“…This review examines the psychometric quality of the PRO CTCAE as tested in selected cancer patient groups and published in core papers. Method: A literature review identified 3 league papers describing the original development of the PRO-CTCAE. …”
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Metasurface-Based Solar Absorption Prediction System Using Artificial Intelligence by Md. Mottahir Alam, Ahteshamul Haque, Asif Irshad Khan, Samir Kasim, Amjad Ali Pasha, Aasim Zafar, Kashif Irshad, Anis Ahmad Chaudhary, Md. Samsuzzaman, Rezaul Azim

“…The solar absorber transforms solar radiation into heat energy as an effective green energy source. …”
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Lane Boundary Detection for Intelligent Vehicles Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network Architecture by Xuewen Chen, Chenxi Xia, Xiaohai Chen

“…To address the limitation of 2D lane detection methods with monocular vision, which fail to capture the three-dimensional position of lane boundaries, this study proposes a convolutional neural network architecture for 3D lane detection. …”
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The impact of neglecting feature scaling in k-means clustering. by Chantha Wongoutong

“…Of the five feature-scaling methods used in the dataset with different units, Z-score standardization and Percentile transformation provided similar performances that were superior to the other or using the raw data. …”
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Digitalization in public service: effectiveness analysis of information and communication platforms of government bodies in providing services to the population by M. S. Nakhusheva, S. A. Kirzhinova

“…Unlike the commercial sector, where digital transformation is focused primarily on economic benefits, in public service such aspects as ensuring equal access to services, increasing government transparency, taking into account regional specifics and a differentiated approach to different groups of the population come to the fore.Discussion and conclusion. …”
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TRANSLATORS’ INTERPRETATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS IN THE LIGHT OF INFORMATION ENTROPY by Yana V. Boiko.

“…The research methodology incorporates not only general scientific methods, as well as empirical methods in order to substantiate the theoretical basis of the research, but also methods of discourse analysis (cultural and historical, comparative-linguistic-cultural), methods of literary analysis (biographical, hermeneutic, interpretive-textual), methods of linguistic analysis (etymological, contextual, descriptive, semantic, and stylistic) and methods of contrastive translation and transformational analysis, which are used to determine the changes in the scope of information expressed by the units of analysis in the timeremote original texts and in chronologically distant Ukrainian retranslations of the 19th – 21st centuries. …”
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Static frequency converter for large pumped storage units by Weiliang Wu, Xiping Liu

“…The inverter adopts different rotor position estimation methods according to the speed range, and the commutation control method of pulse commutation and load commutation is adopted. …”
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The use of ridge regression for estimating the severity of acute pancreatitis by D. V. Cherdantsev, A. V. Stroev, E. S. Mangalova, N. V. Kononova, O. V. Chubarova

“…The raw data was pre-processed. In particular, different methods (median, linear regression) were used to fill the missing values in the observation matrix. …”
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Seismic Performance Analysis of Energy Dissipation Building with Non-preload Variable Friction Inerter Under Extremely Rare Earthquake by ZHAO Guifeng, LIU Wei, MA Yuhong, KONG Sihua, CHEN Jiachuan, CHEN Zhaosheng

“…Therefore, this study aims to develop a non-preload variable friction inerter (NVFI), which provides satisfactory damping force and significant energy dissipation without relying on preload force.MethodsThe proposed NVFI mainly consisted of a ball screw, rotational plate, friction plate, spring, and two thrust bearings. …”
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Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves by Frequency-Detuned Systems of Dielectric Resonators by O. O. Trubin

“…The capabilities of the proposed method are demonstrated by the example of optimizing the scattering characteristics of a demultiplexer built on the basis of two bandpass filters with different passband frequencies. …”
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Risk Assessment of UAS Events From the Perspective of Heterogeneous Graphs by Yu An, Qingpei Yang, Hao Liu, Liang Geng

“…The complex heterogeneous relationships are transformed into homogeneous subgraphs through different path patterns, which are used to represent the data. …”
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Impact of Drying Temperature on the Physicochemical and Functional Properties of Butterfly Pea Flower Powder by Jagamohan Meher, Gnaniar Kalusuraman, Niraj Kumar Dewangan, Rajanandini Meher, Senthilkumar Krishnasamy, Santosh Kumar Sahu, Jayant Giri, Mohammad Kanan

“…The powders were assessed for solubility time, hygroscopicity, density, flowability, and chemical stability using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR). Solubility times ranged from 148 to 162 s, with no significant differences. …”
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Investigating the metastability of amorphous calcium carbonate by droplet microfluidics experiments using machine learning by Ryan Santoso, Lisa Guignon, Guido Deissmann, Jenna Poonoosamy

“…Our method is generalizable and can be applied to different setups of droplet microfluidics experiments, facilitating efficient experimentation and analysis of complex crystallization processes.…”
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