Longitudinal Metabolomics Reveals Metabolic Dysregulation Dynamics in Patients with Severe COVID-19 by Ryo Uchimido, Kenjiro Kami, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Ryo Yokoe, Issei Tsuchiya, Yoko Nukui, Yuki Goto, Mariko Hanafusa, Takeo Fujiwara, Kenji Wakabayashi

“…In this study, we aimed to investigate metabolic dysregulation over time in patients with severe COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation (MV). <b>Methods:</b> In this single-center, prospective, observational study, we obtained 236 serum samples from 118 adult patients on MV in an ICU. …”
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The humanitarian-public healthcare nexus: an analysis of the power relations shaping the implementation of the Law on Urgent Medical Aid in Belgium by Dirk Lafaut

“…Drawing on Foucault’s relational approach to power, I analyze how discretionary power circulates through social relationships, how it is transformed across actors in different positions of power, and how, at times, it can also be reversed. …”
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The Effect of Combining mHealth and Health Professional–Led Intervention for Improving Health-Related Outcomes in Chronic Diseases: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Masashi Kanai, Takahiro Miki, Toshiya Sakoda, Yuta Hagiwara

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the effectiveness of combining mHealth and health professional–led intervention for improving health-related outcomes in chronic diseases MethodsThis systematic review and meta-analysis focused on randomized controlled trials. …”
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Coherence Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals for Detecting Early Diabetic Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy: Insights into Glycemic Control by Yu-Chen Chen, Wei-Min Liu, Hsin-Ru Liu, Huai-Ren Chang, Po-Wei Chen, An-Bang Liu

“…While our previous study demonstrated the utility of multiscale cross-approximate entropy (MS-CXApEn) in detecting early CAN, the present study further investigates the use of frequency-domain coherence analysis between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and R-R intervals (RRI) and evaluates the effects of insulin treatment on autonomic function in diabetic rats. <b>Methods:</b> At the onset of diabetes induced by streptozotocin (STZ), rats were assessed for cardiovascular autonomic function both before and after insulin treatment. …”
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Preparation and Modification of Composite Inorganic Salt Phase Change Materials for Cold Storage by Li Mengxin, Chen Peng, L, Zhongling

“…12H2O as cold storage base materials. The effects of different types and quality additives on the composite inorganic salt system were studied by step cooling curve analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, and the transient plane heat source method. …”
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Maize quality detection based on MConv-SwinT high-precision model. by Ning Zhang, Yuanqi Chen, Enxu Zhang, Ziyang Liu, Jie Yue

“…The traditional method of corn quality detection relies heavily on the subjective judgment of inspectors and suffers from a high error rate. …”
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An Analytical Study on Dynamic Response of Multiple Simply Supported Beam System Subjected to Moving Loads by Zhipeng Lai, Lizhong Jiang, Wangbao Zhou

“…Finally, to validate the analytical method reported in this paper, the dynamic response of a typical double simply supported rail-bridge beam system of high-speed railway in China subjected to a moving load was carried out. …”
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Heuristic based federated learning with adaptive hyperparameter tuning for households energy prediction by Liana Toderean, Mihai Daian, Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Vasilis Michalakopoulos, Efstathios Sarantinopoulos, Elissaios Sarmas

“…A genetic algorithm-based hyperparameter optimization method reduces the computational load on edge nodes by efficiently exploring different configurations and using only the most promising ones for edge nodes’ cross-validation. …”
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Physical Information Neural Network-Based Seepage Behavior Analysis of Earth and Rock Dams by XUE binghan, HUANG zhenhua, LEI Jianwei, FANG Hongyuan

“…To address these limitations, this study proposes a novel seepage field solution method based on Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs).MethodsThe core of the proposed method lies in transforming the free-boundary seepage problem into a fixed-boundary optimization problem. …”
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Analysis of the impact of innovative digital technologies on regional socio-economic complexes by I. G. Ershova, P. V. Kovalenko, A. A. Sotnikov

“…Yet, due to the uneven pace of development and implementation of these technologies  in  different  sectors  of  the  economy  and  individual  regions,  the  processes  of  digital  transformation  require  increased  attention  to  this aspect on the part of business community.…”
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A dual attentional skip connection based Swin‐UNet for real‐time cloud segmentation by Fuhao Wei, Shaofan Wang, Yanfeng Sun, Baocai Yin

“…Existing deep learning based cloud segmentation methods involve two shortcomings. (a): They tend to produce discontinuous boundaries and fail to capture less salient feature, which corresponds to thin cloud pixels; (b): they are unrobust towards different scenarios. …”
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SSFAN: A Compact and Efficient Spectral-Spatial Feature Extraction and Attention-Based Neural Network for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Chunyang Wang, Chao Zhan, Bibo Lu, Wei Yang, Yingjie Zhang, Gaige Wang, Zongze Zhao

“…In recent years, HSI classification methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have significantly improved performance due to their strong feature extraction capabilities. …”
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Experimental Study on the Acceleration Amplification Ratio of Cable Terminations for Electric Power Facilities by Bub-Gyu Jeon, Sung-Jin Chang, Sung-Wan Kim, Dong-Uk Park, Nakhyun Chun

“…For two cable terminations with different specifications and bushing materials, three-axis shake table tests were conducted in accordance with IEEE 693, which includes a seismic performance evaluation method for a power substation facility. …”
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A qualitative study on the feasibility of a yoga-based PPI for promoting well-being at a South African HEI by Leana Meiring, René van Eeden, Angelina Wilson Fadiji

“…Research approach/design and method: The research was conducted at a South African HEI using a qualitative descriptive research design. …”
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Exploring new dimensions of urban governance: The development of administrative systems in Trieste and Fiume (Rijeka) during the final decades of the Habsburg Empire (1850–1918)... by Bálint Hilbert

“…The analysis of this shift, known as the “transformation thesis,” has been criticized by recent studies in the field, which focus on the theory of metagovernance. …”
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ACTUAL PROBLEMATICS IN STUDIES OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LITERATURE by Vladimir V. Seligey

“…The study of Chinese literature in the comparative perspective seems fruitful in terms of identifying universal categories of artistic thinking, which either remain unchanged, or transformed in the context of a radically different culture, which went a different way in shaping such a basic communication tool as language, preserving the system in the hieroglyphics to phonetic writing. …”
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Probing the Pitfalls: Understanding SVD’s Shortcomings in Language Model Compression by Сергей Александрович Плетенев

“…Then, we applied low-rank factorization to its transformer layers using various singular value decomposition algorithms at different compression rates. …”
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Temporal Release and Denature of Several Mediators in Pure Platelet-Rich Plasma and Temperature-Induced Platelet Lysates Derived from a Similar Bovine Platelet Concentrate by Jorge U. Carmona, Catalina López, Alejandro Ceballos-Márquez

“…Pure PRGs released additional quantities of GF and cytokines over time when compared with HCs stored over 96 h at 4 and 37°C. The method, either chemical or physical, used for platelet activation or damage produces a different GF and cytokine release pattern, which makes to each evaluated HCs different despite they come from a similar bovine PC. …”
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Practical guidelines for cell segmentation models under optical aberrations in microscopy by Boyuan Peng, Jiaju Chen, P. Bilha Githinji, Ijaz Gul, Qihui Ye, Minjiang Chen, Peiwu Qin, Xingru Huang, Chenggang Yan, Dongmei Yu, Jiansong Ji, Zhenglin Chen

“…We train and test several segmentation models, including the Otsu threshold method and Mask R-CNN with different network heads (FPN, C3) and backbones (ResNet, VGG, Swin Transformer), under aberrated conditions. …”
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Non-Complex Statistics-Driven Algorithm for Enhancement of Grayscale and Color Images by Ahmed Mohammed, Zohair Al-Ameen

“…The proposed algorithm consists of five stages, where the first and second stages include the use of two different statistical s-curve transformations, the third stage combines the outputs of the aforesaid stage, the fourth stage improves the brightness, and the fifth stage reallocates the pixels to the natural interval. …”
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