Evaluation of the Back-in-Action test Battery In Uninjured High School American Football Players by Marcel Rohde, Alina Ruhlemann, Andre Busch, Ulrich Grunwald, Marcus Jaeger, Constantin Mayer

“…Unfortunately, pre-injury performance is often unknown, and only few athletes pass the high demands of these test batteries…”
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Exploring Kernel Machines and Support Vector Machines: Principles, Techniques, and Future Directions by Ke-Lin Du, Bingchun Jiang, Jiabin Lu, Jingyu Hua, M. N. S. Swamy

“…The kernel method is a tool that converts data to a kernel space where operation can be performed. When converted to a high-dimensional feature space by using kernel functions, the data samples are more likely to be linearly separable. …”
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Higher levels of GluN1 splice cassettes, C2 and C2’, in hippocampus of aged mice were associated with poor spatial reference memory by Kathy R. Magnusson, Daniel R. Zamzow

“…The present study examined the association between cognitive function and C-terminal splice cassette proteins, C1, C2, and C2’, in different compartments of the synaptic environment. …”
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LA-ResUNet: An Efficient Linear Attention Mechanism in ResUNet for the Semantic Segmentation of Pulmonary Nodules by P. C. Sarah Prithvika, L. Jani Anbarasi

“…The attention mechanism is a technique that is often used in computer vision to enhance the neural network’s performance. LA-ResUNet, a pulmonary nodule segmentation model, built using ResUNet with a linear attention mechanism and the Leaky ReLU activation function is proposed. …”
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Cholecystohepatic duct detected during laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a case report by Koki Maeda, Masami Tabata, Tatsuya Sakamoto, Yu Fujimura, Taijiro Takeuchi, Ryosuke Desaki, Motoyuki Kobayashi, Ichiro Ohsawa, Kenji Kato, Makoto Iwata, Takayuki Sanda

“…The patient’s liver function remained normal, and she had no symptoms of cholangitis 42 months after the surgery. …”
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Classifying kidney disease using a dense layers deep learning model by Amal Al-Rasheed, Sheikh Muhammad Saqib, Muhammad Zubair Asghar, Tehseen Mazhar, Asim Seedahmed Ali Osman, Mohammad Shahid, Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Amir Khan

“…Deep learning platforms like hidden layers, activation functions, optimizers, and epochs are also necessary for the automatic detection of these diseases. …”
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Molecular mechanistic insights towards aggregation of nano-biochar moderated by aromatic components in dissolved organic matter by Zheng Zhou, Meng Lu, Yu Huang, Changping Zhao, Yafeng Wang, Marc Pidou, Min Wu, Quan Chen, Paul Jeffrey, Bo Pan

“…Mono/di-valent electrolytes promoted NBC aggregation, whereas FA moderated it, with higher molecular weight FA fractions exhibiting superior performance. Three-dimensional excitation-emission (3D-EEM) fluorescence spectra and Parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) analyses revealed that HA-like substances, followed by FA-like substances, can form a complex with ions, thereby moderating NBC aggregation. …”
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COFcap2, a recyclable tandem catalysis reactor for nitrogen fixation and conversion to chiral amines by Qianqian Zhu, Peijie Dong, Jiangyue Yu, Zhifang Wang, Ting Wang, Shan Qiao, Jinjin Liu, Shubo Geng, Yunlong Zheng, Peng Cheng, Michael J. Zaworotko, Zhenjie Zhang, Yao Chen

“…Herein we report that co-immobilization of metal nanoparticles and a biocatalytic system within a synthetic covalent organic framework capsule, COFcap-2, functions like an artificial cell in that, whereas the catalysts are trapped within 300-400 nm cavities, substrates/products can ingress/egress through ca. 2 nm windows. …”
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Effectiveness of Physical Activity in the Management of Nonspecific Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review by Alexandra Alonso-Sal, José Luís Alonso-Perez, María Dolores Sosa-Reina, Juan Antonio García-Noblejas-Fernández, Viren Gul Balani-Balani, Giacomo Rossettini, Jorge Hugo Villafañe

“…<i>Results</i>: Exercise significantly reduced pain intensity and improved biopsychosocial factors such as depression, disability, functionality, quality of life, and kinesiophobia. Additionally, it enhanced physical parameters like proprioception, muscle thickness, and physical performance. …”
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Room-temperature fast self-healing graphene polyurethane network with high robustness and ductility through biomimetic interface structures by Hao Wu, Jinqiu Tao, Junhao Xie, Chengbao Liu, Qianping Ran

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COMPLICATIONS OF OPENING WEDGE HIGH TIBIAL OSTEOTOMY by V. E. Byalik, S. A. Makarov, L. I. Alekseeva, E. I. Byalik, S. V. Arkhipov, S. I. Glukhova, M. R. Nurmukhametov, V. A. Nesterenko

“…Twenty-eight OWHTOs were performed in 26 patients in 2003 to 2016. The male and female ratio was approximately 2:1. …”
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Supine versus prone percutaneous nephrolithotomy: Surgeon and anesthesiologist perspective. Can agile supersede traditional? by Priyanka Bansal, Tarun Mittal, Devendra Singh, Nidhi Sultania

“…Conclusion: Supine PCNL is a safe and efficacious procedure for renal stone disease in the selected group of patients with results comparable to prone PCNL, having additional advantages like less time-consuming, better upper calyceal access through lower calyx, less radiation exposure to surgeon’s hand, overcoming positional difficulties of prone position, simultaneous accessibility for performing flexible ureteroscopy and more convenient airway access to anesthesiologist and better pain scores.…”
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Whole-Exome Sequencing Identified Molecular Variants Linked to the Progression of Gastric Precancerous Lesions in Patients from Southwestern Colombia—An Exploratory Approach by Lizeth Mejia-Ortiz, Jovanny Zabaleta, Jone Garai, Luis Eduardo Bravo, Andres Castillo

“…Associations between molecular variants and lesion progression were analyzed using Fisher’s exact test and the Cochran–Armitage trend test. Additionally, functional impact and pathway enrichment analyses were performed for variants that showed significant associations. …”
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Amyloid-induced mitochondrial network disruption in neurons monitored by STED super-resolution imaging by Iuliia Golovynska, Qinglin Chen, Yurii V. Stepanov, Danying Lin, Junle Qu

“…The functional analysis is applied to mitochondrial volume, surface area, branch length, diameter, junctions, and endpoints. …”
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Ultrasound in Adhesive Capsulitis: A Narrative Exploration from Static Imaging to Contrast-Enhanced, Dynamic and Sonoelastographic Insights by Wei-Ting Wu, Ke-Vin Chang, Kamal Mezian, Vincenzo Ricci, Consuelo B. Gonzalez-Suarez, Levent Özçakar

“…Key sonographic features—such as thickening of the coracohumeral ligament, fibrosis in the axillary recess, and abnormal tendon kinematics—have been consistently associated with adhesive capsulitis and demonstrate favorable diagnostic performance. Advanced methods like contrast-enhanced ultrasound and elastography provide additional functional insights (enabling evaluation of capsular stiffness and vascular changes) which may aid in disease staging and prediction of treatment response. …”
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Data-Driven Energy Efficiency Modeling in Large-Scale Networks: An Expert Knowledge and ML-Based Approach by David Lopez-Perez, Antonio De Domenico, Nicola Piovesan, Merouane Debbah

“…Traditional optimization approaches encounter complexity due to factors like the large number of cells, stochastic traffic, channel variations, and intricate trade-offs. …”
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Deep fusion of incomplete multi-omic data for molecular mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease by Linhui Xie, Yash Raj, Mingzhao Tong, Kwangsik Nho, Paul Salama, Andrew J. Saykin, Shiaofen Fang, Jingwen Yan

“…When evaluated using the data from two Alzheimer’s disease cohorts, TransFuse generally showed superior or comparable performance over competing methods in a wide range of metrics like classification accuracy and F1 score. …”
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A Methodology for Turbine-Level Possible Power Prediction and Uncertainty Estimations Using Farm-Wide Autoregressive Information on High-Frequency Data by Francisco Javier Jara Ávila, Timothy Verstraeten, Pieter Jan Daems, Ann Nowé, Jan Helsen

“…The method leverages a Stochastic Variational Gaussian Process with a Linear Model of Coregionalization, incorporating physical models like manufacturer power curves as mean functions and enabling flexible modeling of active power and its associated variance. …”
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Farmer participatory assessment of nutritional interventions for productivity and profitability enhancement of dairy animals at small farms by SEEMA YADAV, S K DUBEY, S K SINGH, RAGHWENDRA SINGH, S N YEMUL, MANVENDRA SINGH, SATISH KUMAR SINGH, ASHISH KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, SUNIL SINGH

“… The present study was conducted across 18 districts falling under eight Agro-climatic zones in Uttar Pradesh functioning under aegis of ICAR-ATARI, Kanpur with the aim of assessment of nutritional interventions for productivity enhancement of dairy animals in the selected villages. …”
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Potential of Natural Esters as Immersion Coolant in Electric Vehicles by Raj Shah, Cindy Huang, Gobinda Karmakar, Sevim Z. Erhan, Majher I. Sarker, Brajendra K. Sharma

“…This review primarily highlights the beneficial aspects of natural esters performing dual functions—cooling as well as lubricating, which is necessary for “wet” e-motors in EVs—through a comparative study with the commercially used mineral and synthetic coolants. …”
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