Importance of English language on the role of foreign household attendants in attaining an electronically safe environment by Rodalin N. Asenas, Mary Jean P. Dureza

“…The number of respondents was one hundred forty-five workers from eight (8) purposely selected countries, namely Philippines, India, Nepal, Indonesia, Korea, Pakistan, Thailand, and Malaysia. Illustrative data applying rate dispersal, proportionality, average, normal variation, mean and informative evaluations centered on 5-point range were employed, while T-test and Pearson Correlation were used for inferential statistics. …”
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An Ensemble-Based AI Approach for Continuous Blood Pressure Estimation in Health Monitoring Applications by Rafita Haque, Chunlei Wang, Nezih Pala

“…Extracted features include pulse rate, ascending/descending times, pulse width, slopes, intensity variations, and waveform areas. …”
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Two-dimensional flood model for risk exposure analysis of land use/land cover in a watershed by G. Puno, R. Puno, I. Maghuyop

“…METHODS: The approach consisted of applying hydrologic and hydraulic numerical flood models and the suite of advanced geographic information systems and remote sensing technologies. The process involved utilizing a high-resolution digital elevation model and a set of high-precision instruments such as the real-time kinematic-global position system receiver, digital flow meter, deep gauge, and automatic weather station in collecting the respective data on bathymetry, river discharge, river depth, and rainfall intensity during a particular climatic event, needed for the model development, calibration and validation. …”
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Central Bank tools for affecting the dynamics of mortgage lending in the conditions of a currency board and inflation environment by Stavrova Elena

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Interdisciplinary Comments Highlighting the Importance of SupraMicrobiological Approaches to Covid-19 Pandemic by Rodrigo Riera, Ada M. Herrera, Ricardo A. Rodríguez

“…The results suggest that (a) zoonotic diseases do not coincide with what is expected according to the orthodox Darwinian approach on at least two points (gradualism, and evolutionary process at the population scale); (b) socioeconomic niches and socio-diversity (the social equivalent of biodiversity) connected to them act as strong selective pressures either for or against pandemics; (c) socioeconomic development is equivalent to a drift from r to K in human systems, and as a result there is a drift from K to r in ecosystems, which favors a tendency to increase pandemic frequency; (d) eco-historical analysis indicates that those countries or areas that display a faster rate of economic growth act as socio-economic Maxwell’s demons that modulate, either voluntarily or involuntarily, the emergence of pandemics.…”
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Unraveling the artificial intelligence role in drug discovery and pharmaceutical product design: an opportunity and challenges by Bhakti Sudha Pandey, Sumit Durgapal, Prashant Kumar, Gauree Kukreti, Anjali Jain, Girish Paliwal, Manish Kumar

“…AI easily identifies potential drug targets by virtual screening of biological data, resulting in time-efficient and low-cost discovery of novel drug targets. …”
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Quantifying the Impact of Dysmenorrhea Symptoms on Quality-of-Life and Access to Oral Contraceptives by Income by Rhea Choksey, Rohan K. Mangal, Thor S. Stead, Terrika Jones, Rosa Flores, Latha Ganti

“…Most questions were multiple-choice while others permitted several answer selections or were free response. The data was analyzed using JMP statistical software.…”
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Optimising the learning environment for undergraduate students in the Department of Family Medicine at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University by I. Govender, M. de Villiers

“…Methods: Data were collected using the Dundee Ready Educational Environmental Measure (DREEM) questionnaire. …”
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P-30 NURSING EXPERIENCE IN THE ONLY ADULT-TO-ADULT LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANT PROGRAM IN COLOMBIA by ANA MARÍA MARTINEZ CAMARGO, Yesica Juliana Castellanos Menjura, Lina Marcela Ruiz Ramírez, Angélica María Sanabria Jiménez, Gilberto Andrés Mejia Hernández, Adriana Varón Puerta

“…The low availability of deceased donors and the high mortality rate on the waiting list motivated the creation of the program. …”
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Adversarial example defense algorithm for MNIST based on image reconstruction by Zhongyuan QIN, Zhaoxiang HE, Tao LI, Liquan CHEN

“…With the popularization of deep learning, more and more attention has been paid to its security issues.The adversarial sample is to add a small disturbance to the original image, which can cause the deep learning model to misclassify the image, which seriously affects the performance of deep learning technology.To address this challenge, the attack form and harm of the existing adversarial samples were analyzed.An adversarial examples defense method based on image reconstruction was proposed to effectively detect adversarial examples.The defense method used MNIST as the test data set.The core idea was image reconstruction, including central variance minimization and image quilting optimization.The central variance minimization was only processed for the central area of the image.The image quilting optimization incorporated the overlapping area into the patch block selection.Considered and took half the size of the patch as the overlap area.Using FGSM, BIM, DeepFool and C＆amp;W attack methods to generate adversarial samples to test the defense performance of the two methods, and compare with the existing three image reconstruction defense methods (cropping and scaling, bit depth compression and JPEG compression).The experimental results show that the central variance minimization and image quilting optimization algorithms proposed have a satisfied defense effect against the attacks of existing common adversarial samples.Image quilting optimization achieves over 75% classification accuracy for samples generated by the four attack algorithms, and the defense effect of minimizing central variance is around 70%.The three image reconstruction algorithms used for comparison have unstable defense effects on different attack algorithms, and the overall classification accuracy rate is less than 60%.The central variance minimization and image quilting optimization proposed achieve the purpose of effectively defending against adversarial samples.The experiments illustrate the defense effect of the proposed defense algorithm in different adversarial sample attack algorithms.The comparison between the reconstruction algorithm and the algorithm shows that the proposed scheme has good defense performance.…”
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Muscle relaxation enhances motor imagery capacity in people with anxiety: A randomized clinical trial. by Sara Trapero-Asenjo, Sara Fernández-Guinea, Aymeric Guillot, Daniel Pecos-Martin, Susana Nunez-Nagy

“…Electrodermal activity and heart rate variability were recorded to evaluate the relaxation effect.…”
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Adsorption of methylene blue dye using common walnut shell (Juglans regia) like biosorbent: implications for wastewater treatment by María Dominguez, Jeamilette Mendoza, Katherine Figueroa

“…The best removal capacity in continuous systems is 50.47 mg g−1, with a saturation time of 8 hours at 5 cm bed height, adsorbent size 1.18–0.6 mm, 60 mg L−1 initial concentration, and 15 mL min−1 flow rate. The Thomas model best fits the data, suggesting external mass transfer and intra-particle diffusion. …”
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Import-Substituting Food Additive E316 (Sodium Isoascorbate): Production Patterns by Kukin M.

“…It was established that the rate of oxidative degradation of sodium isoascorbate solutions is from 0.01%/h at 25°C to 0.80%/h at 82°C, depending on the temperature and duration of the process, as well as contact with metal and oxygen of the air. …”
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Dysfunctions in Dopamine Systems and ADHD: Evidence From Animals and Modeling by Davide Viggiano, Daniela Vallone, Adolfo Sadile

“…This model allows the estimation of a higher firing frequency of DA neurons in SHR rats and suggests that methylphenidate increases attentive processes by regulating the firing rate of DA neurons.…”
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Key technology of fine description of complex fault block reservoir and its application by LI Guoyong

“…Therefore, the quality of seismic data is poor, the stratigraphic correlation and fine structural interpretation are difficult, the basin area is small, the source is close, the deposition rate is fast, and the sand body superposition relationship is complex. …”
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Stakeholders’ views about consequences of COVID-19 epidemic on the tourism industry of Bangladesh: reconciliation policy framework by Mohammed Shahedul Quader, Mohammed Javed Hossain, H. M. Kamrul Hassan

“…Positive impacts are (a) improved air quality, (b) reduced water and noise pollution, (d) limited natural resources consumption and (e) favourable greenhouse atmosphere; on the other hand, negative impacts are (a) reduced rate of tourists arrival (b) unoccupied hotel accommodations (c) disruption of tourism activities (d) declining purchasing trends and (e)hampering socialization process. …”
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Examining the relationship between procurement strategies and organizational performance of Ghanaian firms: How does strategic procurement drive organizational success? by Godfrey Adda

“…A structured questionnaire was administered to 500 participants from industrial companies, resulting in 437 valid responses (an 87.4% response rate). Data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (SEM-PLS). …”
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WINGATE ANAEROBIC TEST: ADDITIONAL PHYSIOOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION by Dorothea Stefanova, Borislava Petrova

“…The proposed method was introduced and applied to twelve soccer players, 14 years of age; height 164,7±8,0 cm; body weight 50,7±9,2 kg; maximal heart rate 195,7±7,0 bpm; maximal oxygen uptake 58,1±9,9 ml.kg-1. …”
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Microfinance and Socio-Economic Development in Byumba Sector. A case Study of Reseau Interdiocesain De Micro Finance (Rim S.A) by Fraterne, Nzeyimana

“…In this study, the researcher used different methods for collecting data as follows: Questionnaire, interview, personal participative observation and documentation techniques in the process of gathering information. …”
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Preliminary study on the separation of Technetium from acidic wastewater using NTAamide (C8) extractant by LIU Zhanyuan, WANG Junli, SHEN Zhen, LUO Fangxiang, YAN Taihong, ZHENG Weifang, WANG Hui

“…An exceptional technetium recovery rate of 99.9% is attained after 8-stage extraction and 8-stage washing process while the purification factors of strontium, cesium, zirconium, and ruthenium reach 6.9×103, 7.9×104, 4.3×102 and 45, separately.ConclusionThis optimized process proposed in this study provides technical support for the separation and extraction of technetium in post-treatment plants.…”
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