Analysis of Colorfastness in Metallic Prints Using Absorption Spectroscopy by Sylvia Owusua Donkor, Samuel Sonko Sackey, Michael Kwame Vowotor, Charles Lloyd Yeboah Amuah, Rabbi Boateng, Ebenezer Teye Tatchie, Jerry Opoku-Ansah, Peter Osei-Wusu Adueming

“…The fabrics were washed using GyroWash machine set for normal (40°C) and hot (60°C) wash for durations of 60 min and 90 min. …”
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A Parametric Analysis of the Effect of Hybrid Nanoparticles on the Flow Field and Homogeneous-Heterogeneous Reaction between Squeezing Plates by Wajid Ullah Jan, Muhammad Farooq, Aamir Khan, Asma Alharbi, Rehan Ali Shah, Rashid Jan, Sahar Ahmed Idris

“…A sustainable suspension in the ethylene glycol with water is set by dissolving inorganic substances, iron oxide Fe3O4 and cobalt (Co), to form Fe3O4−Co/C2H6O2−H2O hybrid nanofluid. …”
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Analytical model for assessing fatigue limit of welded joints of ferritic-pearlitic steels by K. A. Molokov, V. V. Novikov, A. P. German

“…On its basis, an engineering technique for assessing the endurance limit is developed. …”
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Artificial Neural Network for the Clustering of Vibration Signals for Condition Monitoring of Rotating Machines by Eyere Emagbetere, Samson Uwatse, Omonzokpia Goerge Okoidigun

“…The study has shown that ANN can effectively cluster a set of machines based on their conditions using vibration signals taken at different pick-up points. …”
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Evaluation of Adjustment Effects of Highway Guide Signs Based on the TOPSIS Method by Jin Ran, Meiling Li, Jian Rong, Ding Zhao, Ahmetjan Kadir, Qiang Luo

“…On this basis, an evaluation model was constructed using the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) to scientifically quantify the effectiveness of guide signs. …”
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Miniaturized Devices for Isothermal Amplification and Photometric Quantification of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa by P Ramya Priya, Satish Kumar Dubey, Sanket Goel

“…RPA, an amplification technique was employed, which required a lower operating temperature of 37 °C–40 °C to complete the reaction. …”
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SpecTE: Parameter Estimation for LAMOST Low-resolution Stellar Spectra Based on Denoising Pretraining by Xirong Zhao, Xiangru Li, Hui Li, Xianqi Liu

“…This paper proposes a spectral transformer encoder (SpecTE) model based on a denoising pretraining technique, and applies it to estimating radial velocity (RV) and three stellar atmospheric physical parameters together with 15 chemical element abundances from low-resolution spectra from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). …”
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Tissue Doppler Imaging in Acute and Critical Care: Enhancing Diagnostic Precision by Ugo Giulio Sisto, Daniele Orso, Davide Maione, Francesco Venturelli, Antonio De Luca

“…Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI), as an advanced echocardiographic technique, offers additional quantitative data by measuring myocardial velocities, thereby improving the evaluation of systolic and diastolic ventricular function. …”
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Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) and radial pressure waves (RPW) May improve post-operative recovery following insertional Achilles tendon surgeries: a case-control pilot s... by Amol Saxena, Elizabeth Bondi, Ludger Gerdesmeyer, Adam S. Tenforde

“…Overall group differences were compared using two-sided Student’s T-test for RTA and Fisher exact test for RM, with P-value set at < 0.05. Results We reviewed all cases and identified 12 patients receiving ESWT/RPW who were matched to conventional treatment by age, sex and type of surgery. …”
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Transforming Brain Tumor Detection Empowering Multi-Class Classification With Vision Transformers and EfficientNetV2 by Anees Tariq, Muhammad Munwar Iqbal, Muhammad Javed Iqbal, and Iftikhar Ahmad

“…Our approach was evaluated on a brain tumor MRI dataset containing 7,023 images, divided into training and testing sets. EfficientNetV2 achieved an accuracy of 95% with a loss of 0.13, alongside an F1-score, precision, and recall of 0.96. …”
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The acute effects of post-activation potentiation (PAP) warm-up protocols on anaerobic performance and lactate changes in female talo athletes by Hengameh Moradiyan, Abdolhossein Parnow, Rasoul Eslami

“…Purpose: Post-activation potentiation (PAP) is a relatively new training technique that positively influence athletes’ performance. …”
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Patients’ Understanding of Health Information in Online Medical Records and Patient Portals: Analysis of the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey by Katerina Andreadis, Nancy Buderer, Aisha Tene Langford

“…The survey was conducted across various US settings using a stratified multistage sampling technique to ensure national representation. …”
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Quantitative and qualitative estimation of atherosclerotic plaque burden in vivo at 7T MRI using Gadospin F in comparison to en face preparation evaluated in ApoE KO mice. by Caroline Jung, Sabine Christiansen, Michael Gerhard Kaul, Eva Koziolek, Rudolph Reimer, Jörg Heeren, Gerhard Adam, Markus Heine, Harald Ittrich

“…<h4>Methods and results</h4>9-weeks old ApoE-/- (n = 5 for each group) and wildtype mice (n = 5) were set on high fat diet (HFD). Progression group received MRI at 9, 13, 17 and 21 weeks after HFD initiation. …”
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Enhancing nurses’ sustainability consciousness and its effect on green behavior intention and green advocacy: quasi-experimental study by Ahmed Abdellah Othman, Hanan Abdelrazik Abdelall, Hind Ismail Ali

“…Along the same line, Hospital managers should set strategies to raise healthcare providers’ awareness of sustainability issues and environmentally friendly practices.…”
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Towards quantifying exfiltration from in situ sanitary sewer pipes by John F. Griffith, Joshua A. Steele, Adriana Gonzalez-Fernández, Kenneth C. Schiff

“…Relatively few studies have employed physical measurements of volume loss in field settings. Here, we design, test, and apply at a watershed scale, a new methodology for measuring volume loss from sanitary sewer pipes that are currently in use and under typical operating conditions (i.e., not pressurized). …”
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A Study to Assess the Efficacy of Audio-Visual Psychoeducation on Level of Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Harmful Effects of Alcohol among Alcohol use Disorder Patients Admitted... by Seema Madhavan Nair, Punita A Sharma, Radhika Das

“…A simple random sampling technique was used with random allocation of subjects into experimental group and control group by lottery method. …”
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Surface Characteristics and Performance Optimization of W-Doped Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films by Chuen-Lin Tien, Chun-Yu Chiang, Jia-Kai Tien, Ching-Chiun Wang, Shih-Chin Lin

“…W-doped vanadium dioxide films were deposited on B270 glass substrates using an electron beam evaporation technique combined with the ion beam-assisted deposition (IAD) method. …”
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Diagnostic dilemma: application of real-time PCR assays for the detection of Dientamoeba fragilis in medical and veterinary specimens by Luke M. Hall, John T. Ellis, Damien J. Stark

“…Abstract Background Real-time PCR (qPCR) diagnostics developed for use in human clinical settings have been implemented to identify new animal hosts of the gastrointestinal protozoan Dientamoeba fragilis. …”
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Pulmonary function among stone quarry workers in India: The effect of duration of exposure, smoking status and job profile on pulmonary function tests by Junaid Aziz Sheikh, Zahid Ali Khan, Tazeen Khan, Sumaira Chowdhary

“…Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 100 male stone crusher workers, selected through multi-stage random sampling technique. Effect of risk factors on the pulmonary function tests of the workers was analysed by ‘Students independent t-test’, one-way ANOVA and simple linear regression. …”
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2D Tomographic Maps of Rayleigh and Love Waves for Armenia and Its Surrounding Areas by Abrehdari Seyed Hossein, Karapetyan Jon Kostikovich, Rahimi Habib, Geodakyan Eduard

“…Overall, the main strengths of this paper lie in the application of a tomographic technique utilizing an important data set. The findings have the potential to provide new insights into the Armenian region and its surrounding areas.…”
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