The Association of Fasting C-peptide with Corneal Neuropathy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Anju Zuo, Chuan Wang, Lili Li, Jingru Qu, Juan Cao, Li Chen, Solomon Tesfaye, Wenjuan Li, Xinguo Hou

“…The present study investigated the relationship of fasting C-peptide levels with corneal neuropathy evaluated by corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) in patients with T2DM. …”
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Solar Assisted Fast Pyrolysis: A Novel Approach of Renewable Energy Production by Mohammad U. H. Joardder, P. K. Halder, A. Rahim, N. Paul

“…Biofuel produced by fast pyrolysis from biomass is a promising candidate. …”
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A review of salivary composition changes induced by fasting and its impact on health by Nurul Fadhilah Kamalul Aripin, N. Idayu Zahid, Mohd Aizat Abdul Rahim, Hashim Yaacob, Parvez I. Haris, Zubaidah Haji Abd. Rahim, Rauzah Hashim

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A Compact and Fast Resonant Cavity-Based Encoder in Photonic Crystal Platform by Mohammad Soroosh, Faris K. AL-Shammri, Mohammad Javad Maleki, Venkatachalam Rajarajan Balaji, Ehsan Adibnia

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A Fast and Robust Key Frame Extraction Method for Video Copyright Protection by Yunyu Shi, Haisheng Yang, Ming Gong, Xiang Liu, Yongxiang Xia

“…The paper proposes a key frame extraction method for video copyright protection. The fast and robust method is based on frame difference with low level features, including color feature and structure feature. …”
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Temperature Dependence of Thermophysical Properties of Full-Scale Corium of Fast Energy Reactor by Mazhyn K. Skakov, Nurzhan Ye. Mukhamedov, Alexander D. Vurim, Ilya I. Deryavko

“…For the first time the paper determines thermophysical properties (specific heat capacity, thermal diffusivity, and heat conductivity) of the full-scale corium of the fast energy nuclear reactor within the temperature range from ~30°С to ~400°С. …”
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Breaking the fast, and overcoming the physical and mental barriers for early resumption of postoperative feeding by Pradeep A. Dongare, Bhaskar S Bala, Umesh Goneppanavar

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A Fast Algorithm for Electromagnetic Scattering from One-Dimensional Rough Surface by Jing Jing Wang, An Qi Wang, Zhi Xiang Huang, Tie Zhen Jiang

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Chronic intermittent fasting impairs β cell maturation and function in adolescent mice by Leonardo Matta, Peter Weber, Suheda Erener, Alina Walth-Hummel, Daniela Hass, Lea K. Bühler, Katarina Klepac, Julia Szendroedi, Joel Guerra, Maria Rohm, Michael Sterr, Heiko Lickert, Alexander Bartelt, Stephan Herzig

“…Summary: Intermittent fasting (IF) is a nutritional lifestyle intervention with broad metabolic benefits, but whether the impact of IF depends on the individual’s age is unclear. …”
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Construction of Standard Fast Medical Procedures for Traumatic Shock and Its Application Effects by Yan Wang, Siqi Luo

“…To explore the construction of standard fast medical procedures for traumatic shock and its application effects. …”
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A Fast-Convergent Hyperbolic Tangent PSO Algorithm for UAVs Path Planning by Muhammad Haris, Dost Muhammad Saqib Bhatti, Haewoon Nam

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Super Partition: fast, flexible, and interpretable large-scale data reduction in R by Katelyn J. Queen, Malcolm Barrett, Joshua Millstein

“…In an initial step, Genie, a fast, hierarchical clustering algorithm, forms a super-partition, thereby increasing the computational tractability by allowing Partition to be applied to the subsets. …”
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Improvement of Core Performance by Introduction of Moderators in a Blanket Region of Fast Reactors by Toshio Wakabayashi

“…An application of deuteride moderator for fast reactor cores is proposed for power flattening that can mitigate thermal spikes and alleviate the decrease in breeding ratio, which sometimes occurs when hydrogen moderator is applied as a moderator. …”
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FAB: Fast Angular Binary Descriptor for Matching Corner Points in Video Imagery by Mehwish Tahir, Nadia Kanwal, Fatima Anjum

“…Image matching is a fundamental step in several computer vision applications where the requirement is fast, accurate, and robust matching of images in the presence of different transformations. …”
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Open Archives initiative: A fast way of integration into global open science by Yurii Tkachov

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Very Fast and Accurate Procedure for the Characterization of Photovoltaic Panels from Datasheet Information by Antonino Laudani, Francesco Riganti Fulginei, Alessandro Salvini, Gabriele Maria Lozito, Salvatore Coco

“…In this paper we present a fast and accurate procedure for obtaining the parameters of the five-parameter model by starting from its reduced form. …”
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Isotropic Spin Trap EPR Spectra Simulation by Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) by S. Laachir, M. Moussetad, R. Adhiri, A. Fahli

“…In this work, the electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra of DMPO/HO. and MGD-Fe-NO adducts are reproduced by simulation, based on the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). The calculated spectral parameters as the hyperfine coupling constants, agree reasonably with the experimental data and the results are discussed.…”
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Fast Food Consumption, Quality of Diet, and Obesity among Isfahanian Adolescent Girls by Mohammad Hossein Rouhani, Maryam Mirseifinezhad, Nasrin Omrani, Ahmad Esmaillzadeh, Leila Azadbakht

“…Few data are available linking fast food intake to diet quality in developing countries. …”
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From TORTORA to MegaTORTORA—Results and Prospects of Search for Fast Optical Transients by Grigory Beskin, Sergey Bondar, Sergey Karpov, Vladimir Plokhotnichenko, Adriano Guarnieri, Corrado Bartolini, Giuseppe Greco, Adalberto Piccioni, Andrew Shearer

“…We developed a system consisting of widefield camera with field of view of 400–600 sq.deg. which uses TV-CCD with 0.13 s temporal resolution to record and classify optical transients, and a fast robotic telescope aimed to perform their spectroscopic and photometric investigation just after detection. …”
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Low‐rank and sparse reconstruction for fast diffusion nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy by Di Guo, Jiaying Zhan, Yirong Zhou, Zhangren Tu, Zifei Zhang, Zhong Chen, Xiaobo Qu

“…The authors introduce the low‐rank constraint as an effective remedy to remove these artefacts and derive a fast algorithm to solve the reconstruction problem. …”
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