Using Generative Adversarial Networks for the synthesis of emotional facial expressions in virtual educational environments by William Villegas-Ch, Alexandra Maldonado Navarro, Araceli Mera-Navarrete

“…However, one of the main challenges remains the accurate transmission of complex and negative emotions, such as anger or sadness, due to the difficulty of correctly capturing the facial micro gestures that characterize these emotions. …”
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Sing A Song for Home: How Displaced Iranian Song-Writers in LA Conceive of Home and Homeland by Pouya Morshedi, Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott

“…Songs use home as a metaphor for the homeland, even when describing the body of the home. The sadness about the destroyed home, hope to return to home, and the tendency to come back to their mother (or motherland) point to the singers’ emotions about their homeland. …”
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Pengaruh Tahapan Preprocessing Terhadap Model Indobert Dan Indobertweet Untuk Mendeteksi Emosi Pada Komentar Akun Berita Instagram by Ulfia Khairani, Viska Mutiawani, Hendri Ahmadian

“…This research categorizes four emotions, anger, happiness, fear and sadness, using pre-trained models IndoBERT and IndoBERTweet. …”
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CHALLENGES FOR UNIVERSITIES TO ONLINE TECHNOLOGIES IMPLEMENTATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF WAR IN UKRAINE by Yuliia Sytnykova, Tаtyana Petrenko, Oksana Bezkorovaina, Anastasiia Ptushka

“…The most common psychological difficulties with online learning were connected with external ones as constant shelling, and air alarms as with internal ones as stress, anxiety, worries, depression, burnout, sadness, and frustration. The technical difficulties were connected to blackouts, lack of Internet connection, power outages, evacuation, changes in living and working conditions, relocations, and the impossibility of using laboratory equipment. …”
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Effective Facial Expression Recognition System Using Artificial Intelligence Technique by Imad S. Yousif, Tarik A. Rashid, Ahmed S. Shamsaldin, Sabat A. Abdulhameed, Abdulhady Abas Abdullah

“…A hybrid ANN-GA model that uses Petri Nets and production systems is proposed for the real-time video sequence analysis with high precision in predicting different dynamic facial activities of anger, surprise, disgust, joy, sadness and fear from emotion faces. Importantly, results on the study show that this integrated model has a large-scale promoting effect in emotion detection upon varied scenes and is therefore generalizable to many domains from security and surveillance over biomedicine up to interactive AI-driven systems. …”
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Translation and Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale for Eritrea: A Screening Tool for Postpartum Depression in Primary Health Care Facilities by Gebregziabher NK, Netsereab TB, Alazar FA, Fessaha YG, Sium AH, Ghebrehiwet NK

“…Nahom Kiros Gebregziabher,1,2 Tesfit Brhane Netsereab,1,3 Feven Andebrhan Alazar,4 Yerusalem Gebremeskel Fessaha,4 Aman Hadish Sium,4 Nardos Kidane Ghebrehiwet4 1Department of Community Medicine, Orotta College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Asmara, Eritrea; 2Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People’s Republic of China; 4Ministry of Health, Asmara, EritreaCorrespondence: Nahom Kiros Gebregziabher, Department of Community Medicine, Orotta College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Asmara, Eritrea, Email nahomkiros21@gmail.comIntroduction: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a mood disorder characterized by symptoms such as changes in sleep and eating patterns, fatigue, sadness, crying, anxiety, and guilt. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was developed to be used as a self-report questionnaire for English-speaking populations to screen for postnatal depression. …”
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Path model explaining the association between fear of falling and health-related quality of life in (pre-)frail older adults by Tjard Sattler, Sophie Gottschalk, Hans-Helmut König, Tobias Braun, Gisela Büchele, Michael Denkinger, Tim Fleiner, Corinna Nerz, Kilian Rapp, Martina Schäufele, Christian Werner, Judith Dams

“…The model included potential explanatory pathways through physical activity (German Physical Activity Questionnaire for middle-aged and older adults), physical capacity (Short Physical Performance Battery), physical performance (Late-Life Function and Disability Instrument [LLFDI] function component), disability (LLFDI disability component – short form), and affect (visual analogue scales on ‘happiness’, ‘sadness’, ‘calmness’ and ‘tension’). Age, sex, education, and previous falls were considered as covariates. …”
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Identifikasi Emosi Manusia Berdasarkan Ucapan Menggunakan Metode Ekstraksi Ciri LPC dan Metode Euclidean Distance by Siti Helmiyah, Imam Riadi, Rusydi Umar, Abdullah Hanif, Anton Yudhana, Abdul Fadlil

“…This research resulted in inaccuracy in sad emotions 58.33%, neutral emotions 50%, angry emotions 41.67%, happy emotions 8.33% and bored emotions could not be recognized. …”
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A Systemic Approach to Inceptive Constructions in Lithuanian by Rolandas Mikulskas

“…For instance, they played a significant role in the adaptation of the verbs prapliupo and pratrūko, originally designating phenomena of the physical world, to designate outburst of some emo- tion, such as joy (for example, Ji prapliupo juoktis ‘She began (lit. burst) to laugh / laughing’), sadness (for example, Ji pratrūko verkti ‘She began (lit. burst) to cry / crying’) or anger (for example, Jis prapliupo keiktis ‘He began (lit. burst) to swear / swearing’).  …”
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The Dorsiflexion Range of Motion Screen: A Validation Study by Phillip J Plisky, Garrett S Bullock, Mary Beth Garner, Risa Ricard, Josh Hayden, Bethany Huebner, Kate Schwartzkopf-Phifer, Kyle Kiesel

“…Four raters measured ankle DF using the SADS. Reliability was calculated using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) and kappa coefficients for the raters using an electronic inclinometer and the SADS scale, respectively. …”
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Identifying Conservative Interventions for Individuals with Subacromial Pain Syndrome Prior to Undergoing a Subacromial Decompression: A Scoping Review by Joseph A Signorino, Aubrey G. Thompson, Benjamin R Hando, Jodi L Young

“…# Background Subacromial decompression (SAD) surgery remains a common treatment for individuals suffering from subacromial pain syndrome (SAPS), despite numerous studies indicating that SAD provides no benefit over conservative care. …”
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Modulation of the thiol redox proteome by sugarcane ash-derived silica nanoparticles: insights into chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology by Arthur D. Stem, Cole R. Michel, Peter S. Harris, Keegan L. Rogers, Matthew Gibb, Carlos A. Roncal-Jimenez, Richard Reisdorph, Richard J. Johnson, James R. Roede, Kristofer S. Fritz, Jared M. Brown

“…Methods In order to characterize the impact of sugarcane ash derived (SAD) SiNPs on human kidney proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) cells and identify potential mechanisms of toxicity, HK-2 cells were exposed to treatments of either pristine, manufactured, 200 nm SiNPs or SAD SiNPs and changes to cellular energy metabolism and redox state were determined. …”
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Liquidity and profitability of wineries in selected municipalities of AP Vojvodina by Pavlović Nataša, Mirović Vera, Kalaš Branimir

“…Analyzing by the municipalities, it can conclude that wineries in Irig and Novi Sad were profitable, while this was not the case with wineries in Beočin and Sremski Karlovci for the observed period.…”
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Development of the system for monitoring ambiental factors by applying Arduino platform by Mijailović Đorđe, Karabašević Darjan, Stanujkić Dragiša

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Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube) by Dušanka Cvijanović, Maja Novković, Djuradj Milošević, Milica Stojković Piperac, Laszlo Galambos, Dubravka Čerba, Olivera Stamenković, Bojan Damnjanović, Minučer Mesaroš, Dragoslav Pavić, Vladica Simić, Ivana Trbojević, Ana Anđelković, Nusret Drešković, Barbara Stammel, Bernd Cyffka, Snežana Radulović

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Mosaic Disease of St. Augustinegrass Caused by Sugarcane Mosaic Virus by Phil Harmon

“…Augustinegrass decline (SAD), as of November 2014, all samples have tested negative for SAD, and positive for presence of Sugarcane Mosaic Virus. …”
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Mosaic Disease of St. Augustinegrass Caused by Sugarcane Mosaic Virus by Phil Harmon

“…Augustinegrass decline (SAD), as of November 2014, all samples have tested negative for SAD, and positive for presence of Sugarcane Mosaic Virus. …”
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PREFACE by L. Sutton

“… It is sad to think that in the time of social media, Internet, and an overload of information, there are still voices that are not heard, nor given the opportunity to be heard. …”
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Remarks on Some Results of Extended Interpolative Hardy-Rogers-Geraghty-Wardowski Contractions and Ćirić-Reich-Rus Type F-Contractions by Dušan Bajović, Slobodanka Mitrović, Sandra Buhmiler, Stojan Radenovic

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Early Marriages and Pupil's Academic Performance in Butanda Sub- County Kabale District. by Katushabe, Sharlote

“…Throughout the world. marriage is regarded as a moment of celebration and a milestone in one's life. Sadly. the practice of early marriage involves the deprivation of fundamental human rights. …”
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