Participatory science methods to monitor water quality and ground truth remote sensing of the Chesapeake Bay. by Patrick Neale, Shelby Brown, Tara Sill, Alison Cawood, Maria Tzortziou, Jieun Park, Min-Sun Lee, Beth Paquette

“…The Chesapeake Water Watch program seeks to enhance the monitoring of tributaries by developing and testing methods for volunteer scientists to easily measure chlorophyll, turbidity, and colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) to inform Bay stakeholders and improve algorithms for analogous remote sensing (RS) products. …”
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Postoperative Physical Therapy for Cervical Total Disc Replacement: A Case Report by Leana Mosesian, Joseph M Derian, Grant D Shifflett, Justin M Lantz

“…# BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cervical total disc replacement (CTDR) was developed to decompress nervous structures, preserve spinal biomechanics, and reduce postoperative complications such as nonunion or fracture. …”
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Improvement of bone regeneration by a synergistic combination of octacalcium phosphate and water glass by Won-Pyo Lee, Euisin Yang, Woong Kim, Riessa Nanda Mertamani, Hana Lee, Se Eun Kim, Kyung Mi Shim, Seong Soo Kang, Sukyoung Kim, Seok-Jun Kim, Jooseong Kim

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Differentiable Modeling of Planet and Substellar Atmosphere: High-resolution Emission, Transmission, and Reflection Spectroscopy with ExoJAX2 by Hajime Kawahara, Yui Kawashima, Shotaro Tada, Hiroyuki Tako Ishikawa, Ko Hosokawa, Yui Kasagi, Takayuki Kotani, Kento Masuda, Stevanus K. Nugroho, Motohide Tamura, Hibiki Yama, Daniel Kitzmann, Nicolas Minesi, Brett M. Morris

“…Modeling based on differentiable programming holds great promise for astronomy, enabling advanced techniques such as gradient-based posterior sampling and optimization. …”
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Exploring Immersive Virtual Reality in Higher Education: Research Gap and Future Direction—A Scoping Review by Sunardi, Meyliana, Spits Warnars Harco Leslie Hendric, Yusep Rosmansyah

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Outcomes After Noncardiac Surgery Performed Within 2 Years of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Neel M. Butala, Annika Hebbe, Binita Shah, Nathaniel R. Smilowitz, Bilal Aijaz, Anezi Uzendu, Peter Boulos, Stephen W. Waldo

“…Among patients with recent PCI, multivariable logistic regression was used to develop a risk model to predict 1‐year postoperative MACE. …”
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Testing the functionality and contact error of a GPS‐based wildlife tracking network by Melanie J. Davis, Sravan Thokala, Xinyu Xing, N. Thompson Hobbs, Michael W. Miller, Richard Han, Shivakant Mishra

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Loop-mediated isothermal amplification assays for the detection of antimicrobial resistance elements in Vibrio cholera by Daniel Antonio Negrón, Shipra Trivedi, Nicholas Tolli, David Ashford, Gabrielle Melton, Stephanie Guertin, Katharine Jennings, Bryan D. Necciai, Shanmuga Sozhamannan, Bradley W. Abramson

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Changes in Quality and Metabolites of Pickled Purple Radish During Storage by Seung-Hun Chae, Sang-Hyeon Lee, Seung-Hwan Kim, Si-Hun Song, Jae-Hak Moon, Heon-Woong Kim, Jeong-Yong Cho

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Machine Learning with Evolutionary Parameter Tuning for Singing Registers Classification by Tales Boratto, Gabriel de Oliveira Costa, Alexsandro Meireles, Anna Klara Sá Teles Rocha Alves, Camila M. Saporetti, Matteo Bodini, Alexandre Cury, Leonardo Goliatt

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Native RNA nanopore sequencing reveals antibiotic-induced loss of rRNA modifications in the A- and P-sites by Anna Delgado-Tejedor, Rebeca Medina, Oguzhan Begik, Luca Cozzuto, Judith López, Sandra Blanco, Julia Ponomarenko, Eva Maria Novoa

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Water supply, sanitation and hygiene education in secondary schools in Ibadan, Nigeria by Egbinola Christiana Ndidi, Amanambu Amobichukwu Chukwudi

“…Investing in clean water, sanitation and hygiene education in these public schools should become a priority for governments in developing countries and School Sanitation and Hygiene Education program (SSHE) should be adopted and implemented across schools in Nigeria.…”
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SET-THEORETIC OPERATION OF INTERSECTION OF TOPOLOGICAL OBJECTS-POLYGONS ON THE PLANE by A. A. Butov

“…The purpose of this work was to develop methods for performing a set-theoretic intersection operation on topological objects of the polygon type. …”
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Thailand’s Strategy to Change the Image of Sex Tourism Through Gastro Diplomacy in 2017-2020 by Tholhah Tholhah, Salmaula Nur Wafa

“…Through the ‘Kitchen of the World’ icon, Thailand is expanding its restaurants abroad and becoming an exporter of staples and food ingredient production to various developed and developing countries in the world. The Thai Government’s strategy is a national interest through gastro diplomacy to change the country’s known as sex tourism. …”
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Crisis of the EU Eastern Policy by I. V. Bolgova

“…The article elaborates on the key elements and trends of the EU activities at the post-soviet space that are likely to frame the context of its further developments. The most visible trends analysed here are the extreme differentiation of bilateral relations within the EaP project alongside with the growing symbolism of official rhetoric and program practices of the European Union. …”
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Ductile Failure Modes of Double Shear Steel-to-Wood Dowel Type Connections by Emanuele Maiorana, Guillaume Hervé Poh’sié, Tegha Maxima Enah

“…To analyze the behavior of typical hybrid steel–wood connections in wooden buildings, 3D continuum-based finite element analysis (FEA) models of the most critical connections were developed using the Abaqus/CAE program. Accurate modeling requires appropriate element and material formulations, as well as proper contact definitions between connection components. …”
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A Novel Flexible Model for the Extraction of Features from Brain Signals in the Time-Frequency Domain by R. Heideklang, G. Ivanova

“…We propose an algorithm to derive initial parameters based on dynamic programming for nonlinear fitting and describe an iterative refinement scheme to robustly fit high-order models. …”
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Causal machine learning models for predicting low birth weight in midwife-led continuity care intervention in North Shoa Zone, Ethiopia by Wudneh Ketema Moges, Awoke Seyoum Tegegne, Aweke A. Mitku, Esubalew Tesfahun, Solomon Hailemeskel

“…The S-learner and R-learner models, utilizing the XGBoost Regressor and BaseSRegressor, provided accurate estimations of ITE for assessing the impact of the MLCC program. Promoting the MLCC program could help stabilize LBW outcomes.…”
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Adaptive Controller Design for Improving Helicopter Flying Qualities by Wei Wu

“…An adaptive controller is designed according to the developed method for the UH-60A helicopter based on a nonlinear simulation program. …”
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Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Health Monitoring System by Real Flight Data by Mustagime Tülin Yildirim, Bülent Kurt

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