Evaluation of the Effects of Tunnel Lighting Environment on Energy Consumption and Drivers’ Reaction Time by Long Zhao, Song Hu, Dongwei Wang, Yujin Guo, Chaoliang Fu

“…In order to alleviate the above problems, the effects of the tunnel lighting environment on energy consumption and drivers’ reaction time were evaluated by the finite element method and laboratory test to optimize the lighting environments. …”
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Super-Resolution Three-Dimensional Topography Measurement Using Microsphere-Aided Broadband Light Interferometry by Keran Deng, Yangyi Liu, Fan Yang, Jian Huang, Lianghua Wen

“…In this paper, we proposed a microsphere-aided Mirau-based broadband light interferometry method to achieve super-resolution 3D topography reconstruction. …”
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Efficacy and Central Mechanism of Acupuncture Treatment for Subacute Nonspecific Low Back Pain: A Clinical Neuroimaging Protocol by Ren J, Gao Z, Chang BY, Cui MJ, Wang HJ

“…Acupuncture is a common method of treating LBP in Chinese medicine, which is safe and effective. …”
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Non-absorbable surgical sutures versus autologous tendons in the reconstruction of medial patellofemoral ligaments: a randomised controlled trial protocol by Xu Liu, Gaoming Liu, Yusheng Li, Wenhao Lu, Linyuan Pan, Hongfu Jin, Wenfeng Xiao

“…Participants were randomly allocated to either the experimental or the control group using a random number table method, with an equal number of 15 subjects in each group. …”
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Evaluation of pain intensity and airway changes in non-growing patients treated by MARPE with and without micro-osteoperforation: a randomized clinical trial by Moataz Elshehaby, Nehal Fouad Albelasy, Mohamed A. Elbialy, Ahmad Mohammed Hafez, Yasser Lotfy Abdelnaby

“…Objectives To assess the effect of mini-screw assisted rapid palatal expansion (MARPE) with/without micro-osteoperforation (MOP) on the airway and pain intensity in non-growing patients with maxillary transverse deficiency. Method Two equal groups of twenty-four individuals aged ≥ 19 years old with maxillary transverse deficit were randomly assigned. …”
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The Analgesic Efficacy of Transverse Abdominis Plane Block versus Epidural Block after Caesarean Delivery: Which One Is Effective? TAP Block? Epidural Block? by Ebru Canakci, Ahmet Gultekin, Zubeyir Cebeci, Bulent Hanedan, Anil Kilinc

“…Materials and Methods. Eighty patients in the ASA I-II risk group, undergone an elective C-section, were randomly assigned to the study. …”
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Digital technology for spectral analysis of oscillation parameters by A. V. Gulaj, V. M. Zajcev

“…Performing the Fourier analysis of the harmonic composition of oscillations is an effective approach to the study of vibration processes in machines and mechanisms. This method of express control remains relevant and highly demanded in the acoustic diagnostics of machines due to its relatively high informativeness. …”
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THE ORDINAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL WITH SAMPLING WEIGHTS ON DATA FROM THE NATIONAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEY by Reni Amelia, Indahwati Indahwati, Erfiani Erfiani

“…Ordinal logistic regression is a method describing the relationship between an ordered categorical response variable and one or more explanatory variables. …”
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Proximal <italic>LSSVR</italic> of Gauss-Laplacian With Mixed-Noise-Characteristics and Its Applications for Short-Term Wind-Speed Forecasting by Ting Zhou, Shiguang Zhang

“…It converts inequality constraint problems into simpler equality constraint problems and employs the Augmented Lagrange multiplier method to solve the proposed model. …”
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Autonomous adaptive optimization of NMR experimental conditions for precise inference of minor conformational states of proteins based on chemical exchange saturation transfer. by Takuma Kasai, Takanori Kigawa

“…Both simulations and actual measurements using the FF domain of the HYPA/FBP11 protein with the A39G mutation demonstrated that the adaptive method outperformed the conventional one in terms of estimation precision of minor-state parameters based on equal numbers of measurements. …”
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Real-Time Tracking by Double Templates Matching Based on Timed Motion History Image with HSV Feature by Zhiyong Li, Pengfei Li, Xiaoping Yu, Mervat Hashem

“…The experimental results show that the proposed method can efficiently handle the scale variation and pose change of the rigid and nonrigid objects, even in illumination change and occlusion visual environment.…”
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The Effect of Masterbatch Recipes on the Homogenization Properties of Injection Molded Parts by László Zsíros, Dániel Török, József Gábor Kovács

“…Unfortunately, there is no widespread method to objectively test visual appearance, such as color inhomogeneity of the parts or other surface defects. …”
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Standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography does not improve EEG Alzheimer's disease assessment by Wolfgang Frühwirt, Martin Mairhofer, Andreas Hahn, Heinrich Garn, Markus Waser, Reinhold Schmidt, Thomas Benke, Peter Dal-Bianco, Gerhard Ransmayr, Dieter Grossegger, Stephen Roberts, Georg Dorffner

“…Therefore, they should not be generalized to other neurological or psychiatric disorders or to other 3D source localization methods without further validation. Finally, these findings do not diminish the value of 3D source localization for visual EEG inspection.…”
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Identification of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor patients with high liver tumor burden based on clinicopathological features by Nuerailaguli Jumai, Luohai Chen, Xiaoxuan Lin, Qiao He, Man Liu, Yuan Lin, Yanji Luo, Yu Wang, Min-hu Chen, Xiangsong Zhang, Zhirong Zeng, Ning Zhang

“…The whole dataset was divided into training set and validation set. LASSO regression method was used to select predictors, and multivariate logistic regression was used to develop a clinical model which was further visualized by constructing a nomogram. …”
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Relationship of Online Learning Readiness with Self-Directed Learning and Information Technology Skills in Nursing and Midwifery Students by Seyyedeh Roghayeh Abdi koohi kheyli, Mojtaba Rezaei Rad, Saeed Razaghi

“…A stratified random sampling method was employed, selecting 297 individuals (125 midwifery students and 172 nursing students) based on the Krejcie and Morgan table. …”
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Impact of anticoagulation therapy on short-term and long-term prognosis of patients with acute Q-wave myocardial infarction after thrombolytic therapy by S. M. Kyselov

“…Probability of unfavorable cardiovascular events was assessed by the relative risk with a confidence interval of 95 %. The multiple method of Kaplan-Meier estimation was used to determine the survival distributions. …”
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Optimization of the Weight Processing Algorithm in Multichannel Doppler Filtering by V. I. Koshelev, Ngoc Hieu Trinh

“…However, the use of the combined method does not lead to an optimal solution in terms of MDF efficiency.Aim. …”
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Secondary structures involving the poly(A) tail and other 3’ sequences are major determinants of mRNA isoform stability in yeast by Zarmik Moqtaderi, Joseph V. Geisberg, Kevin Struh

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Central Venous Catheter Insertion: A Scoring System for Evaluation of Both the Procedure and the Operator (CVCI Score/Gaber Score) by Sayed Gaber, Ahmed Yehia, Beshoy Nabil, Ahmed Samir

“…We suggest a new scoring system for evaluation of both the technique as well as the operator, and then we applied it for the comparison between the landmark and ultrasound techniques to assess its validity. Methods. Four hundred patients were divided into two equal groups: group (A): internal jugular vein (IJV) and group (B): subclavian vein (SV). …”
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Matching the Traction Qualities of Agricultural Mobile Power Vehicles with the Permissible Maximum Pressure on the Soil by A. V. Lavrov, V. G. Shevtsov, A. V. Rusanov, V. A. Kazakova

“…(Research purpose) To coordinate the maximum pressure on the soil with the permissible norms, weight utilization factors and the level of tractors energy saturation.(Materials and methods) The authors used a calculated method for determining the maximum pressure on the soil using a universal tire characteristic.…”
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