Sustainable Innovations in Food Microbiology: Fermentation, Biocontrol, and Functional Foods by Amanda Priscila Silva Nascimento, Ana Novo Barros

“…The growing demand for more sustainable food systems has driven the development of solutions based on food microbiology, capable of integrating safety, functionality, and environmental responsibility. This paper presents a critical and up-to-date review of the most relevant advances at the interface between microbiology, sustainability, and food innovation. …”
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Incorporating Family Function into Chronic Pain Disability: The Role of Catastrophizing by Fatemeh Akbari, Mohsen Dehghani, Ali Khatibi, Tine Vervoort

“…The aim of the present study is to examine family context in relationship to pain catastrophizing, fear of movement, and depression and its role in understanding CP disability. Three different models were examined. Methods. A total sample of 142 patients with musculoskeletal chronic pain was recruited to examine the role of fear of movement, pain intensity, pain catastrophizing, and depression in relationship to family functioning as predictors of disability. …”
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Investigating the effect of loss functions on single-image GAN performance by Eyyup YİLDİZ, Mehmet Erkan YUKSEL, Selcuk SEVGEN

“…Additionally, we found that the WGAN-GP and LSGAN-GP loss functions are more effective for single-image GAN models.…”
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Machine Training of the System of Functional Diagnostics of the Shaft Lifting Machine by Dovbysh A. S., Zimovets V. I., Zuban Y. A., Prikhodchenko A. S.

“…The tasks set forth in the work were to develop a categorical model; to carry out synthesis based on its hierarchical machine teaching algorithm for a functional diagnosis system; and to optimize the system of acceptance tolerance. …”
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Function of boundary rivers in hydropolitics cooperation:Danube river study by Murad Kaviani Rad, Afshin Motaghi Disfani, Hossein Mokhtari Hashi, Ahmad Rashidinejad

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Automated quantification reveals hyperglycemia inhibits endothelial angiogenic function. by Anthony R Prisco, John D Bukowy, Brian R Hoffmann, Jamie R Karcher, Eric C Exner, Andrew S Greene

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Association Between Cognitive Function and the Autonomic Nervous System by Photoplethysmography by Jaewook Jin, Kahye Kim, KunHo Lee, Jeong-Woo Seo, Jaeuk U. Kim

“…This study explored the relationship between cognitive function and the autonomic nervous system by categorizing participants into two groups based on their cognitive function scores in each domain of the SNSB-D: a High Cognitive Performance (HCP) group and a Low Cognitive Performance (LCP) group. …”
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Identification of an intrinsic determinant critical for maspin subcellular localization and function. by Sijana H Dzinic, Alexander Kaplun, Xiaohua Li, Margarida Bernardo, Yonghong Meng, Ivory Dean, David Krass, Paul Stemmer, Namhee Shin, Fulvio Lonardo, Shijie Sheng

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Corrigendum to Fast AES-Based Universal Hash Functions and MACs by Augustin Bariant, Jules Baudrin, Gaëtan Leurent, Clara Pernot, Léo Perrin, Thomas Peyrin

“… In ToSC 2024(2), Bariant et al. proposed a new framework for designing efficient AES-based Universal Hash Functions (UHFs) and Message Authentification Codes (MACs). …”
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THE USE OF QUEUING THEORY FOR MODELING JOINTLY SATISFIABLE ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS by Vladimir V. Naumenko, Vladimir V. Kopytov

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Development of ladder climbing inspection robot with horizontal mobile function by Yuma ADACHI, Takashi SHINOHARA, Tetsuya AKAGI, Shujiro DOHTA, So SHIMOOKA, Feifei CHO, Masashi YOKOTA, Takumi ISHIBASHI

“…In this study, as assuming investigations in hazardous environments where toxic / flammable gas exit or inside of a nuclear reactor, a ladder climbing inspection robot with horizontal mobile function was proposed and tested. The theoretical estimation for ladder climbing up motion of the robot based on the analytical model was carried out. …”
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Congestive heart failure and cognitive functioning amongst older adults by Almeida Osvaldo P., Tamai Sérgio

“…BACKGROUND: Congestive heart failure is associated with decline in quality of life and, possibly, cognitive functions such as memory and attention. AIMS: The present study was designed to investigate the presence of cognitive impairment amongst patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). …”
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Restoration of Hardware Function of Spectral Colorimeters Using Regularization Methods by M. A. Radjabova, B. I. Eshmatova, N. K. Babanazarova

“…Since the actual hardware function of the device usually differs from the Gaussian curve, the use of hardware functions in the form of analytical dependencies does not always give the desired result, and for experimental methods, special equipment with a quasi-monochromatic radiation source is required. …”
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Density Functional Theory Calculations and Infrared Spectral Analysis of Lignin by Zhuang Miao, Zhipeng Li, Xing Teng, Han Wang, Yingying Zhou, Yixin Qiu, Changming Li, Chunyu Liu, Yong Tan

“…In this paper, four theoretical model structures of lignin formed by lignin G monomers and connected by β-O-4 bonding type were optimized and calculated based on the density functional theory using the B3LYP/3-21g and B3LYP/6-311g basis sets. …”
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Phishing suspiciousness in older and younger adults: The role of executive functioning. by Brandon E Gavett, Rui Zhao, Samantha E John, Cara A Bussell, Jennifer R Roberts, Chuan Yue

“…The Executive Functions Module from the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery and the Iowa Gambling Task were the primary cognitive predictors of reported phishing suspiciousness. …”
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Lightweight Mutually Authenticated Key Exchange with Physical Unclonable Functions by Cyrus Minwalla, Jim Plusquellic, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou

“…We evaluate the protocol on a set of three FPGAs and a desktop server, with the computational complexity calculated as a function of primitive operations. A composable security model is proposed and analyzed considering a powerful adversary in control of all communications channels. …”
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Effect of functional groups on tribological properties of lubricants and mechanism investigation by Hongxiang Yu, Haijie Chen, Zhiwen Zheng, Dan Qiao, Dapeng Feng, Zhenbin Gong, Guojun Dong

“…Abstract Nine organic compounds were utilized as model lubricants to investigate the impact of functional groups on tribological performances. …”
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Sensory neuron LKB1 mediates ovarian and reproductive function by Melissa E Lenert, Emily K Debner, Michael D Burton

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Mixed Cost Function and State Constrains Optimal Control Problems by Hugo Leiva, Guido Tapia-Riera, Jhoana P. Romero-Leiton, Cosme Duque

“…In this paper, we analyze an optimal control problem with a mixed cost function, which combines a terminal cost at the final state and an integral term involving the state and control variables. …”
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FunFEA: an R package for fungal functional enrichment analysis by Julien Charest, Paul Loebenstein, Robert L. Mach, Astrid R. Mach-Aigner

“…While existing tools support functional enrichment analysis from publicly available annotations of well-established model organisms, few are tailored to the specific needs of the fungal research community. …”
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