Design and Application of a 4 000 m Work-class ROV System for Deep-sea Scientific Exploration by TU Shaoping, ZHU Yinggu, XIANG Liyang, ZHANG Zhonghua, GUO Tianxiang

“…Targeting deep-sea ecological unmanned scientific research in operation waters exceeding 4 000 meters with operating power of 150 HP@50 Hz, the capability to carry diverse scientific research tools, and remote control functionalities, this paper proposes a design solution for a complete scientific work-class ROV system. …”
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Data Poisoning Attack on Black-Box Neural Machine Translation to Truncate Translation by Lingfang Li, Weijian Hu, Mingxing Luo

“…The experiments show that our attack strategy can achieve a nearly 100% attack success rate, and the functionality of main translation tasks is almost unaffected in models having performance degradation that is less than 1 BLEU. …”
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CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE LEGAL NATURE OF THE DECISIONS AND/OR THE ORDERS OF THE UNIVERSITY ETHICS COMMISSIONS by Iulian BĂICULESCU

“…Its essential character is conferred by its role in the perpetuation of social, economic and other human progress, all of which are underpinned by scientific progress. The functioning of the scientific research system is based, on the one hand, on a scale of academic degrees and diplomas designed to ensure and reward, gradually and thematically, an increased level of competence and complexity in the performance of scientific tasks and, on the other hand, the confidence of society as a whole in the quality and honesty of the holders of scientific degrees and diplomas. …”
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SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: CONTENT AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES by Alexander A. Listvin

“…Article retractedThe aim of the investigation is to consider the issues of constitutionally guaranteed type of education on the basis of the analysis of modern normative documents in the field of secondary vocational education and the existing practice of functioning of such institutions. Scientific novelty and results. …”
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Gait and Trajectory Optimization by Self-Learning for Quadrupedal Robots with an Active Back Joint by Ariel Masuri, Oded Medina, Shlomi Hacohen, Nir Shvalb

“…This paper presents an efficient technique for a self-learning dynamic walk for a quadrupedal robot. The cost function for such a task is typically complicated, and the number of parameters to be optimized is high. …”
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A critical review on the health promoting effects of mushrooms nutraceuticals by Gaoxing Ma, Wenjian Yang, Liyan Zhao, Fei Pei, Donglu Fang, Qiuhui Hu

“…Researches on the immense role in the nutritional and health benefits displayed by mushrooms have become an emergent task to study. The present article overviewed and compiled the latest information correlated to the health benefits and underlying functional mechanisms of mushroom nutraceuticals, and concluded that the supplementation of mushrooms as a dietary composition could become a natural adjuvant for the prevention and treatment of several health diseases. …”
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Active Video Games Using Virtual Reality Influence Cognitive Performance in Sedentary Female University Students: A Randomized Clinical Trial by Mshari Alghadier, Taif Alharbi, Nada Almasoud, Abdulaziz A. Alshalawi

“…The intensity of PA generated by the VR game was equivalent to moderate-to-vigorous PA, with a mean of 4.98 metabolic equivalents of task (MET) (SD = 1.20). Conclusions: The VR game improved the cognitive ability compared to the control group, suggesting that VR games have a positive impact on cognitive function. …”
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G-KAN: Graph Kolmogorov-Arnold Network for Node Classification Using Contrastive Learning by Lining Yuan

“…Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) and their variants utilize learnable weight matrices and nonlinear activation functions to extract features from data. The selection of activation functions and message-passing strategies significantly influences performance. …”
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Acute effects of a standardised extract of Hericium erinaceus (Lion’s Mane mushroom) on cognition and mood in healthy younger adults: a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled s... by Geyan Surendran, Jake Saye, Syahira Binti Mohd Jalil, Jack Spreadborough, Kyle Duong, Israa M. Shatwan, Dash Lilley, Michael Heinrich, Michael Heinrich, Georgina F. Dodd, Shelini Surendran

“…Pers.] can enhance cognitive function and mood due to its bioactive metabolites, including erinacines and hericenones. …”
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Heart-Lung Interactions During Mechanical Ventilation: Analysis via a Cardiopulmonary Simulation Model by Nikolaos Karamolegkos, Antonio Albanese, Nicolas W. Chbat

“…Thereby, assessment of ventilation-induced changes in cardiac function is considered an unmet clinical need. We believe that mathematical models of the human cardiopulmonary system can provide invaluable insights into such cardiorespiratory interactions. …”
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Investigating reading comprehension through EEG by Luciane Baretta, Lêda Maria Braga Tomitch, Vanessa Kwan Lim, Karen E. Waldie

“…The  n1s were more pronounced to the content words inserted in narrative texts and to the function words inserted in the expository type of texts, corroborating former studies. …”
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Association of spatiotemporal interaction of gamma oscillations with heart rate variability during response inhibition processing in patients with major depressive disorder: An MEG... by Junling Sheng, Yi Xia, Lingling Hua, Hongliang Zhou, Qian Liao, Shui Tian, Yishan Du, Xiaoqin Wang, Rui Yan, Hao Sun, Zhijian Yao, Qing Lu

“…Background: Impairment in response inhibition function is highly prevalent in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), yet the spatiotemporal neural activity underlying response inhibition and its relationship with the autonomic nervous system (ANS) remains unclear. …”
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Severity assessment of burned skin based on anisotropy of optical coherence elastography by Heng Liu, Di Yang, Renfei Jia, Weike Wang, Lili Shao, Quanzhong Liu, Yanmei Liang

“…Distinguishing the severity of burned skin from structural optical coherence tomography (OCT) intensity maps remains a challenging task, and functional imaging from an elastic perspective can improve the accuracy of burned skin examination. …”
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Multi-study fMRI outlooks on subcortical BOLD responses in the stop-signal paradigm by Scott Isherwood, Sarah A Kemp, Steven Miletić, Niek Stevenson, Pierre-Louis Bazin, Birte Forstmann

“…Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) approaches have frequently used the stop-signal task to examine this network. …”
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Application of the VDI 2221 method in the design of 3D printer machines utilizing additive manufacturing technology by Hery Irwan, Muhammad Rusydi Fattah, Ryan Dana Gidion Tarigan, Fauzan Maulana Siddiq Aritonang, Edi Sumarya

“…The results identify the Cartesian model variant (Variant 1) as the optimal solution, selected based on functional performance, cost efficiency, and ease of assembly. …”
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The Power of Old Hats: Rediscovering Inosine-EpPCR to Create Starting Libraries for Whole-Cell-SELEX by Grigory Bolotnikov, Ann-Kathrin Kissmann, Daniel Gruber, Andreas Bellmann, Roger Hasler, Christoph Kleber, Wolfgang Knoll, Frank Rosenau

“…The enriched aptamers exhibited new binding specificities, demonstrating that the approach supports functional selection. Much like dusting off an old tool and finding it perfectly suited for a modern task, this work shows that revisiting established techniques can address current challenges in aptamer development. …”
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Epistemology in the Age of Large Language Models by Jennifer Mugleston, Vuong Hung Truong, Cindy Kuang, Lungile Sibiya, Jihwan Myung

“…LLMs are rapidly becoming integral parts of our daily lives through smartphones and personal computers, and we are coming to accept the functionality of LLMs as a given. As LLMs become more entrenched in societal functioning, questions have begun to emerge: Are LLMs capable of real understanding? …”
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Evaluation of the Reconfiguration of the Data Acquisition System for 3D USCT by Matthias Birk, Clemens Hagner, Matthias Balzer, Nicole V. Ruiter, Michael Hübner, Jürgen Becker

“…In this work, we investigated the suitability of an existing data acquisition (DAQ) system for further computation tasks. The reconfiguration features of the embedded FPGAs have been exploited to enhance the systems functionality. …”
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Strategize Company’s Sustainable Management of Investment Project Evaluation Based on the Information Support by Kathrin Dumanska, Inna Chaikovska, Liudmyla Vahanova, Dmytro Kobets

“…The authors’ vision of the functioning peculiarities in the formulation of a company’s strategy based on the information support is presented in the article. …”
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THE STATE AND PROSPECTS OF MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS ENTERPRISES IN UKRAINE by Oleksandr Teletov, Vladimir Grigorenko

“…The article solves the following tasks: analysis of small and medium enterprises functioning in Ukraine; determining the functioning differences between their marketing management and the marketing management of large industrial enterprises; a description of the marketing strategies developed by the small and medium enterprises. …”
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