A qualitative report on the experiences of physicians during the pandemic of COVID-19 by Atefeh Vaezi, Sedigheh Farzi, Fariba Taleghani, Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard

Get full text

Using Artificial Neural Networks to Determine Wear of Composite Friction Material by A. V. Liashok, Yu. B. Popova

“…The increased wear  resistance of the friction material contributes to a decrease in the efficiency and service life of the brake system. Evaluation  of the wear resistance of a friction material for the given operational parameters is a very long and costly process. …”
Get full text

Identification of digital device hardware vulnerabilities based on scanning systems and semi-natural modeling by E. F. Pevtsov, T. A. Demenkova, A. О. Indrishenok, V. V. Filimonov

Get full text

Employee training as a tool to achieve goals depending on SME’s type by Iveta Kmecova, Stefan Gavura

Get full text

Assessment of Stressors in the Dental Environment among Dental Students at Yazd Dental Faculty by Aabbas Falah Tafti, Mohammad Reza Hakimi Meibodi, Mahammad Safari Khoramabadi

Get full text

TRENDS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR DEPROFESSIONALIZATION? by Yu. R. Vishnevsky, D. Yu. Narkhov, Ya. V. Didkovskaya

Get full text

“You like to be in control of your own destiny to a degree, don't you?”: conscientious autonomy and planning for future care with dementia by Josie Dixon, Jacqueline Damant, Edmund Stubbs, Ben Hicks, Kate Gridley, Derek King, Eleanor Miles, Sube Banerjee, DETERMIND team

“…Findings Participants sought to feel secure by following recommended practices, manage uncertainty, avoid crises, share burdens within families, and avoid poor end-of-life experiences. However, support was often lacking. …”
Get full text

New insights on physicochemical features and toxicological outcome provided from incineration of nanocomposites by Claire Longuet, Carine Chivas-Joly, Nora Lambeng, Valérie Forest, Lara Leclerc, Gwendoline Sarry, Jérémie Pourchez, José-Marie Lopez-Cuesta

“…Therefore, work to improve the detection, characterization, and quantification of nanomaterials should be continued to complete the database with different types of nanowaste mixtures. The dominant end-of-life scenario for nanocomposites is the incineration. …”
Get full text

Effects of Virtual Reality-based Interventions on Depression, Anxiety, and Abilities of Daily Living in Stroke Survivors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Huanhuan Li, Lu Zhou, Gao Liu, Lei Wang, Qingwei Zhao, Shaohong Xu, Enli Cai

“…Two investigators independently screened the databases based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, extracted data from the included studies, and tested their methodological quality using Cochrane’s risk of bias tool. …”
Get full text

Caregiver feeding practices for infants and toddlers and their eating behaviors in Singapore by Phaik Ling Quah, Phaik Ling Quah, Daniel Wei Keong Chan, Daniel Wei Keong Chan, Daniel Wei Keong Chan, See Ling Loy, See Ling Loy, Chengsi Ong, Chengsi Ong, Chai-Hoon Nowel Tan, Michael Yong Hwa Chia, Terence Buan Kiong Chua, Fabian Yap, Fabian Yap, Fabian Yap, Mei Chien Chua, Mei Chien Chua, Mei Chien Chua, Kok Hian Tan, Kok Hian Tan

Get full text

Prevalence and predictors of depressive symptoms among people living with HIV in Pakistan; country-wide secondary data analysis from National Stigma Index Study. by Usman Ali, Umar Riaz, Heather Doyle, Asghar Satti, Nashmia Mahmood, Summayyah Rasheed, Kalsoom Zahra

“…We also explored the moderating effect of stigma faced by PLHIVs while accessing HIV health services on depressive symptoms. Data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences Version 26 and PROCESS MACRO Version 4.2. …”
Get full text

Isolating the effects of HIV infection and HIV exposure on epigenetic profiles in infants using historical data from the Mothers and Infants Cohort StudyResearch in context by Jasmine Douglas, Ziyi Wang, Francesca Zumpano, Jaya M. Satagopan, Jack Moye, Stephen M. Arpadi, Carmen J. Marsit, Emily S. Barrett, Stephanie Shiau

Get full text

“Less words, more pictures”: creating and sharing data visualizations from a remote health monitoring system with clinicians to improve cancer pain management by Virginia LeBaron, Natalie Crimp, Nutta Homdee, Kelly Reed, Victoria Petermann, William Ashe, Leslie Blackhall, Bryan Lewis

“…Orienting clinicians to unfamiliar, contextual data sources from remote health monitoring systems (such as environmental data and quality of life data from caregivers) and integrating these data into clinical workflows is critical to ensure these types of data can optimally inform the patient's plan of care. …”
Get full text

Adding word sense awareness to computer-assisted language learning methods: a tailor-made word sense disambiguation method for Spanish as a foreign language by Jasper Degraeuwe, Patrick Goethals, Arda Tezcan

Get full text

An Energy-Aware, Self-Adaptive, Battery-Free Smart Wristband for Long-Term Health Monitoring by Shihong Chen, Esther Rodriguez-Villegas

“…The in-field experiments show that onboard processing reduces Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) data transmission to essential information, saving about 2 J of energy. …”
Get full text

Analysis of Hypocenter Position of Bengkulu Earthquake on April 15, 2023 Using 2D and 3D Grid Search Method Based on USGS Data by Firdos Bahar Sidik, Savira Zahrul Khumairo, Farizki Budi Pangestu, Triya Illmi Sakinah, Muhamad Raihan Putra Febrian, Risaldi Fauzan Laksono, Jihan Syafina Nasution

“…Earthquakes are natural events that can have serious impacts on human life and the environment. This study aims to improve the accuracy of earthquake hypocenter determination by applying the 2D dan 3D Grid Search method to seismic data recorded by three stations in the Bengkulu area, Indonesia. …”
Get full text

Mapping Normative Muscle Health Metrics Across the Aging Continuum: A Multinational Study Pooling Data From Eight Cohorts in Japan, Malaysia and Taiwan by Liang‐Kung Chen, Lin‐Chieh Meng, Li‐Ning Peng, Wei‐Ju Lee, Shu Zhang, Yukiko Nishita, Rei Otsuka, Minoru Yamada, Wen‐Harn Pan, Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman, Jean Woo, Fei‐Yuan Hsiao, Hidenori Arai

“…In the present study, we aimed to establish age‐ and sex‐specific reference centiles for multiple muscle health metrics and reveal the distributions of these metrics throughout the aging process in the Asian population. Methods By using cross‐sectional pooled data of community dwellers aged 20 years or older in eight cohorts from Taiwan, Japan and Malaysia, normative values for muscle health metrics (calf circumference (cm), relative appendicular skeletal muscle (RASM) (kilogram per square metre), body mass index (BMI)–adjusted appendicular skeletal muscle mass (kilogram/(kilogram per square metre)), handgrip strength (kilogram), five‐time chair stand (seconds) and gait speed (metre per second)) in men and women, categorized by age groups, are calculated. …”
Get full text

Use of artificial intelligence to support prehospital traumatic injury care: A scoping review by Jake Toy, Jonathan Warren, Kelsey Wilhelm, Brant Putnam, Denise Whitfield, Marianne Gausche‐Hill, Nichole Bosson, Ross Donaldson, Shira Schlesinger, Tabitha Cheng, Craig Goolsby

“…The same investigators extracted data and systematically categorized outcomes to ensure consistency and transparency. …”
Get full text

Enhancing Reliability Engineering Through Weibull Distribution in R by Sameera Othman

“…The estimated parameters (β=0.973725, 𝜂=14167.5) and statistical measures (K-Smirov, AIC, BIC, Anderson-Darling, Cramer-von Misses) underscore the thoroughness of the evaluation process. The likelihood ratio test further substantiates the Weibull distribution's closer alignment with the input data compared to the standard 2-parameter Weibull distribution. …”
Get full text

Interpretable Deep Learning Models for Arrhythmia Classification Based on ECG Signals Using PTB-X Dataset by Ahmed E. Mansour Atwa, El-Sayed Atlam, Ali Ahmed, Mohamed Ahmed Atwa, Elsaid Md. Abdelrahim, Ali I. Siam

“…<b>Methods</b>: This study introduces two models: a custom convolutional neural network (CNN) with a dual-branch architecture for processing ECG signals and demographic data (e.g., age, gender), and a modified VGG16 model adapted for multi-branch input. …”
Get full text