Reliability and Economic Analysis of a Modular Converter With Three Vienna Converters Connected in Parallel by Jae-Seong Jo, Sang-Hyeok Lee, Guangxu Zhou, Feel-Soon Kang

“…We designed a Markov model for partial failures and analyzed reliability for a configuration where each module has 30 kW without redundancy and a configuration where each module has 45 kW and 90 kW with redundancy. …”
Get full text

Methods of evaluation the quality of teaching in higher education institutions by Irina V. Barannikova, Elena N. Shaforostova

“…Formalization of assessment begins with the fact that in the built pyramid of quality of training each criterion is assigned a variable that reflects its assessment. …”
Get full text

Estimation of Health State Utility Values in Fabry Disease Using Vignette Development and Valuation by Derralynn Hughes, Andrew Lenny, Koonal Shah, Louise Longworth, Giovanna Devercelli, Olulade Ayodele

“…# Background Health state utilities are measures of health-related quality of life that reflect the value placed on improvements in patients’ health status and are necessary for estimation of quality-adjusted life-years. …”
Get full text

THE IMAGE OF THE WORLD AND THE IMAGE OF THE HUMAN: A.S. BYATT’S “ANGELS AND INSECTS” AS AN ARTISTIC WHOLE by Elena S. Annenkova

“…Byatt herself saw in these novellas “two linked historical novellas”, and analysis makes it possible to make sure that the novellas are dialogically open and complement to each other and are mutually reflected in each other. …”
Get full text

Classifying logistics-relevant disasters: conceptual model and empirical illustration by Cécile L’Hermitte, Peter Tatham, Marcus Bowles

“…Research limitations/implications – – Further research is needed to establish the operational characteristics of each disaster type in order to determine the applicability of business logistics practices to each scenario. …”
Get full text

Identification of the fractions responsible for plant root elongation-promoting and antioxidant activities of humic product extracted from composted wood thinnings by Masakazu Aoyama, Yasushi Kojima

“…In this study, it was fractionated into humic acid (HA), hydrophobic fulvic acid (FA), hydrophilic FA, and highly hydrophilic FA to identify humic fractions with biostimulant effects. Each fraction was characterized using diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform (DRIFT) spectroscopy, high-performance size-exclusion chromatography (HPSEC), and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) with π–π interactions, and their root elongation-promoting and antioxidant activities were evaluated. …”
Get full text

Banks' vision statements: peculiarities and missing links by Khaled Abdulrahman Alfalah

“…The vision statements for each bank were collected from official websites. …”
Get full text

Clinical decision-making for uveal melanoma radiotherapy: comparative performance of experienced radiation oncologists and leading generative AI models by Xing Wang, Peng Wang

“…Fifty radiation oncologists, each with 10–15 years of experience, completed an open-book exam following a 15-day standardized review. …”
Get full text

GNNMutation: a heterogeneous graph-based framework for cancer detection by Nuriye Özlem Özcan Şimşek, Arzucan Özgür, Fikret Gürgen

“…The feature values are calculated using a weighting scheme inspired by information retrieval, where whole genomes are treated as documents and mutations as words within these documents. The weighting of each gene, determined by its mutations, reflects its contribution to disease development. …”
Get full text

Geometric Investigation of Al-Wind Dam Reservoir Northeastern Iraq, using Digital Elevation Models and Spatial Analyses System by Sabbar A. Saleh, Iktifaa T. Abdul Qadir, Amin M. Ibrahim, Huda M. Hussain

“…Digital elevations models for each selected level was exported as digital images of same scale for the purpose of visual comparison between the extensions and forms of the reservoir at different levels. …”
Get full text

Food purchasing places classification system based on the Dietary Guidelines for the Brazilian Population: Locais-Nova by Marcos Anderson Lucas da Silva, Larissa Loures Mendes, Maria Alvim Leite, Luana Lara Rocha, Camila Aparecida Borges, Renata Bertazzi Levy, Maria Laura da Costa Louzada

“…This estimate was compared with the average share of each Nova classification group in each of the 16 purchasing places assessed. …”
Get full text

Defining Public Health Nutrition Goals Based on Food Balance Sheets—A Proof-of-Principle by Kurt Gedrich

“…Results: The inadequate consumption of nuts or fruits has the highest contribution to food-related DALYs (approx. 20% each), followed by fish and soft drinks (approx. 15% each), and legumes, vegetables, meat, or dairy (approx. 8% each). …”
Get full text

A Novel Scale to Assess Humidification during Noninvasive Ventilation: A Prospective Observational Study by Longfang Pan, Yueling Hong, Xiaoqing Zhong, Jiao He, Zuli Zhang, Qianru Zhao, Linfu Bai, Mengyi Ma, Jun Duan

“…It was also highly accurate in reflecting the level of humidification assessed by patients.…”
Get full text

Gender differences in attentional processes and attractiveness evaluation models during gait observation by Hiroko Tanabe, Kota Yamamoto

“…The statistical model for attractiveness evaluation, which used gait parameters for each gender, showed the tendency that when assessing attractiveness, male observers placed greater weight on the walkers’ trunk silhouette, whereas female observers prioritized parameters requiring whole-body observation.DiscussionGender differences in gaze behavior were observed in the assessment and perception of human movement attractiveness; such differences may reflect the evaluation model for each gender. …”
Get full text

In Search of the Consequence Severity of Traffic Conflict by Ruoxi Jiang, Shunying Zhu, Pan Wang, QiuCheng Chen, He Zou, Shiping Kuang

“…The results showed that conflict severity rate that considered each single conflict consequence severity was a little better than the traditional conflict rate that considered only the numbers of conflicts in reflecting real risks as a new conflict evaluation indicator. …”
Get full text

Ensemble Learning for Three-dimensional Medical Image Segmentation of Organ at Risk in Brachytherapy Using Double U-Net, Bi-directional ConvLSTM U-Net, and Transformer Network by Soniya Pal, Raj Pal Singh, Anuj Kumar

“…Experienced radiation oncologists manually segmented four OARs for each scan. Each scan was preprocessed and three models, Double U-Net (DUN), Bi-directional ConvLSTM U-Net (BCUN), and Transformer Networks (TN), were trained on reduced CT scans (240 × 240 × 128) due to memory limitations. …”
Get full text

Global gene expression profiling of individual human oocytes and embryos demonstrates heterogeneity in early development. by Lisa Shaw, Sharon F Sneddon, Leo Zeef, Susan J Kimber, Daniel R Brison

“…Our data show that although transcript profiles are highly stage-specific, within each stage they are relatively variable. We describe expression of a number of gene families and pathways including apoptosis, cell cycle and amino acid metabolism, which are variably expressed and may be reflective of embryonic developmental competence. …”
Get full text

Numerical investigation of the effects of geotechnical parameters on building risk level due to mechanized tunneling in urban areas by Mohammad Ali Iranmanesh, Ali Arianfar

“…The advanced constitutive law of Plastic Hardening is utilized to accurately reflect the Soil behavior in unloading. Using the surface settlement curves obtained from numerical analysis, the risk category of surface buildings are calculated and the effectiveness of each parameter on the risk level is investigated. …”
Get full text

On the Relationship between Multicast/Broadcast Throughput and Resource Utilizations in Wireless Mesh Networks by Avid Avokh, Ghasem Mirjalily, Jamshid Abouei, Shahrokh Valaee

“…As an advantage, the derived relationships are independent of the type of tree built for each session and can be used for different protocols. …”
Get full text

Responses of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), mature BNP and proBNP to sacubitril/valsartan differs between responders and non-responders by Hiroyuki Takahama, Toshio Nishikimi, Yasuaki Nakagawa, Naoto Minamino, Koh Ono, Kenji Moriuchi, Shoichi Miyamoto, Takahiko Kanamori, Hideaki Inazumi, Hiromu Yanagisawa, Hideaki Kinoshita, Yusuke Tamamura

“…Receiver operating characteristic curves analysis to assess the ability of the %change in each natriuretic peptide at 4 weeks to detect responders showed that the area under the curve was about 0.80 for each peptide. …”
Get full text