Energy Dissipation and Local, Story, and Global Ductility Reduction Factors in Steel Frames under Vibrations Produced by Earthquakes by Alfredo Reyes-Salazar, Edén Bojórquez, Juan Bojorquez, Federico Valenzuela-Beltran, Mario D. Llanes-Tizoc

“…It is implicitly assumed in seismic codes that the magnitude of the global ductility reduction factor is about 4; according to the results found in this paper, it is not justified; a value of 3 is observed to be more reasonable. …”
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Injuries and Illnesses Across 10 Years of Canada Games Competitions: 2009 – 2019 by Nicole J Chimera, Danielle Merasty, Monica R Lininger

“…Participation in elite level athletics, like the Canada Games, have an inherent risk of injury and illness…”
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Field Measurement and Numerical Simulation of Train-Induced Vibration from a Metro Tunnel in Soft Deposits by Qiang Huang, Pan Li, Dongming Zhang, Hongwei Huang, Feng Zhang

“…The vertical ground acceleration decreases like an arc in the transverse direction while there is transverse acceleration amplification phenomenon at a distance from the upper haunch and lower haunch of the tunnel. …”
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KF-NIPT: K-mer and fetal fraction-based estimation of chromosomal anomaly from NIPT data by Dongin Kim, Ji Yeon Sohn, Jin Hee Cho, Ji-Hye Choi, Gwi-young Oh, Hyun Goo Woo

“…Abstract Background Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) is a technique that allows pregnant women to screen for chromosomal abnormalities in their developing fetus without the need for invasive procedures like amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling. …”
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Fast and accurate imputation of genotypes from noisy low-coverage sequencing data in bi-parental populations. by Cécile Triay, Alice Boizet, Christopher Fragoso, Anestis Gkanogiannis, Jean-François Rami, Mathias Lorieux

“…<h4>Availability</h4>NOISYmputer and its source code are available as a multiplatform (Linux, macOS, Windows) Java executable at the URL https://gitlab.cirad.fr/noisymputer/noisymputerstandalone/-/tree/1.0.0-RELEASE?…”
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The Kinesiopathology of Thoracolumbar Spine Injuries in Throwing and Overhead Young Athletes by Hemn Mohammadi, Saeed Ghaeeni, Ghazal Mohammadi

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The difficult process of autonomous choice: using I-poems to understand experiences of abortion-seekers in The Netherlands by Lianne Holten, Rosalie van der Wolf, Marit S. G. van der Pijl

“…Using a grounded theory method, the I-poems were coded deductively to validate previous findings, and inductively to generate new insights. …”
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Advancing soil-structure interaction (SSI): a comprehensive review of current practices, challenges, and future directions by Imtiyaz Akbar Najar, Raudhah Ahmadi, Akeem Gbenga Amuda, Raghad Mourad, Neveen El Bendary, Idawati Ismail, Nabilah Abu Bakar, Shanshan Tang

“…The review identifies key gaps, including a lack of unified guidelines in international codes, inadequate integration of SSI in real-world design processes, and limited exploration of its role in emerging engineering challenges like sustainability and climate resilience. …”
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Optimization and Verification of One-dimensional Three-field Model for Transient Analysis of Pressurized Water Reactor by YUAN Leqi1, LI Zanwang1, 2, FAN Jie1, 3, GOU Junli1, SHAN Jianqiang1

“…Internationally, the adoption of three-field models that explicitly account for droplet behavior (as exemplified by codes like SPACE and CATHARE3) has become a prevailing trend to enhance simulation accuracy, particularly for complex thermal-hydraulic phenomena. …”
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Systematic Review of Patient and Caregiver Involvement in CKD Research by Talia Gutman, Dale Coghlan, Jonathan C. Craig, Chandana Guha, Allison Jaure, Shilpanjali Jesudason, Adeera Levin, David M. White, Javier Recabarren Silva, Anita van Zwieten, David Tunnicliffe, Andrea K. Viecelli, Germaine Wong, Armando Teixeira-Pinto, Siah Kim, Stephen McDonald, Carmel M. Hawley, Nicole Scholes-Robertson

“…Consumers were rarely drivers or commissioners of research (n = 6, 6%) and were most likely to be involved as informants (n = 81, 76%) with limited decision-making power. …”
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Immunomodulatory Effects of Pelargonium sidoides Extract (EPs7630) in the Treatment of Acute Rhinosinusitis by Aleksandar Perić, Sandra Vezmar Kovačević, Aleksandra Barać, Aneta Perić, Danilo Vojvodić

“… Abstract Background In this short narrative review, we would like to discuss the immunomodulatory effects of South African geranium (Pelargonium sidoides) root extract EPs7630 in treating acute rhinosinusitis. …”
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A Comprehensive Polish Medical Speech Dataset for Enhancing Automatic Medical Dictation by Andrzej Czyżewski, Sebastian Cygert, Karolina Marciniuk, Maciej Szczodrak, Arkadiusz Harasimiuk, Piotr Odya, Marina Galanina, Piotr Szczuko, Bożena Kostek, Beata Graff, Dariusz Szplit, Mariusz Budzisz, Krzysztof Narkiewicz

“…However, specialized domains like medical speech recognition still benefit from tailored datasets. …”
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Development of longitudinal datasets (2000–2020) with high spatiotemporal resolution for air pollution exposure assessment in CanadaFRDR) by Anas Alhusban, Yasar Burak Oztaner, Markey Johnson, Mastaneh Rezasefat, Negin Hojjatzadeh, Israa Moussa, Mahsa Soleimani, Saeed Nadi, Shunliu Zhao, Hwashin Shin, Joyce J.Y. Zhang, Amir Hakami

“…Widely used machine learning (ML) algorithms like random forest and gradient boosting were chosen and proved to be promising. …”
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Social Confrontation with Menstruation: A Feminist Ethnography of Menstrual Experience among Female Instagram Users by Rana Mohammad Taghinejad Esfahani, Majid Movahed, Halimeh Enayat, Aliyar Ahmadi

“…I actively engaged with these pages through likes and comments, collecting a wealth of information, screenshots, and field notes. …”
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Analysis of entropy generation in tri-hybrid nanofluid flow towards a spinning disk under the influence of hall effect and variable viscosity by Moh Yaseen, Ritu Bartwal, Anum Shafiq, Sawan Kumar Rawat, Qasem M. Al-Mdallal, Umesh Khanduri, Tabassum Naz Sindhu

“…A validation of numerical code is done by a comparison with results from existing literature. …”
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CSSDet: small object detection via cross-scale feature enhancement on drone-view images by Gui Cheng, Qing Ding, Bowen Cai, Chaoya Dang, Yu Wang, Xiaolong Zuo, Zhenfeng Shao

“…Object detection on drone-view images is vital for applications like intelligent transportation, abnormal behavior detection, and urban surveillance. …”
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A versatile framework for attitude tuning of beamlines at light source facilities by Peng-Cheng Li, Xiao-Xue Bi, Zhen Zhang, Xiao-Bao Deng, Chun Li, Li-Wen Wang, Gong-Fa Liu, Yi Zhang, Ai-Yu Zhou, Yu Liu

“…Aside from regular beamline experiments at light sources, the preparation steps before these experiments are also worthy of systematic consideration in terms of automation; a representative category in these steps is attitude tuning, which typically appears in contexts like beam focusing, sample alignment etc. With the goal of saving time and human effort in both writing and using such code, a Mamba-based attitude-tuning framework is created. …”
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Accuracy and utility of newborn foot length screening tools to identify small babies by mothers in Sidama Region, Ethiopia by Sarah Williams, Andrew Clarke, Hannah Richards, Rekiku Fikre, Fitsum Weldegebriel Belay, Akalewold Alemayehu, Yohannes Chanyalew Kassa, Fanuel Belayneh Bekele

“…Background Simple, low-cost anthropometric screening tools like foot length (FL) can be used to screen for small babies (low birth weight (LBW) or preterm) delivered at home or in facilities where functional weighing scales are unavailable. …”
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Generating Authentic Grounded Synthetic Maintenance Work Orders by Allison Lau, Jadeyn Feng, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Caitlin Woods, Michael Stewart, Adriano Polpo

“…The synthetic MWOs are made authentic by incorporating human-like elements, such as contractions, abbreviations, and typos. …”
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Multimodal Learning for Traffic Risk Prediction: Combining Aerial Imagery With Contextual Data by Hanlin Tian, Yuxiang Feng, Mohammed Quddus, Yiannis Demiris, Panagiotis Angeloudis

“…While traditional models use data sources like road traffic conditions, geometry, and signals, they often miss the spatial interactions between road networks and buildings. …”
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