Hysteresis Modeling of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: An Experimental Review by Jesús de la Morena, Francisco Ramos, Andrés S. Vázquez

“…This evaluation suggests that the Generalized Prandtl–Ishlinskii model achieves the highest modeling accuracy, while the Preisach model with a probabilistic density function formulation excels in terms of parameter compactness.…”
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ITT: Long-Range Spatial Dependencies for Sea Ice Semantic Segmentation by Javier Noa Turnes, Mingzhe Jiang, Saeid Taleghanidoozdoozan, Linlin Xu, David A. Clausi

“…The evaluation metrics depict the best performance, generally, when the training leverages both pixel and region level loss terms, after pretraining the CNN. …”
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Abstract 060: Endovascular Thrombectomy for Posterior Cerebral Artery in the National Inpatient Sample (EaT PeCAN pIeS) by Aaron B Brake, Lane T Fry, Cody E Heskett, Abdul‐Rahman S Alkiswani, Gabriel T LeBeau, Frank De Stefano, Catherine M Lei, Kevin C Le, Adam D Rouse, Jeremy A Peterson, Koji Ebersole

“…Conclusion This analysis demonstrates that, across the population, patients receiving EVT for PCA AIS are more severe and in general, have worse outcomes than patients receiving MM only. …”
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Rosaceae phylogenomic studies provide insights into the evolution of new genes by Lan Jiang, Xiaoxu Li, Kun Lyu, Han Wang, Zhiyuan Li, Wang Qi, Lin Zhang, Yunpeng Cao

“…Functional analysis exhibited that newly formed fusion genes can regulate the phenotype traits of plant growth and development, suggesting the functional significance of these genes. …”
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Predicting dupilumab effectiveness with Type-2 biomarkers: A real-world study of severe asthma by Kenji Mizumura, Yasuhiro Gon, Norihiro Harada, Shiho Yamada, Asami Fukuda, Ryosuke Ozoe, Shuichiro Maruoka, Sumiko Abe, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Akihiko Tanaka, Hironori Sagara, Taisuke Akamatsu, Toshihiro Shirai, Katsunori Masaki, Koichi Fukunaga, Konomi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nagase, Nobuaki Miyahara, Arihiko Kanehiro, Noboru Kitamura, Naruhiko Sugihara, Fumio Kumasawa, Junko Terada-Hirashima, Masayuki Hojo, Kazuyuki Chibana, Etsuko Tagaya

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Resource Provision of the Obstetric Service of St. Petersburg with Beds and Medical Personnel by K. Ev. Moiseeva, D. O. Ivanov, A. V. Alekseeva, E. N. Berezkina, O. I. Sergienko, A. A. Zastupova

“…In the context of a declining birth rate, maintaining and improving the level of women's reproductive health is the main task in the activities of the obstetric service, the normal functioning of which is impossible without satisfactory resource provision.Purpose. …”
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Use of new complex fertilizers to increase the yield and quality of flax products by O. A. Zharkikh, I. I. Dmitrevskaya, I. I. Seregina

“…Abstract Flax occupies an important place in the world food supply as an oil and fiber crop of general and multi-purpose use. It should be noted that modern agriculture uses varieties of flax with high productivity and resistance to stress conditions. …”
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Assessment of Steatosis and Fibrosis in Liver Transplant Recipients Using Controlled Attenuation Parameter and Liver Stiffness Measurements by Ivana Mikolasevic, Goran Hauser, Maja Mijic, Viktor Domislovic, Delfa Radic-Kristo, Zeljko Krznaric, Melanija Razov-Radas, Tajana Pavic, Marija Matasin, Tajana Filipec Kanizaj

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The Impact of Chronic Pelvic Pain and Bowel Morbidity on Quality of Life in Cervical Cancer Patients Treated With Radio (Chemo) Therapy. A Systematic Literature Review by Natuhwera G, Ellis P

“…There is limited population-based and longitudinal research about the topic, and on chronic pelvic pain in general, which limits generalisability. Longitudinal studies with more extended periods of follow-up are needed.Keywords: chronic pelvic pain, bowel morbidity, cervical cancer, quality of life, radio (chemo) therapy…”
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CCE-OMBOC: A Simple and Efficient Constant-Envelope Technology for Multicarrier Navigation Modulation by Clipping by Lingyu Deng, Yikang Yang, Xingyou Qian, Jiangang Ma, Yanxiang Feng, Hengnian Li

“…The greater the number of subcarriers, the more navigation services and the higher the navigation data rate. …”
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Evolutionarily conserved herpesviral protein interaction networks. by Even Fossum, Caroline C Friedel, Seesandra V Rajagopala, Björn Titz, Armin Baiker, Armin Baiker, Tina Schmidt, Theo Kraus, Thorsten Stellberger, Christiane Rutenberg, Silpa Suthram, Sourav Bandyopadhyay, Dietlind Rose, Albrecht von Brunn, Mareike Uhlmann, Christine Zeretzke, Yu-An Dong, Hélène Boulet, Manfred Koegl, Susanne M Bailer, Ulrich Koszinowski, Trey Ideker, Peter Uetz, Ralf Zimmer, Jürgen Haas

“…Interactions were conserved between orthologous proteins despite generally low sequence similarity, suggesting that function may be more conserved than sequence. …”
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Efficacy of Routine Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Alexandra Nowak, Magnus Hedenstierna, Johan Ursing, Christer Lidman, Piotr Nowak

“…One treatment cured 25 patients (53%), and more than one treatment cured 32 patients (68%). …”
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RADIATION DIAGNOSIS OF RARE FORMS OF RESPIRATORY ORGAN SARCOIDOSIS by A. A. Speranskaya, O. P. Baranova, M. A. Vasilyeva, I. V. Amosov

“…Each of these forms had clinical and functional features. In single cases, the CT pattern combined the features incompatible with the generally accepted classification (Stages 1 and 4 SRO); this was an offstage form. …”
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Water quality awareness and barriers to safe water provisioning in informal communities: A case study from Ndola, Zambia by Liddle Elisabeth S., Mager Sarah M., Nel Etienne

“…Despite their environmental awareness, the majority of users did not generally protect their wells from contamination nor treat their water. …”
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Rational Sine-Gordon expansion method to analyze the dynamical behavior of the time-fractional phi-four and (2 + 1) dimensional CBS equations by Abdulla-Al- Mamun, Chunhui Lu, Samsun Nahar Ananna, Md Mohi Uddin

“…The technique uses the sine-Gordon equation as an auxiliary equation to generalize the well-known sine-Gordon expansion. It adopts a more broad strategy, a rational function rather than a polynomial one, of the solutions of the auxiliary equation, in contrast to the traditional sine-Gordon expansion technique. …”
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Gut Microbiota Diversity in 16 Stingless Bee Species (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) by María de Lourdes Ramírez-Ahuja, Kenzy I. Peña-Carrillo, Mayra A. Gómez-Govea, Mariana Lizbeth Jiménez-Martínez, Gerardo de Jesús Trujillo-Rodríguez, Marisol Espinoza-Ruiz, Antonio Guzmán Velasco, Adriana E. Flores, José Ignacio González-Rojas, Diana Reséndez-Pérez, Iram Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez

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Addressing ORPD problem in a standard IEEE power network accompanied with RESs and FACTs appliances by COMMKE under volatile load scenarios by Susanta Dutta, Tushnik Sarkar, Chandan Paul, Sabbir Reza Tarafdar, Provas Kumar Roy, Ghanshyam G. Tejani, Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad

“…To make this comparison more lucid, statistical records are produced, box plots are presented, error bar plots are used and moreover one way ANOVA test has been performed over the results generated through the different optimization approaches.…”
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Heavy Metal Immobilization by Phosphate-Solubilizing Fungus and Phosphogypsum Under the Co-Existence of Pb(II) and Cd(II) by Xu Li, Zhenyu Chao, Haoxuan Li, Jiakai Ji, Xin Sun, Yingxi Chen, Zhengda Li, Zhen Li, Chuanhao Li, Jun Yao, Lan Xiang

“…The functional group analysis of ATR-IR also confirmed the phenomenon. …”
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Structural barriers and facilitators to accessing postsurgical rehabilitation in adults who were treated with surgery for low back pain: protocol for a scoping review by Jessica J. Wong, Jen Rinaldi, Paulo Pereira, Silvano Mior, Lauren Ead, Alanna Veitch, Kent Murnaghan, Pierre Côté

“…A proportion of patients with LBP undergo surgery and require postsurgical rehabilitation to optimize functioning. However, many encounter barriers to accessing rehabilitation due to structurally generated inequities linked to socioeconomic position. …”
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Equilibrio y carga plantar en diferentes técnicas de sentadilla by Mateus Teixeira Matos, Kailane Santos Alves, Victor Coswig, Thiago Mattos Frota de Souza, Christian Emmanuel Torres Cabido, Tatiana Acioli, Maria do Socorro Cirilo-Sousa, Felipe J Aidar, Caian Façanha, Fabiola Bertú, Saulo Fernandes Melo Oliveira, Claudio Oliveira Assumpção, Túlio Banja

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