A five-year retrospective study focused on urinary tract infections in kidney transplant recipients in the current era of immunosuppression by Jorge Andrade-Sierra, Jorge Andrade-Sierra, Jorge Carlos Andrade-Martínez, Elsa Angélica Fuentes-López, Enrique Rojas-Campos, Víctor Martínez-Mejía, Eduardo González-Espinoza, Ernesto German Cardona-Muñoz, José Ignacio Cerrillos-Gutiérrez, Luis Alberto Evangelista-Carrillo, Miguel Medina-Pérez, Moisés Cruz-Landino, Adriana Banda-López, Alejandra Guillermina Miranda-Díaz, J. Ahuixotl Gutiérrez Aceves, Jorge Andrade-Ortega, Kevin Javier Arellano-Arteaga, Antonio de Jesús Andrade-Ortega, Laura Elizabeth Aguilar Fletes, Gerardo González-Correa, Priscila Preciado, Joel E. Verdugo-Correa, Héctor Leonardo Pazarín-Villaseñor, Ana Luisa Corona-Nakamura, Mauricio Carvallo-Venegas

“…However, long-term allograft function, loss, and mortality risk are inconsistent. …”
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Sexing the sternal rib end in modern Greeks: A virtual osteometric approach using high-resolution 3D surface models by Ioanna Karagiorgou, Ioanna Anastopoulou, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Elena Kranioti, Konstantinos Moraitis

“…The results demonstrated that SIH is more sexually dimorphic than APB (alpha value of .05) while the application of İşcan’s (1985) formula on the contemporary Greek sample, provided results of low accuracy, ranging from 48.6–52.4%. …”
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Heart abnormality classification using ECG and PCG recordings with novel PJM-DJRNN by Nadikatla Chandrasekhar, Sujatha Canavoy Narahari, Sreedhar Kollem, Samineni Peddakrishna, Archana Penchala, Babji Prasad Chapa

“…Heart Disease (HD) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. HD causes more number of deaths per year. Hence, the early detection of HD is needed to increase the survival rate. …”
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LPFFNet: Lightweight Prior Feature Fusion Network for SAR Ship Detection by Xiaozhen Ren, Peiyuan Zhou, Xiaqiong Fan, Chengguo Feng, Peng Li

“…In addition, the enhanced ghost convolution (EGConv) is used to generate more reliable gradient information. And finally, the detection performance is improved by focusing on difficult samples through a smooth weighted focus loss function (SWF Loss). …”
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A Multi-Year Scenario-Based Transmission Expansion Planning Model Incorporating Available Transfer Capability by Tohid Akbari, Saeed Zolfaghari Moghaddam

“…The objective function in the TEP model is to minimize the sum of investment costs (IC) and the expected operation costs (OC). …”
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Graded Finiteness of Persian Complement Clauses Based on Landau's Minimalist view and Givon's Functionalist Approach by Foroozandeh Zardashti, Bahram Modarresi, Mohammad Mehdi Esmaaili

“…First, previous research, largely based on early generative grammar frameworks, has not accounted for recent theoretical developments, such as minimalism, and secondly, none of these studies have examined the finiteness of complement clauses as a graded grammatical concept, especially from the viewpoints of the Minimalist Program and functionalism in Persian.This study investigates the concept of finiteness and tense within Landau’s (2006) and Givón’s (1980) frameworks. …”
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Insights into the Pyrolysis Properties of Environmentally Friendly PMVE/N₂ Gas Mixtures: A Collaborative Analysis Based on Density Functional Theory and Reaction Kinetic... by Haibo Dong, Haonan Chu, Yunhao Liu, Shicheng Liu, Wenyu Ye, Jiaming Yan

“…When mixed with N₂, PMVE not only decreases the liquefaction temperature but also enhances insulation performance, making the gas mixture more suitable for engineering applications. In this study, reactive molecular dynamics (ReaxFF-MD) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations were combined to investigate the influence of temperature on the decomposition characteristics of a PMVE/N₂ mixture. …”
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Mother Paul’s care for his Corinthian children: A text-centered analysis of 1 Cor. 3:1–4 metaphor by Tsholofelo J. Kukuni

“…The objective is to demonstrate that Paul functions more as an anti-patriarchal nurturing parent than as a traditional patriarchal adherent, offering fresh insights into his rhetorical practices. …”
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The analysis of interactive furniture design system based on artificial intelligence by Xiaohong Jiang

“…Male users focus more on convenient control functions, visualization features, and safety, with Proportion of Attractive Quality (PA) scores of 60.80%, 56.32%, and 73.18%, respectively. …”
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The usefulness of mobile applications in shaping responsible consumption by Jaska Ewa, Werenowska Agnieszka, Balińska Agata

“…The hypothesis that more promoters of pro-environmental mobile applications are in the group of women was also positively verified.…”
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Empowering small-scale industries food safety: Designing fuzzy controlled pulse electric field pasteurization by Ika Noer Syamsiana, Mohammad Wildan Fikri Amrullah, Muhammad Akhlis Rizza, Wahyu Aulia Nurwicaksana, Zakiyah Irfin, Ratna Ika Putri, Cahya Rahmad

“…PEF technology functions by applying a high-voltage pulse generator is developed using a flyback transformer, with duty cycle and frequency settings determined through the application of fuzzy logic control (FLC). …”
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Application of multigene panel testing for bleeding, thrombotic, and platelet disorders in patients and the general population in China by Yaohua Cai, Wenyi Lin, Jun Deng, Zhipeng Cheng, Yanyi Tao, Hui Lu, Yunqing Xia, Tingting Wu, Liang V. Tang, Yu Hu

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Expanding Multilingual Co-Speech Interaction: The Impact of Enhanced Gesture Units in Text-to-Gesture Synthesis for Digital Humans by Ghazanfar Ali, Woojoo Kim, Muhammad Shahid Anwar, Jae-In Hwang, Ahyoung Choi

“…Highlighting the scalability and flexibility of our method, this study provides valuable insights into cross-lingual data and expert systems for gesture generation, contributing significantly to more engaging and immersive digital human interactions and the broader field of human-computer interaction.…”
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Residue-Specific Structural and Dynamical Coupling of Protein and Hydration Water Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations by Shuai Wang, Jun Gao, Xiakun Chu

“…To further uncover their coupling mechanism, we elucidate residue-specific coupled fluctuations between protein residues and hydration water by generating scatter plots. These findings provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms underlying protein–water interactions, offering valuable insights into the role of hydration water in protein stability, dynamics, and function.…”
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qTrustNet Virtual Private Network (VPN): Enhancing Security in the Quantum Era by Hyoungsub Shim, Bongho Kang, Haejung Im, Duhyun Jeon, Seok-Min Kim

“…This paper introduces qTrustNet VPN, a next-generation Virtual Private Network (VPN) designed to enhance security in the quantum era. …”
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UFBP1 Ameliorates Heat Stress-Induced Apoptosis via Mitochondria-Mediated Pathway in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells by Yuan Li, Ran Yu, Shujing Tan, Yunlong Jiang, Longwei Sun, Manman Shen, Chuanjian Zhang, Kunlin Chen, Chengmin Li

“…Heat stress in dairy cows is aggravated by Global warming, which negatively affects their performance and health, especially high yielding cows are more susceptible to high temperature and humidity in summer. …”
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The transcription factor MAZR preferentially acts as a transcriptional repressor in mast cells and plays a minor role in the regulation of effector functions in response to FcεRI s... by Anastasia Abramova, Shinya Sakaguchi, Alexandra Schebesta, Hammad Hassan, Nicole Boucheron, Peter Valent, Axel Roers, Wilfried Ellmeier

“…Previous studies implicated the transcription factor MAZR in the regulation of mast cell function. To study the role of MAZR in mast cells, we generated a conditional Mazr allele and crossed Mazr (F/F) mice with the Vav-iCre deleter strain, which is active in all hematopoietic cells. …”
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Analysing the Influence of Augmented Reality on Organization Performance via Supply and Logistics Value Chain Functions: A Hybrid ANN-PLS Model Assessment in the Gulf Cooperation C... by Ahmad Aburayya

“…The results indicated that the ANN strategy provided a more comprehensive explanation of internally generated constructs compared to the PLS-SEM technique. …”
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A Novel Dual-Branch Global and Local Feature Extraction Network for SAR and Optical Image Registration by Xuanran Zhao, Yan Wu, Xin Hu, Zhikang Li, Ming Li

“…Beyond merely extracting local features to generate feature descriptors, more importantly, the network also extracts the global feature to better mine the common structural features between SAR and optical images. …”
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Modified energy-based GAN for intensity in homogeneity correction in brain MR images by Yepuganti Karuna, Neelam Syamala, C. V. Ravikumar, Pooja Thakur, Saritha Saladi

“…In this study, we introduced a more energy-efficient intensity inhomogeneity correction (IIC) method that makes use of the Modified Energy-based Generative Adversarial Network. …”
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