Structure and distribution of gynaecological diseases for girls and teenage girls in the Zaporizhzhia area by N. V. Avramenko, O. V. Kabachenko, T. O. Tsaruk

“…In recent years the question of gynecological diseases in women and teenage girls becomes more and more relevance. Girls of pubertal age should become mothers of new generation, but the health of adolescents continues to deteriorate. …”
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Stepper Motor Position Control Using PD and MPC Algorithms Embedded in Programmable Logic Controller by Anshul Jaswal, Ma'moun Abu-Ayyad, Yash Lad, Anilchandra Attaluri

“…In addition, this study compares the result of MPC algorithm with traditional control strategies, such as PD. To generate pulses and read the motor encoder signal, the project used special function modules and implemented IEC 61131 programming code in ladder logic, function blocks, and structured text. …”
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Deepfake detection method based on patch-wise lighting inconsistency by Wenxuan WU, Wenbo ZHOU, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…The rapid development and widespread dissemination of deepfake techniques has caused increased concern.The malicious application of deepfake techniques also poses a potential threat to the society.Therefore, how to detect deepfake content has become a popular research topic.Most of the previous deepfake detection algorithms focused on capturing subtle forgery traces at pixel level and have achieved some results.However, most of the deepfake algorithms ignore the lighting information before and after generation, resulting in some lighting inconsistency between the original face and the forged face, which provided the possibility of using lighting inconsistency to detect deepfake.A corresponding algorithm was designed from two perspectives: introducing lighting inconsistency information and designing a network structure module for a specific task.For the introduction of lighting task, a new network structure was derived by designing the corresponding channel fusion method to provide more lighting inconsistency information to the network feature extraction layer.In order to ensure the portability of the network structure, the process of feature channel fusion was placed before the network extraction information, so that the proposed method can be fully planted to common deepfake detection networks.For the design of the network structure, a deepfake detection method was proposed for lighting inconsistency based on patch-similarity from two perspectives: network structure and loss function design.For the network structure, based on the characteristic of inconsistency between the forged image tampering region and the background region, the extracted features were chunked in the network feature layer and the feature layer similarity matrix was obtained by comparing the patch-wise cosine similarity to make the network focus more on the lighting inconsistency.On this basis, based on the feature layer similarity matching scheme, an independent ground truth and loss function was designed for this task in a targeted manner by comparing the input image with the untampered image of this image for patch-wise authenticity.It is demonstrated experimentally that the accuracy of the proposed method is significantly improved for deepfake detection compared with the baseline method.…”
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Hashtags as pragmatic devices of cultural reproduction in digital discourse by Galina E. Snezhko

“…Although hashtags are becoming more and more popular among academics as online communication tools, little is known about how they contribute to the practical reproduction of cultural norms. …”
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Satellite Altimetry-based Extension of global-scale in situ river discharge Measurements (SAEM) by P. Saemian, O. Elmi, M. Stroud, R. Riggs, B. M. Kitambo, F. Papa, G. H. Allen, M. J. Tourian

“…These water level time series are sourced from both existing Level-3 water level time series and newly generated ones within this study. The Level-3 data are gathered from pre-existing data sets, including Hydroweb.Next (formerly Hydroweb), the Database of Hydrological Time Series of Inland Waters (DAHITI), the Global River Radar Altimetry Time Series (GRRATS), and HydroSat. (3) SAEM's third product is rating curves for the defined VSs, which map water level values into discharge values, derived using a nonparametric stochastic quantile mapping function approach. …”
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Clinical implications, safety, efficacy of Recombinant Human Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factors and Pegylated Equivalent by Silvia Bolis, Emilia Cocorocchio, Consuelo Corti, Andrés J M Ferreri, Niccolò Frungillo, Giovanni Grillo, Emanuela Salè Omodeo, Lucilla Tedeschi, Vittorio Ruggero Zilioli

“…For instance, lenograstim binds to receptors in the same way of endogenous ligand, and neutrophils obtained from stimulation with this G-CSF have a physiological activity profile similar to neutrophils normally generated in humans. Conversely, the different interaction between filgrastim and G-CSF receptor is more frequently associated with morphological abnormalities, reduced motility and chemotaxis and a reduced response to bacterial stimuli in induced neutrophils.…”
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Influence of Infotainment-System Audio Cues on the Sound Quality Perception Onboard Electric Vehicles in the Presence of Air-Conditioning Noise by Massimiliano Masullo, Katsuya Yamauchi, Minori Dan, Federico Cioffi, Luigi Maffei

“…The results indicate that introducing ISA cues in car cabins fosters improvements in the perceived aesthetic dimension of sound quality, making it more functioning, natural, and pleasant. For the Italian group, adding ISA cues also moderated the loudness dimension by reducing noise perception. …”
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The extracellular loop 2 (ECL2) of the human histamine H4 receptor substantially contributes to ligand binding and constitutive activity. by David Wifling, Günther Bernhardt, Stefan Dove, Armin Buschauer

“…To study the role of the FF motif in ECL2, we generated the hH4R-F168A mutant. The receptor was co-expressed in Sf9 insect cells with the G-protein subunits Gαi2 and Gβ1γ2, and the membranes were studied in [3H]histamine binding and functional [35S]GTPγS assays. …”
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A comparative survey of the influence of small self-cleaving ribozymes on gene expression in human cell culture by Dennis Kläge, Elisabeth Müller, Jörg S. Hartig

“…We were able to identify functional structures suited for aptazyme design and generated highly efficient hammerhead ribozyme variants originating from the human genome. …”
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Robust models of disease heterogeneity and control, with application to the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. by Kory D Johnson, Annemarie Grass, Daniel Toneian, Mathias Beiglböck, Jitka Polechová

“…This not only reduces the median total infections and peak quarantine cases, but also controls outbreaks much more reliably: such a controller entirely prevents rare but large outbreaks. …”
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Phenotypic mutation rates and the abundance of abnormal proteins in yeast. by Martin Willensdorfer, Reinhard Bürger, Martin A Nowak

“…In our model, genes are regulated to synthesize a certain number of functional proteins. During this process, depending on the phenotypic mutation rate, abnormal proteins are generated. …”
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A Robust Adaptive Strategy for Diesel Particulate Filter Health Monitoring Using Soot Sensor Data by Bilal Youssef

“…The sensor data are projected to generate a 2D signature that reflects the changes in filtration efficiency. …”
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Vibroacoustic monitoring of bearing points failures in the driving system of the mining main ventilation fans by T. ZAKRZEWSKI

“…As there is no access to them in the course of operation, diagnostic methods which can be applied without dismantling the machine, and particularly vibroacoustic methods based on the fact that there is a dependence between failure-free operation and the vibroacoustic condition of bearings become more and more essential. The evaluation of the technical condition of rolling and slide bearings, based on measures of a vibratory signal, made on the basis of amplitude values of discrete components occurring in the spectra of the recorded vibratory signals, has; been the subject of diagnostic examinations. …”
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Accounting for tumor heterogeneity when using CRISPR-Cas9 for cancer progression and drug sensitivity studies. by Jessica F Olive, Yuanbo Qin, Molly J DeCristo, Tyler Laszewski, Frances Greathouse, Sandra S McAllister

“…We describe a novel CRISPR/Cas9 protocol that incorporates a single-cell cloning step prior to gene editing, allowing for the generation of appropriately matched, functionally equivalent control and edited cell lines. …”
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Exploring the impact of Brownian motion on novel closed-form solutions of the extended Kairat-II equation. by Khaled Aldwoah, Alaa Mustafa, Tariq Aljaaidi, Khidir Mohamed, Amer Alsulami, Mohammed Hassan

“…The first method is the modified Tanh technique linked with the Riccati equation, which is implemented to extract some closed-form solutions in the form of tangent and cotangent functions. The second technique is the Sardar sub-equation method (SSEM) which is used to attain several analytical solutions in the form of trigonometric and hyperbolic functions. …”
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An Analytical Method for Fast Optimization of Multireservoir Hydropower Systems Operations Considering Risk‐Return Tradeoffs by S. Jamshid Mousavi, Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam

“…Abstract Long‐term multireservoir operations optimization is challenging for existing optimization methods such as stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) and implicit stochastic programming (ISP) suffering from excessive computing time requirements. More difficult is to tackle a risk‐based optimization problem and provide an efficient frontier of the objective function for multireservoir systems. …”
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Superiorly-based, preauricular tunneled insular flap for reconstruction of auricular defects by Délcio Aparecido Durso, Willian Segalin, Paolla Ribeiro Gonçalves, Marcella Ferreira Carvalho, Sérgio Domingo Bocardo, Flávia Freire Dantas

“…We report the case of a patient who presented with tumor lesions on more than one occasion in the anterior left ear and required surgical intervention to correct the defect generated by excision. …”
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Sine Half-Logistic Inverse Rayleigh Distribution: Properties, Estimation, and Applications in Biomedical Data by M. Shrahili, I. Elbatal, Mohammed Elgarhy

“…The statistical properties of the half-logistic inverse Rayleigh model are calculated, including the quantile function, moments, moment generating function, incomplete moment, and Lorenz and Bonferroni curves. …”
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A New Member of T-X Family with Applications in Different Sectors by Zubir Shah, Amjad Ali, Muhammad Hamraz, Dost Muhammad Khan, Zardad Khan, M. EL-Morshedy, Afrah Al-Bossly, Zahra Almaspoor

“…Some mathematical properties including hazard rate function, ordinary moments, moment generating function, and order statistics are discussed. …”
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A Latent Class Analysis of Nutrition Impact Symptoms in Cancer Survivors by Laura Keaver, Christopher McLaughlin

“…The EORTC-QLQ-C30 functioning and GHS scores were all significantly different between the three nutrition impact symptoms classes (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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