Social Representations of Formal Volunteers and Spontaneous Volunteers in Socio-Natural Disaster Risk Management Contexts by Matías Peña-Garay, José Sandoval-Díaz, David Cuadra-Martínez

“…In this context, disaster response is marked by both formal and spontaneous volunteerism. Method: Using a non-probabilistic sample of 101 volunteers and comparing the social representation of formal volunteers with spontaneous volunteers, prototypical and categorical analyses of social representations were conducted. …”
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Evaluation of the Influence of Frequency of Milk Collection and Milking Dayshift on the Microbiological Quality of Raw Milk by Lucía Reguillo, Manuela Hernández, Elisabeth Barrientos, Fernando Perez-Rodriguez, Antonio Valero

“…MAB counts were determined by flow cytometry (BactoScan) and PSY counts by the plate counting agar method. An univariate statistical analysis was performed to find out significant differences among the studied factors. …”
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Physicomathematical modeling of the formation features of fillet welds of bridge metal structures under submerged-arc welding by A. A. Mosin, V. A. Erofeev, M. A. Sholokhov

“…The work objective is to study possibilities to increase the welding performance during the arc welding of fillet seams. Materials and Methods. Methods of computer analysis are used to optimize the technology. …”
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Prospecting environmental mycobacteria: combined molecular approaches reveal unprecedented diversity. by Alessandra Pontiroli, Tanya T Khera, Brian B Oakley, Sam Mason, Scot E Dowd, Emma R Travis, Girum Erenso, Abraham Aseffa, Orin Courtenay, Elizabeth M H Wellington

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We report here the development, optimization and validation of molecular assays targeting the 16S rRNA gene to assess diversity and prevalence of fast and slow growing EM in representative soils from semi tropical and temperate areas. …”
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ANALYSIS OF INTERPRETATION ABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL DISPOSITION BASED ON STUDENTS' LEARNING MOTIVATION by Silmi Nursyahidah, Supratman Supratman, Sinta Verawati Dewi

“…This study, conducted at SMP Negeri 1 Kadugede in class VII K, found characteristic differences based on motivation levels. Students with high motivation demonstrated enthusiasm, resilience, and optimism in mathematics, as well as comprehensive understanding, good representational abilities, and sound conclusion drawing, although their written answers were sometimes inaccurate. …”
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Deep learning-based sex estimation of 3D hyoid bone models in a Croatian population using adapted PointNet++ network by Ivan Jerković, Željana Bašić, Ivana Kružić

“…Despite the modest sample size, the method effectively captured sex differences, providing a data-efficient and interpretable tool. …”
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Research on the Force Control System of Rotary Crusher Loading Testbed by Ge Li, Qingkai Wang, Gang Shen

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Ultra-sensitive surface plasmon resonance sensor integrating MXene (Ti3C2TX) and graphene for advanced carcinoembryonic antigen detection by Ali Khodaie, Hamid Heidarzadeh

“…The performance of the proposed sensor was evaluated using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) numerical method, focusing on key parameters such as sensitivity and figure of merit (FOM). …”
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Leveraging logit uncertainty for better knowledge distillation by Zhen Guo, Dong Wang, Qiang He, Pengzhou Zhang

“…We also introduce adaptive dynamic temperature factors to optimize the distillation process. By combining these techniques, we enhance knowledge distillation results and facilitate effective knowledge transfer between teacher and student models, even when architectural differences exist. …”
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Experimental Study on Distribution of Temperature and Humidity Field in Vertical Open Display Cabinet for Fruits and Vegetables by Fu Tao, Li Jun, Wang Hailin, Cen Kanghua, Tang Benyuan

“…To study the overall temperature and relative humidity of the display cabinet, the linear regression method was used to predict the effect of the relative humidity on the temperature. …”
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Study on influence of bedding on hydraulic fracture propagation morphologies in Jurassic reservoirs by YUAN Lina, WANG Guangtao, WANG Chengwang, HOU Rui, SUN Feng

“…Based on the experimental data, a three-dimensional finite element model using the cohesive element method was developed to characterize hydraulic fracturing in multilayered Jurassic reservoirs, focusing on the effects of bedding strength and in-situ stress differences on fracture morphology and propagation paths. …”
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Prediction criterion of the interaction between hydraulic fractures and bedding planes via theoretical and simulation approaches by Xiaoxi Men, Yu Zhang, Di Zuo

“…Abstract Hydraulic fracturing is a widely used stimulation method to enhance the productivity of unconventional resources and it has become an indispensable part of well completion in shale oil and gas field development. …”
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Development of Aeromonas salmonicida Vaccine Carrier Expressing G Protein of Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus by Yatong GAO, Zhipeng WANG, Ye GAO, Ming ZHU, Jie LI

“…A PBS control was prepared using the same method. Rainbow trout were immunized by intraperitoneal injection with a vaccine or phosphate buffered saline (PBS) control. …”
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Measurement and evolution of government attention to the health industry in China based on the BERTopic model. by Jian Jin, Hongbin Du, Zhaoyu Liu

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>This paper aims to measure the government's attention to the health industry accurately, which is crucial for understanding policy directions and resource allocation strategies.<h4>Methods</h4>Addressing the limitations of traditional word frequency methods, such as restricted word segmentation and ambiguous terms, the BERTopic (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Topic Modeling) is applied to measure government attention at the sentence level. …”
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Informed decision-making in prioritising product variants by Diana Borrego, Ángel Jesús Varela-Vaca, María Teresa Gómez-López, Rafael M. Gasca

“…Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods, such as analytic hierarchy process (AHP), technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), and VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (“multicriteria optimization and compromise solution”) (VIKOR), are effective for ranking configurations based on user-defined preferences. …”
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Scanner-specific optimisation of automated lesion segmentation in MS by David R. van Nederpelt, Giuseppe Pontillo, Mar Barrantes-Cepas, Iman Brouwer, Eva M.M. Strijbis, Menno M. Schoonheim, Bastiaan Moraal, Bas Jasperse, Henk-Jan M.M. Mutsaerts, Joep Killestein, Frederik Barkhof, Joost P.A. Kuijer, Hugo Vrenken

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the within-scanner repeatability and between-scanner reproducibility of lesion segmentation tools in pwMS across three different scanners and examine their accuracy compared to manual segmentations with and without optimization. …”
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Anterior temporal lobectomy and selective AmygdaloHippocampectomy complications across Europe: review, meta-analysis, and Delphi consensus by Maria D. Karagianni, Olaf E.M.G. Schijns, Alexandros Brotis, Anastasia Tasiou, Christian Auer, Thomas Blauwblomme, Marcelo Budke, Alexandre Rainha Campos, Santiago Candela-Cantó, Hans Clusmann, Alessandro Consales, Massimo Cossu, Daniel Delev, Christian Dorfer, Georg Dorfmüller, Arild Egge, Lorand Eröss, Sarah Ferrand-Sorbets, Flavio Giordano, Cihan Isler, Jugoslav Ivanovic, Thilo Kalbhenn, Atte Karppinen, Paivi Koroknay-Pal, Niklaus Krayenbühl, Marec von Lehe, Carlo E. Marras, Ioannis Mavridis, Daniel Nilsson, Julia Onken, Christian Raftopoulos, Michele Rizzi, Dirk van Roost, Karl Rössler, Jonathan Roth, Jordi Rumia, Alexandra Seromenho-Santos, Thomas Sauvigny, Didier Scavarda, Christian Scheiwe, Karl Schaller, Sophie Schuind, Ido Strauss, Tom Theys, Mustafa Uzan, Konstantinos N. Fountas, Franziska Schmidt, Linda Ackermans, Pedro Duarte Batista, Michael Hart, Marie Krüger

“…Research question: This study sought to gather expert European consensus on surgical strategies and complication rate for ATL and selAH, in both adult and pediatric patients. Materials and methods: A modified Delphi technique was employed, with 39 experienced epilepsy surgeons from 35 different European centers. …”
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Ultracompact On-Chip Multiplexed Sensor Array Based on Dense Integration of Flexible 1-D Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavity With Large Free Spectral Range and High Q-Factor by Daquan Yang, Bo Wang, Xin Chen, Chuan Wang, Yuefeng Ji

“…With proper engineering of the FSR, multiple ultracompact high-sensitivity 1-D-PCNC sensors can be integrated into microarrays without resonance overlap, and be interrogated simultaneously between a single input/output ports. Using 3-D finite-difference-time-domain (3-D-FDTD) method, the performance of the device is investigated theoretically in the whole paper. …”
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BioImpedance Spectroscopy to maintain Renal Output: the BISTRO randomised controlled trial by Simon J Davies, David Coyle, Elizabeth Lindley, David Keane, John Belcher, Fergus Caskey, Indranil Dasgupta, Andrew Davenport, Ken Farrington, Sandip Mitra, Paula Ormandy, Martin Wilkie, Jamie MacDonald, Mandana Zanganeh, Lazaros Andronis, Ivonne Solis-Trapala, Julius Sim

“…We wished to establish the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of bioimpedance in pursuing this treatment strategy. Methods We undertook a multicentre, open-label, parallel, individually randomised controlled trial in incident haemodialysis patients, with clinicians and patients blinded to bioimpedance readings in the control group. …”
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Multi-Scale Hierarchical Feature Fusion for Infrared Small-Target Detection by Yue Wang, Xinhong Wang, Shi Qiu, Xianghui Chen, Zhaoyan Liu, Chuncheng Zhou, Weiyuan Yao, Hongjia Cheng, Yu Zhang, Feihong Wang, Zhan Shu

“…The inclusion of a boundary difference loss further optimizes the edge details of targets. …”
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