Evaluating Indoor Positioning Systems in a Shopping Mall: The Lessons Learned From the IPIN 2018 Competition by Valerie Renaudin, Miguel Ortiz, Johan Perul, Joaquin Torres-Sospedra, Antonio Ramon Jimenez, Antoni Perez-Navarro, German Martin Mendoza-Silva, Fernando Seco, Yael Landau, Revital Marbel, Boaz Ben-Moshe, Xingyu Zheng, Feng Ye, Jian Kuang, Yu Li, Xiaoji Niu, Vlad Landa, Shlomi Hacohen, Nir Shvalb, Chuanhua Lu, Hideaki Uchiyama, Diego Thomas, Atsushi Shimada, Rin-Ichiro Taniguchi, Zhenxing Ding, Feng Xu, Nikolai Kronenwett, Blagovest Vladimirov, Soyeon Lee, Eunyoung Cho, Sungwoo Jun, Changeun Lee, Sangjoon Park, Yonghyun Lee, Jehyeok Rew, Changjun Park, Hyeongyo Jeong, Jaeseung Han, Keumryeol Lee, Wenchao Zhang, Xianghong Li, Dongyan Wei, Ying Zhang, So Young Park, Chan Gook Park, Stefan Knauth, Georgios Pipelidis, Nikolaos Tsiamitros, Tomas Lungenstrass, Juan Pablo Morales, Jens Trogh, David Plets, Miroslav Opiela, Shih-Hau Fang, Yu Tsao, Ying-Ren Chien, Shi-Shen Yang, Shih-Jyun Ye, Muhammad Usman Ali, Soojung Hur, Yongwan Park

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Rethinking the Impact of Single Continuing Educational Activities: Navigating Complexity Through Insights from Real-World Evaluation and Contemporary Literature by Robert Schaefer, Joerg Stein, Louise Niven, Mia Hill, Onno Kaagman, Anja J. Gerrits, Pan Chen, Yvonne Oliver, Eugene Pozniak, Cara L. Mcfarlane, Denise Thom, Arne Stachmann, Giovanni Torsello, Reinhard Griebenow

“…However, providers may also choose some more targeted approaches to influence the mindset even in heterogeneous learner groups:- integrating not only knowledge and competence but also current performance gaps into pre-/post-tests- increasing opportunities for discussion will allow optimal matching of the individual needs of participants with the CE content. …”
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Revolutionizing Construction Safety: Unveiling the Digital Potential of Building Information Modeling (BIM) by Bilal Manzoor, Rabia Charef, Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari, Khalid Saqer Alotaibi, Ehsan Harirchian

“…This study examined the following knowledge gaps: integration with safety regulations and standards, a comprehensive safety dimension in BIM, BIM for real-time safety monitoring, and a BIM-driven safety culture. …”
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Spleen proteome profile reveals immune responses induced by dietary spray-dried plasma against Salmonella Enteritidis infection in broiler chicks by Tunde E. Ogundare, Theresa M. Casey, Uma K. Aryal, Yewande O. Fasina

“…Data were mapped to Gallus gallus Uniprot database, and differentially abundant proteins (DAP; P < 0.05) identified using ANOVA. …”
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Assessment of real-world disease severity in patients with eosinophilic esophagitis in the United States by Evan S. Dellon, Glenn T. Furuta, Paul Feuerstadt, Priya Bansal, Todor I. Totev, Oscar Patterson-Lomba, Hongjue Wang, Sanjana Sundaresan, Rajeev Ayyagari, Tao Fan, Jeanne Jiang, Mena Boules, Brian Terreri

“…All data were stratified by physician-assessed EoE disease severity (mild, moderate, or severe (clinical severity and markers of severity)); index date data were also mapped to an adapted I-SEE scoring system post hoc. …”
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Effects of different doses of remifentanil combined with sevoflurane anesthesia on postoperative analgesia and hemodynamics in pediatric patients undergoing laparoscopic inguinal h... by Jinben Ma, Yu Wang, Zhifei Liu, Shaoxian Han

“…The changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR) and oxygen saturation (SpO2) before the start of anesthesia (T0), 10-min after the start of surgery (T1), at the time of extubation (T2) and 30-min post-surgery (T3) and postoperative adverse reaction incidence were recorded. …”
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Protocol for the first cycle of the Collaborative Open Research Initiative Study (CORIS-1): An international survey of personnel in health professions schools in 16 countries by Israel Agaku, Lungile Nkosi, Muath Aldosari, Enihomo Obadan, Oluwakemi Odukoya, Weifang Zhang, Hend Alqaderi, Erinne N. Kennedy, Constantine Vardavas, Olalekan Ayo-Yusuf

“…CORIS-1 fosters diversity by letting contributors suggest survey questions, aiming to provide novel data, identify gaps, and influence health education policies. It provides an opportunity for early-stage researchers to engage in the research process from start to finish and to obtain publications. …”
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A bibliometric analysis of computational and mathematical techniques in the cocoa sustainable food value chain by Leonardo H. Talero-Sarmiento, Diana T. Parra-Sanchez, Henry Lamos-Diaz

“…These include innovations in post-production processes, assessing cocoa ripeness, pod counting, crop yield estimation, optimizing bean fermentation, organoleptic profiling, and the industrialization of cocoa-related machinery. …”
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Development and validation of a tool to assess core competencies of public health professionals in low-income settings: findings from Uttar Pradesh, India by Sudip Bhandari, Sara Bennett, David H. Peters

“…Abstract Background Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) lack instruments to measure gaps in the public health competency of health professionals. …”
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Dataset on Programming Competencies Development Using Scratch and a Recommender System in a Non-WEIRD Primary School Context by Jesennia Cárdenas-Cobo, Cristian Vidal-Silva, Nicolás Máquez

“…The resulting dataset encompasses diverse information: demographic data, logical reasoning test scores, computational thinking test results pre- and post-intervention, activity logs from Scratch, recommendation histories from CARAMBA, and qualitative feedback from university student tutors who supported the intervention. …”
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Primary school students' experiences of science learning content and support provided during guided inquiry-based science fieldwork by Mirjam Asilevi, Sirpa Kärkkäinen, Jingoo Kang, Kari Sormunen, Sari Havu-Nuutinen

“…The intervention comprised 2,400 minutes of instruction across three science topics: plants, animal variation, and ecosystems. Semi-structured post-interviews were conducted, and the data were analysed using thematic and data-driven content analysis. …”
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Urban flourish or peril: Navigating the safe and just space through the lens of ecosystem services in China’s urbanization by Qin Zhou, Changgao Cheng, Zhou Fang, Shi Xue, Qiuya Zhao, Zhongde Huang, Jie Wang, Wei Jin, Chenjun Zhang, Yang Bai, Ni Geng, Hengquan Zhang

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Laboratory Studies on Underground H₂ Storage: Bibliometric Analysis and Review of Current Knowledge by Edgar Berrezueta, Timea Kovács, Gricelda Herrera-Franco, Jhon Caicedo-Potosí, María Jaya-Montalvo, Berta Ordóñez-Casado, Paúl Carrión-Mero, Júlio Carneiro

“…The review emphasizes the need to expand research efforts globally to comprehensively address the currently existing issues and knowledge gaps.…”
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Assessing Shallow Groundwater Depth and Electrical Conductivity in the Brazilian Semiarid: A Geostatistical Analysis by Thayná Alice Brito Almeida, Luiz Carlos da Silva Boaventura, Marcos Vinícius da Silva, Carolyne Wanessa Lins de Andrade Farias, Aline Maria Soares das Chagas, Rodrigo Soares da Costa, Cláudio Vinícius de Souza Moura, Abelardo Antônio de Assunção Montenegro

“…This study assesses the spatiotemporal variability of groundwater quantity and salinity, analyzing natural and anthropogenic impacts, including post-pandemic trends. The investigation was developed in the Mimoso Alluvial Valley (MAV), Pernambuco State, mainly used for communal irrigation supply. …”
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Suppression of the TGF-β pathway by a macrolide antibiotic decreases fibrotic responses by ocular fibroblasts in vitro by Thomas Stahnke, Beata Gajda-Deryło, Anselm G. Jünemann, Oliver Stachs, Katharina A. Sterenczak, Robert Rejdak, Julia Beck, Ekkehard Schütz, Steffen Möller, Israel Barrantes, Gregor Warsow, Stephan Struckmann, Georg Fuellen

“…To elucidate and to inhibit post-surgical fibrotic processes after trabeculectomy in glaucoma therapy, we measured gene expression in a fibrotic cell culture model, based on transforming growth factor TGF-β induction in primary human tenon fibroblasts (hTFs), and used Connectivity Map (CMap) data for drug repositioning. …”
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Transcriptome-wide identification and analysis reveals m6A regulation of metabolic reprogramming in shrimp (Marsupenaeus japonicus) under virus infection by Xumei Sun, Yu-Lei Chen, Fan Xin, Siyuan Zhang

“…ZC3H12A and HIF-1 were two hub genes in protein-protein interaction (PPI) network that involved in immune and metabolism processes, respectively. Conclusion Our study explored the m6A methylation pattern of mRNA in shrimp after WSSV infection, exhibited the first m6A map of shrimp at the stage of WSSV induced metabolic reprogramming. …”
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Proteome-wide characterization of PTMs reveals host cell responses to viral infection and identifies putative antiviral drug targets by Xiaolu Li, Adam Kabza, Ashley N. Ives, Julianne Thiel, Katrina M. Waters, Wei-Jun Qian, Amy C. Sims, Tong Zhang

“…Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are biochemical modifications that can significantly alter protein structure, function, stability, localization, and interactions with other molecules, thereby activating or inactivating intracellular processes. …”
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MICRO-SCALE STUDY OF RESIDUAL STRESSES IN CR2O3 COATINGS SPRAYED BY APS by Franck Decroos, Cécile Langlade, Eric Bourillot, Geoffrey Darut, Manuel Francois

“…Due to the highly localized scales of our investigations, which also depend on the device, the objective of our procedure required that the comparison should be made not on individual points but on definite mapped areas, every spot being analyzed and post-treated one after another, with optimum measuring parameters. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Fusion of Landsat and MODIS Data for Monitoring of High-Intensity Fire Traces in Karst Landscapes: A Case Study in China by Xiaodong Zhang, Jingyi Zhao, Guanzhou Chen, Tong Wang, Qing Wang, Kui Wang, Tingxuan Miao

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ORD-YOLO: A Ripeness Recognition Method for Citrus Fruits in Complex Environments by Zhaobo Huang, Xianhui Li, Shitong Fan, Yang Liu, Huan Zou, Xiangchun He, Shuai Xu, Jianghua Zhao, Wenfeng Li

“…When deployed on harvesting robots, it can substantially increase picking efficiency and reduce post-maturity fruit rot due to delayed harvesting. …”
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