Window of opportunity in rheumatoid arthritis – definitions and supporting evidence: from old to new perspectives by Karim Raza, Leonie E Burgers, Annette H van der Helm - van Mil

“…We observed that the concept of the window of opportunity has changed with respect to timing and outcome since its first description 25 years ago. …”
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Neural Unilateral Nussbaum Gain Sliding Mode Control for Uncertain Ship Course Keeping with an Unknown Control Direction by Guoxin Ma, Dongliang Li, Qiang Wei, Lei Song

“…However, the system can still adapt to the change of the control direction and maintain stability, indicating that the method proposed in this paper is reasonable and effective. …”
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Impact of a flexible irrigation reservation system on water savings in a surface irrigation district in northern Italy by Fabiola Gangi, Giorgio Scotti, Claudio Gandolfi, Daniele Masseroni

“… Improving the efficiency of water use in irrigated areas where surface irrigation is practised is now a goal that must be pursued with persistence, given the effects of climate change on the reduction of surface water availability, especially in Mediterranean areas. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Ni-Cr-Al Alloy Cold Drawn Bar by Liu　Junkai, Yu　Yipeng, Shen　Yaqiu, Wang　Jing, Luo　Xi, Zhang　Jiansheng

“…When the deformation amount increases to a certain extent， the mechanical properties of alloy basically do not change.When the cumulative deformation of Ni-Cr-Al alloy reaches 78.7%， its performance is the best. …”
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A STUDY OF PROPERTIES OF THE RECURRENT MULTI-STEP MODELS FOR INTERANNUAL DYNAMICS OF DIATOM ALGAE COMMUNITIES IN EPIPHYTON by V. A. Parensky, E. V. Levchenko

“…Epiphytic diatoms develop seasonally. On macrophytes they reach the highest density in the middle of summer and have the minimum density in winter. …”
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A Novel Delayed Phase Inversion Strategy Enables Green PVDF Membranes for Membrane Distillation by Wenbin Sun, Longbo Xia, Ping Luo, Dong Zou

“…As the PVDF concentration increased, the morphology changed significantly, resulting in a reduction of pore size. …”
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Research and Design of Radiofrequency Antenna on LCD by Wanshan Zhu, Zhe Gao, Zhuo Meng, Chen Wang, Yang Li, Chunmei Wang, Yunwei Jia

“…Results showed the return loss is less than −30 dB, and the effective read-write distance of the antenna can reach about 5 cm. This design method provides a broader application prospect for mobile POS.…”
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Influence of pH on the Photocatalytic Activity of Ag/Fe2O3 and S/ Fe2O3 Nanoparticles by Methyl Blue Dye Degradation by Baraa Aqeel Kareem, Ban Mazin Alshabander

“…The pH of a 5ppm solution of methylene blue (MB) dye was changed to 3 and 8 using hydrochloric acid (HCl) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH). …”
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Hybrid machine learning and physics-based model for estimating lettuce (Lactuca sativa) growth and resource consumption in aeroponic systems by Benedetta Fasciolo, Nicolò Grasso, Giulia Bruno, Paolo Chiabert

“…Abstract As the global population is expected to reach 10.3 billion by the mid-2080s, optimizing agricultural production and resource management is crucial. …”
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Accounting and Auditing An Analytical Study on a Sample of Academics in Iraqi Universities by Munadhil Abduljabar Abdulrazaq, Hatem Hatef Abdulkadhim Altaee, Naz Hiwa Ghani

“…The study recommended a set of recommendations, the most prominent of which is the need for universities, research centers, and other professional organizations to direct their attention towards focusing on the study of artificial intelligence techniques and their various applications and to start putting forward accounting and auditing ideas with applied content that are consistent with the requirements of artificial intelligence and identify the nature of the change that can be introduced to the existing accounting and auditing practices, and adapt them to the requirements of applying artificial intelligence techniques. …”
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Effect of Particle Size and Dosing of Polymeric Aluminum Chloride Waste Residue on Cement Mortar by Weitao Yang, Zhenguo Hou, Haiying He, Ping Xu, Weidong Sun, Yingbin Wang, Jian Gong

“…The results showed that the change pattern of strength of PAC waste residue mixed into cement mortar was similar to that of fly ash at the same substitution rate. …”
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Development of Chemo-Selective Gas Sensors Based on Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-Quartz Crystal Microbalance for Detection of Bioactive Compounds in <i>Curcuma longa</i> by Fajar Hardoyono

“…The turmeric sample classification using backpropagation neural networks reached high accuracies, with 97.04% in training and 98.73% in testing datasets. …”
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Interaction between Vetiver Grass Roots and Completely Decomposed Volcanic Tuff under Rainfall Infiltration Conditions by Ling Xu, Chongyang Gao, Dongdong Yan

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Motion Analysis of Thumb in Cellular Phone Use by Naotaka Sakai, Satoshi Shimawaki

“…In addition, the ability to reach keys in different areas of the cellular phone keypad is regulated by changing the flexion angle of the CM joint.…”
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The Influence of a Mistuned Blade’s Staggle Angle on the Vibration and Stability of a Shaft-Disk-Blade Assembly by Yi-Jui Chiu, Shyh-Chin Huang

“…When an angle-mistuned blade existed, the blades periodicity was destroyed and it was found to change not only the natural frequencies but also the types of modes. …”
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Shaking Table Tests on Sliding Displacements of Loess Slope under Coupling Effect of Rainfall and Earthquake by Xiaojun Yin, Lanmin Wang

“…The results showed that the acceleration of one point was much larger than the other. ua occurred when seismic waves were loaded to 700 gal, and uamax was obtained when seismic waves were loaded to 1300 gal finally. The umax would reach in 20∼25 s, which was the period of amplitude peak. …”
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Transreading in the Nordic Mode: Olav H. Hauge in Dialogue with Laozi and Eckhart by Zhang, Huiwen Helen

“…Upon this springboard, his life-changing encounter with Laozi enabled him to fulfill Eckhart’s exhortation to “reach for the highest.” …”
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Evaluation of the land value-added benefit brought by urban rail transit: The case in Changsha, China by Wenbin Tang, Qingbin Cui, Feilian Zhang, Hongyan Yan

“…Therefore, the present study releases this assumption and incorporates the changed impact range into the land value-added analysis. …”
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Dynamic Response of the Steel Plate Under the Impact of High-Speed Coal Projectile by Chuanjie Zhu, Qi Yu, Ximiao Lu, Baiquan Lin, Cong Ma

“…When the impact velocity reaches 500 m/s, the axial velocity of the projectile rapidly increases and then tends to be stable. …”
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Risk Warning Method of Corn Cross-border Supply Chain Based on DBN-MFSVM by GE Zhen-lin

“…The accuracy of the algorithm proposed in this paper can reach 94.88% under the condition of similar running time. …”
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