Designing a Thermoacoustic Cooler for Energy Applications: Experimental Insights by Leszek Remiorz, Krzysztof Grzywnowicz, Eryk Remiorz, Wojciech Uchman

“…However, issues like inappropriate sampling frequencies and excessive data storage can lead to unintended averaging, compromising measurement quality. …”
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Two-Port Needle-Assisted Pediatric Laparoscopic Herniotomy Using Tuohy Needle: Clinical Experience and Outcomes by Imran Abbas, Rida Fatima, Muhammad Aslam Javed, Muhammad Hassan, Mahmood Farooqi, Muhammad Mohsin Gillani

“…Mean and standard deviation were calculated for quantitative variables like operative time, analgesia dose, and Length of Hospital stay  LOHS, and stratification was done for age, weight, laterality (side of hernia), and recurrence. …”
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Unlocking the genetic potential of Ethiopian fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) genotypes for future breeding by Zebib Berhe, Tesfaye Awas, Asmare Dejen, Metadel Adane, Baye Akele, Musa Adal, Faris Hailu

“…The present study revealed that high heritability with high genetic advance as percent of mean, respectively, showed for almost all the studied traits like, number of pods per plant (99.6 %, 97.7 %), number of seeds per pod (98.8 %, 84.2 %), number of primary branches per plant(98.5 %, 104.4 %), number of secondary branches per plant (98.3 %, 107.6), biomass yield (97.6 %, 59.9 %), plant height (94.6 %, 63 %), thousand seeds weight (92.6 %, 66.7 %), and pods length (91.5 %, 61.1 %). …”
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Racial disparities in extended venous thromboembolism prophylaxis after hysterectomy. by Wenbo Wu, Sherry Wu, Sim Berlene Mariano, Richard E Burney, Jonathan P Kuriakose

“…Mixed effects logistic regression analysis suggested that Black patients were significantly less likely to receive eVTEp than White patients (odds ratio = 0.776; 95% CI: 0.615-0.979; P = 0.039). …”
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On the parametric analytics to investigate hole quality characteristics during helical milling of carbon fiber reinforced plastics stacks by Mehdi Tlija, Nimra Naeem, Mohammad Pervez Mughal, Kiran Mughal, Saad Ullah, Muhammad Sana, Anamta Khan

“…Analysis of variance is used to study the impact of input variables on the hole quality aspects that include delamination damage, length of uncut fiber, circularity error, and surface roughness by using the Taguchi design of experiment. …”
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Morphological changes in the human mandible associated with the presence of exostoses: A cross-sectional study in two archaeological populations from southern France. by Estelle Casazza, Benoit Ballester, Camille Philip-Alliez, Yann Ardagna, Anne Raskin

“…A statistically significant difference was demonstrated between group 1 and group 2 for the following parameters: distance between mandibular angles, bicondylar width, ramus height, left condyle length, and right and left coronoid process height. …”
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Spatial and Seasonal Estimation of Tropospheric Radio Refractivity in Nigeria by M. M. Tanko, M. S. Liman, W. L. Lumbi, U. S. Aliyu

“…Just like rainfall, the movement of Inter Tropical Discontinuity (ITD) is also found to be linked to the variation of the radio refractivity. …”
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Short Term Adverse Events Following Ankle Arthroplasty and Ankle Arthrodesis: A Matched Analysis of Recent Nationally-Representative Data by Haleigh Hopper BS, Chase Nelson BS, James Satalich MD, Albert T. Anastasio MD, Conor N. O'Neill MD, Tejas Patel MD, Andrew Hanselman MD, Karl M. Schweitzer MD, FAAOS, Samuel B. Adams MD

“…All patients were followed for at least 30 days following surgery. The independent variable was procedure type: AA or TAA. The dependent variables were complications. …”
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Spinach (<i>Spinacia oleracea</i> L.) Growth Model in Indoor Controlled Environment Using Agriculture 4.0 by Cesar Isaza, Angel Mario Aleman-Trejo, Cristian Felipe Ramirez-Gutierrez, Jonny Paul Zavala de Paz, Jose Amilcar Rizzo-Sierra, Karina Anaya

“…The best-fitting polynomial models for leaf length achieved a minimum Mean Squared Error (MSE) of 0.158, while the highest MSE observed was 1.2153, highlighting variability across different leaf pairs. …”
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Investigating the hatchability and nauplii biometry of Artemia franciscana in unconventional waters of Sistan region, Southeast Iran by Hashem Khandan Barani, Abdolali Rahdari, Narjes Sanchooli, Ali Khosravanizadeh

“…Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) was calculated for the statistical interpretation of the influence of the physicochemical variables on hatching rate and body length. Results and discussion: The results showed that hatchability of cysts and body length of Artemia were significantly different among treatments (p<0.05). …”
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Long sequence time-series forecasting method based on multi-scale segmentation by HE Shenglin, LONG Chen, ZHENG Jing, WANG Shuang, WEN Zhenkun, WU Huisi, NI Dong, HE Xiaorong, WU Xueqing

“…Experimental results on the real-world power transformer dataset, encompassing variables like electricity transformer temperature, electricity consumption load, and weather demonstrate that the proposed Transformer model based on the multi-scale segmentation approach outperforms traditional benchmark models such as Transformer, Informer, gated recurrent unit, temporal convolutional network and long short term memory in terms of mean absolute error (MAE) and mean squared error (MSE). …”
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Comparison of an AI-driven planning tool and manual radiographic measurements in total knee arthroplasty by Marie Theres Heller, Guenther Maderbacher, Marie Farina Schuster, Lina Forchhammer, Markus Scharf, Tobias Renkawitz, Stefano Pagano

“…Conclusion: AI-assisted tools like the Autoplan tool in mediCAD offer substantial time savings and demonstrate reliable measurements for certain linear parameters in preoperative TKA planning. …”
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Near extinction of the HBV quasispecies driven by the hard selective sweep in chronic hepatitis B by Daiqiang Lu, Andong He, Guichan Liao, Renyu Zhou, Zichun Cheng, Ka Cheuk Yip, Xiufang Wang, Wei Cao, Jiaojiao Peng, Ruiman Li, Jie Peng, Feng Gao

“…Here, we characterized the bona fide quasispecies viral populations from 16 chronically infected patients by analyzing the near full-length viral genomes obtained by single genome sequencing. …”
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User groups of inpatient multidisciplinary therapies for Parkinson’s disease in Germany: a bicenter prospective observational study by Vera Tschentscher, Judith Oppermann, Julius Welzel, Johanna Geritz, Ralf Gold, Siegfried Muhlack, Clint Hansen, Walter Maetzler, Lars Tönges, Raphael Scherbaum

“…Demographic and clinical variables were recorded before and device-based gait variables before and after therapy. …”
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Large language models are able to downplay their cognitive abilities to fit the persona they simulate. by Jiří Milička, Anna Marklová, Klára VanSlambrouck, Eva Pospíšilová, Jana Šimsová, Samuel Harvan, Ondřej Drobil

“…We conducted analyses of linguistic complexity, examining utterance length and Kolmogorov complexity. These analyses revealed a gradual increase in linguistic complexity corresponding to the age of the simulated children, regardless of other variables. …”
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Cardiovascular health in perspective: a comprehensive five-year geodatabase of hospitalizations and environmental factors in Mashhad, Iran by Shahab MohammadEbrahimi, Mohammad Dehghan, Behzad Kiani

“…It contains 52,176 confirmed CVD cases and includes demographic information such as age, gender, admission date, ICD-10 codes, occurrence of death, and length of hospital stay. The median age of patients was 64 years, with 54.44% male. …”
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Treatment Outcome of Severe Acute Malnutrition and Its Determinants among Pediatric Patients in West Ethiopia by Muluken Berhanu Mena, Mohammed Gebre Dedefo, Bruke Berhanu Billoro

“…Association between independent variables and depend variable was assessed using bivariate and stepwise multivariable logistic regression, respectively. …”
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FTO Gene Associates and Interacts with Obesity Risk, Physical Activity, Energy Intake, and Time Spent Sitting: Pilot Study in a Nigerian Population by Bolaji Fatai Oyeyemi, Charles Ayorinde Ologunde, Ayonposi Bukola Olaoye, Nanfizat Abiket Alamukii

“…Fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene influences obesity but studies have shown that environmental/lifestyle variables like physical activity (PA), time spent sitting (TSS), and energy intake might mediate the effect. …”
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Comparison of Gait Parameters Collected Across Two Commercially Available Gait Systems in Older Adults by Alexandria Hoang, Jeannette Mahoney, Ying Jin, Sofiya Milman, Nir Barzilai, Joe Verghese, Emmeline Ayers

“…<b>Background/Objectives</b>: Research examining mobility in older adults often utilizes spatiotemporal gait parameters obtained from computerized walkway systems like GAITRite (Franklin, NY, USA) and Zenometrics, LLC (Peekskill, NY, USA). …”
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Development of a Korean Safety Ladder With Ensured Overturning Stability by Giyeol Lee, Jeongjae Park, Ilnam Lee, Jongmoon Hwang

“…Background: We have developed the Korean safety ladder as part of development of new safety technologies that can be accepted in industrial sites and would like to introduce the testing process to secure safety. …”
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