Throwing Stick to Spear Thrower - Study of Ethnographic Artefacts and Experimentation by Luc Bordes

“…Experimental replicas and throwing tests have been used here to try to shed light on the potential and limits of such implements which could have been used simultaneously for both functions.…”
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Trajectory Control Approach for Single-Stage Soft-Switching Grid-Tied Inverters by Seunghun Baek

“…To minimize switching lossd provide advanced grid-connected functionality, the soft-switching operation is achieved through a resonant filter using a trajectory control scheme. …”
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Electophysiological assessments of the effects of Glycemic events, Ascorbic acid and Thaimine, on the Peripheral Neuropathy of Diabetes Mellitus Patients by I.W.M. Al- Hasan, G.A. Al- Sharify

“…The results also show that the improvements were significantly greater in insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) compared to that of non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) patients with the presence of AA in both groups.Nevertheless the results indicate that with better glycemic control, the tested nerves show variable degrees of functional improvements detected by the three examined parameters at the end of the 6 and 12 months. …”
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Clinical pathophysiology of proteinuria by A. Gozhenko, A. Haminich, O. Vityukov

“…Specific proteinuria is a marker of nephron damage, since it shows the true amount of protein that the nephron loses under conditions of its functional provocation; therefore, the study of specific proteinuria is quite relevant in the preclinical stages of kidney damage and can serve as one of the screening tests in risk groups with urinary system pathology. …”
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Clinical features and management of eyes with acute retinal necrosis presenting with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment by Jinal Gore, Anup Kelgaonkar, Anamika Patel, Soumyava Basu, Avinash Pathengay

“…Results: The median age of patients was 36 years, with a male preponderance (9:1). Bilateral ARN was observed in 60% of cases, with 50% of patients testing positive for human immunodeficiency virus. …”
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Predictive models of reading difficulties considering neuropsycholinguistic profiles of atypical and ADHD-inattentive type readers, and eye-tracking measures by Norberto Pereira, Maria Armanda Costa, Manuela Guerreiro

“…All participants were attending 4th grade and had a mean age of 9.08 years. The psycholinguistic profile of each group was assessed using a battery of neuropsychological and linguistic tests. …”
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Application of a sEMG hand motion recognition method based on variational mode decomposition and ReliefF algorithm in rehabilitation medicine. by Yue Yuan

“…The proposed method was tested on the sEMG for Basic Hand movements Data Set and achieved an average accuracy of 99.14%. …”
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Gene Network Biological Validity Based on Gene-Gene Interaction Relevance by Francisco Gómez-Vela, Norberto Díaz-Díaz

“…In recent years, gene networks have become one of the most useful tools for modeling biological processes. …”
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Effects of word length and word frequency among dyslexic, ADHD-I and typical readers by Norberto Pereira, Maria Armanda Costa, Manuela Guerreiro

“… This study aimed to investigate the neuropsycholinguistic functioning of children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder – inattentive subtype (ADHD-I) in a reading task. …”
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The Physicality of Writing in Paul Auster’s White Spaces and Winter Journal by François Hugonnier

“…Auster suddenly realized that literary creation springs from physical commands rather than intellectual ones. Thirty years later, in Winter Journal, Paul Auster took up his exploration of the impersonal and tested the second-person narrative voice of his aging self. …”
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Dynamic Large-Scale Server Scheduling for IVF Queuing Network in Cloud Healthcare System by Yafei Li, Hongfeng Wang, Li Li, Yaping Fu

“…As one of the most effective medical technologies for the infertile patients, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has been more and more widely developed in recent years. However, prolonged waiting for IVF procedures has become a problem of great concern, since this technology is only mastered by the large general hospitals. …”
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Implementation of Random Forest Method with Information Gain Selection and Hyperparameter Tuning for Alzheimer’s Disease Classification by Riska Nuril Fadhila, Nurissaidah Ulinnuha, Dian Yuliati, Nurissaidah Ulinnuha, Dian Yuliati

“…Alzheimer's disease is one of the leading causes of decreased quality of life in the elderly aged 65 years and above. One of the problems facing Alzheimer's cases is the difficulty of making an early diagnosis to prevent disease progression, as early symptoms are often mistaken for senile dementia. …”
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Current Approaches to Nitrite Reduction Methods in Meat Products and Their Potential for Transfer to Industry by Gülen Yıldız Turp, Tuğçe Avcı

“…An important part of the studies on this subject consists of testing the use of natural additives as an alternative to nitrite. …”
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Anticancer Mechanisms of Ginsenoside Compound K: A Review by Yu-Po Lee, Hui-Ting Chan, Tzu-Hsuan Li, Lichieh (Julie) Chu, Sheau-Long Lee, Yu-Quan Chang, Robert YL Wang

“…The present review focuses on the results of CK in in vitro tests. It is our hope that the present article will aid future studies on the results of CK in vivo tests, clarify the correlation between cellular mechanisms in vivo and in vitro tests, and assist in the development of drugs.…”
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Compact and Handheld SiPM-Based Gamma Camera for Radio-Guided Surgery and Medical Imaging by Fabio Acerbi, Aramis Raiola, Cyril Alispach, Hossein Arabi, Habib Zaidi, Alberto Gola, Domenico Della Volpe

“…We designed, simulated (electrically), and tested (functionally) the first prototypes of the novel gamma camera. …”
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Magnitude Modelling of HRTF Using Principal Component Analysis Applied to Complex Values by Oscar Alberto RAMOS, Fabián Carlos TOMMASINI

“…Principal components analysis (PCA) is frequently used for modelling the magnitude of the headrelated transfer functions (HRTFs). Assuming that the HRTFs are minimum phase systems, the phase is obtained from the Hilbert transform of the log-magnitude. …”
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A dual fluorescence-based reporter assay for real-time determination of siRNA- and antisense oligonucleotide-mediated knockdown by Felix Heß, Margarete Odenthal, Elena Wasserburger-Zichel, Christina Grimm, Michal R. Schweiger

“…One of the developmental caveats is the assessment of their functionality in vivo. We therefore developed a sensitive dual fluorescence-based FluoroDetect assay for the testing of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), and RNA-binding compounds. …”
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Specific Parameters of Intraoperative Changes in the Hemostasis System during Liver Resection in Children by D. I. Novikov, A. Yu. Zaitsev, K. V. Dubrovin, E. K. Bespalov, A. V. Filin

“…After chemotherapy courses, children aged 0–11 years suffering from hepatoblastoma, maintain normal functional activity of the hemostasis system at all stages of surgical treatment. …”
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The role of the KIBRA and APOE genes in developing spatial abilities in humans by A. V. Kazantseva, R. F. Enikeeva, Yu. D. Davydova, R. N. Mustafin, Z. R. Takhirova, S. B. Malykh, M. M. Lobaskova, T. N. Tikhomirova, E. K. Khusnutdinova

“…Considering a significant role of genetic and environmental components in cognitive functioning, the present study aimed to estimate the main effect of NGF (rs6330), NRXN1 (rs1045881, rs4971648), KIBRA (rs17070145), NRG1 (rs6994992), BDNF (rs6265), GRIN2B (rs3764030), APOE (rs7412, rs429358), and SNAP25 (rs363050) gene polymorphisms and to assess the effect of gene-environment interactions on individual differences in spatial ability in individuals without cognitive decline aged 18–25 years (N = 1011, 80 % women). …”
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Cognitive impairment in patients with chronic heart failure and its impact on adherence to treatment by Yu. O. Aksenova, A. A. Petrukhina, Yu. F. Osmolovskaya, I. V. Zhirov, A. G. Beniashvili, M. A. Morozova, G. E. Rupchev, A. A. Galich, O. N. Tolstukhina, S. N. Tereshchenko

“…The study included 120 hospitalized patients with CHF regardless of left ventricular ejection fraction aged from 20 to 79 years with different etiology of CHF. All patients underwent complex neuropsychological testing to determine the presence and severity of CH, psychoemotional status, as well as adherence to treatment and quality of life. …”
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