In an attempt to improve U II analysis, the lowest configurations of both parities have been interpreted by means of the Racah-Slater parametric method, using Cowan codes. In the odd parity, including the ground state, 253 levels of the interacting c...
The Planck mission detected a positive correlation between the intensity (T) and B-mode polarization of the Galactic thermal dust emission. The
The literature shows that grand multipara mothers are major contributors to poor maternal and perinatal health compared to multipara mothers. Data regarding parity profiles are essential, especially in rapidly transforming countries such as the Unite...
The high-precision determination of microwave radiation parameters may be based on measurements of the spectral characteristics of radiation transitions between the Rydberg states of atoms. Frequencies and matrix elements are calculated for dipole tr...
The analysis of the spectrum of four-times-ionized yttrium, Y V, was extended to provide a large number of new spectrum lines and energy levels. The new analysis is based on spectrograms made with sliding-spark discharges on 10.7 m normal- and grazin...
The aim of this paper is to study the use of Lambert W functions in the analysis of nonlinear dynamics and bifurcations of a new two-dimensional
In this work, we calculate the Branching Ratio (BR) of the process
Little is known about the long-term benefits of breastfeeding for mother’s metabolic health. This study aimed to investigate the links between breastfeeding duration and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components in perimeno...
Graphics processing units (GPUs) underpin high-performance computing, but device partitioning does not ensure that an in-context pointer remains within its allocation. We present a hardware–software co-design whose 16-bit tag uses odd parity an...
Objectives: Maternal obesity is associated with adverse labor induction outcomes, but real-world data stratified by the full WHO body mass index (BMI) classification and adjusted for parity remain limited. We evaluated BMI-stratified induction outcom...
13 April 2022
Background: Increasing evidence has shown that active smoking can increase the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), but the effect of passive smoking is still unknown. Women in pregnancy are vulnerable to secondhand smoke. This study explored...
Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) exposure is suggested to interfere with fetal growth. However, limited investigations considered the roles of parity and delivery on PFASs distributions and the joint effects of PFASs mixture on birth outcomes. In th...
The Spatial–Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC), namely the automatic association between smaller numbers and left space and between larger numbers and right space, is often attributed to a Mental Number Line (MNL), in which magnitu...
We analyse one-dimensional bound states of spin-zero particles coupled to external time-like vector potentials within the Feshbach–Villars representation. The study is organised around a practical criterion of physical admissibility that distin...
Photoluminescent liquid crystals with photoluminescence (PL) and liquid-crystalline (LC) properties have attracted attention as PL-switching materials owing to their thermally induced phase transitions, such as crystal → smectic A/nematic →...
Pine wilt disease, caused by the pine wood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner & Bührer) Nickle, poses a major threat to pine forests worldwide. While avermectin-based pesticides are currently used for pine wilt disease management,...
Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are widely used for graph-structured data, but graph pre-training still lacks simple structural objectives that can be applied when semantic annotations are unavailable. This paper proposes GTAP (Graph Topology-Awa...
Self-rated health is a strong health marker. Migrants have been suggested to have poorer self-rated health than non-migrants (i.e., native-born). However, little is known about whether there are disparities in self-reported health in relation to preg...
Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) provides an extremely useful description of the low-energy long-wavelength phenomena in a variety of physical systems from quark–gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions to matters in supernova, compact star...
In this study, a novel aperiodic photonic crystal (PC) structure is designed using the golden ratio-based Lucas sequence, and its infrared (IR) transmission characteristics are investigated. Transmission behavior demonstrates a strong dependence on t...
Background and Objectives: Vast data have been published recently on the association between periodontitis and preterm birth (PB). However, these studies have shown inconsistent results. Few of them were conducted in Africa, and data has not been pub...
Objective: The objective of this study was to develop and internally validate a model predicting vaginal delivery after labor induction in individuals with class III obesity, and to describe maternal and neonatal outcomes by delivery mode. Methods: T...
Background/Objectives: Sparse data exist identifying racial/ethnic outcome disparities among patients with lung cancer, specifically regarding healthcare utilization patterns, such as emergency department visits and outpatient follow-ups. We aimed to...
We investigate the effects of Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) on a scalar particle via a non-minimal coupling in the Klein–Gordon equation within the charge–parity–time CPT-odd gauge sector. Through an analytical approach, we deriv...
The enhanced hypercube is a well-known variant of the hypercube and can be constructed from a hypercube by adding an edge to every pair of vertices with complementary addresses. Let
The temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as measured today can offer key insights into the topology of the early universe prior to inflation, for example by discriminating between flat and warped geometri...
Higher-order nonlinear effects induced by electrostatic coupling, large-deflection deformation and bending stiffness substantially alter the quenching evolution of elastic membranes in practical electrostatic MEMS devices. This paper investigates a h...
There are few studies on how dairy × beef crossbred calves perform during the pre-weaning phase compared to dairy calves. This observational study evaluated birth weight, average daily gain (ADG), and disease occurrence in Angus × Holstei...
We report the synthesis, phase-transition behavior, and mesophase structures of the first homologous series of thioether-linked liquid crystal (LC) trimers, 4,4′-bis[ω-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-ylthio)alkoxy]biphenyls (CBSnOBOnSCB with a...
Defect modes in phononic crystals (PnCs) provide strongly localized resonances that are essential for frequency-dependent wave filtering and highly sensitive sensing. Their functionality increases greatly when their spectral characteristics can be ex...
Background: Zero-dose children represent a critical challenge for achieving universal immunization coverage in sub-Saharan Africa. This study applies the Three Delays Model to examine multilevel factors associated with zero-dose children. Methods: We...
Aliphatic diamines possess two amino functional groups and exhibit diverse chemical properties and tunable molecular structures. By selecting the guest [(C2H2n+4N2), n = 2–6] and host 18-crown-6, and controlling the design and assembly processe...
In search of suitable molecular candidates for probing the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the electron (
The n-dimensional enhanced hypercube
Student admission prediction is a crucial aspect of academic planning, offering insights into enrollment trends, resource allocation, and institutional growth. However, traditional methods often lack the ability to address fairness and transparency,...
Background and Objectives: Long and ineffective labor causes hardships for mothers and doctors and increases the rate of cesarean sections and medical comorbidities. Several factors contribute to effective and less painful labor, including maternal a...
Musculoskeletal injuries (MSI) continue to affect Thoroughbred racehorses internationally. There is a strong interest in developing training and management strategies to reduce their impact, however, studies of risk factors report inconsistent findin...
Background/Objectives: Maternal nutrition and physical activity are modifiable behaviours relevant to pregnancy outcomes, but higher activity may coexist with both favourable and unfavourable dietary patterns. This study examined associations between...
This study addresses fairness in machine learning for student academic performance prediction using the UCI Student Performance dataset. We comparatively evaluate logistic regression, Random Forest, and XGBoost, integrating the Synthetic Minority Ove...
Background and Objectives: The number of stillbirths has reduced more slowly than has maternal mortality or mortality in children younger than 5 years, which were explicitly targeted in the Millennium Development Goals. Placental pathologies and infe...
7 May 2018
Only few studies have focused on organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in breast milk and the related health risks for women in Taiwan. Our goal is to examine breast milk OCPs and their associations with female reproductive function (infertility, gynecolo...
Background/Objectives: Optimal birth spacing plays an important role in supporting children’s growth and nutritional outcomes. However, evidence on the long-term effects of short birth intervals on stunting from childhood to adolescence in Indo...
Vanadium compounds were identified to be beneficial for the control of glucose homeostasis. We aimed to explore the association of plasma vanadium (V) with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). We performed a case-control study including 252 newly dia...
The twin-field quantum key distribution (TF-QKD) and its variants can overcome the fundamental rate-distance limit of QKD. However, their physical implementations with the side channels remain the subject of further research. We test the side channel...
6 September 2021
Urban populations have been increasing at an alarming rate, with faster growth in urban slums than that in nonslums over the past few decades. We examine the association between slum residence and the prevalence of contraceptive use among women of re...
In this paper, we first prove (Theorem 1) that any two inputs producing the same output in a symmetric pair of discrete skew tent maps always have the same parity, meaning that they are either both even or both odd. Building on this property, we then...
As matrix representations of magic labelings of related hypergraphs, magic squares and their various variants have been applied to many domains. Among various subclasses, trimagic squares have been investigated for over a hundred years. The existence...
We study monic Hermite–Sobolev polynomials for the Gaussian weight with discrete Sobolev masses placed at conjugate purely imaginary points
Physical faults can cross error-correcting code (ECC) word boundaries even when static random-access memory (SRAM) protection remains word-local. This work proposes a bounded-residual certified post-failure recovery architecture for interleaved singl...
Objectives: To evaluate the association between antenatal betamethasone exposure and neonatal respiratory morbidity among late-preterm births. We further examined whether gestational age at delivery and the exposure-to-delivery interval modify this a...
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