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The scientific assessment of the health level of county ecosystems is the basis for formulating county-based sustainable development strategies. In this paper, we take the county areas of Sichuan Province as the evaluation objects and combine the SDG...

This article analyzes the use of Remotely Piloted Aircrafts (RPA) in VOR (Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Range) flight inspection. Initially, tests were performed to check whether the Autopilot Positioning System (APS) met the regulatory require...

Human activities exert considerable influence on ecosystem health, a cornerstone for fostering sustainable regional growth, largely through their effects on land use transformations. This study integrates a system dynamics (SD) model with the patch-g...

The usage of aeronautical radio-frequency navigational aids can support the future stratospheric aviation as back-up positioning systems. Although GNSS has been extensively redundant in the last years of space operations, radio NavAids can still be s...

Accurately identifying and comprehensively managing the health of cropland systems is crucial for maintaining national food security. In this study, a more suitable framework for evaluating the health status of cropland systems in arid areas was cons...

The aim of this study is to calculate the gains of the quantified visually enhanced vestibulo-ocular reflex (qVVOR) and the quantified vestibulo-ocular reflex suppression (qVORS), using a specific system to generate a visual suppression index (SI) in...

Cultivated land resources are the material basis of sustainable agricultural development. Climate change, food security, land pollution, and other issues highlight the value of sustainable agricultural development, and the health of the cultivated la...

Alterations in neck sensory input from recurrent neck pain (known as subclinical neck pain (SCNP)) result in disordered sensorimotor integration (SMI). The cervico-ocular (COR) and vestibulo-ocular (VOR) reflexes involve various neural substrates but...

Background: Acute alcohol intake is known to cause gait instability, dizziness, and lack of psychomotor coordination. Previous studies demonstrated the positive effects of alcohol on the oculomotor system and the low-frequency vestibulo-ocular reflex...

The Suppression Head Impulse (SHIMP) test was introduced as an alternative to the Head Impulse Paradigm (HIMP) to overcome challenges in VOR gain calculation due to the interference of covert saccades. The objectives of this study were (1) to determi...

Background and Objectives: The video head impulse test is a landmark in vestibular diagnostic methods to assess the high-frequency semicircular canal system. This test is well established in the adult population with immense research since its discov...

Background/Objective: The Suppression Head Impulse Paradigm (SHIMP) is a specialized variant of the Head Impulse Test (HIT), designed to evaluate the suppression of the angular Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (aVOR) by central mechanisms. These mechanisms ar...

Assessing the health of the ecosystem based on the landscape pattern of national parks can facilitate policy makers in formulating more targeted conservation policies to better manage national park ecosystems. To analyze the landscape patterns and ch...

Healthy ecosystems are crucial for sustainable regional development. The lack of spatial distribution patterns and driving factors of ecosystem health limited ecosystem management and urban planning. Understanding the spatiotemporal variation charact...

This study analyzes the spatial and temporal dynamics of Regional Ecosystem Health (REH) in the province of Aydın, located in western Türkiye, using the Vigor–Organization–Resilience (VOR) framework. Ecosystem conditions between...

The tropospheric storm fronts were found to cause disruptions in the propagations of VHF (Very High Frequency) radio signals, elevating their signal levels. This is especially important for VHF radio navigation systems, such as VOR (VHF Omnidirection...

Background/Objectives: Dizziness and vertigo are common symptoms. Vertigo, caused by vestibular deficit, is usually diagnosed with videonystagmography (VNG) and cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP). Normative values of these examinat...

As a consequence of increasing safety concerns, camera surveillance has been widely adopted as a way to monitor public spaces. One of the major challenges of camera surveillance is to design an optimal method for camera network placement in order to...

Urban agglomerations represent the pinnacle of spatial organization for fully developed cities. Gaining insight into the ecosystem health status of urban agglomerations in various geographical and temporal settings is essential for the long-term sust...

Urban tourism has evolved into a complex adaptive system, where unregulated expansion disrupts the ecological balance and intensifies resource stress. Understanding the dynamic evolution and resilience mechanisms of the tourism ecological health netw...

Investigating the spatiotemporal distribution patterns of regional ecosystem health and the methods for optimizing their zoning is essential for enhancing ecosystem management and sustainable development. This study takes Fujian Province, a pivotal f...

The health status of ecosystems is an important prerequisite for ensuring regional ecological security. Exploring the spatiotemporal patterns, driving mechanisms, and zoning regulation pathways of ecosystem health is of great significance for achievi...

(1) Background. Patients with bilateral vestibular disease (BVD) experience oscillopsia with a detriment to visual acuity (VA). This VA is driven mainly by the VOR that has two components: rotational and translational. VA can be tested by using dynam...

Exploring the assessment methods and multi-scale spatiotemporal interaction characteristics of ecosystem health is of great significance for current ecosystem health theory and application research. Based on the regional differentiation theory and ec...

Increased blood pressure (BP), vascular dysfunction and inflammation are involved in the etiology of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although several dietary components such as polyphenols and L-citrulline may help to control BP, their combined impact...

Fluorinated heterocycles are important building blocks in pharmaceutical, agrochemical and material sciences. Therefore, organofluorine chemistry has witnessed high interest in the development of efficient methods for the introduction of emergent flu...

Circulating levels of lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) and soluble cluster of differentiation 14 (sCD14) are recognized as clinical markers of endotoxemia. In obese men, postprandial endotoxemia is modulated by the amount of fat ingested, bei...

(1) Background: Subclinical neck pain is mild-to-moderate neck pain that has not yet been treated, and where individuals experience pain-free days. Alterations in sensorimotor integration, motor control, proprioception, and cerebellar inhibition have...

Voriconazole (VOR) hydrochloride is unequivocally converted into VOR lactates and valinates upon reaction with silver salts of organic acids. This study found that the anticandidal in vitro activity of these compounds was comparable or slightly bette...

Vortioxetine (VOR) is recognized to exert antidepressant actions. However, whether this drug modifies ionic currents in excitable cells remains unclear. The aim of this study was to explore the electrophysiological effects of VOR and other related co...

Monitoring the ecosystem health for world natural heritage sites is essential for protecting them and benefits the formulation of more targeted protection policies. This study used Bayanbulak world natural heritage site as a case, established a frame...

The concept of ecosystem health (EH), proposed in the 1980s [...]

To analyze the influence of age and cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) in the evolution of vestibular neuritis (VN). Methods: Retrospective cohort study. VN-diagnosed patients were included and divided into two groups: those with and without CVRFs....

Oxytocin (OT), traditionally associated with reproduction and social bonding, has emerged as a key modulator of gastrointestinal (GI) physiology and appetite regulation behavior through its actions within the gut–brain axis. Central to this reg...

Throughout the history of civil aviation, radio navigation aids have played a crucial role in ensuring the safety and continuity of air transportation. Although the development of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) over the past half-century...

Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most prevalent autoimmune neurological condition in the world, leading to a wide variety of symptoms, including balance disorders. Objective: To evaluate the angular vestibulo–ocular reflex (aVOR) of a...

An improved understanding of the environmental factors influencing tropical cyclones (TCs) is vital to enhance the accuracy of forecasting TC intensity. More than half of TCs that were substantially affected by environmental factors were predominantl...

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Vestibular neuritis (VN) is one of the most common causes of acute vestibular syndrome (AVS). Quantifying the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) gain by the video Head Impulse Test (vHIT) could provide useful information to diagnose VN. This study aims to...

Background: The impact of dance training on brainstem-mediated vestibular reflexes remains unclear. This study examined the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and its suppression during high-speed head movements, which may closely resemble the head-turnin...

A new voltammetry method for the highly sensitive antidepressant drug vortioxetine (VOR) is presented using glassy carbon electrodes modified with hierarchical carbon nanofibers with NiCo nanoparticles (eCNF/CNT/NiCo-GCE). The electrochemical behavio...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) gain and the saccade regrouping pattern PR score of the Video Head Impulse Test (vHIT) and its relationship with the slow-phase velocity (SPV) of skull vibration-induced nystagmu...

Vortioxetine (VOR) is a new antidepressant drug used to treat major depressive disorder. In this work, a novel, simple, rapid, accurate, precise, selective, stability-indicating, and fully validated high-performance liquid chromatography method with...

The relationship between depression and insomnia is bidirectional and both conditions need to be treated adequately, especially in a vulnerable neurodevelopmental stage of adolescence. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of antidepressant treatm...

In children with profound deafness, bilateral cochlear implant (CI) is an effective, established procedure. However, its safety on vestibular function has recently been debated. The goal of this study is to evaluate the long-term lateral semicircular...

Posterior semicircular canal dehiscence (PSCD) has been demonstrated to result in a third mobile window mechanism (TMWM) in the inner ear similar to superior semicircular canal dehiscence (SSCD). Typical clinical and instrumental features of TMWM, in...

Background/Objectives: The most frequent neurologic cause of recurrent vertigo is vestibular migraine (VM). However, its diagnosis relies primarily on patients’ histories, as specific diagnostic tests for VM are currently lacking. We aimed to e...

This study aims to assess oculomotor and vestibular endurance by utilizing the Oculomotor and Vestibular Endurance Screening (MoVES) assessment in athletes’ pre-season and post-season and after a suspected head injury to detect impairment. Athl...

The treatment of fungal bone infections and infected non-unions is a huge challenge in modern trauma and orthopedics, which normally contain the local and systemic administration of anti-fungal drugs. Although frequently used, little is known about t...

Background/Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the feasibility of the angular vestibulo-ocular reflex (aVOR) function assessment in children with cerebral palsy (CP) using the video Head Impulse Test (vHIT) and to investigate how vestibular impai...