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As technology continues to develop, children are spending more time in front of screens, which can lead to significant problems. For children aged 5 years and above, screen time of 2 or more hours per day on average is considered problematic. This st...

This study aimed to investigate the association between child development, daily habits, and ultra-processed food consumption with screen exposure in 4-year-old children. A cross-sectional study was conducted using a questionnaire that included socio...

Vibrating flip-flow screens are widely employed in the deep screening processes of coal washing, solid waste treatment, metallurgy, and other fields, playing a crucial role in enhancing product quality and production efficiency. The screen surface an...

This work describes a new procedure aimed to semi-automatically identify clusters of active persistent scatterers and preliminarily associate them with different potential types of deformational processes over wide areas. This procedure consists of t...

During the assembly process, there are inevitable variations and noise factors in the material properties, process parameters and screening scheme, which may affect the quality of the product. Using the stress-strength model, an evaluated screening s...

The Internet Process Addiction Test (IPAT) was created to screen for potential addictive behaviors that could be facilitated by the internet. The IPAT was created with the mindset that the term “Internet addiction” is structurally problematic, as the...

In coal dry screening, online detection for screening efficiency is a significant challenge. Notwithstanding, the method of image processing is strenuous to implement in this field due to the complex surface texture of shattered coal. This method ide...

The proteolytic processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) is a core pathological event in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis, yet the global genetic regulatory networks modulating this process have not been fully characterized. To sy...

The effect of a controlled oxygen admixture to a plasma nitrocarburizing process using active screen technology and an active screen made of carbon was investigated to control the carburizing potential within the plasma-assisted process. Laser absorp...

Background/Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of undiagnosed hearing impairment or central auditory processing disorders in children from I and VIII grades of primary schools in Warsaw. Methods: The participants in the st...

Maize, the most important cereal crop worldwide, is moderately sensitive to salt stress. Given the challenges of soil salinization, developing methods to screen and cultivate salt-tolerant maize varieties is vital for enhancing food security. Among t...

Youth excessive screen time and mental health challenges continue to be a public health concern. Guided by a social cognitive theoretical framework, this study explored the utility of using natural language processing (NLP) topic modeling and qualita...

Internal discontinuities in concrete walls are hidden conditions that can compromise local structural capacity and durability. Rapid and objective on-site anomaly screening is therefore important for structural integrity evaluation. This paper presen...

Although the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) is one of the most widely used instruments for assessing psychopathic traits, the reliability estimates of the APSD show great heterogeneity across different studies. This investigation evaluate...

During the last few decades, major advances have been made in photovoltaic systems based on Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ chalcopyrite. However, the most efficient photovoltaic cells are processed under high-energy-demanding vacuum conditions. To lower the costs and...

Background/Objectives: The mediating role of the diverse range of screen-based sedentary behaviors (SBs) remains understudied, particularly at younger ages. The present study examined the direct and indirect effects of parental BMI and education on u...

A multi-objective grasshopper optimization algorithm (MOGOA) with an adaptive curve c(t) and the enhanced Levy fight strategy (CLMOGOA) was proposed to optimize the process parameters of rotary screen coating, setting the thickness and uniformity of...

Chikungunya virus, a member of the Alphavirus genus, continues to present a global health challenge due to its widespread occurrence and the absence of specific antiviral therapies. Accurate detection of viral infections, such as chikungunya, is crit...

Background: Malnutrition is prevalent among older adults (OAs), ≥65 years, receiving home care services. Despite recommendations for early detection and multifactorial interventions, a gap remains between routine practice and evidence. We therefor...

Background/Objectives: Superficial oral mucosal (SOM) lesions are prevalent among patients with Sjögren’s disease (SjD) due to mucosal dryness. Given the limited evidence on screening and referral for SOMs, and the presence of relevant inf...

V-shaped riblets are widely studied shark-skin-inspired microstructures, but their continuous high-fidelity replication on soft hyperelastic substrates remains challenging because large substrate deformation complicates complete profile filling. This...

Decision-makers need to make choices to improve public health. Population-based newborn screening (NBS) is considered as one strategy to prevent adverse health outcomes and address rare disease patients’ needs. The aim of this study was to describe k...

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the Screening Robust Estimation Method (SREM) for normal processes in Phase I. Particular emphasis is placed on the exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart, which is employed in the ret...

Newborn bloodspot screening (NBS) has expanded in scope owing to technological advances and the development of novel therapies. In Japan, coverage of standard NBS is nearly 100%; however, uptake of expanded newborn bloodspot screening (eNBS), which h...

Industrial control of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from medium-density fibreboard (MDF) production remains constrained by a shortage of compound-resolved evidence from full-scale plants, where wood furnish, amino resin chemistry, heat tr...

With the rapid development of China’s livestock industry, the demand for protein feed has concomitantly increased, underscoring the importance of developing and utilizing new types of feed. As a novel and unconventional protein source, fermente...

Screening for cervical cancer is a critical policy that requires clinical and managerial vigilance because of its serious health consequences. Recently the practice of conducting simultaneous tests of cytology and Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-DNA testi...

In the framework of the industry of secondary aluminum, the chemical neutralization of highly reactive materials that come from the pre-treatment screening processes of scraps (beverage cans and domestic appliances) was investigated through experimen...

The screen-cam process, which is taking pictures of the content displayed on a screen with mobile phones or cameras, is one of the main ways that image information is leaked. However, traditional image watermarking methods are not resilient to screen...

Hot-melt extrusion (HME) is used for the production of solid protein formulations mainly for two reasons: increased protein stability in solid state and/or long-term release systems (e.g., protein-loaded implants). However, HME requires considerable...

The main task of mineral processing plants is to further process the raw material extracted in the mining faces into a concentrate with the highest possible concentration of the final product. In practice, it is a complex process in which several sta...

High-energy ball milling (HEBM) offers a pathway for the green preparation of multifunctional coatings. However, existing research lacks systematic frameworks addressing the interplay of HEBM process parameters, elemental screening criteria, and coat...

A high-throughput (HT) screening platform developed at hte with the application focus on automotive catalysis is described. hte HT units are configured for performing steady-state testing, as well as dynamic tests with fast feed switches, such as lea...

This study investigated Rhodamine B (RhB) degradation by electro-Fenton (EF), anodic oxidation (AO), and their combination (EF/AO), using a carbon felt cathode coupled to a sub-stoichiometric titanium dioxide Magnéli phase (Ti₄O₇) anode or a p...

The experimental approach to the fabrication of flexible anisotropic magnetoresistive (AMR) sensors for magnetic field detection in the mT range is validated. It is based upon a combination of screen printing with high-power diode laser array post-pr...

In light of frequently occurring wellbore instability such as wellbore collapse and sand production that often occur in drilling and the completion of shale oil and gas development, we propose one-run shape memory thermosensitive screen technology th...

Increasing wastewater treatment efficiency is a primary aim in the circular economy. Wastewater physicochemical and biochemical processes are quite complex, often requiring a combination of statistical and machine learning tools to empirically model...

Screen-printed graphene layers on flexible substrates are one of the most advanced printed electronics developments of recent years. Obtaining thin, flexible, highly conductive components, whose applications are increasingly directed towards biomedic...

Serra da Estrela protected designation of origin (PDO) cheese is manufactured with raw milk from Bordaleira and/or Churra Mondegueira da Serra da Estrela sheep breeds. Several socio-environmental shortcomings have reduced production capacity; hence,...

The valorization and dissolution of lignin using ionic liquids (ILs) is critical for developing sustainable biorefineries and a circular bioeconomy. This review aims to critically assess the current state of computational and machine learning methods...

Artificial intelligence techniques are now being applied in different medical solutions ranging from disease screening to activity recognition and computer-aided diagnosis. The combination of computer science methods and medical knowledge facilitates...

Background: In Ontario, an online audit and feedback tool that provides primary care physicians with detailed information about patients who are overdue for cancer screening is underused. In the present study, we aimed to examine the effect of messag...

Within the context of the new circular model for wastewater treatment aimed at achieving zero waste, this research seeks an alternative to landfill disposal of waste screenings. It examines the feasibility of thermochemical processes—combustion...

There are some processing problems of imbalanced data such as imbalanced data sets being difficult to integrate efficiently. This paper proposes and constructs a mixed penalty function data integration screening criterion, and proposes Differential E...

Coandă effect screen structures are used to protect hydropower turbines in mountainous regions from impurities of different sizes. To save time during the design phase, computational fluid dynamics simulations (CFD) can support experimental inve...

This paper proposes a joint encryption and screen-cam robust watermarking scheme. This method combines the advantages of smartphone, encryption and watermarking technologies, thereby achieving watermark extraction with a smartphone, partial decryptio...

Speech impairment analysis and processing technologies have evolved substantially in recent years, and the use of voice as a biomarker has gained popularity. We have developed an approach for clinical speech signal processing to demonstrate the promi...

This paper considers a field with high-viscosity oil in a terrigenous weakly consolidated reservoir (sandstone) with a massive gas cap and an aquifer. The major challenge in the field operation is the migration of solid sand particles into the well,...

High-throughput screenings are established evaluation methods in the development of functional materials and pharmaceutical active ingredients. The transfer of this approach to the development of structural materials requires extensive adaptations. I...

Niobium can concentrate in TiCl₄ wet scrubber slurry during molten-salt chlorination of ilmenite-derived titanium slag. This study presents an engineering assessment using published Nb-routing data, characterization of an isolated slurry solid, HSC C...