Personalized education aims to provide cooperative and exploratory courses for students by using computer and network technology to construct a more effective cooperative learning mode, thus improving students’ cooperation ability and lifelong...
The Paralympics is a world-class sports event that inspires and impresses people around the world, of which athletics is the most medal-competitive event in the Paralympics, with more than 130 countries participating. This study aims to provide basel...
Background and Objectives: While laparoscopic appendectomy is standardized, techniques for appendiceal stump closure and mesoappendix division remain variable. Novel vessel sealing techniques are increasingly utilized ubiquitously. We sought to syste...
Background/Objectives: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer diagnoses and deaths in the United States. This study serves as an update on secular trends in national HCC incidence rates while exploring potential geographic and ra...
9 January 2023
It is known that occupational exposure to specific agents is associated with leukemia. However, whether the occupational risks of leukemia differ among various industrial groups remains unclear. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to elucidate t...
Collatz dynamic systems present a statistical space that can be studied rigorously. In a previous study, the author presented Collatz space in a unique dynamic numerical mode by tabulating a sequential correlation pattern of division by 2 of Collatz...
Objective: We aimed to look for the mortality of Black and White Neonates and compare the Black and White neonates’ mortalities after stratifying the population by many significant epidemiologic and hospital factors. Design/Method: We utilized...
Background: Sports supplements (SSs) are widely used among team sport athletes; however, evidence supporting the use of SSs among football referees at the elite level is scarce. The aim of the present study was to analyze the consumption of SSs among...
In image classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs), the number of parameters in pointwise convolutions rapidly grows due to the multiplication of the number of filters by the number of input channels that come from the previous l...
13 September 2018
For decades, professional divisions have been represented as the main structural divisions in Western medicine throughout the world. In Taiwan, medical policymakers are also interested in designing professional divisions of traditional Chinese medici...
10 February 2023
Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze Slovenian data on sick leave (SL) due to the most common work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among workers in sector I “accommodation and food services activities” from the NACE R...
This study investigated relationships that linear speed and lower-body power have on change-of-direction (COD) speed in collegiate women soccer players. Data from two Division I (n = 39) and one Division II (n = 18) schools were analyzed. Subjects we...
Violence against women on college campuses continues to be a pervasive public health problem with approximately one in five women experiencing sexual assault and one in nine women experiencing rape while in college. The current study examined relatio...
Studies focusing on molecular mechanisms of cell cycles have been lagging in unicellular eukaryotes compared to other groups. Ciliates, a group of unicellular eukaryotes, have complex cell division cycles characterized by multiple events. During thei...
To date, few data have been accumulated on the contribution of meiotic restitution to the formation of Triticum aestivum hybrid karyotypes. In this study, based on FISH and C-banding, karyotype reorganization was observed in three groups of F5 wheat–...
Background and objectives: Heat-related illness (HRI) can have significant morbidity and mortality consequences. Research has predominately focused on HRI in the emergency department, yet health care leading up to hospital arrival can impact patient...
This study examines spatial knowledge of the local community and the participatory resource mapping (PRM) approach to demarcate land boundaries in the eastern boundary of Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has four types of major administra...
Body composition is an important factor in a soccer player’s performance, and anthropometry is one of the most widely used methods of measurement. The physical demands of Spanish soccer have evolved over time, so the ideal body composition requ...
In Hawaiʻi, native macroalgae or “limu” are of ecological, cultural, and economic value. Invasive algae threaten native macroalgae and coral, which serve a key role in the reef ecosystem. Spectroscopy can be a valuable tool for speci...
The continuous biomonitoring of a population directly or indirectly exposed to pesticides could be an additional tool for decision makers to improve their health conditions. In this work, we performed biomonitoring on two groups of people from the Me...
The main objective of this study was to determine the impact of increased demand for peregrine falcons via breeding (mainly Polish, Czech, German and Slovak) on the genetic structure of the birds. In the analysis, 374 specimens from six countries wer...
Graph learning methods, especially graph convolutional networks, have been investigated for their potential applicability in many fields of study based on topological data. Their topological data processing capabilities have proven to be powerful. Ho...
The Scribble polarity module is composed by Scribble (Scrib), Discs large 1 (Dlg1) and Lethal (2) giant larvae (L(2)gl), a group of highly conserved neoplastic tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) from flies to humans. Even though the Scribble module has be...
Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in children. Treatment with surgery, irradiation, and chemotherapy has improved survival in recent years, but patients are frequently left with devastating neurocognitive and other sequelae. Pa...
(1) Background—The aim of the present study was to evaluate the correlation between the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) osseous morphology of normal skeletal pattern individuals with different dental malocclusions by using cone-beam computed tomography...
This study aimed to evaluate and compare the dentoalveolar effects of the myofunctional trainer T4KTM versus twin block in children with class II division I malocclusion. Two parallel arm randomized comparative clinical trial was conducted, including...
Relative Age Effects (RAEs) are a phenomenon in athletics related to an over-representation of individuals born closer to an arbitrary cutoff date. Such effects have been shown in many different countries, levels of play, and contexts, although they...
The present study aimed to revise the subgeneric divisions of the genus Bryobia based on persistent characteristics and to propose species groups in each subgenus to further ease the identification of species. As a result, only three subgenera, based...
FtsZ is an essential bacterial protein abundantly studied as a novel and promising target for antimicrobials. FtsZ is highly conserved among bacteria and mycobacteria, and it is crucial for the correct outcome of the cell division process, as it is r...
The main objective of this study was to examine the role and existence of internal control and accountability in NGOs of Buea Sub-division Cameroon. The study fol-lowed these research questions: What are the main concerns of governance in NGOs in the...
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between craniocervical posture and skeletal malocclusion patterns in adolescents. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 80 adolescents aged 10–15 years diagnosed with skeletal Clas...
Aminoethers of boric acid (AEBA) were studied as potential extractants for the separation of aqueous–alcoholic azeotropic mixtures by extractive distillation. The conditions of vapor–liquid equilibrium in aqueous solutions of ethanol and...
Accelerating the development of the digital economy is the way to build a modern industrial system and promote sustainable development. In order to accurately analyze the development status of China’s digital economy, this study introduced a te...
Power-concentrated EMU trains have the advantages of being fast and comfortable, having a flexible formation and a short turn-back time, and so on. They can effectively release the transportation capacity of tense lines and hubs (the replacement of c...
Ciliates form a distinct group of single-celled eukaryotes that host two types of nuclei (micro and macronucleus) in the same cytoplasm and have a special sexual process known as conjugation, which involves mitosis, meiosis, fertilization, nuclear di...
We studied the Japanese dialect by calculating aggregated PMI Levenshtein distances among local Japanese dialects using data from 2400 locations and 141 items from the Linguistic Atlas of Japan Database (LAJDB). Through factor analysis, we found the...
In order to achieve optimal performance, endurance athletes need to implement a variety of recovery strategies that are specific to their training and competition. Recovery is a multidimensional process involving physiological, psychological, emotion...
Massive online reviews provide consumers with the convenience of obtaining product information, but it is still worth exploring how to provide consumers with useful and reliable product rankings. The existing ranking methods do not fully mine user in...
The aim of the study was to verify the hypothesis that a potential cause of the phytotoxicity of diclofenac (DCF, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug) is an effect of cell cycle progression. This research was conducted using synchronous cultures o...
Low density signature orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (LDS-OFDM), one type of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), is a special case of multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA). In LDS-OFDM, each user is allowed to spread it...
Cryptic species are morphologically indistinguishable but possess genetically distinct taxa. Alternative splicing (AS) regulates physiological processes, thereby facilitating ecological adaptation and evolution. To explore the sex-specific difference...
Division of labour, or the differentiation of the individuals in a collective across tasks, is a fundamental aspect of social organisations, such as social insect colonies. It allows for efficient resource use and improves the chances of survival for...
In the existing studies devoted to predicting bankruptcy, the authors of such models only used book measures. Considering the fact that the evolution of corporate measure efficiency (in addition to book measures) brought into existence and exposed th...
The ecological effects of intermittent water supplement in Lake Baiyangdian were analyzed with an NDVI time series based on the data from 1 April 1998 to 31 July 2008. Four NDVI categories were extracted, and twelve stages were grouped based on the s...
In the context of digital twins, smart city construction and artificial intelligence technology are developing rapidly, and more and more mobile robots are performing tasks in complex and time-varying indoor environments, making, at present, the unif...
Food sharing can occur in both social and non-social species, but it is crucial in eusocial species, in which only some group members collect food. This food collection and the intranidal (i.e., inside the nest) food distribution through trophallacti...
Agricultural technology is key to ensuring food security. Innovation in agricultural technology plays a vital role in increasing national food production. Collaborative innovation has become an essential form of technological innovation in the new er...
Background/Objectives: The present study aimed to examine the branching pattern images of the Hepatis Portae Vena (HPV), which is one of the vascular structures of the liver, with Computed Tomography (CT), and to uncover the surgical and radiological...
Wherever there is group life, there has been a social division of labor and resource allocation, since ancient times. Examples include ant colonies, bee colonies, and wolf colonies. Different roles are responsible for different tasks. The same is tru...
The filamenting temperature-sensitive Z proteins (FtsZs) play an important role in plastid division. In this study, three FtsZ genes were isolated from the cassava genome, and named MeFtsZ1, MeFtsZ2-1, and MeFtsZ2-2, respectively. Based on phylogeny,...
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