A hydraulic in-situ support system is commonly used in the optical testing of mirrors, since it is convenient to unload the gravity of a mirror to be measured without the risk of being turned over or moved to another place. The existing supporting st...
Background/Objectives: Supporting families during end-of-life care in intensive care units is clinically, emotionally, and ethically demanding, and nurses’ experiences of this work in Saudi Arabian intensive care settings remain underexplored....
Background: Psychological and spiritual support is crucial, especially in challenging life situations, trials, and when facing the unimaginable distress experienced by parents of premature babies in the intensive care unit. This scoping review aims t...
Background/Objectives: Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) at discharge from neonatal units is influenced by maternal, neonatal, and healthcare-related factors. Structured breastfeeding support may improve outcomes. This study aimed to assess the impact of...
The 3-in-1 electric drive unit (EDU) has the advantage of increasing the motor size for a larger output, and the reducer can be a compact layout designed to incorporate three key components—the drive motor, inverter, and reducer—into a si...
Insulating glass units (IGUs) are the most common filling for external building envelopes. These elements have many advantages related to the thermal protection of buildings. However, some climatic loads are generated or modified due to the sealed ga...
Advances achieved in recent decades regarding cardiac surgery have revealed a new risk that goes beyond surgeons’ dexterity; post-operative hours are crucial in these patients and are usually spent at intensive care units (ICUs), where they need to b...
The advances achieved in recent decades regarding cardiac surgery have led to a new risk that goes beyond surgeons’ dexterity; postoperative hours are crucial for cardiac surgery patients and are usually spent in intensive care units (ICUs), where th...
Objective: Based on the Person-Centered Approach, this study targeted parents of very preterm (VPT) infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) from Italy and Portugal. The primary aim was to classify parents by identifying latent classes of per...
Prepubescent children and young adolescents (ages 7–14) are in a critical developmental stage for establishing the foundations of healthy sexual behavior. Increasing rates of precocious puberty, combined with limited access to accurate and age-...
Introduction: Support groups in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are beneficial to parents. The usefulness of prenatal support groups for prospective parents who will have a newborn requiring admission to the NICU has never been investigated. Me...
Mothers of infants hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are at a high risk for psychological distress, which is of concern to health and social professionals due to the negative implications for mothers and infants. A model for exp...
Accurate forecasting of electric vehicle (EV) power consumption per unit mileage serves as the cornerstone for determining diurnal variations in EV charging loads. To enhance the prediction accuracy of EV power consumption per unit mileage, this pape...
Occupational burnout among Critical Care Unit (CCU) staff is a pressing issue, yet the relationship between parental burnout and this high-demand professional domain remains underexplored. Thus, this study aimed to analyze the association between par...
To improve the identification accuracy of the vibration states of hydraulic units, an improved artificial rabbits optimization algorithm (IARO) adopting an adaptive weight adjustment strategy is developed for optimizing the support vector machine (SV...
Hydraulic support (Hs) is an important support equipment in coal mining. With the continuous increase in coal mining intensity, stricter technical specifications have been put forward for the effectiveness of Hs. Hs is always in a dynamic coupling st...
Formulating a reasonable and feasible unit maintenance scheme is a promising way to eliminate potential risks and improve the reliability of power systems. However, the uncertainty and volatility of new energy outputs, such as wind power, increase th...
Violence against women remains prevalent, yet many survivors do not engage with services even where health infrastructure exists. This study investigated the role of institution-facing resources, Institutional Trust (ITR) and Procedural Justice (PJ),...
Background: Clinicians working with children with neuromotor impairments require sensitive measures to assess postural control and evaluate interventions. This study explored the sensitivity of a single Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to changes in p...
Phasor measurement units (PMUs) are a key part of electrical power systems, providing the dynamic monitoring and control of electrical units and impacting overall operation and synchronization of a network if not properly designed. This paper investi...
The aim of this study was to investigate the causal relations between COVID-19 economic supports and Bitcoin markets. For this purpose, we first determined the degree of the integration of variables by implementing Fourier Augmented Dickey–Full...
To measure the support attitude of hydraulic support, a support attitude sensing system composed of an inertial measurement unit with microelectromechanical system (MEMS) was designed in this study. Yaw angle estimation with magnetometers is disturbe...
Background and Objectives: Palliative care is an interdisciplinary medical specialty focused on improving the quality of life of critically ill patients, including those with frailty, during their illness. Materials and Methods: We conducted an exten...
With the continuous increase in the installed capacity of new energy systems, the impact of power shocks on grid frequency is becoming more significant, seriously affecting the stability of the grid and thermal power units. For this reason, a mixed v...
Objectives: To compare artificial intelligence (AI) crown design with expert or non-AI computer-aided (CAD) design for single-unit tooth and implant-supported crowns across efficiency, marginal and internal fit, morphology and occlusion, and mechanic...
Hidden frame glass curtain walls are one of the most common curtain wall structure forms. This year, the damage identification of panel elements based on vibration has had the problem of an inconsistent calculation model. In this paper, an experiment...
Cities are producers of high quantities of secondary liquid and solid streams that are still poorly utilized within urban systems. In order to tackle this issue, there has been an ever-growing push for more efficient resource management and waste pre...
While there have been important advances within wireless communication technology, the provision of communication support during disaster relief activities remains an open issue. The literature in disaster research reports several major restrictions...
The increasing size and weight of deep-water topside modules necessitate reliable and efficient installation methods. The twin-barge float-over technique presents a viable alternative to conventional heavy-lift operations; however, its critical tri-v...
The precise calculation and effective control of the horizontal displacement of deep foundation pit retaining structures are critical for foundation pit support design and construction. Based on stress–strain linear elastomer theory and conside...
In an era when many water systems worldwide are experiencing water stress regarding water quantity and quality, water reuse has received growing attention as one of the most promising integrated mitigating solutions. Nevertheless, the plethora of tec...
It is of critical importance to keep a steady operation in the blast furnace to facilitate the production of high quality hot metal. In order to monitor the state of blast furnace, this article proposes a fault detection and identification method bas...
Breastfeeding provides the ideal nutrition in infancy, and its benefits extend to the health of mothers. Psychosocial factors such as the intention to breastfeed, self-efficacy, or maternal confidence to breastfeed have been shown to impact breastfee...
Stormwater runoff is often contaminated by human activities. Stormwater discharge into water bodies significantly contributes to environmental pollution. The choice of suitable treatment technologies is dependent on the pollutant concentrations. Wa...
Background and Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate patients’ experiences in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting and investigate whether there was a correlation between these experiences and their nutritional status. Materials and Methods...
Background and Objectives: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major challenge, particularly in intensive care units, where broad-spectrum therapy is often initiated before microbiological confirmation. Artificial intelligence (AI) may improve AMR pr...
Most cases of COVID-19 in children and adolescents are mild or asymptomatic, but a small number of individuals may develop severe disease, requiring PICU admission and/or mechanical ventilation. We assessed the factors associated with negative short-...
The maximization of output from variable renewable energy (VRE) sources considering system operational constraints (SOCs) is a traditional method for maximizing VRE generators’ profits. However, in wholesale electricity markets, VRE participation ten...
Background: Rescue service interventions for patients with behavioral disorders are quite common. The aim of this study is to analyze interventions of Polish State Fire Service units in incidents involving health threats to victims with behavioral di...
Respiratory disorders remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality in neonatal intensive care units, particularly among preterm infants. Advances in physiological monitoring, medical imaging, and electronic health records have enabled the growing...
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Background: The aging of the United States population poses significant challenges to American healthcare and informal caregiving systems. Additional research is needed to understand how health promotion programs and policies based on a socio-ecologi...
The rapid development of direct current (DC) grids poses significant challenges to the speed, reliability, and selectivity of fault protection systems. These systems are required to identify and distinguish between internal and external faults despit...
Overfeeding, currently defined as providing excessive energy and nutrients beyond metabolic requirements, is a common yet often overlooked issue in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. Understanding the factors contributing to overfeeding and imple...
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(1) Background: A United States national policy advisory group (PAG) was convened to identify barriers and facilitators to expand formal long-term services and support (LTSS) for people living alone with cognitive impairment (PLACI), with a focus on...
Lameness detection in horses is a critical challenge in equine veterinary practice, particularly when symptoms are mild. This study aimed to develop a predictive system using a support vector machine (SVM) to identify the affected limb in horses trot...
This research presents the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) for classification of frogs in symmetry of the bioacoustics spectral by using the feedforward neural network approach (FNNA) and support vector machine (SVM). Recently, the sym...
Background/Objectives: Digitalization of intensive care units (ICUs) aims to enhance patient safety and efficiency through standardized documentation, real-time data integration, and clinical decision support. This study evaluated whether the impleme...
Background/Objectives: Contemporary cardiovascular critical care is increasingly shaped by advanced technologies, prognostic uncertainty, and time-sensitive decisions regarding mechanical circulatory support, treatment limitation, device management,...
Cognitive radio networks are vulnerable to numerous threats during spectrum sensing. Different approaches can be used to lessen these attacks as the malicious users degrade the performance of the network. The cutting-edge technologies of machine lear...
This paper presents the application of support vector regression (SVR) and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) models that are amalgamated with synchronized phasor measurements for on-line voltage stability assessment. As the performance of...
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