Objective: Monocytes are innate immune cells that play a central role in inflammation, an essential component during neovascularization. Our recent publication demonstrated that ischemia training by 24 h unilateral occlusion of the femoral artery (FA...
The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) will cause turbulence in the pharmaceutical market and the stagnation of market liquidity, leading to a deep recession in the pharmaceutical economy. After the COVID-19 outbreak, the pharmaceutical economic recession...
The manner in which high-impact, life-saving health interventions reach populations in need is a critical dimension of health system performance. Intervention coverage has been a standard metric for such performance. To better understand and address...
The use of biocontrol agents based on endophytic bacteria against phloem-feeding insects is limited by a lack of knowledge and understanding of the mechanism of action of the endophyte community that makes up the plant microbiome. In this work, the m...
In this paper, a brief survey on the stability of differential systems with impulsive effects is provided. A large number of research results on the stability of differential systems with impulsive effects are considered. These systems include impuls...
A weapon system-of-systems (WSoS) is a higher-level system comprising various functional weapon equipment systems interconnected via mutual relationships, forming a hierarchical structure that can generate overall combat effectiveness. A critical fac...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the comparative clinical effectiveness and cost-utility of the active transcutaneous Osia® System versus the passive transcutaneous Baha® Attract System for patients with conductive or mixed hearing loss...
This paper reports the results of an investigation into system effectiveness’s role in acquiring and sustaining U.S. weapons systems from 1958 to 2022. An understanding is vital because the acquisition system has recently undergone a significan...
In today’s competitive business environment, accounting information systems (AISs) are crucial for organizations seeking to enhance decision making and improve performance. This study investigates the interplay between AIS competence, informati...
Cereal grains make up a significant part of both human and animal diets; therefore, they should meet pesticide residue standards and be characterized by the lowest possible concentrations of these residues. Known for its strong oxidizing properties,...
When South Korea develops a new city, the government has made a preliminary decision on one of two heating systems, an individual heating system (IHS) or a district heating system (DHS). However, it is still unclear which system is desirable in terms...
We investigate interaction effects of system attributes—age and volatility—and team attributes—instability and skill-diversity—on software maintenance productivity in the context of lifecycle maintenance involving multiple ser...
The capacity factor of a power plant is the ratio of generation over its potential generation. It is an important measure to describe wind and solar resources. However, the fluctuating nature of renewable power generation makes it difficult to integr...
Bone conduction hearing implant systems (BCHIs) are established treatments for patients with conductive or mixed hearing loss or single-sided deafness when conventional hearing aids are unsuitable. This study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of the a...
18 September 2019
Irrational antibiotic usage not only causes an increase in antibiotic-borne diseases, but also inflicts pain on patients, as a result of inappropriate treatment. In order to resolve the hazards caused by irrational antibiotic usage, a kind of e-healt...
As the scale of missions continues to expand, equipment support has emerged as a critical component of military combat effectiveness. Consequently, the supportability of a system of systems (SOS) for equipment has become as essential quality requirem...
Multiparty collaborative systems are created to tackle important societal challenges, yet studies that investigate the relational dynamics of such systems remain scant. Our study explores the role of distrust within and between parties, as well as id...
We investigated numerically the dynamics of quantum Fisher information (QFI) and entanglement for three- and four-level atomic systems interacting with a coherent field under the effect of Stark shift and Kerr medium. It was observed that the Stark s...
During a space mission, astronauts are inevitably exposed to space radiation, mainly composed of the particles having high values of linear energy transfer (LET), such as protons, helium nuclei, and other heavier ions. Those high-LET particles could...
11 October 2019
Background: The primary aim of the research in the present study was to determine the effectiveness of health care in classifying health care financing systems from a sample of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries (...
In levee system reliability, the length effect is the term given to the phenomenon that the longer the levee, the higher the probability that it will have a weak spot and fail. Quantitatively, it is the ratio of the segment failure probability to the...
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are a prominent component of the modern digital transformation, which combines the dynamics of the physical processes with those of software and networks. Critical infrastructures have built-in CPS, and assessing its risk...
Obesity contributes to a chronic proinflammatory state, which is a known risk factor to develop immune-mediated diseases. However, its role in systemic sclerosis (SSc) remains to be elucidated. Therefore, we conducted a two-sample mendelian randomiza...
We study the Zeeman effect on entanglement of non-equilibrium finite-spin systems with external fields using a method based on thermofield dynamics (TFD). For this purpose, the extended density matrices and extended entanglement entropies of two syst...
Under globalization conditions, the main priority of the state education policy in many countries of the world is to ensure higher education quality. This is possible through close and efficient cooperation between the state, higher education institu...
Background: When conservative management fails, patients with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) are considered for surgical treatment. Simpler, more economical and less invasive surgical techniques, such as the Remeex® system, have been developed. Ob...
The work presented here describes the first results of an effective method of assessing the quality of electrostatic separation of mixtures of polymer materials. The motivation for the research was to find an effective method of mechanical separation...
The Mpemba effect refers to the counterintuitive situation in which a system initially farther from equilibrium can relax faster than one that starts closer to it. In quantum systems, the effect is enriched by the presence of coherent dynamics, dissi...
As photovoltaics technologies have emerged as one of the most promising renewable energy resources in urban environments, monitoring and maintaining of such systems have gained significance. In order to support reliable system operation during the pr...
In classical Fourier optics, an optical imaging system is regarded as a linear space-invariant system, which is only an approximation. Especially in digital holography, the space-variance effect has a great impact on the image quality and cannot be i...
Team effectiveness models in the literature are primarily concentrated on traditional teams, with few involving the multiteam system (MTS) level of analysis in the model. Teams achieve their goals by managing both teamwork (e.g., interpersonal, effec...
Memristor-based systems can exhibit the phenomenon of extreme multi-stability, which results in the coexistence of infinitely many attractors. However, most of the recently published literature focuses on the extreme multi-stability related to memris...
The photothermal effects of lasers have played an important role in both medical laser applications and the development of cochlear implants with optical stimulation. However, there are few methods to evaluate the thermal effect of micron-sized laser...
The effective-area method is a new way to measure aperture area. It defines aperture area by directly using the beam-limiting effect of the aperture in radiometric measurement. Due to the special structure of the measurement device, it is necessary t...
A zero-gap state with a Dirac cone type energy dispersion was discovered in an organic conductor α-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 under high hydrostatic pressures. This is the first two-dimensional (2D) zero-gap state discovered in bulk crystals with a layered struct...
In this paper, a method for detecting synergistic effects of the interaction of elements in multi-element stochastic systems of separate redundancy, multi-server queuing, and statistical estimates of nonlinear recurrent relations parameters has been...
The exchange of food commodities significantly contributes to alleviating the strain on land used for agricultural production by linking areas rich in land with those facing resource limitations. This study employs the entropy weight–TOPSIS met...
The insect predator–prey system mediates several feedback mechanisms which regulate species abundance and spatial distribution. However, the spatiotemporal dynamics of such discrete systems with the refuge effect remain elusive. In this study,...
Investigations into the properties of generalized effective temperature are conducted across arbitrary dimensions. Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution is displayed for one, two, and three dimensions, with effective temperatures expressed for each di...
26 November 2024
Keratoconus is a burden to health systems and patients worldwide. Corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) treatment has been shown abroad to be cost-effective for treating progressive keratoconus. However, no cost-effectiveness studies have been performe...
A family of explicit symplectic partitioned Runge-Kutta methods are derived with effective order 3 for the numerical integration of separable Hamiltonian systems. The proposed explicit methods are more efficient than existing symplectic implicit Rung...
Soil–structure interaction (SSI) leads to a modification in the dynamic properties of structure, but due to the complexity of analysis, it is traditionally assumed in seismic designs that the structure is fixed-supported on the ground, which br...
Production agriculture has recently witnessed exponential growth in the use of UAS technology to obtain site-specific, real-time spectral reflectance data for the management of spatial and temporal variability in agricultural ecosystems. The integrat...
The Effective Mode Approximation (EMA) is a verification-oriented framework for characterizing collective Hamiltonian dynamics in large continuous-variable (CV) quantum systems from experimentally accessible collective measurements. Rather than recon...
As is known to all, a battery pack is significantly important for electric vehicles. However, its performance is easily affected by temperature. In order to address this problem, an enhanced battery thermal management system is proposed, which includ...
In the present work, we study the reliability of consecutive-k-out-of-n: G systems equipped with imperfect protection blocks that enhance the operating probability of protected components only with probability q. This stochastic effectiveness fits to...
A witness of non-Markovianity based on the Hilbert–Schmidt speed (HSS), a special type of quantum statistical speed, has been recently introduced for low-dimensional quantum systems. Such a non-Markovianity witness is particularly useful, being...
The widespread use of immunosuppressive drugs makes it possible to reduce inflammation in autoimmune diseases, as well as prevent transplant rejection in organ recipients. Despite their key action in blocking the body’s immune response, these d...
The verification of short-circuit effects is very important for ensuring the safety of equipment and power systems. Compared with that in alternating current (AC) systems, research on this issue in direct current (DC) systems is scarce, and it is urg...
Horizontal loads such as earthquake and wind are considered dominant loads for the design of tall buildings. One of the most efficient structural systems in this regard is the tube structural system. Even though such systems have a high resistance wh...
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