Health as the Main Value of Life in the Well-Wishes of the Mongolian peoples by Evdokia E. Khabunova, Ludmila S. Dampilova, Balzira V. Elbikova

“…The aim of the study is to determine the nature of the implementation of the motif “health” in well-wishes of Buryats, Kalmyks, Mongols and Xinjiang Oirats, to consider the basis of general formulas — wishes aimed at ensuring strong health to a person from the moment of his birth, at his speedy and painless socialization, at his ability to work and usefulness for the family, clan and state. …”
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Eagle Syndrome - the issue of an elongated styloid process. A literature review by Martyna Brzoza, Bartosz Dubniański, Julia Stawińska-Dudek, Wiktoria Józefowicz, Damian Machaj

“…The state of knowledge: Eagle Syndrome is a condition which manifests either by an elongated styloid process or ossification of the stylohyoid ligaments which interfere with adjacent anatomical structures resulting in many different, often nonspecific, symptoms such as, for example, limited ability of jaw opening, increased salivary flow, foreign body sensation in pharynx as well as tinnitus. …”
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Digital business strategy of enterprise and its components by Liubov Lipych

“…The digital world is characterized by the following ways of increasing the effect of scale: the ability to dynamically and flexibly change, network effects from the use of multi-vector digital platforms, the use of diverse, distributed information from different sources, participation in alliances and partner programs. …”
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Distinguishing glioblastoma from brain metastasis; a systematic review and meta-analysis on the performance of machine learning by Mohammad Amin Habibi, Reza Omid, Shafaq Asgarzade, Sadaf Derakhshandeh, Ali Soltani Farsani, Zohreh Tajabadi

“…The ROC curve area was 0.90, indicating high discriminative ability. The positive likelihood ratio was 6.2, and the negative likelihood ratio was 0.20, providing helpful information on how test results modified pretest probability. …”
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USE OF GEOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN DISTANCE LEARNING OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN GEOGRAPHY by Vasyl V. Leta, Mykola M. Karabiniuk, Mykhailo M. Mykyta, Mykhailo M. Kachailo

“…The absolute advantages of this studying format for teachers are the ability to freely choose the necessary materials, academic mobility and a fundamentally new educational space. …”
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Sporoderm-Removed Spore Powder May Suppress the Proliferation, Migration, and Invasion of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells Through PI3K/AKT/mTOR and Erk Pathway by Jingyan Liu Master degree, Tao Zeng Doctor degree

“…The clone formation assay was used to evaluate to the proliferation ability of KYSE140 and KYSE510 cells. Apoptosis and the cell cycle were analyzed by flow cytometry. …”
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The Influence of Mode-of-Injury on Psychological Readiness for Return-To-Sport Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Matched-Controlled Study by Jenifer Presley, Lane Bailey, Kevin Maloney, Brian Duncan, Mathew Reid, Christopher Juneau, Walter R Lowe

“…# Background Self-efficacy and fear of re-injury have been documented as factors related to an athlete’s ability to return-to-sport after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. …”
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Evaluation of the performance of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) in detection of chlamydia and gonorrhoea infection in vaginal specimens relative to patient infection stat... by Minttu M Rönn, Louise Mc Grath-Lone, Bethan Davies, Janet D Wilson, Helen Ward

“…Objective We evaluated the performance of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) using vaginal specimens in comparison to specimens from the cervix or urine in their ability to detect chlamydia and gonorrhoea infection in women based on patient infection status (PIS).Design Systematic review.Data sources EMBASE and Ovid MEDLINE databases were searched through 3 October 2017.Eligibility criteria for selecting studies We included studies that tested samples from the vagina and ≥1 other site (cervix and/or urine) with ≥2 NAATs for chlamydia and ≥2 NAATs or 1 NAAT and culture for gonorrhoea for each site.Data extraction and synthesis Performance is defined as the sensitivity of a NAAT using a specimen site and PIS of the patient. …”
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Task-Driven Neurophysiological qEEG Baseline Performance Capabilities in Healthy, Uninjured Division-I College Athletes. by Robert E. Mangine, Thomas G. Palmer, James A. Tersak, Michael Mark, Joseph F Clark, Marsha Eifert-Mangine, Audrey Hill-Lindsay, Brian M Grawe

“…Orthopedic functional assessments used to monitor the neuroplastic properties of the central nervous system lack objectivity and/or pertinent functionality specific to sport. The ability to assess brain wave activity with physiological metrics during functional exercises associated with sport has proven to be difficult and impractical in real-time sport settings. …”
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A pilot randomized controlled study of integrated kidney palliative care and chronic kidney disease care implemented in a safety-net hospital: Protocol for a pilot study of feasibi... by Jennifer S. Scherer, Wenbo Wu, Chen Lyu, Keith S. Goldfeld, Abraham A. Brody, Joshua Chodosh, David Charytan

“…Primary outcomes are feasibility of recruitment, retention, fidelity to the study visit protocol, and the ability to collect outcome data. These outcomes include symptom burden, quality of life, and engagement in advance care planning. …”
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Dietary inulin supplementation improves meat quality and off-flavor of duck meat referring to regulated muscle fiber types and antioxidant capacity by Hailei Sun, Jia Wang, Jina Han, Xiaolong Li, Juan Zhao, Yimin Zhang, Jingxin Sun

“…This study aimed to evaluate the effects of dietary inulin (0–30 g/kg) on duck meat, muscle fiber types, meat quality, antioxidant ability, Low-field nuclear magnetic resonance, amino acid and off-flavor. …”
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A Comparison of Penguin Swarm Optimization Algorithms for Enhancing Network Throughput by Talha Akhtar, Najmi Ghani Haider, Nadeem Kafi Khan, Rashid Uddin

“…Conventional data centers have been used to process and store data, however, the emergence of edge computing technologies has made alternative data management, a decentralized approach to shifting data from highly over-loaded virtual machines to lighter-loaded nodes, where the queue task is increased from a certain threshold. With its ability to deliver computing and storage resources at the network's edge, close to device terminals and users, edge computing is an evolving distributed computing approach well-suited for facilitating extensive management of smart devices in the future smart grid. …”
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Face Recognition Method for Underground Engineering Based on Dual-Target Domain Adaptation and Discriminative Feature Learning by Yongqiang Yu, Cong Guo, Lidan Fan, Jiyun Zhang, Liwei Yu, Peitao Li

“…<xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="deqn2">(2)</xref> Dedicated encoders, center loss, and triplet loss can improve the DFL ability of the model. <xref ref-type="disp-formula" rid="deqn3-deqn5">(3)</xref> The high Rank-1 accuracies and area under curve (AUC) values of the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves on the three domains indicate that the proposed face recognition method can adapt to the complex working conditions in underground engineering environments.…”
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Simulation Study of Carbon Extraction from Coal Gasification Fine Slag by Airflow Classification Based on CFD-DEM by LI Xiangyang, ZHANG Qian, LI Le, BAI Hui, HUANG Wei

“…The airflow classification method has unique advantages because of its ability to efficiently process fine-graded particles without waste water and exhaust gas emmission. …”
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Impact of trapping on tritium self-sufficiency and tritium inventories in fusion power plant fuel cycles by Samuele Meschini, Rémi Delaporte-Mathurin, George R. Tynan, Sara E. Ferry

“…However, detailed analysis of individual components reveals that substantial amounts of tritium can be trapped within the first wall, divertors, and breeding blanket systems, suggesting that tritium trapping may significantly influence the FPP ability to achieve self-sufficiency. The compounded effects of additional tritium traps generated by irradiation effects and component replacements further exacerbate this challenge. …”
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Development of an Injury Burden Prediction Model in Professional Baseball Pitchers by Garrett Bullock, Charles Thigpen, Gary Collins, Nigel Arden, Thomas Noonan, Michael Kissenberth, Ellen Shanley

“…The final model demonstrated good prediction ability (RMSE: 11.9 days, R^2^: 0.80) and a calibration slope of 0.98 (95% CI: 0.92, 1.04). …”
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Diagnostic Imaging for Distal Extremity Injuries in Direct Access Physical Therapy: An Observational Study by Michael S Crowell, John S Mason, Jamie B Morris, Max K Dummar, Paul A Kuwik

“…# Background Military physical therapists practicing direct-access routinely utilize diagnostic imaging and numerous published case reports demonstrate the ability of physical therapists to diagnose and appropriately disposition patients with foot/ankle and wrist/hand fractures. …”
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METHOD FOR EFFECTIVE SEPARATION OF MICROPLASTIC PARTICLES FROM BOTTOM SEDIMENTS by V.O. Iemelianov, Ye.І. Nasiedkіn, T.S. Kukovska, S.M. Dovbysh

“…The size of the grinding platform and the availability of additional elements guarantee the ability to work with containers of various volumes, shapes, and sizes. …”
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Graph attention convolution network for power flow calculation considering grid uncertainty by Haochen Li, Liqun Liu, Shaojuan Yu, Qiusheng He, Qingfeng Wu, Jianfeng Zhang, Qinxiong Lu

“…Furthermore, the learning ability of the model is further enhanced by the combination of stacked dilated convolution layers and a fully connected layer. …”
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Analysis of prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy outcomes for rare autosomal trisomies detected by non-invasive prenatal testing in 33,079 cases by Xu Yan, Kai Ding, Xin Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Haiying Peng, Ying Zhang

“…Abstract Background Non-invasive prenatal testing is widely used for screening common fetal aneuploidy disorders such as trisomy 21, trisomy 18, and trisomy 13. However, its ability to detect rare autosomal trisomies has introduced a new layer of complexity and clinical uncertainty. …”
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