PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS, BODY MASS INDEX, MUSCULAR ENDURANCE, HAMSTRING FLEXIBILITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR ENDURANCE OF OLDER ADOLESCENTS IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA PROVINCE, PAKISTAN by Muhammad Imran Khan, Muhammad Naseeb Ullah Khan, Aqeel Ahmad Khan

“…Thus, a minimum of 60 minutes of vigorous exercise/ structured physical activity every day should be emphasized in schools and colleges to reduce risk of chronic diseases. …”
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Urinary schistosomiasis in the Danjarima community in Kano, Nigeria by Faruk Sarkinfada, Azeez Akande Oyebanji, Isa Abubakar Sadiq, Zubairu Ilyasu

“…Background: Studies in northern Nigeria have suggested a linear relationship between urinary schistosomiasis and individual water-related activities. …”
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Assessing the Relationship between Young Professionals' Perceptions of Cyber security and Their Online Shopping Behaviour on E-Commerce Platforms in Koronadal City, Philippines by Jayson Diaz

“…Data were collected using a structured survey instrument and analyzed through frequency distribution, weighted mean, standard deviation, and simple linear regression. …”
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Topologic Reorganization of White Matter Connectivity Networks in Early-Blind Adolescents by Zhifeng Zhou, Long Qian, Jinping Xu, Yumin Lu, Fen Hou, Jingyi Zhou, Jinpei Luo, Gangqiang Hou, Wentao Jiang, Hengguo Li, Xia Liu

“…Graph theory analysis revealed “small-world” attributes in the structural connection networks of both EBA and NSC cohorts. …”
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Robust MPC with Output Feedback of Integrating Systems by J. M. Perez, D. Odloak, E. L. Lima

“…For this reason, new controllers have been developed with the objective of achieving better performance, simpler control structure, and robustness with respect to model uncertainty. …”
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Design of a Two order Active Disturbance Rejection Controller of a Stable Platform by ZHU Hai rong, LI Qi

“…In order to facilitate engineering implementation, ESO is designed by linear function which can simplify its structure and retain the excellent performance of ADRC. …”
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Electroabsorption Modulated Lasers With High Immunity to Residual Facet Reflection by Using Lasers With Partially Corrugated Gratings by Puspa Devi Pukhrambam, San Liang Lee, Gerd Keiser

“…It is desired to optimize the device structure to make EMLs robust and immune to residual facet reflection. …”
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Synchrotron X-ray Absorption and In Vitro Bioactivity of Magnetic Macro/Mesoporous Bioactive Glasses by Thanida Charoensuk, Wanwisa Limphirat, Chitnarong Sirisathitkul, Witoon Tangwatanakul, Pongsakorn Jantaratana, Upsorn Boonyang

“…Iron oxides in macro/mesoporous bioactive glasses were characterized by synchrotron X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. This magnetic phase was introduced by adding Fe(NO3)3 9H2O during the sol-gel synthesis. …”
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Route Optimization for Active Sonar in Underwater Surveillance by Mehmet Gokhan Metin, Mumtaz Karatas, Serol Bulkan

“…For this purpose, we first develop a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) formulation that determines the route for a single source within a field discretized using a hexagonal grid structure. …”
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Mitochondrial genome of Quercus chenii: genomic features and evolutionary implications by Xuan Li, Shixin Zhang, Yongfu Li, Yousry A. El-Kassaby, Yanming Fang

“…Repeat-rich regions (210–250 and 300–340 kb) may facilitate structural rearrangements, while extensive RNA editing-particularly in nad4 and ccmF-likely enhances protein functionality and mitochondrial adaptability. …”
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The change of retinal microvascular in APAC eyes and fellow PACS eyes detected using wide-field swept-source optical coherence tomographic angiography by Rumin Zhao, Wenhui Geng, Zijian Zhang, Yunlong Wu, Xiaotong Wang, Bojun Zhao

“…PurposeThis study aimed to quantitatively evaluate changes in vascular parameters in a 12 mm × 12 mm region centered on the fovea with wide-field swept-source optical coherence tomographic angiography (WF SS-OCTA), and establish their correlations with structural parameters in acute primary angle closure (APAC) eyes, as well as in fellow primary angle-closure suspect (PACS) eyes.MethodsIn this retrospective study, WF SS-OCTA was utilized to measure vascular parameters in a 12 mm × 12 mm region centered on the fovea in 31 patients (31 APAC eyes and 31 fellow PACS eyes). …”
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Formation of Individual Educational Trajectory in Adaptive Learning Management Systems by T. M. Shamsutdinova

“…It also includes constructing of a structural model of an adaptive learning management system with a description of possible adaptation mechanisms that act as parameters for the formation of a personalized learning path, and a description of an example of the implementation of an adaptive course in the LMS of the Bashkir State Agrarian University.Results. …”
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Systematic evaluation of objective functions for predicting intracellular fluxes in Escherichia coli by Robert Schuetz, Lars Kuepfer, Uwe Sauer

“…Since these particular objectives predict the system behavior without preconditioning of the network structure, the identified optimality principles reflect, to some extent, the evolutionary selection of metabolic network regulation that realizes the various flux states.…”
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Cor Triatriatum Sinister Identified after New Onset Atrial Fibrillation in an Elderly Man by Ignacio A. Zepeda, Peter Morcos, Luis R. Castellanos

“…A 73-year-old man with new onset atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response underwent transthoracic echocardiography that revealed an echogenic linear structure along the left atrium, suggestive of cor triatriatum sinister (CTS). …”
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Control Systems and Number Theory by Fuhuo Li

“…We may view in particular the unit feedback system as accommodated in the chain-scattering representation, giving a better insight into the structure of the system. Its homographic transformation works as the action of the symplectic group on the Siegel upper half-space in the case of constant matrices. …”
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Designations of Speed Derived from Verbs of Motion (Based on Vocabulary of Russian Folk Dialects) by E. O. Borisova

“…Classification of main semantic types of verbs, which motivate linguistic units with the meaning of speed or sluggishness, is proposed. Word-forming structure of the derivatives, based on the most productive models, is described. …”
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ESTIMATION OF POTENTIAL AND EFFECTIVE BR?NSTED ACID SITE CONCENTRATIONS IN ACIDIC MORDENITES BY CONDUCTOMETRIC TITRATION METHOD

“…nsted acid sites are titrated and extra-framework aluminum species, which are generated during calcination and reside in the structure, are not titrated. This finding is supported by observing more reduction in the Br?…”
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Reflection and dissipation of oblique Alfvén waves in an isothermal atmosphere by Hadi Yahya Alkahby, M. A. Mahrous

“…It is shown that the presence and direction of the magnetic field play an important role in the structure and the heating mechanism of solar atmosphere. …”
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Modeling of Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks with MAC, Queuing, and Cooperation by Jian Lin, Mary Ann Weitnauer

“…To efficiently solve the models with high dimension, for the EC networks, we propose a novel computational algorithm by taking advantage of the stochastic shortest path structure of the problem; for the EH networks, we propose a dual linear programming based algorithm by considering the sparsity of the transition matrix. …”
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Comparative QSPR study of food preservatives using topological indices and regression models by K. B. Gayathri, S. Roy

“…In this study, we use a Quantitative Structure Property Relationship (QSPR) approach based on topological indices to develop a predictive model for certain physicochemical properties of food preservatives. …”
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