The Study of Practice in the Vehicles of Men and Gods and the Bodhisattva Vehicle: Perspectives from Master Taixu to Master Hsing Yun by Chienhuang Chen

“…However, their perspectives also differ: Master Taixu focused more on the theoretical construction and an exposition on the order of practice, whereas Master Hsing Yun placed greater emphasis on the diversity and flexibility of practice and the integration of Buddhist teachings into modern life.…”
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Advanced day-ahead scheduling of HVAC demand response control using novel strategy of Q-learning, model predictive control, and input convex neural networks by Rahman Heidarykiany, Cristinel Ababei

“…In this paper, we present a Q-Learning optimization algorithm for smart home HVAC systems. …”
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Dynamics of patient reported outcomes during the use various biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis by A. E. Karateev, A. M. Lila, T. S. Panevin, A. S. Potapova, A. S. Semashko, A. O. Bobkova, V. N. Amirjanova, E. G. Zotkin

“…Monotherapy with tocilizumab provides more favorable dynamics of PGA and pain than monotherapy with TNF-α inhibitors. …”
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Evaluation of varieties of common hop (Humulus lupulus L.) collection according to agronomic traits by Yu. S. Osipova, V. V. Leontieva, D. A. Dementiev

“…Sixty hop varieties in the early-ripening, mid-early and mid-ripening groups with the yields above 26.3 c/ha (weighing more than 3.5 kg of raw cones from one bush) were identified. …”
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BLOOD PLATELETS AS ACTIVATORS AND REGULATORS OF INFLAMMATORY AND IMMUNE REACTIONS. PART 1. BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PLATELETS AS INFLAMMATORY CELLS by N. B. Serebryanaya, S. N. Shanin, E. E. Fomicheva, P. P. Yakutseni

“…In small circuit of blood circulation, there are approximately 30% more platelets than in large circuit. This “excess” of platelets is necessary for the stabilization of the endothelial barrier of the lung vessels regulated by the platelet mediator sphingosine-1-phosphate, a regulator of tight junctions of endothelial cells. …”
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The Relationship of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Lesions and Osteochondral Lesions with Meniscal Tears in Patients Younger than Fifty Years of Age by Samed Ordu, Erhan Bayram, Ercan Çetinus, İbrahim Kaya, Murat Yılmaz

“…Results: Chondral lesions were present in 77.4% of patients with degenerative meniscal tears and in 63% of patients with radial meniscal tears. …”
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The influence of the aftereffect of long-term use of mineral fertilizers on sorghum grain productivity and quality on ordinary blackearth of the Central Pre-Caucasus by N. N. Shapovalova, A. B. Volodin, E. A. Men’kina, D. A. Akhmedshina

“…There have been presented the study results of the experiment of the Geographical Network of Experiments with fertilizers, established in 1975 on ordinary chernozem under conditions of unstable moisture in the Stavropol Territory. …”
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A comparative study between LSSVM, LSTM, and ANN in predicting the unconfined compressive strength of virgin fine-grained soil by Jitendra Khatti, Kamaldeep Singh Grover, Pijush Samui

“…The present investigation introduces a robust soft computing model by comparing twelve least square support vector machine (LSSVM), six long short-term memory (LSTM), and thirty-six artificial neural network (ANN) models to predict the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of fine-grained soil. …”
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Advancing Soft Tissue Reconstruction with a Ready-to-Use Human Adipose Allograft by Victor Fanniel, Ihab Atawneh, Jonathan Savoie, Michelle Izaguirre-Ramirez, Joanna Marquez, Christopher Khorsandi, Shauna Hill

“…Proteomic analysis revealed that alloClae retains key native proteins critical for graft integration with the host and stability, with key extracellular matrix (ECM) components, collagens, elastins, and laminin, which are more concentrated as a result of the detergent-based protocol. …”
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Integrating experimental and theoretical approaches for enhanced machine learning modeling of solar radiation by Nader Ghareeb, Abeer Alanazi, Ahmad Sedaghat, Mohamad Hussein Farhat, Arash Mehdizadeh, Hayder Salem, Mohammad Nazififard, Ali Mostafaeipour

“…The findings demonstrate substantial improvements over existing methods and offer a scalable solution for a more precise solar forecasting in various environments.…”
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Identification of Key Hub Genes Associated with Breast Cancer Stem Cells to Overcome Therapy Resistance by Mobina Khorshidi, Hamed Manoochehri, Mahdi AAlikhani, Maryam Ezatzadeh

“…The presence of cancer stem cells (CSCs), which play a crucial role in metastasis, therapeutic resistance, and disease recurrence, presents a major treatment challenge. Identifying CSCs-specific therapeutic targets through systems biology approaches can lead to more effective treatment strategies Materials and Methods: Three gene expression datasets related to breast cancer— GSE7513 (Cancer stem/non-stem cells), GSE15852 (tumor/normal tissues), and GSE76540 (doxorubicin resistant/sensitive cells)— were obtained from the GEO database. …”
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Experimental and Mathematical Modeling of Monotonic Behavior of Calcareous Sand by Haotian Zhang, Zongmu Luo, Yanyu Qiu, Huachao Liu, Juan Gu, Jian Tang

“…The increase of confining pressure makes the strain softening more remarkable and heightens the peak stress and residual stress. …”
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In-house designed simulation courses versus society-accredited designs by international societies: A comparative analysis by Abramovich, Igor, Beilstein, Jakob, Kornemann, Eva, Berger-Estilita, Joana, Schröder, Torsten

“…Future research should include a broader sample, more rigorous content analysis, longitudinal follow-up, and detailed participant experience data to enhance the depth and applicability of findings.…”
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Address Translation in a Compositional Microprogram Control Unit by Alexandr Barkalov, Larysa Titarenko, Oleksandr Golovin, Oleksandr Matvienko

“…Due to it, the designing a control unit circuit is a more labor-intensive process than implementing systems with such common blocks as registers, counters, arithmetic and logic blocks. …”
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ACUTE APPENDICITIS: HISTORY AND CURRENT STATE OF THE MEDICAL CARE by I. M. Barsukova, M. V. Gavshchuk, A. P. Krivov

“…Material and methods.Materials on monitoring of acute surgical pathology of abdominal organs in St. Petersburg are presented to one of 7 nosological forms in the article, – an acute appendicitis. …”
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Cardiac tumors: analysis of surgical treatment by V. A. Sakovich, D. B. Drobot, A. A. Chernova, D. N. Gorbunov, D. I. Buyankov, Yu. V. Gross, M. K. Verkhoturov, M. A. Stavtseva

“…After surgery, atrial fibrillation prevalence decreased from 8 patients before surgery to 6 after surgery (p=0,034), while left atrial size decreased by 0,6 mm (95% confidence interval, 4,39-6,2 mm) (p<0,001).Conclusion. According to presented analysis over a 6-year period, cardiac neoplasms are more common in women (74,1%), while the mean age of patients is 59,7 years. …”
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Fault diagnosis method for rigid guides in vertical shaft hoisting systems by WANG Jianfeng, JIN Yuanzhi, ZHANG Yong, WANG Yongzhen, HE Jiacong

“…Due to shaft deformation and steel corrosion, faults are likely to occur, affecting the normal operation of the cage. At present, vibration detection methods are mostly used for rigid guide fault diagnosis, but the diagnostic accuracy is easily affected by operating conditions such as cage load and running speed. …”
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Intelligent brain tumor detection using hybrid finetuned deep transfer features and ensemble machine learning algorithms by Rakesh Salakapuri, Panduranga Vital Terlapu, Kishore Raju Kalidindi, Ramesh Naidu Balaka, D. Jayaram, T. Ravikumar

“…Abstract Brain tumours (BTs) are severe neurological disorders. They affect more than 308,000 people each year worldwide. The mortality rate is over 251,000 deaths annually (IARC, 2020 reports). …”
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Development of Dual ‘RT‐LAMP‐LFA’ Rapid Detection Technology With Gold Magnetic Nanoparticles for Influenza Virus by Haiyang Fan, Yonglong Gong, Mengying Chang, Juan Gao, Mengjia Li, Siyu Chen, Ruoyi Yang, Muxue Zhao, Yali Cui, Wenli Hui

“…However, current diagnostic tools often face limitations in speed, accuracy or complexity of result interpretation; there is a great need for more efficient detection technology for influenza virus, especially for use in resource‐limited settings or during large‐scale outbreaks. …”
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Extended VGG16 Deep-Learning Detects COVID-19 from Chest CT Images by abolfazl karimiyan abdar, seyyed mostafa sadjadi, ali bashirgonbadi, mehran naghibi, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh

“…Afterwards, based on the fact that in an infected individual, more than one slice is involved, we determine and apply the best threshold to detect COVID-19 positive patients. …”
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