Evaluation of milking performance following 2 different teat-preparation routines by H.J. Williams, D.H. Grove-White, R. Ridgway, N.J. Connolly, R. Puentes-Garrido, C. Watson

“…Parameters extracted from electronic on-farm milk meters included milk yield (kg), milking unit on time (MUOT; s), average milk flow rate (kg/min), maximum milk flow rate (kg/min), milk yield in the first 2 min (kg), percentage of total milk yield in the first 2 min (%), and occurrence of bimodal milking. …”
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Combining Hepatic Arterial Interventional Therapies with Lenvatinib and Programmed Cell Death-1 Inhibitors for Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Portal Vein Tumor Thrombosis: A Single-... by Shen X, Shao T, Yu J, Zhang Z

“…After PSM, there were 74 patients per group, the H-L-P group showed significantly better median OS (19 months vs 14 months, p < 0.001) and median PFS (10 months vs 4 months, p < 0.001) than L-P group; higher objective response rate (ORR) (37.8% vs 16.2%, p < 0.001) and disease control rate (DCR) (78.4% vs 47.3%, p < 0.001) were observed in the H-L-P group. …”
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Geochemical Characteristics and Thermal Evolution History of Jurassic Tamulangou Formation Source Rocks in the Hongqi Depression, Hailar Basin by Junping Cui, Wei Jin, Zhanli Ren, Hua Tao, Haoyu Song, Wei Guo

“…The temperature evolution pattern is characterized by an initial increase followed by a gradual decrease. …”
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A ten-year trend analysis of malaria prevalence at Sunyani Municipal Hospital, Ghana by Antwi Joseph Barimah, Rebecca Dorcas Commey, Nyantakyiwaa Duah Salomey, James Dumba, Yaw Boakye Nketiah, Bernard Opoku Amoah, Larry Agyemang, Tweneboah Yvonne Ofosua, Deborah Arhinful, Gyamfi Opoku Sandra

“…In order to ascertain the pattern of malaria cases over the previous ten years (2013–2022), this research used a health facility-based retrospective approach. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Novel adjuvant nano-vaccine induced immune response against Acinetobacter baumannii by Tohid Piri-Gharaghie, Abbas Doosti, Seyed Abbas Mirzaei

“…A continuous slow release pattern was achieved. TLR-9 activation was greatest in the mouse model with CpG ODN (C274) at concentrations of 5 and 10 μg/ml with 56% and 55%, respectively (**P < 0.01). …”
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The Role of Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Breast Cancer Patients With Residual Nodal Disease After Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy by Kristina Shaffer, Lilian Harris, Lori Gentile, Amelia Merrill, Lori Kellam, Michelle Fillion, Peter Turk

“…Conversely, there was a significantly increased rate of lymphedema in the ALND, 57.9%, vs the SLNB group, 35.3% ( P  = 0.03). …”
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Design of a Low Threshold Single-Mode In-P Laser Using Regrowth-Free Fabrication by A. Sharma, P. Landais, M. Srivastava, M. Wallace, F. Smyth, A. Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, P. Anandarajah

“…We describe the design procedure, optimization, and fabrication cycle of an index-pattern FP laser on an InP platform. The design parameters of the ridge and reflector (based on slots) are extracted through simulations. …”
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Effects of Splitting Airfoil’s Aspect Ratio on the Control of Separation and Loss Distribution in a Distortion Generator by M. Hassani, M. Bazazzadeh, M. D. Manshadi

“…It has appeared that combined loss pattern of the triple arrangement of the airfoils can be reconstructed from dual arrangement, and it can be reproduced from a single pattern in a hierarchical process. …”
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Numerical study on ion migration in concrete under the influence of salt solution by Xianyuan Chen, Zhaocai Meng, Xinjiang Zheng, Zirui Gao

“…The external ion concentration has a minor impact on the distribution pattern but affects the internal ion concentration. …”
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Sarcomatoid Carcinoma of the Prostate: Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Stromal Sarcoma-Like Appearance: A Rare Association by David Parada, Karla B. Peña, Francesc Riu

“…Pleomorphic sarcoma was characterized to have overall glandular growth pattern, simulating a malignant phyllodes tumour. …”
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Alfvén Wave Propagation in the Io Plasma Torus by P. C. Hinton, F. Bagenal, B. Bonfond

“…The location of the first few bounces of the Alfvén wave pattern match the Io auroral footprints observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.…”
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Transient Analysis of a k-out-of-n:G System with N-Policy, Repairmen’s Multiple Vacations, and Redundant Dependency by Wenqing Wu, Yinghui Tang

“…Upon returning from vacation, they should take another vacation if there are less than N failed components waiting in the system. This pattern continues until at least N failed components are waiting. …”
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Development of Mobile Social Network Systems Using Real-Time Facial Authentication and Collaborative Recommendations by Hyeong-Joon Kwon, Dong-Ju Kim, Kwang-Seok Hong

“…We propose a location-based mobile social networking system (SNS) that integrates biometric facial authentication using a modified local directional pattern (MLDP), collaborative content recommendations, and communication among users. …”
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Dynamic Compression and Blast Failure Behavior of a Biomimetic Novel Lattice with Vertex Modifications Made of 316L Stainless Steel by Fei Zhou, Zhihua Xue, Xiaofei Cao

“…Numerical simulation is utilized to simulate the quasi-static compression, dynamic compression and blast behavior considering the rate-dependent properties, elastoplastic response and nonlinear contact. …”
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Computationally Effective Modeling of Cold Rolling: Application to Al Alloys by János György Bátorfi, Jurij J. Sidor

“…The distortion of meshes predicted by both FEM and FLM follow the same evolutionary pattern.…”
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Determination of Genetic Polymorphism Among Soybean (Glycine max. L. Merrill) Cultivars Developed in Recent Years through RAPD Markers by Mine PAKYÜREK, Abdülkadir AKÇİN

“…According to that fingerprinting all cultivars were distingusihed from each other in DNA banding pattern. Using these markers results, similarity index in between soybean cultivars were calculated. …”
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Characteristics of water and soil loss occurrence under contour hedges condition in red soil slope fields by LI Xin-ping, CHEN Xin, WANG Zhao-qian, MA Kun, ZHANG Ru-liang

“…On average, with the Hemerocallis citrirna Baroni and Paspalum. notatum Flugge hedgerows the annual runoff and soil loss decreased 10.14-11.56 times and 135.34-165.84 times, respectively compared with the spring soybean monocropping pattern. Significant positive correlation was observed between the erosion rain capacity and runoff and soil loss under the hedgerows and soybean monocropping pattern, as well as between runoff and soil loss. …”
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Voters’ Attributions of Psychopathic Traits to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2020 Trump Impeachment Trial by Paul E. Jose, Ira J. Roseman, Anna Geiserman, Taylor Winter, Boris Bizumic

“…The sample, 159 Trump voters and 154 Clinton voters, rated their own authoritarian beliefs and their perceptions of psychopathic tendencies in both candidates, and reported their vote. …”
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Investigation on the Relationship Between the Vibratory Peening Process Parameters and Almen Intensity by Maxime Paques, Miao Hong Yan, Changeux Benoit, Turenne Sylvain, Badreddine Jawad, Martin Etienne

“…A specific vibratory peening machine, with the tub vibrating in a vertical pattern and resting on airbags, was built. Two empirical linear models were fitted. …”
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Experimental Test Procedure of the Spatial Distribution of Environmental Parameters and Products of Combustion in a Residential Area and Adjacent Spaces by A. A. Antoshyn, S. A. Volkau

“…The impact of fire stage on the flow rate of optical radiation diffused by smoke is shown.The findings will enable to develop the testing methodology for fire detectors designed to protect living accommodations and people located in them, formulate the functioning effectiveness criteria (operation algorithms) for detectors, used in living accommodations.…”
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