Application of Hybrid MCDA Tools for Constructability Review in Infrastructure Projects: A Bridge Case Study by Mansoureh Khorasani Nejad, Maria Rashidi, Vahid Mousavi

“…To address this challenge, this study identifies and evaluates the most critical constructability factors through an extensive literature review, followed by an online survey to quantify their relative importance. …”
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Remaining Service Life Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Considering Failure Probability of Members by Hae-Chang Cho, Sang-Hoon Lee, Minkook Park, Kang Su Kim

“…Therefore, as the service life of RC structures increases, it is important to derive objective and quantitative evaluation results on their durability and structural performance. However, most previous studies have analyzed only the individual impacts of multiple factors that reduce the durability of RC structures and have not considered the combined effects of these factors. …”
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Group Incidence by Purulent-Septic Infections of Clebsiellous Etiology in Cardiosurgical Patients by V. I. Sergevnin, L. G. Kudryavtseva, O. G. Pegyshina, E. O. Volkova, N. I. Reshetnikova

“…The spread of infection in the conditions of anaesthesiology and reanimation department of the cardiac hospital most likely occurred because of a contact-household path involving intermediate factor of the transmission of the pathogen.…”
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A Comparative Analysis of Michaelis-Menten, Hill, and Allosteric Models in Drug Metabolism by Ziyad K. Radeef

“…The Allosteric model is the most versatile, as it accommodates cooperative and regulatory effects over a broad range of substrate concentrations. …”
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Feasibility of Marine Microalgae Immobilization in Alginate Bead for Marine Water Treatment: Bead Stability, Cell Growth, and Ammonia Removal by Chen-Lin Soo, Cheng-Ann Chen, Othman Bojo, Yii-Siang Hii

“…Sodium alginate is the most commonly used polymer matrix in microalgae immobilization for water treatment. …”
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Features of management strategy for the implementation of innovations aimed at improving the competitiveness of the enterprise by V. S. Alieva

“…Interviews with top-level and mid-level managers of hospitality enterprises showed that innovations are most often introduced on the experience of competing companies or on the analysis of successful international practices. …”
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Capillaries in the Brain Microcirculatory Bed in the Acute Period of Experimental Brain Injury by V. Ye. Klimenko, M. A. Moldovanov, A. V. Poleshchuk, N. A., Andreyeva, T. V Balashova, K. A. Drozdov, I. V Dyuizen, V. B. Shumatov

“…The NO-dependent capillary blood flow reduction leading to hypoxia may be one of the most important causes of secondary cerebral lesion. …”
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Assessment of breeding lines of rice (Oryza sativa L.) carrying the Pi-40 gene for resistance to rice blast strains from Krasnodar region by I. I. Suprun, V. S. Kovalyev, E. S. Kharchenko, E. G. Savenko

“…Couch, 2002, is one of the most harmful diseases of rice (Oryza sativa L.), and so the development of resistant varieties is important in rice breeding. …”
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Properties of adaptive, cluster-randomised controlled trials with few clusters: a simulation study by Erin Nolan, Joshua Dizon, Christopher Oldmeadow, Elizabeth Holliday, Alix Hall, Daniel Barker

“…When the intra-class correlation (ICC) was high, the proportion of trials that incorrectly dropped the most effective arm increased. There were small power gains for adaptive designs, without increasing type 1 error. …”
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DAWN: Designing Distributed Agents in a Worldwide Network by Zahra Aminiranjbar, Jianan Tang, Qiudan Wang, Shubha Pant, Mahesh Viswanathan

“…It delegates tasks to one or more Gateway Agent Services that provide for the discovery, registration, and connection of the most suitable agents to fit each application’s needs. …”
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Hedonic hunger and food cravings: understanding their role in premenstrual syndrome among nursing students by Emine Kocyigit, Mehtap Gumusay, Yagmur Demirel Ozbek

“…PMS was a problem experienced by most of the students. The results indicate that the presence of PMS is associated with increased hedonic hunger, food cravings, and emotional eating tendencies among university students.ConclusionRaising awareness of PMS and conducting nutrition-related trainings for university students would help them get the knowledge and skills they need to manage its symptoms.…”
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Improvement of Network Traffic Prediction in Beyond 5G Network using Sparse Decomposition and BiLSTM Neural Network by Rihab Abdullah Jaber Al Hamadani, Mahdi Mosleh, Ali Hashim Abbas Al-Sallami, Rasool Sadeghi

“…A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to optimize the sparse matrix, which effectively selects the most significant features for prediction. The optimized sparse matrix is fed into the BiLSTM model for accurate traffic forecasting. …”
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Indirect Determination Approach of Blast-Induced Ground Vibration Based on a Hybrid SSA-Optimized GP-Based Technique by Zhaoxin Jiang, Hongyan Xu, Hui Chen, Bei Gao, Shijie Jia, Zhi Yu, Jian Zhou

“…After comparing, it is found that the proposed SSA-GP yielded a superior performance and the ratio of bench height to burden (H/B) was the most sensitive variable.…”
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A scoping review of neuromodulation techniques for controlling blood pressure: what are the ups and downs to this approach? by Peter L. Greechan, Ryan G. L. Koh, Paul B. Yoo

“…Of all the included studies, most adopted a non-randomized experimental approach (89%), used animal participants (65%), used invasive neuromodulation methods (74%), and performed acute experiments (84%). …”
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MEZOPROTEROZOIC BASITE MAGMATISM OF THE BASHKIRIAN MEGANTICLINORIUM (SOUTHERN URALS): AGE CONSTRAINTS, PETROLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL FEATURES by A. O. Khotylev, A. V. Tevelev, Ya. V. Bychkova, A. V. Latyshev, M. B. Anosova

“…Among the Riphean–Vendian dyke complexes of the basic composition, which intersect the Precambrian strata of the Bashkirian meganticlinorium (Southern Urals), one of the most common is the Kurgas gabbro-dolerite complex dated to the Early – Middle Riphean. …”
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Allelopathic Effects of Aqueous Extracts of Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) on the Early Seedling Growth of Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Varieties and Selected Weeds by J. C. Murimwa, J. T. Rugare, S. Mabasa, R. Mandumbu

“…Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) production is lucrative to resource poor farmers in marginalised areas of Zimbabwe, although most farmers have reportedly been failing to derive maximum economic benefits from sesame production due to poor productivity. …”
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Application of the HEC-RAS and HEC-HMS Models for Flood Risk Analysis in the Gumara River, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia by Mulie Admas, Tade Mule Asrade, Walelgn Dilnesa Cherie

“…In terms of socioeconomic damage, floods are one of the most destructive natural disasters. However, by conducting flood modeling prior to an event, their impacts can be mitigated and better managed. …”
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Machine Learning-Based Prediction Performance Comparison of Marshall Stability and Flow in Asphalt Mixtures by Muhammad Farhan Zahoor, Arshad Hussain, Afaq Khattak

“…We used three feature importance analysis techniques (Random Forest, Permutation Importance, and Lasso Regression) to determine which parameters were the most significant. Linear regression (LR), Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Gradient Boosting Machines (GBMs), and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) were the six MLAs that were assessed. …”
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MULTIPLEX DETECTION OF TUMOR MARKERS FOR DIFFERENT STAGES OF COLORECTAL CANCER by L. L. Akhmaltdinova, V. B. Sirota, V. A. Zhumalieva, I. A. Kadyrova, D. B. Babenko, Z. B. Tauesheva, D. Zh. Taizhanova, A. S. Ibraeva, O. V. Avdienko

“…Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. In the Republic of Kazakhstan, over the past decade, the incidence rates of colon and rectal cancers have increased by 23 % and 17 %, respectively. …”
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Changes in life satisfaction over six years in the general population: A longitudinal study with the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS). by Andreas Hinz, Anja Mehnert-Theuerkauf, Heide Glaesmer, Matthias L Schroeter, Ana N Tibubos, Katja Petrowski, Michael Friedrich

“…<h4>Background</h4>Satisfaction with life is a key concept for most individuals. The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) for measuring general life satisfaction has been widely analyzed in terms of cross-sectional associations. …”
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