Prevalence and Risk Factors of Iron Deficiency Among Female Athletes in Sulaymaniyah District, Kurdistan Region of Iraq by Gaziza Hassan Marouf, Hisham Arif Getta, Ahmed Farhan Shallal, Aveen M. Raouf Abdulqader

“…Of the participants, 25 (20.8%) had low ferritin levels (<10 ng/ml), indicating iron deficiency, while 95 (79.2%) had normal ferritin levels (10-291 ng/ml). …”
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Performance Evaluation and Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Nine Reanalysis and Remote Sensing Evapotranspiration Products in China by Yujie Liu, Wen Wang, Tianqing Zhao, Zhiyuan Huo

“…We tried to merge three optimal data products (ETMonitor, PML_V2, and SiTHv2) using the triple collocation analysis method to improve the ET estimation, but the results showed that the improvement by the data fusion approach is marginal. …”
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DGCFNet: Dual Global Context Fusion Network for remote sensing image semantic segmentation by Yuan Liao, Tongchi Zhou, Lu Li, Jinming Li, Jiuhao Shen, Askar Hamdulla

“…Extensive experiments on the Vaihingen, Potsdam, and BLU datasets have shown that the proposed DGCFNet method can achieve better segmentation performance, with mIoU reaching 82.20%, 83.84% and 68.87%, respectively.…”
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From Signal to Safety: A Data-Driven Dual Denoising Model for Reliable Assessment of Blasting Vibration Impacts by Miao Sun, Jing Wu, Junkai Yang, Li Wu, Yani Lu, Hang Zhou

“…With the acceleration of urban renewal, directional blasting has become a common method for building demolition. Analyzing the time–frequency characteristics of blast-induced seismic waves allows for the assessment of risks to surrounding structures. …”
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Intracardiac thrombosis: frequency, risk factors and place of oral anticoagulants in treatment by E. S. Kropacheva

“…The main nosology leading to left atrial thrombosis is atrial fibrillation, with up to 90% of all trombi forming in the left atrial appendage. The optimal method to diagnose thrombosis is the transesophageal echocardiography. …”
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Review of Maglev Train Dynamics Research by WEN Yanfeng, ZHANG Weifeng, CAI Wenfeng, XU Hao

“…[Objective] To ensure the operational stability and safety of maglev trains, current research achievements in China and abroad on maglev train dynamics performance are summarized, while prospecting future research directions. [Method] Based on UM (universal mechanism) dynamics simulation software, research findings on various aspects, including vehicle suspension parameters, suspension frame structures, multi-unit train dynamics, active suspension control algorithms, passive suspension fitting models, vehicle-track dynamics, train dynamics under crosswind loads, and bridge dynamic responses are summarized, and future research directions are prospected. …”
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CARROT SEED GROWING THROUGH WINTERING SEEDLINGS by A. P. Zvedenuk, D. F. Futchedzhi

“…The plants under agrotextile reached 28 cm a high and had 5-7 well-developed leaves, while those on the open plot were at phase of active foliage growing about 10-13 cm. long. …”
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The realized efficacy of indoor residual spraying campaigns falls quickly below the recommended WHO threshold when coverage, pace of spraying and residual efficacy on different wal... by Lucia Fernández Montoya, Mara Máquina, Helena Martí-Soler, Ellie Sherrard-Smith, Celso Alafo, Mercy Opiyo, Kiba Comiche, Beatriz Galatas, Silvie Huijben, Lizette L Koekemoer, Shüné V Oliver, Francois Maartens, Dulcisaria Marrenjo, Nelson Cuamba, Pedro Aide, Francisco Saúte, Krijn P Paaijmans

“…The district-level realized IRS efficacy was 113 days after the 2016 campaign. While the coverage of IRS campaigns in Magude were high, IRS protection did not remain optimal for the entire high malaria transmissions season. …”
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Zein-Gum Arabic Loaded with Dihydromyricetin: Preparation and Analysis of Nanoparticles by Dawei CHANG, Jiayi CAO, Na REN, Huxuan WANG, Yujiao SUN, Wen SHEN, Sendi SARA

“…The anti-solvent precipitation method was used to develop a Zein-gum Arabic (GA) nano nutrient delivery system with DMY as the core material and Zein as the carrier. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution and driving factors of ecosystem services based on InVEST-OPGD model: a case study in Kunming by Yuanyuan Zhang, Kouqiang Zhang, Shu’na Wei, Kebin Wang, Haisheng Li

“…Taking Kunming, a key city in southwest China, as the study area, combined with the the changes of land use and vegetation cover from 2000 to 2020, used the InVEST model and spatial autocorrelation analysis method to analyze the spatial and temporal evolution of four ecosystem services (ESs) of water yield (WY), soil conservation (SC), carbon storage (CS), and habitat quality (HQ) from 2000 to 2020, and the Optimal Parameters-based Geographical Detector (OPGD) model was used to explore its driving factors. …”
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Dual-Layer Energy Management Strategy for a Hybrid Energy Storage System to Enhance PHEV Performance by Haobin Jiang, Yang Zhao, Shidian Ma

“…In the upper layer, an equivalent fuel consumption minimization method is applied to optimize the torque distribution between the engine and the motor, while the lower layer employs a rule-based strategy for power allocation between the battery and the supercapacitor. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Decision Tree (M5) and Least Square Support Vector Machine (LS-SVM) Models for Groundwater Level Prediction in the Mashhad Plain by Vajihe Ramezani saani, Mahdi Zarei, Seyed Morteza Seyedian

“…The aim of the present study is to estimate the groundwater table level of the Mashhad plain aquifer using the decision tree model (M5) and to compare it with the least squares support vector machine model (LS-SVM) under 10 different scenarios.Method: For this purpose, monthly climatic data (precipitation, evaporation, and temperature) and groundwater level information from 60 piezometric wells over a 10-year statistical period were utilized, and the employed models were evaluated using statistics such as the coefficient of determination (R2), RMSE, and MBE.Results: The results of the LS-SVM model indicated that the highest simulation accuracy belonged to scenario 4, followed by scenario 9, while the other scenarios exhibited very low accuracy in simulating the water level. …”
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Brownian motion effects and thermophoresis on heat transmission mechanism of hybrid nano liquid flow over a stretched wedge surface by Sharanayya Swami, Suresh Biradar, Jagadish V Tawade, Vediyappan Govindan, Haewon Byeon, Busayamas Pimpunchat

“…Additionally, the Buongiorno slip parameter reduces the rate of energy transfer while amplifying thermal distributions. The thermophoresis parameter was found to influence both concentration and thermal boundary layers. …”
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Experimental Investigations on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of L-Shaped Structure Fabricated by WAAM Process of NiTi SMA by Vatsal Vaghasia, Rakesh Chaudhari, Sakshum Khanna, Jash Modi, Jay Vora

“…In the present study, an L-shaped multi-walled structure of NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA) was fabricated by using the wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) method on a titanium substrate. The present study aims to investigate the fabricated structure for microstructure, macrostructure, and mechanical properties. …”
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PHARFF: A Pipeline-Based Graceful Live Migration and Checkpointing Framework for Achieving High Availability and Reliability in FPGA Applications on Cloud by Yame Asfia, Sajid Gul Khawaja, Muhammad Usman Akram, Muhammad Asad, Shoab A. Khan, Alina Mirza

“…Compared to existing methods, our approach also improves design frequency by 16% and optimizes hardware resource utilization, reducing LUT requirements by 27% and minimizing register usage by 2.5 times.…”
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Fault reconfiguration control strategy of islanded marine ranching power supply system based on deep reinforcement learning by Yichun Wang, Bo Zhang, Rongjie Wang, Jiang Desong, Yabo Cui, Zhouyang Sun, Hao Liu

“…Finally, through analysis of fault reconstruction cases in different operating conditions of the marine ranching power system, it is demonstrated that this proposed algorithm can provide optimal reconstruction strategies within as short as 70 ms while achieving objectives such as maximum load recovery, minimum switching times, and minimum network losses. …”
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A brief review on the diagnostic and therapeutic principles of primary urethral cancer by Hengchuan Su, Yao Zhu, Dingwei Ye

“…For patients with superficial and distal urethral lesions, organ sparing approaches or radical reconstructive procedures can be utilized. While for more advanced disease or nodal involvement, an optimal multimodal treatment strategy consisted of surgery and radiochemotherapy should be adopted. …”
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FS-STFNet: a few-shot adaptive spatiotemporal fusion network for short-term tropical cyclone intensity forecasting by Mengjiao Qin, Jingqi Wang, Yanshuo Wu, Yuhan Zhang, Wuxia Lin, Shoujuan Shu

“…A test applying the FS-STFNet to TCs in Northwest Pacific from 2019 to 2021 demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority compared to other methods. The model achieves optimal performance during stable TCs structures while effectively reducing biases for weak TCs or topography-affected cases through adaptive adjustments. …”
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Clinical and epidemiological profile of congenital hyperinsulinism in Brazil by Raphael D. Liberatore Junior, Raphael D. Liberatore Junior, Anna L. Marques, Laura L. Dos Santos, Thais M. Luciano

“…Genetic testing was performed in 43 patients, but pathogenic variants were identified in only 7 cases, while the majority (31) was not aware of their results. …”
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Development of freezing process of phase change materials in cylindrical thermal energy storage tanks with various fin configurations by Seyyed Amirreza Abdollahi, Saman Faramarzi, Behnam Azizi Gheshlaghchaei, Sana Sahaf Amin, Mohammad Hossein Heidarshenas, Hamid Majidi, Faramarz Talati

“…Abstract One of the most effective methods for thermal energy storage relies on the latent heat property of phase change materials (PCMs). …”
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