Lower serum uric acid and impairment of right cerebral hemisphere structural brain networks are related to depressive symptoms in cerebral small vessel disease: a cross-sectional s... by Yu, Lei, Yi, Ming, Guo, Jiayu, Li, Jinbiao, Zeng, Huixing, Cui, Liqian, Xu, Xiangming, Liu, Gang, Fan, Yuhua, Zeng, Jinsheng, Xing, Shihui, Chen, Yicong, Wang, Meng, Tan, Shuangquan, Jin, Leow Yi, Kumar, Dilip, Vipin, Ashwati, Ann, Soo See, Fatin Zahra Binte Zailan, Sandhu, Gurveen Kaur, Kandiah, Nagaendran, Dang, Chao

“…Depressive symptoms were assessed using the 24-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-24). Magnetic resonance imaging was used to evaluate SVD, and diffusion tensor images were used to analyze structural brain networks using graph theory. …”
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Grid integration and coordinated control of voltage source inverters with energy storage systems by Qi, Yang

“…In addition to the reactive power sharing, the unbalanced power introduced by negative-sequence load currents should also be accurately shared among DESSs based on the power ratings of VSIs. It is revealed that even small voltage measurement scaling errors may deteriorate the power sharing accuracy by injecting positive- and negative-sequence circulating currents. …”
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Society 5.0 : First International Conference, Society 5.0 2021, Virtual Event, June 22-24, 2021 : Revised Selected Papers / by International Conference on Society 5.0 (1st : 2021 : Online), organiser 642899, Gerber, Aurona J., editor 642901, Hinkelmann, Knut, editor 642902

Pro-inflammatory feedback loops define immune responses to pathogenic Lentivirus infection by Wilk, Aaron J., Marceau, Joshua O., Kazer, Samuel W., Fleming, Ira, Miao, Vincent N., Galvez-Reyes, Jennyfer, Kimata, Jason T., Shalek, Alex K., Holmes, Susan, Overbaugh, Julie, Blish, Catherine A.

“…Background The Lentivirus human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes chronic inflammation and AIDS in humans, with variable rates of disease progression between individuals driven by both host and viral factors. …”
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MindShift: Leveraging Large Language Models for Mental-States-Based Problematic Smartphone Use Intervention by Wu, Ruolan, Yu, Chun, Pan, Xiaole, Liu, Yujia, Zhang, Ningning, Fu, Yue, Wang, Yuhan, Zheng, Zhi, Chen, Li, Jiang, Qiaolei, Xu, Xuhai, Shi, Yuanchun

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Image quality comparison of AirDoc portable retina camera versus eyer in a diabetic retinopathy screening program by Brant, Rodrigo, Nakayama, Luis Filipe, de Oliveira, Talita Virgínia Fernandes, de Oliveira, Juliana Angelica Estevão, Ribeiro, Lucas Zago, Richter, Gabriela Dalmedico, Rodacki, Rafael, Penha, Fernando Marcondes

“…Conclusions Although both Eyer and AirDoc devices show potential as screening tools, the AirDoc images displayed higher rates of ungradable and low-quality images, that may directly affect the DR and DME grading. …”
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Motivations for watching videos on mobile phones while driving in parking lots and while waiting at intersections in the United States by Gao, Jingkang, Jackson, Jason, Zhao, Jinhua

“…We found that although people don’t watch videos on their phones while driving as much as they text or converse, the rates of watching are disturbingly high (41% watch at intersections). …”
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The relationship between ridehailing and public transit in Chicago: A comparison before and after COVID-19 by Meredith-Karam, Patrick, Kong, Hui, Wang, Shenhao, Zhao, Jinhua

“…Furthermore, using spatial regression, we find that an increased tendency of TNC trips to substitute transit is related to a lower proportion of elderly people, greater proportion of peak-period TNC travel, greater transit network availability, a higher percentage of white population, and increased crime rates. Our findings identify spatial and temporal trends in the tendency to use TNC services in place of public transit, and thus have potential policy implications for transit management, such as spatially targeted service improvements and safety measures to reduce the possibility of public transit being substituted by TNC services.…”
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Ecological forces affecting microbial eukaryotes in the coastal ocean by Gomez, Annika L.

“…The total abundance of a protistan population at any given time relies upon a combination of growth and death rates, which are impacted by nutrient availability (bottom-up control) and predation (top-down control). …”
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Memory and fluctuations in chemical dynamics by Farahvash, Ardavan

“…I also use this scheme to examine how phonons affect reactions rates, both in ensembles near and far-from thermal equilibrium. …”
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Mechanisms and Implementation of Thermo-Optical Annealing in Silica Fiber Sensors for Radiation-Induced Attenuation Mitigation by Legoupil, Aurelien Y. M.

“…We design a white light absorption spectroscopy setup with in-situ irradiation and optical annealing, working at liquid nitrogen temperature and different post-irradiation warm-up rates. For the pure silica core and F-doped cladding fibers studied, the RIA spectrum obtained is decomposed into known radiation-induced defect absorption bands, highlighting the key role of self-trapped holes in RIA at telecommunication wavelengths. …”
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Fracturing Processes in Specimens with Internal vs. Throughgoing Flaws: An Experimental Study Using 3D Printed Materials by Almubarak, Majed, Germaine, John T., Einstein, Herbert H.

“…Centering of the specimen played a critical role to avoid buckling and unequal distribution of stress. Slower displacement rates can control the energy being released once failure occurs to prevent the specimen from exploding. …”
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A low-cost, open-source cylindrical Couette rheometer by Erni, Makita, Hart, A. John, Trumper, David, Owens, Crystal E.

“…While viscometers adequately probe Newtonian (constant) viscosity, most fluids have complex viscosity, requiring tests over multiple shear rates, and transient measurements. As a result, rheometers are typically large, expensive, and require additional infrastructure (e.g., gas lines), rendering them inaccessible for regular use by many individuals, small organizations, and educators. …”
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GCBF+: A Neural Graph Control Barrier Function Framework for Distributed Safe Multi-Agent Control by Zhang, Songyuan, So, Oswin, Garg, Kunal, Fan, Chuchu

“…Furthermore, the proposed method does not compromise on the performance, in terms of goal reaching, for achieving high safety rates, which is a common trade-off in RL-based methods.…”
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Linking short-term to long-term convergent tectonics using geodetic observations, geological constraints and numerical simulations by Mallick, Rishav

“…To understand how faults accumulate elastic strain in the period of time in between earthquakes, I used a newly installed network of GNSS stations from the eastern edge of the India-Eurasia convergent boundary and quantified the slip rates of major faults in the region. However, faults do not only accumulate strain steadily in time. …”
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Characteristics and injury patterns of road traffic injuries in urban and rural Uganda—a retrospective medical record review study in two hospitals by Temizel, Selin, Wunderlich, Robert, Leifels, Mats

“…Uganda shows a vast burden of non-fatal injuries and resides at the top range of countries with the highest death rates due to unsafe roads. However, little is known about the differences in road traffic associated injuries between urban and rural areas and potential influence factors. …”
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Designing a spiking neural network system for object recognition by Thong, Jing Yuan

“…In particular, the final overall combined model was shown to outperform present state-of-the-art models and attain remarkable accuracy rates in classification tasks. Furthermore, the Django web framework was used to develop an interactive and secure web application that incorporates the overall SNN model. …”
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Opportunities and challenges of green logistics in Singapore by Kee, Jaclyn Chun Ling

“…The recommendations suggested are based on the challenges faced which aim to increase the implementation rates of green measures in the warehouse. The report also covered the limitations of the recommendations and the report to provide suggestions for future works.…”
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Ectomycorrhizal community composition, diversity, and their environmental drivers across common UK temperate woodlands by Ong, Wei Sern

“…This study explored how ECM community composition, richness and colonization rates differed between four common woodland landscape types in Wakehurst (UK) woodlands, and evaluated potential influences of soil properties and aboveground vegetation on those observations. …”
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Prediction of neutralising antibodies for novel coronavirus with machine learning by Kho, Jordon Junyang

“…However, the models were poor at correctly classifying the non-neutralising sequences and had false positive rates as high as 41%. Therefore, the exploration of other oversampling techniques in combination with undersampling techniques and the experimentation of different pooling approaches to capture atomic information more accurately could serve as new directions in future work.…”
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