by Jasmin Hundal  and Mariam AlHilli

Received: 19 August 2024;  Published: 19 March 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2501304

Elderly patients with ovarian and pancreatic cancer frequently experience malnutrition and sarcopenia, which negatively impact treatment tolerance, functional outcomes, and survival. The increasing use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in this population necessitates structured interventions to mitigate these challenges. While prehabilitation has shown promise in enhancing treatment tolerance and quality of life, its role during chemotherapy remains underexplored. This prospective study evaluates the feasibility and impa [...]

by Maxim Rusakov  and Faraz Farhidi

Received: 11 May 2024;  Published: 20 September 2024;  doi: 10.21926/jept.2403017

This initiative aims to enhance the efficiency of utility demand response (DR) operations by coordinating and integrating behind-the-meter (BTM) photovoltaic systems (PV) and energy storage (ES) using innovative machine learning software applications embedded in a distributed control architecture. The project is in the process of creating distributed energy resource (DER) learning agents and optimization engine within a hierarchical and layered distributed control architecture (DCA). These components work together [...]

by Maya K. Marom

Received: 16 October 2023;  Published: 21 December 2023;  doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2304062

It was March-April 2020. The first few weeks of the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown had just begun. Anxiety levels were high, and being locked up at home was an unfamiliar and eerie situation. A music therapist sent her clients (elementary school children on the autism spectrum) daily videos of her dog, Robben, during his daily routines. She dubbed the dog as if he told the children a story about a tail-less cat. This endeavor resulted in a series of 27 storytelling episodes titled “Robben’s Pandemic Adventures”, [...]

by Igor Val Danilov  , Dace Medne  and Sandra Mihailova

Received: 09 February 2025;  Published: 03 July 2025;  doi: 10.21926/obm.neurobiol.2503290

Accumulating evidence suggests that chronic pain occurs in various disorders due to correlated processes of spontaneous cortical reorganization and dysregulation of cortical excitability in consciousness-related networks. This case series tracks three patients with chronic pain associated with the menstrual cycle treated by a novel non-invasive brain stimulation technique that applies qualities of the mother-fetus neurocognitive model. Previous research has shown that a low-frequency pulsed electromagnetic field an [...]

by Assohoun Fulgence Kraidy  , Islam M. El Radaf  , Andreas Zeinert  , Abdelilah Lahmar  , Aime Pelaiz-Barranco  , Pardis Simon  and Yaovi Gagou

Received: 29 March 2024;  Published: 17 July 2024;  doi: 10.21926/jept.2403013

In this study, tin antimony sulfide (SnSb2S5) thin films with 200 nm, 312 nm, and 431 nm thicknesses were successfully fabricated using thermal evaporation. These films' structural, optical, and photoanode properties were meticulously characterized to assess their suitability for photovoltaic applications. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis confirmed the presence of an orthorhombic symmetry phase within the Pnma space group, ensuring the crystalline quality of the films. Raman spectroscopy further validated the cryst [...]

by Mohammed A. AI Doghan  , Nadia A. Abdelmegeed Abdelwahed  and Bahadur Ali Soomro

Received: 19 October 2023;  Published: 10 April 2024;  doi: 10.21926/obm.neurobiol.2402216

In the contemporary landscape, developing individuals' attitudes, motivations, and intentions toward exercise and physical activities emerges as an imperative cornerstone for fostering a healthy and thriving lifestyle. The present study examines the effect of the theory of the planned behavior (TPB) constructs on exercise motivation (MT) and intention towards exercise (ITWE) among Egyptian entrepreneurs. The study employed a quantitative approach and collected cross-sectional responses from entrepreneurs throug [...]

by Shih-Ang Hsu

Received: 17 October 2024;  Published: 15 January 2025;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2501007

In the realm of marine meteorology, physical oceanography, and coastal and ocean engineering, the wind-stress across the air-sea interface plays a dominant role. However, under tropical cyclone conditions, there is no consensus for the formulation of the drag coefficient, Cd, in the literature. Based on the wind-gust method and the measurements from data buoy 42001 during Hurricane Lili, it is demonstrated that, U* = 0.073U10 - 0.44, which is valid up to wind speed 47 m s-1 and wind gust to 66 m s-1, here U* is the [...]

by Joseph S. D'Arrigo

Received: 25 March 2023;  Published: 04 August 2023;  doi: 10.21926/obm.geriatr.2303244

Early changes in systemic vascular stiffness and endothelial function can contribute to altered cerebrovascular hemodynamics and impaired cognitive function; additionally, these vascular changes point to potential targets for prevention and treatment strategies in people with mild cognitive impairment. Although the pathogenic mechanisms underlying these vascular changes are heterogeneous and complex, one common feature is the development of cerebral blood flow (CBF) dysregulation, resulting in chronic cerebral hypo [...]

by Angelo Plastino  , Diana Monteoliva  and Angel Ricardo Plastino

Received: 14 October 2023;  Published: 06 February 2024;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2401004

Collective effects are a typical nuclear feature that refers to the behavior of a group of N fermions (protons and neutrons) within the atomic nucleus. Our interest lies in light nuclei only. Thus, we consider here, using the Lipkin model, a small-N fermion system at low-temperature T and discover -collective phenomena. Our fermion-model simplicity allows one to gain insight into collective fermion behavior. We focus attention, for N<20, on several quantifiers. These include standard ones related to thermal [...]

by OBM Neurobiology Editorial Office

Received: 22 September 2022;  Published: 26 September 2022;  doi: 10.21926/obm.neurobiol.2203136