It is my pleasure to announce that a  fraudulent and blatantly

plagiarized publication from July 2023, (allegedly) about the

training of layered neural  networks in time-dependent envrionments, 

has  been retracted  by the Editorial Office of MDPI Applied Sciences, 

at last.  The retraction process took very long and communication

was quite unpleasant. 

Note that the term "overlap" in the  retraction notice is way too 

polite in view of the brazen "cut-and-paste" approach of 

the "authors". They literally copy/pasted essentially all figures and