Statistically Coherent Calibration of X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry for Major Elements in Rocks and Minerals by Surendra P. Verma, Sanjeet K. Verma, M. Abdelaly Rivera-Gómez, Darío Torres-Sánchez, Lorena Díaz-González, Alejandra Amezcua-Valdez, Beatriz Adriana Rivera-Escoto, Mauricio Rosales-Rivera, John S. Armstrong-Altrin, Héctor López-Loera, Fernando Velasco-Tapia, Kailasa Pandarinath

“…Both calibrations were successfully applied to rock matrices, and the results were generally consistent with those obtained in other laboratories although the UWLR model showed mostly narrower confidence limits of the mean (slope and intercept) or lower uncertainties than the OLR. …”
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Disorders of Adipose Tissue and Lipodystrophies: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment Perspectives by Rosińska Kamila Rosińska, Ewelina Justyna Janicka, Julia Natalia Skibicka, Monika Niedźwiedzka, Mateusz Rosiński

“…The paper discusses the classification of lipodystrophies by etiology and fat loss extent, including generalized and partial forms, both congenital and acquired. …”
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Venüs Heykelciklerinden İdollere Kadın Temsilleri by Tülin CENGİZ

“…These artifacts, which have been discovered in a wide area from Europe to Siberian context, are generally depictions of women with exaggerated female organs. …”
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Optimal Operation of Distributed Generations in Four-Wire Unbalanced Distribution Systems considering Different Models of Loads by Xiuling Jin, Zohre Moradi, Rohollah Rashidi

“…The distribution network is generally unbalanced due to the distribution of consumers in different phases and the different status of their energy consumption. …”
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THE IMPACT OF GENDER DIVERSITY ON EARNINGS QUALITY OF LISTED FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRMS IN NIGERIA: ANALYSIS OF TWO-STAGE LEAST SQUARES by Joseph Olorunfemi Akande

“…To address potential endogeneity, a two-stage least squares (2SLS) regression was used, with instrumental variables estimating the endogenous variables. Additionally, Generalized Least Squares (GLS) and Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) methods were applied to handle heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation issues. …”
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Patient experiences and discomfort associated with mid-palatal temporary skeletal anchorage devices by Aoife P. Barry, Vanessa Knode, Padhraig S. Fleming, Björn Ludwig

“…However, any unpleasant experiences were generally regarded as mild with most highly likely to recommend mid-palatal TSADs to prospective patients.…”
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Geoelectrical Characterization of Aquifer Precincts in Parts of Lapai, North Central Nigeria by MT Tsepav, SI Ibrahim, FA Bayegun

“…The consequence of this revelation is that the area is generally unprotected as it allows for infiltration and subsequent contamination of the groundwater and hence good groundwater quality cannot be guaranteed in the area.…”
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Will things feel better in the morning? A time-of-day analysis of mental health and wellbeing from nearly 1 million observations by Daisy Fancourt, Feifei Bu, Jessica K Bone

“…Data were analysed using linear mixed-effects models.Findings There is a clear time-of-day pattern in self-reported mental health and well-being, with people generally waking up feeling best and feeling worst around midnight. …”
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The legal relevance of unilateral copyright statements on websites by D. I. Shmatkov, D. V. Pashniev, O. V. Khliestkov, S. O. Kolomiitsev

“…In the research process, such methods as analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, methods of generalization, study of documentation and methods of descriptive statistics were used. …”
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Management of business risks of wholesale companies by Igor Kryvovyazyuk

“…The methodological basis of the research is the system of methods used to obtain the final results: theoretical generalization, scientific abstraction and comparison – to deepen the essence of the concept of “business risk”; analysis and synthesis, grouping – for classification of business risks in the sphere of wholesale trade; methods of analysis, synthesis and logical generalization – to obtain conclusions during determination of the state and problems of realization of business activity in the sphere of wholesale trade of enterprises of Ukraine; systematic approach – for improvement of system of management of business risks of enterprises of wholesale trade on the basis of commercial values. …”
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Rhabillez-moi ! Stratégies sur mesure dans la réhabilitation de cinq immeubles de logements postmodernes parisiens by Julien Correia

“…The book Paris Postmoderne, published in 2023, highlights the large number of Parisian buildings from the 1973-1993 period that are often visible but generally unknown. In proposing this inventory, Jean-Louis Violeau invites us to reflect on the future of this built heritage. …”
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Multi-criteria group decision-making with extended ELECTRE III method and regret theory based on probabilistic interval-valued intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy information by Chuanyang Ruan, Shicheng Gong, Xiangjing Chen

“…Firstly, this paper proposes two new aggregation operators, including the generalized probabilistic interval-valued intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy weighted averaging (GPIVIHFWA) operator and the generalized probabilistic interval-valued intuitionistic hesitant fuzzy weighted geometric (GPIVIHFWG) operator. …”
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The communicative status of an individual in a digital society by Yu. A. Chernavin

“…The peculiarities of the interaction of the objective and subjective in the digital space are revealed by analyzing, on the one hand, the phenomenon of a “digital double” created as a result of generalization of indicators of a person’s “digital footprint” regardless of his desire or unwillingness, on the other hand, the purposeful formation of an individual’s “avatar”. …”
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Association between Lipid Profiles and Serum Urate: A Cross-Sectional Study in Southwestern China by Jiying Qi, Xiaojuan Dai, Binbin Zhou, Yang Su, Zhen Xie, Dongmei Liu

“…This was a cross-sectional study involving 122,351 participants aged 18–99 years from a check-up centre in Southwestern China. Generalized additive models and smooth curve fitting were conducted to explore the association between components of lipid profiles and serum urate. …”
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CORRUPTION'S EFFECT ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT – THE CASE OF MONTENEGRO by Elvira Pupović

“…For example, low risk investments such as cash generally provide a lower return than high risk investments over the long term, but are unlikely to lead to a capital loss. …”
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CORRUPTION'S EFFECT ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT – THE CASE OF MONTENEGRO by Elvira Pupović

“…For example, low risk investments such as cash generally provide a lower return than high risk investments over the long term, but are unlikely to lead to a capital loss. …”
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Geoelectrical Characterization of Aquifer Precincts in Parts of Lapai, North Central Nigeria by MT Tsepav, SI Ibrahim, FA Bayegun

“…The consequence of this revelation is that the area is generally unprotected as it allows for infiltration and subsequent contamination of the groundwater and hence good groundwater quality cannot be guaranteed in the area.…”
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Pixel-wise navigation line extraction of cross-growth-stage seedlings in complex sugarcane fields and extension to corn and rice by Hongwei Li, Hongwei Li, Xindong Lai, Yongmei Mo, Deqiang He, Tao Wu, Tao Wu

“…An assessment was conducted on a sugarcane dataset. Meanwhile, the generalization capacity of the proposed algorithm has been further verified on corn and rice datasets. …”
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Multi-Scenario Simulation Evaluation and Strategic Zoning of Habitat Services Based on Habitat Quality and Ecological Network: A Case Study of Lanzhou City by Jin Shi, Xianglong Tang

“…The coupling coordination degree of the four scenarios generally lies within a mild imbalance level, with a spatial distribution pattern characterized by “high in the west and low in the east”. …”
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Cross-Domain Person Re-Identification Based on Multi-Branch Pose-Guided Occlusion Generation by Pengnan Liu, Yanchen Wang, Yunlong Li, Deqiang Cheng, Feixiang Xu

“…This enrichment improves the model’s generalization. Finally, a dynamic convolution kernel is constructed to calculate the similarity between images. …”
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