Estimating the costs of Israel’s four COVID-19 waves by Panagiotis TSIGARIS, Jaime A. TEIXEIRA DA SILVA, Francesco CHIRICO

“…Methods: Four costs of the pandemic in Israel were assessed: economic losses, costs of premature mortality, mental health, and health impairment, estimated using IMF forecasts of GDP with COVID- 19 relative to GDP without COVID-19 (i.e., the counterfactual) from 2019 until 2030, estimated number of deaths based on IHME data multiplied by VSL values, a Cutler and Summers method that assessed disutility using HRQoL, and the loss in VSL due to the disutility from suffering, respectively. …”
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Noise Source Identification Method for a Carpet Tufting Machine Based on CEEMDAN-AIC by Wang Haohui, Sheng Xiaowei, Xu Yang

“…Next, the number of effective IMFs is estimated based on the AIC criterion, and the effective IMFs are selected by combining the energy characteristic index and the Pearson correlation coefficient method. …”
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Field‐Aligned Currents Induced by Magnetopause Motions Under Pressure Perturbations by Boyi Wang, Xinyu Xu, Yukitoshi Nishimura, Yen‐Jung Wu, Zhonghua Xu, Primož Kajdic, De‐Sheng Han, Yi Wang, Xueshang Feng

“…The results show that the magnetopause motions induced by pressure enhancements associated with IMF discontinuities or foreshock cavities likely generate upward FACs in the closed field lines near the magnetopause. …”
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A Multivariate and Multistage Medium- and Long-Term Streamflow Prediction Based on an Ensemble of Signal Decomposition Techniques with a Deep Learning Network by Muhammad Sibtain, Xianshan Li, Snoober Saleem

“…ICEEMDAN was employed as a first decomposition stage, to decompose the three data series into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) and a residual component. In the second decomposition stage, the component of high frequency (IMF1) was decomposed by VMD, as the second decomposition. …”
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Public Debt of Japan: Analysis of Features and Assessment of Prospects by R. B. Nozdreva

“…Despite the pessimistic mood of the IMF, investors continue to actively acquire debt obligations of the Japanese government. …”
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What Do We Know of Childhood Exposures to Metals (Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, and Mercury) in Emerging Market Countries? by Lindsey M. Horton, Mary E. Mortensen, Yulia Iossifova, Marlena M. Wald, Paula Burgess

“…A literature review was conducted for English language articles from the 21st century on pediatric exposures to arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) top 10 Emerging Market countries: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Turkey. …”
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Phasic and periodic change of drought under greenhouse effect by Yang Li, Zhicheng Zheng, Yaochen Qin, Haifeng Tian, Zhixiang Xie, Peijun Rong

“…Drought variation was predominantly influenced by interannual oscillations, with the periods of the components of intrinsic mode functions 1 (IMF1) and 2 (IMF2) being 3.1 and 7.3 years, respectively. …”
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How geomagnetic storms affect the loss of Starlink satellites in February 2022? by Nizam Ahmad, La Ode Muhammad Musafar Kilowasid, Hanif Fakhrurroja, Neflia, Abdul Rachman, Asnawi Husin, Haries Fathoni

“…We employed the solar wind and IMF Bz to see their impact on geomagnetic activity. …”
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Storm‐Time Ring Current Plasma Pressure Prediction Based on the Multi‐Output Convolutional Neural Network Model by Yun Yan, Zi‐Kang Xie, Chao Yue, Jiu‐Tong Zhao, Fan Yang, Lun Xie, Qiu‐Gang Zong, Xu‐Zhi Zhou, Shan Wang

“…Taking solar wind parameters, interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) data, and geomagnetic indices with a time history of 3 days as input parameters, the model shows good performances for electron plasma pressure, H+ plasma pressure, He+ plasma pressure, and O+ plasma pressure in both quiet‐time and storm‐time periods, with high correlation coefficients and small root mean square errors between the measured and the predicted values. …”
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TÜRKİYE’DE KAMU PERSONEL POLİTİKALARININ SÜREÇ MODELİ ÇERÇEVESİNDE ANALİZİ - AN ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC PERSONNEL POLICIES IN THE FRAMEWORK OF PROCESS MODEL IN TURKEY by Osman Kürşat Acar, Elvettin Akman

“…Türkiye’nin kamu personel politikaları, çok sık değişen ve genellikle Türk siyasal hayatındaki darbeler, hükümet krizleri, ekonomik krizler gibi sorunlardan etkilenerek tepki politikaları olarak ortaya konulan, daha çok maliyeci bakış açısıyla üretilen, yerel dinamiklerden ziyade IMF, Dünya Bankası ve Avrupa Birliği gibi uluslararası ve ulus-üstü kuruluşların etkileri ile batılılaşma ekseninde oluşan politikalardır. …”
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EAST ASIA - REGIONAL OR GLOBAL FINANCIAL INTEGRATION? by S. V. Nozdrev

“…The information base of the studies was based on reports and statistics of the World Bank (IBRD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Asian Development Bank, as well as analytical materials of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of RAS.…”
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The Effects of Concentrate Supplement Levels on Feed Utilization and Red Meat Production of Blackhead Somali Sheep Fed Natural Pasture Grass Hay as a Basal Diet by Shashie Ayele Yimenu, Mengistu Urge Letta

“…In most parameters considered in this study, sheep fed T2 (1.75% BW) were superior, but its intramuscular fat (IMF) content was much higher than the limit that the consumers needed. …”
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Ionospheric Response to the 24–27 February 2023 Solar Flare and Geomagnetic Storms Over the European Region Using a Machine Learning–Based Tomographic Technique by Ting Li, Dunyong Zheng, Changyong He, Fei Ye, Pengfei Yuan, Yibin Yao, Mengguang Liao, Jian Xie

“…The first flare generated the Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), which continued southward for 13 hr, causing a small magnetic storm before the second flare occurred, resulting in an increased nighttime IED and nighttime medium‐scale traveling ionospheric disturbance (MSTID). …”
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A novel protein encoded by porcine circANKRD17 activates the PPAR pathway to regulate intramuscular fat metabolism by Xiao He, Fang Xie, Ying Nie, Xuefeng Wang, Junyi Luo, Ting Chen, Qianyun Xi, Yongliang Zhang, Jiajie Sun

“…Using single-cell sequencing, we identified 477 differentially expressed genes in IMF cells between Lantang and Landrace piglets, with enrichment in the PPAR signaling pathway. …”
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ALMA Observations of Massive Clouds in the Central Molecular Zone: External-pressure-confined Dense Cores and Salpeter-like Core Mass Functions by Zhenying Zhang, Xing Lu, Tie Liu, Sheng-Li Qin, Adam Ginsburg, Yu Cheng, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Daniel L. Walker, Xindi Tang, Shanghuo Li, Qizhou Zhang, Thushara Pillai, Jens Kauffmann, Cara Battersby, Siyi Feng, Suinan Zhang, Qi-Lao Gu, Fengwei Xu, Wenyu Jiao, Xunchuan Liu, Li Chen, Qiu-yi Luo, Xiaofeng Mai, Zi-yang Li, Dongting Yang, Xianjin Shen, Meizhu Liu, Zhiqiang Shen

“…Combined with the possible top-heavy initial mass functions (IMFs) in the CMZ, our result suggests that gas accretion and further fragmentation may play important roles in transforming the CMF to the IMF.…”
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COVID-19 – if the cure is worse than the disease. The Italian chaos by Giuseppe FERRARI

“…The Italian lockdown is proving to be almost entirely ineffective in containing the outbreak and number of fatalities but more than enough to hit hard on the Italian economy. The IMF is in fact indicating Italy as the country will suffer one of the worst economic and social damages from the pandemic (2020 projected real GDP % change -9%). …”

Bivariate EMD-Based Data Adaptive Approach to the Analysis of Climate Variability by Md. Khademul Islam Molla, Poly Rani Ghosh, Keikichi Hirose

“…The energies of the fGn's IMFs are used to define the data adaptive threshold to separate AC. …”
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The Measurement and Elimination of Mode Splitting: From the Perspective of the Partly Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition by Bin Liu, Peng Zheng, Qilin Dai, Zhongli Zhou

“…The PEEMD method can eliminate mode mixing via the permutation entropy (PE) of the intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). Then, bilateral permutation entropy (BPE) of the IMFs is proposed as a means to detect and eliminate mode splitting by means of the reconstructed signals in the PEEMD. …”
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Scale-Dependent Signal Identification in Low-Dimensional Subspace: Motor Imagery Task Classification by Qingshan She, Haitao Gan, Yuliang Ma, Zhizeng Luo, Tom Potter, Yingchun Zhang

“…While the noise-assisted multivariate empirical mode decomposition (NA-MEMD) algorithm has been utilized to extract task-specific frequency bands from all channels in the same scale as the intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), identifying and extracting the specific IMFs that contain significant information remain difficult. …”
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Combined Failure Diagnosis of Slewing Bearings Based on MCKD-CEEMD-ApEn by Fengtao Wang, Chenxi Liu, Wensheng Su, Zhigang Xue, Qingkai Han, Hongkun Li

“…Appropriate IMFs were selected based on the correlation coefficient and kurtosis. …”
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