Limited data based kinetic modeling and optimization of propionic acid synthesis over supported Rh/C catalyst by László Balogh, Jenő Bódis, Botond Szilágyi, Ágnes Bárkányi, Attila Egedy

“…The study presents in the aforedescribed spirit, the synthesis of propionic acid, where the various goals are optimally realized by unleashing the predictive power of nonlinear process model. A method for synthesizing propionic acid is through the heterogeneous catalytic reaction route between ethylene gas, carbon monoxide, and water. …”
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Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Different Groups of Phenolic Compounds from Grape Skin Pomaces: Modeling and Optimization by Natka Ćurko, Karla Kelšin, Verica Dragović-Uzelac, Davor Valinger, Marina Tomašević, Karin Kovačević Ganić

“…The presented ANN model accurately predicted the effect of the three input parameters simultaneously on the output parameters (training R2=0.9957; test R2=0.9945; validation R2=0.9965). …”
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Comparative analysis of bioaccessibility tests for metals and metalloids: Methodological advancements and implications for consumer product safety by Buyun Jeong, Dong-Jun Baek, Haeun Kim, Seon-Woo Kwon, Jung-Hwan Kwon, Jinsung An

“…Bioaccessibility is crucial in human health risk assessment as it predicts the fraction of metals and metalloids absorbed by the human body. …”
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Multi-spatial urban function modeling: A multi-modal deep network approach for transfer and multi-task learning by Zhaoya Gong, Chenglong Wang, Bin Liu, Binbo Li, Wei Tu, Yuting Chen, Zhicheng Deng, Pengjun Zhao

“…We further validate the superior generalizability of our approach across various urban tasks, such as predicting urban land-use, housing prices, and population density, over other baselines. …”
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The Determinants of Sexual Intercourse Before Age 16 Years Among Rural Jamaican Adolescents by Olaniyi J. Ekundayo, Joana Dodson-Stallworth, Michele Roofe, Inmaculada B. Aban, Laura H. Bachmann, Mirjam C. Kempf, John Ehiri, Pauline E. Jolly

“…Multivariate logistic regression was used to predict independent influences of these factors. The mean age at sexual debut was 11 years for boys and 15 years for girls. …”
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Digital technologies for water use and management in agriculture: Recent applications and future outlook by Carlos Parra-López, Saker Ben Abdallah, Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Abdo Hassoun, Hana Trollman, Sandeep Jagtap, Sumit Gupta, Abderrahmane Aït-Kaddour, Sureerat Makmuang, Carmen Carmona-Torres

“…UAV-mounted multispectral cameras) can accurately monitor soil moisture to optimise irrigation scheduling, while AI-driven models (e.g. random forest or neural networks) can predict groundwater recharge or forecast rainfall events. …”
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Towards a Noninvasive Intracranial Tumor Irradiation Using 3D Optical Imaging and Multimodal Data Registration by R. Posada, Ch. Daul, D. Wolf, P. Aletti

“…The global transformation, computed with the two previous transformations, is sufficient to predict the tumor position in the irradiation machine coordinate system with only the corresponding position in the CT-coordinate system. …”
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Effects of residential acaricide treatments on patterns of pathogen coinfection in blacklegged ticks by Richard S. Ostfeld, Sahar Adish, Stacy Mowry, William Bremer, Shannon Duerr, Andrew S. Evans, Ilya R. Fischhoff, Fiona Keating, Jennifer Pendleton, Ashley Pfister, Marissa Teator, Felicia Keesing, Ala Tabor

“…Here, we used data from a large-scale, long-term experiment to ask whether patterns of single and multiple infections in questing nymphal I. scapularis ticks from residential neighbourhoods differed from those predicted by independent assortment of pathogens, and whether patterns of coinfection were affected by residential application of commercial acaricidal products. …”
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On Transformation and Stress–Strain–Temperature Behavior of Fine-Grained Ni-Rich NiTi Wire vs. Aging Mode by Elena Ryklina, Kristina Polyakova, Victor Komarov, Semen Murygin, Anton Konopatsky, Vladimir Andreev, Adilet Ulanov

“…The regularities obtained can be used to predict the set of functional and mechanical properties of titanium nickelide.…”
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Clinical outcomes of intravenous urography-assisted shockwave lithotripsy for radiolucent ureteral stones by Shinya Somiya, Shigeki Koterazawa, Katsuhiro Ito, Takao Haitani, Yuki Makino, Ryuichiro Arakaki, Norio Kawase, Yoshihito Higashi, Hitoshi Yamada, Toru Kanno

“…The multivariate analysis was used to examine whether the intravenous urography use predicted treatment success. Furthermore, we compared the outcomes using propensity score matching. …”
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Enhanced interannual variability of the terrestrial carbon sink in China under high emissions by Han Wu, Li Zhang, Honglin He, Xiaoli Ren, Mengyu Zhang, Dingjin Chu, Yuanhao Zheng

“…Our results highlight the crucial influence of future fluctuations in monsoon climate systems on terrestrial carbon sink IAV and the urgency of reducing the uncertainties of Earth system models in predicting both climate in monsoon regions and the responses of carbon cycling processes to temperature.…”
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Synthesis and evaluation of nitrochromene derivatives as potential antileishmanial therapeutics through biological and computational studies by Niloofar Javid, Ali Asadipour, Ehsan Salarkia, Mohammad Amin Langarizadeh, Fatemeh Sharifi, Mohammad Mahdavi, Bagher Amirheidari, Aida Iraji, Hojjat Rezaiezadeh, Gholamreza Hassanpour, Yaghoub Pourshojaei

“…This assessment employed both in vitro techniques to directly observe the compounds’ effects on the parasite and in silico methods, specifically molecular docking studies, to predict and analyze the interaction between the synthesized compounds and various target proteins of the parasite. …”
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Estimation of Abbreviated Cyclosporine A Area under the Concentration-Time Curve in Allogenic Stem Cell Transplantation after Oral Administration by Hanene ELjebari, Nadia Ben Fradj, Issam Salouage, Emna Gaies, Sameh Trabelsi, Nadia Jebabli, Mohamed Lakhal, Tarek Ben Othman, Anis Kouz

“…The LSS equation with the best predictive performance (bias, precision and number of samples) utilized three sampling concentrations was AUC0–12 h=0.607+1.569×𝐶0.5+2.098×𝐶2+3.603×𝐶4(R2=0.943). …”
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Physiological and intestinal microbiota responses of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus to various stress and signatures of intestinal microbiota dysbiosis by Liang Cui, Yumeng Xie, Kai Luo, Mingyang Wang, Longzhen Liu, Longzhen Liu, Changlin Li, Xiangli Tian

“…The complexity and stability of microbial ecological networks were further altered by these stresses. KEGG predictions revealed the reduced functional pathways of intestinal microbiota involved in host immunity under different stresses. …”
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Evaluation of Digital PCR as a Technique for Monitoring Acute Rejection in Kidney Transplantation by Hyeseon Lee, Young-Mi Park, Yu-Mee We, Duck Jong Han, Jung-Woo Seo, Haena Moon, Yu-Ho Lee, Yang-Gyun Kim, Ju-Young Moon, Sang-Ho Lee, Jong-Keuk Lee

“…Finally, we found that donor-derived cfDNA measurement by dPCR was not sufficient to predict a patient's clinical condition. Our results indicate that donor-derived cfDNA is not an accurate predictor of kidney status in kidney transplant patients.…”
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Mitotane-Induced Hyperlipidemia: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Hassan Shawa, Ferhat Deniz, Hadil Bazerbashi, Mike Hernandez, Rena Vassilopoulou-Sellin, Camilo Jimenez, Mouhammed Amir Habra

“…Gender, body mass index, cortisol overproduction, baseline levels of HDL-c, and triglyceride did not predict change in HDL-c. Similar changes were noticed in subgroup analysis after excluding patients who were using lipid-lowering agents. …”
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Degradation kinetics, pathways, transformation products, and toxicity assessment of fluorochloridone in agricultural soils by Dong Zhao, Hongyu Chen, Shuo Shen, Enyu Lu, Junlong Feng, Hui Zhi, Lei Wang, Wei Li

“…The primary transformation reactions of FLC in the environment include oxidative dechlorination, reductive dechlorination, reductive defluorination, acetylation, and hydrolysis. Predictive assessments via ECOSAR, alongside empirical laboratory experiments, revealed that most novel TPs exhibit significantly lower acute toxicity towards Danio rerio, Daphnia magna Straus, and Algae compared to FLC. …”
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K-nearest neighbor algorithm for imputing missing longitudinal prenatal alcohol data by Ayesha Sania, Ayesha Sania, Nicolò Pini, Nicolò Pini, Morgan E. Nelson, Michael M. Myers, Michael M. Myers, Lauren C. Shuffrey, Maristella Lucchini, Maristella Lucchini, Amy J. Elliott, Amy J. Elliott, Hein J. Odendaal, William P. Fifer, William P. Fifer

“…After deleting data segments from the first trimester data set with no missing days, there was no difference between actual and predicted values for 64% of deleted segments. For 31% of the segments, imputed data were within +/−1 drink/day of the actual. …”
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Investigating Two-dimensional Horizontal Mesh Grid Effects on the Eulerian Atmospheric Transport Model Using Artificial Neural Network by Amine Ajdour, Brahim Ydir, Houria Bouzghiba, Ishaq Dimeji Sulaymon, Anas Adnane, Dris Ben Hmamou, Kenza Khomsi, Jamal Chaoufi, Gábor Géczi, Radouane Leghrib

“…The second aspect demonstrates: (4) CHIMERE-Artificial Neural Network (CHIMERE-ANN) demonstrates high accuracy in predicting ozone levels for Agadir and Casablanca, achieving improved correlation coefficients of 80% and 94%, respectively, accompanied by a notable decrease in Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) to 7.5 µg m–3 and 7.4 µg m–3. (5) Implementing CHIMERE-ANN with high spatial resolution concentrations (RA3 and RC3) enhances the accuracy of pollutant concentration forecasts. …”
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Estimating and forecasting bitcoin daily prices using ARIMA-GARCH models by Quang Phung Duy, Oanh Nguyen Thi, Phuong Hao Le Thi, Hai Duong Pham Hoang, Khanh Linh Luong, Kim Ngan Nguyen Thi

“…The study looks at how predictable Bitcoin price swings and market volatility will be between 2021 and 2023. …”
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