Comparison of Multi-Satellite Precipitation Data from the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission and Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission Datasets: Seasonal and Diurnal Cycles by Yilei Wang, Qiaoyan Wu

“…A comparison was made between seasonal and diurnal variations in the Integrated Multi-Satellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) version 06B Final run and TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) 3B42 version 7 products from April 2014 to March 2019. …”
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A novel predictive model for the compressive strength development in class G cement slurries at different temperatures, retarder, and salt concentrations by Ali Barati Harooni, Hasan Maroof, Maryam Abdollahi Khoshmardan, Omid Pourali

“…In this research, several experiments were run utilizing a non-destructive approach by using the Ultrasonic Cement Analyzer (UCA) device to evaluate the influence of temperature, retarder, and salt concentrations on the delay of 24-hour cement compressive strength. …”
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A Modified Dynamic Evolving Neural-Fuzzy Approach to Modeling Customer Satisfaction for Affective Design by C. K. Kwong, K. Y. Fung, Huimin Jiang, K. Y. Chan, Kin Wai Michael Siu

“…Validation tests were conducted and the test results indicated that: (1) the conventional Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) failed to run due to a large number of inputs; (2) the proposed dynamic neural-fuzzy model outperforms the subtractive clustering-based ANFIS model and fuzzy c-means clustering-based ANFIS model in terms of their modeling accuracy and computational effort.…”
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Exploring resistance factors on the usage of hospital information systems from the perspective of the Markus’s Model and the Technology Acceptance Model by Çiğdem Sıcakyüz, Oya Hacire Yüregir

“…This study aimed to investigate the causes of resistance by healthcare personnel to IT in Adana Numune Hastanesi, which is a state-run hospital located in Adana, Turkey. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was expanded by adding factors such as affective commitment, gender, and age. …”
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Financial inclusion: Is it a precursor to agricultural commercialization amongst smallholder farmers in Uganda? A comparative analysis between Lango and Buganda sub-regions by Eton, Marus, Fabian, Mwosi, Mary, Ejang, Sammy, Godfrey Poro

“…Chi square procedure was run to test the hypothesis that financial inclusion does not affect agricultural commercialization amongst smallholder farmers in Lango and Buganda sub-regions. …”
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Rapid, Validated UPLC-MS/MS Method for Determination of Glibenclamide in Rat Plasma by Mohd Aftab Alam, Fahad Ibrahim Al-Jenoobi, Abdullah Mohammed Al-Mohizea

“…Glibenclamide and IS elution time was about 1.0 min, and total run time was 2.0 min. The mass spectrometer (triple-quadrupole) was operated in positive electrospray ionization mode. …”
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Differences in Lower Extremity Kinematics Between High School Cross-Country and Young Adult Recreational Runners by Mark F Reinking, Nina M Carson, Bridget M End, Olivia K Miller, Joshua D Munter, Thomas G McPoil

“…# Background While previous research has assessed running kinematics for age-related differences that could increase the risk of a running-related injury, none of these studies have included high school aged runners or assessed running kinematics using 2-dimensional video analysis…”
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A cross-sectional study of opinion about mental illness among undergraduate medical students with and without exposure to the psychiatry clinical rotation/postings during their und... by B. Neeraj Raj, B. K. Shivakumar, H. R. Vinay

“…The study provides valuable insights across various domains or areas wherein a teacher can focus and adjust the teaching methodologies accordingly. In the long run, it might have a positive influence on medical students to understand mental disorders, diagnose them, and manage patients with mental illness.…”
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Long COVID in patients with rheumatologic disease: A single center observational study by Horacio Quinones-Moya, Armando Ocampo-Del Valle, Adolfo Camargo-Coronel, Francisco Javier Jimenez-Balderas, Miriam Berenice Bernal-Enriquez, Pedro Madinabeitia-Rodríguez, Kenia Nahomi Morales-Medino, Cynthia Roque-Ibanez, Mario Raúl Hernandez-Zavala

“…A lower prevalence of post-COVID symptoms was seen in patients with SLE than in the rest of the rheumatological diseases, but after we run a binary logistic regression model, most of these differences were not significant and they did not differ much from the general population.…”
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ECONOMIC FUTURE OF GLOBALIZATION by A. G. Oleynov

“…The protectionism observed today is an inefficient and temporary, at least in the long run. State regulation of national economies would gradually give way to self-regulation of the world market. …”
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Detection of new regulatory SNPs associated with colorectal cancer predisposition by E. Yu. Leberfarb, L. O. Bryzgalov, I. I. Brusentsov, T. I. Merkulova

“…To start out with, we used raw sequence data of 15 independent ChIP-seq experiments run on colorectal cancer cell line HCT-116, which allowed us to generate the initial pool of 7985 SNPs located in regulatory regions. …”
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Foreign Policy Niche of Small States: The Problem of Choice (The Case of Baltic States) by V. A. Smirnov

“…The choice of 'conflict model' entails side-effects: slowdown of social and economic development in the long run. The following research inference is made: by means of conflict model which is being realized within external political niche ("gate-keeper" and "missionary" types) political elite of the Baltic states gain additional resources in the middle-term perspective. …”
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A Comparative Study of Newly Developed HPLC-DAD and UHPLC-UV Assays for the Determination of Posaconazole in Bulk Powder and Suspension Dosage Form by Dalia A. Hamdy, Tarek S. Belal

“…Detection wavelength was 262 nm in both methods. Results. The run time was 11 and 3 minutes for HPLC-DAD and UHPLC-UV assays, respectively. …”
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INCREASING FITNESS WITH ACUPUNCTURE AND HERBS by Ario Imandiri, Diarista Salfa Pratama, Abdul Rahman

“…While in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), fitness is defined as the good circulation of Qi-energy and Xue-blood that can cause the function of the organs of Zhang Fu to run well. Physical predisposition is influenced by various factors and assessed in various ways, one of which is by measuring VO2 max calculated by doing cooper test that is running for 12 minutes on the track 400 meters. …”
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Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Quinones from Compost for Microbial Community Analysis by Ni Luh Gede Ratna Juliasih, Lee Chang Yuan, Yuki Sago, Yoichi Atsuta, Hiroyuki Daimon

“…The extracted quinones were analysed using ultra performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) with 0.3 mL min−1 of methanol mobile phase for a 50 min chromatographic run time. A comparable detected amount of quinones was obtained using the developed method and an organic solvent extraction method, being 36.06 μmol kg−1 and 34.54 μmol kg−1, respectively. …”
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Nonlinear Pounding Analysis of Multispan and Simply Supported Beam Bridges Subjected to Strong Ground Motions by Hong-Yu Jia, Xian-Lin Lan, Nan Luo, Jian Yang, Shi-Xiong Zheng, Chao Zhang

“…The impact force and pounding number run up to the maximum conditional on the collision stiffness of 9.9 × 109 (N/m) and the separation gap width of 0.14 (m). …”
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Fast and Simple LC-MS/MS Method for Rifampicin Quantification in Human Plasma by Žane Temova Rakuša, Robert Roškar, Anita Klančar Andrejc, Tina Trdan Lušin, Nataša Faganeli, Iztok Grabnar, Aleš Mrhar, Albin Kristl, Jurij Trontelj

“…The proposed method is the fastest method published by now, both in terms of sample preparation (approximately one minute per sample) and chromatographic analysis (total run time 2.4 min). Another key benefit is the outstanding sensitivity and wide analytical range (5-40000 μg/L) with good linearity, accuracy, and precision. …”
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Inclined Aerial Image and Satellite Image Matching Based on Edge Curve Direction Angle Features by Hao Wang, Chongyang Liu, Yalin Ding, Chao Sun, Guoqin Yuan, Hongwen Zhang

“…Finally, the integrated matching similarity is computed to realize aerial–satellite image matching. Experiments run on a variety of remote sensing datasets including forests, hills, farmland, and lake scenes demonstrate that the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm shows a great improvement over existing state-of-the-art algorithms.…”
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Groundwater Aquifer Vulnerability Assessment using a Dar-Zarrouk Parameter in a Proposed Aboru Residential Estate, Lagos State, Nigeria by M.A. Ayuk

“…As such, the establishment of the proposed service facilities in the study area is strongly discouraged as the nature of their operations has a high potential to contaminate and eventually pollute the sub-surface aquifers on the long-run. If however the inevitability of their establishment cannot be set-aside, then secondary measures must be taken to forestall a direct impact of their operations on the subsurface.  …”
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Partial substitution of coal with palm kernel in cement kilns: effects on cement production and quality by Kalamba Harlene Tshibola, Bolanle Deborah Ikotun, Bilal Patel

“…Coal thermal substitution rate was progressively increased depending on the process conditions with the reference case for each kiln run (2% in August 2021, 3% in September 2021 and 5% in January 2022). …”
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