Parallel one forms on special Finsler manifolds by Salah G. Elgendi

“…Consequently, we observed that certain $ (\alpha, \beta) $-metrics and generalized $ (\alpha, \beta) $-metrics did not admit parallel 1-forms.…”
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AI, big data, and robots for the evolution of biotechnology by Haseong Kim

“…In the biosciences field in Korea, such technologies have become known to the local public with the introduction of the AI doctor Watson in large number of hospitals. Additionally, AlphaFold, a technology resembling the AI AlphaGo for the game Go, has surpassed the limit on protein folding predictions—the most challenging problems in the field of protein biology. …”
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Measuring Cardiovascular Disease Risk Perception: Translation and Validation of the Indonesian ABCD Risk Questionnaire by Septa Meriana Lumbantoruan, Deby Kristiani Uligraff, Eva Berthy Tallutondok

“…The internal consistency was acceptable based on Cronbach alpha and ordinal alpha. The Indonesian version of ABCD questionnaire was statistically valid and reliable to be used. …”
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Implications of Raychaudhuri equation and geodesic focusing in interacting two fluid systems by Madhukrishna Chakraborty, Subenoy Chakraborty

“…In the present work, the signature of the Raychaudhuri scalar or convergence scalar has been examined for two types of interaction forms namely, (i) $$Q=H(\alpha \rho _1+\beta \rho _2)$$ Q = H ( α ρ 1 + β ρ 2 ) (linear) and (ii) $$Q=\dfrac{H\xi \rho _1\rho _2}{\alpha \rho _1+\beta \rho _2}$$ Q = H ξ ρ 1 ρ 2 α ρ 1 + β ρ 2 (non-linear). …”
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Serum IL-1<mml:math alttext="$eta $"> <mml:mi>&#x03B2;</mml:mi> </mml:math>, IL-2, and IL-6 in Insulin-Dependent Diabetic Children

“…The aim of this study was to investigate serum concentrations of interleukin (IL)-1<mml:math alttext="$eta $"> <mml:mi>&#x03B2;</mml:mi> </mml:math>, IL-2, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-<mml:math alttext="$alpha $"> <mml:mi>&#x03B1;</mml:mi> </mml:math> in children IDDM. …”
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Psychometric Properties of the Moore Index of Nutrition Self-Care in Arabic: A Study among Saudi Adolescents at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Adel Bashatah, Khalid A. Alahmary

“…The validity and reliability were examined using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The construct validity was examined through principal component analysis. …”
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Pengaruh Paparan Media Sosial Terhadap Perilaku Self-harm Pada Pengguna Media Sosial Emerging Adulthood by Risma Amelia Widyawati, Afif Kurniawan

“…Alat ukur paparan media sosial  dan alat ukur self-harm disusun peneliti sendiri, memiliki koefisien reliabilitas cronbach alpha sebesar 0,922 sedangkan alat ukur self-harm memiliki koefisien reliabilitas cronbach alpha sebesar 0,942. …”
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Kolmogorov-type inequalities for functions with asymmetric restrictions on the highest derivative by V.A. Kofanov

“…For $k, r\in {\rm \bf N}$, $k<r$; $q\ge 1$, $p>0$; $\alpha, \beta>0$ and for functions $x\in L_{\infty}^r({\rm\bf R})$ inequalities that estimate the norm $\|x_{\pm }^{(k)}\|_{L_q[a,b]}$ on an arbitrary segment $[a,b] \subset {\rm\bf R}$ such that $\;x^{(k)}(a)=x^{(k)}(b)=0$ via a local norm of the function $|||x^{\uparrow \downarrow}|||_p :=\sup \left\{ E_0(x)_{L_p[a,b]}: \; \pm x'(t) > 0 \; \forall t\in (a,b), \;\; a,b\in \rm \bf R \right\},$ and the asymmetric norm $\|\alpha^{-1}x_+^{(r)}+\beta ^{-1}x_-^{(r)}\| _{\infty}$ of its highest derivative are proved, where $E_0(x)_{L_p([a,b])}:= \inf \{\|x - c\|_{L_p([a,b])}: c \in {\rm \bf R }\}$. …”
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Stroke ICF Core Element Scale and Stroke Common Functional Scale: Association Studies by Qiao JIN, Xiaoyan YANG, Qijing REN

“…Objective:To investigate the correlation between Stroke ICF Core Element Scale and Stroke Common Functional Scale.Methods:Using Stroke ICF Core Element Scale, Fugl-Meyer Scale, Modified Barthel Index (MBI) to assess 50 cases of stroke patients, performing the correlation test with <italic>Pearson</italic> coefficient, <italic>Kappa</italic> value and <italic>Cronbach</italic> alpha coefficient to evaluate the validity, reliability and content consistency of the ICF Scale.Results:The <italic>Kappa</italic> values were between 0.676-0.958 (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001), with a good test-retest reliability and inter-rater reliability, the evaluation outcomes of two raters had a better consistency; <italic>Cronbach</italic> alpha coefficient had a good consistency in body functions, activities, participation and the environmental factors. …”
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Pengaruh Dukungan Sosial Teman Sebaya terhadap Motivasi Berprestasi Siswa Tunarungu di Sekolah Inklusi by Eza Wahyuni Suraida, Tino Leonardi

“…Alat ukur dukungan sosial yang digunakan peneliti memiliki koefisien reliabilitas cronbach alpha sebesar 0,929. Alat ukur motivasi berprestasi memiliki koefisien reliabilitas cronbach alpha sebesar 0,910. …”
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Green Supply Chain Management: an Analysis of the Supplier-Agro Industry Relationship of a Southern Brazilian Company by Simone Sehnem, Gean Pacheco de Oliveira

“…Therefore, this work can be considered a guide for improving the practices adopted by small and medium - sized suppliers of Alpha. The role of alpha is essential for induction of G reen Supply Chain Management in the supply chain as a whole.…”
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Fundamental solution of the time-space bi-fractional diffusion equation with a kinetic source term for anomalous transport by Anis Allagui, Georgii Paradezhenko, Anastasiia Pervishko, Dmitry Yudin, Hachemi Benaoum

“…Using the Laplace-Fourier transforms method, it is shown that the parametric solutions are expressed in terms of the Fox’s H-function that we evaluate for different values of $$\alpha$$ α and $$\beta$$ β .…”
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Development of Self-Regulation Scale for Adolescents by Furkan Kaşıkcı, Selahiddin Öğülmüş

“…The gender measurement invariance of the scale was made and it was concluded that the scale measures the same construct in both men and women. Cronbach Alpha, McDonald Omega Reliability, and Combined Reliability (CR) values were calculated to test the measurement reliability. …”
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Psychometric Validation of the Persian Version of Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MHLC-C) for Menopausal Women by Khadijeh Khademi, Mohammad Hossein Kaveh, Mahin Nazari, Abdolrahim Asadollahi

“…Reliability was further established through Cronbach’s alpha and McDonald’s Omega coefficients. The predictive relevance of the model and associations between constructs were analyzed using various statistical measures. …”
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Psychometric properties of the Iranian version of the dissociative experiences measure, Oxford (DEMO) by Seyed Ruhollah Hosseini, Sepehr Maghsoudi, Abbas Firoozabadi, Nikzad Ghanbari, Maryam Shamsaei

“…The internal reliability was satisfactory for the total scale (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.93) and the five subscales (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.89 for unreality, 0.87 for numb and disconnected, 0.80 for memory blanks, 0.85 for zoned out, and 0.79 for vivid internal world). …”
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Comparison of Rapidly Proliferating, Multipotent Aortic Valve-Derived Stromal Cells and Valve Interstitial Cells in the Human Aortic Valve by Yuming Huang, Kang Xu, Tingwen Zhou, Peng Zhu, Nianguo Dong, Jiawei Shi

“…In addition, runt-related transcription factor 2 and Ki-67 proteins were also markedly upregulated in VDSCs, whereas there was less expression of the focal adhesion genes integrin alpha and laminin alpha in VDSCs compared to VICs. …”
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Physical-aware model accuracy estimation for protein complex using deep learning method by Haodong Wang, Meng Sun, Lei Xie, Dong Liu, Guijun Zhang

“…With the breakthrough of AlphaFold2 on monomers, the research focus of structure prediction has shifted to protein complexes, driving the continued development of new methods for multimer structure prediction. …”
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Human Platelets Take up Anti-VEGF Agents by B. Sobolewska, B. Fehrenbacher, P. Münzer, H. Kalbacher, S. Geue, Konstantinos Stellos, M. Schaller, F. Ziemssen

“…Ranibizumab and aflibercept were mainly detected in alpha-granules; however, bevacizumab was equally localized in alpha-granules and in platelet vesicles. …”
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Lipschitz Analysis of g-Phase Retrievable Frames by Mohammad Ali Hasankhani Fard

“…In this paper we study the Lipschitz analysis of the nonlinear map $\alpha_{\lambda,{\mathcal{F}}}:\widehat{\mathcal{H}_n}\longrightarrow\mathbb{F}^m, \ \ \ \alpha_{\lambda,{\mathcal{F}}}(\hat{x}):=\begin{bmatrix}\lambda\left( \left\langle {x,f_k}\right\rangle\right)\end{bmatrix}_{1\leq k\leq m}$, where $\widehat{\mathcal{H}_n}$ is the quotient space corresponding to a special equivalence relation on $\mathcal{H}_n$ with respect to phase coefficient function $\lambda$,  $\mathcal{F}=\{f_k\}_{k=1}^m$ is a $\lambda$-phase retrievable frame for $\mathcal{H}_n$, $\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{R}$ for real Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_n$ and $\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{C}$ for complex Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_n$.…”
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