Premorbid and current intellectual performance reflects different backgrounds in patients with Parkinson's disease by Hidetomo Murakami, Machiko Kezuka, Junnosuke Ozawa, Kaoru Matsuoka, Tatsuya Nakanishi, Atsushi Ishida, Naohito Ito, Mizuki Kanemoto, Mitsuru Kawamura

“…Premorbid IQs (verbal IQ: VIQ, performance IQ: PIQ, and full scale IQ: FIQ) were estimated using JART. Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated for background factors (current age, years of education, UPDRS Part III, and levodopa equivalent dose of prescribed drugs (LED)) with MoCA scores and estimated IQs. …”
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Relationship between body volume and rib eye area in Colombian buffalo cattle by Sebastián Pineda-Sierra, Divier Antonio Agudelo-Gómez, Edison Julián Ramírez-Toro, Diana Carolina Solano-Suárez, Andrés Felipe Pérez-Rojo

“…Therefore, searching for alternatives that facilitate REA estimation is crucial for livestock producers. This study aimed to estimate the relationship between body volume and REA in Murrah buffalo. …”
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Area under the Curve-Based Dosing of Vancomycin in Critically Ill Patients Using 6-Hour Urine Creatinine Clearance Measurement by Bita Shahrami, Farhad Najmeddin, Saeideh Ghaffari, Atabak Najafi, Mohammad Reza Rouini, Mojtaba Mojtahedzadeh

“…Since AUC can be calculated directly using drug clearance (CLvan), any parameter estimating CLvan will be able to achieve the goal of 24-hour AUC (AUC24 h). …”
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Evaluating agreement between individual nutrition randomised controlled trials and cohort studies - a meta-epidemiological study by Julia Stadelmaier, Gina Bantle, Lea Gorenflo, Eva Kiesswetter, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Lukas Schwingshackl

“…Two reviewers independently extracted study characteristics and effect estimates and rated the risk of bias using RoB2 and ROBINS-E. …”
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On the Evaluation of the Hyperthermic Efficiency of Magnetic Scaffolds by Matteo B. Lodi, Antonios Makridis, Konstantina Kazeli, Theodoros Samaras, Makis Angelakeris, Giuseppe Mazzarella, Alessandro Fanti

“…However, the crucial evaluation of their heating potential has been carried out with significantly different, lab specific, variable experimental conditions and protocols often ignoring the several error sources and inaccuracies estimation. <italic>Methods:</italic> This work comments and provides a perspective analysis of an experimental protocol for the estimation methodology of the specific absorption rate (SAR) of MagS for DST HT. …”
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Methods to Adjust for Confounding in Test-Negative Design COVID-19 Effectiveness Studies: Simulation Study by Elizabeth AK Rowley, Patrick K Mitchell, Duck-Hye Yang, Ned Lewis, Brian E Dixon, Gabriela Vazquez-Benitez, William F Fadel, Inih J Essien, Allison L Naleway, Edward Stenehjem, Toan C Ong, Manjusha Gaglani, Karthik Natarajan, Peter Embi, Ryan E Wiegand, Ruth Link-Gelles, Mark W Tenforde, Bruce Fireman

“…ResultsBias in VE estimates from multivariable models ranged from –5.3% to 6.1% across 4 levels of vaccination. …”
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A Prediction Method of Tensile Young's Modulus of Concrete at Early Age by Isamu Yoshitake, Farshad Rajabipour, Yoichi Mimura, Andrew Scanlon

“…Knowledge of the tensile Young's modulus of concrete at early ages is important for estimating the risk of cracking due to restrained shrinkage and thermal contraction. …”
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Detecting Anomalies in Meteorological Data Using Support Vector Regression by Min-Ki Lee, Seung-Hyun Moon, Yourim Yoon, Yong-Hyuk Kim, Byung-Ro Moon

“…The difference between the estimated value and the actual observed value determines if the observed value is abnormal or not. …”
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Sign Inference for Dynamic Signed Networks via Dictionary Learning by Yi Cen, Rentao Gu, Yuefeng Ji

“…Based on this compact dictionary, the relationships in the dynamic signed mOSNs are estimated via solving the formulated problem. Furthermore, the estimation accuracy is improved by employing a dictionary self-updating mechanism.…”
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Regression Analysis for Outcome-Dependent Sampling Design under the Covariate-Adjusted Additive Hazards Model by Yingli Pan, Songlin Liu, Yanli Zhou, Guangyu Song

“…Firstly, the importance and originality of this paper is that it explores how to fit the covariate-adjusted additive Hazard model under the ODS design; secondly, this paper focused on estimating the distortion function through nonparametric regression and required observation of the covariate on the confounding factors of distortion; moreover, this paper further calibrated the contaminated covariates and proposed the estimators of the parameters by analyzing the calibrated covariates; finally, this paper established the large sample property and asymptotic normality of the proposed estimators and conducted many more simulations to evaluate the finite sample performance of the proposed method. …”
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Nonlinear Dynamic Behaviour Analysis of a Clutch System with Uncertainties Using Polynomial Chaos and the Constrained Harmonic Balance Method by M.-H. Trinh, S. Berger, E. Aubry

“…This estimation is analyzed using the limit cycles. This article aims to study the ability of robust approaches based on developments in nonintrusive generalized polynomial chaos and a constrained harmonic balance method to estimate the vibration levels through the limit cycles of a clutch system in the presence of uncertainty. …”
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A New Expanded Mixed Element Method for Convection-Dominated Sobolev Equation by Jinfeng Wang, Yang Liu, Hong Li, Zhichao Fang

“…We derive the optimal a priori error estimates in L2-norm for the scalar unknown u and a priori error estimates in (L2)2-norm for its gradient λ and its flux σ. …”
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Examining the Bus Ridership Demand: Application of Spatio-Temporal Panel Models by Moshiur Rahman, Shamsunnahar Yasmin, Ahmadreza Faghih-Imani, Naveen Eluru

“…The model estimation results are further augmented by a validation exercise. …”
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Specifics of costs classification as a key object of managerial accounting in hotel industry by I. Rogova

“…The key object of managerial accounting is costs estimation. The article views the specifics of costs classification for companies operating in hospitality industry. …”
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Analysis of the possible consequences of large-scale production of sand and gravel mixture in the downstream of large hydroelectric facilities based on hydrodynamic modeling (the V... by Anatoliy V. Lepikhin, Yuri S. Lyakhin, Alexey A. Tiunov, Anna A. Wozniak, Anton I. Luchnikov, Dmitiy V. Perepelitsa, Andrey V. Bogomolov

“…This estimation is necessary for development of measures aimed at minimization of negative aftermath and provision of the interest balance between water users.…”

Economic Feasibility of Biofuel Crops in Florida: Sugarcane on Mineral Soils by José Alvarez, Zane R. Helsel

“… This 9-page fact sheet provides estimates of costs and returns to produce ethanol from sugarcane, rather than sugar. …”
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Least-Squares-Based Iterative Identification Algorithm for Wiener Nonlinear Systems by Lincheng Zhou, Xiangli Li, Feng Pan

“…The application of the key-term separation principle provides a simplified form of the estimated parameter model. To solve the identification problem of Wiener nonlinear systems with the unmeasurable variables in the information vector, the least-squares-based iterative algorithm is presented by replacing the unmeasurable variables in the information vector with their corresponding iterative estimates. …”
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Economic Feasibility of Biofuel Crops in Florida: Sugarcane on Mineral Soils by José Alvarez, Zane R. Helsel

“… This 9-page fact sheet provides estimates of costs and returns to produce ethanol from sugarcane, rather than sugar. …”
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Three-Dimensional Target Localization and Cramér-Rao Bound for Two-Dimensional OFDM-MIMO Radar by Xingxing Li, Dangwei Wang, Xiaoyan Ma

“…Furthermore, for mitigating the coupling of angle and range and further improving the estimation precision, a CRB optimization method is proposed. …”
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Demand and Equilibrium Price of Health Care: A Structural Equation Approach by Firano Zakaria, Elhamyani Abdelilah, El Marzouki Abdenbi

“…In this article, we propose a new approach to estimating health-care demand. The aim of this paper is to determine the production costs of health care from the demand function of care. …”
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