Production of Biofuel Crops in Florida: Switchgrass by Yoana C. Newman, Curtis Rainbolt, Mary J. Williams, Joao Vendramini

“…This series of illustrated fact sheets introduces growers to several potential biofuel crops for Florida, with assessments of potential, description of biology, production, potential yields, production challenges and estimated costs, environmental concerns, and references. …”
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From the General Affine Transform Family to a Pareto Type IV Model by Werner Hürlimann

“…The analytical form of general affine transform families with given maximum likelihood estimators for the affine parameters is determined. …”
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Global Existence and Energy Decay Rates for a Kirchhoff-Type Wave Equation with Nonlinear Dissipation by Daewook Kim, Dojin Kim, Keum-Shik Hong, Il Hyo Jung

“…Next, we derive decay estimates of the energy under some growth conditions on the nonlinear dissipation g. …”
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Budgeting Costs and Returns for Southwest Florida Citrus Production, 2002-03 by Ronald P. Muraro, Fritz M. Roka, Robert E. Rouse

“… Estimated costs and returns of growing processed-market round oranges and fresh-market seedless grapefruit in the Southwest area of Florida are presented for the eighth consecutive year. …”
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Parameterized Hilbert-Type Integral Inequalities in the Whole Plane by Qiliang Huang, Shanhe Wu, Bicheng Yang

“…By the use of the way of real analysis, we estimate the weight functions and give some new Hilbert-type integral inequalities in the whole plane with nonhomogeneous kernels and multiparameters. …”
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Is the Life of the Students of the Northern Region Wealthy, or What the Sociological Survey Data Suggest? by V. P. Zasypkin, G. E. Zborovsky

“…The subjective aspect is presented as a cognitive and emotional reflection and estimation of objective indicators through the prism of student youth’s opinions. …”
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Inclusive photoproduction of vector quarkonium in ultra-peripheral collisions at the LHC by Jean-Philippe Lansberg, Kate Lynch, Charlotte Van Hulse, Ronan McNulty

“…We perform a tune to HERA photoproduction data, use this tune to predict the yields of photoproduced $$J/\psi $$ J / ψ , and estimate the corresponding transverse-momentum reach at LHC experiments. …”
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Optimization of Open Boundary Conditions in a 3D Internal Tidal Model with the Adjoint Method around Hawaii by Anzhou Cao, Haibo Chen, Jicai Zhang, Xianqing Lv

“…The computed surface manifestation along T/P tracks is comparable to the estimation in previous work.…”
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Investigating time-independent and time-dependent diffusion phenomena using steady-state diffusion MRI by Benjamin C. Tendler

“…I subsequently introduce an approach to incorporate existing biophysical models into DW-SSFP without the requirement of extensive derivations, with time dependence estimated via a Gaussian phase approximation representation of the DW-SSFP signal. …”
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Trajectory Simulation of Emergency Vehicles and Interactions with Surrounding Traffic by Cristián E. Cortés, Bruno Stefoni

“…The simulation considerably reduced the degree of error in delineating the path followed by the EMV compared to the default simulations generated by most commercially available software, thereby demonstrating that the API can provide highly accurate estimates of EMV trip times in an emergency context.…”
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Geospatial Design of Optimal Water Distribution Network in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria by G.C. Ufoegbune, D.O. Ayodele, A.O. Eruola, A.A. Makinde, Z.O. Ojekunle, O.O. Ilevbaoje

“…A lasting solution was also proffered through the design of a water distribution network for the estimated daily water demand for the years 2019 and 2049 irrespective of the variation in water needs of the residents in the area. …”
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A Method for Calculating the Area of Zostera marina Leaves from Digital Images with Noise Induced by Humidity Content by Cecilia Leal-Ramirez, Hector Echavarria-Heras

“…Our results show that digital image procedures can provide reliable, nondestructive estimations of eelgrass leaf area.…”
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Biophysical modeling and experimental analysis of the dynamics of C. elegans body-wall muscle cells. by Xuexing Du, Jennifer Crodelle, Victor James Barranca, Songting Li, Yunzhu Shi, Shangbang Gao, Douglas Zhou

“…Our work provides the first experimentally constrained and biophysically detailed muscle cell model of C. elegans, and our analytical framework combined with robust and efficient parametric estimation method can be extended to model construction in other species.…”
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On Dynamic Mesh Force Evaluation of Spiral Bevel Gears by Xiaoyu Sun, Yongqiang Zhao, Ming Liu, Yanping Liu

“…Comparative studies considering the two factors are performed to explore appropriate approaches to estimate the dynamic meshing load on each contacting tooth flank of spiral bevel gears. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Anticollision Algorithm for RFID System Based on Grouped Dynamic Framed Recognition and Binary Tree Recursive Process by Jian Yang, Yonghua Wang, Qingling Cai, Yiju Zhan

“…Tags are assigned to different groups based on the initial tag estimation and then experience several dynamic read frames for identification. …”
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Nucleoside analogues in treatment of liver cirrhosis as an outcome of chronic hepatitis B by I. G. Bakulin

“…The aim of review. To estimate safety and efficacy of prescription of nucleoside analogues the patient with liver cirrhosis in an outcome of chronic hepatitis B.Original positions of the report. …”
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Design and Optimization of Iron Cow Stem with Flaps by Finite Element Method and Genetic Algorithm by Khaled Kamal Oude, Ali Adelkhani

“…Then, using an artificial neural network, a model was presented to estimate the von Mises tension based on the information related to the cross-sectional area and stem curvature, and this model was able to estimate the maximum von Mises tension with an accuracy of 99%. …”
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Integrated Multiscale Latent Variable Regression and Application to Distillation Columns by Muddu Madakyaru, Mohamed N. Nounou, Hazem N. Nounou

“…Proper control of distillation columns requires estimating some key variables that are challenging to measure online (such as compositions), which are usually estimated using inferential models. …”
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The Effect of Flood Exposure on Insurance Adoption Among US Households by June Choi, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Marshall Burke

“…Abstract Despite increasing exposure to flooding and associated financial damages, estimates suggest more than two‐thirds of flood‐exposed properties are currently uninsured. …”
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The Southern Pine Beetle Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Demian Gomez, Jiri Hulcr, Jeffrey Eickwort

“…From 1960 through 1990, the bark beetle caused economic losses estimated at $900 million (Price et al. 1992). From 1998 to 2002, a four-year outbreak in the southern Appalachian Mountains affected more than 1 million acres with an economic loss of more than $1 billion (Clarke and Nowak 2009). …”
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