Simple Instrumental and Visual Tests for Nonlaboratory Environmental Control by L. P. Eksperiandova, S. V. Khimchenko, N. A. Stepanenko, I. B. Shcherbakov

“…The metrological characteristics of the developed visual and instrumental express analysis techniques are estimated.…”
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Simultaneous Determination of Caffeine and Chlorogenic Acids in Green Coffee by UV/Vis Spectroscopy by G. Navarra, M. Moschetti, V. Guarrasi, M. R. Mangione, V. Militello, M. Leone

“…The estimate of concentration values was in agreement with the one obtained by High Performance Liquid Chromatography quantification. …”
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Dominant Height Model for Site Classification of Eucalyptus grandis Incorporating Climatic Variables by José Roberto Soares Scolforo, Romualdo Maestri, Antonio Carlos Ferraz Filho, José Márcio de Mello, Antônio Donizette de Oliveira, Adriana Leandra de Assis

“…Model validation showed a gain in precision of 33% (reduction of the standard error of estimate) when climatic variables were inserted in the model. …”
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Assessment of Macular Parameter Changes in Patients with Keratoconus Using Optical Coherence Tomography by Srujana Sahebjada, Fakir M. Amirul Islam, Sanj Wickremasinghe, Mark Daniell, Paul N. Baird

“…All subjects underwent clinical examination including macular thickness measurements. The generalized estimation equation model was used to estimate the means and compare the differences in various measurements between keratoconus and nonkeratoconus patients. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Dynamic Response of Submerged Floating Tunnel under Regular Wave Conditions by Wenlong Luo, Bo Huang, Yao Tang, Hao Ding, Ke Li, Liang Cheng, Qingyang Ren

“…The resonance of the tunnel will be triggered when the wave period is close to its natural vibration period, and the estimation formula of wave period corresponding to tunnel resonance is proposed in this paper.…”
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Integrating agent-based disease, mobility and wastewater models for the study of the spread of communicable diseases by Néstor DelaPaz-Ruíz, Ellen-Wien Augustijn, Mahdi Farnaghi, Sheheen A. Abdulkareem, Raul Zurita Milla

“…Additionally, the model allows monitoring the estimated production of infected wastewater over time and spatially across the sewage and treatment plant. …”
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Physician Perceptions of the Safety and Efficacy of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Underestimation of Cardiovascular Risk Reduction and Discrepancies with Clinical Evidence by Srikanth Krishnan, Pratyaksh K. Srivastava, Jayram Attaluri, Rebecca Nayeri, Dhananjay Chatterjee, Jay Patel, Ali Nsair, Matthew Budoff, Arash Nayeri

“…Physicians reported an average patient weight loss of 9.22%, significantly lower than the 14.9% and 18.5% reported in the STEP and SURMOUNT trials, respectively. Estimated side effect rates (32.62%) were markedly lower than trial-reported rates (89.7% and 80.5%), while estimated discontinuation rates (8.59%) exceeded trial data. …”
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Inheritance of Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Inbred Progenies of Tropical Maize Based on Multivariate Diallel Analysis by Fernando Lisboa Guedes, Rafael Parreira Diniz, Marcio Balestre, Camila Bastos Ribeiro, Renato Barbosa Camargos, João Cândido Souza

“…It was observed that the general combining ability values were similar for both approaches univariate and multivariate, when it was analyzed within each location and nitrogen level. The estimate of variance of the specific combining ability was higher than general combining ability estimate and the ratio between them was 0.54. …”
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A Novel Compression Technique for Multi-Camera Nodes through Directional Correlation by Saima Shaheen, M. Younus Javed, Muid Mufti, Shehzad Khalid, Aasia Khanum, Shoab A. Khan, M. Usman Akram

“…Video frame correlation has been estimated locally at the camera node as well as across different nodes, defined as node communication strategies. …”
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Using Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data to Constrain a Positron Emission Tomography Kinetic Model: Theory and Simulations by Jacob U. Fluckiger, Xia Li, Jennifer G. Whisenant, Todd E. Peterson, John C. Gore, Thomas E. Yankeelov

“…The simulations show that accurate blood, EES, and EIS TACs can be obtained as evidenced by concordance correlation coefficients >0.9 between the true and estimated TACs. Additionally, provided that the estimated DCE-MRI parameters are within 10% of their true values, the errors in the PET kinetic parameters are within approximately 20% of their true values. …”
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A Hybrid Approach Incorporating WSO-HO and the Newton-Raphson Method to Enhancing Photovoltaic Solar Model Parameters Optimisation by Jeridi Ahmed, Moulahi Mohamed Hedi, Khaterchi Hechmi, Zaafouri Abderrahmen

“…Accurate parameter estimation is vital for optimising the performance and design of photovoltaic (PV) systems. …”
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Resistance Training and Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Strength of the Evidence by Nina Hovanec, Anuradha Sawant, Tom J. Overend, Robert J. Petrella, Anthony A. Vandervoort

“…The cumulative point estimate for the T2DM disease process measures was moderate and statistically significant. …”
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An ichthyofaunal amendment with the length-weight relations and condition factors of some endemic and invasive freshwater fishes from Western Anatolia by Kurtul Irmak, Kaya Cüneyt, Şen Arda, Özcan Ceylin, Ercivan Deniz, Demiral Kaan, Güngör Melike, İlhan Ali, Sarı Hasan Musa

“…The LWR of the fishes was studied based on 379 specimens. The estimated values of parameter b ranged from 2.884 (A. boyeri) to 3.176 (C. fahireae). …”
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Present Status of Ganges River Dolphins Platanista gangetica gangetica (Roxburgh, 1801) in the Turag River, Dhaka, Bangladesh by Mohammad Abdul Baki, Naser Ahmed Bhouiyan, Md. Saiful Islam, Shayer Mahmood Ibney Alam, Shibananda Shil, Md. Muzammel Hossain

“…The population of river dolphins was estimated through surveys carried out from December 2012 to November 2013. …”
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Assessment of seismic spatiotemporal characteristics and migration distance in the Badong section of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area by Guoyong Duan, Fei Li, Kongwei Wang, Yaobo Xu

“…The derived formula can be utilized to estimate the seismic migration distance at the epicentre in the short term. …”
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A New Approach in Regression Analysis for Modeling Adsorption Isotherms by Dana D. Marković, Branislava M. Lekić, Vladana N. Rajaković-Ognjanović, Antonije E. Onjia, Ljubinka V. Rajaković

“…Numerous regression approaches to isotherm parameters estimation appear in the literature. The real insight into the proper modeling pattern can be achieved only by testing methods on a very big number of cases. …”
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MG-63 Cell Proliferation with Static or Dynamic Compressive Stimulation on an Auxetic PLGA Scaffold by Myeong Jin Kim, Hong Jin Choi, Jongman Cho, Jung Bok Lee, Hak-Joon Sung, Jeong Koo Kim

“…The effect of dynamic compressive stimulation on MG-63 cell proliferation on an auxetic PLGA scaffold was investigated. The estimated Poisson ratio of the prepared auxetic scaffold specimens was approximately (−)0.07, while the Poisson ratio estimated for conventional scaffold specimens was (+)0.12 under 10% strain compression on average. …”
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The corpus callosum in people with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) by Eileen Luders, Debra Spencer, Caitlin Dale, Ieuan A. Hughes, Ajay Thankamony, Umasuthan Srirangalingam, Helena Gleeson, Helen Simpson, Melissa Hines, Florian Kurth

“…In addition to calculating areas for seven callosal subsections, we estimated the callosal thickness at 100 equidistant points. …”
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Modeling the partial equilibrium in the milk and dairy market in Ukraine by S. Kvasha, N. Davydenko, A. Ivanko, Z. Titenko

“…Results of the researching: Trends of demand and supply changes in the dairy market in the 2016 year was estimated. Specifics of establishing the state of partial equilibrium in that market were characterized relative to the main groups of its participants as producers and consumers. …”
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Search for Classical Cepheids in Galactic Open Clusters and Calibration of the Period–Wesenheit–Metallicity Relation in the Gaia Bands by Huajian Wang, Ye Xu, Zehao Lin, Chaojie Hao, Dejian Liu, Yingjie Li

“…By comparing the field DCEPs’ DR3 parallaxes with their photometric parallaxes derived by our PWZR, we estimated the residual parallax offset in field DCEPs as zp = −15 ± 3 μ as. …”
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