Sensitivity of physical parameterization of WRF model in urban climate simulation and Heat Island mitigation in a stable atmospheric condition (case study: Tehran and Alborz provin... by fahimeh shakeri, gholamabbas Fallah ghalhari, hashem akbari, zahra hejazizadeh

“…In Alborz province, all configurations estimate the air temperature and wind speed more than real and relative humidity less than real value. …”
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Prevalence of Hepatitis B Viral Infection in Pregnant Women at the Suhum Municipality, Ghana by Joseph Boachie, Doreen Pidah, Henrietta Eshun, Emmanuel Jingbeja, Praise Fosu Adjei, Patrick Adu

“…In Africa, an estimated 60 million cases of HBV were reported in the same year. …”
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Exploring Interconnections Among Environmental Degradation, Energy Consumption, Information and Communication Technology, and Total Factor Productivity in Iran by M. Abbasian

“…This study, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to evaluate the long-term and short-term dynamic, unit root tests and diagnostic tests CUSUM and CUSUMQ and Canonical Co-Integrating Regression (CCR) Dynamic least squares (DOLS), and fully modified least squares (FMOLS) have been used to validate the results of ADRL estimates. The results of the ARDL estimation method showed that in the long run, TFP and economic growth on carbon dioxide had a coefficient of 0.07 and 0.14, respectively. …”
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Determining Near Point of Convergence: Exploring a Component of the Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screen Comparing Varied Target Sizes by John D Heick, Curt Bay

“… # Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine whether four different methods of measuring NPC yielded different estimates. # Study Design Descriptive within-subjects laboratory study…”
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Evaluation of Serum D-dimer Levels and the Disease Severity in Patients of Chronic Urticaria by Leelavathy Budamakuntla, Sachin Somashekar, Heera Ramesh, Tapasya S Kini, S Nandish Kumar

“…The patients enrolled in the study (by random sampling) were subjected to blood sampling for estimation of D-dimer levels after a thorough history and examination. …”
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DDL R-CNN: Dynamic Direction Learning R-CNN for Rotated Object Detection by Weixian Su, Donglin Jing

“…The DDL module pre-extracts the directional features of targets to provide a coarse estimation of their angles and the corresponding weights. …”
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Factors associated with infant mortality in Nigeria: A scoping review. by Loveth Dumebi Nwanze, Alaa Siuliman, Nuha Ibrahim

“…The risk of an infant dying before one year of age is estimated to be six times higher in Africa than in Europe. …”
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Associations between Scattering Screens and Interstellar Medium Filaments by Ashley M. Stock, Marten H. van Kerkwijk

“…This result seems unlikely to be due to chance: Comparing with random trials, we estimate a likelihood of finding 12 or more screens with aligned emission by chance of only 0.004%. …”
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On Explainability of Reinforcement Learning-Based Machine Learning Agents Trained with Proximal Policy Optimization That Utilizes Visual Sensor Data by Tomasz Hachaj, Marcin Piekarczyk

“…Through its use, it is possible to estimate the causes of specific decisions made by the neural network due to the current state of the observed environment. …”
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Antidiabetic Activity of Benzopyrone Analogues in Nicotinamide-Streptozotocin Induced Type 2 Diabetes in Rats by Yogendra Nayak, Venkatachalam Hillemane, Vijay Kumar Daroji, B. S. Jayashree, M. K. Unnikrishnan

“…Plasma lipids and serum insulin were estimated. Homeostatic model assessment (HOMA-IR) was then calculated from serum insulin. …”
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Prevalence of Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD) with Some Associated Risk Factors among Children Aged 1 to 5 Years in Rural Maharashtra – A Community Based Cross-Sectional Study by Raghavendra NR. Swamy, Priyanka N Akahade, P Abhinaya, Arvindkumar Waghmare, Satish V Gujalwar

“…To estimate the prevalence of clinical forms of vitamin A deficiency among the preschool children aged 1 to 5 years in the community and to determine the risk factors associated with vitamin A deficiency among the children aged 1-5 years. …”
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Allometric Growth of the Freshwater Crab Potamon algeriense (Bott, 1967) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) in Oued Zegzel, a Mountain Stream, in the Northeast of Morocco by Soufiane Fadlaoui, Mohammed Mahjoub, Ouahid El Asri, Mohammed Melhaoui

“…Based on Somerton’s technique, the onset of sexual maturity was estimated to occur at around 27mm CW for males and 32mm CW for females. …”
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Worst-Case Response Time of Mixed Vehicles at Complex Intersections by Radha Reddy, Luis Almeida, Harrison Kurunathan, Miguel Gutierrez Gaitan, Pedro M. Santos, Eduardo Tovar

“…In this research line, this paper estimates WCRT upper bounds and discusses the analytical characterization of arrival and service curves, including estimating maximum queue length and associated worst-case waiting time for various traffic arrival patterns. …”
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Identifying Copy Number Variants under Selection in Geographically Structured Populations Based on -statistics by Hae-Hiang Song, Hae-Jin Hu, In-Hae Seok, Yeun-Jun Chung

“…A hierarchical Bayesian method, which is implemented via Markov Chain Monte Carlo, estimates locus-specific FST and can identify outlying CNVs loci with large values of FST. …”
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Characteristics of Glial Reaction in the Perinatal Rat Cortex: Effect of Lesion Size in the ‘Critical Period’ by Mihály Kálmán, Béla M. Ajtai, Jon Håvard Sommernes

“…Namely, a strict limit could be estimated for the age when reactive glia were already found rather than for the age when glial reaction-provoking lesions could occur. …”
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Spatial Soil Erosion Modeling for Improved Land Management in Gumara Watershed, Ethiopia by Gizachew Ayalew Tiruneh, Mersha Ayalew, Mamaru Ayalew, T. D. Mequanent, Chandrakala M., Dessie Tibebe, José Miguel Reichert

“…Gumara catchment is an erosion-prone area in Ethiopia. Spatial estimation of soil erosion is essential to conserve, manage, and use soil and water resources. …”
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Prediction of Emotional Divorce based on Family Communication Patterns with the Mediating Role of Marital Burnout in Married Female Teachers of Darab City by Zakiye Faraji, Zahra Ghavaminia, Jalal Kalantari

“…The census technique was employed to estimate the sample, estimating the population of 176 individuals. …”
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Econometric Analysis of Macroeconomic to Age-Specific Mortality Rate in Malaysia: Evidence from Panel Data by Robiaatul Adawiah Edrus, Zailan Siri, Mohd Azmi Haron, Muhammad Aslam Mohd Safari, Mohammed K. A. Kaabar

“…Consequently, the present study utilizes an econometrics model to estimate Malaysia’s mortality rate, with macroeconomic factors as explanatory variables. …”
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Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: The Learning Curve of a Low Volume Surgeon by Anuar I. Mitre, Mario F. Chammas, José Eugênio A. Rocha, Ricardo Jordão Duarte, Gustavo Xavier Ebaid, Flavio Trigo Rocha

“…Patients were consecutively divided in 3 groups of 55 patients (groups A, B, and C). An enhancement of estimated blood loss, surgery length, and presence of a positive surgical margin were all considered as a function of surgeon’s experience. …”
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Respiratory Admissions Linked to Air Pollution in a Medium Sized City of the UK: A Case-crossover Study by Catherine A. Fitton, Bianca Cox, Munro Stewart, James Chalmers, Jill J. F. Belch

“…Effects appeared to be somewhat delayed, with the largest estimates mostly observed around lag 6. No significant association was seen for respiratory admissions in adults. …”
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