Point and Interval Predictions for Tanjiahe Landslide Displacement in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China by Yankun Wang, Huiming Tang, Tao Wen, Junwei Ma, Zongxing Zou, Chengren Xiong

“…The proposed method consists of three steps: First, the LSSVM and bootstrapping were combined to estimate the true regression means of landslide displacement and the variance with respect to model misspecification uncertainties. …”
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Modified Weights-of-Evidence Modeling with Example of Missing Geochemical Data by Daojun Zhang, Frits Agterberg

“…If the CI assumption is satisfied, estimated LR coefficients become approximately equal to WofE contrasts and the two methods produce similar results; additionally, bias then is avoided in that the sum of all estimated posterior probabilities becomes approximately equal to the number of observed discrete events. …”
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Improvement of Soybean Oil Solvent Extraction through Enzymatic Pretreatment by F. V. Grasso, P. A. Montoya, C. C. Camusso, B. G. Maroto

“…Diffusion coefficients were estimated between 10-11 and 10-10. The highest diffusion coefficient was obtained for hydrolyzed collets. 0.73 g oil/mL and 0.7 g oil/mL were obtained at 240 s in a column for collets and flakes, respectively. …”
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ESO-Based Non-Singular Terminal Filtered Integral Sliding Mode Backstepping Control for Unmanned Surface Vessels by Jianping Yuan, Zhuohui Chai, Qingdong Chen, Zhihui Dong, Lei Wan

“…The strategy first employs a third-order linear extended state observer to estimate the total disturbances of the USV system, encompassing both external disturbances and internal nonlinearities. …”
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Desired Compensation Adaptive Robust Control of an Active Vibration Isolation System by Bo Zhao, Weijia Shi, Ming Zhang, Jiaxin Li, Feng Li

“…The AC term is designed to estimate the unknown parameters of the system. The DRC term can improve the robustness of the system, which is used to reject the direct disturbance and the parameter estimation error. …”
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An Observational Study of Glomerular Functions in Beta-thalassemia Major Children by Schwartz Formula and Technetium 99m Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic Acid Renogram by Sukanta Mandal, Tathagata Bose, Rachna Gulati, Manish Singh Ahuja

“…Clinical examination, biochemical investigations (serum creatinine, ferritin) and DTPA renal scan were done. Estimated GFR calculation was done by Schwartz method and 99mTc-DTPA scan. …”
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Application of Artificial Intelligence Models for Evapotranspiration Prediction along the Southern Coast of Turkey by Mohammed Majeed Hameed, Mohamed Khalid AlOmar, Siti Fatin Mohd Razali, Mohammed Abd Kareem Khalaf, Wajdi Jaber Baniya, Ahmad Sharafati, Mohammed Abdulhakim AlSaadi

“…The outcome of this study revealed that the ELM approach achieved high accurate estimation in accordance with the Penman–Monteith formula as compared to other models such as MLR and RF. …”
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Modeling to medical and economic data using: The transmuted power unit inverse Lindley distribution by Eman A. Eldessouky, Osama H. Mahmoud Hassan, Badr Aloraini, Ibrahim Elbatal

“…The parameters of the TPUILD were estimated through the maximum likelihood method of estimation, accompanied by a simulation study to evaluate the performance of these parameters. …”
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Genetic Variability and Association of Traits in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genotypes in Gechi District, South West Ethiopia by Garome Shifaraw Geneti, Sentayehu Alamerew Kebede, Techale Birhan Mekonnen

“…This study was conducted during the 2019-2020 growing season to assess genetic variability and estimate the association of traits among bread wheat genotypes. …”
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On selection of foxes for enhanced aggressiveness and its correlated implications by L. N. Trut, A. V. Kharlamova, A. V. Vladimirova, Yu. E. Herbeck

“…The dynamics of these estimates shows that the phenotypic response to the selection was obvious only in the first 12 generations. …”
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Facial masks and soft‐biometrics: Leveraging face recognition CNNs for age and gender prediction on mobile ocular images by Fernando Alonso‐Fernandez, Kevin Hernandez‐Diaz, Silvia Ramis, Francisco J. Perales, Josef Bigun

“…Abstract We address the use of selfie ocular images captured with smartphones to estimate age and gender. Partial face occlusion has become an issue due to the mandatory use of face masks. …”
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Study on clinically manifested reproductive health problems of dairy cows managed under intensive and semi-intensive production systems in Wondo Genet district, Southern Ethiopia by Amene Fekadu, Yifat Denbarga, Tesfaye Belay, Desie Sheferaw, Fufa Abunna, Kebede Amenu, Rahmeto Abebe, Mesele Abera, Berhanu Mekibib

“…The study was conducted to identify and estimate the prevalence of clinically manifested postpartum reproductive disorders, to identify the associated risk factors and to estimate the sero-prevalence of brucellosis in dairy cows kept under intensive and semi-intensive dairy farms in Wondo Genet district from November 2019 to September 2020. …”
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The relationship between perception and landscape characteristics of recreational places with human mental well-being by Janina Vanhöfen, Talia Härtel, Giovanna Reichert, Christoph Randler

“…A strong perception of birds enhances the mental well-being of greenspace visitors (p < 0.001), while a high birding specialization negatively affects recalled restoration (p = 0.014). The estimated restoration value (p = 0.001) and estimated beauty (p < 0.001) from the online survey correlate positively with emotions experienced on-site. …”
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Growth and Feeding Ecology of Dnieper chub Petroleuciscus borysthenicus (Kessler, 1859) in Şahinkaya Reservoir, an Artificial Water Body of an Island Ecosystem (Gökçeada, Turkey)... by Gülşah Saç, Sevan Ağdamar

“…LWR and K values were estimated for all specimens as W=0.017×SL3.114 (r=0.988) and 2.04 (±0.28), respectively. …”
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Preliminary results of open comparative randomized study PHG-M3/P01-09 «ORION» on application of «Phosphogliv» in combined therapy of chronic hepatitis C by M. V. Mayevskaya

“…Aim of investigation. To estimate efficacy and safety of «Phosphogliv» in combined therapy of patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC), that received no previous antiviral treatment.Preliminary results. …”
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Revised dietary exposure assessment of the food enzyme thrombin from cattle (bovines) and pig's blood by EFSA Panel on Food Enzymes (FEZ), Holger Zorn, José Manuel Barat Baviera, Claudia Bolognesi, Francesco Catania, Gabriele Gadermaier, Ralf Greiner, Baltasar Mayo, Alicja Mortensen, Yrjö Henrik Roos, Marize L. M. Solano, Monika Sramkova, Henk Van Loveren, Laurence Vernis, Daniele Cavanna, Giulio Di Piazza, Yi Liu

“…Due to the implementation of a new methodology to estimate the dietary exposure to food enzymes in 2016, the European Commission requested EFSA to revise the exposure assessment of this food enzyme by using this new methodology. …”
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Feedback Training Improves Compliance with Sternal Precaution Guidelines during Functional Mobility: Implications for Optimizing Recovery in Older Patients after Median Sternotomy by Ansel LaPier, Kimberly Cleary

“…Older patients may not be able to accurately estimate UE arm force used during weight bearing activities, and visual and auditory feedback improves accuracy and also modulation of pectoralis major muscle activation. …”
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TDOA-based WSN localization with hybrid covariance matrix adaptive evolutionary strategy and gradient descent distance techniques by V.G. Saranya, S. Karthik

“…The hybrid approach utilizes the robust search capabilities of CMA-ES for initial location estimation, thereafter employing GDD to iteratively decrease the mean squared error (MSE) between estimated and real node locations. …”
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A genomic analysis of twinning rate and its relationship with other reproductive traits in Holstein-Friesian cattle by Brian W. Kirkpatrick, Donagh P. Berry

“…Calving records from the years 1996 to 2022 were used together with pedigree information to generate breeding value estimates for twinning rate. Genome-wide association analyses of twinning rate, calving interval, cow survival and age at first calving were conducted using de-regressed breeding values estimates for 2,656 Holstein-Friesian sires. …”
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Method for Predicting Barge Impact Force Based on Nonlinear Spring Stiffness by Junhu Shao, Yulin Zhan, Shuai Song, Mengqi Cai, Xiaoping Chen, Haiying Yu

“…The rigid wall and a continuous rigid frame bridge impacted by the barge are studied; the results show that the proposed method can reasonably estimate the impact force.…”
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