Efficiency of Using the Auxiliary Boiler for Peak Power Generation by a Steam Turbine of NPP by V. A. Khrustalev, M. V. Garievskii

“…The article presents the technique of an estimation of efficiency of use of potential heat output of an auxiliary boiler (AB) to improve electric capacity and manoeuvrability of a steam turbine unit of a power unit of a nuclear power plant (NPP) equipped with a water-cooled water-moderated power reactor (WWER). …”
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Developing a Robust Model Based on the Gaussian Process Regression Approach to Predict Biodiesel Properties by Inna Pustokhina, Amir Seraj, Hafsan Hafsan, Seyed Mojtaba Mostafavi, S. M. Alizadeh

“…The outcomes proved the superiority of this model over two former models in point of estimating the biodiesel properties.…”
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The long-term effects of cardiometabolic risk factors on mortality and life expectancy: evidence from a health check-up cohort study by Ping-Chen Chung, Tsuey-Hwa Hu, Chih-Hua Chiao, Jing-Shiang Hwang, Ta-Chien Chan

“…Survival rates were extrapolated to estimate confounder-adjusted LE and YLL for age-comorbidity combinations. …”
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Differences in utilisation of digestible macronutrients between two different size classes of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) by Ruben Groot, Philip Lyons, Johan W. Schrama

“…The findings of this study showed that fish size has an effect on the estimation of net energy in feeds for rainbow trout.…”
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Data Clustering Improves Siamese Neural Networks Classification of Parkinson’s Disease by Mohamed Shalaby, Nahla A. Belal, Yasser Omar

“…Siamese networks predict the sample class by estimating how similar a sample is to other samples. …”
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Hospitalization costs for children younger than five years of age for gastroenteritis caused by rotavirus. Cienfuegos Pediatric Hospital, 2018 by Isel de los Ángeles Gázquez Altuna, Anai García Fariñas, Alain Rubén Reyes Sebasco, María Elena Quiñones Hernández, Martha de la Caridad Marrero Araújo, Isabel Pilar Luis Gonzálvez, Nivaldo Linares Pérez

“…<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to estimate the institutional cost of hospitalization of patients younger than five years of age because of gastroenteritis due to rotavirus.…”
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Economic Evaluation of Boceprevir for the Treatment of Patients with Genotype 1 Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Hungary by Raymond Odhiambo, Jagpreet Chhatwal, Shannon Allen Ferrante, Antoine El Khoury, Elamin Elbasha

“…Estimates of probability of liver transplantation and cost were based on an analysis of the Hungarian Sick Fund database. …”
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Secondary Prevention Using Cholesterol-Lowering Medications in Patients with Prior Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Events: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis by Xue Han, Steven Fox, Michelle Chu, Jeff McCombs

“…The associations between the timely initiation of cholesterol-lowering medications for secondary prevention and (1) the risk for an ASCVD hospitalization and (2) health-care costs over one year, were estimated using multivariate regressions. **Results:** A total of 272 899 secondary prevention patients were identified who met study selection criteria. …”
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Application of Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (Rusle) Model to Assess Soil Erosion in “Kalu Ganga” River Basin in Sri Lanka by D. L. D. Panditharathne, N. S. Abeysingha, K. G. S. Nirmanee, Ananda Mallawatantri

“…The average annual soil loss in Kalu Ganga river basin varied from 0 to 134 t ha−1 year−1 and mean annual soil loss was estimated at 0.63 t ha−1 year−1. Based on erosion estimates, the basin landscape was divided into four different erosion severity classes: very low, low, moderate, and high. …”
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Diabetes mellitus risk in post-myocardial infarction patients: FINDRISC versus self-assessment—a cross sectional study by Karianne Nölken, Jakob Linseisen, Philip Raake, Christine Meisinger, Timo Schmitz

“…These factors are components of the FINDRISC score, which estimates the likelihood of developing diabetes within the next 10 years. …”
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Genetic parameters for lifetime productivity in Holstein and Brown Swiss dairy cows in Honduras by Karen Alessa Copas-Medina, Manuel Valladares-Rodas, Juan José Baeza-Rodríguez, José Candelario Segura-Correa, Juan Magaña-Monforte

“… Objective. To estimate the heritability (h2) of age at first parturition (AFP), longevity (L), useful life (UL), and productivity (P), as well as the genetic (rg) and phenotypic correlations between those traits in Brown Swiss and Holstein cows in Northwestern Honduras. …”
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Efficacy and safety of tenofovir and entecavir in patients with chronic hepatitis B-related cirrhosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Lu Cao, Li Li, Lixing Yang, Nan Zhou, Yu Zhang

“…Tenofovir did not significantly cause renal dysfunction, but instead improved estimated glomerular filtration rate levels compared with entecavir. …”
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A Pseudopotential Lattice Boltzmann Method for Simulation of Two-Phase Flow Transport in Porous Medium at High-Density and High–Viscosity Ratios by Eslam Ezzatneshan, Reza Goharimehr

“…The present study demonstrates that the S-C LBM with employing the MRT-EDM scheme, CS EoS, and the modified forcing scheme is efficient and accurate for estimation of the two-phase flow characteristics through the porous medium.…”
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Helicobacter Pylori infection in systemic sclerosis and its association with upper gastrointestinal dysfunction by Chilukuri Balaji, Mahendran Bhuvanesh, Chinnadurai Saranya, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Mayilsamy Saravanan, Sankaralingam Rajeswari

“…The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence of H. pylori infection in SSc patients and analyze its clinical associations. …”
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How to Manage Low Estriol Levels in Pregnancies, One Center Experience by Elif YILMAZ GULEC, Alper GEZDIRICI, Akif AYAZ, Fatma Nihal OZTURK, Ibrahim POLAT

“…We recommend the addition of risk estimation for STS deficiency when a low uE3 level is detected in the screening test.…”
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Association of arterial stiffness and eye disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Robert Scragg, Angela L Beros, John D Sluyter

“…Cohort studies were included if they estimated arterial stiffness using any measures based on the arterial waveform, with cross-sectional and case-control studies limited to measures of pulse wave velocity. …”
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The Role of Gum Arabic for a Protective Kidney Dysfunction Induced Gentamicin on Diabetes Rats by Garsa Ali Alshehry

“…The target of this study was to estimate Gum Arabic for total phenols and flavonoids. …”
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Finite Element Analysis of Fluid Flow through the Screen Embedded between Parallel Plates with High Reynolds Numbers by Abid A. Memon, Hammad Alotaibi, M. Asif Memon, Kaleemullah Bhatti, Gul M. Shaikh, Ilyas Khan, A. A. Mousa

“…This paper provides numerical estimation of Newtonian fluid flow past through rectangular channel fixed with screen movable from 10° to 45° by increasing the Reynolds number from 1000 to 10,000. …”
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Mid-Epidemic Forecasts of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths: A Bivariate Model Applied to the UK by Peter Congdon

“…We show the utility of informative priors in developing and estimating the model and compare error densities (Poisson-gamma, Poisson-lognormal, and Poisson-log-Student) for overdispersed data on new cases and deaths. …”
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Examining the relationships between patients’ multimorbidity trajectories and prognostic outcomes after the initial hip fracture by Jessica Qiuhua Sheng, Da Xu, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Liang Li, Ting-Shuo Huang

“…We then leverage the discovered relationships to develop a cross-attention neural network method for estimating patients’ post-fracture prognoses and demonstrate its predictive utilities relative to several prevalent machine leaning methods. …”
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