ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN EMERGING ECONOMIES by Rabia Efeoğlu, Sabri Azgün

“…We used the panel-ordered qualitative preference analysis method to estimate the relationship between democracy and economic development. …”
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Osteoporosis in Men with Diabetes Mellitus by Claire Issa, Mira S. Zantout, Sami T. Azar

“…The prevalence in men is not defined yet; however it is becoming much more recognized as its prevalence and impact have become explicable. It is estimated that around 1% of bone mineral density is lost in men every year. …”
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Fractional Hermite–Jensen–Mercer Integral Inequalities with respect to Another Function and Application by Saad Ihsan Butt, Muhammad Umar, Khuram Ali Khan, Artion Kashuri, Homan Emadifar

“…We establish generalized identities involving ψ–Riemann–Liouville fractional integral pertaining first and twice differentiable convex function λ, and these will be used to derive novel estimates for some fractional Hermite–Jensen–Mercer type inequalities. …”
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Oxygen consumption in the sandy beaches of the Vistula River: Goods and services of the ecosystem by Patrycja Słodownik, Krzysztof W. Opaliński

“…The research aimed to estimate the role of the beach in the process of self-purification of water in the Vistula River. …”
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Through-Wall Image Enhancement Based on Singular Value Decomposition by Muhammad Mohsin Riaz, Abdul Ghafoor

“…Furthermore, wavelet transform-based denoising is performed (to further suppress noise signals) by estimating noise variance. Proposed scheme works also for extracting multiple targets in heavy cluttered through-wall images. …”
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Harmonization of Postgraduate Training System with the Certification of Candidates of Sciences by S. I. Pakhomov, V. A. Gurtov, L. V. Shchegoleva

“…For each approach, statistical estimates of consistency are calculated, and cartographic representations of indicators in the context of the subjects of the federation are given. …”
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Sustained Viremic Control in HIV-Infected Patient: Case Report from Nepal by Sundar Khadka, Subhash Dhital, Roshan Pandit, Anup Bastola

“…He had his viral load estimation performed every year since then which was always below lower detection limit and remained healthy without treatment. …”
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Treatment of Unstable Ankle Fractures by Yaniel Truffín Rodríguez, Gerardo Águila Tejeda

“…Patients with unstable ankle fractures frequently attend the emergency rooms. It is estimated that there are 122 ankle fractures per 100 000 people a year. …”
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Trapezium-Type Inequalities for k-Fractional Integral via New Exponential-Type Convexity and Their Applications by Artion Kashuri, Sajid Iqbal, Saad Ihsan Butt, Jamshed Nasir, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar, Thabet Abdeljawad

“…Finally, several new bounds for special means and new error estimates for the trapezoidal and midpoint formula are provided as well. …”
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Hopf bifurcation analysis in a diffusive predator-prey system with delay and surplus killing effect by Zuolin Shen, Junjie Wei

“…When the delay is zero, the prior estimate of positive solutions and global stability of the constant positive steady state are obtained in details. …”
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Right Lung Agenesis with Tracheal Stenosis due to Complete Tracheal Rings and Postpneumonectomy Like Syndrome Treated with Tissue Expander Placement by Yashwant Agrawal, Sandeep Patri, Jagadeesh K. Kalavakunta

“…Congenital lung agenesis is an extremely rare condition with an estimated prevalence of 34 in 1,000,000 live births. …”
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Adaptive Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control for Mobile Robots Based on High-Gain Observers by Haitao Liu, Jianhao Nie, Jian Sun, Xuehong Tian

“…Finally, a high-gain observer is employed to estimate the speed information. The stability of the closed-loop system is proved using the Lyapunov stability theorem. …”
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Preparing for and Recovering from Hurricane and Tropical Storm Damage to Tropical Fruit Groves in Florida by Jonathan H. Crane, Carlos F. Balerdi

“… The estimated destruction to tropical fruit crops caused by recent hurricanes and tropical storms (1992, 1994, 2004, 2005) was in the hundreds of millions of dollars. …”
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Impact of Sino-US Trade Liberalization on China’s Carbon Emissions and Future Works on Fractional Phenomenon by Yanchun Yi, Yaqing Li, Ji Qi

“…This study estimates the effects of the Sino-US trade liberalization on CO2 emissions in China and its influencing mechanism. …”
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Positive Definite Solutions of the Matrix Equation Xr-∑i=1mAi∗X-δiAi=I by Asmaa M. Al-Dubiban

“…An iterative algorithm is provided to compute the positive definite solutions for the equation and error estimate. Finally, some numerical examples are given to show the effectiveness and convergence of this algorithm.…”
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Applications of a New q-Difference Operator in Janowski-Type Meromorphic Convex Functions by Bakhtiar Ahmad, Muhammad Ghaffar Khan, Mohamed Kamal Aouf, Wali Khan Mashwani, Zabidin Salleh, Huo Tang

“…Furthermore, we discuss a number of useful geometric properties for the functions belonging to this class such as sufficiency criteria, coefficient estimates, distortion theorem, growth theorem, radius of starlikeness, and radius of convexity. …”
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Preparing for and Recovering from Hurricane and Tropical Storm Damage to Tropical Fruit Groves in Florida by Jonathan H. Crane, Carlos F. Balerdi

“… The estimated destruction to tropical fruit crops caused by recent hurricanes and tropical storms (1992, 1994, 2004, 2005) was in the hundreds of millions of dollars. …”
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Energy-Efficient Clustering and Localization Technique Using Genetic Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks by Junfeng Chen, Samson Hansen Sackey, Joseph Henry Anajemba, Xuewu Zhang, Yurun He

“…This paper puts forward energy-efficient clustering and localization centered on genetic algorithm (ECGAL), in which the residual energy, distance estimation, and coverage connection are developed to form the fitness function. …”
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Economic Impacts of Citrus Greening (HLB) in Florida, 2006/07–2010/11 by Alan W. Hodges, Thomas H. Spreen

“…Since 2006, the bacterial disease citrus greening has cost Florida’s economy an estimated $3.636 billion in lost revenues and 6,611 jobs by reducing orange juice production, according to the study reported in this 6-page fact sheet written by Alan W. …”
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Modeling Complex Systems: A Case Study of Compartmental Models in Epidemiology by Alexander F. Siegenfeld, Pratyush K. Kollepara, Yaneer Bar-Yam

“…Compartmental epidemic models have been widely used for predicting the course of epidemics, from estimating the basic reproduction number to guiding intervention policies. …”
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