Using stated-preferences methods to develop a summary metric to determine successful treatment of children with a surgical condition: a study protocol by Nigel Hall, Marian Knight, Nick Lansdale, Lisa Hinton, Charles Opondo, Simon Kenny, Stefano Giuliani, John Buckell, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Kokila Lakhoo, Alexander Macdonald, Crispin Jenkinson, Benjamin Allin, Rema Ramakrishnan, Gregor Walker, Timothy Bradnock, Karolina Kuberska, Benjamin M Craig, Goher Ayman, Anna May Long, Joanne Shepherd

“…A stated-preference study has been designed to estimate the value key stakeholders place on different elements of the outcomes for a child with a surgical condition. …”
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Subdominant positive solutions of the discrete equation Δu(k+n)=−p(k)u(k) by Jaromír Baštinec, Josef Diblík

“…Except for the fact of the existence of positive solutions, their upper estimation is given. The analysis shows that every positive solution of the indicated family of positive solutions tends to zero (if k→∞) with the speednot smaller than the speed characterized by the function k·(n/(n+1))k. …”
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GRAPHICS ANALYTICAL MODEL OF MONITORING OF THE FINANCE AT IMPLEMENTATION OF INVESTMENT AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS by V. Serov, N. Moiseenko

“…Taking into account plotting of presence of financial assets at the investor under the most probable conditions of realization of the projects optimum and adverse conditions the schedule allows analyzing and estimating risks of investment more full.…”
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Relaxing the sharp density stratification and columnar motion assumptions in layered shallow water systems by Adim, Mahieddine, Bianchini, Roberta, Duchêne, Vincent

“…Because the hydrostatic Euler equations are not known to enjoy suitable stability estimates, we rely on thickness-diffusivity contributions proposed by Gent and McWilliams. …”
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Attractor for a Reaction-Diffusion System Modeling Cancer Network by Xueyong Chen, Jianwei Shen, Hongxian Zhou

“…We study the asymptotic behavior of solution and show the existence of global uniformly bounded solution to the system in a bounded domain Ω⊂Rn. Some estimates and asymptotic compactness of the solutions are proved. …”
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Intergenerational Transmission of Reproductive Behavior in Sweden, 1850-1889 by Paul Rotering

“…Bivariate correlations, event history analysis and Poisson regression models are estimated for a large number of indicators of reproductive behavior. …”
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Costs and Benefits of Vegetable Gardening by Kevin Athearn, Hannah Wooten, Liz Felter, Catherine G. Campbell, Jessica E. Ryals, Matthew C. Lollar, Juanita Popenoe, Lorna Bravo, LuAnn Duncan, Christa Court, Wendy Wilber

“…Lollar, Juanita Popenoe, Lorna Bravo, LuAnn Duncan, Christa Court, and Wendy Wilber and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department helps home gardeners estimate the costs and cost savings from vegetable gardening …”
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Water Use for Drip-Irrigated Watermelon with Plastic Mulch in Florida by Sanjay Shukla, Niroj K. Shrestha, Thomas A. Obreza, Brian J. Boman

“…Watermelon is grown in open fields and on raised plastic-mulched beds, with the latter being the predominant production system in Florida. Accurate water use estimates for this crop are needed to develop better water allocation and management plans as well as for irrigation management. …”
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TRANSFER LEARNING BASED OFFLINE YORÙBÁ HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM by OLUWASHINA OYENIRAN, EBENEZER OYEBODE

“…While the average recognition time is estimated to 0.371372 seconds. Thus, the technique of deep learning has shown significant improvement when compared to other existing approaches in recognizing standard Yorùbá characters. …”
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Moderating effect of economic instability in the relationship between concentration of control and market value: empirical evidence in Latin America by Dante Baiardo C. Cavalcante Viana Junior, Daniel Ferreira Caixe, Vera Maria Rodrigues Ponte

“…The results of the dynamic models, estimated using the systemic generalized method of moments, indicate, in general, that concentration of control only reduces the market value of firms in environments with high economic instability. …”
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Pleuroperitoneal Leak: An Unusual Cause of Acute Shortness of Breath in a Peritoneal Dialysis Patient by D. P. Ramaema, P. Mpikashe

“…Pleuroperitoneal leak is an uncommon complication of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), with an estimated incidence of 1.6%. It should be suspected in these patients when they present with recurrent unilateral pleural effusions and/or acute shortness of breath following dialysate infusion. …”
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Numerical Solutions for the Eighth-Order Initial and Boundary Value Problems Using the Second Kind Chebyshev Wavelets by Xiaoyong Xu, Fengying Zhou

“…The uniform convergence analysis and error estimation for the proposed method are given. Accuracy and efficiency of the suggested method are established through comparing with the existing quintic B-spline collocation method, homotopy asymptotic method, and modified decomposition method. …”
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Net Irrigation Requirements for Florida Turfgrass Lawns: Part 1 - Report of Gathered Weather Data and Quality Check by Consuelo C. Romero, Michael D. Dukes

“…The first step in the process of estimating net irrigation requirements is to check the quality of 30 years of weather data at ten different locations in Florida and one in Alabama. …”
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On Some Properties of Multiplicative Topological Indices in Silicon-Carbon by Abid Mahboob, Sajid Mahboob, Mohammed M. M. Jaradat, Nigait Nigar, Imran Siddique

“…In nanochemistry, a numeric number (topological index) is used to estimate the biological, physical, and structural properties of chemical compounds that are associated with the chemical graph. …”
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Two Computational Strategies for the Approximate Solution of the Nonlinear Gas Dynamic Equations by Muhammad Nadeem, Mouad M. H. Ali

“…Sawi transform (ST) has an advantage of reducing the computational work and the error of estimated results towards the precise solution. The results obtained with this approach are in the shape of an iteration that converges to the precise solution very gradually. …”
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THE ROLE OF PRIVATE MANAGEMENT COMPANIES IN THE MODERN PENSION SYSTEM OF RUSSIA by T. Gorbacheva, G. Fatkhlislamova

“…The dynamics of the market value of investment portfolios of private management companies, the structure of their investments in various types of assets has been analyzed, the dynamics of changes in the structure of assets for 2004-2017 has been estimated. The nature of the investment strategy of investing the funds of pension savings of private capital has been revealed, as well as the main factors that have influenced the structure of their main investments in various assets. …”
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A Method for the Statistical Evaluation of Crosstalk Effect Between Three Parallel Conductors by P. T. Trakadas, C. N. Capsalis

“…This paper considers the problem of crosstalk estimation between transmission lines consisting of three conductors in a homogeneous surrounding medium, where the distance between the conductors is a random variable described by uniform distribution. …”
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Plankton Concentration Model Consistent with Natural Events and Monitoring Series of Holographic Measurements by Victor Dyomin, Daria Kurkova, Alexandra Davydova, Igor Polovtsev, Sergey Morgalev

“…At the same time, based on the parameters of the diurnal variability model, it is possible to build a bioindication system to detect the influence of abnormal environmental factors estimated as pollution. This study discusses the ideology of building such a system based on regular observations of the behavior of autochthonous plankton using a submersible digital holographic camera.…”
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Costs and Benefits of Vegetable Gardening by Kevin Athearn, Hannah Wooten, Liz Felter, Catherine G. Campbell, Jessica E. Ryals, Matthew C. Lollar, Juanita Popenoe, Lorna Bravo, LuAnn Duncan, Christa Court, Wendy Wilber

“…Lollar, Juanita Popenoe, Lorna Bravo, LuAnn Duncan, Christa Court, and Wendy Wilber and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department helps home gardeners estimate the costs and cost savings from vegetable gardening …”
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Water Use for Drip-Irrigated Watermelon with Plastic Mulch in Florida by Sanjay Shukla, Niroj K. Shrestha, Thomas A. Obreza, Brian J. Boman

“…Watermelon is grown in open fields and on raised plastic-mulched beds, with the latter being the predominant production system in Florida. Accurate water use estimates for this crop are needed to develop better water allocation and management plans as well as for irrigation management. …”
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