New Spectrophotometric and Conductometric Methods for Macrolide Antibiotics Determination in Pure and Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms Using Rose Bengal by Rania A. Sayed, Wafaa S. Hassan, Magda Y. El-Mammli, Abadalla Shalaby

“…Two Simple, accurate, precise, and rapid spectrophotometric and conductometric methods were developed for the estimation of erythromycin thiocyanate (I), clarithromycin (II), and azithromycin dihydrate (III) in both pure and pharmaceutical dosage forms. …”
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Future yield growth in Africa mitigates agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by Saloni Shah, Dan Blaustein-Rejto, Linus Blomqvist

“…If Africa more than doubled yields from 2025 levels to meet future food demand while avoiding cropland expansion, an estimated 2.0 gigatons of carbon-dioxide equivalent per year in emissions could be avoided, equivalent to nearly 81% of all Africa’s emissions from agriculture, forestry, and land use in 2021.…”
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Monocular Vision SLAM for Indoor Aerial Vehicles by Koray Çelik, Arun K. Somani

“…By exploiting the architectural orthogonality of the indoor environments, we introduce a new method to estimate range and vehicle states from a monocular camera for vision-based SLAM. …”
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Express Detection of Pentachlorophenol as Dioxins Precursor in Natural Water by Vitalia S. Krikounova, Ramadan Abuknesha, Sergei A. Eremin

“…The assay provides a useful and a highly practical screening tool for the processing of large numbers of samples and for the preliminary estimation of potential dioxins contamination in water resources.…”
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Clinical Recommendations of the Russian Gastroenterological Association and Association of Coloproctologists of Russia on Diagnosis and Treatment of Constipation in Adults by V. T. Ivashkin, Yu. A. Shelygin, I. V. Maev, A. A. Sheptulin, D. V. Aleshin, S. I. Achkasov, E. K. Baranskaya, N. D. Kulikova, T. L. Lapina, A. I. Moskalev, M. F. Osipenko, E. A. Poluektova, V. I. Simanenkov, A. S. Trukhmanov, O. Yu. Fomenko, O. S. Shifrin

“…Indications may also include the bowel transit time estimation with radiopaque markers, balloon expulsion test, anorectal manometry, defecography and electromyography. …”
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THE METHOD OF ROLL SURFACE QUALITY MEASUREMENT FOR CONTINUOUS HOT DIP ZINC COATED STEEL SHEET PRODUCTION LINE by Ki Yong Choi, Yu. A. Lebedinsky, E.I. Marukovich, A.M. Branovitsky, V.A. Dementev

“…The parameters for quality estimation of surface with pickups were developed. The optical system for images registration and image processing electronics may be used in real time and embed in processing line.…”
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Scattering Analysis of a Compact Dipole Array with Series and Parallel Feed Network including Mutual Coupling Effect by H. L. Sneha, Hema Singh, R. M. Jha

“…The total RCS of phased array with either kind of feed network is obtained by following the signal as it enters through the aperture and travels through the feed network. The RCS estimation of array is done including the mutual coupling effect between the dipole elements in three configurations, that is, side-by-side, collinear, and parallel-in-echelon. …”
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Elastography Method for Reconstruction of Nonlinear Breast Tissue Properties by Z. G. Wang, Y. Liu, G. Wang, L. Z. Sun

“…The elastic parameters are estimated by optimally minimizing the difference between the computed forces and experimental measures. …”
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Fast Pedestrian Recognition Based on Multisensor Fusion by Hongyu Hu, Zhaowei Qu, Zhihui Li, Jinhui Hu, Fulu Wei

“…Firstly, potential pedestrian locations are estimated by laser radar scanning in the world coordinates, and then their corresponding candidate regions in the image are located by camera calibration and the perspective mapping model. …”
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Real Flight Application of a Monocular Image-Based Aircraft Collision Decision Method by Peter Bauer, Antal Hiba, Tamas Zsedrovits

“…The main contribution is the detailed comparison of the image-based estimated collision parameters to the flight trajectory-based ones together with threshold selection for collision decision. …”
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Peirce's i and Cohen's κ for 2×2 Measures of Rater Reliability by Beau Abar, Eric Loken

“…The empirical utility and potential theoretical benefits of mixture model methods in estimating reliability are discussed, as are the associations between the i statistics and other modern mixture model approaches.…”
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An Approach to Modeling the Impact of Traffic Incident on Urban Expressway by Yaping Li, Jian Lu, HongWu Li, Huihui Xiao, Qingchao Liu

“…This study proposes a methodology to estimate the impact of traffic incident on urban expressway on the basis of modified cell transmission model. …”
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The Inverse Problem of Identification of Hydrogen Permeability Model by Yury V. Zaika, Natalia I. Rodchenkova, Ekaterina K. Kostikova

“…One of the technological challenges for hydrogen materials science is the currently active search for structural materials with important applications (including the ITER project and gas-separation plants). One had to estimate the parameters of diffusion and sorption to numerically model the different scenarios and experimental conditions of the material usage (including extreme ones). …”
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Role of Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome in Adults by Marco Nezzo, Pieter De Visschere, Guy T'Sjoen, Steven Weyers, Geert Villeirs

“…Individuals affected by this syndrome have normal female external genitalia but agenesis of the Müllerian duct derivatives, that is, absence of the Fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix, and the proximal part of the vagina, with presence of endoabdominal, labial, or inguinal testes. The estimated prevalence is between 1 and 5 in 100,000 genetic males. …”
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Delineation of the Topoclimates of Eastern Cuba by Local Weather Patterns and Unsupervised Machine Learning by Arisleidys Peña-De la Cruz, Ricardo Delgado-Téllez, Yusmira Savón-Vaciano, Mingtao Ding

“…The methods allowed for the estimation of topoclimate identification errors and provided insights into the representativeness of surface meteorological stations for the study area. …”
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Numerical Analysis of Slope Stability under Reservoir Water Level Fluctuations Using a FEM-LEM-Combined Method by Qingxiang Meng, Kun Qian, Lin Zhong, Jinjian Gu, Yue Li, Kaifeng Fan, Long Yan

“…Two typical profiles are used to estimate the stability of the glaciofluvial deposit slope in response to rising and lowering water levels. …”
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A Study of the Creep-Fatigue Damage Mechanism of a P92 Welded Joint Using Nanoindentation Characterization by Zhangmin Jin, Zhihui Cai, Xuecheng Gu, Zhiqiang Wang, Yiwen Han, Ting Yu, Yuxuan Song, Zengliang Gao, Zhongrui Zheng

“…The hardness (H), elastic modulus (E) and creep deformation were then measured by nanoindentation, and the strain rate sensitivity (m) was estimated. The relation between the degenerated mechanical properties and microstructural evaluations, i.e., enhanced grain size and nucleation of creep voids, was established, and the damage mechanism was discussed.…”
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Characterization of the Population of Ovarian Preantral Follicles in Juvenile Six-Banded Armadillos Infected or Not by <i>Mycobacterium leprae</i> by Gabriela L. Lima, Andreza V. Brasil, Andreia M. Silva, João Marcelo A. de P. Antunes, Pierre Comizzoli, Alexandre R. Silva

“…The objective of this study was to characterize and estimate the population of ovarian preantral follicles in juvenile six-banded armadillos. …”
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Application of the age-period-cohort model in tuberculosis by Dan Luo, Fengying Wang, Songhua Chen, Yu Zhang, Wei Wang, Qian Wu, Yuxiao Ling, Yiqing Zhou, Yang Li, Kui Liu, Bin Chen

“…The age-period-cohort (APC) model, a statistical method widely used in recent decades in economics, sociology, and epidemiology, can quantitatively estimate the efficacy of different age, period, and birth cohort groups for TB by separating the effects of these three dimensions and controlling for confounding factors among the time variables. …”
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Potential of condensate as a water source from air conditioning systems: A thermodynamic analysis by Koorosh Goudarzi

“…., the amount of collected water, this thermodynamics study estimates the amount of collected water and investigates the effects of various parameters such as ambient temperature, relative humidity (RH), coil temperature, etc., on the amount of water produced. …”
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