A Mathematical Model for the Flow of a Casson Fluid due to Metachronal Beating of Cilia in a Tube by A. M. Siddiqui, A. A. Farooq, M. A. Rana

“…The analysis is also applied and compared with the estimated value of the volume flow rate of epididymal fluid in the ductus efferentes of the human male reproductive tract.…”
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STUDIES OF MINERAL COMPOSITION OF ORES OF THE KUMTOR DEPOSIT (CENTRAL TIEN SHAN) BY QXRD AND XRF METHODS by A.G. Shevkunov, A.A. Guda, A.A. Skorynina, S.W. McKnight

“…The experimental analyses enabled us to estimate the semi-quantitative content of major ore-forming non-metallic and ore minerals and to establish the possible presence of minerals previously unknown in the composition of ores (barytocalcite, viterite, ferrinatrite, etc.). …”
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Methodological aspects of the problem of measuring shadow activity in the economy by M. D. Khabib, N. A. Abroskina

“…The possibility of building an information base and obtaining appropriate estimates of shadow activity on the basis of resource and use tables developed at the national level is evaluated. …”
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Exact Asymptotic Expansion of Singular Solutions for the (2+1)-D Protter Problem by Lubomir Dechevski, Nedyu Popivanov, Todor Popov

“…We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of solutions with a fixed order of singularity and give a priori estimates for the singular solutions.…”
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Lipophilicity Assessment of Ruthenium(II)-Arene Complexes by the Means of Reversed-Phase Thin-Layer Chromatography and DFT Calculations by Khalil Salem A. M. Shweshein, Filip Andrić, Aleksandra Radoičić, Matija Zlatar, Maja Gruden-Pavlović, Živoslav Tešić, Dušanka Milojković-Opsenica

“…The binary solvent systems composed of water and acetonitrile were used as mobile phase in order to determine chromatographic descriptors for lipophilicity estimation. Octanol-water partition coefficient, logKOW, of tested complexes was experimentally determined using twenty-eight standard solutes which were analyzed under the same chromatographic conditions as target substances. …”
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Diffeomorphic Registration of Images with Variable Contrast Enhancement by Guillaume Janssens, Laurent Jacques, Jonathan Orban de Xivry, Xavier Geets, Benoit Macq

“…Nonrigid image registration is widely used to estimate tissue deformations in highly deformable anatomies. …”
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The Impact of Academic Titles of Board Member and Directors Over the Performance of Companies Traded at B3 by Marcelo Perlin, Guilherme Kirch, Daniel Vancin, Mauro Mastella

“…Our results show that academics are more common on large boards of publicly controlled companies. Overall, the estimation results do not provide convincing evidence for the impact of academics over corporate performance. …”
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Semidefinite Optimization Providing Guaranteed Bounds on Linear Functionals of Solutions of Linear Integral Equations with Smooth Kernels by Guangming Zhou, Chao Deng, Kun Wu

“…Based on recent progress on moment problems, semidefinite optimization approach is proposed for estimating upper and lower bounds on linear functionals defined on solutions of linear integral equations with smooth kernels. …”
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A quadratic $$\nu $$ ν -support vector regression approach for load forecasting by Yanhe Jia, Shuaiguang Zhou, Yiwen Wang, Fengming Lin, Zheming Gao

“…A feature weighting strategy is adopted to estimate the relevance of the features in the load history. …”
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Viral hepatitis B epidemiology in Sakha republic (Yakutia) by S. I. Semenov, R. G. Savvin, S. G. Nikitina, S. S. Maksimova, V. G. Krivoshapkin, S. S. Sleptsova

“…Aim of investigation. To estimate epidemiologic state on viral hepatitis B in Sakha republic (Yakutia).Material and methods. …”
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Mathematical input-output analysis for economic impact assessment: A case study on local government's bridge construction project by Suresh Kumar Sahani, Binod Kumar Sah, Kameshwar Sahani, Rahul Das, Ashok Kumar Mahato

“…The method of research uses secondary data, such as government reports, regional economic indicators, and previous infrastructure evaluations, to estimate changes in employment, income, and value-added output. …”
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An Efficient Hybrid Numerical Scheme for Nonlinear Multiterm Caputo Time and Riesz Space Fractional-Order Diffusion Equations with Delay by A. K. Omran, M. A. Zaky, A. S. Hendy, V. G. Pimenov

“…Armed by an appropriate form of discrete fractional Grönwall inequalities, the stability and convergence of the fully discrete scheme are investigated by discrete energy estimates. We show that the proposed method is stable and has a convergent order of 2−βm in time and an exponential rate of convergence in space. …”
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A Novel Active Disturbance Rejection Control with a Super-Twisting Observer for the Rocket Launcher Servo System by Di-Fen Shi, Yuan-Long Hou, Xiao-Hui Gu, Run-Min Hou

“…Secondly, we design the parallel structured SESO to improve the observation bandwidth, so that it can estimate states with desired accuracy in NADRC. Finally, sinusoidal simulation results show Taylor’s formula-based TD can suppress noise and compensate phase delays effectively. …”
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The Impact of Transcriptomics on the Fight against Tuberculosis: Focus on Biomarkers, BCG Vaccination, and Immunotherapy by Carlos Rodrigo Zárate-Bladés, Celio Lopes Silva, Geraldo A. Passos

“…Although there has been more than 125 years of scientific effort aimed at understanding the disease, serious problems in TB persist that contribute to the estimated 1/3 of the world population infected with this pathogen. …”
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Effects of Prepolymerization, Temperature, and Hydrogen Concentration on Kinetics of Propylene Bulk Polymerization Using a Commercial Ziegler-Natta Catalyst by Huiyue Liu, Gaiping Du, Yafeng Du, Dezhan Li, Jiangbo Chen

“…The effects of prepolymerization, temperature, and hydrogen concentration on propylene bulk polymerization with a commercial Ziegler-Natta catalyst were investigated, and the apparent polymerization rate constants were estimated by varying reaction temperatures, hydrogen partial pressures, and polymerization methods. …”
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Incorporating Contagion in Portfolio Credit Risk Models Using Network Theory by Ioannis Anagnostou, Sumit Sourabh, Drona Kandhai

“…Portfolio credit risk models estimate the range of potential losses due to defaults or deteriorations in credit quality. …”
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Digital Image Forgery Detection Using JPEG Features and Local Noise Discrepancies by Bo Liu, Chi-Man Pun, Xiao-Chen Yuan

“…To achieve this target, a special descriptor for each block was created combining the feature from JPEG block artificial grid with that from noise estimation. And forehand image quality assessment procedure reconciled these different features by setting proper weights. …”
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Quantifying Uncertainty of Insurance Claims Based on Expert Judgments by Budhi Handoko, Yeny Krista Franty, Fajar Indrayatna

“…In Bayesian statistics, prior specification has an important role in determining the quality of posterior estimates. We use expert judgments to quantify uncertain quantities and produce appropriate prior distribution. …”
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MEAN MONTHLY WATER BALANCE IN NEUQUÉN, ARGENTINA by Marisa Gloria Cogliati, Griselda Ostertag, Matías Caso, Florencia Gisella Finessi, Damián Groch

“…The knowledge of the evolution of the different components of the water balance in arid zones is of fundamental importance for the estimation of the coverage of the hydric requirements of the vegetation, and of the different productive activities that are developed in the area; as well as for the control of the state of the wetlands (mallines). …”
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Exploring the Dynamics of CPO Spot and Futures Prices in Relation to Global Crude Oil Price: Evidence from India using ARDL Model Approach and Granger Causality Tests by Supriya R, Rajesh Mamilla

“…The results from the coefficient estimations show that both CPO future price percentage changes and crude oil price have a statistically significant impact on the CPO spot price. …”
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