A New Simple Method for the Strength of High-Strength Steel Thin-Walled Box Columns Subjected to Axial Force and Biaxial End Moments by Hong-Xia Shen

“…It shows that ANSI/AISC 360-10 provides a good estimate over a wide range of column slenderness ratios; but it severely underestimates the strengths of beam-columns with large slenderness ratios and slightly underestimates those of beam-columns made from HSS with fy = 741 MPa, and the calculation is more complicated because of using an effective width concept. …”
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Crustacean species off the coast of Kıyıköy (Black Sea, Türkiye) with a new record by Özgen Özge, Açık Şermin

“…Community parameters were estimated in both hard- and soft-bottom samples.…”
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The contributions of foreign aid and natural resource wealth to democratic institutions: Evidence from over 40 years of sub-Sahara Africa's history by Alex O. Acheampong, John Taden

“…Using five different democracy indices, six different foreign aid variables and six different natural resource rent variables, our endogeneity-corrected results establish the following conclusions: (i) all the democracy indices respond positively and significantly to multilateral foreign aid, total development assistance committee (DAC) aid and bilateral aid from Australia, the USA, the United Nations, and the European Union (ii) the political resource curse, rentier and repression theories are valid for rent from mineral, gas and oil resources (iii) the democracy indices respond positively and significantly to rent from coal and forest resources (iv) the effect of foreign aid on the democracy indices is contingent on natural resource wealth (v) these findings are robust to an alternative econometric estimation technique and specifications. The policy implications are discussed.…”
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AFRICAN SWINE FEVER IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION: ECONOMIC IMPACT by V. M. Gulyonkin, I. M. Klinovitskaya, O. N. Petrova, A. K. Karaulov, D. A. Lozovoy

“…In 15 RF Subjects the disease was reported both in domestic pigs and wild boars. Estimated data demonstrated that economic losses due to ASF outbreaks in domestic pigs and wild boars will amount to 7.89 bln RUB this year. …”
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First D0 + D0 measurement in nucleus-nucleus collisions at SPS energies with NA61/SHINE by Merzlaya Anastasia

“…The analysis used the 20% most central Xe+La collisions at 150A GeV/c from the data set collected in 2017. It allowed the estimation of the mid-rapidity yields (dN/dy) of D0 + D¯0 using their π± + K∓ decay channels and phase space corrections derived from the three models AMPT, PHSD, and PYTHIA/Angantyr. …”
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LED Lighting System Reliability Modeling and Inference via Random Effects Gamma Process and Copula Function by Huibing Hao, Chun Su, Chunping Li

“…Considering the model is so complicated and analytically intractable, the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method is used to estimate the unknown parameters. A numerical example about actual LED lamps data is given to demonstrate the usefulness and validity of the proposed model and method.…”
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Conditional Stochastic Simulations of Flow and Transport with Karhunen-Loève Expansions, Stochastic Collocation, and Sequential Gaussian Simulation by Mina E. Ossiander, Malgorzata Peszynska, Veronika S. Vasylkivska

“…This is typically done by constructing independent realizations of the permeability field followed by numerical simulations of flow and transport for each realization and assembling statistical estimates of moments of desired quantities of interest. …”
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Private Returns to Levels of Education in Turkey: Evidence from Panel Data by Merve Kurt, Erdal Gümüş

“…This study uses Income andLiving Conditions Survey Panel Dataset provided by the Turkish StatisticalInstitute covering from years 2008-2011 and 2012-2015 and employs paneleconometric methods, considering the endogeneity problem, to estimate bothprivate returns to education and each level of education. …”
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RELAP5/MOD3.3 Analysis of the Loss of External Power Event with Safety Injection Actuation by Andrej Prošek, Marko Matkovič

“…The abnormal event with reactor trip and safety injection signal actuation was simulated with the latest RELAP5/MOD3.3 Patch 05 best-estimate thermal hydraulic computer code. The measured and simulated data agree well considering the major plant system responses and operator actions. …”
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Top Challenges Facing the Florida Strawberry Industry: Insights from a Comprehensive Industry Survey by Zhengfei Guan, Feng Wu, Alicia Whidden

“…The farm-gate value of Florida strawberries is approximately US$400 million and the total economic contribution of the industry is estimated at about US$1 billion. Even so, over the last few years, the Florida strawberry industry has faced many challenges. …”
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More than a feeling: A global economic valuation of subjective wellbeing damages resulting from rising temperatures. by Stephan Dietrich, Stafford Nichols

“…When estimating economic and welfare effects from climate change, impact models must make broad assumptions because of a lack of data and the complexity of damage mechanisms. …”
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Derivation and Mapping of Critical Loads for Nitrogen and Trends in Their Exceedance in Germany by Hans-Dieter Nagel, Heinz-Detlef Gregor

“…The term “critical load” means a quantitative estimate of an exposure to one or more pollutants below which significant harmful effects on specified sensitive elements of the environment do not occur, according to present knowledge. …”
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The epidemic of Justinian (AD 542): a prelude to the Middle Ages by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…A major problem was to find ways to dispose of infected corpses. It is estimated that about one third of the population died — a figure comparable to the death rate during the Black Death in the Middle Ages. …”
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Clustering Input Signals Based Identification Algorithms for Two-Input Single-Output Models with Autoregressive Moving Average Noises by Khalid Abd El Mageed Hag ElAmin

“…From collected input-output signals, we deduce a K-means clustering based recursive least squares method for estimating the parameter of autoregressive moving average system. …”
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Silent Struggles: Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) in Female Athletes by Veronica Szygalowicz

“…Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) is a condition caused by prolonged periods of reduced energy intake relative to expenditure, specifically in sport. Although estimates of prevalence vary, most of the athletic population likely suffers from REDs. …”
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Phylogenetic studies on the genus Candolleomyces (Psathyrellaceae, Basidiomycota) occurring in the bed of the Indus River, Punjab, Pakistan, reveal three new species by Qirui Li, Muhammad Haqnawaz, Abdul Rehman Niazi, Abdul Nasir Khalid

“…Detailed descriptions, a phylogenetic estimate, morphological comparisons, and illustrations are provided.…”
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METHODOLOGICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF IDENTIFYING DEVELOPMENT POLES AND GROWTH POINTS IN THE REGIONAL ECONOMY by A. A. Urunov, A. M. Avezova, M. A. Nasimov

“…It has been revealed and quantitatively estimated that the higher attractiveness of the development poles in the regional economy is due to the synergetic effect, which is manifested in the diversification and modernization of production in the compactly located territory of the region. …”
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Skilled Birth Attendance among Women in Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya by Eliphas Gitonga

“…The burden of maternal mortality is concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa with an estimation of 500 000 deaths annually. In 2012, about forty million births occurred without a skilled attendant in developing countries. …”
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Effect of rifampicin on the kidney of albino rats by DE Peters, AO Chike

“… The study was designed to investigate the effect of rifampicin on the kidney biomarkers and histopathology of kidney of albino rats. 42 albino rats were used and rifampicin was administered at 1.10mg/120gBW and 0.55mg/120gBW for intervals of 20, 40 and 60days.Animals were sacrificed 24 hours after the last day of administration and blood samples were collected for the estimation of urea and creatinine levels sodium , potassium, chloride and bicarbonate ion concentrations. …”
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Cyclical Changes in Prolactin Levels among Infertile Women Attending University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital by Braide A Solomon, Adego O Adebayo, Bamigbowu E Olugbenga

“…Cyclical changes were also observed in prolactin concentration in both fertile and infertile subjects which peaked at midcycle (day14) suggesting that cycle of subjects should be taken into consideration in estimation, interpretation and investigation of infertility while the elevation of prolactin in the 3 study groups might be responsible for the infertility observed. …”
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