Developments in Diagnosis and Antileishmanial Drugs by Prachi Bhargava, Rajni Singh

“…Leishmaniasis is a diverse group of clinical syndromes caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania. It is estimated that 350 million people are at risk in 88 countries, with a global incidence of 1–1.5 million cases of cutaneous and 500,000 cases of visceral leishmaniasis. …”
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Psychometric Properties of the Moore Index of Nutrition Self-Care in Arabic: A Study among Saudi Adolescents at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Adel Bashatah, Khalid A. Alahmary

“…Exploratory factor analysis resulted in 42 items loading on three main components: estimative, production, and transitional, with a factor loading of eigenvalues >2. …”
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An Experimental In Vivo Model to Characterize “Heavy Legs” Symptom in Topical Formulations by Pedro Contreiras Pinto, Luís Monteiro Rodrigues

“…The “Heavy legs” symptom is regarded as an early expression of chronic venous failure, estimated to affect 40% of the population in developing countries. …”
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Control point locating scheme of street light network in urban environment by Yue-Shan Chang, Ruey-Kai Sheu, Guang-Ting Wu

“…We first exploit the geographic map of an urban district to estimate the total number of street lights, and then partition the district into several adaptive blocks. …”
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Revisiting the age of the Florisbad hominin material by Lee R. Berger, John Hawks

“…The site’s complex stratigraphy and the details about the tooth’s discovery also pose challenges for the previous ESR age estimate. Because the fragmentary cranial specimen has value for morphological comparisons, developing additional means of understanding its geological age is necessary. …”
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Thyroid Papillary Microcarcinoma - Carcinoma with Clinically Benign Behaviour by Hitesh R Singhavi, Manish Mair, Burhanuddin Qayyumi, Arjun Singh, Pankaj Chaturvedi

“…Results: Based on the published autopsy reports, we estimated that around 8.7 million people would suffer from thyroid papillary microcarcinoma in 2018. …”
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IFRS vs Bacen Gaap: Accounting Information’s Value Relevance of the Brazilian Financial Institutions by Mariana Titoto Marques, Flávia Zóboli Dalmacio, Amaury José Rezende

“…This study compares their relevanceusing the Ohlson Model (1995) adding control variables for the years 2010 to 2018. Two models were estimated, one for each set of standards, and the analysis of relevance was based on the R2 values. …”
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The diversity of local political agendas during COVID-19: A comparison of Mexican states by Enrique García-Tejeda, Juan Guillermo Vieira-Silva

“…A quantitative methodology based on the estimation of Shannon’s entropy index and non-parametric tests is used. …”
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A Model for Video Quality Assessment Considering Packet Loss for Broadcast Digital Television Coded in H.264 by Jose Joskowicz, Rafael Sotelo

“…A novel parametric model for video quality estimation is proposed, designed, and verified based on the results of subjective tests in SD and HD. …”
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La cultura y la responsabilidad social: binomio estratégico en las organizaciones by Elieth Diez

“…La cultura y la responsabilidad social son dos fenómenos que componen la realidad sociocultural de las organizaciones, pues integran el enfoque estratégico que la organización estime a bien llevar a cabo. El propósito de esta reflexión es el análisis de la cultura organizacional y la responsabilidad social como factores estratégicos dentro de las organizaciones. …”
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Effectiveness of iNTS vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa by Daniele Cassese, Nicola Dimitri, Gianluca Breghi, Tiziana Spadafina

“…Without vaccination we estimate 9.2 million new iNTS cases among children below 5 years old in these 49 countries from 2022 to 2038, 6.2 million of which between 2028 and 2038. …”
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Operation and performance of the ATLAS tile calorimeter in LHC Run 2 by ATLAS Collaboration

“…Studies of radiation effects allow the degradation of the output signals at the end of the LHC and HL-LHC operations to be estimated. Finally, the TileCal response to isolated muons, hadrons and jets from proton–proton collisions is presented. …”
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A New Method for Evaporation Modeling: Dynamic Evolving Neural-Fuzzy Inference System by Ozgur Kisi, Iman Mansouri, Jong Wan Hu

“…Evaporation estimation is very essential for planning and development of water resources. …”
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Novel Interecting Blends Based on Amino Terminited Oligoimides by Using Michael Addition Reaction-II by Rita R. Patel, Mukesh C. Patel

“…These AOIs were characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR spectral studies and number average molecular weight estimated by non-aqueous conductometric titrations. …”
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The Resilience of Public Policies in Economic Development by Gonzalo Castañeda, Omar A. Guerrero

“…Here, we analyze how the adaptive capacity of the policy-making process generates resilience in the face of disruptions. In order to estimate the allocation of resources across policies, we employ a computational model that accounts for diverse social mechanisms, for example, coevolutionary learning and network interdependencies. …”
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Scatter and Blurring Compensation in Inhomogeneous Media Using a Postprocessing Method by Yan Yan, Gengsheng L. Zeng

“…A two-dimensional point spread function (2D-PSF) was estimated in the image domain to model the combination of these two physical effects. …”
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Preparation of Conductive PANI/PVA Composites via an Emulsion Route by Xiang-Qin Wang, Bin-Jie Xin, Jian Xu

“…It is interesting that the electrical conductivity of the PANI/PVA composites is estimated to be as high as 1.28 S/cm. The experimental results show that the surface of PANI/PVA composite membranes exhibits good integrity. …”
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DO FIRM CHARACTERISTICS AFFECT PRICE DISCOVERY? EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE CROSS-LISTED STOCKS by Yen-Sheng Lee, Yi-Heng Tseng

“… This study examines the price movement relationship for Chinese firms that cross-list their shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange or Shenzhen Stock Exchange in mainland China. We estimate the coefficients of adjustment speed between the two markets by conducting a unit root test and apply a vector error correction model for the price series of our 55 sample firms. …”
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Neurological and Neurobehavioral Disorders Associated with Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Humans by Maxwell A. Virus, Evie G. Ehrhorn, LeeAnna M. Lui, Paul H. Davis

“…The intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii is estimated to infect up to 30% of the world population, leading to lifelong chronic infection of the brain and muscle tissue. …”
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Can Marketization Improve Sustainable Development in Northeastern China? Evidence from the Perspective of Coupling Coordination Degree Model by Sai Tang, Yue Zhu, Fang Wang, Na Shen

“…This paper adopts the coupling coordination degree model (CCDM) to estimate the coupling coordination degree and further explore the impact of marketization on the coupling coordination degree in Northeastern China from 1994 to 2019. …”
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