Water quality and neurodegenerative disease risk in the middle-aged and elderly population by Yujia Bao, Yongxuan Li, Yanqiu Zhou, Jingqi Zhou, Wei Mu, Xiaobei Deng, Chen Shen, Lefei Han, Jinjun Ran

“…Ensuring sustainable management of water is an indispensable part of sustainable development, however, the limelight on long-term health risk of water hardness is essential but remains inadequate. This study estimated effects of water hardness on the brain system to refine its systemic risk assessment. …”
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Legal and economic analyzing the development of the digital economy by Spalević Žaklina, Vićentijević Kosana, Ateljević Milutin

“…The 2016 World Economic Forum Report covers 139 economies and according to this survey, Serbia is 75th with an estimated 4.00 index of online readiness. This indicates that the digital economy in the Republic of Serbia is not sufficiently developed. …”
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3D Rigid Registration of Intraoperative Ultrasound and Preoperative MR Brain Images Based on Hyperechogenic Structures by Pierrick Coupé, Pierre Hellier, Xavier Morandi, Christian Barillot

“…The proposed validation framework is based on (i) visual assessment, (ii) manual expert estimations , and (iii) a robustness study. Results show that the proposed method (i) is visually efficient, (ii) produces no statistically different registration accuracy compared to manual-based expert registration, and (iii) converges robustly. …”
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The Impact of Pixel Resolution, Integration Scale, Preprocessing, and Feature Normalization on Texture Analysis for Mass Classification in Mammograms by Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Jaime Melendez, Antonio Moreno, Domenec Puig

“…This information has been used in mammogram analysis applications such as mass detection, mass classification, and breast density estimation. In this paper, we study the effect of factors such as pixel resolution, integration scale, preprocessing, and feature normalization on the performance of those texture methods for mass classification. …”
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Digital twin driven electrode optimization for wearable bladder monitoring via bioimpedance by H. Trask Crane, John A. Berkebile, Samer Mabrouk, Nicholas Riccardelli, Omer T. Inan

“…Our optimized placement demonstrated an efficient proof-of-concept volume estimation that required as few as seven measurement frames while maintaining low errors (CI 95% −1.11% to 1.00%) for volumes ≥100 mL. …”
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Reviewing the current treatment approaches for bullous pemphigoid – analysis of literature by Julia Nowak, Agnieszka Najdek, Daria Oleksy, Dawid Komada, Urszula Kaczmarska, Aleksandra Woźniak, Michał Jakub Cioch, Marcin Mycyk, Kamil Hermanowicz, Katarzyna Doman

“…The global annual cumulative incidence of BP is estimated at 8.2 cases per 1,000,000 individuals, with Europe reporting higher incidence rates than other regions. …”
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Study on the Water-Physical Properties of the Cement-Plaster Bonded Rock-Like Materials by Yong Zhang, Zhiguo Cao, Xiaomeng Shi

“…The equations can be used to estimate the water-physical properties of cement-plaster bonded rock-like materials with specific proportion and thus to select suitable materials in the solid-fluid coupling physical model tests.…”
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Increasing atmospheric evaporative demand across the Tibetan plateau and implications for surface water resources by Shiqin Xu, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Tim R. McVicar, Pierre Gentine, Hylke E. Beck, Joshua B. Fisher, Zhongbo Yu, Ningpeng Dong, Akash Koppa, Matthew F. McCabe

“…Using the empirical “top-down” Budyko approach, we estimate that across seven sub-catchments draining the Tibetan Plateau, a 10% increase in annual-averaged precipitation, assuming all other factors remain constant, would lead to a 15%–19% increase in streamflow. …”
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Does Chinese policy banks' overseas lending favor Belt Road Initiative countries? by Xin Chen, Heyang Fang, Yun Liu, Yifei Zhang

“…Employing a difference‐in‐differences (DID) estimation, we show that Chinese policy banks increased aggregate lending (number of loans and loan amounts) to firms from the BRI countries compared to those from the non‐BRI countries after the initiative. …”
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Satsuma Mandarin Budget and Profitability Analysis for North Florida by Kevin R. Athearn, Peter C. Andersen, Brent V. Brodbeck, Lei Lani L. Davis, Clay Olson, Daniel K. Fenneman, Matthew C. Lollar, Derek Farnsworth, Michael Perez

“…An enterprise budget estimates revenues, costs, and net returns for a particular crop or farm enterprise to help growers assess the economic viability and risk of an enterprise, compare enterprises, and evaluate production or marketing changes. …”
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A Simple Microfluidic Chip Design for Fundamental Bioseparation by Alan S. Chan, Michael K. Danquah, Dominic Agyei, Patrick G. Hartley, Yonggang Zhu

“…Retention factor was estimated to be 3.3 for dextran and 10.4 for BSA. The selectivity was 3.2 and resolution was 10.7. …”
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Production of Laccase by Cochliobolus sp. Isolated from Plastic Dumped Soils and Their Ability to Degrade Low Molecular Weight PVC by Tirupati Sumathi, Buddolla Viswanath, Akula Sri Lakshmi, D. V. R. SaiGopal

“…One of the utmost man-made problems faced today has been the ever-increasing plastic waste filling the world. It accounts for an estimated 20–30% (by volume) of municipal solid waste in landfill sites worldwide. …”
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Two-stage oxidation of petrogenic organic carbon in a rapidly exhuming small mountainous catchment by Wan-Yin Lien, Chih-Tung Chen, Yun-Hsuan Lee, Chih-Chieh Su, Pei-Ling Wang, Li-Hung Lin

“…Such an oxidative flux was estimated to be 20–35 metric tons of carbon per square kilometer per year, ranking among the greatest levels around the world and highlighting tectonically active islands and the surrounding marine systems as a hotspot of carbon emission.…”
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Diagnosis of induction motor stator faults around rotor slot harmonics using the Matrix Pencil method by Mohamed Kouadria, Zakaria Chedjara, Chun-Lien Su, Mohamed Benbouzid, Josep M. Guerrero, Babul Salam KSM Kader Ibrahim, Hafiz Ahmed

“…This method aims to avoid the limitations of the classical method based on power spectral density estimation using the periodogram. Indeed, the proposed approach offers very high frequency resolution even for very short acquisition times, thus allowing improved detection even for low amplitudes. …”
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Daisaikoto for Menstrual Pain: A Lesson from a Case with Menstrual Pain Successfully Treated with Daisaikoto by Yuko Horiba, Tetsuhiro Yoshino, Kenji Watanabe

“…Menstrual pain is one of the common symptoms among women. It is estimated that 5–14% of women are sometimes absent from school or work because of pain. …”
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Pricing Corporate Bonds with Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, and Their Correlation by Xinting Li, Baochen Yang, Yunpeng Su, Yunbi An

“…Then, we extend the traditional bond pricing model with only credit risk by incorporating liquidity risk into the framework in which the probabilities of the two risk events are estimated by a joint distribution. Using numerical examples, we analyze the role of the correlation between credit and liquidity in bond pricing, especially during a financial crisis. …”
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The influence of income tax rate, tunneling incentives, and return on equity on transfer pricing behavior of foreign direct investment enterprises in Vietnam by Tran Quoc Thinh, Nguyen Thi Hai An

“…The paper gets a final panel data of 576 observations to be processed by the fixed effects model estimation method using EViews 12. Supporting agency theory and positive accounting theory, the results show that the income tax rate negatively influences transfer pricing behavior, while tunneling incentives and return on equity positively affect transfer pricing behavior. …”
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Discrete coordination nanochains based on photoluminescent dyes reveal intrachain exciton migration dynamics by Ryojun Toyoda, Naoya Fukui, Haru Taniguchi, Hiroki Uratani, Joe Komeda, Yuta Chiba, Hikaru Takaya, Hiroshi Nishihara, Ryota Sakamoto

“…Readily accessible absorption spectroscopy, and photoluminescence lifetime and quantum yield measurements allow the construction of continuous-time Markov chains model, thereby estimating non-trivial exciton migration across the metal center.…”
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Tuberculosis in the incarcerated population by Pablo Cristiano de Souza, Rodrigo de Macedo Couto, Alec Brian Lacerda, Pãmela Rodrigues de Souza Silva, Omar Ariel Espinosa, Jaqueline Costa Lima

“…The incidences were estimated, evaluating their distributions in the municipalities of Mato Grosso - Brazil through the analysis of spatial clusters Gi*. …”
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Numerical Study on the Behavior of Square Stiffened Caissons Penetrating into Normally Consolidated Clay by Wei Liu, Zhihuai Huang, Mi Zhou

“…Finally, simple expressions were proposed for estimating the critical depths of soil backflow and cavity formation.…”
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