Modeling the Spatial Correlations among Energy Consumption, Economic Growth, and the Ecological Environment by Feng Zhao, Yi Sun, Jie Zhang, Pingping Sun

“…Moreover, the spatial autocorrelation model, spatial-temporal transition method, and generalized moment estimation method are adopted to conduct empirical analysis on the research object. …”
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Optimizing the Prediction Accuracy of Friction Capacity of Driven Piles in Cohesive Soil Using a Novel Self-Tuning Least Squares Support Vector Machine by Doddy Prayogo, Yudas Tadeus Teddy Susanto

“…It makes for a reliable and robust assistance tool in helping all geotechnical engineers estimate friction pile capacity.…”
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Identifying Priority Areas for Increasing the Supply of Medication-Assisted Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder: A Geospatial Approach by Michael Topmiller, Peter J. Mallow, Aaron T. Vissman, Jene Grandmont

“…**Methods:** We used a geospatial analytical framework, which integrated multiple substance use measures and layers of geographic information. Measures included estimates of illicit drug dependence and unmet treatment need from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), opioid-related admissions from the Treatment Episode Data Set: Admissions (TEDs-A), and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) waiver practitioner data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). …”
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Updated Mini-Review on Polychlorinated Diphenyl Ethers (PCDEs) in Food: Levels and Dietary Intake by Jose L. Domingo

“…The most recent available dietary intake, estimated in 2008, was 51.6 ng/day, showing an increase from 41 ng/day (reported in 2004). …”
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Beam breakup instability studies of powerful energy recovery linac for experiments by S. Setiniyaz, R. Apsimon, P. H. Williams, C. Barbagallo, S. A. Bogacz, R. M. Bodenstein, K. Deitrick

“…This previously underestimated factor is essential for effective BBU control. We estimated the PERLE threshold current using both analytical and numerical models, incorporating the designed PERLE HOM dampers. …”
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Self-Rated Health Trajectories among Married Americans: Do Disparities Persist over 20 Years? by Terceira A. Berdahl, Julia McQuillan

“…The purpose of this study is to understand self-rated health (SRH) trajectories by social location (race/ethnicity by gender by social class) among married individuals in the United States. We estimate multilevel models of SRH using six observations from 1980 to 2000 from a nationally representative panel of married individuals initially aged 25–55 (Marital Instability Over the Life Course Study). …”
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The relationship between fiscal federalism and fiscal discipline: panel quantile regression approach by Kayode Olaide, Josine Uwilingiye, Beatrice D. Simo-Kengne

“…Using a panel quantile regression estimation approach for a sample of twenty countries over the period 1996–2018, this study establishes that the impact of fiscal federalism on fiscal discipline may not be constant on the conditional mean of the fiscal discipline but varies along its conditional distribution. …”
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Study of Histomorphological Patterns of Uterine Leiomyomas: An Observational Study by Archana Tiwari, Pratima Sapkota

“…It is the most common tumor in women with an estimated incidence of 20%-40% in women during their reproductive years. …”
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Distribution and genetic diversity of three apple viruses in Belarus by P. V. Kuzmitskaya, O. Yu. Urbanovich

“…Recombination processes could also make some contribution to the existing genetic diversity of the virus populations studied. Estimates of selective pressure on the genome fragments of ACLSV, ASPV and ASGV obtained in this study as well as homologous sequences from the GenBank database indicate negative selection, except for one codon in the sequence of the ACLSV coat protein, which is under positive selection. …”
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Integrating Satellite Data and In-situ Observations for Trophic State Assessment of Renuka Lake, Himachal Pradesh, India by Sujit Kumar Jally, Rakesh Kumar and Sibabrata Das

“…The present study focuses on estimating the Trophic State Index (TSI) of Renuka Lake, the smallest Ramsar site in India, utilizing in-situ observed Secchi disk transparency (SDT) and satellite data. …”
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Layout Aware Optimization of High Speed Fixed Coefficient FIR Filters for FPGAs by Shahnam Mirzaei, Ryan Kastner, Anup Hosangadi

“…The second phase optimizes routing delay using prelayout wire length estimation techniques to improve the final placed and routed design. …”
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children of Middle Eastern Descent by Christina Mai Ying Naidoo, Steven T. Leach, Andrew S. Day, Daniel A. Lemberg

“…Although there were limitations with this dataset, we estimated a higher prevalence of IBD in Middle Eastern children and they had a different disease phenotype and behavior compared to the control group, with less disease restricted to the colon and likely a more active disease course.…”
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Genetic Basis of Sjögren's Syndrome. How Strong is the Evidence? by Juan-Manuel Anaya, Angélica María Delgado-Vega, John Castiblanco

“…The prevalence of primary SS in siblings has been estimated to be 0.09% while the reported general prevalence of the disease is approximately 0.1%. …”
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Prevalence of Pharmaceuticals in Surface Water Samples in Ghana by David Azanu, David Adu-Poku, Selina Ama Saah, William Ofori Appaw

“…Because of the presence of ibuprofen, the lowest trophic level and fish were shown to be at risk. The estimated risk quotient values for antibiotics resistance were above 1 for all the antibiotics investigated in surface water impacted by the wastewater of hospitals and pharmaceutical companies’ except surface water impacted by sewage treatment plants (STPs) and market wastewater. …”
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Development and Efficiency Analysis of Dual Active Bridge Converter Employing SiC Devices Using TMS 320F280039 by T. Deepti, K. Deepa, Albert Alexander Stonier, Geno Peter, A. Anoop, Vivekananda Ganji

“…The paper presents an analytical method for designing the crucial elements of dual active bridge (DAB) with single-phase shift (SPS) modulation control. By comparing the estimated energy efficiency characteristics with measurements from a prototype 90-W single-phase DAB converter fitted with silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs, the robustness of this approach is exemplified and loss, and efficiency comparison analysis is carried out with conventional switching devices. …”
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Geographical Differences in the Population-Based Cross-Sectional Growth Curve and Age at Peak Height Velocity with respect to the Prevalence Rate of Overweight in Japanese Children by Masana Yokoya, Yukito Higuchi

“…Mean prefectural-level age at PHV was estimated by the cubic spline-fitting procedure using cross-sectional whole-year prefectural mean height data (5–17 years, 2006–2013), and 8-year (2006–2013) means of the standardized prevalence rates of overweight children and other anatomical data (8-year standardized weight and height) were recalculated. …”
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Damage on a Solid–Liquid Interface Induced by the Dynamical Behavior of Injected Gas Bubbles in Flowing Mercury by Hiroyuki Kogawa, Takashi Wakui, Masatoshi Futakawa

“…In the mercury targets of spallation neutron sources, where cavitation damage is a crucial issue for life estimation, microbubbles are injected into the mercury to absorb the thermal expansion of the mercury caused by the pulsed proton beam injection and reduce the macroscopic pressure waves, which results in reducing the damage. …”
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Evolution and Differentiation of High-Quality Development of Marine Economy: A Case Study from China by Bo Li, Chuang Tian, Zhaoyuan Shi, Zenglin Han

“…The temporal and spatial variation in the high-quality development of China’s marine economy from 2006 to 2016 is explored utilizing the nuclear density estimation, entropy, and mean standard deviation classification methods. …”
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Long-Term Changes in Sarcopenia and Body Composition in Diabetes Patients with and without Charcot Osteoarthropathy by Michael Zaucha Sørensen, Rasmus Bo Jansen, Tomas Møller Christensen, Per E. Holstein, Ole Lander Svendsen

“…The lean mass of limbs was used as an estimate of appendicular lean mass (aLM). Fat mass and aLM were then used to detect sarcopenic individuals using different methods. …”
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Development of Energy Efficient Clustering Protocol in Wireless Sensor Network Using Neuro-Fuzzy Approach by E. Golden Julie, S. Tamil Selvi

“…NFEACS used neural network that provides effective training set related to energy and received signal strength of all nodes to estimate the expected energy for tentative cluster heads. …”
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