Mutual Effect of <i>NAT2</i> rs1799930 (590G>A) Polymorphism and Alcohol Abuse on Risk of Acute Pancreatitis by T. A. Samgina

“…Aim. Estimation of the contribution of rs1799930 (590G&gt;A) polymorphism of gene NAT2 to the development of acute alcoholic pancreatitis.Materials and methods. …”
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Physical Activity during Pregnancy: Impact of Applying Different Physical Activity Guidelines by Katie M. Smith, Christina G. Campbell

“…The different guidelines lead to a wide range of prevalence estimates and this has led to conflicting reports about activity patterns during pregnancy. …”
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Applied Comparison of Meta-analysis Techniques by Li Wang, Colin Lewis-Beck, Elyse Fritschel, Erdem Baser, Onur Baser

“…The aggregation of study level data can provide precise estimates for outcomes of interest, allow for unique treatment comparisons, and explain the differences arising from conflicting study results. …”
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Free Radicals and Extrinsic Skin Aging by Borut Poljšak, Raja Dahmane

“…Extrinsic skin damage develops due to several factors: ionizing radiation, severe physical and psychological stress, alcohol intake, poor nutrition, overeating, environmental pollution, and exposure to UV radiation (UVR). It is estimated that among all these environmental factors, UVR contributes up to 80%. …”
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FINANCIAL LITERACY, INFRASTRUCTURAL FACILITY AND FINANCIAL INCLUSION OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE OWNERS IN NIGERIA by Abdullahi Adio Babatunde

“…The findings indicate that independent variables explain 76 percent changes in the dependent variable, with a standardized regression estimate (SRE) of 0.74, significant at 0.05. Additionally, the study finds that infrastructural facilities partially mediate the correlation between independent variables and dependent variable, with coefficient of 0.274, significant at p< 0.05. …”
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Exposing Image Forgery by Detecting Consistency of Shadow by Yongzhen Ke, Fan Qin, Weidong Min, Guiling Zhang

“…Then an efficient method is used to estimate the strength of light source of shadow. Last, the similarity of strength of light source of two shadows is measured by correlation function. …”
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An Imputation Method for Missing Traffic Data Based on FCM Optimized by PSO-SVR by Qiang Shang, Zhaosheng Yang, Song Gao, Derong Tan

“…Currently, most of imputation methods estimated the missing traffic values by using spatial-temporal information as much as possible. …”
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A bivariate multifractal analysis approach to understanding socio-spatial segregation dynamics by Janka Lengyel, Stéphane G. Roux, Olivier Bonin, Stéphane Jaffard, Patrice Abry

“…In this context, the proposed approach, which uses wavelet leaders for multifractal analysis of irregular point processes, estimates self-similarity and intermittency exponents as well as self-similar and multifractal cross-correlation by combining classical multifractal and geographic analysis methods. …”
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Weight Misperceptions and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adolescent Female Body Mass Index by Ramona C. Krauss, Lisa M. Powell, Roy Wada

“…Weight misperceptions explained 13.0% of the black-white female BMI gap and 3.3% of the Hispanic-white female BMI gap. The regression estimates showed that weight underperceptions were important determinants of adolescent female BMI, particularly among black and Hispanic adolescents. …”
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Effect Of Open-Pit Blasting Vibrations on a Hanging-Wall Slope: A Case Study of the Beizhan Iron Mine in China by Yong-gang Xiao, Jie Cao, Xiao-min Liu, Chang-hong Li

“…The result showed that the fitting functional relationship was correct and could be the basic rule of predicting the maximum charge amount per delay interval and minimum safe distance for this area. The estimated open-pit blasting charge weight was reasonable and blasting vibrations would have little effect on the hanging-wall slope. …”
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Universal Power Law for Relationship between Rainfall Kinetic Energy and Rainfall Intensity by Seung Sook Shin, Sang Deog Park, Byoung Koo Choi

“…An exponent of the proposed power law was 11/9 and coefficient was estimated at 10.3 from the empirical equations of the existing power-law relation. …”
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Perioperative infarction during coronary bypass surgery: an attempt to refine the diagnostic criteria using data from a retrospective case–control study by Lars Niclauss, Liam-Kani Roulet, Piergiorgio Tozzi, Filip Dulguerov, Ziyad Gunga, Anna Nowacka, Matthias Kirsch

“…Methods We performed a retrospective case–control study of patients who experienced perioperative MI (cardiac enzyme release, electrocardiographic changes, dysfunction on echocardiography) and those without ischemia to identify risk factors and enzyme activity thresholds. Results The estimated incidence of CABG-associated MI was 2.8%. …”
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Comparison of Flow Solutions for Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Complex Analysis Methods (CAM) and Embedded Discrete Fracture Models (EDFM): Fundamental Design Differences an... by Aaditya Khanal, Ruud Weijermars

“…The results from CAM and EDFM are used to scale the flux strength of the natural fractures and improve the equivalent permeability contrast estimation for CAM. The permeability contrast for CAM is calculated from the ratio of the enhanced velocity inside natural fractures to the unperturbed matrix fluid velocity. …”
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Trade Openness and Poverty Reduction in South Africa by Glenda Maluleke, Nomfundo Vacu-Nqila

“…The ARDL bounds testing approach was used with annual data covering the period from 1990 to 2021. The study estimated four models, that is, an income-based model and a consumption-based model using two measures of trade openness which are total trade and exports as a percentage of GDP. …”
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Performance Deterioration of Pitot Tubes Caused by In-Flight Ice Accretion: A Numerical Investigation by Hao Zhang, Rui Zhao, Chih-Yung Wen

“…A nonlinear regression analysis is further conducted to estimate the failure performance. The predicated failure times show reliable consistency with numerical results, demonstrating the capability of the obtained empirical functions for convenient predictions of failure times within the applicable range.…”
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Expanding Robotic Arm-Assisted Knee Surgery: The First Attempt to Use the System for Knee Revision Arthroplasty by Dimitrios Kalavrytinos, Christos Koutserimpas, Ioannis Kalavrytinos, Konstantinos Dretakis

“…With the use of the MAKO system, the estimated depth of the medial plateau according to CT planning was found to be 10 mm more distal than the lateral. …”
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Forecasting of Population Narcotization under the Implementation of a Drug Use Reduction Policy by Sergey Mityagin, Carlos Gershenson, Alexander Boukhanovsky

“…The model helps determine the significant factors of population narcotization and allows to estimate its damage. The model is tested successfully using St. …”
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StreetSurfaceVis: a dataset of crowdsourced street-level imagery annotated by road surface type and quality by Alexandra Kapp, Edith Hoffmann, Esther Weigmann, Helena Mihaljević

“…As the frequency distribution of road surface types and qualities is highly imbalanced, we propose a sampling strategy incorporating various external label prediction resources to ensure sufficient images per class while reducing manual annotation. More precisely, we estimate the impact of (1) enriching the image data with OpenStreetMap tags, (2) iterative training and application of a custom surface type classification model, (3) amplifying underrepresented classes through prompt-based classification with GPT-4o and (4) similarity search using image embeddings. …”
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Shear Behaviour of RC Beams Strengthened by Various Ultrahigh Performance Fibre-Reinforced Concrete Systems by Walid Mansour, Bassam A. Tayeh

“…Consequently, this study suggests two formulas to estimate the shear strength of normal-strength RC beams and UHPFRC-strengthened RC beams considering the effect of the shear span-to-depth ratio.…”
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Detecting Source Code Plagiarism in Student Assignment Submissions Using Clustering Techniques by Raddam Sami Mehsen, Majharoddin M. Kazi, Hiren Joshi

“…Additionally, we explore the hierarchical clustering method, which estimates an even higher precision rate of 99.5% compared to previous techniques. …”
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