Recent advances in journal bearings: wear fault diagnostics, condition monitoring and fault diagnosis methodologies by Nazik Jebur, Wafa Soud

“…Additionally, convolutional autoencoders have demonstrated impressive performance, achieving an average Pearson coefficient of 91% in wear estimation, underscoring the critical importance of predictive maintenance. …”
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Calibration of Low-cost Gas Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring by Dimitris Margaritis, Christos Keramydas, Ioannis Papachristos, Dimitra Lambropoulou

“…Abstract Mobile monitoring devices equipped with low-cost gas sensors in fixed stations are an emerging solution to enhance the spatial coverage of air quality monitoring networks. We estimated the measurement accuracy of two AQMesh devices, evaluated their agreement, and examined the related calibration characteristics. …”
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Effect of Stock Control on Performance of Small-Scale Business Enterprises: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Tuheisomwe, Quilino

“…A descriptive survey design was used, well-suited to examining the relationship between stock control and performance, estimating outcomes, and making predictions. The study population included all elements from which inferences were drawn. …”
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Short-Term Biliary Stent Placement Contributing Common Bile Duct Stone Disappearance with Preservation of Duodenal Papilla Function by Tatsuki Ueda, Masataka Kikuyama, Yuzo Kodama, Takafumi Kurokami

“…The second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) was performed for treatment of CBDS 3 to 4 months after the first ERCP. We estimated the rate of stone disappearance at the time of second ERCP. …”
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Life prediction analysis of patrol vessel made from FRP with variations of wave height and wave direction by Octaviano Noel, Zubaydi Achmad, Ismail Abdi, Ariesta Rizky Chandra, Pratikno Herman, Rahmana Putra Nicky, Triputrastyo Murwatono Totok

“…However, transitioning from materials like steel and aluminum, commonly used in production, requires knowledge of the lifetime of FRP as a ship structure, allowing for an estimation of how long the ship can operate. Additionally, predicting the ship’s lifetime is also necessary to meet ship safety factors. …”
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Robust and Automated Internal Quality Grading of a Chinese Green Tea (Longjing) by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics by Xian-Shu Fu, Lu Xu, Xiao-Ping Yu, Zi-Hong Ye, Hai-Feng Cui

“…To remove the influence of abnormal samples, The Stahel-Donoho estimate (SDE) of outlyingness was used for outlier analysis. …”
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Tigers, Terrain, and Human Settlement Influence the Occupancy of Leopards (Panthera pardus) in Southwestern Tarai, Nepal by Laxmi Raj Joshi, Rabin Bahadur K. C., Madhu Chetri, Morten Odden, Olivier Devineau, Ajay Karki, Bhagawan Raj Dahal, Naresh Subedi

“…Naive and model‐averaged occupancy estimates were 0.51 and 0.6563 (SE: 0.022, 95% CI: 0.612, 0.70), respectively. …”
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Redesigning elastic full‐waveform inversion on the new Sunway architecture by Mengyuan Hua, Wubing Wan, Zhaoqi Sun, Zekun Yin, Puyu Xiong, Xiaohui Liu, Haodong Tian, Ping Gao, Weiguo Liu, Hua Wang, Wenlai Zhao, Zhenchun Huang

“…Abstract IFOS3D is a three‐dimensional elastic full‐waveform inversion (EFWI) tool designed for high‐resolution estimation of the Earth's material properties within 3D subsurface structures. …”
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Autologous Concentrated Bone Marrow Grafting for the Treatment of Osteonecrosis of the Humeral Head: A Report of Five Shoulders in Four Cases by Takeshi Makihara, Tomokazu Yoshioka, Hisashi Sugaya, Masashi Yamazaki, Hajime Mishima

“…The concentration ratio of nucleated cells was calculated and the number of transplanted mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) was estimated by a colony-forming assay. All four shoulders with stage 3 disease achieved joint sparing. …”
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Preserving Rice Fields and Domestic Rice Adequacy: A Case Study in Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Indonesia by Bondansari, Widiatmaka, Machfud, Khursatul Munibah, Wiwin Ambarwulan

“…The findings revealed that, on average, 103 hectares of rice fields in the Banyumas Regency were lost annually between 2007 and 2019. In 2045, it is estimated that the area of rice fields in Banyumas Regency will be 29,160 hectares, with a conversion rate from 2019 to 2045 of 1,384 hectares. …”
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Research on the Quality Properties of Wheat Noodles by Adding Debranched Wheat Starch by LIU Xian-zhi, ZHAN Lin-jie, LI Hong-yan, LI Cai-fu, LI Man, XU Tong-cheng, JI Na, XU Long-zhao

“…Compared with the control group, when 50% debranched precipitate was added, the noodles' gelatinization onset temperature (To), peak temperature (Tp), final temperature (Tc), and gelatinization enthalpy (ΔH) all increased, indicating improved thermal stability, and the resistant starch (RS) content increased from 11.37% to 22.19%, while the estimated glycemic index (eGI) decreased from 87.71 to 78.57, demonstrating good in vitro digestion results. …”
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Structural Analysis of Recombinant Human Preproinsulins by Structure Prediction, Molecular Dynamics, and Protein-Protein Docking by Sung Hun Jung, Chang-Kyu Kim, Gunhee Lee, Jonghwan Yoon, Minho Lee

“…The structures were refined by molecular dynamics simulation, and the energy of each model was estimated. Then, protein-protein docking between the models and trypsin was carried out to compare how efficiently the protease could access the cleavage sites of the proinsulin models. …”
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Health Literacy Status and Understanding of the Prescription Instructions in Diabetic Patients by Shivangini Singh, Sahana Devadasa Acharya, Ashwin Kamath, Sheetal D. Ullal, Rathnakar P. Urval

“…The HL of the patients was assessed by using Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine, a screening test comprising of 66 health-related words. …”
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Whole-Body Cryotherapy Decreases the Levels of Inflammatory, Oxidative Stress, and Atherosclerosis Plaque Markers in Male Patients with Active-Phase Ankylosing Spondylitis in the A... by Agata Stanek, Armand Cholewka, Tomasz Wielkoszyński, Ewa Romuk, Aleksander Sieroń

“…The aim of the study was to estimate the impact of whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) on cardiovascular risk factors in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). …”
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Kinetics of Texture and Colour Changes in Chicken Sausage during Superheated Steam Cooking by Abdulhameed Asmaa A., Yang Tajul A., Abdulkarim A. A.

“…The texture profile was evaluated in terms of hardness, cohesiveness, gumminess, and chewiness, while the colour parameters were estimated in terms of lightness (L*), redness (a*), yellowness (b*), and total colour difference (∆E). …”
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Human Thermal Comfort and Heat Stress in an Outdoor Urban Arid Environment: A Case Study by A. M. Abdel-Ghany, I. M. Al-Helal, M. R. Shady

“…RayMan software model was used to estimate the PET, and the UTCI calculator was used for UTCI. …”
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Direct Data Domain Sparsity-Based STAP Utilizing Subaperture Smoothing Techniques by Zhaocheng Yang, Rui Fa, Yuliang Qin, Xiang Li, Hongqiang Wang

“…The interference covariance matrix is then estimated from the interference spectrum, followed by the space-time filtering and the target detection. …”
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Randomized and Efficient Time Synchronization in Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks: A Gossip-Consensus-Based Approach by Nan Xiong, Minrui Fei, Taicheng Yang, Yu-Chu Tian

“…Secondly, based on the mutual drift estimation, each pair of activated nodes fully adjusts clock rate and offset to achieve network-wide time synchronization by drawing upon the gossip consensus approach. …”
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Does Internet use help to achieve sustainable food consumption? Evidence from rural China by Jian Liu, Yanjun Ren, Yu Hong, Thomas Glauben, Qiang Li

“…The instrumental variable estimation is used to solve the endogeneity problem of Internet use and the propensity score matching (PSM) method is used for robustness check. …”
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Magnetic Source Detection Using an Array of Planar Hall Effect Sensors and Machine Learning Algorithms by Miki Vizel, Roger Alimi, Daniel Lahav, Moty Schultz, Asaf Grosz, Lior Klein

“…To address this, we employed the Levenberg–Marquardt Algorithm (LMA) as a deterministic optimization method to estimate the magnetic source’s position and parameters, as well as machine earning (ML) algorithms, which consist of a Fully Connected Neural Network (FCNN). …”
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