Detection of Water Contamination Events Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Alternating Trilinear Decomposition Algorithm by Jie Yu, Xiaoyan Zhang, Dibo Hou, Fang Chen, Tingting Mao, Pingjie Huang, Guangxin Zhang

“…The Delaunay triangulation interpolation method was used to make the pretreatment of three-dimensional fluorescence spectra data, in order to estimate the effect of Rayleigh and Raman scattering; ATLD model was applied to establish the model of normal water sample, and the residual matrix was obtained by subtracting the measured matrix from the model matrix; the residual sum of squares obtained from the residual matrix and threshold was used to make qualitative discrimination of test samples and distinguish drinking water samples and organic pollutant samples. …”
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Rotation Correction Algorithm Based on Polar Harmonic Fourier Moments and Optimization of Color Image Security Quantization Watermarking Scheme by Yuli Yang, Meiru Jiang, Xiufang Feng, Chenchen Lu, Yongle Chen, Shuang Zhou, Hao Zhang

“…In comparison, the mean square error of the proposed rotation angle estimation model rose from 0.042 to 0.018, and the mean absolute error climbed from 0.065 to 0.032. …”
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Host-Parasite Interactions in Individuals with Type 1 and 2 Diabetes Result in Higher Frequency of Ascaris lumbricoides and Giardia lamblia in Type 2 Diabetic Individuals by Eleuza Rodrigues Machado, Núbia Oliveira Matos, Sinione Morais Rezende, Daniela Carlos, Thauana Cristina Silva, Leônia Rodrigues, Maria Jarlene Rodrigues Almeida, Maria Regina Fernandes de Oliveira, Maria Imaculada Muniz-Junqueira, Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves

“…A descriptive study was designed to estimate frequencies of parasites and to compare them in individuals with diabetes types 1 and 2 from two Health Centers and one hospital in the Federal District of Brazil. …”
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Ground-Penetrating Radar Evaluation of Moisture and Frost across Typical Saskatchewan Road Soils by Curtis Berthelot, Diana Podborochynski, Timo Saarenketo, Brent Marjerison, Colin Prang

“…Given the influence of road soil type and moisture content on in-service road performance, this ability could provide road engineers with accurate estimates of in situ structural condition of road structures for preservation and rehabilitation planning and optimization purposes.…”
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Distribution and Health Risk Assessment on Dietary Exposure of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Vegetables in Nanjing, China by Minmin Wu, Zhonghuan Xia, Qianqian Zhang, Jing Yin, Yanchi Zhou, Hao Yang

“…The margin of exposure (MOE) approach with age/gender group-specific daily dietary exposure level was used to estimate the carcinogenic risk. The calculated total mean MOE in the case of BaP and PAH4 (sum of BaA, CHR, BbF, and BaP) was 14960 and 7723, respectively, for local residents. …”
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Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatographic Separation and Determination of Ni(II), Cu(II), Pd(II), and Ag(I) Using 2-Pyrrolecarboxaldehyde-4-phenylsemicarbazone as a Complexing Reagent by Arfana Mallah, Amber R. Solangi, Najma Memon, Rabia A. Memon, Muhammad Y. Khuhawar

“…The applicability and the accuracy of the developed method were estimated by the analysis of Ni(II) in hydrogenated oil (ghee) samples and Pd(II) in palladium charcoal.…”
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Sexual Masochism Disorder with Asphyxiophilia: A Deadly yet Underrecognized Disease by Anna Coluccia, Mario Gabbrielli, Giacomo Gualtieri, Fabio Ferretti, Andrea Pozza, Andrea Fagiolini

“…Although autoerotic asphyxia has been associated with estimated mortality rates ranging from 250 to 1000 deaths per year in the United States, in Italy, knowledge on this condition is very poor. …”
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Designing Dynamic Delivery Parking Spots in Urban Areas to Reduce Traffic Disruptions by Mireia Roca-Riu, Jin Cao, Igor Dakic, Monica Menendez

“…A simulation study is used to validate the model and to estimate delay compared to real situations with illegal parking, showing that DDPS can reduce system’s delay.…”
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On the Investigation of State Space Reconstruction of Nonlinear Aeroelastic Response Time Series by Flávio D. Marques, Eduardo M. Belo, Vilma A. Oliveira, José R. Rosolen, Andréia R. Simoni

“…The method of delays is used to identify an embedded attractor in the state space from experimentally acquired aeroelastic response time series. To obtain an estimate of the time delay used in the state space reconstruction from time series, the autocorrelation function analyis is used. …”
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On the validity of some equilibrium models for thermodiffusion by Araujo-Rocha, Mario, Diaz-Marquez, Alejandro, Stirnemann, Guillaume

“…We show that these approaches are inadequate and lead to completely uncorrelated estimates as compared to those based on the out-of-equilibrium measurements. …”
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A Rare Case of Glioblastoma Multiforme with Osseous Metastases by Rubens Barros Costa, Ricardo Costa, Jason Kaplan, Marcelo Rocha Cruz, Hiral Shah, Maria Matsangou, Benedito Carneiro

“…It has a very aggressive natural history with a median overall survival estimated at 14.6 months despite multimodality treatment. …”
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Novel Continuous Terminal Sliding Mode Observer Based Sensorless Speed Control of PMSM Drive System by Abdul Khalique Junejo, Mohsin Ali Koondhar, Rizwan Aziz Siddiqui, Ghulam Sarwar Kaloi, Muhammad Ali Bijarani

“…The suggested the CTSMO is robust against parametric change and load disturbances, which is used to estimate the speed and rotor position from the back EMF (BEMF) of the PMSM system. …”
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Phylogenomic approaches reveal a robust time-scale phylogeny of the Terminal Fusarium Clade by Andrés Felipe Lizcano Salas, Jorge Duitama, Silvia Restrepo, Adriana Marcela Celis Ramírez

“…We also inferred new divergence time estimates, which differ from those of previous studies due to topology discordances and taxon sampling. …”
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Effects of Re on Vacancy Mobility in a Ni-Re System: An Atomistic Study by Nuttapong La-ongtup, Suttipong Wannapaiboon, Piyanut Pinyou, Worawat Wattanathana, Yuranan Hanlumyuang

“…With this technique, we compute the local energy barriers to vacancy hopping, tracer diffusivities, and migration energies of the low-concentration limit of Ni-Re alloys. It was estimated that the computed diffusion rates are comparable to the reported rates. …”
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Predictive Control for PV- Water Pumping System based of Interconnected High Gain Observer by Lamouchi Zakaria, Allal Abderrahim, Abderrahmane Khechekhouche, Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira, Júlio Cesar Costa Campos, Kheireddine Lamamra

“…The Interconnected High-Gain Observer accurately estimates motor speed, facilitating the attainment of the rated rotor speed in line with the desired reference speed. …”
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Visualization of Gas Diffusion-Sorption in Coal: A Study Based on Synchrotron Radiation Nano-CT by Yingfeng Sun, Yixin Zhao, Hongwei Zhang, Cun Zhang

“…In this study, gas diffusion coefficients were firstly estimated by experiments. Then, a gas diffusion-sorption coupled model was developed which can be applied to the nanoscale geometry imaged by synchrotron radiation nano-CT. …”
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Assessment of Pesticide Residues in Flesh of Catla catla from Ravi River, Pakistan by Mobeen Akhtar, Shahid Mahboob, Salma Sultana, Tayyaba Sultana, Khalid Abdullah Alghanim, Zubair Ahmed

“…The levels of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), endosulfan, endosulfan sulfate, carbofuran, and cartap which were estimated in the flesh of Catla catla sampled from ten sites of Ravi River between its stretches from Shahdara to Head Balloki were studied to know the level of contamination of the selected pesticides by GC-ECD method. …”
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Recognition of Functional Areas Based on Call Detail Records and Point of Interest Data by Guang Yuan, Yanyan Chen, Lishan Sun, Jianhui Lai, Tongfei Li, Zhuo Liu

“…The impact of diverse geographical area subdivisions on the accuracy of UFA recognition is discussed, and a k-means clustering method for dynamic call detail record data and kernel density estimation technique for static point of interest data are established at the traffic analysis zone level. …”
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Risk Factors of Mortality from All Asbestos-Related Diseases: A Competing Risk Analysis by Rafael Abós-Herràndiz, Teresa Rodriguez-Blanco, Isabel Garcia-Allas, Isabel-Magdalena Rosell-Murphy, Constança Albertí-Casas, Josep Tarrés, Illona Krier-Günther, Xavier Martinez-Artés, Ramon Orriols, Isidre Grimau-Malet, Jaume Canela-Soler

“…Competing risk regression through a subdistribution hazard analysis was used to estimate risk factors for the outcomes. Results. Asbestos-related deaths were observed in 167 (30.7%) patients and 57.5% of these deaths were caused by some type of mesothelioma. …”
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Pitfalls of space-time trading when parametrizing a land use dependent hydrological model by Oudin, Ludovic, Lalonde, Morgane

“…While climate change impacts on evaporation can be estimated straightforwardly by original Budyko formulations, including the role of land use within these formulations remains an open question. …”
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