A Spatial Modeling Approach for Optimizing the Locations of Large-Scale Biogas Plants from Livestock Manure in Bangladesh by Zinat Mahal, Helmut Yabar

“…Then, the environmental benefits of selected biogas plants were estimated through mathematical equations. It was found that 475, 15, and 68 large-scale biogas plants were spatially possible from large-animal, small-animal, and poultry manure, respectively, to produce a total electricity of 7682.72 GWh (gigawatt) in 2023. …”
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Coseismic Deformation Responses due to Geometrical Structure and Heterogeneity of the Accretionary Wedge: Study Case 2010 Mentawai Earthquake, West Sumatra, Indonesia by Alvina K. Kuncoro, Wahyu Srigutomo, Umar Fauzi

“…These results indicated that regional physical property information and geometrical features are critical in estimating coseismic deformation, leading to more accurate slip inversion and earthquake and tsunami hazard prediction, particularly in regions with significant inhomogeneity.…”
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Joint Effects of Physical Activity and BMI on Risk of Hypertension in Women: A Longitudinal Study by Caroline Jackson, Gerrie-Cor Herber-Gast, Wendy Brown

“…BMI, physical activity, and hypertension were measured at baseline and at three-year interval for 14 years (from 1996 to 2010), in 10,339 participants in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health. Generalised estimating equation models for binary repeated measures were performed to determine the individual and joint effects of BMI and physical activity on incident hypertension. …”
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EPPTA: Efficient partially observable reinforcement learning agent for penetration testing applications by Zegang Li, Qian Zhang, Guangwen Yang

“…We incorporate an implicit belief module in EPPTA, grounded on the belief update formula of the traditional POMDP model, which represents the agent's probabilistic estimation of the current environment state. Furthermore, by integrating the algorithm with the high‐performance RL framework, sample factory, EPPTA significantly reduces convergence time compared to existing pen‐testing methods, resulting in an approximately 20‐fold acceleration. …”
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A Piecewise Linearization Based Method for Crossed Frequency Admittance Matrix Model Calculation of Harmonic Sources by Youhang Yang, Shaorong Wang, Mingming Shi, Xian Zheng

“…The results demonstrate that the proposed method provides higher accuracy and more stable performance for harmonic current estimation compared with the traditional CFAM model and constant current source model.…”
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Experimental Study on Seismic Compression of Chinese Loess under Cyclic Direct Simple Shear Testing by Qiang Wang, Zhe Zhang, Shengjun Shao, Qian Yang

“…An empirical formula to estimate the increment of cyclic volumetric strain per cycle is expressed in terms of the amplitude of shear train, dry density, water content, and vertical stress. …”
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Application of Path Analysis in identification of dominant effective meteorological parameters on ET0 in West Azarbaijan by Yagob Dinpashoh, Masoumeh Foroughi

“…Then Multiple linear Regression (MLR) was used to estimate the ET0. The RMSE, MEA, NSH, and R2 were used to evaluate the performance of the MLR model. …”
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A Comparative Study of Hybrid Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems to Predict the Unconfined Compressive Strength of Rocks by Annabelle Graham, Emma Scott

“…The precise estimation of Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) in rock samples is paramount for the effective planning and execution of mining and civil engineering projects. …”
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Spatial Modeling of Travel Demand Accounting for Multicollinearity and Different Sampling Strategies: A Stop-Level Case Study by Samuel de França Marques, Cira Souza Pitombo, J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández

“…The main contributions are as follows: by accounting for the spatial heterogeneity of the predictor dataset, the GWPCA can identify the most important factor affecting transit ridership even in bus stops with no information on boarding and alighting; the spatial modeling of stop-level ridership data using GWPCA components as explanatory variables allows visualizing the spatially varying effects from predictors on ridership, supporting the land use planning at a local level; GWPCA coupled with kriging simultaneously addresses the multicollinearity of predictor data, its spatial heterogeneity, and the spatial dependence of the stop-level ridership variable, thus enhancing the goodness-of-fit measures of the transit ridership prediction in unsampled stops; and a balanced sample on predictor data and well-spread in the geographic space might be preferred to accurately estimate missing stop-level ridership data. In addition to solve the lack of stop-level ridership data, supporting a reliable bus system planning, the proposed method indicates what predictors should be addressed by policymakers to stimulate a transit-oriented development. …”
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Mediating Effects of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows on Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Prajukta Tripathy, Mohsen Brahmi, Baiju Pallayil, Bikash Ranjan Mishra

“…The outcomes of the SUR estimation indicate that all the mediating factors substantially contribute to the level of CO₂ emissions. …”
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Prediction of inhibitory peptides against E.coli with desired MIC value by Nisha Bajiya, Nishant Kumar, Gajendra P. S. Raghava

“…Initially, we attempted to estimate MIC using BLAST similarity searches but found them inadequate. …”
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An Exploration of Gene-Gene Interactions and Their Effects on Hypertension by Ying Meng, Susan Groth, Jill R. Quinn, John Bisognano, Tong Tong Wu

“…Hypertension tends to perpetuate in families and the heritability of hypertension is estimated to be around 20–60%. So far, the main proportion of this heritability has not been found by single-locus genome-wide association studies. …”
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Push-Out Tests on Large Diameter and High Strength Welded Stud Connectors by Fei Yang, Yuqing Liu, Yongjun Li

“…The results show that the shear strength of welded stud connectors could be conservatively determined by Eurocode 4, while AASHTO LRFD will produce a suitable estimation. The load-slip relationships proposed by Ollgaard and Buttry can be used to predict the load-slip curves of large diameter and high strength welded stud connectors.…”
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Ovine Eimeria infection, OPG and determinants in and around Gondar town, Ethiopia by Senait Belay, Desie Sheferaw

“… The study aimed to estimate the prevalence of ovine Eimeria infection, assess the associated risk factors, and the intensity of infection. …”
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Analysis of Marketing Prediction Model Based on Genetic Neural Network: Taking Clothing Marketing as an Example by Hua Peng, Luxiao Dong, Yi Sun, Yanfang Jiang

“…First of all, a series of analysis and preprocessing must be performed on the collected data. In the process of estimating and calculating the parameters of the prediction model, an error criterion is selected to determine a set of relatively optimal prediction parameters, and finally the model results A verification analysis was carried out. …”
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Temporal Changes in Phosphatidylserine Expression and Glucose Metabolism after Myocardial Infarction: An in Vivo Imaging Study in Mice by Sebastian Lehner, Andrei Todica, Stefan Brunner, Christopher Uebleis, Hao Wang, Carmen Wängler, Nadja Herbach, Tanja Herrler, Guido Böning, Rüdiger Paul Laubender, Paul Cumming, Ralf Schirrmacher, Wolfgang Franz, Marcus Hacker

“…These results matched apoptosis rates as estimated by autoradiography and fluorescein staining. …”
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Application of Big Data Technology in the Impact of Tourism E-Commerce on Tourism Planning by Heqing Zhang, Tingting Guo, Xiaobo Su

“…This paper proposes a research strategy on the impact of tourism e-commerce on customized tourism in the EBD, including related theoretical research methods, random forest algorithms, support vector machine classification algorithms, and Bayesian estimation algorithms, which are used to customize tourism e-commerce in the EBD, and research experiment on the impact of tourism. …”
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Japanese Patients’ and Physicians’ Preferences for Anticoagulant Use in Atrial Fibrillation: Results from a Discrete-choice Experiment by Ken Okumura, Hiroshi Inoue, Masahiro Yasaka, Juan Marcos Gonzalez, A. Brett Hauber, Bennett Levitan, Zhong Yuan, Jean Baptiste Briere

“…Random-parameters logit models were used to estimate importance weights for treatment-related changes in the annual risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, embolism, and bleeding. …”
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A linear tessellation model for the identification of "food desert": A case study of Shanghai, China. by Lu Wang, Yakun He, Zhonghai Yu, Hongrui Wang, Wenjuan Ye, Xin Li, Yingping Liu, Junxiao Zhang

“…Firstly, the network kernel density estimation using a linear tessellation model is used to measure the travel-mode-based food accessibility. …”
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Syphilis and Urogenital Diseases during Pregnancy and Developmental Defects of Enamel: A Brazilian Prenatal Cohort (BRISA) by Elisa Miranda Costa, Judith Rafaelle Oliveira Pinho, Maria da Conceição Pereira Saraiva, Cecília Cláudia Costa Ribeiro, Claudia Maria Coêlho Alves, Erika Barbara Abreu Fonseca Thomaz

“…Based on the proposed directed acyclic graph (DAG), SES and the number of PCV were the minimal set of covariables for the adjusted model. The effects were estimated by causal inference using a marginal structural model (Average Treatment Effect - ATE coefficients). …”
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