Investigating The Performance Of Local And Indigenous Businesses In Times Of Economic Recession With Emphasis On Developing The Capabilities Of Cooperatives In Sistan And Baluchest... by Ali Asghar Tabavar, Abdoulnaser Derakhshan, Sahar Arefi

“…The first step in carrying out the estimation approach of vector error correction models is to check the meanness of the data. …”
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Small emission sources in aggregate disproportionately account for a large majority of total methane emissions from the US oil and gas sector by J. P. Williams, J. P. Williams, M. Omara, M. Omara, A. Himmelberger, D. Zavala-Araiza, K. MacKay, K. MacKay, J. Benmergui, J. Benmergui, J. Benmergui, M. Sargent, S. C. Wofsy, S. P. Hamburg, S. P. Hamburg, R. Gautam, R. Gautam

“…However, the contributions from individual oil–gas facilities emitting at low emission rates that are often undetected are poorly understood, especially in the context of total national- and regional-level estimates. In this work, we compile empirical measurements gathered using methods with low limits of detection to develop facility-level estimates of total methane emissions from the continental United States (CONUS) midstream and upstream oil–gas sector for 2021. …”
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Epidemiology and Management of Actinic Keratosis in France: A General Population Survey (REAKT) by Brigitte Dréno, Pierre Lévy, Gregory Caillet, Chantal Touboul, Jean-Michel Joubert, Jean-Michel Amici

“…The objective of this retrospective observational study was to estimate the prevalence of actinic keratosis (AK) in individuals aged ≥ 40 years in France, to describe the characteristics of affected patients, and to describe treatments. …”
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Back-Calculation of Soil Modulus from PFWD Based on a Viscoelastic Model by Rui Zhang, Tianzeng Ren, Md Ashrafuzzaman Khan, Yusheng Teng, Jianlong Zheng

“…Moduli of back-calculation using LEM and VEM methods were used to perform flexible pavement analysis, which showed that with an 8% reduction of modulus, the pavement service life reduced by 25%. More accurate estimation of modulus can save maintenance cost in the future.…”
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Measuring Physical Inactivity: Do Current Measures Provide an Accurate View of “Sedentary” Video Game Time? by Simon Fullerton, Anne W. Taylor, Eleonora Dal Grande, Narelle Berry

“…Participation in activity-based video games (exergames) can contribute to estimates of screen time, as current practices of measuring it do not consider the growing evidence that playing exergames can provide light to moderate levels of physical activity. …”
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Fatal Postpartum Hemorrhage in Diffuse Midline Glioma with H3-K27M Mutation by Takeshi Miyazaki, Masahiro Tsuji, Shinya Hagiwara, Toshiko Minamoto, Noriyoshi Ishikawa, Junko Hirato, Sumihito Nobusawa, Yasuhiko Akiyama

“…Management of pregnant women with brain tumors necessitates difficult decision-making especially for estimating or preventing its intratumoral hemorrhage. …”
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Optic nerve sonographic parameters in idiopathic intracranial hypertension, case-control study by Islam El Malky, Wael Elshazly Aita, Alaa Elkordy, Marwa Nasreldeen, Mahmoud Abdelhafiz, Amr M. Tael, Hazem Mo. Abdelkhalek

“…ONSD, peak systolic velocity (PSV), end diastolic velocity (EDV), and resistance index (RI) were estimated by transorbital color Doppler. Multivariate linear regression was used to discover the predictors of increased ICP. …”
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Development and validation of a predictive model for lymph node metastases in peripheral non-small cell lung cancer with a tumor diameter ≤ 2.0 cm and a consolidation-to-tumor rati... by Dongyu Li, Dongyu Li, Shaolei Li, Hongbing Zhang, Chunqiu Xia, Xiaoyong Nan, Hongyu Liu, Jun Chen, Jun Chen

“…Logistic regression analysis of the clinical characteristics of this development cohort was used to estimate independent LNM predictors. A prediction model was then developed and externally validated using a validation cohort at another institution.ResultsFour independent predictors (tumor size, CTR, pleural indentation, and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) values) were identified and entered into the model. …”
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Serological and Molecular Characterization of the Hepatitis B Virus in Blood Donors in Maputo City, Mozambique by Olga Maquessene, Osvaldo Laurindo, Lúcia Chambal, Nalia Ismael, Nédio Mabunda

“…The frequency of HBV infection was estimated at 4.4% and was higher among males (79.1%), individuals aged 25–39 years (55.2%), and replacement donors (89.6%). …”
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IS THERE A CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AND PREMIUM PRODUCTION? EVIDENCE FROM TURKISH INSURANCE INDUSTRY by Murat Belke, Mohsin Shabir, Özcan Işık

“…In the last stage, the causality linkage between the two variables is estimated using a panel causality test developed by Dumitrescu and Hurlin (2012). …”
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Composition of Web Services Using Markov Decision Processes and Dynamic Programming by Víctor Uc-Cetina, Francisco Moo-Mena, Rafael Hernandez-Ucan

“…The experimental results show the reliability of the model and the methods employed, with policy iteration being the best one in terms of the minimum number of iterations needed to estimate an optimal policy, with the highest Quality of Service attributes. …”
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War-related eye trauma: a study of civilian and military cases from Ukraine's ongoing conflict by Kamil Jonak, Magdalena Matysiak, Tomasz Choragiewicz, Dominika Nowakowska, Andriy Zimenkovsky, Volodymyr Shybinskyi, Myroslawa Sekh, Robert Karpiński, Robert Karpiński, Robert Karpiński, Arkadiusz Podkowiński, Robert Rejdak

“…The main goal of this study was to analyze different eye traumas in the Ukrainian population caused by hostilities, which could allow for a relative estimate of the occurrence of long-term consequences for the health care system, such as loss of vision in a large group of citizens. …”
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Bayesian Optimization of insect trap distribution for pest monitoring efficiency in agroecosystems by Eric Yanchenko, Thomas M. Chappell, Anders S. Huseth

“…For any quantity of trap locations, the approach identified those that provide the most information, allowing optimization of trapping efficiency given either a constraint on the number of locations, or a set precision required for pest density estimation. Results suggest that BO is a powerful approach to enable optimized trap placement decisions by practitioners given finite resources and time.…”
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Sequence Analysis of Hypothetical Proteins from 26695 to Identify Potential Virulence Factors by Ahmad Abu Turab Naqvi, Farah Anjum, Faez Iqbal Khan, Asimul Islam, Faizan Ahmad, Md. Imtaiyaz Hassan

“…The identification of virulence proteins with the help their predicted functions may pave the way for drug target estimation and development of effective drug to counter the activity of that protein.…”
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Multi-Criteria Assessment of Flood Risk on Railroads Using a Machine Learning Approach: A Case Study of Railroads in Minas Gerais by Fernanda Oliveira de Sousa, Victor Andre Ariza Flores, Christhian Santana Cunha, Sandra Oda, Hostilio Xavier Ratton Neto

“…This case study uses a combination of the multi-criteria analysis approach and hydrological studies that use machine learning algorithms to simulate new rainfall events in order to estimate the risk of flooding on railroads. Risk variables, including terrain, drainage capability, accumulated flow, and land use and land cover, will be weighed using the multicriteria approach. …”
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Simulation and Analysis of Small Break LOCA for AP1000 Using RELAP5-MV and Its Comparison with NOTRUMP Code by Eltayeb Yousif, Zhijian Zhang, Zhaofei Tian, Hao-ran Ju

“…RELAP5-MV Visualized Modularization software is recognized as one of the best estimate transient simulation programs of light water reactors (LWR). …”
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Effect of Continuous Agriculture of Grassland Soils of the Argentine Rolling Pampa on Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen by Luis A. Milesi Delaye, Alicia B. Irizar, Adrián E. Andriulo, Bruno Mary

“…The calibrated model described the SOC storage evolution very well and permitted an accurate simultaneous estimation of their three parameters. The validated model simulated well SOC and SON evolution. …”
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Impact of Residential Mobility on Exposure Assessment in Longitudinal Air Pollution Studies: A Sensitivity Analysis within the ESCAPE Project by Anna Oudin, Bertil Forsberg, Magnus Strömgren, Rob Beelen, Lars Modig

“…We used a Land Use Regression model to estimate the NOx concentration for each participant's all addresses during the entire follow-up period (in average 14.6 years) and calculated an average concentration during followup. …”
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Aerosol Filtration Testing of Fabrics for Development of Reusable Face Masks by Adrian Stan, Sandro Steiner, Shoaib Majeed, Sandra Schorderet Weber, Samik Gosh, Tanja Živković Semren, Philippe Alexandre Guy, Stefan Lebrun, Jérôme Steinhauser, Yanik Tardy, Andreas Hogg, Sophie Chiquet, Jean-Luc Perret, Arkadiusz Kuczaj, Manuel Peitsch, Julia Hoeng

“…We suggest, and experimentally verify, a simple way for estimating the aerosol filtration efficiency of layered fabrics. …”
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Cross-Modal Functional Reorganization of Visual and Auditory Cortex in Adult Cochlear Implant Users Identified with fNIRS by Ling-Chia Chen, Pascale Sandmann, Jeremy D. Thorne, Martin G. Bleichner, Stefan Debener

“…These results indicate the importance of considering cross-modal activations in both visual and auditory cortex for potential clinical outcome estimation.…”
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