Does Q223R Polymorphism of Leptin Receptor Influence on Anthropometric Parameters and Bone Density in Childhood Cancer Survivors? by Malgorzata Sawicka-Żukowska, Maryna Krawczuk-Rybak, Katarzyna Muszynska-Roslan, Anna Panasiuk, Eryk Latoch, Jerzy Konstantynowicz

“…Leptin blood concentration was determined by ELISA method. To estimate leptin receptor gene polymorphism, RFLP method was used. …”
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Evaluation of Energy Potential in a Landfill Through the Integration of a Biogas–Solar Photovoltaic System by Héctor Alfredo López-Aguilar, Guadalupe Kennedy Puentes, Luis Armando Lozoya Márquez, Oscar Chávez Acosta, Humberto Alejandro Monreal Romero, Claudia López Meléndez, Antonino Pérez-Hernández

“…Using the LandGEM and MMB models (Landfill Gas Emission Model and the Mexican Biogas Model), biogas generation was estimated by considering the composition of the landfill gas and the characteristics of the cover in each cell, revealing notable differences due to their operational periods and waste deposition. …”
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EVALUATION OF TOMATO GERMPLASMS (SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM L.) FOR GENETIC DIVERSITY USING MORPHO-AGRONOMIC TRAITS AND FRUIT LYCOPENE CONTENT by Adubi Amos Oladimeji, Durodola Felicia Adejoke, Azeez Musibau Adewuyi

“…High heritability with high genetic gain was estimated for leaf area (LEA) and lycopene content (LCP). …”
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The Resistive Index Is a Marker of Renal Function, Pathology, Prognosis, and Responsiveness to Steroid Therapy in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients by Kikuno Hanamura, Akihiro Tojo, Satoshi Kinugasa, Kensuke Asaba, Toshiro Fujita

“…RI increased as the CKD stage progressed and correlated with age, systolic blood pressure, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and renal histological changes, including glomerulosclerosis, arteriolosclerosis, and tubulointerstitial damage. …”
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Towards the Thousandth CubeSat: A Statistical Overview by Thyrso Villela, Cesar A. Costa, Alessandra M. Brandão, Fernando T. Bueno, Rodrigo Leonardi

“…Moreover, considering CubeSat missions as a Bernoulli experiment, and excluding launch failures, the current success rate was estimated, as a parameter of a binomial distribution, to be about 75%. …”
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Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Massive Protocluster with Two Substructures at z ≃ 3.1 by Michael J. Nicandro Rosenthal, Amy J. Barger, Lennox L. Cowie, Logan H. Jones, Stephen J. McKay, Anthony J. Taylor

“…We find that both of these have galaxy overdensities of near-infrared-detected galaxies of δ _gal,obs = 6−9 within corrected volumes of (6−7) × 10 ^3 cMpc ^3 . We estimate the properties of the z = 0 descendants of these overdensities using a spherical collapse model and find that both should virialize by z ≃ 0.5−0.8, with total masses of M _tot ≃ (6−7) × 10 ^14 M _⊙ . …”
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Improving of the Generation Accuracy Forecasting of Photovoltaic Plants Based on <i>k</i>-Means and <i>k</i>-Nearest Neighbors Algorithms by P. V. Matrenin, A. I. Khalyasmaa, V. V. Gamaley, S. A. Eroshenko, N. A. Papkova, D. A. Sekatski, Y. V. Potachits

“…For this, it is also proposed to use studied the feature space dimensionality reduction algorithm to visualize and estimate the clustering accuracy. Then, for each cluster, its own machine learning model was trained for generation forecasting and the k-nearest neighbours algorithm was built to attribute the current conditions at the model operation stage to one of the formed clusters. …”
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Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle Characteristics of University Students in Cyprus: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Elena Hadjimbei, George Botsaris, Vassilis Gekas, Andrie G. Panayiotou

“…Adherence to the Mediterranean diet was evaluated using the validated KIDMED index. BMI was estimated based on weight and height measurements. …”
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Insight in the phenomena included in loss of the activation of industrial hydrotreating catalyst through an innovative accelerated deactivation procedure and kinetic modeling by Abbas Roshanaei, Sorood Zahedi Abghari, Sepehr Sadighi, Seyed Reza Seif Mohaddecy

“…This procedure aimed to estimate the impact of coke formation throughout the catalyst's lifespan, from fresh to fully deactivated. …”
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A CDFT-Based Computational Peptidology (CDFT-CP) Study of the Chemical Reactivity and Bioactivity of the Marine-Derived Alternaramide Cyclopentadepsipeptide by Norma Flores-Holguín, Juan Frau, Daniel Glossman-Mitnik

“…Thus, this work reports the results of a computational study of the chemical reactivity and bioactivity properties of this cyclopentadepsipeptide considering a CDFT-based computational peptidology (CDFT-CP) methodology that results from the combination of the chemical reactivity descriptors that arise from conceptual density functional theory (CDFT) together with some cheminformatics tools that can be used to estimate the associated physicochemical parameters, to improve the process of virtual screening through a similarity search, and to identify the ability of the peptide to behave as a potential useful drug, complemented with an analysis of its bioactivity and pharmacokinetics indices related to the ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity) features. …”
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Assessing Air-Pocket Pressure Peaks During Water Filling Operations Using Dimensionless Equations by Vicente S. Fuertes-Miquel, Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández, Francisco J. Sánchez-Romero, Manuel Saba, Modesto Pérez-Sánchez

“…Additionally, it provides charts that facilitate the rapid and reasonably accurate estimation of peak pressures. Depending on their transient characteristics, pressure peaks are either slow or fast, with separate charts provided for each type. …”
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Safety of Dupilumab Therapy for Atopic Dermatitis during Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Verónica Sánchez-García, Eva de-Miguel-Balsa, José-Manuel Ramos-Rincón, Isabel Belinchón-Romero

“…A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted following the PRISMA guidelines to evaluate the effects of exposure to biologicals during pregnancy and/or preconception in women with AD, and to estimate the pooled prevalence of spontaneous abortions and congenital malformations in their newborns. …”
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The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Emitted PM2.5 in Urban Road Networks: Using Loop Data and Kriging Method for Passenger Cars in the Central Part of the City of Lodz by Marta Borowska-Stefańska, Michał Kowalski, Paulina Kurzyk, Alireza Sahebgharani, Szymon Wiśniewski

“…Second, the traffic flow for the whole network system is estimated using an isometric transformed network and the Euclidean space, and the representative one is selected. …”
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Determination of the Engineering Properties of Submarine Soil Layers in the Bohai Sea Using the Piezocone Penetration Test by Bohong Wu, Guihe Wang, Jiong Li, Yu Wang, Baolin Liu

“…The soil classification and the related soil properties, such as the undrained shear strength, sensitivity and overconsolidation ratio, shear strength profile at the investigation depths, and the single pile foundation bearing capacity, were estimated. Laboratory tests were also conducted in this work. …”
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Improved Pedestrian Positioning with Inertial Sensor Based on Adaptive Gradient Descent and Double-Constrained Extended Kalman Filter by Miaoxin Ji, Jinhao Liu, Xiangbo Xu, Yuyang Guo, Zhenchun Lu

“…In the stepping phase, the extended Kalman filter (EKF) is often used to correct attitude and position in track estimation. However, the measurement noise of the EKF is influenced by the high-frequency acceleration and angular velocity. …”
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Morbidity of 200 Consecutive Cases of Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomies: A Single-Center Experience by Pedro W. Baron, Ramzi Ben-Youssef, Okechukwu N. Ojogho, Arputharaj Kore, D. Duane Baldwin

“…The initial 41 donors and their recipients (Group 1) were compared to the next 159 donors and their recipients (Group 2). The estimated blood loss, serum creatinine at discharge and 6 months, and the incidence of delayed graft function and perioperative complications were analyzed. …”
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Serum Cotinine Levels and Prehypertension in Never Smokers by Omayma Alshaarawy, Jie Xiao, Michael E. Andrew, Cecil Burchfiel, Anoop Shankar

“…Our exposure of interest was the secondhand smoke exposure estimated by serum cotinine level and our outcome was prehypertension (n=734), defined as a systolic blood pressure of 120–139 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure of 80–89 mmHg. …”
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Disease suppression is driven by microbial community properties at fine taxonomic scales by Shan Shan, Isabelle George, Michael D. Millican, Linda L. Kinkel, Richard A. Lankau

“…The suppression of common scab and growth promotion abilities of a variety of soil microbial communities were estimated and related to quantitative patterns in microbial community structure. …”
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Force-Fracture Characteristics of the Roof above Goaf in a Steep Coal Seam: A Case Study of Xintie Coal Mine by Hong-sheng Tu, Shi-hao Tu, De-fu Zhu, Ding-yi Hao, Kai-jun Miao

“…Then, a roof deflection equation was derived for the estimation roof deformation under the action of both the load from overlying strata and the support provided by the backfill in the goaf. …”
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Elevated concentrations of quaternary ammonium compounds in childcare centers: A pilot study by Yao Cheng, Zhong Lv, Erika Schreder, Min Hu, Abby Mutic, Guomao Zheng, Amina Salamova

“…In this study, we investigated the occurrence of QACs, including benzylalkyldimethyl ammonium compounds (BACs), dialkyldimethylammonium compounds (DADMACs), and alkyltrimethylammonium compounds (ATMACs), in dust from childcare centers and estimated daily intake of QACs by toddlers in chidlcare via dust ingestion. …”
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