Prevalence, Correlates, and Prognosis of Peripheral Artery Disease in Rural Ecuador—Rationale, Protocol, and Phase I Results of a Population-Based Survey: An Atahualpa Project-Anci... by Oscar H. Del Brutto, Mark J. Sedler, Robertino M. Mera, Pablo R. Castillo, Elizabeth H. Cusick, Jadry A. Gruen, Kelsie J. Phelan, Victor J. Del Brutto, Mauricio Zambrano, David L. Brown

“…In Phase III, participants will be followed up to estimate the relevance of PAD as a predictor of vascular outcomes. …”
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The Eclipsing Binaries via Artificial Intelligence. II. Need for Speed in PHOEBE Forward Models by Marcin Wrona, Andrej Prša

“…Our findings demonstrate the critical role of dilution effects in parameter estimation for EBs, and we outline methods to incorporate these effects in AI-based models. …”
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Associations between Overall and Abdominal Obesity and Suicidal Ideation among US Adult Women by Guixiang Zhao, Chaoyang Li, Earl S. Ford, James Tsai, Satvinder S. Dhingra, Janet B. Croft, Lela R. McKnight-Eily, Lina S. Balluz

“…Odds ratios with 95% conference intervals were estimated using logistic regression analyses after controlling for potential confounders. …”
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Exercise Intervention in Women with Fibromyalgia and Its Influence on Pain, Psychological Variables, and Disability: An Observational Study by María Elena González-Álvarez, Víctor Riquelme-Aguado, Giacomo Rossettini, Josué Fernández-Carnero, Jorge Hugo Villafañe

“…(1) Background: Fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) is a specific condition within the spectrum of musculoskeletal pain disorders, with an estimated global prevalence of 2%. Physical exercise has shown promise in modulating pain and improving physical function without the drawbacks of pharmacotherapy. …”
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Perception of optical illusions in ungulates: insights from goats, sheep, guanacos and llamas by Caterina Berardo, Ruben Holland, Alina Schaffer, Alvaro Lopez Caicoya, Katja Liebal, Paola Valsecchi, Federica Amici

“…Our findings suggest that, in line with our predictions, ungulates are overall susceptible to the Müller-Lyer and the Delboeuf illusions, and indicate that the perceptual mechanisms underlying size estimation in artiodactyls might be similar to those of other species, including humans.…”
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Molecular Dynamic Investigation of Graphene Oxide Presence and Three Experimental Distribution Methods in Reinforced Epoxy-Based Nanocomposites by Mohsen Ghiasvand, Hamid Fazeli, Jafar Eskandari Jam, Abass Kebritchi

“…The stiffness matrix and elastic properties such as Young’s modulus, shear modulus, and Poisson’s ratio for the pure EP and EP/GO nanocomposites were estimated using the constant-strain method. Three distribution methods including ultrasonic with a probe, mechanical mixing with an ultrasonic cleaner, and a high-shear turbo mixer with an ultrasonic cleaner were employed. …”
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Cold Hardiness and Physio-Biochemical Responses of Annual Branches in Five Early-Fruiting Walnut Varieties (<i>Juglans regia</i> L.) Under Simulated Low-Temperature Stress by Zitong Ni, Haifang Hu, Guiqing Xu

“…Logistic regression analysis of relative electrolyte conductivity (REC) data estimated the semi-lethal temperature (LT50), identifying ‘Wen 81’ as the most cold-tolerant cultivar (LT50 = −21.73 °C). …”
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Interaction of Glycemic Control and Statin Use on Diabetes-Tuberculosis Treatment Outcome: A Nested Case-Control Study by Xiangrui Meng, Huiqiu Zheng, Jian Du, Xuemei Wang, Yanling Wang, Jing Hu, Jing Zhao, Qianqian Du, Yulong Gao

“…Glycemic control was estimated at the baseline. Statin use was obtained from medical records. …”
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A multidimensional approach to quantum state tomography of photoelectron wavepackets by H. Laurell, J. Baños-Gutiérrez, A. L’Huillier, D. Busto, D. Finkelstein-Shapiro

“…We show that the protocol results in excellent fidelities and near-perfect estimation of the purity.…”
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Simultaneous Evolutionary Fits for Jupiter and Saturn Incorporating Fuzzy Cores by Ankan Sur, Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Yubo Su, Adam Burrows

“…Our predicted atmospheric helium mass fraction for Saturn is ∼0.2, close to some measured estimates but in disagreement with some published predictions. …”
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Clinical Application of CT-Guided Percutaneous Microwave Ablation for the Treatment of Lung Metastasis from Colorectal Cancer by Lin Li, Ketong Wu, Haiyang Lai, Bo Zhang

“…The mean follow-up of the patients was 25.54 ± 12.58 months (range 2–41 months). The estimated progression-free survival rate was 94.4%. …”
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Integrating Genomic Data Sets for Knowledge Discovery: An Informed Approach to Management of Captive Endangered Species by Kristopher J. L. Irizarry, Doug Bryant, Jordan Kalish, Curtis Eng, Peggy L. Schmidt, Gini Barrett, Margaret C. Barr

“…Current approaches aimed at managing endangered captive populations utilize species survival plans (SSPs) that rely upon mean kinship estimates to maximize genetic diversity while simultaneously avoiding artificial selection in the breeding program. …”
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Impact of Spasticity on Balance Control during Quiet Standing in Persons after Stroke by Reza Rahimzadeh Khiabani, George Mochizuki, Farooq Ismail, Chris Boulias, Chetan P. Phadke, William H. Gage

“…Balance control measures included centre of pressure (COP) root mean square (RMS), COP velocity, and COP mean power frequency (MPF) in anterior-posterior and mediolateral (ML) directions. Trunk sway was estimated using a wearable inertial measurement unit to measure trunk angle, trunk velocity, and trunk velocity frequency amplitude in pitch and roll directions. …”
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Combining ability and gene action for resistance to Fusarium ear rot in tropical maize hybrids by Stella Bigirwa Ayesiga, Stella Bigirwa Ayesiga, Stella Bigirwa Ayesiga, Patrick Rubaihayo, John Bosco Sempiira, John Bosco Sempiira, Emmanuel Amponsah Adjei, Isaac Onziga Dramadri, Isaac Onziga Dramadri, Bonny Michael Oloka, Julius Pyton Sserumaga

“…The narrow-sense heritability estimate was 0.22, while the broad-sense heritability was 0.73, and the additive genetic effects, as represented by GCA (m+f), were more significant than non-additive effects. …”
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Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence of Chlorophylls in Light-Harvesting Complexes Coupled to Silver Nanowires by Dorota Kowalska, Bartosz Krajnik, Maria Olejnik, Magdalena Twardowska, Nikodem Czechowski, Eckhard Hofmann, Sebastian Mackowski

“…Enhancement factors estimated for the sample where the light-harvesting complexes are mixed together with the silver nanowires prior deposition on a substrate are generally larger in comparison to the other geometry of a hybrid nanostructure. …”
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A Hybrid Renewable Sources Implementation for a DC Microgrid with Flatness-Nonlinear Control to Achieve Efficient Energy Management Strategy by Furqan A. Abbas, Adel A.Obed, Ammar Alhasiri, Salam J. Yaqoob

“…Because of the nonlinear system's behavior, differential flatness-based control has been applied mainly in nonlinear systems where the number of variables to the outputs is reduced with a robust control system established through inherited parameter reductions and equality constraints due to the system trajectories (x, u) is straightforwardly estimated from flat output trajectories y and their derivatives without any differential equation integration. …”
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A novel machine learning approach for spatiotemporal prediction of EMS events: A case study from Barranquilla, Colombia by Dionicio Neira-Rodado, Juan Camilo Paz-Roa, John Willmer Escobar, Miguel Ángel Ortiz-Barrios

“…As a result, this novel integrated approach improves the estimation of spatiotemporal probabilities of emergency events, effectively addressing data sparsity challenges. …”
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Non-Linear Signal Analysis Applied to Surface Wear Condition Monitoring in Reciprocating Sliding Testing Machines by Francisco Paulo Lépore Neto, José Daniel Biasoli de Mello, Marcelo Braga dos Santos

“…The main objective of this paper is to estimate the friction force using the vibrations signals, measured on a reciprocating wear testing machine, by the proposed non-linear signal analysis formulation. …”
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An urban land surface temperature and emissivity separation algorithm from ASTER TIR data and its application by Jinglun Li, Kun Li, Yonggang Qian, Xianhui Dou, Qijin Han, Jian Zeng, Hang Zhao, Qiongqiong Lan, Zhaopeng Xu, Jiayi Bai, Baoan Wei, Xining Liu, Feng Wang, Juntao Yang, Yueming Wang

“…Three aspects are included: firstly, sing the XGBoost algorithm to estimate urban canopy bright temperature (BT) from 5 ASTER TIR top of atmosphere (TOA) BTs; secondly, employing an improved TES algorithm based on sky view factor (SVF) to separate LST and LSE; finally, the accuracy of the proposed algorithm is evaluated from simulation data. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Dynamic Harris Hawks Optimized Gated Recurrent Unit Approach for Breast Cancer Prediction by Rajesh Natarajan, Sujatha Krishna, H. L. Gururaj, Francesco Flammini, Badria Sulaiman Alfurhood, C. M. Naveen Kumar

“…The proposed method's effectiveness is compared and estimated with various existing techniques in terms of log-loss (0.06%), accuracy (98.05%), precision (98.09%), F1-score (98.28%), and recall (98.15%). …”
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