Beekeepers' perceptions toward a new omics tool for monitoring bee health in Europe. by Elena Cini, Simon G Potts, Deepa Senapathi, Matthias Albrecht, Karim Arafah, Dalel Askri, Michel Bocquet, Philippe Bulet, Cecilia Costa, Pilar De la Rúa, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Anina Knauer, Marika Mänd, Risto Raimets, Oliver Schweiger, Jane C Stout, Tom D Breeze

“…This confidence could increase if the tool was easy to use and not time consuming, and a higher confidence could also contribute to raising the probability of accepting extra costs linked to it. We estimate that, in the worst-case scenario, the cost per single use of the Bee Health Card should be between €47-90 across a range of European countries, depending on the labour and postage costs. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF ROMANIAN ALPINE HABITATS SPATIAL SHIFTS BASED ON CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTION SCENARIOS by ADRIAN CONSTANTINESCU, JENICĂ HANGANU, ANTHONY LEHMANN, NICOLAS RAY

“…This paper presents the use of modeling technique, Maxent (Maximum entropy modeling) and BIOCLIM (environmental envelope model), to estimate the impact of climate change on the Alpine bioregion of Continental Europe for improving the management policy in support of stopping biodiversity loss. …”
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Analysis of the Strategic Emission-Based Energy Policies of Developing and Developed Economies with Twin Prediction Model by Yulian Jiang, Wuchang Wei, Ramesh Chandra Das, Tonmoy Chatterjee

“…The forecasted emission is justified to be sustainable in major groups under both methods of estimations since overall growth of agricultural output is greater than that of methane emission.…”
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Reduction in Healthcare Resource Utilization Following Treatment With a Home-Based Footworn Device in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Claims Analysis by Josh Mark, Shirley Shema-Shiratzky, Joel Sommer, Tim Nolan, Ganit Segal

“…**Results:** HCRU decreased after utilizing the new intervention including a decrease of 79% in diagnostic claims, a 70% decrease in outpatient services, a 22% decrease in non-operative treatments, a 61% decrease in pain medications including an 85% drop in opioids use, and a 44% decrease in intra-articular injections. The pre-index estimated rate for total knee replacement (TKR), which is based on existing literature, was 15.1%, whereas the post-index rate of TKR was 0.9%. …”
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Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Type 2 Diabetes Mortality Attributable to Particulate Matter Pollution in China and the U.S. by Xiaoxue Liu, Maigeng Zhou, Chuanhua Yu, Zhi-Jiang Zhang

“…We performed an age-period-cohort (APC) analysis to estimate the independent effects of age, period, and cohort on mortality of type 2 diabetes attributable to particulate matter pollution. …”
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Effect of Nonparallel End Face on Energy Dissipation Analyses of Rocklike Materials Based on SHPB Tests by Pu Yuan, Ning-Ning Wei, Qin-Yong Ma

“…A binary linear regression equation is deduced to estimate the energy dissipation ratio. Mechanical damage evolution of the rocklike specimen is divided into two regions in line with the two regions in dynamic stress-strain curves, and the transition between the slow-growth region and rapid-growth region is shifted to the right with the increment of end-face nonparallelism. …”
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Lipoxin A4 Reduces Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury in Rats with Large-Volume Mechanical Ventilation by Qi Wang, Guang-xiao Xu, Qi-hang Tai, Yan Wang

“…The oxidative stress response, lung tissue injury, and apoptosis in lung tissue were also estimated, and the expression of apoptotic proteins was examined. …”
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Esterification of Oleic Acid for Biodiesel Production Using a Semibatch Atomization Apparatus by Marcell S. Deus, Katherine C. O. Deus, Daniel S. Lira, Jackson A. Oliveira, Carlos E. A. Padilha, Domingos F. S. Souza

“…A mathematical model was also developed to describe the conversion of oleic acid to ethyl ester as a function of molar concentration of components and operating conditions of the reactor. A hybrid estimation of parameters (pre-exponential factor, activation energy, and equilibrium and solubility constants) was performed using particle swarm optimization followed by the Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno method. …”
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Exploration of the intermolecular interactions in polyethylene glycol 400 + alkyl methacrylate mixtures at ambient temperatures by means of thermophysical and spectroscopic methods by Anil Kumar Nain, Nidhi, Neha Chaudhary

“…The u values have been estimated theoretically by means of scaled particle theory and compared with the experimental findings. …”
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BK Virus Load Associated with Serum Levels of sCD30 in Renal Transplant Recipients by Haidar A. Shamran, Salma N. Malik, Jinan M. Al-Saffer, Rana S. Jawad

“…Real-time PCR was used to quantify BK virus load in RTRs serum, while ELISA technique was employed to estimate serum levels of sCD30. Results. Twenty-two percent of RTRs had detectable BKV with mean viral load of 1.094E + 06 ± 2.291E + 06. …”
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Awareness of Hypertension, Hypercholesterolemia, and Diabetes Mellitus and Associated Characteristics in Russian Adults by Filip Sahatqija, Monica Hunsberger, Sarah Cook, Kamila Kholmatova, Marina Shapkina, Sofia Malyutina, Alexander V. Kudryavtsev

“…Participants’ self-reported awareness of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and DM was assessed against the measures at the KYH health check (blood pressure, cholesterol, HbA1c and/or use of medication for each condition). Prevalence estimates for the awareness were age- and sex-standardized to the Standard European Population. …”
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Disutility Study for Adult Patients with Moderate to Severe Crohn’s Disease by Melany Worbes-Cerezo, Beenish Nafees, Andrew Lloyd, Katy Gallop, Imran Ladha, Cicely Kerr

“…**Conclusions:** This study provides utility estimates for AE and surgical complication health states not previously assessed in the context of CD. …”
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The Role of the Patient Information Leaflet in Patients’Medication Therapy: A Case Study within the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana by Frederick W. A. Owusu, Genevieve Naana Yeboah, Rahel Adutwiwah Aboagye, Cedric Dzidzor K. Amengor, Philomena Entsie

“…The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 70% of patients, especially in the developing countries, who receive medications do not read the accompanying leaflet. …”
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Seismic Methods in Geothermal Water Resource Exploration: Case Study from Łódź Trough, Central Part of Poland by Tomasz Maćkowski, Anna Sowiżdżał, Anna Wachowicz-Pyzik

“…Furthermore, the application of geophysical methods can significantly contribute to the reduction of estimation error of groundwater reservoir temperature.…”
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Prevalence and impact of Internet Gaming Disorder: A population-based study by Josip Razum, Renata Glavak Tkalić

“…The prevalence of the IGD in the general population of Croatia, aged 15-64 years, was estimated at 0.48%, 95% CI [0.30%, 1%], and among video game players (N = 1,239) at 1.63%, 95% CI [1.11%, 3%]. …”
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Frailty and Nutritional Status among Urban Older Adults in South India by T. Shalini, P. Swathi Chitra, B. Naveen Kumar, G. Madhavi, G. Bhanuprakash Reddy

“…Dietary intake was assessed by a three-day 24 h dietary recall, and the probability of adequacy (PA) was calculated using the estimated average requirements. Frailty indicators were as follows: handgrip strength was measured by using a Jamar dynamometer, gait speed was measured by a ten-meter length walk test, and low physical activity level, weight loss, and exhaustion were assessed using a questionnaire. …”
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Aggressive Aerosol Mitigation Policies Reduce Chances of Keeping Global Warming to Below 2C by R. Wood, M. A. Vogt, I. L. McCoy

“…APRP‐derived aerosol radiative forcings are used together with a forcing and impulse response model to estimate global temperature trends. Strong mitigation of GHGs, as in SSP1‐2.6, likely prevents warming exceeding 2C since preindustrial but the strong aerosol cleanup in this scenario increases the probability of exceeding 2C by 2050 from near zero without aerosol changes to 6% with cleanup. …”
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Deciphering methanolysis of Calophyllum inophyllum oil into biodiesel using KOH-doped Aegle marmelos biochar catalyst: Thermo-kinetics, optimization and cost analysis by Bisheswar Karmakar, Gopinath Halder

“…An indigenously developed heterogeneous catalyst was obtained that can be easily recovered and reused multiple times, proving to be cost efficient according to calculated estimates. This also reduces fuel synthesis costs owing to drastic reduction in wastewater generation. …”
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Assessing Urban Landscape Variables’ Contributions to Microclimates by Tammy E. Parece, Jie Li, James B. Campbell, David Carroll

“…Using this temperature data, together with six landscape variables, we interpolated (using Kriging and Random Forest) air temperatures across the city for each collection period. Our results estimated temperatures with small mean square errors (ranging from 0.03 to 0.14); landscape metrics explained between 60 and 91% of temperature variations (higher when the previous day’s average temperatures were included as a variable). …”
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Conflict Probability Prediction and Safety Assessment of Straight-Left Traffic Flow at Signalized Intersections by Yingying Ma, Zihao Zhang, Jiabin Wu

“…A case study was conducted to reveal the evolution mechanism of the conflict risk coefficient at the signalized intersection and to estimate the safety status under the various security optimization strategies. …”
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