Prevalence of specific learning disability in children and its association with somatic symptom disorder – data from a tertiary care centre of South India by Nishanth Rajan, Priya Jose, Peter Prasanth Kumar Kommu, Shanthi Kannan

“…Materials and Methods: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of specific learning disability (SLD) in children aged 6–14 years who presented to the pediatric outpatient department (OPD) and to find out the association between SLD and somatic symptom disorder. …”
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Prevalence and pattern of mental disorders in the state of West Bengal: Findings from the National Mental Health Survey of India 2016 by Sukanto Sarkar, Aniruddha Basu, Sucharita Mandal, Pavithra Jayashankar, Pradeep K. Saha, Raghunath Misra, Debasish Sinha, Rajarshi Neogi, Soumyadeep Saha, Vivek Benegal, Girish N. Rao, Mathew Varghese, Gopalkrishna Gururaj

“…Background: West Bengal, situated in eastern India, comprising 19 districts as of 2016 and consisting of 9.13 crore population, had been one of the participating states in the National Mental Health Survey, 2015–16. Aim: To estimate the prevalence and pattern of mental disorders in a representative population in West Bengal. …”
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Indoor Air Pollution of Outdoor Origin: Mitigation Using Portable Air Cleaners in Singapore Office Building by Zuraimi Sultan, Jiayu Li, Jovan Pantelic, Stefano Schiavon

“…Using PAC, we demonstrated their potential for indoor particles removal in an office building and presented a method to evaluate their performance and estimate number of units to be deployed. Modelled and in-situ measured PAC effectiveness using up to twelve units was evaluated in three office sizes (30, 80 and 1490 m3). …”
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Electrodeposition of rhenium from chloride melts: Electrochemical nature, structure and applied aspects by Vinogradov-Zhabrov O.N., Minchenko L.M., Esina N.O., Pankratov A.A.

“…The parameter α⋅Z, which was estimated by two methods, was equal to 2.1-3.1. The diffusion coefficient of rhenium ions has been found to be 2.8 ⋅10 −5 cm2/s at 790 0C and 3.5 ⋅10 −5 cm2/s at 840 0C. …”
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Localization of mobile robot in prior 3D LiDAR maps using stereo image sequence by I.V. Belkin, A.A. Abramenko, V.D. Bezuglyi, D.A. Yudin

“…Thus, our approach provides more stability in the estimated pose. It is achieved primarily through the use of multiple data frames during the optimization step and dynamic obstacles elimination on depth image. …”
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Investigating the effect of time component on residents\' sense of belonging from two perspectives of age and duration of residence; Case study of Zanjan neighborhoods by Narges Karimi, Farah Habib

“…The sample size was estimated to be 300 people using the Cochran's formula. …”
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The diagnostic performance of mean neutrophil volume in neonatal sepsis: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Alpana Mishra, Pratap Kumar Jena, Santosh Kumar Panda

“…The pooled sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), and area under the curve (AUC) of the summary receiver operating characteristic (SROC) curve of MNV were estimated with reference blood culture-positive sepsis and clinical sepsis for meta-analysis. …”
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A Preliminary Assessment of the Impact of Assimilating Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products on NCEP Global Forecast System by Weizhong Zheng, Xiwu Zhan, Jicheng Liu, Michael Ek

“…The surface and deep layer soil moisture estimates of the GFS after the satellite soil moisture assimilation are found to have slightly better agreement with the ground soil moisture measurements at dozens of sites across the continental United States (CONUS). …”
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A comparison of valuation methods for cultural ecosystem services in support of ecosystem accounting by Anna Bronzes, Lars Hein, Rolf Groeneveld, Alim Pulatov

“…This latter method is not aligned with SEEA-EA accounting; however, even the three methods that are aligned with accounting principles provide quite different value estimates. The two other approaches, simulated exchange value and consumer expenditure, provided an annual value of US$24.46M and US$13.5M, respectively. …”
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Molecular saturation determines distinct plasmonic enhancement scenarios for two-photon absorption signal by Saeid Izadshenas Jahromi, Karolina Słowik

“…The expected TPA signal enhancement is evaluated using classical estimations based on the assumption of independent enhancement of absorption and fluorescence. …”
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Early Postoperative Outcomes and Medication Cost Savings after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Morbidly Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Bethany J. Slater, Nina Bellatorre, Dan Eisenberg

“…Insulin resistance was estimated using the homeostatic model assessment (HOMA). …”
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Dynamic Impact-Based Heavy Rainfall Warning with Multi-classification Machine Learning Approaches by Anand Shankar

“…This study offers impartial tools for estimating the severity of the effects brought on by heavy rainfall to facilitate the prompt communication of effective measures, such as the evacuation of livestock and human settlements and the provision of medical assistance. …”
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Influence of Long-Term Thinning on the Biomass Carbon and Soil Respiration in a Larch (Larix gmelinii) Forest in Northeastern China by Huimei Wang, Wei Liu, Wenjie Wang, Yuangang Zu

“…Both C influx from biomass production and C efflux from each soil respiration component and its temperature sensitivity were determined for scaling-up ecosystem C sink estimation: microbial composition is measured for clarifying mechanism for respiratory changes from thinning treatment. …”
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Computer-Assisted Quantitative Analysis of Skeletal Muscles of Snowboarding Parallel Giant Slalom Athletes after Exercise Based on Artificial Intelligence and Complex Networks by Haiqiang Yu, Fei Yang, Jin Wang

“…Based on a large amount of literature, this paper uses variational optical flow calculation and split Bregman method to solve the typical HS model, L1-L2 model, and L1-high-order model, respectively, and uses the motion estimation method to describe the movement of muscles. …”
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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN SOUTHWEST, NIGERIA by Bolaji Comfort ADENIYI, Gbenga Sunday FAYIGBE

“…The reliability of the instrument was estimated at 0.80 using Chronbach’s Alpha reliability method. …”
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Justified Suspicion: Symptomatic Syphilitic Alopecia in a Patient with Well-Controlled HIV by Robert Jame, Yousif Al-Saeigh, Leo L. Wang, Kevin Wang

“…Background. An estimated 25% of primary and secondary syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum, occurs in patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (Chesson et al., 2005). …”
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Recent Tectonic Deformation of the Lunar Farside Mare and South Pole–Aitken Basin by C. A. Nypaver, T. R. Watters, J. D. Clark

“…We also derive absolute model age estimates for SMR formation, and we constrain SMR-forming fault geometries via elastic dislocation modeling. …”
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The effect of income and smallholder characteristics on cultivation, harvesting, and post-harvest management of natural rubber by . Nurliza

“…Partial least square path modeling was used with SmartPLS software to estimate the complex cause-effect relationships of smallholder and farm factors for adopting sustainable agricultural practices.FINDINGS: The effect of the relationship between income and smallholder characteristics on cultivation and income on post-harvest management was not significant. …”
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A study of lipid profile peculiarities and atherogenic index of plasma in patients younger than fifty years of age with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis by Varsha R. Bhatt, Kavita K. Krishna, Vishal Asrani, Rajat Chauhan

“…Disease activity was assessed, and lipid profile was estimated: total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), triglycerides (TG) and very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL). …”
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Comprehensive design of a 100-kilowatt solar power plant with bifacial technology in PVsyst for Arak, Iran by Mohammad Parhamfar, Alireza Zabihi

“…Neglecting to properly configure this factor can lead to incorrect energy yield estimates and negatively affect the economic analysis of the designed project. …”
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