On the fence: Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among sexually Minoritized men who use substances in the United States by Renessa S. Williams, Acklynn M. Byamugisha, Leah Davis-Ewart, Omar R. Valentin, Samantha E. Dilworth, Christian Grov, Adam W. Carrico

“…Objective: Substance use during the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has exponentially increased among sexually minoritized men (SMM), who are more vulnerable to COVID-19 transmission, morbidity, and mortality than their heterosexual counterparts. …”
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The preference of migratory waterbirds to winter at a key location on the East Asian-Australasian flyway and its implications for habitat conservation by Shuangliang Dai, Yanyan Zhou, Jingsi Gao, Guowei Cheng, Linlin Wang, Haiyan Bai, Xiaoyu Lei, Hualin Xu, Xian-zhong Mao

“…When the proportion of freezing weather (FP) in southern China exceeded 10 % (indicative of normal and harsh winter), the abundance of migratory waterbirds in Shenzhen Bay varied exponentially with FP. When the FP exceeded 36 % (harsh winter), freezing weather became the dominant factor influencing waterbird wintering. …”
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Technoeconomic Feasibility of Wind and Solar Generation for Off-Grid Hyperscale Data Centres by William Rollinson, Andrew Urquhart, Murray Thomson

“…As a global community our use of data is increasing exponentially with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), leading to a vast increase in the energy demand for data centres worldwide. …”
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Prediction of time-dependent bearing capacity of concrete pile in cohesive soil using optimized relevance vector machine and long short-term memory models by Jitendra Khatti, Mohammadreza Khanmohammadi, Yewuhalashet Fissha

“…Each RVM model (SRVM) is configured by each linear, polynomial, gaussian, sigmoid, laplacian, and exponential kernel function. Each SRVM model has been optimized by each genetic (GA_SRVM) and particle swarm optimization (PSO_RVM) algorithm. …”
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A Wearable System for Experimental Knee Pain During Real-World Locomotion: Habituation and Motor Adaptation by Jesse M. Charlton, Liam H. Foulger, Calvin Kuo, Jean-Sebastien Blouin

“…A linear model fit the data well for intensities &#x003E;1/10, though a piecewise linear (Adj R<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{{2}} =0.874$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) or exponential model (Adj R<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{{2}} =0.869$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) was required to fit the perception data across the stimulus intensity range (0-5/10). …”
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Mechanisms and thresholds of land use affecting surface water quality in Hangzhou City’s residential areas by Qianhu Chen, Jinye Huang

“…On the basis of nonlinear regression models, including power, exponential, and cubic, one-on-one relations between land use metrics and water quality indicators were fitted. …”
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Surgical delay-associated mortality risk varies by subtype in loco-regional breast cancer patients in SEER-Medicare by Macall Leslie Salewon, Rashmi Pathak, William C. Dooley, Ronald A. Squires, Hallgeir Rui, Inna Chervoneva, Takemi Tanaka

“…HR + /HER2 − patients exhibited the most pronounced increase in BCSM risk associated with TTS, with approximately exponential growth after 42 days, with adjusted subdistribution hazard ratios (sHR) of 1.21 (95% CI: 1.06–1.37) at TTS = 60 days, 1.79 (95% CI: 1.40–2.29) at TTS = 90 days, and 2.83 (95% CI: 1.76–4.55) at TTS = 120 days. …”
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Modeling and Analysis of Rice Root Water Uptake under the Dual Stresses of Drought and Waterlogging by Jie Huang, Wei Dong, Luguang Liu, Tiesong Hu, Shaobin Pan, Xiaowei Yang, Jianan Qin

“…Then, we incorporated a water stress lag effect coefficient, <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>φ</mi><mfenced separators="|"><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>W</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>s</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></mfenced></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, that investigated the combined effect of historical drought and waterlogging stress events based on the assumption that the normalized influence weight of each past stress event decreases with an increase in the time interval before simulation as an exponential function of the decay rate. Further, we tested the model parameters and validated the results obtained with the modified model using data from three years (2016–2018) of rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i>, <i>L</i>) trails with pots in Bengbu, China. …”
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Fusarium oxysporum assisted green synthesis of small-sized silver nanoparticles for high antibacterial, and photocatalytic decolorization performances by Reyad M. El-Sharkawy, Inas A. Ahmed, Taghrid G. Kharboush

“…Abstract Background Novel platforms using nanotechnology-based medicines have exponentially increased in our daily lives. The unique characteristics of metal oxide and noble metals nanoparticles make them suitable for different fields including antimicrobial agents, cosmetics, textiles, wound dressings, and anticancer drug carriers. …”
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Scalar Field Kantowski–Sachs Solutions in Teleparallel <i>F</i>(<i>T</i>) Gravity by Alexandre Landry

“…Then, we find new non-trivial teleparallel <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>T</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> solutions by using power-law and exponential ansatz for each potential case arising from conservation laws, such as linear, quadratic, or logarithmic, to name a few. …”
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Reasonable Support Parameters for Loess Tunnel Under Different Water Contents: A Case Study by Hao Chen, Yanbin Luo, Jianxun Chen, Hui Chen, Yanfeng Li, Pengkun Wang, Lele Guo

“…The research findings indicate that the strength of the surrounding rock is functionally related to its water content, with the cohesive force <i>c</i> exhibiting an exponential relationship and the angle of internal friction <i>φ</i> showing a linear relationship, and that the cohesive force <i>c</i> is more affected by changes in water content than the internal friction angle <i>φ</i>. …”
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FPGA-Based Distributed Union-Find Decoder for Surface Codes by Namitha Liyanage, Yue Wu, Siona Tagare, Lin Zhong

“…A fault-tolerant quantum computer must decode and correct errors faster than they appear to prevent exponential slowdown due to error correction. The Union-Find (UF) decoder is promising with an average time complexity slightly higher than <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$O(d^{3})$</tex-math></inline-formula>. …”
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Sliding Impact Mechanism of Square Roadway Based on Complex Function Theory by Decheng Ge, Fuxing Jiang, Cunwen Wang, Yang Chen, Chunyu Dong, Sitao Zhu, Zhaoyi Wang, Fei Han

“…The maximum elastic energy density and LERR increase exponentially with the ratio of vertical stress to uniaxial compressive strength (Ic). …”
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Multifield Coupling Mechanism of Unloading Deformation and Fracture of Composite Coal-Rock by Zhen Yang, Yan Li, Xin Li, Jiayu Zhuang, Hao Li, Xue Wang, Yuning Wang

“…Besides, the electromagnetic field is strongest on the surface of the coal body, and its propagation in the air decays exponentially. There are small fluctuations that appear at the junction of the coal body and the air. …”
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Postoperative Pain and Opiate Requirement is Increased Following Second-Side Surgery Among Patients Undergoing Staged Total Knee Arthroplasty by Vivek P. Chadayammuri, MD, Shuvalaxmi D. Haselton, MS, Elizabeth Diaz, PA-C, Roger H. Emerson, MD

“…Background: Primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) continues to grow exponentially, with a significant subset of patients requiring staged bilateral procedures. …”
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Global leukemia burden and trends: a comprehensive analysis of temporal and spatial variations from 1990—2021 using GBD (Global Burden of Disease) data by Pengyu Huang, Jie Zhang

“…Hierarchical clustering and forecasting models, including ARIMA and Exponential Smoothing (ES), were utilized to predict future trends. …”
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The microbial mechanism of maize residue decomposition under different temperature and moisture regimes in a Solonchak by Fan Huang, Wan Zhang, Lihua Xue, Bahar Razavi, Kazem Zamanian, Xiaoning Zhao

“…The decomposition stage consisted of fast (0–15 days) and slow periods (15–90 days). Using the double exponential equation, the decomposition rates of labile and recalcitrant components, the labile component and cumulative CO2 emissions increased faster with increased moisture than with temperature. …”
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Laparoscopic suture repair for perforated peptic ulcer disease: a meta-review and trial sequential analysis by S. I. Panin, T. V. Nechay, I. V. Sazhin, K. Yu. Melnikov-Makarchuk, A. V. Sazhin, A. V. Puzikova, A. N. Akinchits, A. V. Bykov

“…BackgroundThe number of systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses in surgery is growing exponentially. Meta-epidemiology, as a form of evidence synthesis, allows for the pooling of data and assessment of the diversity present in multiple and overlapping SRs.Aim of the researchThis study aimed to summarize evidence from systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials and reanalyze outcome data on laparoscopic suture repair of perforated peptic ulcers using trial sequential analysis (TSA).Materials and methodsThe Cochrane Library, PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, eLibrary, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched before 1 June 2024. …”
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Decomposition and nutrient release pattern of wheat (Triticum aestivum) residues under different treatments in desert field conditions of Sudan by Fatoma A. M. Rezig, Elsadig A. Elhadi, Mubarak R. Abdalla

“…Mass loss and nutrients released from wheat residue followed the exponential model, Wt = W0 9 e-kt from which the specific decay rate constants (k) and t0.5 and t0.95 were calculated. …”
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Modeling and experimental validation of nanophotonics-enhanced solar membrane distillation technology for treating reverse osmosis brine by Mayar Elrakhawi, Ahmed F. Tayel, Amr Abdelrazek, Ze He, Qilin Li, Ibrahim A. Said

“…The study established an exponential correlation between permeate production and solar energy, with a heat transfer coefficient ranging from 9.5 to 30 W m−2 K−1 and a coefficient of determination of 0.96. …”
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