Damage Identification of Wind-Break Wall Structures based on the Further Updated Wavelet Packet Frequency Bands Energy Ratio Spectrum by Qian Xu

“…The quantitative relationship between the damage index and damage intensity is established. The damage intensity can be calculated reversely, when the damage index is available. …”
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Estimation level of public welfare on the basis of methods of intellectual analysis by S. Kozlovskyi, L. Nikolenko, O. Peresada, O. Pokhyliuk, O. Yatchuk, N. Bolgarova, O. Kulhanik

“…Input factors of the model are international indices and indicators, such as Index of Economic Freedom, Global Peace Index, Democracy Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, Human Development Index, Prosperity Index, Global Competitiveness Index as well as an indicator that reflects the characteristic property of the Ukrainian economy, namely the minimum living wage. …”
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The evolution of food security in Japan-Based on an indicator evaluation system including climate change indicators. by Caixia Li

“…This enhances the precision of the food security index system to some degree. The results showed that Japan's overall food security index exhibited a slight downward trend from 0.113 in 1980 to 0.099 in 2022. …”
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Immediate Respiratory Warm-Up Effect on Dynamic Inspiratory Muscle Strength in Cardiac Surgery Candidates by Bahareh Mehregan Far, Sedigheh Sadat Naimi, Mohsen Abedi, Seyed Ahmad Raeissadat, Mahmood Beheshti Monfared, Alireza Akbarzadeh Baghban

“…One of the new tools to safely measure the strength of the inspiratory muscles in heart patients dynamically and without breath holding is the strength-index (S-index). This study aims to evaluate the immediate effects of a respiratory warm-up (RWU) session on the S-index and other lung parameters in cardiac surgery candidates, a subject with limited existing research. …”
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Inequality in maternal delays related to maternal death at home and en route to a health facility in Ethiopia: insights from national mortality surveillance data by Neamin Tesfay, Rozina Tariku, Girmay Hailu, Haymanot Firde, Fistum Hadgu Woldeyohannes

“…Principal component analysis was employed to calculate the index descriptive statistics, and the Erreygers Normalised Concentration Index (ECI) measured inequalities in the maternal mortality risk index across different places of death. …”
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Comparison of the Wiener and Kirchhoff Indices of Random Pentachains by Shouliu Wei, Wai Chee Shiu, Xiaoling Ke, Jianwu Huang

“…Let G be a connected (molecule) graph. The Wiener index WG and Kirchhoff index KfG of G are defined as the sum of distances and the resistance distances between all unordered pairs of vertices in G, respectively. …”
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Prediction of Grade Classification of Rock Burst Based on PCA-SSA-PNN Architecture by Zhenyi Wang, Yalei Wang, Xiaoliang Jin

“…The results from the new multi-index rock burst grade prediction method were compared with those from single- and multi-index prediction methods. …”
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The Utility of the Bering Sea and East Asia Rules in Long-Range Forecasting by Joseph S. Renken, Joshua J. Herman, Travis R. Bradshaw, Patrick S. Market, Anthony R. Lupo

“…The BSR generally produced better results that the EAR and formulae for each index are proposed. Three case studies demonstrate the efficacy of these indexes for forecasting temperatures in the central USA. …”
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Impacts of environmental quality and employment resilience during the coronavirus disease 2019 recession and recovery by D.O. Ayuningsih, L. Hakim, A. Suryantoro, I. Mafruhah, S. Hassan, E. Gravitiani, N.Q. Fathoni, A.I. Hakim

“…The objective of this study is to assess the spatial distribution of both the environmental quality index and the employment resilience index within the 34 provinces of Indonesia. …”
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Proposed Methods and Endpoints for Defining and Assessing Adverse Environmental Impact (AEI) on Fish Communities/Populations in Tennessee River Reservoirs by Gary D. Hickman, Mary L. Brown

“…Two multimetric indices have been developed to help address fish community (reservoir fish assemblage index [RFAI]) and individual population quality (sport fishing index [SFI]) in Tennessee River reservoirs. …”
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Algorithms for Computing Wiener Indices of Acyclic and Unicyclic Graphs by Bo Bi, Muhammad Kamran Jamil, Khawaja Muhammad Fahd, Tian-Le Sun, Imran Ahmad, Lei Ding

“…The same algorithms are modified to compute the terminal Wiener index and the Wiener polarity index. All these algorithms compute the indices in time On.…”
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A comparative analysis of methods for mapping groundwater pollution hazard: application to the Gallocanta Hydrogeologic Unit (Spain) by José María Orellana Macías, María Jesús Perles Roselló

“…The ultimate goal of the research is to analyse the effectiveness of several groundwater hazard indexes at the Gallocanta Lagoon Basin. To do so, the Hazard Index, the Danger of Contamination Index and the Pollutant Origin and its Surcharge Hydraulically method were applied and compare, and the potentialities and weaknesses of the resulting maps have been analysed. …”
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Monitoring Identification of salt crusts in dry areas by satellite data’s processing by fariba sfanyary, nader sarmasty, sid kazem alavipanah

“…Then , according to the salt crusts’ spectral reflections in different bands and spectral rationing, RSCI (ratio salt crust index) and NDSCI (normalized different salt crust index ) were described. …”
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Advanced Skeletal Muscle Mass Reduction (Sarcopenia) Secondary to Neuromuscular Disease by G. R. Pesola, V. Terla, M. Pradhan

“…Using 24-hour urinary creatinine excretion data, we calculated an estimate of skeletal muscle (SM) mass. SM mass was indexed to height and weight to obtain the SM index. …”
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The Relationship between a New Biomarker of Vagal Neuroimmunomodulation and Survival in Two Fatal Cancers by Y. Gidron, M. De Couck, D. Schallier, J. De Greve, J. L. Van Laethem, R. Maréchal

“…The NIM index was the ratio of RMSSD to C-reactive protein levels (RMSSD/CRP). …”
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Drought Monitoring during Growth Rangeland Coverage, Ardabil Province by saideh eiyni, saeide eini

“…According to the monthly rainfall data, 4 synoptic stations of Ardebil province (Ardebil, Khalkhal, Meshgin Shahr and Parsabad Moghan) during the statistical period of 2016-1996 were used to calculate drought index (SEPI) index for 4 periods of 1, 3, 6 and 9 months. …”
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Phytoplankton communities as indicator of trophic state in some habitats of Batanghari River system in Sumatera Island, Indonesia by Sulastri Sulastri, Lumbantoruan Reliana, Sudarso Jojok, Sukamto Tedjo

“…Low of index diversity (1.658 to 1.715), index species richness (1.387 to 2.181), index similarity (0.488 to 0.661) and pH (1.34 to 2.55) were found in peat swamp.…”
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Nonplanarity of Iterated Line Graphs by Jing Wang

“…The 1-crossing index of a graph G is the smallest integer k such that the kth iterated line graph of G has crossing number greater than 1. …”
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Investigating the Role of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) on the Frequency of Dust Storms in Selected Stations of Khuzestan Province and Tracking the Paths of Dust Entering it by Fatemeh Vatanparast Galeh Juq, Bromand Salahi, Batoul Zeinali

“…Notably, the negative phase of the RMM index exhibited a higher percentage of dust storms compared to the negative phase of the OMI index. …”
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Relationship between Plasma Aldosterone Levels and Left Ventricular Mass in Hypertensive Africans by Adewole Adebiyi, Olubayo Akinosun, Chibuike Nwafor, Ayodele Falase

“…There were no univariate associations between LV mass index and plasma aldosterone (r=0.0179, P=0.57) and between LV mass index and plasma renin (r=0.0887, P=0.61). …”
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