Rose cultivars for biomonitoring of air quality by Wanjala Sylvia Nafula, László Orlóci, Szilvia Kisvarga, Gábor Boronkay, Béla Tóthmérész, Stewart Ajele, Vanda Éva Abriha-Molnár, Edina Simon

“…The usefulness of rose cultivars for air quality monitoring was assessed; the assessment is based on the Air Pollution Tolerance Index and the Air Quality Index. A total of 11 cultivars of roses were evaluated; they were collected from a peri-urban area of the city of Budapest (Hungary). …”
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Study on the Damage Diagnosis of Ancient Wood Structure in Tianshui under Traffic Excitation by Xin Wang, Zhaobo Meng, Xicheng Zhang

“…The wavelet packet energy curvature difference index was proposed to determine the structural damage location. …”
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Study of Chemical Composition and Evaluation of Anti-hypertensive Effect of A Fixed Oil Extracted from Linum usitatissimum grains by Oulad Ali Halima, Mebarka, Nasser Belboukhari, Khaled Sekkoum, Khawter

“…Globally grown flax seed is regarded as an oilseed with numerous medicinal and health are the outcomes of the physico-chemical analyses: pH value: 0.476; saponification index: 168.3; KOH/g: 28.05; peroxide index: 174; density: 0.951; refractive index: 1.482 at 18.1°C and 1.485 at 18.2°C; peroxide index: 1.70 at 0.96, 1.70 mg/100; all are related to the peroxide index. …”
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Atypical Dengue Outbreak in Odisha: Insights from the Entomological Investigations by Sudhansu Sekhar Sahu, Mohammed Mustafa Baig, Dilip Kumar Panigrahi, Ananganallur Nagarajan Shriram, Ashwani Kumar

“…The village exhibited high (house index = 24.8), (container index = 11.6), (pupal index = 32.7), and (Breteau index = 40.6) indices. …”
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Association between various blood glucose variability-related indicators during early ICU admission and 28-day mortality in non-diabetic patients with sepsis by Jingyan Zhou, Zhiheng Chen, Hao-Neng Huang, Chun-Quan Ou, Xin Li

“…Coefficient of variation and standard deviation of glucose (i.e., GluCV and GluSD), M-value, J-index, high blood glucose index (HBGI), and low blood glucose index (LBGI) were used to describe glucose variability, quality of glycemic control, and glycemic risk of patients with sepsis. …”
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Exact Formulae for Degree Distance Indices of Sum Graphs by Muhammad Javaid, Faiz Farid, Jia-Bao Liu, Abdulaziz Mohammed Alanazi

“…The degree distance index (DDI) is a vertex-degree weighted version of a well-known index that is called by Wiener index (WI). …”
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Association Between the Malnutrition Status and All‐Cause Mortality in Patients With Moderate and Severe Aortic Stenosis: A Prospective Cohort Study by Bingzhen Li, Shaozhao Zhang, Chaoguang Xu, Mengting Huang, Zhenyu Xiong, Ziwen Hui, Xinxue Liao, Jilin Li, Jianying Chen, Xiaodong Zhuang

“…CONUT, nutritional risk index, and prognostic nutritional index were calculated at baseline. …”
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An Efficient Data Analysis Framework for Online Security Processing by Jun Li, Yanzhao Liu

“…In the reducing stage, it merges results from the mapping nodes using multiattribute hash index. By doing so, a stream tuple can be efficiently evaluated by going over the LCN-Index framework. …”
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On-Bond Incident Degree Indices of Square-Hexagonal Chains by Tariq A. Alraqad, Hicham Saber, Akbar Ali, Jaya Percival Mazorodze

“…If fdu,dv=du+dv or dudv, then the corresponding BID index is known as the first Zagreb index M1 or the second Zagreb index M2, respectively. …”
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Investigating the causes of groundwater leakage in Nahabad Mamsan plain using geomorphic indices based on geo Dualiteh theory by Najmeh Shafiei, Mohamad Ali Zanganeh Asadi, javad jamalabadi, Zeinab Mojarrad titkanlo

“…For this purpose, with the aim of evaluating the tectonic activity of the area, some geomorphic indices such as basin shape index (BS), drainage asymmetry index (AF), inverse topographic symmetry (T), mountain front sinus index (J), hypersonic integral (Hi), Valley Depth Wide Index (VF), River Sinusity Index (S), Longitudinal River Gradient (SL), Relative Tactical Rating Index (Iat), and Hierarchical Anomalies Index (Δa) have been used. …”
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A suitability modeling based on geographic information system for potential micro hydropower dam site by O. Setiawan, H.Y.S.H. Nugroho, N. Wahyuningrum, D. Auliyani, K.S. Hardjo

“…It considers dam suitability index, proximity from road and settlement, existence of conservation forest, and the potential hydraulic head.FINDINGS: The dam suitability index map with five suitability classes was obtained, with the high and very high suitability indexes extending to 8.7 percent of the study area. …”
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Farmer’s Credit Rating Model and Application Based on Multilayer Unified Network with Linear Classifier by Sulin Pang, Shouyang Wang, Lianhu Xia

“…This article innovatively builds the infrastructure of farmer credit rating index system into a multilevel unidirectional network structure. …”
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Designing a Scenario-Based Fuzzy Model for Sustainable Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network considering Statistical Reliability: A New Hybrid Metaheuristic Algorithm by Peyman Bahrampour, Seyyed Esmaeil Najafi, Farhad Hosseinzadeh lotfi, Ahmad Edalatpanah

“…NSGA-II, MOPSO, and GW-NS algorithms performed better in terms of SM index, respectively. In addition, the variability of DM index in all three algorithms was almost the same, but in MID index, GW-NS algorithm, and in SM index, MOPSO algorithm had the highest change and less sustainability.…”
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Longitudinal Follow-Up of Mirror Movements after Stroke: A Case Study by Hiroyuki Ohtsuka, Daisuke Matsuzawa, Daisuke Ishii, Eiji Shimizu

“…MM was observed as an extension movement of the unaffected right index finger during extension movement of the affected left index finger. …”
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Global value chains, technological sophistication and economic complexity: panel data for 58 economies from 2006 to 2015 by Raul Costa Cavalcanti Manso, Camila do Carmo Hermida

“…We estimate dynamic models by difference and system GMM considering two dependent variables: an export sophistication index (‘q’) and the economic complexity index. We find a positive and significant relationship between participation in GVCs and degree of sophistication of the export basket, measured by the ‘q’ index. …”
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A New Bayesian Network-Based Generalized Weighting Scheme for the Amalgamation of Multiple Drought Indices by Muhammad Ahmad Raza, Mohammed M. A. Almazah, Nadhir Al-ansari, Ijaz Hussain, Fuad S. Al-Duais, Mohammed A. Naser

“…Therefore, monitoring and assessing drought occurrences based on a single drought index are inadequate. The current study develops a multiscalar weighted amalgamated drought index (MWADI) to amalgamate multiple drought indices. …”
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Dispersion of optical vortices in twisted elliptical-core optical fibers with torsional stresses by B.P. Lapin, E.V. Barshak, D.V. Vikulin, C.N. Alexeyev, M.A. Yavorsky

“…Analytical expressions for polarization, topological, and hybrid dispersion are derived from the spectra of vortex modes in step- and gradient-index TEFs with TS. It is shown that in strongly twisted fibers with a gradient refractive index profile, new types of dispersion appear in comparison with the case of a step-index profile. …”
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Evaluations of Morphometric Traits and Body Conformation Indices of Horse Ecotypes Reared in the Highlands of Bale Eco‐Region, Ethiopia by Mesay Guyo, Melaku Tareke, Andualem Tonamo, Diriba Bediye, Girma Defar

“…The sex dimorphism effect was significant (p < 0.001) for dactyl‐costal index, pelvic index, longitudinal pelvic index, transversal pelvic index, weight, tare index 1 (trot or gallop), tare index 2 (walk) and riding comfort degree, while non‐significant (p > 0.05) for the remaining indices. …”
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Exploration of the association between estimated glucose disposal rate and osteoarthritis in middle-aged and older adults: An analysis of NHANES data from 2011 to 2018 by Gu XiaoPeng, Zhang SongOu, Ma WeiHu

“…It is unclear how the estimated glucose disposal rate (eGDR) index relates to osteoarthritis (OA). The goal of this research is to explore the possible link between the eGDR index and the likelihood of OA development.…”
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Coal Mine Gas Explosion Vulnerability Assessment Based on the “Glass Heart” Model by Shuicheng Tian, Pengfei Yang, Kai Tang

“…The original disturbance index is augmented by including the energy release index factor. …”
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