Land Cover and Forest Type Classification by Values of Vegetation Indices and Forest Structure of Tropical Lowland Forests in Central Vietnam by Hung Nguyen Trong, The Dung Nguyen, Martin Kappas

“…Seven vegetation indices had a correlation with the horizontal structure, but four vegetation indices, namely, Enhanced Vegetation Index, Perpendicular Vegetation Index, Difference Vegetation Index, and Transformed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, had better correlations r = 0.66, 0.65, 0.65, 0.63 and regression results were of R2 = 0.44, 0.43, 0.43, and 0.40, respectively. …”
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Functional Status of Pancreatic α and β Cells in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients with Different Plasma Triglyceride Levels: A Retrospective Analysis by Hang Guo, Chunlei Ma, Xiaoming Wu, Congqing Pan

“…In addition to the increase in TG levels, the insulin sensitivity index (ISI), homeostasis model assessment for β-cell function index (HOMA-β), ΔI30/ΔG30, and AUCI displayed a reducing trend. …”
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Explorating the Involvement of Plasma Sestrin2 in Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Rong Jiang, Qiru Wang, Huifen Zhai, Xiaohua Du, Shibo Sun, Haoyan Wang

“…Sestrin2 was positively correlated with apnea/hypopnea index (AHI) oxygen desaturation index, while negatively correlated with mean oxygen saturation. …”
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Gonad Maturity of Coconut Crab (Birgus latro) in Pasoso Island, Central Sulawesi by . Sulistiono, Suzana Refiani, Fadly Y. Tantu, . Muslihuddin

“…Gonado somatic index showed a high value around November/December.  …”
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Matching-Adjusted Indirect Comparison of the Efficacy at Week 32 of Tralokinumab and Dupilumab in the Treatment of Moderate-to-Severe Atopic Dermatitis by Tiago Torres, Anne Sohrt Petersen, Ulla Ivens, Albert Bosch Vilaro, John Stinson, José Manuel Carrascosa

“…IPD were selected by applying inclusion criteria from LIBERTY AD CHRONOS and weighting to match summary baseline characteristics—age, sex, race, body mass index, disease duration, Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI), Investigator’s Global Assessment (IGA), Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) and SCORing Atopic Dermatitis index—of patients treated with dupilumab. …”
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Assessing the Economic Burden and Health Care Utilizations of U.S. Veteran Patients with Schizophrenia by Lin Xie, M. Furaha Kariburyo, Juan Du, Yuexi Wang

“…Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia were identified, and the initial diagnosis date was designated as the index date. A group of patients without schizophrenia of the same age, region, gender and index year were identified and matched by baseline Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) score, as the comparison group. …”
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Association between Sensitivity to Thyroid Hormone Indices and Bone Mineral Density in US Males by Shuai Chen, Wucui Huang, Guowei Zhou, Xiaohe Sun, Jie Jin, Zhiwei Li

“…The thyroid hormone sensitivity indices included free triiodothyronine/tree thyroxine (FT3/FT4), thyroid-stimulating hormone index (TSHI), thyrotroph thyroxine resistance index (TT4RI), and thyroid feedback quantile-based index (TFQI). …”
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Positive Solutions for a Class of Fourth-Order Boundary Value Problems in Banach Spaces by Jingjing Cai, Guilong Liu

“…Using a specially constructed cone and the fixed point index theory, this work shows existence and nonexistence results of positive solutions for fourth-order boundary value problem with two different parameters in Banach spaces.…”
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Positive Solutions for Nonlinear q-Fractional Difference Eigenvalue Problem with Nonlocal Conditions by Wafa Shammakh, Maryam Al-Yami

“…Based on the fixed point index theory in cones, sufficient existence of positive solutions conditions is derived for the problem.…”
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A discrete Stochastic Korovkin theorem by George A. Anastassiou

“…In this article we give a sufficient condition for the pointwise −− in the first mean Korovkin property on B0(P), the space of stochastic processes with real state space and countable index set Γ and bounded first moments.…”
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ACCOUNTING REPORTS AS SOURCE OF ECONOMIC INFORMATION by O. Dyakonova, N. Morgun

“…In this article importance of accounting (financial) control is examined as a source of many economic indicators of activity of enterprise. Basic analytical indexes, order of their calculation, possible interpretations, influence on judgment of users of accounting (financial) control, are enumerated.…”
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Education of women entrepreneurs by Mateja Vadnjal, Jaka Vadnjal

“…A sizable portion of female entrepreneurs is pursuing higher levels of education and training throughout their careers. A rather low index of business training before starting entrepreneurship and also a low index of ongoing training in business areas, especially in the area of ​​business strategies and management, may mean that this is one of the weak points of female entrepreneurship in our country. …”
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Synoptic analysis and satellite monitoring dust phenomenon in Kermanshah province in 1987-2010 (case study: wide spread dust in 17 and 18 June 2009) by kamal omidvar, nesa sepandar

“…Finally, through the processing of MODIS satellite imagery, with the application of the brightness temperature index, round detection and the dust was made and its territory expanded. …”
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Properties and for Bounded Linear Operators by M. H. M. Rashid

“…These properties, that we call property , means that the set of all poles of the resolvent of of finite rank in the usual spectrum are exactly those points of the spectrum for which is an upper semi-Fredholm with index less than or equal to 0 and we call property , means that the set of all poles of the resolvent of in the usual spectrum are exactly those points of the spectrum for which is an upper semi--Fredholm with index less than or equal to 0. …”
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Updated Methods for Seed Shape Analysis by Emilio Cervantes, José Javier Martín, Ezzeddine Saadaoui

“…Seed shape is determined by a variety of indexes (circularity, roundness, and J index). The comparison of the seed images to a geometrical figure (circle, cardioid, ellipse, ellipsoid, etc.) provides a precise quantification of shape. …”
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That was clever of you! Perspectives and verbal irony by Pfeifer Valeria A., Mehl Matthias R., Lai Vicky Tzuyin

“…We tested whether using irony indexes less negative emotional states of speakers and listeners compared to literal statements. …”
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Seeds of Zizyphus lotus: In Vivo Healing Properties of the Vegetable Oil by C. Rais, C. Slimani, M. Benidir, L. Elhanafi, I. Zeouk, F. Errachidi, L. El Ghadraoui, S. Louahlia

“…The value of the peroxide index of Zizyphus lotus vegetable oil is less than 10 which characterizes the most of conventional oils. …”
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Integrating social vulnerability into high-resolution global flood risk mapping by Sean Fox, Felix Agyemang, Laurence Hawker, Jeffrey Neal

“…The index provides estimates of relative risk within or between countries and changes how we understand the geography of risk by identifying ‘hotspots’ characterised by high population density and high levels of social vulnerability. …”
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On Pierce-like idempotents and Hopf invariants by Giora Dula, Peter Hilton

“…Given a set K with cardinality ‖K‖ =n, a wedge decomposition of a space Y indexed by K, and a cogroup A, the homotopy group G=[A,Y] is shown, by using Pierce-like idempotents, to have a direct sum decomposition indexed by P(K)−{ϕ} which is strictly functorial if G is abelian. …”
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STUDY OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT: REGIONAL ASPECT by M. Yu. Teplyakova, M. D. Khabib

“…The calculation on the components of the information and communication technologies Development Index for each subject of the Russian Federation and the Federal districts has been made, as well as the analysis of variations in this Development Index for the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for 2014–2018 has been carried out.…”
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