Brittleness evaluation of main coal seams in Permian Taiyuan-Shanxi formations, Baode block, Ordos Basin: based on a convolutional neural network method by Qingfeng ZHANG, Ziling LI, Jikun ZHANG, Shuai HAO, Xiaoguang SUN, Yanjie SHANG, Yun ZUO

“…Higher quartz content was linearly correlated with greater elastic modulus and brittleness index.…”
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Investigations of Physical and Rheological Properties of Aged Rubberised Bitumen by Asim Hassan Ali, Nuha S. Mashaan, Mohamed Rehan Karim

“…The results showed that the use of rubberised bitumen binder reduces the aging effect on physical and rheological properties of the bitumen binder as illustrated through lower aging index of viscosity, lower aging index of , and an increase in with crumb rubber modifier content increasing, indicating that the crumb rubber might improve the aging resistance of rubberised bitumen binder. …”
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The Effect of Continuous Selection in KiwiCross^® Composite Breed on Breed Ancestry and Productivity Performance by Mohd Jaafar, Bevin Harris, Heather J. Huson

“…Production efficiency (PR), a key selection index, is calculated by dividing milk solids produced by mature live weight. …”
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Adaptation and validation of the Children’s Surgical Assessment Tool for Rwandan district hospitals by Sarah Nuss, Jean Paul Majyambere, Edmond Ntaganda, Callum Forbes, Jonathan Nkurunziza, Carol Mugabo, Vincent Cubaka, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier

“…We used the Content Validity Index to validate the final tool. Results The adapted tool had a final score of 0.84 on the Content Validity Index, indicating a high level of agreement among the expert panel. …”
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Efficacy of Surgery Combined with Autologous Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Transplantation for Treatment of Intracerebral Hemorrhage by Jianxin Zhu, Yilei Xiao, Zhongmin Li, Fabin Han, Taiwu Xiao, Zhiti Zhang, Fengyang Geng

“…Our results revealed that, compared with control group, NIHSS score and Rankin scale were both significantly decreased but Barthel index was increased in transplantation group after 6 months. …”
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Different Associations of Trunk and Lower-Body Fat Mass Distribution with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors between Healthy Middle-Aged Men and Women by Bin Wu, Jingshan Huang, Keisuke Fukuo, Kazuhisa Suzuki, Gen Yoshino, Tsutomu Kazumi

“…Arterial properties were indicated by cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) and intima-media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery. …”
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Rs9939609 Variant of the Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated Gene and Trunk Obesity in Adolescents by Harald Mangge, Wilfried Renner, Gunter Almer, Daniel Weghuber, Reinhard Möller, Renate Horejsi

“…Compared to the TT wildtype, AA homozygotes showed significantly elevated values of SAT thickness at the trunk-located lipometer measure points neck and frontal chest, body weight, body mass index, waist, and hip circumference. No associations were found with carotis communis intima media thickness, systolic, diastolic blood pressure, ultrasensitive C-reactive protein (US-CRP), homocystein, total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, oxidized LDL, fasted glucose, insulin, HOMA-index, liver transaminases, uric acid, and adipokines like resistin, leptin, and adiponectin. …”
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“Near Miss” Obstetric Events and Maternal Deaths in a Tertiary Care Hospital: An Audit by Roopa PS, Shailja Verma, Lavanya Rai, Pratap Kumar, Murlidhar V. Pai, Jyothi Shetty

“…Objectives. (1) To determine the frequency of maternal near miss, maternal near miss incidence ratio (MNMR), maternal near miss to mortality ratio and mortality index. (2) To compare the nature of near miss events with that of maternal mortality. (3) To see the trend of near miss events. …”
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Optimization of Tourism Information Analysis System Based on Big Data Algorithm by Jing Yang, Bing Zheng, Zhenghua Chen

“…On the basis of ecological footprint theory and tourism ecological footprint theory, the sustainable development indexes such as ecological footprint, ecological carrying capacity, ecological deficit, and ecological surplus of the research area were calculated and the long-term change pattern of each index was analyzed. …”
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Electron Microscopic Radioautographic Study on Mitochondrial DNA Synthesis in Adrenal Cortical Cells of Developing and Aging Mice by Tetsuji Nagata

“…On EM radioautograms obtained from each animal, the number of mitochondria and the mitochondrial labeling index labeled with 3H-thymidine showing DNA synthesis in each adrenal cortical cell, in three zones, were counted and the results in respective developing groups were compared. …”
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Automatic Graph Cut Segmentation of Lesions in CT Using Mean Shift Superpixels by Xujiong Ye, Gareth Beddoe, Greg Slabaugh

“…It first determines, at each voxel, a five-dimensional (5D) feature vector that contains intensity, shape index, and 3D spatial location. Then, nonparametric mean shift clustering forms superpixels from these 5D features, resulting in an oversegmentation of the image. …”
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Accuracy Assessment of Shake Table Device on Strong Earthquake Output by Wei Guo, Ping Shao, Hai-yan Li, Yan Long, Jian-feng Mao

“…The energy-time history (energy-TH) index can assess the accuracy of the shake table on the strong earthquake output in the aspect of specimens other than signals themselves. …”
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Study on the Performance of Expansive Subgrade Soil Stabilized with Enset Ash by Derara Neguse, Eleyas Assefa, S. M. Assefa

“…The liquid limit, plasticity index, free swell index, and free swell ratio of the soil have decreased with the increasing content of Enset ash. …”
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Health Assessment of Foundation Pit Based on the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process by Jinbo Sun, Ke Sun, Liang Gong, Sheng Gu, Hao Hao

“…Many monitoring indexes affect the health condition of foundation pits to different extents. …”
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Influence of Rosiglitazone on the Expression of PPARγ, NF-κB, and TNF-α in Rat Model of Ulcerative Colitis by Jing-Wei Mao, Hai-Ying Tang, Ying-De Wang

“…To observe the disease activity index (DAI) and the colonic mucosa damage index (CMDI), detect the colonic mucosal expression of PPARγ, NF-κB, and TNF-α in rats with ulcerative colitis (UC), and to investigate the protective role of rosiglitazone in UC. …”
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Analysis of Thermal Environment and Its Influencing Factors in Deep Stope of Metal Mine by Shuang You, Jincui Sun, Hongguang Ji, Qixing Feng

“…Then, through the analysis of the influence factors of heat sources in the mining site, 17 evaluation indexes of the influence factors of the mining site thermal environment were sorted out, and the indexes’ weight was calculated based on the entropy weighting method, and it was learned that the largest weight of the influence on the thermal environment factors in a single excavation working face was the water gushing in the roadway. …”
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Estimation Method of the Consolidation Potential of Rural Residential Land considering Farmers’ Willingness by Bo Liu, Chen Chen, Liang Tang, Zhisong Chen, Cheng Cao

“…And then, this study further optimizes the correction index system from the perspective of farmers’ willingness. …”
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How do mussel provenance and spat size affect mussel aquaculture performance in the South-Western Mediterranean (Algeria)? by Belgaid Imene, Nacef Lamri, Alioua Zakia, Bachari Nour-El-Islam

“…The production performance of this species was analysed on 284 random mussel plots using average physical product (APP), gain and loss rates, condition index (CI), percentage of edibility (PE) and shell thickness index (STI). …”
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Zone Fare System Design in a Rail Transit Line by Yi Yang, Lianbo Deng, Qing Wang, Wenliang Zhou

“…With the three indexes as the objective functions, we develop a joint optimization algorithm where a novel zone boundary adjustment scheme is proposed as the key technique. …”
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Growth, Development, and Water Consumption of Irrigated Bean Crop Related to Growing Degree-Days on Different Soil Tillage Systems in Southeast Brazil by Gerson Araujo de Medeiros, Luiz Antonio Daniel, Felipe Hashimoto Fengler

“…The parameters of canopy ground cover, leaf area index, total dry matter, and the plant height presented a highly significant relationship with ∑G (P<0.05). …”
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