Fractal Assessment of the Disturbances of Phosphate Series Using Lacunarity and Succolarity Analysis on Geoelectrical Images (Sidi Chennane, Morocco) by Abderrahim Ayad, Saad Bakkali

“…The results proved that there is a strong correlation between the disturbances rate and the corresponding fractal value indexes. It appears that the distinction between two disturbed areas is the difference between their corresponding fractal values. …”
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Complicated Dengue Fever and Its Treatment Dilemmas: A Single-Center Experience in Sri Lanka by D. K. Jayaweera, S. Subasinghe, R. F. De Silva, W. A. H. P. Sanjeewa, K. P. Jayawickreme

“…Dengue is an extremely challenging and dynamic disease, which can lead to many unusual complications.A high index of suspicion is key to diagnose and treat promptly.…”
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Evaluation and Estimation of Outputs and Inputs in Inverse Data Envelopment Analysis with Interval Data by Hossein Jafari

“…Findings: The results show that management can increase the index of attracting new customers in proportion to the collection's ability in the input indicators. …”
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Mysterious air pollution in south China linked to volcanic emissions from the Philippines by Changqing Lin, Jian Zhen Yu, Eddie Lee, Pak-Wai Chan, Jackie Wai-Yin Ng, Ying-Wa Chan, Tianshu Zhang, Yiang Chen, Hanzhe Chen, Zijing Zhang, Samuel Ho-Kwong Chui, Jimmy C. H. Fung, Wenqing Liu, Alexis K. H. Lau

“…These analyses prompted the development of a real-time chemical-wind index to identify the occurrence of air pollution associated with volcanic emissions. …”
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Finding product sets in some classes of amenable groups by Dimitrios Charamaras, Andreas Mountakis

“…In this paper, we extend this result to several important classes of amenable groups, including all finitely generated virtually nilpotent groups and all abelian groups $(G,+)$ with the property that the subgroup $2G := \{g+g : g\in G\}$ has finite index. We prove that in any group G from the above classes, any $A\subset G$ with positive upper Banach density contains a shifted product set of the form $\{tb_ib_j\colon i<j\}$ , for some infinite sequence $(b_n)_{n\in \mathbb {N}}$ and some $t\in G$ . …”
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Relation of Subjective Quality of Life to Motor Symptom Profile in Parkinson's Disease by Erica R. Appleman, Karina Stavitsky, Alice Cronin-Golomb

“…We examined differences in quality of life between TD and NTD patients using the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire-39 (PDQ-39), correlating performance with aspects of motor function as indexed by the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS). …”
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The Reliability-Based Design Optimization of considering Rock-Support Interaction for Rock Tunnels by Hongbo Zhao, Shaojun Li, Bingrui Chen

“…The proposed method for estimating the reliability index and determining the tunnel support parameters was introduced in detail. …”
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Terminal Guidance Law for UAV Based on Receding Horizon Control Strategy by Zhenglong Wu, Zhenyu Guan, Chengwei Yang, Jie Li

“…Then, optimal control theory and target motion prediction model are used to derive guidance law for minimum time index function with continuous renewal of original conditions at the initial time of each horizon. …”
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Emotional Eating: A Virtually Untreated Risk Factor for Outcome Following Bariatric Surgery by Betty E. Chesler

“…The first of two others, associated with negative emotions/life situations, link treatment of a super-super-preoperative obese individual’s reflexive EE with 52% excess BMI (body mass index) loss maintained for the past year, 64 months after surgery. …”
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Design and Numerical Analysis of a Novel Rectangular PCF (R-PCF)-Based Biochemical Sensor (BCS) in the THz Regime by Abdullah Al-Mamun Bulbul, Abbas Z. Kouzani, M. A. Parvez Mahmud, Abdullah-Al Nahid

“…Performance metrics prove the competence of this BCS in sensing various analytes that have a refractive index in the range of 1.33–1.48. The proposed BCS shows ultralower values for both the bulk absorption and confinement loss. …”
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An Integrated Cumulative Transformation and Feature Fusion Approach for Bearing Degradation Prognostics by Lixiang Duan, Fei Zhao, Jinjiang Wang, Ning Wang, Jiwang Zhang

“…Then, a new degradation index system is constructed, which fuses multidimensional cumulative features by kernel principal component analysis (KPCA). …”
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Study on Performance Evaluation of Service Supply Chain by Extension Method by Jun Cheng, Qiaoning Yang, Lin Lu

“…This paper, through extensive literature analysis and research on logistics service supply chain projects, established an indicator system composed of 18 secondary indicators from three perspectives of customer satisfaction, logistics service capabilities, and co-development ability, using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to determine the weight of each index and matter-element analysis to establish a logistics service supply chain performance evaluation model. …”
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Ameliorative Potential of Tamarindus indica on High Fat Diet Induced Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Rats by Suja Rani Sasidharan, Joshua Allan Joseph, Senthilkumar Anandakumar, Vijayabalaji Venkatesan, Chandrasekharan Nair Ariyattu Madhavan, Amit Agarwal

“…Moreover, extract treatment markedly reduced body weight and adiposity along with an improvement in insulin resistance index. The study findings, therefore suggested the therapeutic potential of ETS against NAFLD, acting in part through antiobesity, insulin sensitizing, and antioxidant mechanisms.…”
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Effect of Ground Motion Orientation on Seismic Responses of an Asymmetric Stress Ribbon Pedestrian Bridge by Yi Zhang, Wuchuan Pu, Qishuo Zhang, Kaiwen Liu, Hua Dong

“…No single orientation led to the most critical values in all response indexes, and the critical orientation was approximately independent of the vertical ground motion. …”
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Variables related to socialanxiety in adolescents: a multiple linear regression model by Antonio Samaniego Pinho, Marcelo Buenahora Bernal

“…The research was quantitative, not experimental, correlational and cross-sectional. 689 adolescents between 14 and 19 years (M=16.45; SD=1.11) were evaluated, through the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A), the trait subscale of the Trait Anxiety Inventory-State (STAI), the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE) and Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 (ASI-3) were applied. Female gender showed higher mean in trait anxiety with small effect size (d=-.27). …”
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Dynamic Search Mechanism with Threat Prediction in a GNSS Receiver by Fang Liu, Meng Liu

“…In view of the limitations and nonadaptability of the current search technologies as well as on the basis of the proportionality peak judgment mechanism, a dynamic search mechanism with threat prediction (DSM-TP) is proposed in this paper, in which we define a series of preset coefficients and a threat index to optimize the decision mechanism. The simulation results demonstrate that the DSM-TP method can predict the threat situation and can adapt to lower SNR environments compared to the traditional method. …”
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QSPR Modeling of Fungicides Using Topological Descriptors by Saima Parveen, Fatima Saeed, Fozia Bashir Farooq, Nusrat Parveen, Nazeran Idrees, Sumiya Nasir, Rakotondrajao Fanja

“…A topological index is a real number that is obtained from a chemical graph’s structure. …”
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A State-Space Modeling Approach for Active Structural Acoustic Control by Leopoldo P.R. de Oliveira, Paulo S. Varoto, Paul Sas, Wim Desmet

“…This kind of models should allow the inclusion of sensors and actuators models, if accurate performance indexes are to be accessed. The challenge thus resides in deriving reasonable sized models that integrate structural, acoustic, electrical components and the controller algorithm. …”
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Content System of Physical Fitness Training for Track and Field Athletes and Evaluation Criteria of Some Indicators Based on Artificial Neural Network by Wei Wang, Xiaowei Chen

“…This paper puts forward the problem of training content system and index evaluation standard, which is based on artificial neural network. …”
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Efficient IP address retrieval using a novel octet based encoding technique for high speed lookup to improve network performance by Veeramani Sonai, Indira Bharathi, Sajjad Shaukat Jamal, Zaid Bassfar, Sameer Abdullah Nooh

“…The proposed technique generates a unique index for each prefix using an encoder, enabling searches to be performed in constant time. …”
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