Monitoring of agricultural drought using remote sensing data in the Sebou watershed, Morocco by El-Bouhali Abdelaziz, El Ouazani Ech-Chahdi Khadija, Amyay Mhamed

“…We used the NDVI derived from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) satellite images to calculate the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) during the crop growth season. The analysis of the VCI over 14 years shows that the Sebou watershed has undergone droughts of varying severity, with a notable increase in drought events from 2016 to 2023. …”
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Detection of Bolt Looseness Based on Average Autocorrelation Function by Jigang Wu, Jun Shao, Gen Zhou, Deqiang Yang, Yuan Cheng

“…It does not usually directly extract the looseness damage feature from the original response signal to detect the bolt looseness, but it uses the average autocorrelation function value at time lag T = 0 of the vibration pixel displacement signal to establish the looseness damage index. In terms of structural arrangement of this paper, firstly, the theoretical background of the proposed method is given. …”
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Case Report: Testicular Pseudoaneurysm Rupture by Caroline Baber, Eshaan Daas, Michelle Mouri

“…Because of this, clinicians must have a high index of suspicion for arterial injury, and risk stratification should be used when selecting appropriate candidates for prophylactic procedures.…”
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The Prioritization of Kermanshah Tourism Poles Based on the Potential of Tourism Sample Regions Using TOPSIS Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques by Gholamreza Noori, Samad Fotohi, Zahra Taghizadeh

“…At first, using Delphi technique, 10 indexes were determined for assessment of the sample regions. …”
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Evaluation and improvement of the vertical accuracy of the global open DEM under forest environment by Jiapeng Huang, Xiaozhu Yang

“…This study will quantify the influence of canopy height, canopy coverage, and leaf area index on estimation accuracy, and improve the accuracy of DEMs. …”
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Optimization of Residual Wall Thickness Uniformity in Short-Fiber-Reinforced Composites Water-Assisted Injection Molding Using Response Surface Methodology and Artificial Neural Ne... by Haiying Zhou, Hesheng Liu, Tangqing Kuang, Qingsong Jiang, Zhixin Chen, Weipei Li

“…Comparison assessments of three models (RSM, ANN, and ANN-GA) were carried out through some statistical indexes. It was concluded that the effect of melt temperature, delay time, and water temperature were significant to RWTU; the hybrid ANN-GA model had the best performance for predicting SD compared with RSM and ANN; the least SD obtained in optimization using ANN-GA as a fitness function was 0.0972.…”
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Examination of Health Literacy Levels of Pre-Service Teachers by Didem Kilic, Guntay Tasci, Bahattin Deniz Altunoglu

“…The results show that two-thirds (68%) of the research group have inadequate and limited health literacy. When health literacy index scores examined in terms of the variables discussed in the study, it is understood that the level of health literacy remains at a limited level. …”
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Parameter Calibration Method for Discrete Element Simulation of Soil–Wheat Crop Residues in Saline–Alkali Coastal Land by Jie Liu, Tong Lu, Shuai Zheng, Yu Tian, Miaomiao Han, Muhao Tai, Xiaoning He, Hongxiu Li, Dongwei Wang, Zhuang Zhao

“…Taking the soil-wheat crop residue mixture’s angle of repose as the test index, four groups of parameters that significantly affect the angle of repose and their optimal value ranges were screened out through the Plackett–Burman test and the steepest ascent test. …”
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Zonotope approximation based flexible cluster division method for load‐side resource scheduling by Zongjun Yao, Tieyan Zhang, Jinfeng Huang

“…Secondly, modularity and flexibility supply and demand balance index are proposed to perform flexibility clustering of load‐side resources. …”
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Performance Evaluation and Microstructural Assessment of Industrial Solid Waste as Sustainable Additives for Expansive Soil by Muhammad Nadeem, Sami Ullah, Mohammad Arsalan Khan, Shanxiong Chen, Meshel Q. Alkahtani, Mohammad Mursaleen, Rania Salih, Dildar Ali, Li Jian, Jamal Ahmad, Saiful Islam

“…Tests, including moisture density, unconfined compressive strength, Atterberg limits, compressibility index (Cc), cation exchange capacity, direct shear test, and California bearing ratio, were conducted on the treated expansive soil. …”
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Influence of MgO and Hybrid Fiber on the Bonding Strength between Reactive Powder Concrete and Old Concrete by Mo Jinchuan, Ou Zhongwen, Wang Yahui

“…Finally, the relationship of drying shrinkage and splitting tensile strength was studied, and the equation between the splitting tensile strength relative index and logarithm of drying shrinkage was obtained by function fitting.…”
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Bibliometric analysis of trends and development in religion and green tourism behavior by Precious Chikezie Ezeh, Kaitano Dube

“…Making use of Scopus indexed bibliometric data this study investigated the influence of religion on green tourism behaviour. …”
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Simulating the Effects of Structural Parameters on the Hydraulic Performances of Venturi Tube by Yanqi Sun, Wenquan Niu

“…A power function relationship existed between the mean velocity in outlet section and pressure difference, with an approximate flow stance index of 0.53. Minimum pressure occurred in the throat inlet wall and there was a linear relationship between the minimum pressure and the pressure difference at the inlet and outlet. …”
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« A unique aura of ancient, elemental evil » : les migrations du feu dans The Great God Pan (1894) d’Arthur Machen by Anne-Sophie Leluan-Pinker

“…Crucially, fire is subjected to constant displacements and shifts in this narrative structured like a (bad) dream : it is a circulating trope most definitely indexing Victorian fears of degeneration and decline.…”
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Pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1A presenting as short stature and congenital hypothyroidism by Ragini Kondetimmanahalli, Jane Lynch, Gary Francis, Heather Gardner, Radhika Pillai

“…For the primary care provider, simple measures of standing height, sitting height, arm span, weight, body mass index (BMI) and bone age (BA) will lead to the correct diagnosis in most short children. …”
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A Study of Rockburst Hazard Evaluation Method in Coal Mine by Zhijie Wen, Xiao Wang, Yunliang Tan, Hualei Zhang, Wanpeng Huang, Qinghai Li

“…Based on the relationship between RDE value and its corresponding level of rockburst hazard, the rockburst hazard can be divided into five types and evaluation index of each type can be achieved. Then the ongoing rockburst damage level can be classified in one of the five types, and the relative parameters, such as hazard extent, controlling measures also can be achieved. …”
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Research on the evolution of college online public opinion risk based on improved Grey Wolf Optimizer combined with LSTM model. by Chao Cao, Ziyu Li, Lingzhi Li, Fanglu Luo

“…A full-chain analytical framework for online public opinion prediction is established in this study, which enables the model to illustrate the level of risk related to public opinion and its variation trend by introducing the public opinion risk index. The prediction accuracy of the model is validated through several evaluation criteria, and a comparison between real and predicted results, and the simulation of the intervention on this incident indicates that the proposed model is competent for both trend prediction and assisting in intervention. …”
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THE CONCEPTION OF POINT-RATING SYSTEM FOR ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS' EDUCATIONAL RESULTS by Marina U. Prakhova, Svetlana V. Svetlakova, Nadezhda V. Zaichenko, Elena A. Khoroshavina, Andrey N. Krasnov

“…This is an integrated index which describes not only student's knowledge level, but implicitly - the level of learning process organization and quality of teaching disciplines. …”
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Forecasting of Energy Production for Photovoltaic Systems Based on ARIMA and ANN Advanced Models by Laurentiu Fara, Alexandru Diaconu, Dan Craciunescu, Silvian Fara

“…The main contributions of the authors could be synthetized as follows: (1) analysis and discussion of the experimental and simulated results regarding solar radiation forecast, as well as energy production prediction and forecasting based on ARIMA and ANN models for two case studies: (a) laboratory BIPV system developed at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and (b) large PV park placed in a specific site of the south of Romania. A variability index of solar radiation was introduced for the model improvement; (2) comparison between the ARIMA and ANN results to highlight the ARIMA model which is more efficient than the ANN one; (3) optimized method defined by the GMDH model (Group Method of Data Handling) proposed to provide a software program for calculation of the PV energy production.…”
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From Presbyopia to Cataracts: A Critical Review on Dysfunctional Lens Syndrome by Joaquín Fernández, Manuel Rodríguez-Vallejo, Javier Martínez, Ana Tauste, David P. Piñero

“…However, there is still not a gold standard or evidence-based clinical guidelines around these new technologies despite multiple research studies have correlated their results with conventional methods such as visual acuity or the lens opacification system (LOCS), with more scientific background around the ocular scattering index (OSI) and Scheimpflug densitometry. In either case, DLS is not a new evidence-based concept that leads to new knowledge about crystalline lens aging but it is a nomenclature change of two existing terms, presbyopia and cataracts. …”
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