A techno‐enviro‐economic multi‐objective framework for optimal sizing of a biomass/diesel generator‐driven hybrid energy system by Amir Akbarzadeh, Alireza Askarzadeh

“…LPSP value is used as an index to measure the system reliability (by decrease of LPSP value, reliability will increase). …”
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From Matched Certificates to Related Persons by Rick Mourits, Ingrid K. van Dijk, Kees Mandemakers

“… For the Netherlands, a rich new data source has become available which contains indexed civil certificates for multiple generations of individuals: LINKS. …”
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Detection of Lungs Status Using Morphological Complexities of Respiratory Sounds by Ashok Mondal, Parthasarathi Bhattacharya, Goutam Saha

“…The morphological embedded complexities used in these experiments have been calculated in terms of texture information (lacunarity), irregularity index (sample entropy), third order moment (skewness), and fourth order moment (Kurtosis). …”
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An Analysis of Vegetation Change Trends and Their Causes in Inner Mongolia, China from 1982 to 2006 by Baolin Li, Wanli Yu, Juan Wang

“…We used National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data to determine the vegetation change trends based on regression model by fitting simple linear regression through the time series of the integrated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in the growing season for each pixel and calculating the slopes. …”
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CFD simulations of a hydrocyclone in absence of an air core by Delgadillo J.A., Al Kayed M., Vo D., Ramamurthy A.S.

“…The conclusion developed from these experiments enables one to use the LDA directly in the hydrocyclone wall without recourse to auxiliary attachments such as an enclosing box that usually used to minimize the refraction effects of laser beams which are caused by the curved solid wall of the hydrocyclone and the refractive index of the test medium.…”
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Evaluation of Natural Image Generation and Reconstruction Capabilities Based on the β-VAE Model by Zhang Honghao

“…Train the model on the CelebA dataset, using three metrics: Mean Squared Error (MSE), Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), and Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) for matrix evaluation, to analyze the generation quality and reconstruction capability of each model. …”
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN VIETNAM: AN EXAMINATION FROM INSTITUTIONAL AND IDEOGRAPHIC LENS by Quan Vu Le, Yolanda Sarason

“…The first paper examines the impact of institutions on entrepreneurship using data from the Provincial Competitive Index. The second paper utilizes a different set of institutional indicators from the World Bank’s Vietnam Enterprise Survey to assess the impacts of business environment on the development of SMEs. …”
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Agronomic Efficiency of Biosolid as Source of Nitrogen to Banana Plants by Luiz Antonio Junqueira Teixeira, Ronaldo Severiano Berton, Aline Reneé Coscione, Luis Alberto Saes, Marcio Koiti Chiba

“…Plant and soil N concentration, fruit yield, plant height, stem diameter, and foliar endurance index were measured. Fruit yield with mineral fertilization or sludge applications did not differ statistically (P>0.05). …”
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Posterior Corneal Asphericity Effect on Postoperative Astigmatism after EDOF Intraocular Lens Implantation in Cataract Patients by Mark Rabinovich, Ivo Guber, Laëtitia Jessy Niegowski, Ana Maria Aramburu del Boz, Danial Al Khatib, Jean-Pascal Genestier, Jerome Bovet

“…The only significant predictive variable for the correction index (CI) was the posterior Q value (r = 0.24, p < 0.05) and for the surgically induced astigmatism (SIA) (β = 0.34, r = 0.58, p < 0.05). …”
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Using GIS and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) for flood hazard assessment based on morphological and hydrological criteria, case of the Meknes region, Morocco by Essahlaoui Narjisse, Ijlil Safae, Alitane Abdennabi, Mohajane Meriame, El Ouali Abdelhadi, Rhazi Abdelaziz, Oumou Abdellah, Alouane Ayoub, Ammari Zakaria, Khrabcha Abdelali, El Hafyani Mohamed, Essahlaoui Ali, Aouragh My Hachem, Van Rompaey Anton

“…This hazard is assessed by taking into account morphological criteria (slope, altitude, density of the hydrographic network, curvature) and hydrological criteria (drainage density, stream power index (SPI) and rainfall data). The methodology adopted is essentially based on a multicriteria analysis using analytical hierarchy process (AHP), with the use of GIS tools and satellite data. …”
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Estimation of Performance Indices for the Planning of Sustainable Transportation Systems by Alexander Paz, Pankaj Maheshwari, Pushkin Kachroo, Sajjad Ahmad

“…The proposed methodology also enables the estimation of a Composite Sustainability Index to summarize the aggregated performance of the overall SOS. …”
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Influence of Polyphosphoric Acid on the Consistency and Composition of Formulated Bitumen: Standard Characterization and NMR Insights by Catarina Varanda, Inês Portugal, Jorge Ribeiro, Artur M. S. Silva, Carlos M. Silva

“…Afterwards, the five components and the unmodified and PPA-modified bitumen were characterized by standard methods (penetration, softening point, and penetration index), SARA analysis, elemental analysis, and 31P and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. …”
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Novel Mutation in the PKHD1 Gene Diagnosed Prenatally in a Fetus with Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease by Pankaj Thakur, Paul Speer, Aleksandar Rajkovic

“…Routine midtrimester fetal anatomy ultrasound revealed enlarged, hyperechoic fetal kidneys and normal amniotic fluid index. Follow-up ultrasound at 23 weeks and 5 days revealed persistently enlarged, hyperechoic fetal kidneys. …”
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Interpreting seasonal droughts over the Yangtze River Basin utilizing anomalies of local-scale atmospheric circulation by Hao Yin, Zhiyong Wu, Hai He

“…An Explainable Artificial Intelligence framework was then applied to assess the influence of these local-scale factors on the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI3) at the grid scale. New hydrological insights for the region: Low-level specific humidity significantly influences drought conditions in the northern middle and lower reaches, while mid-level vertical velocity is the dominant factor in the southern middle and lower reaches. …”
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Decomposition of air pollution in Indonesia by Shohibul Manshur Al Ahmad Ana, Suryanto Suryanto, Sarjiyanto Sarjiyanto

“…We also associate renewable energy and environmental policy stringency index to describe the decarbonization skeleton. This study uses a dynamic autoregressive distributed approach to examine the interaction between independent variables and carbon emission levels. …”
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Fetuin-A Characteristics during and after Pregnancy: Result from a Case Control Pilot Study by Serdar Farhan, Ammon Handisurya, Jelena Todoric, Andrea Tura, Giovanni Pacini, Oswald Wagner, Katharina Klein, Rudolf Jarai, Kurt Huber, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer

“…Fetuin-A measurements were performed in 10 women with GDM and 10 age and body mass index (BMI) matched healthy pregnant women. All women underwent an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in and 3 months after gestation. …”
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Impact of tourism, globalization, and technological patents on ecological footprint in ASEAN countries: static and dynamic panel regression approaches by Nazhat Nury Aspy, Liton Chandra Voumik, Miguel Angel Esquivias, Lilik Sugiharti, Mihir Kumar Das, Dulal Chandra Pattak

“…The findings reveal that the Human Capital Index (HCI) and technological patents exhibit negative coefficients, suggesting their beneficial impact on reducing ecological footprint by 0.162% and 0.027% sequentially in the DKSE approach. …”
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First Mid-infrared Detection and Modeling of a Flare from Sgr A* by Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Tamojeet Roychowdhury, Joseph M. Michail, Zach Sumners, Grace Sanger-Johnson, Giovanni G. Fazio, Daryl Haggard, Joseph L. Hora, Alexander Philippov, Bart Ripperda, Howard A. Smith, S. P. Willner, Gunther Witzel, Shuo Zhang, Eric E. Becklin, Geoffrey C. Bower, Sunil Chandra, Tuan Do, Macarena Garcia Marin, Mark A. Gurwell, Nicole M. Ford, Kazuhiro Hada, Sera Markoff, Mark R. Morris, Joey Neilsen, Nadeen B. Sabha, Braden Seefeldt-Gail

“…The detection was during a flare that lasted about 40 minutes, a duration similar to NIR and X-ray flares, and the source's spectral index steepened as the flare ended. The steepening suggests that synchrotron cooling is an important process for Sgr A*'s variability and implies magnetic fields strengths ~ 40–70 G in the emission zone. …”
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Application of New Technology of Intelligent Robot Plant Protection in Ecological Agriculture by Zhe An, Chunhang Wang, Bincy Raj, Sathyapriya Eswaran, R. Raffik, Sandip Debnath, Saima Ahmed Rahin

“…The ant colony algorithm was selected to plan the path distance index according to the working environment, and the feasibility of the simulation system was calculated. …”
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Physicochemical Characterization of Representative Firewood Species Used for Cooking in Some Colombian Regions by Hernán E. Díez, Juan F. Pérez

“…Pinus patula is the one with the highest fuel value index, mainly due to its low ash content (0.4%). …”
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