Protective and coping behaviour of representatives of socionomic professions with different professional experience by L. M. Popova, T. S. Pukhareva

“…The following methods were used in diagnostic procedures: “Life style Index” (R. Plutchik, G. Kellerman) and “Methods of coping behavior” (R. …”
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Sagittal Craniosynostosis with Uncommon Anatomical Pathologies in a 56-Year-Old Male Cadaver by Andrey Frolov, Craig Lawson, Joshua Olatunde, James T. Goodrich, John R. Martin III

“…The craniotomy was unsuccessful (cephalic index, CI = 56) and resulted in abnormal vertical outgrowth of the craniotomized bone strip. …”
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INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ASEAN STOCK MARKETS: AN APPROACH USING THE GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST OF TIME-VARYING INFORMATION EFFICIENCY by Trần Thị Tuấn Anh

“…Data on the daily closing index of six ASEAN stock markets, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam are used to calculate Shannon entropy to measure the stock market information efficiency. …”
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Reference Intervals of Total Testosterone in Adult Filipino Men by Myrna Buenaluz‐Sedurante, Mark Isaiah K. Co, Daryl Jade T. Dagang, Racquel G. Bruno, Annie Jane N. Sarmiento, Michael L. Tee

“…Clinical history, height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and blood pressure (BP) were obtained, and blood for total testosterone, SHBG, albumin, insulin, fasting blood sugar (FBS), and total cholesterol was collected. …”
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Overweight and Obesity Epidemic in Developing Countries: A Problem with Diet, Physical Activity, or Socioeconomic Status? by Trishnee Bhurosy, Rajesh Jeewon

“…This paper aims to compare the mean body mass index trends in the World Health Organisation- (WHO-) categorised regions since 1980 to 2008 and secondly to appraise how socioeconomic disparities can lead to differences in obesity and physical activity level across developing nations. …”
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Reflecting on Diversity and Gender Equality in Artificial Intelligence in Africa by Helen Titilola Olojede

“…The 2020 Gender Equality Index: Digitalisation and Future of Work also indicates that only one out of two women, 54%, perceive robots and AI positively compared to 67% of men. …”
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Growing Degree Day Climatology in Aydın, Türkiye by Ercan Yeşilırmak

“…This study presents more recent heat accumulation for plants, quantified using a useful index called growing degree day (GDD), for five locations (Söke, Kuşadası, Aydın, Sultanhisar and Nazilli) in Aydın, Türkiye, during the latest climatic normal period from 1991 to 2020. …”
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Numerical Modeling for Engineering Analysis and Designing of Optimum Support Systems for Headrace Tunnel by Sajjad Hussain, Zahid Ur Rehman, Noor Mohammad, Muhammad Tahir, Khan Shahzada, Sajjad Wali Khan, Muhammad Salman, Mujahid Khan, Akhtar Gul

“…In the present research work, the rock mass rating (RMR) and tunneling quality index (Q-system) were used as empirical methods for characterization of rock mass based on real-time geological and site geotechnical data and physical and strength properties of rock samples collected from the alignment of tunnel. …”
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Computational Investigation of the Electronic and Optical Properties of Planar Ga-Doped Graphene by Nicole Creange, Costel Constantin, Jian-Xin Zhu, Alexander V. Balatsky, Jason T. Haraldsen

“…Using density functional theory with a local density approximation, we simulate the electronic band structure and show the effects of impurity doping (0–3.91%) in graphene on the electron density, refractive index, optical conductivity, and extinction coefficient for each doping percentage. …”
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Empowering pastoralist women through social innovations in Somali and Afar regions of Ethiopia by Tafesse Matewos, Melisew Dejene, Semeredin Yimer

“…We used the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) to measure women's empowerment in five domains: production, resources, income, leadership, and time use. …”
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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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Nonlinearities in Economic Globalization Effects on the Environment: New Insights from a Panel Smooth Transition Regression Model by Çiğdem Demir Toker, Metehan Ercan

“…For this purpose, the annual data of 1976–2021, which is the longest possible period, of the top 5 countries (Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, France, and Denmark) that show the best performance according to the Global Green Economy Index 2022 report, were used. These countries were chosen due to their high performance in green economy integration; and thus, it was considered that this research could provide reference results for other countries. …”
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Comprehensive Review Comparing the Development and Challenges in the Energy Performance of Pneumatic and Hydropneumatic Suspension Systems by Ryszard Dindorf

“…This review also discusses new trends in HPS development, such as the effect of a pressure fluctuation damper (PFD) placed in a hydraulic cylinder on the damping performance index (DPI) of an HPS under off-road driving conditions. …”
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Quantifying agricultural drought in the Koshi River basin through soil moisture simulation by Prabhat Banjara, Pallav Kumar Shrestha, Vishnu Prasad Pandey, Manisha Sah, Prajjwal Panday

“…Study focus: The mesoscale hydrological model (mHM) is applied to assess the historical spatio-temporal hazard of agricultural drought using soil moisture index (SMI) in the KoRiB. New hydrological insights for the region: The research indicates that KoRiB was most severely impacted by drought from 1976 to 2000, with the two major droughts occurring in 1982–1989 and 1991–1996. …”
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Natural History of Invasive Papillary Breast Carcinoma Followed for 10 Years: A Case Report and Literature Review by Yong Joon Suh, Hyukjai Shin, Tae Jung Kwon

“…The tumor was estrogen/progesterone receptor-positive and C-erbB2 expression was not detected. The Ki-67 labeling index was around 10%.…”
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A CBA-KELM-Based Recognition Method for Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbines with Time-Domain Analysis and Multisensor Data Fusion by Xiafei Long, Ping Yang, Hongxia Guo, Zhuoli Zhao, Xiwen Wu

“…First, the derived method calculates the time-domain indices of raw signals, and the fused time-domain indexes dataset are obtained by the multisensor data fusion. …”
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Short-Term Forecasting of Global Energy and Metal Prices: VAR and VECM Approaches by Diana Balioz

“…The fundamentals for metal and energy price predictions include inter alia, stock changes, changes in commodity production volumes, export volumes by the largest players, changes in the manufacturing sector of the largest consumers, the state of global real economic activity, freight rates, recession, and so on. Kilian's (2009) index of global real economic activity is found to be a useful proxy for global demand and a reliable input in forecasting both energy and metal prices. …”
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Population dynamics of Cynoglossus senegalensis from the coastal waters of Greater Accra, Ghana by Samuel K. K. Amponsah, Berchie Asiedu, Pierre Failler, Nii Amarquaye Commey

“…The von Bertalanffy growth parameters were estimated at asymptotic length (L∞) = 57.2 cm TL, growth rate (K) = 0.40 per year, and growth performance index (Φ′) = 3.115. Mortality parameters were calculated as total mortality rate (Z) = 0.81 yr−1, the natural mortality rate (M) = 0.56 yr-1, and fishing mortality rate (F) 0.26 yr-1. …”
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Modeling and Optimizing of Producing Recycled PET from Fabrics Waste via Falling Film-Rotating Disk Combined Reactor by Dan Qin, Chaosheng Wang, Huaping Wang, Ye Chen, Peng Ji, Zhenhao Xi

“…Through modeling and simulation, the weight analysis of indexes closely related to the product quality (intrinsic viscosity, carboxyl end group concentration, and diethylene glycol content) was investigated to optimize the production process in order to obtain the desired polymer properties and meet specific product material characteristics. …”
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DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION OF URBAN METRO TRANSIT SYSTEM POST-COVID-19 by Salman KHURSHEED, Shagufta YASMIN

“…The Relative Importance Index approach is used to analyse the data and evaluate DM performance. …”
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