Active Ageing Level of Older Persons: Regional Comparison in Thailand by Md. Nuruzzaman Haque

“…Attempt has been made to test preliminary active ageing models for Thai older persons and hence active ageing index (AAI, ranges from 0 to 1) has been estimated. …”
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East China Sea Storm Surge Modeling and Visualization System: The Typhoon Soulik Case by Zengan Deng, Feng Zhang, Linchong Kang, Xiaoyi Jiang, Jiye Jin, Wei Wang

“…The main functions of GVS include data indexing, browsing, analyzing, and visualization. GVS is capable of facilitating the precaution and mitigation of typhoon/storm surge in ESC in combination with ESSMS.…”
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Evolution of intrinsic disorder in the structural domains of viral and cellular proteomes by Fizza Mughal, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

“…Evolutionary chronologies of domains indexed with disorder levels and distributions across Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya and viruses revealed six evolutionary phases, the oldest two harboring only ordered and moderate disorder domains. …”
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Prefronto-Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improves Sleep Quality in Euthymic Bipolar Patients: A Brief Report by Amedeo Minichino, Francesco Saverio Bersani, Francesco Spagnoli, Alessandra Corrado, Francesco De Michele, Wanda Katharina Calò, Martina Primavera, Baoran Yang, Laura Bernabei, Francesco Macrì, Lucilla Vergnani, Massimo Biondi, Roberto Delle Chiaie

“…The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to assess sleep quality at baseline and after the tDCS treatment. …”
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Diversity and bioindicators of natural enemies in organic paddy fields implementing habitat modification by Setyadin Yuris, Leksono Amin Setyo, Tarno Hagus

“…Results showed that habitat modification with BF balanced the visiting patterns of herbivorous, predatory, parasitoid, and pollinator insects. The importance value index of predatory insects was higher in plots using habitat modification (PV = 44.65%, and PG = 46.04%) compared to plots without habitat modification (KV = 37.71%, and KG = 38.54%). …”
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The Bifixation Field as a Function of Viewing Distance by Philip M. Grove, Alistair P. Mapp, Hiroshi Ono

“…We tested these predictions using a subjective index of eye position. Experiment  1 confirmed that the bifixation field was significantly smaller at near convergence distances. …”
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Development and Application of Urban Landslide Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Reflecting Social and Economic Variables by Yoonkyung Park, Ananta Man Singh Pradhan, Ungtae Kim, Yun-Tae Kim, Sangdan Kim

“…The socioeconomic vulnerability is considered a function of the resistant levels of the vulnerable people, trigger factor of secondary damage, and preparedness level of the local government. An index-based model is developed to evaluate the life and indirect damage under landslide as well as the resilience ability against disasters. …”
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Call for Papers: IJPS volume 12, issue 1 by Stephanie Gingerich, Stephanie Doscher

“…Please refer to our submission guidelines at pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ijps/about/submissions. Questions about submissions for this issue may be directed to article should be addressed to Stephanie Gingerich at ginge018@umn.edu or Stephanie Doscher at sdoscher@umn.edu. …”
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Assessment of landslide hazard models in Chamsangar basin by siamak baharvand, salman soori

“…To assess and classify was there models outputs the Sum of Quality (QS) index used. Results show that area Density model with QS=1.85 is the more suitable than Information value model with QS=1.60 and Fuzzy logic with QS=0.554 based on the out put of the area Density model, the 36.31, 44.78, 16.62, 1.65, and 0.63 percent of the area is located in very low, low, medium, high and very high risk classes, respectively.…”
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Validation of Two MODIS Aerosols Algorithms with SKYNET and Prospects for Future Climate Satellites Such as the GCOM-C/SGLI by Jules R. Dim, Tamio Takamura, Akiko Higurashi, Pradeep Kathri, Nobuyuki Kikuchi, Takahashi Y. Nakajima

“…The deviation of the real part of the refractive index values assumed by the satellites’ algorithms from that of the ground tends to decrease the accuracy of the AOT of both satellites’ algorithms. …”
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Evaluating Sentinel-2 for Monitoring Drought-Induced Crop Failure in Winter Cereals by Adrià Descals, Karen Torres, Aleixandre Verger, Josep Peñuelas

“…Specifically, the mean Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for the first half of May showed the highest correlation with drought impact classes (<i>R</i>² = 0.66). …”
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Quantifying Region-Specific Elastic Properties of Distal Femoral Articular Cartilage: A Shear-Wave Elastography Study by Weixin Deng, Ming Lin, Suiqing Yu, Hongying Liang, Zhijie Zhang, Chunlong Liu

“…Cartilage thickness cannot become a single index to evaluate cartilage degeneration, so it is essential to also evaluate the stiffness. …”
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Financial Futures Prediction Using Fuzzy Rough Set and Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique by Shangkun Deng, Yingke Zhu, Ruijie Liu, Wanyu Xu

“…In this research, a novel approach called SMOTE-FRS is proposed for movement prediction and trading simulation of the Chinese Stock Index 300 (CSI300) futures, which is the most crucial financial futures in the Chinese A-share market. …”
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Maternal Weight Gain in Pregnancy and Risk of Obesity among Offspring: A Systematic Review by Erica Y. Lau, Junxiu Liu, Edward Archer, Samantha M. McDonald, Jihong Liu

“…Included studies (n=23) were English articles that examined the independent associations of GWG with body mass index (BMI) and/or overweight status in the offspring aged 2 to 18.9 years. …”
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Distance-Ranked Fault Identification of Reconfigurable Hardware Bitstreams via Functional Input by Naveed Imran, Ronald F. DeMara

“…An ordering is imposed on the configuration pool as updated by the PageRank indexing precedence. The configurations which utilize permanently damaged resources and hence manifest discrepant outputs, receive lower rank are thus less preferred for instantiation on the FPGA. …”
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Computer Game Use and Television Viewing Increased Risk for Overweight among Low Activity Girls: Fourth Thai National Health Examination Survey 2008-2009 by Ladda Mo-suwan, Jiraluck Nontarak, Wichai Aekplakorn, Warapone Satheannoppakao

“…The prevalence of overweight defined by the age- and gender-specific body mass index cut-points of the International Obesity Task Force was 16%. …”
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A METHOD FOR MONITORING RICE SEED LOSS BASED ON WOA-BP ALGORITHM by Jin Chen, Ting Shi, Yaoming Li, Yahui Zhu, Caoyuan Niu

“…ABSTRACT The combine harvester is a widely used piece of agricultural equipment in modern agriculture, and the seed loss rate is one of the important indexes used to measure its operational performance, so the monitoring of the seed loss rate is crucial for adjusting the operational parameters of combine harvesters and improving the quality of grain harvesting. …”
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Giant Amoebic Liver Abscess: A Rare Diagnosis in a Rural Setting of Sub-Saharan Africa by Cyril Jabea Ekabe, Jules Kehbila, Njinju Asaba Clinton

“…The diagnosis of this disease requires high index of suspicion in resource-limited settings. …”
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Effect of digestive enzymes and pH on variation of bioavailability of green tea during simulated in vitro gastrointestinal digestion by Wei Qin, Sunantha Ketnawa, Yukiharu Ogawa

“…The percentage of antioxidant activity based on the initial values indexed by DPPH, ABTS, and FRAP gradually declined from approximately 60% at the gastric stage to approximately 40% at the final digestion stage. …”
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Association of Psoriasis Severity with Serum Prolactin, Thyroid Hormones, and Cortisol before and after Treatment by Reza M. Robati, Parviz Toossi, Mohammad Rahmati-Roodsari, Sara Khalilazar, Ehsan Abolhasani, Nastaran Namazi, Shima Younespour

“…The severity was assessed by psoriasis area and severity index (PASI). Then, patients were treated, and PASI was assessed every week until achieving PASI-75 response. …”
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