Effects of Experimental Conditions on Extraction Yield of Extracellular Polymeric Substances by Cation Exchange Resin by Jinwoo Cho, Slawomir W. Hermanowicz, Jin Hur

“…Comparing the model parameters allows one to quantitatively compare the extraction efficiencies under various extracting conditions. …”
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Driving change: A comprehensive meta-analysis of community benefits in MaaS deployments across urban and rural landscapes by Frank Witlox

“…In the current study, a meta-analysis is performed to synthesize the results of 61 original articles from 2000 to 2022 to quantitatively evaluate the community’s benefits in terms of users and the public sector of a general Mobility as a Service (MaaS) deployment both in rural and urban areas. …”
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Data-Driven-Based Attribution of Runoff Changes in Tuwei River Basin in the Northern Windy-Sandy Region of Shaanxi by YU Huanghao, LI Binquan

“…The key point in analyzing the attribution of runoff changes is whether the natural runoff process of the basin can be accurately simulated.However,the application accuracy of hydrological models in arid and semi-arid regions of the Loess Plateau is generally not high.Taking the Tuwei River basin in the northern windy-sandy region of Shaanxi in the middle reach of the Yellow River as an example,this paper proposed an improved natural runoff simulation method based on the data-driven approach,so as to quantitatively analyze the effects of climate changes and human activities on runoff changes in the Tuwei River basin.The results show that the annual runoff series in the basin decreased significantly from 1961 to 2015,and there were two abrupt changes in 1979 and 1996,respectively.The annual runoff of the two periods (1980—1996 and 1997—2015) is 25.8% and 47.1% lower than that of the natural period (1961—1979),respectively.The runoff simulation accuracy of the three data-driven methods after improvement rises significantly.Specifically,the improved method proposed by Zhao Wenlin has the highest accuracy,and the Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient of annual runoff simulation in the natural period is 0.77.Climate change is the main reason for the significant decrease in the runoff between 1980 and 1996 (with a contribution of up to 80.9%).However,from 1997 to 2015,the contribution of climate change and human activities to the decrease in the runoff changed,with the influence of human activities increasing to a proportion of 58.8%.…”
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Factors of the DuPont model in the analysis of profitability of textile enterprises by Tamara V. Kasayeva, Olga O. Sheremet

“…Being the most popular in contemporary financial analysis, the five-factor DuPont model is designed to assess the extent the return on equity influences the efficiency of operating and financial activities of the organization. …”
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基于DB-FastFAME色谱柱的气相色谱法 测定食用植油脂肪酸组成Determination of fatty acid composition of edible vegetable oil by gas chromatography based on DB-FastFAME column... by 孟庆宇，蒋甜燕,孙日飞，马莉，夏旭明 MENG Qingyu, JIANG Tianyan, SUN Rifei, MA Li, XIA Xuming

“…The method resolution, precision, accuracy and column efficiency were analyzed. The results showed that the DB-FastFAME column could separate 37 fatty acid methyl esters mixed standard within 25 min, and the resolutions were all no less than 1.5, the relative standard deviation (RSD) was less than 0.03% for qualitation and less than 2.3% for quantitation, which indicated that the column had good separation effect and good stability. …”
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Detection of Veterinary Drugs in Food Using a Portable Mass Spectrometer Coupled with Solid-Phase Microextraction Arrow by Hangzhen Lan, Xueying Li, Zhen Wu, Daodong Pan, Ning Gan, Luhong Wen

“…The SBA-15-SPME Arrow, fabricated via electrospinning, demonstrated superior extraction efficiency compared to commercially available SPME Arrows. …”
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Compression of 3D Optical Encryption Using Singular Value Decomposition by Kyungtae Park, Min-Chul Lee, Myungjin Cho

“…The performance is evaluated quantitatively using peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), structural similarity index (SSIM), and peak sidelobe ratio (PSR) as evaluation metrics.…”
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Synthesis of Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Zinc Oxide Hydrogel for Drug Delivery Applications by Krithika Ramesh, Jeyanthi Ponnusamy, Pazhanisamy Periasamy

“…Thermodynamic properties of the hydrogel were described quantitatively by the Flory-Rehner method. The results indicate that the synthesized hydrogel exhibits strong antioxidant activity, making it a potential candidate for use in preventing degenerative diseases. …”
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The Optimization of Radiation Protection in the Design of the High Temperature Reactor-Pebble-Bed Module by Sida Sun, Hong Li, Sheng Fang

“…Typical calculations for the radiation protection of radioactivity-related systems are presented to quantitatively evaluate the efficiency of the optimization routine, which achieve 23.3%~90.6% reduction of either dose rate or shielding or both of them. …”
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Long-Term Dynamics of Water Droplet Impact on Rotating Hydrophilic Disk by Wen Yang, Yunbo Zhang, Tian Deng, Chuanyang Liu

“…Ice accretion from the impingement of supercooled water droplets on the rotating components of aero-engines reduces engine efficiency and poses significant in-flight safety risks. …”
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Simulating 3D pedestrian motions in evacuations under high and low perceived urgency levels by Ruihang Xie, Sisi Zlatanova, Jinwoo (Brian) Lee

“…Subsequently, a case study and a sensitivity analysis quantitatively assess the influence of 3D motions. Key findings are: 1) 3D motions may improve evacuation efficiency, particularly under lower urgency levels; 2) 3D motions may offer alternative 3D paths to bypass congestion; and 3) 3D motions’ benefits may diminish as urgency and agent density increase. …”
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MATLAB Application for User-Friendly Design of Fully Convolutional Data Description Models for Defect Detection of Industrial Products and Its Concurrent Visualization by Fusaomi Nagata, Shingo Sakata, Keigo Watanabe, Maki K. Habib, Ahmad Shahrizan Abdul Ghani

“…The authors’ propose a MATLAB application that enables users to efficiently and in a user-friendly way design, train, and test various kinds of neural network (NN) models for defect detection. …”
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Testing a Conceptual Lumped Model in Karst Area, Southwest China by Peng Shi, Mi Zhou, Simin Qu, Xi Chen, Xueyuan Qiao, Zhicai Zhang, Xinxin Ma

“…Karst aquifers are known for their heterogeneous physical properties and irregular complex flow patterns which make it a challenge to describe the hydrological behavior and to quantitatively define the distribution of river flow components using hydrologic models. …”
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Performance Analysis and Operation Parameter Optimization of Shaker-Type Harvesting for Camellia Fruits by Qiaoming Gao, Jianfeng Han, Shan Zeng, Yu Wang, Wei Wei, Dongxue Wang, Hang Ye, Jing Lu, Haoxiang Zeng

“…Meanwhile, under these operational parameters, the harvesting efficiency reached 96.97%, while the flower bud damage rate was only 6%.…”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Thermal cooling efficacy of a solar water pump using Oldroyd-B (aluminum alloy-titanium alloy/engine oil) hybrid nanofluid by applying new version for the model... by Faisal Shahzad, Wasim Jamshed, Mohamed R. Eid, Rabia Safdar, Siti Suzilliana Putri Mohamed Isa, Sayed M. El Din, Nor Ain Azeany Mohd Nasir, Amjad Iqbal

“…The functions of regulating parameters are quantitatively observed by using the Keller-box approach in MATLAB coding. …”
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Circulating proteomic panels for risk stratification of intracranial aneurysm and its rupture by Yueting Xiong, Yongtao Zheng, Yan Yan, Jun Yao, Hebin Liu, Fenglin Shen, Siyuan Kong, Shuang Yang, Guoquan Yan, Huanhuan Zhao, Xinwen Zhou, Jia Hu, Bin Zhou, Tao Jin, Huali Shen, Bing Leng, Pengyuan Yang, Xiaohui Liu

“…A total of 113 potential markers were further quantitated in serum cohort I (n = 212) & II (n = 32). …”
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Mahakala: A Python-based Modular Ray-tracing and Radiative Transfer Algorithm for Curved Spacetimes by Aniket Sharma, Lia Medeiros, George N. Wong, Chi-kwan Chan, Goni Halevi, Patrick D. Mullen, James M. Stone

“…The modular nature of Mahakala allows us to quantitatively explore how different regions of the flow influence different image features. …”
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Determination of A1 and A2 β-casein in cow milk by high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry by Fengen Wang, Min Ding, Ruiju Li, Kun Wang, Xiuxin Zhao, Xia Li, Zengmei Li, Shiming Guo, Ligang Deng, Jianbin Li

“…The method demonstrated good specificity, sensitivity, and linearity for both A1 and A2 characteristic peptides, with limit of detection of 0.01 and 0.03 mg/L, limit of quantitation of 0.03 and 0.1 mg/L, and determination coefficients of 0.9994 and 0.9992, respectively. …”
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Development of the Optuna-NGBoost-SHAP model for estimating ground settlement during tunnel excavation by Yuxin Chen, Mohammad Hossein Kadkhodaei, Jian Zhou

“…The findings provide robust decision support for safety management during tunnel construction and demonstrate the reliability and efficiency of the Optuna-NGBoost-SHAP framework in estimating complex ground settlement scenarios.…”
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Governance mechanism and risk management of Congolese commercial banks by Louison TETE SULA, Yannick NSIESILA MANZANZA, Alain PAYANZO NTSOMO

“…The insolvency indicator is evaluated quantitatively using the CAMELS method, which combines six criteria carried out on a panel of 12 banking institutions between 2010 and 2020. …”
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