Prediction the Choice of Financing for Start-ups using Machine Learning Algorithms and Behavioral Biases by Naimeh Niazi, Hamideh Razavi

“…Additionally, data analysis indicates that startups are more inclined towards personal funding methods, which aligns with the prevalence of loss aversion bias among entrepreneurs. Following loss aversion, overconfidence, anchoring, and illusion of control biases were the most frequent among entrepreneurs.…”
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Impact of Ag2O on physical and electrical properties of Li2O-MgO-Bi2O3-SiO2 glass system as promising solid state electrolytes by Hany A. Abo-Mosallam, Samia E. Ibrahim

“…However, the decrease in loss factor ε″, and AC conductivity σ ac of glasses may be attributed to the decrease in the space charge polarization (scp). …”
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Effects of zeolite and palm fiber on the weathering resistance and durability characteristic of cement soil by Weiqing Qu, Naman Maimt, Jili Qu

“…The strength and durability characteristics of the samples were evaluated by assessing mass and strength loss, taking into account the combined effects of NaCl and Na2SO4 solution erosion. …”
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Assessment of Bycatch and Lost Fishing Gear in Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) Fishing Using Vertical Setline in the Coastal Waters of Yumurtalık Bay by Caner Enver Ozyurt

“…While the reasons for gear loss typically include gear conflicts, adverse weather conditions, operational errors, maritime traffic, and vandalism, this study did not specifically identify the causes of gear loss. …”
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Depth-Adaptive Air and Underwater Invisible Light Communication System with Aerial Reflection Repeater Assistance by Takahiro Kodama, Keita Tanaka, Kiichiro Kuwahara, Ayumu Kariya, Shogo Hayashida

“…The system employs a mirror-equipped aerial drone as a relay between underwater drones and a terrestrial station, using 850 nm optical signals for low atmospheric loss and enhanced confidentiality. Adaptive modulation optimizes transmission capacity based on SNR, accounting for air and underwater channel characteristics. …”
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AlGaN/AlN heterostructures: an emerging platform for integrated photonics by Sinan Gündoğdu, Sofia Pazzagli, Tommaso Pregnolato, Tim Kolbe, Sylvia Hagedorn, Markus Weyers, Tim Schröder

“…In particular, we fabricate edge couplers, low-loss waveguides, directional couplers, and tunable high-quality factor ring resonators. …”
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Research on Impacts of Different Slope Gradientson Runoff and Sediment Yield in Dabie Mountains by YIN Jinfan, WANG Junhong, JIANG Wen, WANG Xing, QIAO Xinrui, XIA Min, SUN Peng

“…Aiming at the problem of soil and water loss in Dabie Mountains, and taking the field flowplot of the soil and water conservation test station in Huoshan County as an example, this paperanalyzes the runoff and sediment data of different slopes in 2017, and discusses the variationrules of the runoff and sediment yield under different slopes in the Dabie Mountains, and theimpacts of different slopes on runoff and sediment yield in the Dabie Mountains by the linearregression equation and typical precipitation events to provide basis for prevention and controlof soil and water loss in Dabie Mountains. …”
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Materials Selection, Synthesis, and Dielectrical Properties of PVC Nanocomposites by Youssef Mobarak, M. Bassyouni, M. Almutawa

“…An experimental work for dielectric loss of the nanocomposite materials has been investigated in a frequency range of 10 Hz–50 kHz. …”
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Optimization Analysis of Pretreatment Device Structural Parameters for Low-Concentration CBM Utilization by Lu Xiao

“…The dimensionless mathematical correlation between the resistance loss and the uniformity of gas is refined, and the maximum error between the resistance loss and the simulation results is controlled within 10%; it provides a theoretical basis for the uniformity and low resistance mixing of different gases in the gas industry. …”
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Assessing indirect biodiversity conservation benefits of fisheries closures in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. by Andrea Bryndum-Buchholz, Tyler D Eddy, Jonathan A D Fisher

“…Marine biodiversity loss is a pressing global issue, intensified by human activities and climate change. …”
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Exergy and Environmental Impact Assessment between Solar Powered Gas Turbine and Conventional Gas Turbine Power Plant by Ali Rajaei, Hasan Barzegar Avval, Elmira Eslami

“…A new parameter (renewable factor) is proposed to evaluate resources quality and measure how green an exergy loss or destruction or a system as a whole is. Nonrenewable exergy destruction and loss are reduced compared to GT with recuperator cycle by 34.89% and 47.41%, respectively. …”
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Tips on Establishing a Robotics Program in an Academic Setting by William D. Steers

“…Studies have demonstrated safety and immediate benefits with regard to reduced surgical morbidity such as pain, loss of work, quality of life, and blood loss for a variety of surgeries patients. …”
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New Theories on Boundary Layer Transition and Turbulence Formation by Chaoqun Liu, Ping Lu, Lin Chen, Yonghua Yan

“…Based on our DNS observation, we propose a new theory on boundary layer transition, which has five steps, that is, receptivity, linear instability, large vortex structure formation, small length scale generation, loss of symmetry and randomization to turbulence. …”
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Contribution of Microglia-Mediated Neuroinflammation to Retinal Degenerative Diseases by Maria H. Madeira, Raquel Boia, Paulo F. Santos, António F. Ambrósio, Ana R. Santiago

“…Retinal degenerative diseases are major causes of vision loss and blindness worldwide and are characterized by chronic and progressive neuronal loss. …”
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Motor synergy and energy efficiency emerge in whole-body locomotion learning by Guanda Li, Mitsuhiro Hayashibe

“…To investigate the effect of gait symmetry on synergy emergence, we varied the weight level of symmetry loss. Interestingly, increasing the weight of symmetry loss resulted in increased energy efficiency and synergetic motion patterns concurrently. …”
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Data augmentation with occluded facial features for age and gender estimation by Lu En Lin, Chang Hong Lin

“…A modified cross‐entropy loss that gives less penalty to the age predictions that land on the adjacent classes of the ground truth class is also proposed. …”
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Rare but Not so Rare? The Evolving Spectrum of Whipple's Disease by John M Conly, B Lynn Johnston

“…He reported the case of a 36-year-old physician with "a gradual loss of weight and strength, stools consisting chiefly of neutral fat and fatty acids, indefinite abdominal signs, and a peculiar multiple arthritis" (1). …”
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Acute Stroke due to Vertebral Artery Dissection in Giant Cell Arteritis by Marlene Marte Furment, Sandra Antigua Jimenez, Sangeetha Pabolu

“…We present a case of a 76-year-old female with no medical history who presented with sudden onset right visual loss and left hemiparesis. She had been initially treated for acute stroke and upon further workup was found to have left vertebral artery dissection. …”
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Speedup of Interval Type 2 Fuzzy Logic Systems Based on GPU for Robot Navigation by Long Thanh Ngo, Dzung Dinh Nguyen, Long The Pham, Cuong Manh Luong

“…As the number of rules and sample rate for type 2 fuzzy logic systems (T2FLSs) increases, the speed of calculations becomes a problem. …”
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Addressing Rare Outages in C-V2X With Time-Controlled One-Shot Resource Scheduling by Md Saifuddin, Mahdi Zaman, Yaser P. Fallah, Jayanthi Rao

“…But, due to this reuse of periodic resources, the possibility of loss of consecutive packets between the same vehicle pair is significant. …”
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