Regional Variation in Rates of IVF Treatment across Australia: A Population-based Study by Louise Rawlings, Pauline Ding, Stephen J. Robson

“…**Methods:** The number of cycles of fresh IVF and intrauterine insemination (IUI) for women were obtained for the period 2011 until 2014 in two age groups (25 to 34 years and 35 to 44 years) to calculate incidence rates. Proxy indicators that might influence treatment affordability were: unemployment rates; average weekly total earnings; coverage of private health insurance; and, percentage of women in the highest socioeconomic quintile. …”
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Compound Fault Feature Extraction of Gearbox based on Improve Variational Mode Decomposition by Chai Huili, Ye Meitao, Wang Zhijian

“…Firstly,the noise reduction of original signal is carried out by MED,further,the initial parameters α and k are set,the noise reduction signal is decomposed through the VMD,the correlation coefficient of the adjacent intrinsic mode function are calculated to determine the best penalty factor α and decomposition times k. …”
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Impact Of Magnetised Water on Nigeria Broiler Chicken Performance and Growth Rate by Adebayo Tajudeen BAKER, O. I. OJO, M. O. DINKA, S. RWANGA

“…Paired t-test results indicated significant differences in growth between magnetised and non-magnetised groups, with calculated values above the threshold (ttab = 2.969). …”
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A New Processing Method Combined with BP Neural Network for Francis Turbine Synthetic Characteristic Curve Research by Junyi Li, Canfeng Han, Fei Yu

“…In addition, a detailed analysis for improvements of iteration convergence of the pressure loop is proposed, leading to a better iterative convergence during the head pressure calculation. Actual applications verify that methods proposed in this paper have better simulation results which are closer to the field and provide a new perspective for hydroturbine synthetic characteristic curve fitting and modeling.…”
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Subpixel Mapping Method of Hyperspectral Images Based on Modified Binary Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization by Shuhan Chen, Xiaorun Li, Liaoying Zhao

“…We focus mainly on the discretization of QPSO, which is implemented by modifying the discrete update process of particle location, to minimize the objective function, which is formulated based on different connected regional perimeter calculating methods. To reduce time complexity, a target optimization strategy of global iteration combined with local iteration is performed. …”
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Economic efficiency of energy storage systems for renewable energy power plants integration in the energy system by E. A. Tregubova, M. A. Gorodilov, L. S. Lyushnin

“…On the basis of model calculations, the change in the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) when a solar power plant is supplemented with a storage device has been estimated. …”
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Engine Health Status Prediction Based on Oil Analysis With Augmented Machine Learning Algorithms by Slawomir Szrama

“…For the scientific purposed, various machine learning performance metrics were calculated, what allowed to precisely compare the results achieved for the original dataset and the one generated on the basis of the proposed novel method. …”
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Normal Deviance: The Dreyfus Affair by Marie-Christine Leps

“…Using the Dreyfus affair as a particularly telling case of a more general pattern, this paper presents an analytical model that could be transferred to different disciplinary inquiries; the play of power and resistance, the calculation of the normal and the deviant, and the determination of identity and subjectivity, are of particular importance.…”
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Characteristics Analysis and Equilibrium Optimization of Mixed Traffic Flow considering Connected Automated and Human-Driven Vehicles by Zhaoming Zhou, Jianbo Yuan, Shengmin Zhou, Qiong Long, Jianrong Cai, Lei Zhang

“…Among them, the nonuniform demand growth multiplier is adopted for each OD pair to reflect the inconsistency of traffic demand structure growth, and the calculation of link capacity is related to the market penetration of CAVs. …”
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Information Support of Methods for Rationing Stocks Based on the Platform of the CIS "1C: Enterprise" by E. V. Ankuda

“…In the course of the study, the following methods were used: systematic logistic approach, methods of system analysis, generalization of results, experiment.The paper proposes information support of methods for calculating the parameters of inventory management in procurement logistics, based on the CIS "1C: Enterprise" platform, for the presence and absence of automated inventory management tools in CIS, and also developed practical recommendations for the absence of automated inventory management tools. …”
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Robot Calibration for Cooperative Process under Typical Installation by Yahui Gan, Xianzhong Dai, Donghui Dong

“…Then the rotation matrix and translation matrix between base frame of cooperative robots can be calculated which is just the calibration result for cooperative robots. …”
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Determination of Slope Safety Factor with Analytical Solution and Searching Critical Slip Surface with Genetic-Traversal Random Method by Wen-jie Niu

“…In the current practice, to determine the safety factor of a slope with two-dimensional circular potential failure surface, one of the searching methods for the critical slip surface is Genetic Algorithm (GA), while the method to calculate the slope safety factor is Fellenius’ slices method. …”
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Parental attention patterns to ask children to study in the Covid-19 pandemic by Buhaerah Buhaerah

“…The results showed that the pattern of parental attention during the Covid-19 pandemic on students' interest in learning mathematics showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between the pattern of parental attention on students' interest in learning mathematics during the pandemic, proven by the calculated value of 20 samples, which showed that the pattern of attention parents have a strong relationship with.…”
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Synchronization in Finite Time of Fuzzy Neural Networks with Hybrid Delays and Uncertain Nonlinear Perturbations by Shuyue Zhao, Kelin Li, Weiyi Hu

“…Meanwhile, some algebraic sufficient criteria obtained in this paper can be proved by the parameters of the system itself, and the complex calculation of matrix inequality is avoided. Finally, the validity of our proposed results is confirmed by several examples and simulations. …”
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TPMS Interference Suppression Based on Beamforming Technology by Cheol Park, Seong-min Kim, Suk-seung Hwang

“…Although the MVDR beamformer effectively suppresses the interference, it has high computational complexity because of the calculation of an autocorrelation matrix. In order to address this issue, we also suggest a generalized sidelobe canceler (GSC) beamformer which does not have the same performance of the interference suppression to MVDR but also has low computational complexity. …”
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A Hybrid Domain Degradation Feature Extraction Method for Motor Bearing Based on Distance Evaluation Technique by Baiyan Chen, Hongru Li, He Yu, Yukui Wang

“…Then the distance evaluation factor of each characteristic parameter is calculated by the DET method. The differential method is used to extract sensitive characteristic parameters which compose the characteristic matrix. …”
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Experimental conditions of differential reactor method for resin–phenolic compound system by Tomohiro Kinoshita, Kenneth E Noll, Eiji Furuya

“…The conventional shallow-bed technique is based on the assumption that fluid film resistance is negligible because of high fluid velocity; hence, the fluid film mass transfer is not calculated. For an activated carbon–phenolic compound system, both intraparticle diffusivity and fluid film mass transfer coefficient were determined using a shallow-bed reactor. …”
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Method for Establishing New Cycloidal Tooth Profile based on Rolling-sliding Effect by Yanhua Wang, Chaoyang Li, Ye Zhang, Bingkui Chen

“…Based on the differential geometry and gear meshing theory，the tooth profile equation of the rolling-sliding cycloidal gear is derived，the meshing function is determined，the calculation method of comprehensive curvature radius and contact stress of the rolling-sliding cycloidal gear are given. …”
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Evaluation of safe bearing capacity of soil foundation by using numerical analysis method by Abdoullah Namdar, Xiong Feng

“…The bearing capacity of soil foundations by using mixed soil parameters and change footing dimensions have been calculated. 180 footings, placed on 15 soil foundation types have been designed. …”
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Dynamic additional loads influencing the fatigue life of gears in an electric vehicle transmission by G. Belingardi, V. Cuffaro, F. Curà

“…To this goal, Kv values have been calculated by means of the analytical equations (ISO 6336 Methods B and C) and then they have been compared with the results coming from multibody simulations, involving full rigid and rigid-flexible models.…”
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