Monitoring of agricultural drought using remote sensing data in the Sebou watershed, Morocco by El-Bouhali Abdelaziz, El Ouazani Ech-Chahdi Khadija, Amyay Mhamed

“…We used the NDVI derived from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) satellite images to calculate the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) during the crop growth season. …”
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The mechanistical principles and engineering application of roof- cutting for roadway protection in advance of the working face by Zhaotai Li, Yuejin Zhou, Xiaoding Xu, Yuhang Xiao, Yunong Xu

“…Key parameters such as cutting depth, cutting angle, and hole spacing are determined through theoretical calculation, numerical simulation with 3DEC numerical software, and field testing. …”
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Study of adsorption behavior of HCN and H2S molecules over undoped and Al-doped zinc oxide monolayer: A DFT approach by Dipak Oli, Om Shree Rijal, Ravi Kiran Neupane, Pitamber Shrestha, Shriram Sharma, Leela Pradhan Joshi, Rajendra Parajuli

“…We utilized spin-polarized Density Functional Theory with GGA-PBE, meta GGA-SCAN, and DFT + U functionals for all calculations. The adsorbed and unadsorbed ZnO monolayers exhibited non-magnetic behavior, whereas doped monolayers exhibited magnetic behavior in both adsorbed and unadsorbed states. …”
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Varying parameterization of an ellipsoidal thin shell with FEM-based implementation by Yu. V. Klochkov, A. P. Nikolaev, O. V. Vakhnina, T. A. Sobolevskaya, A. Sh. Dzhabrailov, M. Yu. Klochkov

“…The approximating expressions of the required displacements of the internal point of the finite element also include the parameters of the curvilinear coordinate system used in the calculations.The high efficiency of the developed algorithm was confirmed by the results of the numerical experiments.…”
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Adsorption Behaviors of Oxytetracycline onto Sediment in the Weihe River, Shaanxi, China by Dong-Hui Cheng, Sheng-Ke Yang, Yue Zhao, Jing Chen

“…Thermodynamics parameters such as Gibbs-free energy change (ΔG°), enthalpy change (ΔH°), and entropy change (ΔS°) were calculated. Results showed that the adsorption was feasible, spontaneous, entropy increasing, and endothermic in nature, which reached equilibrium in about 24 hours. …”
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Isobaric vapour-liquid equilibrium studies for binary systems of a green solvent furfuryl alcohol with aniline and substituted anilines at 101.31 kPa by K.A. Sasikala, K. Rayapa Reddy, P.V.S. Sairam, G. Srinivasa Rao

“…The Antoine equation has been used to calculate the vapour pressure of pure samples. The reported VLE data is thermodynamically consistent according to the van Ness, Fredenslund and Herington area tests. …”
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Novel Metrics for High-Density sEMG Analysis in the Time–Space Domain During Sustained Isometric Contractions by Giovanni Corvini, Michail Arvanitidis, Deborah Falla, Silvia Conforto

“…Once identified the coordinates of the muscle activity, novel metrics for quantifying the muscle spatial distribution over time were calculated. <italic>Results:</italic> Spatial metrics showed significant differences from beginning to end of the contraction, highlighting their ability of characterizing the neuromuscular adaptations in presence of fatigue. …”
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Can Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio and Lymph Node Density Be Used as Prognostic Factors in Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy? by Abdullah Demirtaş, Volkan Sabur, Emre Can Akınsal, Deniz Demirci, Oguz Ekmekcioglu, Ibrahim Gulmez, Atila Tatlisen

“…Based on the pathology reports, the number of positive lymph nodes was divided by the total number of lymph nodes to calculate lymph node density. Results. The mean follow-up duration was months in patients without lymph node involvement and months in those with lymph node involvement (). …”
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Geochemical Mass Balance and Elemental Transport during the Weathering of the Black Shale of Shuijingtuo Formation in Northeast Chongqing, China by Sixiang Ling, Xiyong Wu, Siyuan Zhao, Xin Liao, Yong Ren, Baolong Zhu

“…An understanding of the processes that control the behavior of major elements with respect to weathering profile is essential to calculate the mobility, redistribution, and mass fluxes of elements. …”
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Preventing DNS misuse for Reflection/Amplification attacks with minimal computational overhead on the Internet by Rebeen Rebwar Hama Amin, Dana Hassan, Masnida Hussin

“…While operating, we calculated the CPU counters of the machines that we deployed our defense mechanism with which showed 19.9% computational improvement. …”
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Electronic descriptors for designing high-entropy alloy electrocatalysts by leveraging local chemical environments by Guolin Cao, Sha Yang, Ji-Chang Ren, Wei Liu

“…Our model offers an accurate and robust description of the binding strengths of intermediates with different adsorption configurations on HEAs, supported by external density functional theory calculations. Importantly, the local environmental electronegativity of the HEA surface is strongly related to the d-band profile of the center atom(s) embedded within. …”
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An impermeable copper surface monolayer with high-temperature oxidation resistance by Su Jae Kim, Young-Hoon Kim, Bipin Lamichhane, Binod Regmi, Yousil Lee, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Seon Je Kim, Min-Hyoung Jung, Jae Hyuck Jang, Hu Young Jeong, Miaofang Chi, Maeng-Je Seong, Hak Soo Choi, Seong-Gon Kim, Young-Min Kim, Se-Young Jeong

“…Through extensive calculations considering various elements (C, Al, Si, Ge, Ga, In, and Sn) to anchor O on Cu surfaces, Si emerges as the optimal element. …”
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A Design of a Redundancy-Based Cascaded Bidirectional DC&#x2013;DC Converter for Improved Reliability in Energy Storage Devices by Thales Augusto Fagundes, Guilherme Henrique Favaro Fuzato, Rafael Fernando Quirino Magossi, Ana Lais Rui Oliveira, Ricardo Quadros Machado

“…Subsequently, the coupled mathematical model of the proposed topology can be readily calculated, considering all feasible (different) subcircuits according to the switching pattern. …”
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Integrating the Finite Element Method with a Data-Driven Approach for Dam Displacement Prediction by Chenfei Shao, Chongshi Gu, Zhenzhu Meng, Yating Hu

“…Another contribution of the proposed model is that the actual elastic modulus at each monitoring point can be back-calculated. Moreover, with a Lagrange polynomial interpolation, we can obtain the distribution field of elastic modulus, rather than gaining one value for the whole dam in previous studies. …”
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Protecting Medical Images Using a Zero-Watermarking Approach Based on Fractional Racah Moments by Karim El-Khanchouli, Hanaa Mansouri, Nawal El Ghouate, Hicham Karmouni, Nour-Eddine Joudar, Mhamed Sayyouri, S. S. Askar, Mohamed Abouhawwash

“…To compute the ROPs, we enhanced a method for calculating the initial terms of these polynomials to avoid instability issues associated with higher-order ROPs. …”
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Aerobic Exercise Training Adaptations Are Increased by Postexercise Carbohydrate-Protein Supplementation by Lisa Ferguson-Stegall, Erin McCleave, Zhenping Ding, Phillip G. Doerner III, Yang Liu, Bei Wang, Marin Healy, Maximilian Kleinert, Benjamin Dessard, David G. Lassiter, Lynne Kammer, John L. Ivy

“…Greater improvements in body composition, represented by a calculated lean and fat mass differential for whole body and trunk, were found in the CM group compared to CHO. …”
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Breeding Sites of Aedes aegypti: Potential Dengue Vectors in Dire Dawa, East Ethiopia by Dejene Getachew, Habte Tekie, Teshome Gebre-Michael, Meshesha Balkew, Akalu Mesfin

“…Larvae were identified morphologically and larval indices were also calculated. Results. A total of 750 containers were inspected, and of these 405 were positive for mosquito larvae. …”
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An Analysis of Vegetation Change Trends and Their Causes in Inner Mongolia, China from 1982 to 2006 by Baolin Li, Wanli Yu, Juan Wang

“…We used National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data to determine the vegetation change trends based on regression model by fitting simple linear regression through the time series of the integrated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in the growing season for each pixel and calculating the slopes. We also explored the relationship between vegetation change trends and climatic and anthropogenic factors. …”
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Validation of Modified ART Mod 2 Code through Comparison with Aerosol Deposition of Cesium Compound in Phébus FPT3 Containment Vessel by Wasin Vechgama, Kampanart Silva, Somboon Rassame

“…Evaluation of aerosol deposition in the containment vessel is an important step for the assessment of radioactive material release to the environment. ART Mod 2 is a calculation code that is used for evaluation of aerosol deposition in the containment vessel. …”
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Harmonic feature of 27.5 kV traction power system in a Chinese high‐speed railway by Yadong Fan, Ding Hu, Wen Chen, Liming Gao, Jianping Wang, Mi Zhou, Jianguo Wang, Chang He

“…The law that the harmonic distribution changes with the load current is derived. Calculation results show a power function relationship between total harmonic distortion and bus current. …”
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