The Effect of Different Types of Walking on Dual-Task Performance and Task Prioritization among Community-Dwelling Older Adults by Maayan Agmon, Einat Kodesh, Rachel Kizony

“…Walking forward was the least demanding task, during single (FW < BW, SW) (P<.001) and dual tasks (FW < BW < SW) (P<.001). The calculation of DTC revealed the same pattern (P<.001). …”
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Coral fisheries management using an ecosystem approach in the domain of fishing techniques at the Pasiran fish landing base by Muammar Mesha Abel, Rahmah Alvi, Agustina Imelda, Sriwulanda Ayu

“…Data analysis employed ordinal Likert scale scores (1, 2, and 3) for each indicator, followed by the calculation of index values, composite scores, and descriptive analysis. …”
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Posttraumatic stress disorder and associated factors in the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake in Nepal: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Prayash Paudel, Asutosh Sah, Anil Khanal

“…The random-effects model was used to calculate the pooled incidence with a 95% confidence interval along with subgroup analysis. …”
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Validation of a Portable Wireless Force Platform System To Measure Ground Reaction Forces During Various Tasks by Vasileios Mylonas, Christos Chalitsios, Thomas Nikodelis

“…For the assessment of countermovement vertical jumps, impulse, peak rate of force development and peak force were calculated for both instruments and checked for agreement between instruments. …”
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Determination of genetic diversity between natural and cultured populations of Common Dentex (Dentex dentex) fish in the East Aegean Sea by Kayaci Ali, Can Mehmet Fatih, Güner Yusuf, Güleç Fatih

“…The mean fixation index (Fst) was calculated as 0.0746 (p < 0.001). Genetic distances were primarily in collaboration with geographical distances and were efficiently confirmed by high resolution melting (HRM) analysis. …”
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ESTIMATING THE CROP COEFFICIENT FOR CROPS CULTIVATED IN UPSTREAM AREA OF XUAN HUONG LAKE, DALAT CITY by Nguyễn Thị Thanh Thuận, Chế Đình Lý, Hồ Thị Hằng

“…When a crop coefficient is available, the calculation of water demand will become extremely simple through the correlation equation between the crop coefficient (Kc), the actual evapotranspiration (ETc), and the reference evapotranspiration (ETo). …”
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Multiple Spacecraft Formation Flying Control around Artificial Equilibrium Point Using Propellantless Approach by Lei Zhao, Changqing Yuan, Xiaoming Li, Jingjiu He

“…To properly allocate control inputs, a novel optimal allocation scheme is designed to calculate the charge product of the spacecrafts and sail attitude angles, which can make the magnitude of the acceleration required from the Coulomb propulsion system minimum and avoid formation geometry instabilities by balancing electrostatic interaction between adjacent spacecraft. …”
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Prediction of Hydraulic Automatic Transmission Reliability Using Failure Data Based on Exponential Decay Oscillation Distribution Model by Yongming Liu, Guowen Ye, Zhuanzhe Zhao

“…Aiming at the problem that the traditional reliability models of mechanical products are used to predict the reliability of hydraulic automatic transmission and the expected result is relatively large, firstly, the empirical distribution model line is used to statistically analyze the failure distribution law of the hydraulic automatic transmission; then, the Fourier transform is used to perform frequency domain analysis on experience distribution; on this basis, comprehensively consider the characteristics of experience distribution and frequency domain characteristics of experience distribution, constructs the reliability model of exponential decay oscillation distribution and the corresponding reliability, failure efficiency and average life calculation model; meanwhile, studies the influence of attenuation coefficient, oscillation amplitude, oscillation angle frequency, and other parameters on the probability distribution characteristics. …”
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CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM) IN CONTRACTING ORGANISATION by Oluwaseyi AJAYI, Temidayo OSUNSANMI

“…It gives a response rate of 60%.Statistical Package for Social Science(SPSS) 17th version is used to analyse using descriptive statistic and the Relative Importance Index(RII) of the level of importance of the factors were calculated. From the study is show that the factors affecting the implementation of TQM are management commitment factors, the role of quality department and training and education. …”
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Modeling the Smart Factory Manufacturing Products Characteristics: The Perspective of Energy Consumption by A.B.M. Salman Rahman, Myeongbae Lee, Jonghyun Lim, Yongyun Cho, Changsun Shin

“…Next, we use the moving average approach to calculate the monthly and weekly moving averages of energy usages. …”
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Early Therapy Evaluation of Combined Cetuximab and Irinotecan in Orthotopic Pancreatic Tumor Xenografts by Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Hyunki Kim, Karri D. Folks, Lingling Guo, Jeffery C. Sellers, Naomi S. Fineberg, Cecil R. Stockard, William E. Grizzle, Donald J. Buchsbaum, Desiree E. Morgan, James F. George, Kurt R. Zinn

“…The K trans values in the 0.5 mm–thick peripheral tumor region were calculated, and the changes in K trans during the 3 days posttherapy were compared to tumor volume changes, bioluminescent signal changes, and histologic findings. …”
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Determination of Shape Coefficient in Elastic Modulus Estimation with Penetration Test by Tongbin Zhao, Rui Mao, Kai Fang, Biwen Zhang, Fenghai Yu

“…Shape coefficient should be selected reasonably according to the penetration depth in practical application, and the reason, furthermore, why back-calculated shape coefficient deviates from the theoretical value is also discussed.…”
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Removal of Zn (II) and Cu (II) Ions from Industrial Wastewaters Using Magnetic Biochar Derived from Water Hyacinth by Benias C. Nyamunda, Terrence Chivhanga, Upenyu Guyo, Fidelis Chigondo

“…Kinetic studies revealed that the adsorption process followed pseudo-second-order model. The calculated thermodynamic parameters showed that the adsorption process was feasible and exothermic in nature. …”
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Genetic diversity of bread wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.) in the allelic composition of HMW-GS (a review) by M. V. Chebatareva

“…The total diversity of alleles in Glu-1 glutenin loci was evaluated according to the calculation of the Nei index (H). Using this indicator and the cluster analysis, wheat cultivars of various ecogeographic origin were distributed into relatively homogeneous groups.Results. …”
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Evaluation of Land Use Changes before and after Iraq and Iran's War (Case Study: Ilam Watershed) by Norodin Rostami, Batol Navrouzi, Taherh Jafari

“…Therefore, using ETM satellite images and ENVI software, 8 different land uses were defined for each period and the area of each land use was calculated using ArcGIS software. Classification was made by supervised classification method with 96.5, 92.3 and 97.8% kappa coefficient respectively for the various studied periods. …”
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Computationally secure steganography based on speech synthesis by Menghan LI, Kejiang CHEN, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…The steganography theory of computing security has been proposed for a long time, but it has not been widely adopted for mainstream steganography using multimedia data as a carrier.The reason is that the prerequisite for calculating secure steganography is to obtain the accurate distribution of the carrier or to accurately sample according to the carrier distribution.However, naturally collected images and audio/video cannot meet this prerequisite.With the development of deep learning technology, various machine-generated media such as image generation and synthesized speech, have become more and more common on the Internet and then generated media has become a reasonable steganography carrier.Steganography can use normal generated media to cover up secret communications, and pursue in distinguishability from normal generated media.The distribution learned by some generative models is known or controllable, which provides an opportunity to push computational security steganography for practical use.Taking the widely used synthetic speech model as an example, a computationally secure symmetric key steganography algorithm was designed and implemented.The message was decompressed into the synthetic audio according to the decoding process of arithmetic coding based on the conditional probability of sample points, and the message receiver had the same generation model to complete the message extraction by reproducing the audio synthesis process.The public key steganography algorithm was additionally designed based on this algorithm, which provided algorithmic support for the realization of full-flow steganographic communication.Steganographic key exchange ensured the security of steganographic content and the security of steganographic behavior was also achieved.The theoretical analysis showed that the security of the proposed algorithm is determined by the randomness of the embedded message.And the steganography analysis experiment further verified that the attacker cannot distinguish the synthesized carrier audio from the encrypted audio.…”
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Analysis of Fluid Balance as Predictor of Length of Assisted Mechanical Ventilation in Children Admitted to Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) by Praveen Unki, Sushma Save

“…Patient’s fluid balance was calculated by tabulating fluid input-output over initial 48 hours of AMV. …”
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Estimation Markov Decision Process of Multimodal Trip Chain between Integrated Transportation Hubs in Urban Agglomeration Based on Generalized Cost by Min Yue, Shu-Hong Ma, Wei Zhou, Xi-Fang Chen

“…The Markov Decision Process framework was estimated to explore the optimal transfer trip chain of different income groups, given that the states are considered nodes between hubs, the reward functions are calculated by using the generalized travel cost between states after travelers make action decision, and the actions between states contain bus, subway, taxi, and walk. …”
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Predictive Model for Deformation of Adjacent Pipelines Caused by Tunnel Boring in Twin-Lane Tunnels in Soft Ground Layers by Kezhong Wang, Qianjiang Zheng, Maowen Hang

“…The findings demonstrate that the discrete prediction model is simpler to solve and more accurately describes the deformation characteristics of the adjacent pipeline as well as the deformation distribution law. The calculated deformation characteristics primarily appear as the adjacent pipeline’s deformation due to the double tunnel boring exhibiting a “mono-peak shape” with a large middle and small ends, which is consistent with the actual situation. …”
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Enviroeconomic optimization of insulation thickness for building exterior walls through thermoeconomic and life cycle assessment analysis by Mehmet Kadri Akyüz

“…The economic optimum insulation thicknesses (OIT) for heated buildings in five different climate regions in Turkiye were determined, and the energy, cost, and life cycle-based environmental performances were analyzed. Calculations were performed using three different fuels (natural gas, fuel oil, and coal) and four different insulation materials: expanded polystyrene (EPS), rock wool (RW), glass wool (GW), and extruded polystyrene (XPS). …”
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