Understanding the Enzymatic Synthesis of a New Biolubricant: Decane-1,10-diyl bis(2-methylpentanoate) by Salvadora Ortega-Requena, Fuensanta Máximo, María Claudia Montiel, María Gómez, María Dolores Murcia, Josefa Bastida

“…A preliminary economic study and the calculation of Green Metrics has established that the operation with a 30% molar excess of acid is the best option to obtain a product with 92.6% purity at a lower cost than the other options and in accordance with the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry. …”
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Utilizing Remote Sensing to Quantify Evapotranspiration: A Case Study of the Saiss Basin (Morocco) by Oumou Abdellah, Essahlaoui Ali, Khrabcha Abdelali, Essahlaoui Narjisse, Alitane Abdennabi, Kassou Amina, El Hafyani Mohammed, Van Rompaey Anton, Gobin Anne

“…This involves resolving the surface energy balance equation by calculating net radiation, soil heat flux, and sensible heat flux. …”
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Quantitative Evaluation of Display Contrast of Gd-EOB-DTPA-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Images: Effects of the Flip Angle and Grayscale Gamma Value by Yusuke Inoue, Hirofumi Hata, Ai Nakajima, Keiji Matsunaga, Yusuke Ohzeki, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Hiroki Haradome

“…To assess image contrast, the liver-to-muscle signal ratio (LMR), liver-to-spleen signal ratio (LSR), contrast ratio (CR), liver signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) were calculated. Results. The LMR, LSR, and CR were higher in the high-FA images than in the low-FA original images. …”
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Evaluation of environmental impacts of cleanroom construction with a life cycle analysis approach based on energy and material consumption by Pouya Partonia, Sobhan Heidarian, Mohamadreza Sharifi, Ghorbanali Dezvareh, Ahmad Khodadadi Darban

“…The research methodology involved data collection, Building Information Modeling, Carrier HAP software for energy calculations, and SimaPro software with the Ecoinvent database for environmental impact assessment. …”
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The establishment of blue-sky index: how to quantify the aerosol optical impacts on sky color by Sunan Shen, Jiandong Wang, Chao Liu, Jia Xing, Jiaping Wang, Jing Cai, Zeyuan Tian, Peng Wang, Guangjie Zheng, Yuzhi Jin, Chenggang Wang, Le Cao, Zhouyang Zhang, Bin Wang, Aijun Ding, Shuxiao Wang

“…This research develops a quantitative approach for evaluating the influence of atmospheric aerosol pollution on the appearance of the sky. We first calculated the influence of atmospheric aerosols on the sky’s diffuse radiation, which is the source of sky color. …”
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Wool properties in kangal akkaraman sheep by Mustafa Garip, Behiç Coşkun, Esad Sami Polat, Alper Yılmaz, Mehmet Emin Tekin, Tamer Çağlayan, Necip Kılıç

“…Fiber diameters and wool percentages were calculated as 28.63 and 26.96 and 60.78 and 53.77%, respectively. …”
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Application of an Improved Ensemble Local Mean Decomposition Method for Gearbox Composite Fault Diagnosis by Zhijian Wang, Junyuan Wang, Wenan Cai, Jie Zhou, Wenhua Du, Jingtai Wang, Gaofeng He, Huihui He

“…At the same time, this method avoids the occurrence of pseudocomponents and reduces the amount of calculation. Compared with LMD, ELMD, CELMD, and CELMDAN, it shows that improved ensemble local mean decomposition method is an effective method for extracting composite fault features.…”
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Taper Preparation Variability Compared to Current Taper Standards Using Computed Tomography by Richard Gergi, Joe Abou Rjeily, Nada Osta, Joseph Sader, Alfred Naaman

“…Canal taper preparation was calculated at the apical third and at the middle-cervical third. …”
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The EMERALD Model for the Estimation of the Radial Diffusion Coefficients in the Outer Belt by S. Aminalragia‐Giamini, C. Katsavrias, C. Papadimitriou, I. A. Daglis, A. Nasi, A. Brunet, S. Bourdarie, N. Dahmen, G. Balasis

“…In this work we have used the extensive DLL database created in the framework of the Horizon 2020 SafeSpace project which spans 9 years of hourly DLL calculations to develop a model which uses solely solar wind parameters for the derivation of DLL values. …”
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Experimental Investigation on Flexural Behavior of Granite Stone Slabs with Near Surface Mounted CFRP Bars and Screw-Thread Steels by Xiaopeng Gao, Zhongfan Chen, Xiaomeng Ding, Erxiang Dong

“…Meanwhile, with the increase of reinforcement ratios, the failure mode transforms from brittle failure to ductile failure. The calculation results of strength are in agreement with the experimental results. …”
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Antidiabetic Activity of Benzopyrone Analogues in Nicotinamide-Streptozotocin Induced Type 2 Diabetes in Rats by Yogendra Nayak, Venkatachalam Hillemane, Vijay Kumar Daroji, B. S. Jayashree, M. K. Unnikrishnan

“…Homeostatic model assessment (HOMA-IR) was then calculated from serum insulin. Rats were sacrificed and pancreas was isolated for histopathological observations. …”
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Evaluation of feasibility accuracy and safety after 79 O-ARM based stereotactic brain biopsies by Inès Bouscatel, Benoit Marlier, Claude-Fabien Litré, Valéry Batchinsky-Parrou, Maxime Rivollier, Stanislas Loniewski, Jean-Charles Kleiber

“…A software platform was used to calculate stereotactic coordinates through combining both exams. …”
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X-ray spectrum estimation from the transmission method using the radioluminescence of an Al2O3:C crystal by Rui Chen, Qingxian Zhang, Jian Zhang, Liangquan Ge, Yi Gu, Rui Yang, Hui Li, Qiushi Liu, Zhiqiang Cheng, Yi Lin

“…The X-ray spectrum of X-ray tube is crucial for radiation dose calculations. Due to the high photon flux, it is difficult to directly measure the primary spectrum of X-ray tube. …”
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A study on the mechanical and economic performance comparison of ceramsite concrete based on fiber selection and optimization by Shifang Wang, Zeyu Li, Le Fan, Zhicheng Zhang, Shi Yin, Ji Yuan, Haijie He, Hongjian Lin, Wei Lin, Xiongwei Dai, Wen Xu, Kaisheng Yu

“…It prepared 8 sets of specimens, conducted stress-strain curve and static strength tests, and calculated various performance parameters. Through analysis of the economic performance and failure modes, it is found that high-toughness polypropylene fibers and steel fibers significantly enhanced both the strength and toughness of ceramsite concrete, while carbon fibers, although capable of increasing strength, do not improve toughness. …”
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Symptomatic Abdominal Simple Cysts: Is Percutaneous Sclerotherapy with Hypertonic Saline and Bleomycin a Treatment Option? by V. D. Souftas, M. Kosmidou, M. Karanikas, D. Souftas, G. Menexes, P. Prassopoulos

“…Cyst’s volumes and the reduction rate (%) were calculated in each evaluation. Results. No pain or complications were noted. …”
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Performance of a score to characterise adequate contact among the social network of persons with TB by M.E. Castellanos, S. Zalwango, T.H.T. Quach, R. Kakaire, L. Martínez, M.H. Ebell, K.K. Dobbin, N. Kiwanuka, C.C. Whalen

“…METHODS: In a cross-sectional study from Kampala, Uganda, we estimated the prevalence of tuberculous infection (TBI) in social contacts of adult TB cases according to the setting and relationship domains of the contact score. We calculated the prevalence ratio (PR) for the association between contact scores (by domain) with TBI using modified Poisson regression models. …”
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Prediction of Poor Outcome Using the Urea to Albumin Ratio in Thoracic Empyema by Evgeni Dimitrov, Daniel Valchev, Georgi Minkov, Emil Enchev, Yovcho Yovtchev

“…Serum levels of urea and albumin at admission were used to calculate UAR. We analyzed area under receiver operating characteristics (AUROC) curves of UAR, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and quick-sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA), and compared their prognostic performance. …”
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Preliminary and Comparative Experiment Study Between F-Flurpiridaz and N-NHHO Myocardial Perfusion Imaging With PET/CT in Miniature Pigs by Jiao Wang MD, Shuai Li Mpharm, Tian-wen Liu BS, Jie-min Zhang MD, PhD, Yue Chen MD, Jian-ming Li MD, PhD, Wen-gui Xu MD, PhD

“…The changes of the ratio of left ventricular myocardium to main organs with time were calculated and the best imaging time was confirmed for 18 F-Flurpiridaz imaging in normal group. …”
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Hydrological Evaluation of Streamflow Drought Index Method for Different Time Scales: A Case Study of Arsuz Plain, Turkey by Evren TURHAN, Buse Duyan Çulha, Serin Değerli

“…With the help of these data, Streamflow Drought Index (SDI) values were calculated for different time scales such as 3, 6 and 12 months. …”
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Optimal Design of Intracranial Hematoma Puncture Drainage Tube Based on Adaptive Bifurcation Algorithm by Jincai Chang, Liyan Jia, Fei Yu, Xinghui Hao, Ze Lu, Zhuoyang Li

“…The locations of the bifurcation points of the main drainage tubes were calculated by the numerical method, and the telescopic lengths and directions of multiple subdrainage tubes were obtained. …”
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