Effect of drought disturbance in a sclerophyll forest on the micromammal community in the Río Clarillo National Park, Metropolitan Region, Chile by Susan Fletcher, Carlos Sarmiento, Gisela C. Stotz, Verónica Quirici

“…Community indices such as Shannon–Wiener and Pielou were calculated. The Coefficient of Variation was used to study functional diversity for each trait separately. …”
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Changes of Radial Diffusivity and Fractional Anisotopy in the Optic Nerve and Optic Radiation of Glaucoma Patients by Tobias Engelhorn, Georg Michelson, Simone Waerntges, Marlen Otto, Ahmed El-Rafei, Tobias Struffert, Arnd Doerfler

“…Regions of interest were positioned on RD and FA maps, and mean values were calculated for ON and OR and correlated with optic nerve atrophy and reduced spatial-temporal contrast sensitivity (STCS) of the retina. …”
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Identification of potent TMPRSS4 inhibitors through structural modeling and molecular dynamics simulations by Ismail Hdoufane, Mehdi Oubahmane, Youssef Habibi, Christelle Delaite, Mohammed M. Alanazi, Driss Cherqaoui

“…Moreover, through a systematic analysis, MD simulations and MM-GBSA binding free energy calculations revealed that the best candidates Ergotamine, S55746, NPC478048, Lifirafenib, and NPC77101 are highly stable drug candidates in complex with TMPRSS4, displaying low RMSD and RMSF values with strong binding stability. …”
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Association of ABO Blood Group and Body Mass Index: A Cross-Sectional Study from a Ghanaian Population by Samuel Smith, Isaac Okai, Chrissie Stansie Abaidoo, Emmanuel Acheampong

“…Weight and height of participants were measured for BMI calculation; blood group determination was done using antisera. …”
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Improved insulin sensitivity and reproductive profile in overweight/obese PCOS patients undergoing integrative treatment with carnitines, L-arginine, L-cysteine and myo-inositol by Alessandro D. Genazzani, Christian Battipaglia, Martina Foschi, Elisa Semprini, Claudia Aio, Eleonora Spelta, Anna Kostrzak, Maria Laura Rusce, Anna Szeliga, Blazej Meczekalski

“…The hepatic insulin extraction index was also calculated.Results The mix of complementary substances significantly improved metabolic parameters, homeostatic model assessment for insulin resistance index values and gonadotropin plasma levels. …”
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Diagnostic Performance of Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Using Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose in Detecting Locoregional Nodal Involvement in Patients with Anal Ca... by Carmelo Caldarella, Salvatore Annunziata, Giorgio Treglia, Ramin Sadeghi, Narjes Ayati, Luca Giovanella

“…Pooled diagnostic performance on a lesion-based analysis was calculated. Results. Seven retrospective and five prospective studies have been reviewed. …”
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Numerical Simulation Study on the Distribution Law of Deviatoric Stress of Floor under the Influence of Mining by Hongtao Liu, Tianhong Huo, Yongen Li, Ming Luo, Guangdong Zhou, Zengji He

“…The distribution of floor stress under the influence of mining is obtained after the model calculation, i.e., with the increase of the distance from the floor, the ratio of bidirectional stress to the peak value, and the stability value decrease, but the decrease amplitude becomes smaller and smaller. …”
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Is insomnia a risk factor for new-onset asthma? A population-based study in Taiwan by Shih-Feng Weng, Chih-Cheng Lai, Yu-Chieh Lin, Chih-Chiang Chien, Chin-Ming Chen, Shyh-Ren Chiang, Chung-Han Ho, Kuo-Chen Cheng

“…Cox proportional hazard regression was used to calculate the risk of asthma between the two groups.Results After a 4-year follow-up, 424 patients in the insomnia group and 409 in the control group developed asthma. …”
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Relative anterior spinal overgrowth in mild and moderate adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a retrospective study by Haoyang Zhang, Xin Ye, Hongjiao Wu, Yi Shen, Yingsen Pan, Xiaoming Ying, Jiaying He

“…The anterior vertebral body height (VBHa) and posterior vertebral body height (VBHp) were measured on lateral spine radiographs, and the VBHa/VBHp ratio was calculated. The ratios were compared between the two groups and across scoliosis segments in the AIS group. …”
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Adsorption of Volatile Organic Compounds and Microwave Regeneration on Self-prepared High-surface-area Beaded Activated Carbon by Shih-Ying Hsiao, Shu-Wen You, Can Wang, Ji-Guang Deng, Hsing-Cheng Hsi

“…The isosteric heat of adsorption was calculated using the Clausius-Clapeyron equation; the parameters obtained from the D‒R isotherm indicate that the physisorption predominates the adsorption process. …”
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Persian SMS Spam Detection using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques by Roya Khorashadizade, Somayyeh Jafarali Jassbi, Alireza Yari

“…The inconvenience imposed on users, the loss of network traffic, the rise in the calculated cost, occupying more physical space on the mobile phone, and abusing and defrauding recipients are but a few of their downsides. …”
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Distributions, Sources, and Backward Trajectories of Atmospheric Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons at Lake Small Baiyangdian, Northern China by Ning Qin, Xiang-Zhen Kong, Ying Zhu, Wei He, Qi-Shuang He, Bin Yang, Hui-Ling Ou-Yang, Wen-Xiu Liu, Qing-Mei Wang, Fu-Liu Xu

“…The distribution and partitioning of atmospheric PAHs were studied, and the major sources were identified; the backward trajectories of air masses starting from the center of Lake Small Baiyangdian were calculated for the entire year. The following results were obtained: (1) The total concentration of 16 priority controlled PAHs (PAH16) in the gas phase was 417.2±299.8 ng·m−3, in the particulate phase was 150.9±99.2 ng·m−3, and in dust fall was 6930.2±3206.5 ng·g−1. (2) Vehicle emission, coal combustion, and biomass combustion were the major sources in the Small Baiyangdian atmosphere and accounted for 28.9%, 45.1% and 26.0% of the total PAHs, respectively. (3) Winter was dominated by relatively greater PAHs polluted northwesterly air mass pathways. …”
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Investigating the distribution of heat transfer in a thick-walled functionally graded cylindrical shell under heat flux by Buqing Zhang, Zhiqiang Long, Guoqing Liu, Zhengxin Wu, Qiang Yan

“…Finite element analysis (FEA) utilizing ABAQUS software was used to conduct the steady-state and transient heat transport calculations in an aluminum metal/alumina ceramic shell. …”
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Effect of Moisture Content on Bursting Liability of Sandstone due to Freeze-Thaw Action by Kesheng Li, Maotong Li, Deng Zhang, Chuanxiao Liu, Depeng Ma

“…This indicates that the rockburst tendency of sandstone decreases with the increase of MC. To calculate WET, WCF, ES, and BIM of sandstone samples, new empirical equations were established and put forward under different MC after 20 F-T cycles.…”
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Adsorption of Cd (II) Using Chemically Modified Rice Husk: Characterization, Equilibrium, and Kinetic Studies by Javier Montalvo-Andía, Warren Reátegui-Romero, Alexis D. Peña-Contreras, Walter F. Zaldivar Alvarez, María E. King-Santos, Víctor Fernández-Guzmán, José Luis Guerrero-Guevara, Jhon E. Puris-Naupay

“…The adsorption process was found to be endothermic in nature with enthalpy of 14.08 kJ/mol and entropy of 170.98 J/mol.K. The calculated activation energy was 24 kJ/mol. The results showed the potential of rice husk as a low-cost, easily managed, and efficient biosorbent for Cd removal from waters.…”
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Risk assessment of hazardous impacts on urbanization and industrialization activities based upon toxic substances by T. Salem, Sh.S. Ahmed, M. Hamed, G.H. Abd ElAziz

“…The impact of these pollutants on human health was calculated using daily metals intake of inorganic metals via consumption of edible plants. …”
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Increase of austenitic ductile iron type D5S durability by high temperature pre-treatment by Nowak W.J., Wierzba B., Mazurkow A., Jaworski A., Krawczyk Ł.

“…The latter was explained by the change in the calculated diffusion coefficients in the alloy for Ni and Fe, namely up to 900°C the diffusion coefficient for Fe was much higher than for Ni, while above 900°C the diffusion coefficient for Ni becomes higher than for Fe. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Reported Animal-Vehicle Collisions Data and Carcass Removal Data for Hotspot Identification by Xiaoxue Yang, Yajie Zou, Lingtao Wu, Xinzhi Zhong, Yinhai Wang, Muhammad Ijaz, Yichuan Peng

“…To complete the objective, both the Negative Binomial (NB) model and the generalized Negative Binomial (GNB) are applied in calculating the Empirical Bayesian (EB) estimates using the animal collision data collected on ten highways in Washington State. …”
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Land Subsidence in the Yangtze River Delta, China Explored Using InSAR Technique From 2019 to 2021 by Hongbo Jiang, Guangcai Feng, Yuexin Wang, Zhiqiang Xiong, Hesheng Chen, Ning Li, Zeng Lin

“…To overcome these challenges, we adopted the multitemporal InSAR technique, integrating a frame data parallel processing strategy and an overall adjustment correction method, to obtain the temporal deformation sequences of the entire Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region in China from January 2019 to December 2021. We calculated the annual average deformation rate and identified deformation areas, with 73.5% concentrated along the Yangtze River, along the coastline, and within the northern Anhui mining area. …”
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Separation Process for Methanol–Methylal–Methyl Formate Multicomponent System in Polyformaldehyde Production Waste Liquid: Modeling and Techno-Economic Analysis by Huajie Liu, Jun Fan, Weiping Liu, Yong Wang, Qiuhong Ai, Yonglin Li

“…The results shown that the root mean square deviation (RMSD) between the calculated and simulated values of the three models followed the order: UNIQUAC ≈ NRTL < Wilson, and except for the RMSD (<i>T</i>) in the range of 0.4–0.5, the others are less than 0.01. …”
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