Does Good Aerobic Capacity Attenuate the Effects of Aging on Cardiovascular Risk Factors? Results from a Cross-Sectional Study in a Latino Population by Giovanna Valentino, Mónica Acevedo, Lorena Orellana, María José Bustamante, Verónica Kramer, Marcela Adasme, Fernando Baraona, Gastón Chamorro, Jorge Jalil, Carlos Navarrete

“…The ACC/AHA 2013 pooled cohort equation was used to calculate CV risk. Logistic models were built to determine the probability of having ≥2 RFs versus 0‐1 RF, by age and sex, according to aerobic capacity. …”
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Efficient parameter extraction in PV solar modules with the diligent crow search algorithm by Mostafa Jabari, Morteza Azimi Nasab, Mohammad Zand, Lilia Tightiz, Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, Juan C. Vasquez Q

“…This method offers several advantages, including ease of implementation and simplicity in calculations, which collectively accelerate convergence to the global minimum and enhance the algorithm's robustness. …”
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Experimental Study on the Fractal Features and Permeability Characteristics of Low Metamorphic Coal Pore Structure under Thermal Damage by Zhen Liu, Mingrui Zhang, Shijian Yu, Lin Xin, Gang Wang, Liutao Sun

“…Compared with the permeability calculated based on the theoretical permeability fractal model, the permeability obtained from the temperature-permeability fractal model has a similar increasing trend as the permeability measured by the NMR experiment when the temperature increases. …”
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Analysis on the Behavior Characteristics of NOx in Blast Furnace Gas by Peng HOU, Changliang ZHEN, Zibing WANG, Jie XU, Long HE, Xing ZHANG, Huan LIU

“…In order to reduce the NOx emission in the blast furnace smelting process, based on the analysis of the actual production data of the 2 300 m3 blast furnace in an iron and steel plant, this paper elaborates on the formation and reduction mechanism of NOx in the blast furnace, and the distribution characteristics and influence of NOx in the blast furnace through thermodynamic calculation, mathematical statistics and other methods. …”
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Cu66 nanoclusters from hierarchical square motifs: Synthesis, assembly, and catalysis by Xueli Sun, Yuchen Wang, Qingyuan Wu, Ying‐Zi Han, Xuekun Gong, Xiongkai Tang, Christine M. Aikens, Hui Shen, Nanfeng Zheng

“…Density functional theoretical (DFT) calculations reveal that hydride atoms with low chemical shifts typically exhibit short Cu‐H distances. …”
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Study of Chemical Intermediates by Means of ATR-IR Spectroscopy and Hybrid Hard- and Soft-Modelling Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares by Junxiu Ma, Juan Qi, Xinyu Gao, Chunhua Yan, Tianlong Zhang, Hongsheng Tang, Hua Li

“…The extent of rotation ambiguity was estimated from the band boundaries of feasible solutions calculated using the MCR-BANDS procedure. There were five principal components including two intermediates in the process in the results. …”
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Systematic failures in the development of photovoltaic systems: The case study of Iran's solar energy by Mohammad Mahdi Akhlaghi, Ali Shafiei Alavijeh, Ramin Hosseinalizadeh, Shohreh Nasri, Sepehr Ghazinoory

“…Furthermore, the length of purchase contracts and the FiT calculation method during the contract period were revised. …”
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The Burden of Smoking in the Health-Disease Process in People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AIDS by Yoenny Peña García, Luis Carlos Andraín Silva, Idalmis Sartorio Zayas, Dolys Suárez Padilla, Ana Julia Lozada Pérez

“…The relative risk and the etiologic risk fraction were calculated, as well as the Chi2 test to estimate the strength of association between the independent and dependent variables. …”
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Effect of Lower Surface Roughness on Nonlinear Hydraulic Properties of Fractures by Jinglong Li, Xianghui Li, Bo Zhang, Bin Sui, Pengcheng Wang, Mi Zhang

“…The results show that the proposed numerical method is valid by comparisons between numerically calculated results with theoretical values of three parallel-plate models. …”
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Impact of tidal mixing on mixed layer depth variability in the Northern Bay of Bengal by Nur Hidayat Muh., Wafdan Reza, Ramli Marwan, Muchlisin Zainal A., Muhammad Muhammad, Rizal Syamsul

“…The analysis focused on three regions within the NBoB, determined based on the Simpson-Hunter (SH) parameter calculations which indicate the intensity of tidal mixing. …”
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Investigating the impact of diversion projects on river health using the spherical fuzzy cloud TOPSIS model and the SHapley Additive exPlanation technique by Ting Cheng, Maosen Ju, Wenhui Zhang, Chenhui Wu, Qi Liu, Qingqing Ban

“…First, a three-level indicator system was developed considering both ecological and non-ecological factors, and the indicator weights were calculated using the game combination weighting method. …”
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Predictive Contributions of Snowmelt and Rainfall to Streamflow Variations in the Western United States by Xiaohui Zheng, Qiguang Wang, Lihua Zhou, Qing Sun, Qi Li

“…The relative contributions of rainfall and snowmelt to streamflow in different watersheds were calculated based on the snow lead time. The geographic distribution of annual relative contributions revealed that interior areas were dominated by snowmelt contribution, whereas the rainfall contribution dominated coastal areas. …”
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Ionospheric Phase Scintillation Index Estimation Based on 1 Hz Geodetic GNSS Receiver Measurements by Using Continuous Wavelet Transform by Dongsheng Zhao, Wang Li, Chendong Li, Xu Tang, Qianxin Wang, Craig M. Hancock, Gethin Wyn Roberts, Kefei Zhang

“…This paper proposes a new method to extract the phase scintillation index from each GNSS carrier with 1s‐sampling‐interval, mainly based on the cycle slip detection, the geodetic detrending and the wavelet transform, in which the optimal symmetry parameter and the time‐bandwidth product are determined with trial calculation. Taken the σϕ index provided by ISMR as the reference, 1‐year observations are utilized to evaluate the scintillation monitoring performance of the extracted index regarding the correlation of the magnitude in each observation arc, the detected daily scintillation occurrence rate, the diurnal variation pattern of the ionospheric scintillation, the correlation between the scintillation occurrence rate and the space weather parameter, and the complementary cumulative distribution of the magnitudes. …”
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Combined flow prediction model for natural gas pipeline network based on EMD-Attention-GRU by Jiacheng MEN, Yuguang FAN, Lin GAO, Hongxian LIN, Ke ZHANG

“…Specifically, the model is to substitute the raw flow data of the natural gas pipeline network with its time series component obtained through Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), input the intrinsic mode function component obtained into the GRU neural network, calculate the attention probability weight at different times with the attention integrated into the network, and finally learn in the network and predict the time series of flow in the natural gas pipeline network. …”
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Energy-/Carbon-Aware Evaluation and Optimization of 3-D IC Architecture With Digital Compute-in-Memory Designs by Hyung Joon Byun, Udit Gupta, Jae-Sun Seo

“…We have built in-house simulators calculating energy and area given high-level hardware descriptions and DNN workloads and integrated with carbon estimation tool to analyze the embodied carbon of various hardware designs. …”
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Sex-specific association between maternal childhood adversities and offspring’s weight gain in a Brazilian cohort by Vinicius Oliveira Santana, Aline Camargo Ramos, Hugo Cogo-Moreira, Célia Maria Araújo, Barbara Shibuya Alves, Lucas Ribeiro, Aline Lodi, Ana Carolina Coelho Milani, Ivaldo Silva, Cristiane S. Duarte, Jonathan Posner, Andrea Parolin Jackowski

“…ACEs were assessed using the CDC-Kaiser Questionnaire, and weight gain was calculated as the difference between W2 and W1, divided by the number of days between measurements. …”
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Shearography-Wavelet-Based Damage Detection Methodology for Aluminum Beams by Amirhossein Abbasi, Mohsen Khatibinia, Hashem Jahangir, José Viriato Araújo Dos Santos, Hernani Miguel Reis Lopes

“…Then, with the help of the shrearography method, the modal rotations of each beam were calculated for the first to third vibration mode shapes. …”
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Expression of the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products in Epicardial Fat: Link with Tissue Thickness and Local Insulin Resistance in Coronary Artery Disease by Elena Dozio, Elena Vianello, Silvia Briganti, John Lamont, Lorenza Tacchini, Gerd Schmitz, Massimiliano Marco Corsi Romanelli

“…BMI, HOMA-IR, and LAP indices were calculated. With increasing RAGE expression in EAT we observed increases in EAT thickness, reduced expression of GLUT4, adiponectin, and GLO1, and elevations of HMGB1, TLR-4, and MyD88. …”
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Chloride Balance in Preterm Infants during the First Week of Life by Silvia Iacobelli, Elsa Kermorvant-Duchemin, Francesco Bonsante, Alexandre Lapillonne, Jean-Bernard Gouyon

“…For 7 days after birth, sodium and chloride balance, plasma potassium, phosphate, and total carbon dioxide (tCO2) were prospectively determined and strong ion difference (SID) calculated. Three multivariate regression analyses were performed to identify factors associated with high plasma chloride concentration, low SID, and low tCO2. …”
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A comprehensive DFT/TDDFT investigation into the influence of electron acceptors on the photophysical properties of ullazine-based D-π-A-π-A photosensitizers by Jing Huang, Zihao Li, Lei Yang, Rongfang Hu, Guoyu Shi

“…In this study, on the basis of previous studies of the π1- and π2-linked groups of D-π1-A1-π2-A2-type sensitizers, the photoelectric properties of Ullazine-Based photosensitizing dyes were further optimized by adjusting the electron-absorbing groups at the A1 and A2 positions. DFT and TDDFT calculations revealed that substituting the A1 position with a BTD moiety led to a substantial increase in the light absorption capacity of the dye. …”
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