Effects of Climate Variability on Evaporation in Dongping Lake, China, during 2003–2010 by Yuan Rong, Hongbo Su, Renhua Zhang, Zheng Duan

“…Based on two long-term, hourly (10:30–11:30 and 13:10–14:10) meteorological over-lake observations and data from Shenxian meteorological station, nearby Dongping Lake, the Penman-Monteith equation and reference evaporation ratio algorithm were used to calculate lake evaporation in Dongping Lake, China, from 2003 to 2010. …”
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Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of Coolant Flow Decrease in Fuel Channels of Smolensk-3 RBMK during GDH Blockage Event by A. Lombardi Costa, M. Cherubini, F. D'Auria, W. Giannotti, A. Moskalev

“…To investigate the behavior of each FC belonging to the damaged GDH and to have a more realistic trend, one (affected) GDH has been schematized with its forty-two FC, one by one. The calculations were performed using the 0-D NK (neutron kinetic) model of the RELAP5-3.3 stand-alone code. …”
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Enhanced extracellular production of alpha-lactalbumin from Bacillus subtilis through signal peptide and promoter screening by Yuqi Zhu, Pengdong Sun, Chunjian Li, Yu Zhang, Yu Wang, Jingyuan Li, Yanfeng Liu, Jian Chen, Yang Deng

“…Bands in supernatant were observed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and purified by nickel column to calculate the highest yield signal peptide. In addition, different promoters (PaprE, P43, and Pglv) were compared and applied. …”
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Nonlinear Waveform Sensing for Cognitive Radar Based on Reinforcement Learning by Peikun Zhu, Xu Si, Jiachen Han, Jing Liang

“…It embraces the Riccati equation and Riccati-like iterative calculations to obtain the prediction error covariance (PEC) and the prediction Bayesian Cramér–Rao lower bound (PBCRLB), respectively, which are used to guide the optimal waveform design. …”
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Hierarchical accompanying and inhibiting patterns on the spatial arrangement of taxi local hotspots by Xiao-Jian Chen, Quanhua Dong, Changjiang Xiao, Zhou Huang, Keli Wang, Weiyu Zhang, Yu Liu

“…Their optimal radius is adaptively calculated based on the data, which is 90 m × 90 m and 110 m × 110 m in Wuhan and Beijing, respectively. …”
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THE QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION OF SOME BIOLOGICAL COMPOUNDS WITH ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES IN THE FRUITS OF DIFFERENT CULTIVARS OF LONICERA CAERULEA FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE "ALEXANDRU... by Ion Roșca, Aliona Glijin, Nina Ciorchină, Elisaveta Onica, Maria Tabăra, Tatiana Calalb, Alina Cutcovschi-Muștuc, Anastasia Elașco

“…The average value of phenols, calculated in the fruits of the investigated cultivars, is 2328.4 mg gallic acid equivalent / 100 g dry matter, due to which the fruits of Lonicera caerulea L. are among the fruits with the highest antioxidant properties.…”
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Development of Semi-Static Steam Process for the Production of Sludge-Based Adsorbents by Yehya A. El-Sayed, Kevin F. Loughlin, Saeed ur Rehman, Dana Abouelnasr, Isam Al-Zubaidy

“…The BET surface area for the SBA sample produced in the proposed method is calculated to be 838 m 2 /g. The SBA samples are then compared for adsorption efficiency of lead ions from aqueous solution, which is observed to be dependent on the microporosity and surface basicity.…”
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Human Mature Adipocytes Express Albumin and This Expression Is Not Regulated by Inflammation by Maria Luisa Sirico, Bruna Guida, Alfredo Procino, Andrea Pota, Maurizio Sodo, Giuseppe Grandaliano, Simona Simone, Giovanni Pertosa, Eleonora Riccio, Bruno Memoli

“…In sixty-three healthy subjects and fifty-four micro-inflamed end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients circulating levels of albumin were measured by nephelometry; all subjects were also evaluated for body composition, calculated from bioelectrical measurements and an thropometric data. …”
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Oxidative toxicity mediated oophoritis alters ovarian growth in Channa punctatus under prolonged exposure to herbicide, paraquat dichloride by Anamika Jain, Shefalee Singh, Seema Yadav, Aastha Dubey, Yashika Awasthi, Vidyanand Tiwari, Vivek Kumar, Indrani Dubey, Sunil P. Trivedi, Manoj Kumar

“…The 96-h LC50 of test herbicide was calculated as 0.24 mL/L for the fish under examination, subsequently, three sub-lethal concentrations were taken in addition to control for the study. …”
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Vinegar Consumption Increases Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Uptake by the Forearm Muscle in Humans with Type 2 Diabetes by Panayota Mitrou, Eleni Petsiou, Emilia Papakonstantinou, Eirini Maratou, Vaia Lambadiari, Panayiotis Dimitriadis, Filio Spanoudi, Sotirios A. Raptis, George Dimitriadis

“…Glucose uptake was calculated as the arteriovenous difference of glucose multiplied by blood flow. …”
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The Relationship between Serum 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D and Insulin Sensitivity and  β-Cell Function in Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes by Yuan Gao, Xinchi Wu, Qi Fu, Yanyun Li, Tao Yang, Wei Tang

“…The ratio of 0–120 min area under curve of insulin to glucose (insulin release index, INSR) was calculated as surrogate index of β-cell insulin secretion function. …”
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Suzaku Observations of the Cold Front in A3667: A Nonequilibrium Ionization State of the Intracluster Medium by Mona Shishido, Yuusuke Uchida, Takayoshi Kohmura

“…., n _e t > 10 ^12 s cm ^−3 ). The timescale calculated from the ionization parameter of the ICM inside the cold front is ${3.9}_{-0.8}^{+0.7}\,\mathrm{Myr}$ , which is much shorter than the thermal equilibration timescale. …”
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Nano-biopesticide formulation comprising of silver nanoparticles anchored to Ocimum sanctum: a sustainable approach to pest control in jute farming by Avirup Ghosh, Dipanwita Majumdar, Himani Biswas, Anupam Chowdhury, Sanjoy Podder

“…The LC50 values were calculated both for the nano-biopesticide formulation and pure extract after 24, 48 and 72 h of treatment. …”
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Mouth opening variables amongst the North Indian population by Disha Dixit, Pavitra Rastogi, Nand Lal, Rameshwari Singhal

“…This study aims to establish a standard for calculating the normal range of mouth opening in the adult population of North India. …”
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Development of a novel multi-epitope subunit mRNA vaccine candidate to combat Acinetobacter baumannii by Shiyang Ma, Fei Zhu, Peipei Zhang, Yizhong Xu, Ziyou Zhou, Hang Yang, Caixia Tan, Jie Chen, Pinhua Pan

“…All epitopes, as well as adjuvants, were constructed into a final vaccine, which was further assessed by calculating its physicochemical properties. Next, we docked the vaccine protein with immune receptors and analyzed the complexes with dynamic simulations to evaluate its affinity to receptors. …”
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Effect of yttrium addition timing on inclusion evolution and grain growth behavior in spring steel 55SiCr by Shuai Ma, Yang Li, Zhouhua Jiang, Meng Sun, Yunqie Mao, Yanshuo Ma, Yucheng Wang, Tianci Li, Yunfei Niedeng, Rui Yang, Hang Liu

“…Meanwhile, the inclusions were completely modified into Y2O2S and YS, and the inclusions achieved fine dispersion distribution, and the micrograin size grade of austenite grains was increased from 4.79 to 6.09. The calculation of Gibbs free energy of inclusion formation shows that the inclusions generated with the oxygen content from high to low are Y2O3→Y2O2S→YS when yttrium is added to spring steel. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution of multiple time scale precipitation in Yellow River Basin based on Köppen-Geiger Trend Indicator System by Hao Ke, Wenzhuo Wang, Zengchuan Dong, Xinhua Zhu, Zhuozheng Li, Chao Lü, Dawei Jin, Weilin Liu

“…The Köppen-Geiger Trend Indicator System was proposed, which divides the study region into various climate zones and calculates indicators for quantifying precipitation trends. …”
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Protein dielectric characterization using a tetra square-shaped DNG metamaterial as a differential microwave sensor by Shihabun Sakib, Ahasanul Hoque, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Md. Shabiul Islam, Mohamed S. Soliman, Haitham Alsaif

“…And it can operate in a bandwidth of over 1GHz with two resonance frequencies at 3.955GHz and 4.31GHz. The calculated average sensitivity is 0.7198, higher than the previously reported differential sensors. …”
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Derivatization of Levoglucosan for Compound-Specific δ13C Analysis by Gas Chromatography/Combustion/Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry by Dongling Zhang, Swe Swe Aung, Yong Han, Yanlin Zhang, Yingjun Chen, Hongli Li, Feifei Yu, Yangjun Wang, Jialiang Feng, Wu Wang

“…The differences in the carbon isotopic compositions of the target boronate trimethysilylated derivative between the measured and calculated ranged from 0.09 to 0.36‰. The standard deviation of measured δ13C value of levoglucosan was between 0.22 and 0.48‰. …”
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Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence: Computer-aided Detection of Colorectal Polyps by Yuya Hiratsuka, Takashi Hisabe, Kensei Ohtsu, Tatsuhisa Yasaka, Kazuhiro Takeda, Masaki Miyaoka, Yoichiro Ono, Takao Kanemitsu, Kentaro Imamura, Teruyuki Takeda, Satoshi Nimura, Kenshi Yao

“…This study aimed to evaluate the usefulness of AI for colonoscopy using CAD-EYEⓇ (Fujifilm, Tokyo, Japan) to calculate the adenoma miss rate (AMR). Methods: This randomized, open-label, single-center, tandem study was conducted at Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital from February 2022 to November 2022. …”
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