Longer respiratory events in childhood obstructive sleep apnea syndrome constitute a trait of older children with excessive daytime sleepiness by Plamen Bokov, Benjamin Dudoignon, Boris Matrot, Christophe Delclaux

“…We retrospectively selected 35 otherwise healthy children (median age: 10.6 years, 16 females) with moderate to severe OSA who had measurements of pharyngeal compliance (acoustic pharyngometry), loop gain (awake tidal ventilation with calculation of controller and plant gains), and respiratory system impedance (impulse oscillometry system). …”
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Balanced operation strategies of district heating systems based on dynamic hydraulic-thermal modeling by Xiaojie Lin, Ning Zhang, Zheng Luo, Encheng Feng, Wei Zhong

“…The linearization and iterative optimization process are adopted to simplify the hydraulic and thermal modeling for the single pipe, and the hydraulic and thermal calculation are conducted sequentially. For the primary side network in the various operation conditions, the dynamic hydraulic-thermal model is established. …”
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Double Diffusion Mixed Convection in a Porous Cylindrical Cavity Filled with a Casson Nanofluid Driven by a Lid, Taking Into Account the Soret and Dufour Effects by Mustapha El Hamma, Lebna Elattari, Soufiane Nouari

“…The aim of this study is to analyze and calculate the thermosolutal mixed convection in a porous cylindrical cavity containing a Casson nanofluid (aluminum nanoparticle). …”
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RETRACTED: Associations of vitamin D receptor polymorphisms with risk of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analy... by Yanjun Du, Peizhen Geng, Qunqun Chen, Laixi Han, Lu Liu, Maoquan Yang, Mingzhu Tan, Jun Meng, Xiaojuan Sun, Lidan Feng

“…Crude odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated to determine the relationship of interest. …”
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Review and Analysis of Voltage Clamping Circuits With Low Overvoltage Ratios for DC Circuit Breakers by Shuyan Zhao, Chunmeng Xu, Lakshmi Ravi, Zhou Dong, Pietro Cairoli

“…A key performance index of voltage clamping circuits is the overvoltage ratio, which calculates the peak switching overvoltage over the nominal voltage during fault interruption processes. …”
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Association between allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis on multislice computed tomography scan paranasal sinuses by Abdillah Aisyah Puteri Abi, Firmansyah Rizky, Mulyani Dewi Ari, Prisila Elvina, Novariani Muriana, Kurniawan Nurcolid Umam, Abdullah Adnan

“…The highest frequency of chronic rhinosinusitis features was the unilateral maxillary type with 31 cases (18.6%). The calculation results of the relationship between chronic rhinosinusitis show a P-Value of 0.352. …”
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Automating band selection for hyperspectral indices: bridging AVIRIS-NG and Sentinel-2 satellite data for earth science applications by Veerendra Satya Sylesh Peddinti, Venkata Ravibabu Mandla, Shashi Mesapam, Suresh Kancharla

“…The methodology involves calculating indices from all possible AVIRIS band combinations, evaluating their root mean squared error (RMSE) against Sentinel-2 indices, reducing RMSE skewness, and selecting bands with minimal deviation for specific Land Use Land Cover (LULC) categories. …”
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Influence of Underpinning Pile Drilling Construction on the Bearing Behavior of Existing Loaded Foundation Piles: Case Study by Hua-feng Shan, Tang-dai Xia, Feng Yu, Hai-bing Tao, Shao-heng He

“…This paper proposes a new excavation scheme for high-rise buildings in downtown and develops theoretical formulas to calculate the skin friction and end resistance of existing foundation piles affected by adjacent borehole drilling for installing underpinning piles. …”
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Spatiotemporal evolution of ecological vulnerability on the Loess Plateau by Xianqi Zhang, Yupeng Zheng, Yang Yang, He Ren, Jiawen Liu

“…Using GIS-based overlay analysis, an ecological vulnerability index was calculated, enabling the assessment of spatiotemporal changes and identification of key influencing factors. …”
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FingerDTA: A Fingerprint-Embedding Framework for Drug-Target Binding Affinity Prediction by Xuekai Zhu, Juan Liu, Jian Zhang, Zhihui Yang, Feng Yang, Xiaolei Zhang

“…A fusion of global information and local patterns can construct neural network calculations closer to actual biological processes. This paper proposes a Fingerprint-embedding framework for Drug-Target binding Affinity prediction (FingerDTA), which uses CNN to extract local patterns and utilize fingerprints to characterize global information. …”
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Study on Creep Characteristics of Expansive Soil in High-Fill Channel of South-to-North Water Transfer Project by Jianhua Guo, Zhangjun Dai, Shichang Li, Nadeem Muhammad, Hui Gao

“…The modified Bjerrum calculation method considering the influence of additional load and lateral deformation yields the postexpansion soil settlement curve model to determine the control index range of the project site. …”
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Physicochemical and Vibration Analysis of Christmas Tree Four-Way Flange Failure under Fracturing Process by Zhaoming Zhou, Dawen Gong, Kelong Yang, Zhong Zeng, Zhou Xiao

“…Through physical and chemical tests and theoretical calculations, it is found that the cause of failure is the unbalanced load and resonance of the bolt, and the nut undercuts under high-frequency vibration, which causes leakage at the flange connection and eventually causes erosion failure. …”
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Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms Predispose to Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Severity of the Disease in Polish Population by Agnieszka Kempińska-Podhorecka, Ewa Wunsch, Tomasz Jarowicz, Joanna Raszeja-Wyszomirska, Beata Loniewska, Mariusz Kaczmarczyk, Małgorzata Milkiewicz, Piotr Milkiewicz

“…Pairwise linkage disequilibrium (LD) calculations proved that the analyzed SNPs are within an LD block (100% of LDs were D’>0.9). …”
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Mechanism of seismic-collapsed loess landslides induced by the Ms6.2 earthquake in Jishishan County, Gansu Province, China by Yali Wang, Ping Wang, Guofu Luo, Shaofeng Chai, Wenguo Ma, Chenyang Ye, Shiyang Xu, Haoran Yu

“…To investigate its disaster-causing mechanism: the dynamic triaxial test was conducted to assess the seismic subsidence potential of the loess at the site, and the maximum subsidence amount under different seismic loads were calculated by combining actual data from nearby bedrock stations with site amplification data from the active source; simulation of the destabilization evolution of seismic-collapsed loess landslides by large-scale shaking table tests; and a three-dimensional slope model was developed using finite element method to study the complex seismic conditions responsible for site damage. …”
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Densely populated macrocyclic dicobalt sites in ladder polymers for low-overpotential oxygen reduction catalysis by Zhen Zhang, Zhenyu Xing, Xianglin Luo, Chong Cheng, Xikui Liu

“…In situ techniques and theoretical calculations reveal the dynamic evolution of Co2N4O2 active sites and reaction intermediates. …”
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Effects of Spirulina on Cyclophosphamide-Induced Ovarian Toxicity in Rats: Biochemical and Histomorphometric Evaluation of the Ovary by Nese Arzu Yener, Orhun Sinanoglu, Erdin Ilter, Aygen Celik, Gulbuz Sezgin, Ahmet Midi, Ugur Deveci, Fehime Aksungar

“…Normal and atretic primordial and primary follicle counts for all sections obtained for each ovary are calculated. Mean number of follicle counts for each group are compared. …”
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Microstructural Investigations of Rapidly Solidified Al-Co-Y Alloys by B. Avar, M. Gogebakan, M. Tarakci, Y. Gencer, S. Kerli

“…From DSC results, only Al85Co7Y8 amorphous alloy exhibited a glass transition temperature (Tg) at 569 K, and its supercooled liquid region (ΔTx=Tx−Tg) was found to be 17 K. Moreover, other calculated GFA parameters for this alloy system were also discussed.…”
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Strategic Deconfliction of 4D Trajectory and Perturbation Analysis for Air Traffic Control and Automation System by Xinmin Tang, Yu Zhang, Ping Chen, Bo Li, Songchen Han

“…In addition, departure time and flight duration perturbations were introduced to analyze the sensitivity of the planned strategic conflict-free 4D trajectories, and a robustness index for the conflict-free 4D trajectories was calculated. Finally, the proposed method was tested for the Shanghai air traffic control terminal area. …”
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A remote sensing-based strategy for mapping anthropogenic urban surface ecological poorness zones (AUSEPZ): A case study of Lisbon City by Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei, Naeim Mijani, Peter M. Atkinson

“…Additionally, a feature space was established between the Impervious Surface Percentage (ISP) and CEEI to calculate AUSEPZ intensity across different years. …”
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Oral Administration of the Endocannabinoid Anandamide during Lactation: Effects on Hypothalamic Cannabinoid Type 1 Receptor and Food Intake in Adult Mice by Carolina Aguirre, Valeska Castillo, Miguel Llanos

“…At 21 and 160 days, CB1R protein abundance was calculated by western blot analysis. Capacity of hypothalamic membranes to specifically bind the radioligand 3[H]-CP55.940 was also measured. …”
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