Measuring the Effect of Vision on the Synergy of Lower Extremity Muscles during Walking using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NNMF) Algorithm Method by Nasim Safari, Mahboubeh Alemzadeh, Mahdi Majlesi, Nader Farahpour, Muharram Mansoorizadeh

“…Muscle synergy matrix and synergy activation coefficient were calculated using the NNMF algorithm, while the variance accounted for criterion was used to determine the number of synergies required during walking. …”
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The Relationship between Stress and Preclinical Dental Students’ Performance: A Longitudinal Study by Diva Lugassy, Gil Ben-Izhack, Sara Zissu, Rotem Shitrit Lahav, Ophir Rosner, Nir Uziel, Sarit Naishlos, Asaf Shely

“…Kendall’s nonparametric correlations were calculated to investigate the relationships of DES stressors and depression, anxiety, and stress scores with manual performance. …”
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Effects of underlying substrates on the underwater oleophobicity of graphene oxide-phytic acid (GO-PA) coatings by Sue Lyn Tan, Abraham Matthews Joshua, Ee Von Lau

“…The GO-PA coatings were applied on a variety of substrates, and their surface wettability was evaluated through contact angle measurements, surface energy calculations and adhesion force studies. Results showed that the underwater oleophobicity of GO-PA coated substrates was the lowest in stainless steel, followed by copper, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and carbon steel. …”
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Reduced Inspiratory Muscle Strength in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea by Thomas Rehling, Anne Margareta Banghøj, Marie Hvelplund Kristiansen, Lise Tarnow, Stig Molsted

“…Reference IMS values were data calculated using an algorithm based on general populations and adjusted for age and gender. …”
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Mixture Ratio Design Optimization of Coal Gangue-Based Geopolymer Concrete Based on Modified Gravitational Search Algorithm by Daming Zhang, Fangjin Sun, Tiantian Liu, Zhonghao Xu

“…The modified algorithm was verified by the calculation of typical functions. And results from traditional GSA and GSA modified by another chaotic mapping, logistic mapping, were compared and the characteristics of different GSA were analyzed and concluded. …”
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Efficacy of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Essential Hypertension: An Overview of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses by Maoxia Fan, Guohua Dai, Runmin Li, Xiaoqi Wu

“…This overview included 14 SRs/MAs that use quantitative calculations to comprehensively assess the various effects of acupuncture in essential hypertension interventions. …”
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High-throughput sequence-based microsatellite genotyping for the non-model Neotropical tree species Anadenanthera colubrina (Leguminosae) by Alejandra Lorena Goncalves, María Victoria García, Emilie Chancerel, Olivier Lepais, Myriam Heuertz

“…A significantly higher number of alleles per locus and heterozygosity was detected for SSRseq considering sequence polymorphisms compared to analysing the same data based on sequence size (length) only. Size homoplasy, calculated as the proportion of mismatches between datasets relative to the number of alleles differing in length, averaged 97.85% over all SSR loci. …”
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Pre-Treatment of Vegetable Raw Materials (<i>Sorghum Oryzoidum</i>) for Use in Meat Analog Manufacture by Viorica Bulgaru, Natalia Netreba, Aliona Ghendov-Mosanu

“…Fick’s second law was used to calculate the diffusion coefficient values. These values increased linearly with the temperature increase from 20 to 50 °C, ranging from 0.65 × 10⁻¹¹ to 1.54 × 10⁻¹¹ m²/s. …”
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Assessment of potential winter hardiness in winter bread wheat cultivars and genotypes by analyzing autofluorescence in seedling tissues by I. V. Karkhardin, A. A. Konovalov, N. P. Goncharov

“…Correlation coefficients between fluorescence and frost tolerance were calculated using the results of the analysis of 7 most contrasting cultivars.Conclusions. …”
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Analysis of Vegetation Restoration Potential and Its Influencing Factors on the Loess Plateau: Based on the Potential Realization Model and Spatial Dubin Model by Chao Wang, Lili Han, Youjun He, Yu Zhang, Maomao Zhang

“…To accurately reflect the vegetation restoration effect after ecological policies, this study used the potential realization model to calculate the potential realization degree of vegetation restoration on the Loess Plateau and to assess the vegetation restoration effect after the Grain for Green Program from 2000 to 2020. …”
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A New Evaluation Method for Water Blocking Performance of Coal Seam Floor: Model Construction, Case Application, and Water-Preserved Strategy by Baobin Gao, Chuangnan Ren, Shaopeng Song

“…Secondly, the single-factor membership degree is determined according to the single-factor resilience grade classification criterion and membership function and finally combined with the weight vector for fuzzy synthesis calculation and comprehensive evaluation. The model is applied to a specific project. …”
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Leaf Powder — A Potential Low-cost Biosorbent for the Removal of Cadmium(II) Ions from Wastewater by K.S. Rao, S. Anand, P. Venkateswarlu

“…On the basis of the Langmuir isotherm model, the maximum loading capacity was calculated as 31.15 mg/g. The presence of chloride or sulphate anions had an adverse effect on the Cd(II) ion uptake by PGL. …”
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A Statistical Empirical Model and RSM-Guided Isolation and Characterization of Cellulose from Invasive Weed Senna didymobotrya (Fresen.) Irwin & Barneby, through Chemical and Spect... by Meseret Zebeaman Birhanu, Mesfin Getachew Tadesse, Rakesh Kumar Bachheti, Ibrahim Nasser Ahmed, Archana Bachheti

“…Even though the intensity of FTIR and XRD graphs of the isolated cellulose was higher than the commercial cellulose, the crystallinity index calculated from XRD analysis showed that the commercial cellulose (83%) was higher than the isolated cellulose (78%). …”
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Clinical outcomes of neuroendoscopic resection of brain abscess guided by electromagnetic navigation among patients presenting at Jieyang People's Hospital in China by Mindong Huang, Jiandan Zou

“…After successful registration, the abscess wall was cauterized with bipolar under the guidance of electromagnetic navigation, and the abscess wall was taken for bacterial culture and drug sensitivity test. We calculated the positive rate of bacterial culture, that is, the positive rate of bacterial culture is the number of positive cases of bacterial culture divided by the total number of cases sent for culture. …”
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Analying the vulnerability of the lorestan province due to changes in effective rainfalls, based on USDA method by ali saadat, mohamad saligheh, mohamadhosin nassrzadeh

“…Relation humidity got decreased in the second compared to the first period, and wind speed increased by studying the process of the data changes, it became evident that climate change leads to the increased inconsistent rainfalls in the studied climate variables indicate that under the effect of climate change , Based on Vibol method, droughts caused by effective rainfalls were calculated, and the probability of effective rainfalls in 5 time periods was accounted for. …”
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Applicability Analysis of Two Comprehensive Drought Meteorological Indexes in Corn Growth Period of Liaoning Province by CAO Yongqiang, ZHAO Zimeng, ZHANG Dan, REN Bo

“…As an important means of drought monitoring, the drought index is of significance for accurate monitoring of drought evolution characteristics during crop growth, improving agricultural drought prevention and mitigation capabilities, and promoting high and stable crop yields.Liaoning Province is an important grain producer in northeast China, and drought is the main meteorological hazard causing erratic corn production in the region.By employing Liaoning as the study area, the basic meteorological data of 19 meteorological stations from 2001 to 2020 are selected.Meanwhile, the drought meteorological composite index (CI) and meteorological drought composite index (MCI) are calculated to compare and analyze the differences between the two drought indices in drought monitoring during the corn growth period in Liaoning in terms of rainfall, average temperature, drought days, drought intensity, drought frequency, and drought event evolution characteristics, with their applicability analyzed.The results show that the precipitation and temperature trend in Liaoning in recent years is 22.37 mm/10a and 0.45 °C/10a respectively.In corn growth periods, the drought frequency of CI and MCI indices is in the order of pre-growth frequency＞late-growth frequency＞mid-growth frequency, and the drought days and frequency monitored by CI are higher than those by MCI.In spatial distribution, the drought frequency in west and south Liaoning is higher than that in other regions.By comparing the evolution characteristics of drought events with CI and MCI indices, CI shows that the drought intensity is large with long duration and much more unreasonable transition.Meanwhile, MCI has better duration and stability, but its drought intensity is low.Additionally, both the drought indices can reflect the spatio-temporal drought evolution in Liaoning, but their spatial applicability is different.CI is more suitable for drought monitoring in western and northern Liaoning, and MCI is more suitable for drought monitoring in eastern and southern Liaoning.…”
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A standardised comparison of chest and percutaneous drainage catheters to evaluate the applicability of the ‘French’ sizing units by Karan Daga, Graham D. Milward, Daniel Pintos dos Santos, Derek W. Edwards, Hans-Ulrich Laasch

“….-12Fr. drainage catheters from 8 manufacturers were tested to ISO 10555-1 standard: Internal diameters were measured with Meyer calibrated pin-gauges. Flow rates were calculated over a period of 30s after achieving steady state. …”
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Design and Development of a Delta 3D Printer Using Salvaged E-Waste Materials by Anthony Simons, Kossi L. M. Avegnon, Cyrus Addy

“…Accuracy and speed are achieved with the use of NEMA 17 stepper motors to drive the various carriages on the vertical axes. Design calculations show that the least force delivered by the stepper motor is 1.73 N which exceeds 0.8334 N, the weight of the load to be carried. …”
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Non vertical ionization-dissociation model for strong IR induced dissociation dynamics of $${{D}_{2}}O^{2+}$$ by Jun Wang, Shu Ning Gao, Aihua Liu, Lanhai He, Xi Zhao

“…This sequential PID pathway significantly contributes to the dissociation yields of water dication. Our calculations are consistent with recent experimental data, which focus on measuring the branching ratio of water dication dissociation. …”
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Comparative Bioavailability of Four Marketed Sparfloxacin Formulations in Healthy Human Volunteers by K. Ravindra Rao, J. Vijaya Ratna, T. Manikya Rao

“…The pharmacokinetic parameters were calculated from the plasma concentration of sparfloxacin versus time data. …”
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