Kinematic Rupture Process of Manyas (Mw=4.7) and Gemlik (Mw=4.8) Earthquakes Occurred in The Southern Marmara Region by Feyza Nur Bekler, Nurcan Meral Özel, Gülüm Tanırcan

“…Theoretical Green’s functions between subfaults and stations were calculated by a Discrete Wave Number Method (DWNM) using one-dimensional (1-D) velocity structure. …”
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Anthropometric Indicators to Determine the Obesity and its Relations with the Cardiometabolic Risk by Raúl Cedeño Morales, Maricel Castellanos González, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Luis Mass Sosa, Carlos Mora Hernández, Jorge Carlos Parada Arias

“…There were operationalized like clinical variables: measurement of the abdominal waist, index of corporal mass, cutaneous crease and blood pressure; and like variables of laboratory: total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, glucemia and tri-glycerides. It was calculated the correlation coefficient of Pearson with 95 % confidence interval. …”
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Prediction of Photovoltaic Power by ANN Based on Various Environmental Factors in India by B. Suresh Kumar, Jenifer Mahilraj, R. K. Chaurasia, Chitaranjan Dalai, A. H. Seikh, S. M. A. K. Mohammed, Ram Subbiah, Abdi Diriba

“…It is possible to reduce bias to enhance accuracy by employing two distinct bias calculation methodologies, which were applied in this study. …”
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The Long-Term Clinical and Economic Impact of Universal Varicella Vaccination in Slovenia by Colleen Burgess, Stephanie Kujawski, Ajda Lapornik, Goran Bencina, Manjiri Pawaskar

“…Costs, quality-adjusted life-years, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios vs no vaccination were calculated to assess the economic impact of each strategy from payer and societal perspectives. …”
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Adsorption of Chromium (VI) by Cu (I)-MOF in Water: Optimization, Kinetics, and Thermodynamics by Hongxue Qi, Xianjun Niu, Haipeng Wu, Xiuping Liu, Yongqiang Chen

“…Subsequently, the thermodynamic parameters of the adsorption were calculated as follows: enthalpy change (ΔHθ) was −8.583 kJ·mol−1, entropy change (ΔSθ) was −8.243 J·mol−1 K−1, and the Gibbs function change (ΔGθ) was less than zero in the temperature range of 288–328 K, indicating that the reaction was spontaneous. …”
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Prevalence and Factors Associated With Obesity Among Children and Adolescents Living With Disability in Yaoundé, Cameroon by Enjeh Jabbossung Fombo, Nchinjoh Sangwe Clovis, Michael Ngenge Budzi, Marvel Changoh Changoh, Leslie Tasha Mbapah, Hawi Kidanu Kebede, Adam J. Rose

“…The children’s and adolescent’s weight (in Kg) and height (in m) were measured, and Body Mass Index (BMI) status calculated. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to examine the associations between these independent variables and obesity. …”
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Bat Cave Vulnerability Index 3.0 (BCVI-S): An integrative and scalable tool to prioritise bat caves for conservation by Krizler C. Tanalgo, Alice Catherine Hughes

“…We calibrated the Bat Cave Vulnerability Index 3.0 (BCVI-S) and its indicators to optimise the scalability and applicability of the index in wider contexts by improving the calculations of Biotic Potential and the use of more standardised remotely sensed data to obtain Biotic Vulnerability based on landscape features. …”
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Electromagnetic signal modulation recognition technology based on lightweight deep neural network by Sicheng ZHANG, Yun LIN, Ya TU, Shiwen Mao

“…In response to the trend that in the 6th generation wireless (6G) era,mobile communications and artificial intelligence will be closely integrated,and a huge number of edge intelligent signal processing nodes will be deployed,an efficient and intelligent electromagnetic signal recognition model was proposed,which could be deployed on resource-constrained edge devices.The constellation diagram of electromagnetic signal was firstly drawn to visualize electromagnetic signal as a two-dimensional image,and color the constellation diagram according to the normalized point density to achieve feature enhancement.Then,a binary deep neural network was adopted to recognize the colored constellation diagrams.It was shown that the approach can guarantee a high recognition accuracy,which significantly reduced the model storage and calculation costs.For verification,the proposed approach was applied to the problem of electromagnetic signal modulation recognition.The experiment uses eight commonly used digital modulation signals and selects additive white Gaussian noise as the channel environment.The experimental results show that the scheme can achieve a comprehensive recognition rate of 96.1% under the noise condition of -6～6 dB,while the size of the network model is only 166 KB.Further,the execution time,when executed on a Raspberry Pi 4B,is only 290 ms.Compared to a full-precision network of the same scale,the accuracy is increased by 0.6%,the model is reduced to <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mfrac> <mtext>1</mtext> <mrow> <mtext>26</mtext><mo>.…”
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Mean Platelet Volume and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Zhongwei Zhou, Hongmei Chen, Mingzhong Sun, Huixiang Ju

“…Pooled standardized mean differences (SMD) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated using a random-effect model. Results. Nineteen studies comprising 1361 GDM patients and 1911 normal pregnant women were included. …”
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Observation of food habits and awareness level of students studying at the School of Physical Education and Sports by Harun Akyol, Metin Bayram, Gokhan Bayraktar, Erdogan Tozoglu

“…The frequency and percentage values of the derived data have been calculated, and a chi-square had been utilized to detect any variance between the groups within different categories. …”
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Infertility and risk of ovarian cancer: A systematic review and meta analysis by Indra Sambasivam, H. Gladius Jennifer, Saravanan Chinnaiyan

“…The global prevalence of ovarian cancer among women with a history of infertility was 0.5%. The calculated OR of developing ovarian cancer as a result of infertility was 1.35 (95% CI: 0.92–1.97). …”
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The effect of internal branding on financial performance and brand loyalty with the mediating role of psychological empowerment (case study: Saman Bank, Tehran Province) by Nader Sheikholeslami Kandelousi, Samira Soltanieh, Fatemeh Ahmadi

“…The validity of the questionnaire was assessed using the method of content validity and face validity, and its reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha. Structural equation modelling method and SmartPLS software were used to test the research hypotheses.Findings: The results of the research showed that the effect of internal branding on financial performance and brand loyalty with the mediating role of psychological empowerment (case study: Saman Bank of Tehran Province) has a significant effect.Originality/Value: Originality in research mean what you are doing is from your own perspective although you may draw arguments from other research work to back up your arguments.…”
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Changes in Paraspinal Muscles and Facet Joints after Minimally Invasive Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Using the Cortical Bone Trajectory Technique: A Prospective Study by Yue Li, Yuxiang Chen, Yuzeng Liu, Yong Hai, Xinuo Zhang, Li Guan, Tianqing Zhang

“…The erector spinae (ES) muscle area, volume, and fat infiltration (FI) on the surgical and adjacent segments were evaluated using the thresholding method, and the degree of adjacent facet joint degeneration was calculated using the Weishaupt scale. FI rate was graded using the Kjaer method. …”
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Single Leg Bridge Test is Not a Valid Clinical Tool to Assess Maximum Hamstring Strength by Gabriela Bissani Gasparin, João Breno Araujo Ribeiro-Alvares, Bruno Manfredini Baroni

“…For both SLBT and isokinetic dynamometry, between-limb asymmetry was calculated as the percentage difference between the left limb and the right limb. …”
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Comparison of United States and Canadian Glaucoma Medication Costs and Price Change from 2006 to 2013 by Matthew B. Schlenker, Graham E. Trope, Yvonne M. Buys

“…We modelled glaucoma brand name and generic medication annual costs in the USA and Canada based on October 2013 Costco prices and previously reported bottle overfill rates, drops per mL, and wastage adjustment. We also calculated real wholesale price changes from 2006 to 2013 based on the Average Wholesale Price (USA) and the Ontario Drug Benefit Price (Canada). …”
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Influence of cooling rate on microstructure development of AlSi9MgMn alloy by Stanić D., Zovko-Brodarac Z.

“…The aim of this investigation is the characterization of AlSi9MgMn alloy microstructure and mechanical properties at lower cooling rates than those for which this alloy was primarily developed. Thermodynamic calculation and thermal analyses revealed solidification sequence in correlation to the microstructure investigation as follows: development of primary dendrite network, precipitation of high temperature Al15(Mn,Fe)3Si2 and Al5FeSi phases, main eutectic reaction, precipitation of intermetallic Al8Mg3FeSi6 phase, and Mg2Si as a final solidifying phase. …”
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Solanum Procumbens-Derived Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Suppress Lung Cancer In Vitro through Elevation of ROS by Ibrahim Ibrahim Abdel Aziz, Almaimani A. Riyad, Almasmoum A. Hussian, Ghaith M. Mazen, Moorthy Kannaiyan

“…Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), cytotoxicity, and cell viability assays revealed that the SP-ZnONP caused the cell death and the inhibition concentration (IC50) was calculated to be 61.28 μg/mL. Treatment with SP-ZnONPs caused morphological alterations in cells, such as rounding, which may have been caused by the substance’s impact on integrins. …”
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Soft Tissue Stability around Single Implants Inserted to Replace Maxillary Lateral Incisors: A 3D Evaluation by F. G. Mangano, F. Luongo, G. Picciocchi, C. Mortellaro, K. B. Park, C. Mangano

“…The assessment of soft tissues changes was performed via calculation of the Euclidean surface distances between the 3D models, after the superimposition of S2 on S1; colour maps were used for quantification of changes. …”
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Identification of Volatile Compounds and Insecticidal Activity of Essential Oils from Origanum compactum Benth. and Rosmarinus officinalis L. against Callosobruchus maculatus (Fab.... by Asmae Baghouz, Yamna Bouchelta, Imane Es-safi, Mohammed Bourhia, El Moussaoui Abdelfattah, Abdullah A. Alarfaj, Abdurahman Hajinur Hirad, Hiba-Allah Nafidi, Raja Guemmouh

“…EOC exhibited a potent insecticidal activity with calculated LC50 values of 6.77 and 3.57 μL/L air, 24 and 48 h posttreatment, respectively. …”
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A Novel Role for Corneal Pachymetry in Planning Cataract Surgery by Determining Changes in Spherical Equivalent Resulting from a Previous LASIK Treatment by Arthur Hammer, Tjebo F. C. Heeren, Romesh Angunawela, John Marshall, Kamran Saha

“…This could prove useful for increased accuracy of intraocular lens (IOL) calculations for patients with no historical data of their prior LVC surgery at the time of cataract surgery planning.…”
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