Disturbed sleep after lung transplantation is associated with worse patient-reported outcomes and chronic lung allograft dysfunction by Aric A. Prather, PhD, Ying Gao, MS, Legna Betancourt, BS, Rose C. Kordahl, BS, Anya Sriram, BS, Chiung-Yu Huang, PhD, Steven R. Hays, MD, Jasleen Kukreja, MD, Daniel R. Calabrese, MD, Aida Venado, MD, Bhavya Kapse, PhD, John R. Greenland, MD, PhD, Jonathan P. Singer, MD, MS

“…From the SPI, we also derived an insomnia-specific subscale. …”
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Effect of ionic strength and mixing ratio on complex coacervation of soy protein isolate/Flammulina velutipes polysaccharide by Junmiao Zhang, Hengjun Du, Ning Ma, Lei Zhong, Gaoxing Ma, Fei Pei, Hui Chen, Qiuhui Hu

“…Soy protein isolate (SPI) is a commercial protein with balanced amino acids, while the poor solubility impedes its use in traditional foods. …”
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Trend and Temporal Variability of Drought in Kirklareli Province Using Reconnaissance Drought Index and Standardized Precipitation Index by Mustafa Utku Yılmaz

“…The trend and temporal variability of drought were examined at 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12-month time scales using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Reconnaissance Drought Index (RDI). The monthly precipitation and temperature data from the Kırklareli meteorological station between water years 1960-2021 were used to calculate the SPI and RDI. …”
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Preparation and Properties of Soy Protein Isolate/Cotton-Nanocrystalline Cellulose Films by Guoyu Zhao, Chongyin Zhou, Fangyu Fan

“…Water solubility of the SPI/C-NCC films decreased from 44.46% of the SPI films to 35.36% of the SPI/C-NCC films with 5% C-NCC. …”
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MAPPING DRYNESS TIME-SCALES IN THE CURVATURE CARPATHIANS AND SUBCARPATHIANS (ROMANIA) BY THE STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX by ANDUŢA GROFU, CARMEN-SOFIA DRAGOTĂ, CĂTĂLINA MĂRCULEŢ, LOREDANA-ELENA MIC

“…The share of each analysed SPI value set is illustrated on graphs…”
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Trend Analysis of Historical Drought During 1929-2016 in Diyarbakır Station with Innovative Şen Method by Veysel Gümüş, Latif Doğan Dinsever, Oğuz Şimşek

“…The percentage of droughts (sum of moderate, severe, and extreme drought) for 3-months (SPI-3), 6-months (SPI-6) and 12-months (SPI-12) is between 15% and 16.5%. …”
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Bridge Structure Dynamic Analysis under Vessel Impact Loading considering Soil-Pile Interaction and Linear Soil Stiffness Approximation by Jingfeng Zhang, Xiaozhen Li, Yuan Jing, Wanshui Han

“…The appropriate modeling of the soil-pile interaction (SPI) is critical to get the reasonable dynamic responses of bridge structure under impact loading. …”
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Influence of Altitude on the Spatiotemporal Variations of Meteorological Droughts in Mountain Regions of the Free State Province, South Africa (1960–2013) by M. Mbiriri, G. Mukwada, D. Manatsa

“…The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was computed for October to December (OND) and January to March (JFM) summer subseasons for Free State Province, South Africa, to assess the influence of altitude on drought severity and frequency. …”
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Antioxidant, Anti-Tyrosinase, and Wound-Healing Capacities of Soy Protein Hydrolysates Obtained by Hydrolysis with Papaya and Cantaloupe Juices Showing Proteolytic Activity by Thi-Phuong Nguyen, Quang Thai Le, Mai Linh Thi Tran, Kim Nhung Ta, Khoa Thi Nguyen

“…Purified and crude proteases have been broadly applied to obtain hydrolysates from soy protein isolate (SPI) with the improved functional and biological properties. …”
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A two-stage model of the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and the fuzzy synthetic evaluation technique to prioritize sustainable sanitation services under uncertainty by Shaher Zyoud, Siwar M. Omair, Susan A. Jarrad

“…Out of the 25 communities investigated, five exhibited SPI values surpassing 60.0%. Eleven communities possessed SPI values between 50.0% and 60.0%, and nine achieved SPI values ranging from 40.0 to 50.0%. …”
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Hydrological and Meteorological Drought Monitoring and Trend Analysis in Abbay River Basin, Ethiopia by Kassa Abera Tareke, Admasu Gebeyehu Awoke

“…DrinC software (Drought Indices Calculator) was used to calculate the SDI, SPI, and RDI values. The result from meteorological drought using SPI12 and RDI12 shows that 1975, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1991, 1994, and 2010 were extreme drought years, whereas 1983, 1984, 2001, and 2010 were the most extreme hydrological drought years based on the SDI12 result. …”
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Biobased Food Packaging Systems Functionalized with Essential Oil via Pickering Emulsion: Advantages, Challenges, and Current Applications by Patrícia Marques De Farias, Roberta Vieira De Sousa, Bianca Chieregato Maniglia, Melvin Pascall, Julia Matthes, Anna Sadzik, Markus Schmid, Ana Elizabeth Cavalcante Fai

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Spatial and temporal monitoring of drought hazards in Opak Watershed by Suhardono Sapta, Septiariva Iva Yenis, Wijayanti Sovia, Ibriza Naila Maulida, Suryawan I Wayan Koko

“…A Pearson correlation analysis revealed significant relationships: SPI and NDVI (r = 0.527), SPI and NDMI (r = 0.704), and NDVI and NDMI (r = 0.921). …”
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Microencapsulation of Deer Oil in Soy Protein Isolate–Chitosan Complex Coacervate—Preparation, Characterization, and Simulated Digestion by Hongyan Li, Ying Zong, Weijia Chen, Yan Zhao, Jianan Geng, Zhongmei He, Rui Du

“…In this study, DO was encapsulated through the cohesive action of soy protein isolate (SPI) and chitosan (CS). The optimal preparation conditions yielded microcapsules with DO’s highest encapsulation efficiency (EE) (85.28 ± 1.308%) at an SPI/CS mixing ratio of 6:1 and a core-to-wall ratio of 1:2 at pH 6. …”
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Expected annual minima from an idealized moving-average drought index by J. H. Stagge, K. Sung, K. Sung, I. F. Munyejuru, M. A. I. Haidar

“…<p>Numerous drought indices originate from the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and use a moving-average structure to quantify drought severity by measuring normalized anomalies in hydroclimate variables. …”
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Design of a gamification strategy to intervene in social and human factors associated with software process improvement change resistance by Gloria Piedad Gasca‐Hurtado, María Clara Gómez‐Álvarez, Liliana Machuca‐Villegas, Mirna Muñoz

“…Abstract Best practices of software development and software process improvement (SPI) are people‐centred. Both have a high level of influence of social and human factors inherent to the individuals involved in these processes. …”
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Meteorological Drought Monitoring Based on Satellite CHIRPS Product over Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia by Amba Shalishe, Anirudh Bhowmick, Kumneger Elias

“…The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was computed using the gamma distribution method. …”
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A novel regional forecastable multiscalar standardized drought index (RFMSDI) for regional drought monitoring and assessment by Aamina Batool, Veysi Kartal, Zulfiqar Ali, Miklas Scholz, Farman Ali

“…The research findings include the following: 1) K-CGMD is a better fitting approach for standardizing RFMSDI and SPI based on reduced BIC values. 2) RFMSDI has superior performance over SPI based on the lower values of RMSE and MAE. 3) Both machine learning and classical methods reveal that RFMSDI outperforms SPI in predicting droughts. 4) SPI shows localized advantages with the ELM training set at 1- and 6-month time scales but RFMSDI offers a more comprehensive and consistent tool for drought prediction, especially when tested on unseen data. …”
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Targeting the activated allosteric conformation of the endothelin receptor B in melanoma with an antibody-drug conjugate: mechanisms and therapeutic efficacy by Amaury Herbet, Marie Hautière, Frédéric Jean-Alphonse, Delphine Vivier, Christophe Leboeuf, Narciso Costa, Aloïse Mabondzo, Guilhem Bousquet, Franck Denat, Eric Reiter, Didier Boquet

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Análisis temporal de sequías meteorológicas en la cuenca del Río Yaqui (México) y su relación con ENSO by Julián Cerano Paredes, Gerardo Esquivel Arriaga, Ignacio Sánchez Cohen, Josué Raymundo Estrada Arrellano

“…ENSO influye significativamente en la variabilidad del SPI en la cuenca. …”
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