Investigation, Optimization of Energy Consumption and Yield Modeling of Two Paddy Cultivars with Genetic-Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm by S. Sharifi, N. Hafezi, M. H. Aghkhani

“…In the first step, energy consumption and production were calculated by multiplying the variables by their corresponding coefficients. In the second step, all the variables that maximize paddy yield were entered into MATLAB software. …”
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Inversion and validation of soil water-holding capacity in a wild fruit forest, using hyperspectral technology combined with machine learning by Tingwei Song, Liang Guo, Qian Sun, Guizhen Gao, Jing Chen, Qikun Zhang

“…The results revealed a significant negative correlation between SWHC and the smoothed leaf spectral reflectance, with the best correlation coefficient was r = − 0.59. The use of third-order derivatives and logarithmic second-order derivatives further enhanced this correlation, yielding optimal coefficients of r = − 0.78 and r = − 0.72, respectively. …”
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Analysis of Heat Transfer Performance in a Brayton Cycle Recuperator by Elvis Falcão de Araújo, Guilherme Borges Ribeiro, Lamartine Nogueira Frutuoso Guimarães

“…The characteristic curves of heat transfer rate, effectiveness, convection coefficient and Colburn factor are built for each of the studied geometries in function of the Reynolds number. …”
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The association between age and long-term quality of life after curative treatment for prostate cancer: a cross-sectional study by Reidun Sletten, Ola Berger Christiansen, Line Merethe Oldervoll, Lennart Åstrøm, Håvard Kjesbu Skjellegrind, Jūratė Šaltytė Benth, Øyvind Kirkevold, Sverre Bergh, Bjørn Henning Grønberg, Siri Rostoft, Asta Bye, Paul Jarle Mork, Marit Slaaen

“…We found no statistically significant independent association between age at treatment and global QoL, PF or side effects, except for sexual function (regression coefficient [RC] −0.77; p < 0.001) and hormonal/vitality (RC 0.30; p = 0.006) function. …”
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Stability analysis of grid-connected hydropower plant considering turbine nonlinearity and parameter-varying penstock model by Chen Feng, Na sun, Chuang Zheng, Yongqi Zhu, Nan Zhang, Yahui Shan, Liping Shi, Xiaoming Xue

“…The nonlinear state space equations of GCHTGS with PVM and variable transfer coefficients are established. First, the influence of different penstock models on stability is investigated, and the comparison results show that the proposed PVM has a more precise stability region. …”
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First-principles investigation on structural, electronic, and optical properties of (Cd1-xZnx)3As2 by Yu Deng, Xun Ge, Rongxiu Feng, Yunye Liang, Xiaohao Zhou

“…Calculations on the optical properties (dielectric function, absorption coefficient) of (Cd1-xZnx)3As2 show that it behaves well in the near infrared and far infrared. …”
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Estimating Daily Rice Crop Evapotranspiration in Limited Climatic Data and Utilizing the Soft Computing Algorithms MLP, RBF, GRNN, and GMDH by Pouya Aghelpour, Hadigheh Bahrami-Pichaghchi, Farzaneh Karimpour

“…The ETc rates were calculated by seven meteorological variables, the FAO-56 Penman-Monteith equation, and the regional calibrated rice crop coefficient and considered as the reference data. …”
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Enhancing Thermal–Hydraulic Performance in Nuclear Reactor Subchannels with Al₂O₃ Nanofluids: A CFD Analysis by Mohammad A. I. Sardar, Mushfiqur Rahman, Philip Rubini

“…This analysis has been carried out using the RNG k-epsilon turbulence model with standard wall function in ANSYS FLUENT 2022R1. The impact of various flow conditions and nanofluid concentrations has been examined. …”
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The Effect of Capital Ownership and Ownership Spread on Economic Income Distribution by Esat Daşdemir, Halil Tunalı

“…According to the obtained results, an increase in the ratio of publicly traded stocks improves income distribution; in other words, the GINI coefficient decreases. This result was determined to be more intense in the Turkish economy with the dummy variables that were used. …”
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Crystalloid Liberal or Vasopressors Early Resuscitation in Sepsis-Study of Treatment’s Echocardiographic Mechanisms (CLOVERS-STEM) by Michael J. Lanspa, MD, Akram Khan, MD, Patrick G. Lyons, MD, Michelle N. Gong, MD, Ali A. Naqvi, MD, Siddharth Dugar, MD, Abhijit Duggal, MD, Nicholas J. Johnson, MD, Jacob H. Schoeneck, MD, Lane Smith, MD, PhD, Somnath Bose, MD, MPH, Nathan I. Shapiro, MD, Tatyana Shvilkina, DO, Danielle Groat, MStat, Jason R. Jacobs, PhD, Troy D. Olsen, RCDS, Steven Cannavina, RCDS, Daniel B. Knox, MD, Eliotte L. Hirshberg, MD, Wesley H. Self, MD, Samuel M. Brown, MD

“…Receipt of fluid and vasopressors, common treatments in septic shock, may affect cardiac function. OBJECTIVES:. We sought to determine whether a liberal or restrictive fluid resuscitation strategy was associated with changes in cardiac function. …”
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Improved basal drag of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from L-curve analysis of inverse models utilizing subglacial hydrology simulations by L.-S. Höyns, L.-S. Höyns, L.-S. Höyns, T. Kleiner, A. Rademacher, M. Rückamp, M. Wolovick, M. Wolovick, A. Humbert, A. Humbert

“…Since we cannot directly measure basal properties on a large scale, inverse models can be used to infer the basal drag coefficient by minimizing a cost function that depends on a velocity misfit and a regularization term.…”
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Correlation of Immune Parameters in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing General Anesthesia: post-hoc Analysis of the TeMP Study by Kristina K. Kadantseva, Valery V. Subbotin, Mikhail Y. Yadgarov, Elizaveta M. Korolenok, Levan B. Berikashvili, Roman A. Akchulpanov, Nikolay S. Karnaukhov, Ksenia S. Korchagina, Polina I. Kukina, Oksana A. Svitich, Artem N. Kuzovlev, Anna S. Barmina, Valery V. Likhvantsev

“…Spearman correlation coefficients and heat maps were used for analysis.Results. …”
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Torsional Vibration Suppression During Mode Transition Process in a Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicle Based on Multiple Model Predictive Control by Cheng Huang, Changqing Du, Longjian Li, Xiangyu Gongye, Yifan Zhao

“…At the same time, the influence of the cost function, the weight coefficient, and the predictive time domain on the torsional vibration suppression effect during the mode transition process are explored in the mMPC strategy design, and the solution time is controlled within 10ms, which meet the real-time requirements. …”
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Novel Approximations to the Damped Parametric Driven Pendulum Oscillators by Weaam Alhejaili, Alvaro H. Salas, S. A. El-Tantawy

“…For analyzing and solving the current pendulum equation, we reduce this equation to the damped Duffing equation (DDE) with variable coefficients. After that, the DDE with variable coefficients is divided into two cases. …”
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Modeling and Regulation of Dynamic Temperature for Layer Houses Under Combined Positive- and Negative-Pressure Ventilation by Lihua Li, Min Li, Yao Yu, Yuchen Jia, Zhengkai Qian, Zongkui Xie

“…Additionally, a temperature control method for a layer house is designed using a variable universe fuzzy PID control algorithm (VFPID). …”
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Online identification of stability region for large-scale wind farms, Part I: Clustering based piecewise affine impedance modeling by Jia Luo, Peng Wang, Haoran Zhao, Chenxinwei Yuan, Tiancheng Liu, Vladimir Terzija

“…In each partition, the impedance is expressed as a first-order explicit function of the complex variable and the operating state variables. …”
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ANALYSIS OF CONTACT LOADS CONCENTRATION IN PRESSURE COUPLINGS OF THIN-WALL COMPONENTS by S. V. Shishkin

“…Deviations of the shape of the contact surfaces from the straightness are taken into account by its respective pressure coupling function. The analysis of the findings suggests that the concentration coefficient value slumps as the contact compliance coefficient of the borderline layer increases. …”
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How to personalise ventilation of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia? A simulation study by Barbara Stankiewicz, Magdalena Mierzewska-Schmidt, Krzysztof J. Pałko, Marek Darowski, Maciej Kozarski

“…The T1/T2 and CW/CL correlated with defect size (gamma coefficient: 1; P < 0.05), duration of mechanical ventilation and hospitalization (Spearmen’s coefficient: 0.99; P < 0.01). …”
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Model Construction of InSAR-based Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide Hazards in Yanhe Basin, Chinese Loess Plateau by WANG Zhenliang, CHEN Manyu, ZHAO Jianlin, YUAN Ke, YANG Jie, ZHANG Chen

“…Then the correlations between rainfall factors and landslide shape variables were calculated to determine the rainfall days and effective rainfall attenuation coefficient in the early period. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis of the Thermal Structure Within Subduction Zones Using Reduced‐Order Modeling by Gabrielle M. Hobson, Dave A. May

“…Our analysis highlights the strong effect of variability in the apparent coefficient of friction, with previously published ranges resulting in pronounced variability in estimated rupture limit depths.…”
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