Farm-Specific Risk Analysis in Dairy Farming: A Case Study from Turkey by Hatice Kizilay, Handan Akçaöz

“…The relationship of mean risk aversion coefficient, calculated by using negative exponential function, with both average gross margin and gross margin standard deviation values determined for each farm was examined. …”
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Towards the Understanding of Damage Mechanism of Cemented Tailings Backfill by Haijun Wang

“…The CTB damage constitutive model, which takes the corrected coefficient of damage variable into consideration, and peak toughness are introduced to investigate the effects of fine tailings contents, curing ages, curing temperatures, and water-to-cement ratios (w/c) on the damage evolution laws, damage (DP), and specific energy (GP) at peak stress point of CTB. …”
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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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Elastic Stress and Plastic Zone Distributions around a Deeply Buried Tunnel under the Nonhydrostatic Pressure by Shuhong Liu, Jinlu Fan, Chenhao Wu, Yongquan Zhu

“…Based on Muskhelishvili’s complex variable function, the analytical solution for the elastic stress around a deeply buried noncircular tunnel under the nonhydrostatic pressure is firstly derived. …”
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Magnetic Field Effects on Convective Heat Transfer of Ferrofluid from a Heated Sphere in Porous Media by Ayesha Aktar, Sharaban Thohura, Md. Mamun Molla

“…Numerical outcomes are then represented in terms of local Nusselt number, velocity, temperature profile, and skin friction coefficient, respectively for a range of porosity parameters, ϵ = 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, magnetic effect parameter or Hartmann number, Ha = 0.0, 1.0, 3.0, 5.0 and the ferroparticle volume fraction coefficients, ϕ = 0%, 2%, 4%, 6%. …”
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Skin Lesion Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on MC-UNet by Guihua Yang, Bingxing Pan

“…Finally, the network’s segmentation accuracy is improved through the use of a new loss function called MixLoss, which combines BceLoss and DiceLoss. …”
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Path integral for multiplicative noise: Generalized Fokker-Planck equation  and entropy production rate in stochastic processes with threshold by F. S. Abril-Bermúdez, C. J. Quimbay, J. E. Trinidad-Segovia, M. A. Sánchez-Granero

“…Then, using the Parisi-Sourlas method, we estimate the transition probability between states of a stochastic variable [X(t)] based on the cumulant-generating function (K_{η}) of the noise. …”
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Analysis the Impact of Covid-19 on Green Accounting and Its Implications on Profitability by Reschiwati Reschiwati, Fran Sayekti, Tasia Veronica

“…The next difference is that the Performance and Environmental Disclosure variables function as both Y variables and X variables (intervening). …”
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Selected Aspects of Heat Transfer Study in a Gun Barrel of an Anti-Aircraft Cannon by Mateusz ZIELIŃSKI, Piotr KONIORCZYK, Zbigniew SURMA, Marek PREISKORN, Judyta SIENKIEWICZ

“…In each zone, the heat transfer coefficient, as a function of the time hi(t) and bore gas temperature as a function of the time Tg(t) to the cannon barrel for given ammunition parameters, was developed. …”
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Model Transportasi Jalur Laut untuk Distribusi Semen Curah by Jenny Andres Yunirman

“…The objective function of this model is the minimization of transport costs to meet demand in each of the packing plant. …”
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A Model-Driven Approach for Estimating the Energy Performance of an Electric Vehicle Used as a Taxi in an Intermediate Andean City by Jairo Castillo-Calderón, Daniel Cordero-Moreno, Emilio Larrodé Pellicer

“…The results demonstrated a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.93, indicating a strong positive linear dependence between the variables. …”
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Evaluation of Multiparameter Likelihoods through Iteration of Two-dimensional Slices by Joel S. Jayson

“…Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) computation has been the dominant instrument for evaluating multiparameter functions. For applications with a quasi-linear variable such as, A _s , the 2D iterative method is orders of magnitude more efficient than MCMC.…”
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Predicting the Cetane Number of Biodiesel using two AI-Models: the Gradient-based ANN and ANN Optimized by Genetic Algorithm by Hadis Tanha, Fatemeh Bashipour

“…The learning function, transfer function, number of hidden layers, and number of neurons in the hidden layers are some of the optimized parameters in the current AI-models. …”
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Cálculo de la fuerza de fricción necesaria para extraer el coque de hornos solera para el diseño de prototipos de máquinas de empuje by Oscar Manuel Duque Suarez, Marco José Duarte Márquez, Leopoldo Valero Jaimes, Elio Alarcón Suarez, Sergio Andres Davila Sepulveda

“…An experimental validation was performed using a proposed methodology to calculate the force required by the motor to extract coke, based on variables such as voltage, amperage, efficiency, and power factor. …”
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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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The reproducibility of 31-phosphorus MRS measures of muscle energetics at 3 Tesla in trained men. by Lindsay M Edwards, Damian J Tyler, Graham J Kemp, Renee M Dwyer, Andrew Johnson, Cameron J Holloway, Alan M Nevill, Kieran Clarke

“…Estimates of mitochondrial function were variable, but experimentally useful. …”
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Multi-objective design optimization of a transonic axial fan stage using sparse active subspaces by Richard Amankwa Adjei, Chengwei Fan

“…Active subspace was used to compute the active variables via singular value decomposition and a hybrid polynomial correlated function expansion was used to construct a surrogate model on the active subspace. …”
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Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index and Indices of Diabetic Polyneuropathy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Akihiko Ando, Michiaki Miyamoto, Kazuhiko Kotani, Kenta Okada, Shoichiro Nagasaka, Shun Ishibashi

“…The cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) is used to test vascular function and is an arterial stiffness marker and potential predictor of cardiovascular events. …”
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Assessment of soil fertility and nutrient distribution for enhanced soil health and field management through an innovative approach by Amir Bostani, Amin Mohebbi Tafreshi, Mohammad Hosein Bijeh Keshavarzi

“…Total nitrogen ranged from 0.02% to 0.82%. Highly variable macronutrient variation coefficient. Thus, the critical limits for elements and physicochemical characteristics were 4.5, 6, 0.7, and 0.8 mg/kg. …”
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Correlation Analysis of Radical Polymerization Reactor Operating Conditions to Industrial Scale Swelling Capacity of Superabsorbent by Willy Aulia Ilham, Teguh Kurniawan, Saepurahman Saepurahman, Ratna Sari siti Aisyah

“…The analysis determined that the variables that had the strongest correlation with the SC were retention time and reaction temperature, with correlation coefficient values of 0.31 and -0.26. …”
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