Exposure-response functions of the correlated environmental exposures green space, noise, and air pollution for quantifying mortality burden in health impact assessment by Xuan Chen, Ulrike Gehring, Georgia M.C. Dyer, Kees de Hoogh, Sasha Khomenko, Haneen Khreis, Natalie Mueller, Roel Vermeulen, Harry Williams, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Gerard Hoek

“…The studies show substantial variability in exposure levels and correlations between exposures. …”
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Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in chronic kidney disease: a study of kidney biopsy cases by Hideaki Kuno, Go Kanzaki, Rina Oba, Takaya Sasaki, Kotaro Haruhara, Kentaro Koike, Nobuo Tsuboi, Takashi Yokoo

“…Abstract Background The interplay between cardiac and kidney functions is mediated by the autonomic nervous system. …”
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Spatiotemporal Change Analysis and Multi-Scenario Modeling of Ecosystem Service Values: A Case Study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration, China by Jing Duan, Pu Shi, Yuanyuan Yang, Dongyan Wang

“…Next, the changes to ESV under various scenarios were investigated through the equivalent coefficient method. In order to make more targeted recommendations for regional development, the study also used hotspot analyses to explore the impacts of LUCs on ESV. …”
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Robust control of a compliant manipulator with reduced dynamics and sliding perturbation observer by Muhammad Salman, Zhenwei Niu, Rajmeet Singh, Lochan Kshetrimayum, Irfan Hussain

“…The SPO effectively estimates all system states and perturbation, compensating for nonlinearities, disturbances due to variable stiffness, and friction, enabling consistent trajectory tracking with minimal control effort. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis of Numerical Coherency Model for Rock Sites by Dongyeon Lee, Yonghee Lee, Hak-Sung Kim, Jeong-Seon Park, Duhee Park

“…Because of difficulties in developing an empirical coherency function from a site-specific dense array, it is seldom used in practice. …”
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The association between TNF-receptors (TNFR1 and TNFR2) and mortality as well as kidney function decline in patients with chronic kidney disease by Per Wändell, Tobias Feldreich, Anders Larsson, Philip A. Kalra, Johan Ärnlöv, Toralph Ruge, Axel C. Carlsson

“…Differences in eGFR decline in relation to plasma TNFR1 and TNFR2 were estimated by both linear and logistic regression models, with regression coefficients and odds ratios (ORs). Results: Univariate models showed significant associations between TNFR1 (n = 985) and TNFR2 (n = 988) and all-cause mortality based on 7424 person-years at risk, but in the fully adjusted models with continuous variables significant only for TNFR2 HR 1.17 (1.03–1.34), but with a borderline value for TNFR1 HR 1.15 (1.00–1.31). …”
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Evaluating the effects of urban development on the ecological carrying capacity of Isfahan city based on the system dynamics approach by Zahra Dehghan Manshadi, Parastoo Parivar

“…In order to validate the model, the historical trend and simulation of two variables of urban population and the number of industries have been compared using the coefficient of determination.Results and discussion: The pressure factors on the urban carrying capacity were detected and analyzed by assessing key variables in the system, such as water sustainability (WSI) and air quality, as well as changes in the landscape structure of Isfahan using landscape metrics. …”
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Energy optimization through morphing blade design under structural constraints: a case study on the NREL 1.5 MW wind turbine by Najafian Arezoo, Jahangirian Alireza

“…The morphing process is modeled using an m-degree shape function and optimized through a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to maximize power generation while minimizing structural displacement and thrust forces. …”
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How Can We Manage Repairing a Broken Finite Vibrating String? Solutions to the Problem I by Vladimir L. Borsch

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Monitoring of Energy Efficiency of District Heating System Facilities: Methodology for Determining the Energy Baseline by Davydenko L.V., Davydenko N.V., Davydenko V.A., Sprake D.

“…The search for models of optimal complexity was performed in six classes of basic functions. The selection of better structures of the mathematical model was realized based on the criteria for its appropriate-ness (regularity, unbiasedness criterion, Schwartz, determination coefficient) and accuracy of the forecast using the morphological criterion. …”
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Measurement of Salivary Cortisol for Revealing Age-Specific Dependence of Cortisol Levels on Time, Feeding, and Oxygen Metabolism in Newborn Infants by Tomoko Suzuki, Sachiko Iwata, Chinami Hanai, Satoko Fukaya, Yuka Watanabe, Shigeharu Nakane, Hisayoshi Okamura, Shinji Saitoh, Osuke Iwata

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Random Finite Element Analysis and Random Factor response Mechanism for Geocell-reinforced Soil Retaining Walls by ZHANG Bingbing, SONG Fei

“…For this reason, a finite element analysis method based on random field theory is proposed in this paper, which can more realistically reflect the non-homogeneous characteristics of the reinforced soil retaining wall system by introducing a spatial random distribution model of the soil parameters and the mechanical properties of the geocells, so as to more accurately assess the influence of the spatial variability of the material parameters on the deformation behavior and stability of the retaining wall.MethodsFirstly, in parameter random field modeling, an innovative combination of Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) and exponential autocorrelation function is used to construct parameter random fields. …”
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Plant growth regulators improve the yield of white lupin (Lupinus albus) by enhancing the plant morpho-physiological functions and photosynthesis under salt stress by Muhammad Zahid Ihsan, Shamshad Kanwal, Shah Fahad, Waqas Shafqat Chattha, Abeer Hashem, Elsayed Fathi Abd-Allah, Mumtaz Hussain, Ali Ahsan Bajwa

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Kidney Function and Incident Stroke and Dementia Using an Updated Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Equation Without Race: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis by Samuel R. Moen, Jeffrey R. Misialek, Timothy M. Hughes, Craig W. Johnson, Mark J. Sarnak, Sarah N. Forrester, W.T. Longstreth, Jr., Mercedes R. Carnethon, James S. Pankow, Sanaz Sedaghat

“…Inclusion of race to estimate kidney function has gained increased scrutiny given its problematic nature of being a societal construct rather than an inherent biological trait that affects function of the kidneys. …”
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Derivation and external validation of a risk score for clinically important declines in health and function among two longitudinal cohorts of women in the mid-life by Daniel H Solomon, Bernhard Haring, JoAnn E Manson, Rebecca Jackson, Aladdin Shadyab, Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez, Kristine Ruppert, Leah Santacroce, Sherri-Ann M Burnett-Bowie, Alicia Colvin, Meryl S LeBoff, Celina I Valencia, Nancy E Avis

“…Objectives Women in mid-life often develop chronic conditions and experience declines in physical health and function. Identifying factors associated with declines provides opportunity for targeted interventions. …”
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A new method to solve multi-objective linear fractional programming problem in fuzzy stochastic environment by Ajeet Kumar, Babita Mishra

“…In this problem, the fuzzy random variables coefficient is involved as the parameters of the objective function as well as system constraints. …”
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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Nexus: Insights from EU Member States by Dalina-Maria ANDREI

“…It searches for some short/long term relationships of these through a panel type model, based on the Cobb-Douglas neoclassic production function. Reference examples in the literature and tests applied for unit roots and cointegration determine our option for an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model able to identify both common coefficients of long-term relationship between variables and individual (specific to each EU member country) coefficients on short-term relationships. …”
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Towards sustainable construction: estimating compressive strength of waste foundry sand-blended green concrete using a hybrid machine learning approach by Hoang Nhat-Duc, Nguyen Quoc-Lam

“…The proposed model is evaluated using root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), and coefficient of determination (R 2). Notably, an asymmetric loss function is employed during the training phase of LightGBM to restrict overestimations. …”
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An innovative modelling technique for bimodal soil water characteristic curve under wetting process by Nura Bello, Alfrendo Satyanaga, Sonny Irawan, Qian Zhai, Nurly Gofar, Jong Kim

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Decoupling and Insensitivity of Greenness and Gross Primary Productivity Across Aridity Gradients in China by Yuzhen Li, Xiuliang Yuan, Lei Zheng, Wenqiang Zhang, Yue Zhang

“…For different plant functional types (PFTs), decoupling occurred in ENF with a determination coefficient value (R²) of 0.04, whereas GRA shows a higher coupling with an R² of 0.20. …”
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