Comparison of Blood Pressure Variability between 24 h Ambulatory Monitoring and Office Blood Pressure in Diabetics and Nondiabetic Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study by Ana Lídia Rouxinol-Dias, Marta Lisandra Gonçalves, Diogo Ramalho, Jose Silva, Loide Barbosa, Jorge Polónia

“…We found that diabetes is associated with higher variability of daytime BP than nondiabetics along with worse damage of vascular and renal function. …”
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Study of kinetic performance effect on wheel and rail wear using computer simulation by Lev I. Evelson, Evgeny A. Pamfilov, Alexander G. Tsygankov, Ludmila I. Shiryaeva

“…The problems solved here are analysis of the earlier proposed mathematical functions describing the kinetic performance for the presence of extremes, the functional behavior (growth, decrease, monotonicity, and unimodality, etc.) in various parameter ranges; implementation of the computer simulation of the wheelpair movement by rail with the quantitative estimation of the wheel and rail wear with various kinetic performance parameters; to determine qualitative influence patterns of the kinetic wear performance. …”
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Performance and variability analysis of ALD-grown wafer scale HfO2/Ta2O5-based memristive devices for neuromorphic computing by Sanjay Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Deepika Yadav, Spyros Stathopoulos, Themis Prodromakis

“…Furthermore, the least values of coefficient of variability (CV) in the device switching voltages are 6.09% (VSET) and 3.22% (VRESET) in the case of device-to-device (D2D) while 1.76% (VSET) and 2.14% (VRESET) in the case of cycle-to-cycle (C2C). …”
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A Method of Finding Source Function for Inverse Diffusion Problem with Time-Fractional Derivative by Vildan Gülkaç

“…The inverse problem is with variable coefficients and initial and boundary conditions. …”
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On the Inverse Problem of the Fractional Heat-Like Partial Differential Equations: Determination of the Source Function by Gülcan Özkum, Ali Demir, Sertaç Erman, Esra Korkmaz, Berrak Özgür

“…The study in this paper mainly concerns the inverse problem of determining an unknown source function in the linear fractional differential equation with variable coefficient using Adomian decomposition method (ADM). …”
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Global Asymptotic Stability of Impulsive CNNs with Proportional Delays and Partially Lipschitz Activation Functions by Xueli Song, Jigen Peng

“…This paper researches global asymptotic stability of impulsive cellular neural networks with proportional delays and partially Lipschitz activation functions. Firstly, by means of the transformation vi(t)=ui(et), the impulsive cellular neural networks with proportional delays are transformed into impulsive cellular neural networks with the variable coefficients and constant delays. …”
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Distinctive Contribution of Sound Spectral Features in Enhancing Vibration-Based Multi-Component Fault Classification Under Non-Stationary Speed Conditions by S. Sowmya, M. Saimurugan, Naveen Venkatesh

“…Rotational machines under variable speed conditions often confront challenges to diagnose various component faults as an existing problem with less exploration of sound signals in this subject area. …”
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Numercial modeling for enhanced heat transfer efficiency of spiral coils with supercritical fluid flow under different operating conditions by Xinling Wang, Naeim Farouk, Xiaoqing Fu, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Guo Xu, Fahad M. Alhomayani, Baseem Khan, Fawaz S. Alharbi, Barno Sayfutdinovna Abdullaeva, Laith H. Alzubaidi, Yasser Elmasry, Hakim A.L. Garalleh

“…The primary objective of the study is to examine the impact of critical parameters, including shape, hydraulic diameter, inlet temperature, mass flux, and operating pressure, on important variables such as friction factor, heat transfer coefficient, and exergy efficiency. …”
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Soret/Dufour, variable density, and viscous dissipation effects on heat and mass transfer of Oldroyd-B fluid flow over polymer sheet with convective heat flux by Zia Ullah, Md. Mahbub Alam, Farida Safdar, Moataz Alosaimi, Feyisa Edosa Merga

“…This study explores the influence of viscous dissipation and variable density on heating efficiency and mass flux in magneto-hydrodynamic Oldroyd-B fluid flow over a polymer stretching surface with Soret and Dufour effects. …”
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Population pharmacokinetics modelling for clinical dose adjustment of carboplatin in dogs by Jérémy Béguin, Sarra Mahfoudhi, Marie Uzel, Antoine Rostang, Catherine Ibish, Aude A. Ferran, Ludovic Pelligand, Anne Hulin, Matthias Kohlhauer

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An experimental study on the effect of lobe swirl device and its transition parts on thermal performance using Graphene-CuO/water nanohybrid by Farag A. Diabis, Abd Rahim Abu Talib, Norkhairunnisa Mazlan, Eris Elianddy Supeni

“…Enhancing heat transfer efficiency is a key focus in thermal applications. Smooth channels often suffer from poor fluid mixing, limiting their performance. …”
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Impact of Cattaneo-Christov heat and surface temperature on viscoelastic non-newtonian micropolar nanofluids: Darcy exponential sheet flow with planktonic microorganisms by Muhammad Waseem, Ihab Omar, Muhammad Jawad, Taoufik Saidani, Qasem M. Al-Mdallal

“…This paper investigates the influence of chemical reactions and variable magnetic field on three dimensional Oldroyd B micropolar nanofluids subjected to exponentially stretching sheet in the presence of motile microbes. …”
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Employing Novel Ranking Function for Solving Fully Fuzzy Fractional Linear Programming Problems by Israa H. Hasan, Iden H. Al Kanani

“…This paper proposes a novel ranking function technique with variables of type decagonal fuzzy numbers for solving fully fuzzy fractional linear programming (FFFLP) problems. …”
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Two-dimensional Elasticity Solutions For Analyzing Free Vibration Of Functionally Graded Porous Beams by Quoc-Cuong Le, Ba-Duy Nguyen

“…Furthermore, microvoids can emerge as a result of technical issues during the manufacture of functionally graded materials (FGMs), leading to the development of porosities. …”
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Investigation of influence of objective function valley ratio on the determination error of its minimum coordinates by A. V. Smirnov

“…A special test function was used in numerical experiments to model valleys with variables across wide ranges of parameters. …”
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Predictive equations using regression analysis of pulmonary function for healthy children in Northeast China. by Ya-Nan Ma, Jing Wang, Guang-Hui Dong, Miao-Miao Liu, Da Wang, Yu-Qin Liu, Yang Zhao, Wan-Hui Ren, Yungling Leo Lee, Ya-Dong Zhao, Qin-Cheng He

“…Predictive equations used multiple linear regression techniques with three predictor variables: height, age and weight. Model goodness of fit was examined using the coefficient of determination or the R(2) and adjusted R(2). …”
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Central Pulse Wave Velocity and Augmentation Index Are Repeatable and Reproducible Measures of Arterial Function by Sophie L. Russell, Mushidur Rahman, Charles J. Steward, Amy E. Harwood, Gordon McGregor, Prithwish Banerjee, Nduka C. Okwose, Djordje G. Jakovljevic

“…Conclusion PWV and Alx demonstrate excellent repeatability and good reproducibility. Considering these variables are noninvasive and easy‐to‐measure, arterial function assessment may have a role in routine clinical practice to facilitate risk stratification in cardiovascular diseases.…”
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The Effect of Temperature Dependency on the Thermo-Electro-Elastic Analysis of Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Spherical Shell by Mohammad Arefi, Masoud Takhayor Ardestani

“…Substitution of temperature distribution into constitutive relations and then into equilibrium and Maxwell equations would give final governing equations having variable thickness. The variable coefficient governing equations are solved using the division method. …”
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A topological analysis of p(x)-harmonic functionals in one-dimensional nonlocal elliptic equations by Goodrich Christopher S.

“…We consider a class of one-dimensional elliptic equations possessing a p(x)-harmonic functional as a nonlocal coefficient. As part of our results we treat the model case−M∫01u′(x)p(x)dxu′′(t)=λft,u(t), 0<t<1 $${-}M\left(\underset{0{}}{\overset{1}{\int }}{\left\vert {u}^{\prime }(x)\right\vert }^{p(x)}\ \mathrm{d}x\right){u}^{\prime \prime }(t)=\lambda f\left(t,u(t)\right)\text{,\hspace{0.17em}}0< t< 1$$ subject to the boundary datau(0)=0=u(1). …”
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Pneumatic Compliant End-effector Using Multi-compensation Integrated Nonlinear Active Disturbance Rejection Control by ZHANG Shuzhong, WU Qianxin, DAI Fuquan, WANG Yabing, ZHANG Gong

“…These voltages are used to design mid-position compensation, reducing the dead zone’s impact on control performance. LuGre friction model compensation: Friction data is collected under varying cylinder speeds. …”
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