Explanation of factors affecting the sense of place in religious places of Iran (case examples of historical mosques in Tabriz by Lida Akhlaghi, Asadollah Shafizadeh

“…Spss and Amos software were used for these analyses.The results showed that perceptual and physical factors have the greatest effect in inducing a sense of place in the historical mosques of Tabriz, and social and functional factors have less effect. Among the investigated variables, vitality has the highest correlation coefficient and impact on the sense of place. …”
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A MODEL OF AGE–STRUCTURED POPULATION UNDER STOCHASTIC PERTURBATION OF DEATH AND BIRTH RATES by Maxim A. Alshanskiy

“…Under consideration is construction of a model of age-structured population reflecting random oscillations of the death and birth rate functions. We arrive at an Itô-type difference equation in a Hilbert space of functions which can not be transformed into a proper Itô equation via passing to the limit procedure due to the properties of the operator coefficients. …”
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A Marketing Capability Based Export Performance Model for IRAN Software Market by Shahriar Azizi, Vahid Makizadeh, Behtash Jamalieh Bastami

“…Questionnaires were completed by senior managers of software companies. Cronbach's ? coefficient was calculated for all latent variables and showed that all coefficients are in acceptable range. …”
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Task-Contingent Persistence is Related to Better Performance-Based Measures in Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain by Cyrille Burrus, Philippe Vuistiner, Bertrand Léger, Gilles Rivier, Roger Hilfiker, François Luthi

“…Their relationship with functioning of patients with chronic pain is debated. …”
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A Mixture of Clayton, Gumbel, and Frank Copulas: A Complete Dependence Model by M. A. Boateng, A. Y. Omari-Sasu, R. K. Avuglah, N. K. Frempong

“…The corresponding density and conditional distribution functions of the derived models for two random variables, as well as an estimator for the proportion parameter associated with the proposed model, are also derived. …”
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Spatial Differentiation and Correlation of Ecological Stoichiometric Characteristics of Cynodon dactylon and Soil in the Water-level Fluctuation Zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir... by XU Liwen, ZHANG Yuewei, JIAN Chen, ZHANG Yuanyuan, WANG Xiaofeng

“…However, the variability in C/N and C/P ratios in roots and stems were slightly stronger than that in leaves, suggesting that C. dactylon has evolved a strategy for maintaining stable physiological functions in leaves. 4) There were significant correlations of the nutrient contents between C. dactylon and soil, with the nitrogen supply of soil being the key factor influencing the variation of nutrient contents in C. dactylon. …”
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Optimal design for eigen-frequencies of a longitudinal bar using Pontryagin's maximum principle considering the influence of concentrated mass by Bui Hai Le, Tran Minh Thuy

“…By considering eigen frequencies as state variables, the analogy coefficient k in the necessary optimality condition is explicitly determined. …”
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Analysis of Mechanical and Thermal Material Characteristics of GPL-Reinforced Double-FG Composite Nanoplates under Temperature Load by Kerim Gökhan Aktaş

“…The analysis is conducted to evaluate the influence of variables like temperature rise, GPLs weight ratio and GPLs distribution patterns on the thermal and mechanical properties of the nanoplate such as effective modulus of elasticity, Poisson's ratio, coefficient of thermal expansion and coefficient of thermal conductivity. …”
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The balance evaluation systems test (BESTest), mini-BESTest and brief-BESTest as clinical tools to assess balance control across different populations: A reliability generalization... by Ana-Belén Meseguer-Henarejos, Juan-José López-García, José-Antonio López-Pina, Ignacio Martínez-González-Moro, Ángel Martínez-Carrasco

“…In this study, the heterogeneity of reliability coefficients in each instrument is evaluated. If heterogeneity is significant, a moderator analysis is performed to identify the characteristic which explains such variability.…”
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Social capital as a determinant of quality of life in greek cancer patients: a cross-sectional study by Athanasios Pitis, Maria Diamantopoulou, Aspasia Panagiotou, Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Foteini Tzavella

“…The association between QoL and Social capital scales was checked via Spearman correlation coefficients (rho).ResultsGreater total score in Social capital scale was significantly associated with greater overall QoL (β = 0.005; p < 0.001), better Emotional functioning (β = 0.004; p = 0.004) and better Social functioning (β = 0.009; p = 0.002),with lower Nausea and vomiting (β = −0.017; p = 0.015), Insomnia (β = −0.014; p = 0.002), Appetite loss (β = −0.010; p = 0.018) and Constipation symptoms (β = −0.009; p = 0.047).ConclusionThere was a strong association between a greater social capital score and the quality of life of Greek cancer patients, indicating that higher levels of social capital are associated with improved quality of life.…”
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Application of Polylogarithms to the Approximate Solution of the Inhomogeneous Telegraph Equation for the Distortionless Line by P. G. Lasy, I. N. Meleshko

“…Solutions to both problems can be found by separating the variables in the form of a series of trigonometric functions of the line point with time-dependent coefficients. …”
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Blind deconvolution estimation by multi-exponential models and alternated least squares approximations: Free-form and sparse approach. by Daniel U Campos-Delgado, Omar Gutierrez-Navarro, Ricardo Salinas-Martinez, Elvis Duran, Aldo R Mejia-Rodriguez, Miguel J Velazquez-Duran, Javier A Jo

“…On the other hand, the same exponential functions are used in the whole dataset in the global perspective, and just the scaling coefficients are updated for each spatial point. …”
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Incorporating stand parameters in nonlinear height-diameter mixed-effects model for uneven-aged Larix gmelinii forests by Muhammad Junaid Ismail, Tika Ram Poudel, Akber Ali, Lingbo Dong

“…Fifteen widely recognized nonlinear functions were assessed to model the H-D relationship effectively. …”
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Fokker-Planck Central Moment Lattice Boltzmann Method for Effective Simulations of Fluid Dynamics by William Schupbach, Kannan Premnath

“…This can be interpreted as a new path for the collision process in terms of the relaxation of the various central moments to “equilibria”, which we term as the Markovian central moment attractors that depend on the products of the adjacent lower order moments and a diffusion coefficient tensor, thereby involving of a chain of attractors; effectively, the latter are nonlinear functions of not only the hydrodynamic variables, but also the non-conserved moments; the relaxation rates are based on scaling the drift coefficient by the order of the moment involved. …”
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Predicting and Mapping of Soil Organic Matter with Machine Learning in the Black Soil Region of the Southern Northeast Plain of China by Yiyang Li, Gang Yao, Shuangyi Li, Xiuru Dong

“…The estimation of soil organic matter (SOM) content is essential for understanding the chemical, physical, and biological functions of soil. It is also an important attribute reflecting the quality of black soil. …”
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Quality of Life in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis by Grażyna Franek, Marzena Bieniak, Aleksandra Cieślik

“…In order to calculate the variables, the following measures were used: arithmetic mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, asymmetry coefficient, kurtosis coefficient, Person linear correlation coefficient, Spearman rank correlation coefficient. …”
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Coupled Bending-Bending-Torsion Vibration of a Pre-Twisted Beam with Aerofoil Cross-Section by the Finite Element Method by Bulent Yardimoglu, Daniel J. Inman

“…The advantage of the present element is the exclusion of unnecessary derivatives of fundamental nodal variables, which were included to obtain invertable square matrix by other researchers, by choosing proper displacement functions and using relationship between cross-sectional rotation and the shear deformation. …”
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From Nasion to Sellion: repositioning landmarks for radioprotection-tailored 3D cephalometric analysis by Marco Serafin, Benedetta Baldini, Elisa Boccalari, Salvatore Bocchieri, Sergio Sambataro, Chiarella Sforza, Giuseppe Baselli, Gianluca Martino Tartaglia, Alberto Caprioglio

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INVARIANTS OF GENERALIZED RAPOPORT-LEAS EQUATIONS by E. N. Kushner

“…For the generalized Rapoport-Leas equations, algebra of differential invariants is constructed with respect to point transformations, that is, transformations of independent and dependent variables. The finding of a general transformation of this type reduces to solving an extremely complicated functional equation. …”
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Interpretable Machine Learning Insights into the Factors Influencing Residents’ Travel Distance Distribution by Rui Si, Yaoyu Lin, Dongquan Yang, Qijin Guo

“…Key factors affecting travel distance distributions include the distance to the city center, bus station density, land use entropy, and the density of companies. Most environmental variables exhibit nonlinear and threshold effects on the log-normal distribution coefficients. …”
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