Association between metabolic parameters and erection in erectile dysfunction patients with hyperuricemia by Guo-Wei Du, Pei-Ning Niu, Zhao-Xu Yang, Xing-Hao Zhang, Jin-Chen He, Tao Liu, Yan Xu, Jian-Huai Chen, Yun Chen

“…Fasting plasma glucose (β = −0.628, P < 0.001), uric acid (β = −0.552, P < 0.001), triglycerides (β = −0.088, P = 0.047), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (β = −0.164, P = 0.027), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c; β = −0.562, P = 0.012), and smoking history (β = −0.074, P = 0.037) exhibited significant negative impacts on erectile function. The coefficient of determination (R²) for the model was 0.239, and the adjusted R² was 0.230, indicating overall statistical significance (F-statistic = 26.52, P < 0.001). …”
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Bivariate Epanechnikov-exponential distribution: statistical properties, reliability measures, and applications to computer science data by H. M. Barakat, M. A. Alawady, I. A. Husseiny, M. Nagy, A. H. Mansi, M. O. Mohamed

“…The statistical properties of the EP-EX-FGM model are examined, including product moments, coefficient of correlation between the internal variables, moment generating function, conditional distribution, concomitants of order statistics (OSs), mean residual life function, and vitality function. …”
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A Lie Symmetry Classification of a Nonlinear Fin Equation in Cylindrical Coordinates by Saeed M. Ali, Ashfaque H. Bokhari, F. D. Zaman

“…The nonlinear fin equation in cylindrical coordinates is considered. Assuming a radial variable heat transfer coefficient and temperature dependent thermal conductivity, a complete classification of these two functions is obtained via Lie symmetry analysis. …”
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ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS OF NON-LINEAR HEAT CONDUCTION PROBLEMS by V. A. Bondarev

“…An example of calculations in the case of variable coefficients of thermal conductivity and radiative heating transfer on the boundaries is considered in the paper. …”
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Neural Network-Based Design of a Buck Zero-Voltage-Switching Quasi-Resonant DC–DC Converter by Nikolay Hinov, Bogdan Gilev

“…The converter is a piecewise linear system mathematically described by Kirchhoff’s laws and represented through switching functions. In this way, a mathematical model is used to generate data on the behavior of the state variables obtained under various design parameters. …”
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Modeling the contribution of micronekton diel vertical migrations to carbon export in the mesopelagic zone by H. Thibault, F. Ménard, J. Abitbol-Spangaro, J.-C. Poggiale, S. Martini

“…Several metabolic parameters accounted for most of the variability in micronekton biomass, organic carbon production, and transport efficiency, mostly linked to respiration rates and capture efficiency. …”
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Good Governance and Seigniorage in a Selected OPEC Countries and Iran by ALI Rashid Shamkhal, Kambiz Paykarjou, beitollah Akbari Moghaddam

“…Therefore, based on the results obtained from the analysis of responce functions in empirical analysis, it is essential to pay attention to changing and improving the methods of governance and administration of the country. …”
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Optimizing the Construction Supply Chain Network Considering the Flow of Materials, Equipment, Manpower, Drawings and Technical Documents by Seyed Saeid Helli, Hadi Mokhtari, Saeed Dehnavi

“…All indices, parameters, decision variables, objective functions and constraints have been introduced and presented in the proposed model. …”
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Variations in Creatinine Generation Among Patients With Glomerular Disease: Evidence From the NEPTUNE and CureGN Studies by Shalini S. Ramachandra, Melody Chiang, Michael Arbit, Dorey A. Glenn, Laura H. Mariani, Jarcy Zee

“…Analytical Approach: The intraclass correlation coefficient illustrated crG variability within individuals. …”
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Protein expression profiling identifies a prognostic model for ovarian cancer by Luyang Xiong, Jiahong Tan, Yuchen Feng, Daoqi Wang, Xudong Liu, Yun Feng, Shusheng Li

“…The prognostic effect and the biological function of the model were evaluated using co-expression analysis and enrichment analysis. …”
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Optimization Study of PVT Coupled Water Loop Heat Pump Energy Supply System by Lv Tiangang, Liu Bing, Wu Jun, Zhu Li, Hou Jingxuan

“…By employing the Hooke-Jeeves algorithm, the system's design and operation parameters were optimized with annual cost and system COP as objective functions. Design variables included PVT inclination, azimuth, area, heat pump capacity, and tank volume, while operational variables were PVT backplate temperature and tank temperature. …”
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Optimization of K-Shaped Metal Sealing Ring for Subsea Tubing Hanger Based on Response Surface Method by Huan Xie, Hongxia Zhang, Yiwei Fan, Liyuan Liu, Wei Zeng

“…To address the issue of low optimization efficiency due to the need for repeated finite element calculations during the optimization process, quadratic response surface models are established for the sealing performance indicators of the K-shaped seal ring, which were then used as the optimization objective functions to enhance the optimization efficiency. …”
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Manufacturing of Rotational Toroidal Shells in Coin Minting by Luís M. Alves, Paulo Alexandrino, Sónia Pereira

“…Through finite element modeling and experimentation, key process variables were identified, ensuring sound hollow toroidal shells with efficient rotation.…”
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Energy factors affecting environmental pollution for sustainable development goals: The case of India by Vu Ngoc Xuan

“…The study used data from the World Bank from 2000 to 2023; the methodology adopted includes vector autoregression modeling, Granger causality tests, cointegration analysis, impulse response functions, and variance decomposition. These econometric techniques were selected due to their ability to capture dynamic relationships, determine causality, and identify long-term equilibrium among the variables. …”
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Skin hyperspectral imaging and machine learning to accurately predict the muscular poly-unsaturated fatty acids contents in fish by Yi-Ming Cao, Yan Zhang, Qi Wang, Ran Zhao, Mingxi Hou, Shuang-Ting Yu, Kai-Kuo Wang, Ying-Jie Chen, Xiao-Qing Sun, Shijing Liu, Jiong-Tang Li

“…With the skin spectra of fish, five ML methods, including the extreme learning machine (ELM), random forest (RF), radial basis function (RBF), back propagation (BP), and least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) methods, were used to predict the PUFAs and EPA + DHA contents. …”
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Gevrey Asymptotics for Logarithmic-Type Solutions to Singularly Perturbed Problems with Nonlocal Nonlinearities by Stéphane Malek

“…Their coefficients and forcing terms comprise polynomial and logarithmic-type functions in time and are bounded holomorphic in space. …”
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Fuzzy System for the Quality Assessment of Educational Multimedia Edition Design by Vsevolod Senkivskyy, Liubomyr Sikora, Nataliia Lysa, Alona Kudriashova, Iryna Pikh

“…A multilevel model of fuzzy logical inference is constructed, representing the dependency between quality factors. Membership functions for linguistic variables are formed and their weight coefficients are determined using pairwise comparison matrices. …”
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Machine learning-driven benchmarking of China's wastewater treatment plant electricity consumption by Minjian Li, Chongqiao Tang, Junhan Gu, Nianchu Li, Ahemaide Zhou, Kunlin Wu, Zhibo Zhang, Hui Huang, Hongqiang Ren

“…To overcome the complexity of wastewater compositions, an unsupervised machine learning algorithm, spectral clustering, is introduced to analyze 2,576 WWTPs across China, effectively characterizing influent quality as a single variable and contributing to robust benchmarks with 75 % of the fittings achieving coefficients of determination (R2) >0.85. …”
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On a Solution of a Third Kind Mixed Integro-Differential Equation with Singular Kernel Using Orthogonal Polynomial Method by Ahmad Alalyani, M. A. Abdou, M. Basseem

“…The singular kernel is modified to take a logarithmic form, while the kernels of time are continuous and positive functions. Using the separation of variables technique, we have a system of Fredholm integral equations (FIEs) that can be transformed into an algebraic system after using orthogonal polynomials. …”
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Homogenization in Sobolev Spaces with Nonstandard Growth: Brief Review of Methods and Applications by Brahim Amaziane, Leonid Pankratov

“…We review recent results on the homogenization in Sobolev spaces with variable exponents. In particular, we are dealing with the Γ-convergence of variational functionals with rapidly oscillating coefficients, the homogenization of the Dirichlet and Neumann variational problems in strongly perforated domains, as well as double porosity type problems. …”
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