Passive Heat Stimuli as a Systemic Training in Elite Endurance Athletes: A New Strategy to Promote Greater Metabolic Flexibility by Sergi Cinca-Morros, Martin Burtscher, Fernando Benito-Lopez, Jesús Álvarez-Herms

“…<b>Objectives:</b> The ability to efficiently regulate body temperature is crucial during endurance activities such as trail running, especially during competitive events in hot conditions. …”
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Zoning and Identification of Factors Affecting Illegal Livestock Grazing in Golestan National Park Using Logistic Regression by Meysam Madadi, HamidReza Rezaei, Alireza Mohammadi, Bagher Nezami Balochi, Maryam Shahbazi

“…The Aspect factor with a coefficient of 0.0015 was determined to be the least influential independent variable. …”
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Numerical and Experimental Study of a Hydrodynamic Analysis of the Periodical Fluctuation of Bio-Inspired Banded Fins by Chonglei Wang, Qihang Liu, Junhao Yang, Chunyu Guo

“…By using a method of controlling variables, such as wave number, swing angle, and frequency, where only one independent variable is changed at a time while the others remain constant, the impact on thrust coefficient function and the obtained periodic variation laws governing hydrodynamic performance are studied. …”
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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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Lattice Boltzmann Method for the Generalized Black-Scholes Equation by Fangfang Wu, Duoduo Xu, Ming Tian, Yingying Wang

“…The proposed lattice Boltzmann model can also be applied to a class of partial differential equations with variable coefficients and source terms.…”
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Methods to Quantitatively Evaluate the Effect of Shale Gas Fracturing Stimulation Based on Least Squares by DENG Cai, SUN Kexin, WEN Huan, HU Chaolang

“…The optimization targeted the perforation friction coefficient <italic>k</italic>_perf as the primary unknown variable. …”
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High-accuracy solution of pantograph differential equations subject to mixed boundary conditions via shifted Vieta–Lucas polynomials by R. M. Hafez, H. M. Ahmed

“…A Galerkin method (GM) is formulated for constant coefficient-type equations, and a spectral collocation method (SCM) is given for variable coefficient cases. …”
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Relación entre comunidad íctica y cobertura vegetal riparia en dos períodos hidrológicos (Eje Cafetero, Colombia) by María Angélica Pérez-Mayorga, Saúl Prada-Pedreros

“…Therewere no significant differences (P>0.05) among the structural variables, the HYPE and the RVC. According to r and r2 the diet of most fish species did not vary as a function of RVC and HYPE; however, according to the CCA diet varies as a function of HYPE but not of RVC. …”
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Extension of the First-Order Recursive Filters Method to Non-Linear Second-Kind Volterra Integral Equations by Rodolphe Heyd

“…In addition, this new approach extends for the first time the field of use of first-order recursive filters, usually restricted to the case of linear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with constant coefficients, to the case of non-linear ODEs with variable coefficients. …”
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Evaluation of Face Stability for Mega Tunnel Under Varying Ground Strength Parameters by Deshpande Shilpa, Hedaoo Namdeo

“…This study investigates the impact of various geological strength variables, such as Young’s modulus and coefficient of lateral earth pressure, on Mega Tunnel face stability. …”
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Sinc-Chebyshev Collocation Method for a Class of Fractional Diffusion-Wave Equations by Zhi Mao, Aiguo Xiao, Zuguo Yu, Long Shi

“…This paper is devoted to investigating the numerical solution for a class of fractional diffusion-wave equations with a variable coefficient where the fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. …”
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Predicting biogas production in real scale anaerobic digester under dynamic conditions with machine learning approach by M. Erdem Isenkul, Sevgi Güneş-Durak, Yasemin Poyraz Kocak, İnci Pir, Mertol Tüfekci, Güler Türkoğlu Demirkol, Selçuk Sevgen, Aslı Seyhan Çığgın, Neşe Tüfekci

“…In recent years, the use of machine learning techniques (ML) has become widespread for analysing the effects of operational factors on anaerobic digestion efficiency. Among these, Support Vector Regression (SVR) with a Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel has been used to predict biogas yield based on diverse operating parameters. …”
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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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Online identification of stability region for large-scale wind farms, Part I: Clustering based piecewise affine impedance modeling by Jia Luo, Peng Wang, Haoran Zhao, Chenxinwei Yuan, Tiancheng Liu, Vladimir Terzija

“…In each partition, the impedance is expressed as a first-order explicit function of the complex variable and the operating state variables. …”
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Pengaruh Komite Audit Terhadap Kinerja Keuangan Perusahaan Dengan Dewan Komisaris Sebagai Variabel Intervening by Yunita Kurnia Shanti

“…This result means that the board of Commissioners variable cannot be an intervening variable of the audit committee on financial performance, because the effective supervisory function in evaluating the results of internal and external audits on the presentation of financial statements becomes the role of the audit committee.…”
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Impact of changes in land use in the flow of the Pará River Basin, MG by Evandro L. Rodrigues, Marcos A. T. Elmiro, Francisco de A. Braga, Claudia M. Jacobi, Rafael D. Rossi

“…The adjusted model was assessed by the coefficient of efficiency of Nash-Sutcliffe (between -0.057 to -0.059), indicating high correlation and coefficient of residual mass (0.757 to 0.793) and therefore a satisfactory fit. …”
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Design of Reinforcement Learning Guidance Law for Antitorpedo Torpedoes by Zhong Wang, Zhiwen Wen, Weitong Cui, Daming Zhou, Pei Wang

“…Integrating engineering design, the intelligent guidance law for antitorpedo torpedoes proposed in this article selects the rate of change in the line-of-sight angle as the state variable, designs a reward function based on interception results, and designs a discretized behavior space based on the commonly used proportional guidance coefficient selection range. …”
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Downscaling of Soil Moisture Map using Sentinel Radar Satellite Images and Distribution Analysis in the West of Iran by Seyed Hossein Mirmosavi, kohzad Raispour, Muhammad Kamangar

“…Conclusion The results of this study with respect to the correlation coefficient of 0.5012 with real data and high spatial resolution of the output map showed the efficiency of using different bands of radar images in estimating surface moisture. …”
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KERNEL DETERMINATION PROBLEM FOR ONE PARABOLIC EQUATION WITH MEMORY by Durdimurod K. Durdiev, Javlon Z. Nuriddinov

“…This paper studies the inverse problem of determining a multidimensional kernel function of an integral term which depends on the time variable \(t\) and \((n-1)\)-dimensional space variable \(x'= \left(x_1,\ldots, x_ {n-1}\right)\) in the \(n\)-dimensional diffusion equation with a time-variable coefficient at the Laplacian of a direct problem solution. …”
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Estimation of Total Suspended Solids Concentration in Streams Using Regression and Artificial Neural Networks Methods by Betül Mete, Sinan Nacar, Adem Bayram, Osman Tuğrul Bak

“…Considering the efficiency values, it has been understood that the use of date information as an independent variable will positively affect the model performance in the stream TSS modeling studies. …”
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