Impact of short-term aircraft noise on cardiovascular disease risk in the area surrounding London Heathrow airport: the RISTANCO epidemiological study by Xiangpu Gong, Nicole Itzkowitz, Calvin Jephcote, Kathryn Adams, Glory O Atilola, John Gulliver, Marta Blangiardo, Anna Hansell

“…To identify areas with high variability in aircraft noise exposure (due to changes in flight paths because of wind direction and airport operations), we used coefficients of variation (CoV). …”
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Reliability of the Cutting Alignment Scoring Tool (CAST) to Assess Trunk and Limb Alignment During a 45-Degree Side-Step Cut by Lauren S Butler, Eryn K Milian, Amie DeVerna, Kevin Latz, Henry B Ellis, Alexa R Martinez, Kristin Hayden, Christian Gerstenkorn, Sara C Carpenito, Charles W Wyatt, Dai Sugimoto

“…Moderate kappa coefficients were found for trunk lean (k= 0.632) and fair kappa coefficients were noted for dynamic and static valgus (k=0.462 and k= 0.533 respectively)…”
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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 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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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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Jointed rock slope stability evaluation based on PEM-JFEM method by XIAO Shu, WU Shun-chuan, GAO Yong-tao, HAN Guang, ZHOU Yu, CHENG Ai-ping

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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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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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A reduced simulation applied to viscoelastic fatigue of polymers using a time multi-scale approach based on partition of Unity method by Sebastian Rodriguez, Angelo Pasquale, Jad Mounayer, Diego Canales, Marianne Beringhier, Chady Ghnatios, Amine Ammar, Francisco Chinesta

“…In this context, the use of a space-time PGD approximation is proposed here to boost their resolution, where the temporal functions are constructed following a multi-scale strategy along with the partition of unity method, in order to catch each dynamic efficiently. …”
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Fully Parametric Optimization Designs of Wing Components by Zhendong Hu, Ju Qiu, Fa Zhang

“…The changing tendencies of the thickness of wing skins and the cross-section areas of the wing beams are fitted to continuous polynomial functions, whose coefficients are designed as variables, which is a different engineering approach from the size variants of the thickness and the area in the traditional optimization. …”
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Coherence of brain electrical activity: a quality of life indicator in Alzheimer’s disease?Coerência da atividade elétrica cerebral: indicador da qualidade de vida na doença de Alz... by Lineu Corrêa Fonseca, Gloria M. A. S. Tedrus, Ana Laura R. A. Rezende, Heitor F. Giordano

“…Conclusion Interhemispheric coherence correlates with QOL regardless of cognitive and functional variables and seems to be a neurophysiological indicator of QOL in AD patients.…”
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Center of Largest Area Defuzzifier Vnit VLSI Architecture by Asim Majeed Murshid, Ahmed Chalak Shakir, Sarmed Nihad Mohammed

“…The functional analysis has revealed that the proposed architecture is implementing COLA based defuzzifier efficiently and accurately. …”
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A Combined Approach to Solving Applied Metal Forming Problems by Matvej Baldin, Nikita Kondratev, Peter Trusov, Kirill Ostapovich

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Non-Destructive Detection of Fillet Fish Quality Using MQ135 Gas Sensor and Neutrosophic Logic-Enhanced System by M. Y. Shams, M. R. Darwesh, Roheet Bhatnagar, N. S. A. Al-Sattary, A. A. Salama, M. S. Ghoname

“…Artificial intelligence algorithms were employed to predict quality and calculate regression coefficients. Using the reference neural network algorithm based on chemical and physical compounds, regression coefficients (R values) achieved were 0.99, 0.98, and 0.97, respectively. …”
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How Life Experience Shapes Cognitive Control Strategies: The Case of Air Traffic Control Training. by Sandra Arbula, Mariagrazia Capizzi, Nicoletta Lombardo, Antonino Vallesi

“…This experience-based enhancement of reactive control strategy denotes how cognitive control and executive functions in general can be shaped by real-life training and underlines the importance of experience in explaining inter-individual variability in cognitive functioning.…”
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Monte Carlo-Based Strategy for Assessing the Impact of EEG Data Uncertainty on Confidence in Convolutional Neural Network Classification by Pierre Sedi Nzakuna, Vincenzo Gallo, Vincenzo Paciello, Aime Lay-Ekuakille, Angelo Kuti Lusala

“…We introduce robust evaluation metrics, including the proportion of area under the curve (AUC) of probability density functions (PDFs) <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\geq 70$ </tex-math></inline-formula>% accuracy, overlap coefficients, and percentile-based thresholding, which provide a more comprehensive assessment of model performance, capturing not only accuracy but also confidence and ambiguity in predictions. …”
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Reliability and validity of a Japanese version of life-space assessment in institutionalized settings by Tomoyuki Shinohara, PhD, Shota Saito, MS, Ayumi Maruyama, Yuta Yabana, Yosuke Tomita, PhD, Klaus Hauer, PhD

“…Purpose: A reduction in life space (LS) is associated with a negative impact on medical and functional status during hospitalization, with potential consequences after discharge. …”
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