Dual effects of leptin in perioperative gas exchange of morbidly obese patients. by Michele Carron, Giovanna Ieppariello, Gabriele Martelli, Giulia Gabellini, Mirto Foletto, Egle Perissinotto, Carlo Ori

“…Leptin has shown positive effects on respiratory function in experimental settings. The role of leptin on perioperative respiratory function in morbidly obese patients has not been established. …”
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Optimally controlled heating of solid particles in a fluidised bed with a dispersive flow of the solid by Poświata Artur, Szwast Zbigniew

“…The mixing rate was described by the axial dispersion coefficient. As any economic values of variables describing analysing process are subject to local and time fluctuations, the accepted objective function describes the total cost of the process expressed in exergy units. …”
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Fast Möbius transform: An algebraic approach to information decomposition by Abel Jansma, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas

“…Our approach is based on a formula for estimating the Möbius function that circumvents important computational bottlenecks and can in some cases offer a double-exponential speedup. …”
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Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Models with Fixed Effects through Monte Carlo Maximum Likelihood by Grigorios Emvalomatis, Spiro E. Stefanou, Alfons Oude Lansink

“…This paper proposes a procedure for choosing appropriate densities for integrating the incidental parameters from the likelihood function in a general context. The densities are based on priors that are updated using information from the data and are robust to possible correlation of the group-specific constant terms with the explanatory variables. …”
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Optimisation of the performance and structure of soluble ball seat metal sealing rings based on response surface by CHEN Zhen, RAN Qingjie, CHEN Nengpeng, WANG Qiaomu

“…The increase of groove parameters (groove width and depth) can enhance the contact pressure, and at the same time, increase the equivalent stress, which may lead to local strength deficiency.Through the sensitivity analysis, the sensitivity coefficients of the radius of the metal seal ring to the equivalent force and contact pressure were found to reach 0.67 and 0.82, which were the dominant variables affecting the sealing performance; the width and depth of the grooves regulated the stress distribution through the geometric compensation mechanism. …”
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Experimental Study and Damage Model Study of Rock Salt Subjected to Cyclic Loading and Cyclic Creep by Baoyun Zhao, Tianzhu Huang, Liu Dongyan, Dongsheng Liu, Yang Liu, Xiaoping Wang

“…The damage model is obtained by inverse functioning the s function, and then the correction coefficient is added to the model to obtain the modified damage model. …”
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Experimental Studies of Heat and Moisture Exchange in the Process of Convective Drying of Thin Wet Materials by A. I. Ol’shanskii, S. V. Zhernosek, A. M. Gusarov

“…New ways of experimental data processing by generalized complex variables that are characteristic of the drying process are presented. …”
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Predicting the onset of chronic kidney disease (CKD) for diabetic patients with aggregated longitudinal EMR data. by Neda Aminnejad, Michelle Greiver, Huaxiong Huang

“…This research focuses on developing a predictive model to classify diabetic patients showing signs of kidney function impairment based on their CKD development risk. …”
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Jacobian-Free Newton Krylov Methods for Steady and Transient Neutron Transport Models by ZHANG Yangyi, ZHANG Tiancheng, ZHOU Xiafeng

“…To further improve computational efficiency of comeSn_JFNK, in the JFNK solution, neutron scalar fluxes instead of neutron angular fluxes were chosen as the global solution variables. …”

A Data-Driven Approach Based on Deep Neural Network Regression for Predicting the Compressive Strength of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete by Nhat-Duc Hoang, Van-Duc Tran

“…Experimental results show that the L1 regularization helps achieve the most desired performance, with a coefficient of determination (R2) of roughly 0.96. Notably, an asymmetric loss function is used along with Nadam to decrease the percentage of overestimated cases from 50.83% to 27.08%. …”
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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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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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Importance Analysis of Vegetation Change Factors in East Africa Based on Machine Learning by Zhang Xiumei, Ma Bo, Zhang Yijie

“…Coefficient of determination (R2), mean absolute error (MAE), and mean relative error (MRE) were used as error indicators to evaluate the potential of the six machine learning algorithms for predicting NDVI changes. …”
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Development of a Plant-Based Beverage with Tarwi (<i>Lupinus mutabilis</i>) Milk, Polysaccharides from Cushuro (<i>Nostoc sphaericum</i>), and Blueberry Extract by Santos Calderón, Renzo Bañón

“…The response variables were protein (%) content and viscosity coefficient (mPa·s). …”
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New Approach of Blind Adaptive Equalizer Based on Genetic Algorithms by Caroline A. D. Silva, Marcelo A. C. Fernandes

“…Unlike traditional methods that rely on linear programming and suffer from local minima issues, this technique utilizes a stochastic linear programming cost function with GAs for robust optimization. The proposed method termed Blind Linear Equalizer based on genetic algorithm (BLE-GA) enhances performance by leveraging a GA’s ability to handle stochastic variables, offering rapid convergence and resilience against signal noise and inter-symbol interference. …”
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Impact of adopting improved Arabica varieties on the livelihood of organic coffee producers’ of Ethiopia: Continuous treatment approach by Negussie Zeray Gebru, Tasew Tadesse, Wajana Wae

“…The technique proved efficient in elucidating non-linear causal links between adoption intensities, dosages, and outcome variables. …”
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Reverse Active Modification Method of Tooth Profile for RV Reducer Cycloidal Gear by Xiaotao An, Tianxing Li, Chunrong Xing, Guofeng Wang, Meng Tian

“…></graphic></alternatives></inline-formula> of the parabolic modification method are taken as the modification variables of the tooth profile, and the mathematical model of the reverse modification of the tooth profile is established with the minimum transmission error as the objective function. …”
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Words of Mouth on Destination Images and Intentions to Revisit

“…First, the findings indicate that EWOM positively influences the image of a tourism destination at the 1% significance level, with a coefficient of 2.881. Similarly, EWOM significantly enhances tourists’ intention to revisit a destination, as demonstrated by a coefficient of 4.502 at the 1% significance level. …”
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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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Frequency Stability Analysis Based on Full State Model in Autonomous-Synchronization Voltage Source Interfaced Power System by Zhenyao LI, Deqiang GAN, Moude LUAN, Guoqing HE

“…Based on the above conclusions, a method for estimating the virtual inertia and droop coefficient of renewable energy with the autonomous-synchronization voltage source that meets the preset frequency dynamic safety requirements is proposed. …”
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