Radiative heat and mass transfer of second-grade nanofluid slip flow with variable thermal properties by Zia Ullah, Md. Mahbub Alam, Aamir Abbas Khan, Shalan Alkarni, Feyisa Edosa Merga

“…The objective of this study is to provide deeper insights into how these variables influence fluid flow characteristics and heat transfer in nanofluid. …”
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A Proposal for a New Python Library Implementing Stepwise Procedure by Luiz Paulo Fávero, Helder Prado Santos, Patrícia Belfiore, Alexandre Duarte, Igor Pinheiro de Araújo Costa, Adilson Vilarinho Terra, Miguel Ângelo Lellis Moreira, Wilson Tarantin Junior, Marcos dos Santos

“…As the main contribution of this study, we present the stepwise function implemented in Python to improve the effectiveness of statistical analyses, allowing the intuitive and efficient selection of statistically significant variables. …”
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Prognostic Significance of Pulse Pressure Variability During Mechanical Thrombectomy in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients by Benjamin Maïer, Guillaume Turc, Guillaume Taylor, Raphaël Blanc, Michael Obadia, Stanislas Smajda, Jean‐Philippe Desilles, Hocine Redjem, Gabriele Ciccio, William Boisseau, Candice Sabben, Malek Ben Machaa, Mylene Hamdani, Morgan Leguen, Etienne Gayat, Jacques Blacher, Bertrand Lapergue, Michel Piotin, Mikael Mazighi

“…Moreover, pulse pressure (PP) has not been considered as a potent hemodynamic parameter to describe BP variability during MT. We assessed the impact of PP variability on functional outcome in acute ischemic stroke patients with large vessel occlusion during MT. …”
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Numerical modeling for optimized sediment deflection with variable submergence over a row of submerged vanes by Vikalp Chauhan, Ellora Padhi, Gopal Das Singhal

“…This research examines the potential for improved sediment deflection efficiency through the optimisation of variable submergence. …”
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Risk assessment of rail transit systems with variable renewable energy based on uncertain random theory by Yanbo Chen, Xiaoxue Li, Zhi Zhang

“…Variable renewable energy access to rail transportation is an effective way for electrified railroads to realize their own efficient and renewable energy use, however, the uncertainty of variable renewable energy also brings risks to the reliable transportation of railroad. …”
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Digital mapping of Ghana’s soil properties and nutrients: performance of spline and weighted average approaches by Kora B.D. Simperegui, Anselme K.K. Kouame, Benjamin Kwesie, Prem S. Bindraban, William Adzawla, Eric Asamoah, Mohamed El Gharous

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Statistics of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field from 0.1 to 30 au. II. Dynamical Variability by Jiutong Zhao, Shan Wang, Weijie Sun, Xingyu Zhu, Chuanpeng Hou, Qiugang Zong, Jiansen He, Xuzhi Zhou, Chao Yue, Liu Yang, Daniel Heyner

“…Our analysis reveals that the autocorrelation function employed to measure IMF temporal variability is significantly influenced by the heliocentric distance and the solar cycle. …”
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Free Vibration Analysis of Moderately Thick Rectangular Plates with Variable Thickness and Arbitrary Boundary Conditions by Dongyan Shi, Qingshan Wang, Xianjie Shi, Fuzhen Pang

“…Under the current framework, the one displacement and two rotation functions are generally sought, regardless of boundary conditions, as an improved trigonometric series in which several supplementary functions are introduced to remove the potential discontinuities with the displacement components and its derivatives at the edges and to accelerate the convergence of series representations. …”
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Technical Efficiency of Sweet Potato Production: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis by Godfrey C. Onuwa, Solomon T. Folorunsho, Ganiyu Binuyo, Mercy Emefiene, Onyekwere P. Ifenkwe

“…Data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics and stochastic frontier production function. The socioeconomic variables of the respondents affected their farm efficiency and level of farm output. …”
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Variable Selection for Multivariate Failure Time Data via Regularized Sparse-Input Neural Network by Bin Luo, Susan Halabi

“…For linear marginal hazard models, we develop a penalized pseudo-partial likelihood approach with a group LASSO-type penalty applied to the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi mathvariant="sans-serif-italic">ℓ</mi><mn>2</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> norms of coefficients corresponding to the same covariates across marginal hazard functions. …”
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Multidimensional Meteorological Variables for Wind Speed Forecasting in Qinghai Region of China: A Novel Approach by He Jiang, Luo Shihua, Yao Dong

“…The accurate, efficient, and reliable forecasting of wind speed is a hot research topic in wind power generation and integration. …”
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Sharp L2 Norm Convergence of Variable-Step BDF2 Implicit Scheme for the Extended Fisher–Kolmogorov Equation by Yang Li, Qihang Sun, Naidan Feng, Jianjun Liu

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Energy efficiency in middle-income countries with DEA: An approach for Latin America by Néstor Xavier Maya, M.M. Prieto, Laura Megido

“…From this analysis, the production function, the technical efficiency, the total energy efficiency factor and their respective correlation coefficients versus the per capita income variable are obtained for each country. …”
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Machine learning-based smart irrigation controller for runoff minimization in turfgrass irrigation by Sambandh Dhal, Jorge Alvarado, Ulisses Braga-Neto, Benjamin Wherley

“…The synthetic data were derived from observations collected from irrigation plots at the Texas A&M University Turfgrass Laboratory in Texas, United States, with Soil Wetting Efficiency Index (SWEI) serving as the target variable. …”
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Optimizing capacitor size and placement in radial distribution networks for maximum efficiency by R. Arunjothi, K.P. Meena

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Methods of evaluating maturity level of the organization based on fuzzy modeling by Lyudmila Viktorovna Borisova, Lyubov Azatovna Dimitrova, Inna Nikolaevna Nurutdinova

“…Membership functions of all the linguistic variables are developed according to the estimates of four experts for which purpose the typical trapezoidal functions are used. …”
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A Method for Solving LiDAR Waveform Decomposition Parameters Based on a Variable Projection Algorithm by Ke Wang, Guolin Liu, Qiuxiang Tao, Luyao Wang, Yang Chen

“…First, using a variable projection algorithm, we separated the linear (amplitude) and nonlinear (center position and width) parameters in the Gaussian function model; the linear parameters are expressed with nonlinear parameters by the function. …”
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Upper-Bound Analysis of Slope Reliability Considering Anisotropic Spatial Variability and Reinforcement with Anti-slide Piles by ZHAO Zi-hao, WANG Jia-rui, FU Tao-tao, ZHU En-lin

“…To ensure that the random field demonstrates general rotational anisotropy, the autocorrelation function was transformed through a coordinate system conversion before the decomposition of the autocorrelation coefficient matrix. …”
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Construction and analysis of one class of cryptographic functions by Zhi-hui OU, Ya-qun ZHAO, Xu LI

“…A novel class of n+t -variable Boolean functions G (x,y) through adding t variables while concatenating t+ 1 Boolean functions (called basic function) was constructed and the Walsh spectrum and autocorrelation coefficient of G(x,y)were given.The relationship between G(x,y)and basic functions by Krawtchouk polynomial and Krawtchouk matrix was studied.Moreover,their cryptographic properties:correlation immunity,propagation and algebraic immunity were investigated.Specially,the detailed relationship between G (x,y) and basic functions when t= 2 was analyzed.In additional,a novel class of multioutput Boolean functions by generalizing the method was constructed and the general Walsh spectrum of the class of multioutput Boolean functions was proposed.Correlation immunity and algebraic immunity of the class of multioutput Boolean functions were analyzed.…”
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Construction and analysis of one class of cryptographic functions by Zhi-hui OU, Ya-qun ZHAO, Xu LI

“…A novel class of n+t -variable Boolean functions G (x,y) through adding t variables while concatenating t+ 1 Boolean functions (called basic function) was constructed and the Walsh spectrum and autocorrelation coefficient of G(x,y)were given.The relationship between G(x,y)and basic functions by Krawtchouk polynomial and Krawtchouk matrix was studied.Moreover,their cryptographic properties:correlation immunity,propagation and algebraic immunity were investigated.Specially,the detailed relationship between G (x,y) and basic functions when t= 2 was analyzed.In additional,a novel class of multioutput Boolean functions by generalizing the method was constructed and the general Walsh spectrum of the class of multioutput Boolean functions was proposed.Correlation immunity and algebraic immunity of the class of multioutput Boolean functions were analyzed.…”
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