The Relationship Between Supply Environment, Supply Chain Integration and Performance Considering Opportunistic Behaviors by Abbas َAsadi, safanaz Heidari

“…Then, inferential statistics are employed to explain the relationships between variables and generalize the results to the society. …”
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Development of a clinical decision support tool for Primary care Management of lower Urinary tract Symptoms in men: the PriMUS study by Adrian Edwards, Ridhi Agarwal, Janine Bates, Alison Bray, Sarah Milosevic, Emma Thomas-Jones, Michael Drinnan, Marcus Drake, Peter Michell, Bethan Pell, Haroon Ahmed, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Kerenza Hood, Yemisi Takwoingi, Chris Harding

“…Multiple imputation by chain equations was used to handle missing data and fractional polynomial functions were used to fit continuous variables. The discriminative ability of the models was assessed using the c-index, and calibration was assessed using calibration plots and the calibration slope. …”
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Contextual Vulnerability Should Guide Fair Subject Selection in Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials by Gianna Strand

“…[xv] The center they present to and the variable evaluative criteria the center uses may discount an individual’s claim to a fair opportunity to access a scarce resource. …”
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Some New Connection Relations Related to Classical Orthogonal Polynomials by Wathek Chammam, Wasim Ul-Haq

“…In this paper, we deal with a problem of positivity of linear functionals in the linear space ℙ of polynomials in one variable with complex coefficients. …”
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Analysis of Factors Influencing the Development of Community-Based Tourism in Rural Areas, Case Study: Villages Targeted by Tourism in the Markazi Province by Hamid Afshari, Behrouz Mohammadi Yeganeh, Hossein Farahani, Mehdi Cheraghi

“…Thus, the aim of the present research is to find the variables affecting community-based tourism in the target villages of Markazi Province. …”
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Novel Approximations to the Damped Parametric Driven Pendulum Oscillators by Weaam Alhejaili, Alvaro H. Salas, S. A. El-Tantawy

“…For analyzing and solving the current pendulum equation, we reduce this equation to the damped Duffing equation (DDE) with variable coefficients. After that, the DDE with variable coefficients is divided into two cases. …”
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Approximate analytical solution of a class of highly nonlinear time–fractional-order partial differential equations by Richard Olu Awonusika

“…The method assumes a fractional power series in the time variable whose expansion coefficients are functions of the space variable. …”
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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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Closed-Form Solutions to Differential Equations via Differential Evolution by L. Mex, Carlos A. Cruz-Villar, F. Peñuñuri

“…First, the problem is stated as an optimization problem where the independent variables are elementary functions. Second, as the domain of DE is real numbers, we propose a grammar that assigns numbers to functions. …”
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أثر كفاءة الجھاز التنفسي في ألانجاز الرقمي لعدائي ( -5001500 للشباب بأعمار دون( 20 )سنة by عباس فاضل جابر, ماهر عبداللطيف عارف

“… A study conducted on a sample of runners ran (1500 m -5000 m) youth Reconstruction without (20) years to know the effect of the efficiency of the respiratory tract in the achievement digital The study aimed to identify the impact of the efficiency of the respiratory system of delivery for digital hostile (1500-5000) meters for youth ages without 20 years old and to identify the relationship between some of the functions of breath and time ran 1,500 meters and 5,000 meters for young people under the age of 20 years and get the equation predictive time-ran 1,500 meters and 5,000 meters for young people under the age of 20 years have been identified measurements that will be used in the research is vital capacity of the lungs VC)) and vital capacity rapid ( FVC) and the volume of exhaled air after the first second (FEV1) and the percentage of the volume of exhaled air after the first second (FEV1%) and the average maximum speed of exhalation (MMF) and compression force exhaled air - rate the passage of exhaled air (PEF) has concluded the researchers to some of the findings, including the existence of correlation between some of the functions of breath and time ran (1500-5000) meters for youth and appeared vital capacity of the lungs during rest (VCr) preference efficiency Respiratory to hostile five thousand meters on the hostile thousand and five hundred meters clearly. emerged as functions of breathing contribute to the time he ran (1500) m is the rate of passage of exhaled air PEF and jointly by (41.55%), followed by vital capacity maximum (FVC) by (5.71%) and the volume exhaled air after the first second (FEV1) increased by 3.55% and the three variables contribute by 49.11% at the time ran the 1,500 meters. …”
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Positive Invertibility of Matrices and Exponential Stability of Linear Stochastic Systems with Delay by Ramazan Kadiev, Arcady Ponosov

“…The work addresses the exponential moment stability of solutions of large systems of linear differential Itô equations with variable delays by means of a modified regularization method, which can be viewed as an alternative to the technique based on Lyapunov or Lyapunov-like functionals. …”
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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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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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CHANGES AND TRENDS IN WINE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION IN THE WORLD AND ROMANIA DURING THE PERIOD 2007-2018 by Agatha POPESCU

“…The paper analyzed the evolution of wine production and consumption in Romania and at the world level in order to identify the main changes and trends in the period 2007-2018 using official data which have been processed using fixed and variable indices, correlation coefficients, regression functions, consumption/production rate, export/consumption rate, self sufficiency rate and import dependency rate. …”
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Effect of electrostatic and intermolecular forces on free small vibrations of a micro-cantilever by Геннадий Иванович Михасев, Вячеслав Владимирович Мисник, Марина Георгиевна Ботогова

“…The derived governing equation with variable coefficients is solved using both the asymptotic approach and the Runge – Kutta method. …”
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A Semantic Generalization of Shannon’s Information Theory and Applications by Chenguang Lu

“…The improvements in machine learning methods involve multi-label learning and classification, maximum mutual information classification, mixture models, and solving latent variables. Furthermore, insights from statistical physics are discussed: Shannon information is similar to free energy; semantic information to free energy in local equilibrium systems; and information efficiency to the efficiency of free energy in performing work. …”
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Dynamic Stability of a Circular Pre-Stressed Elastic Orthotropic Plate Subjected to Shock Excitation by Yuriy A. Rossikhin, Marina V. Shitikova

“…Behind the fronts of these waves, the solution is constructed in terms of ray series, which coefficients are the different order discontinuities in partial time-derivatives of the desired functions, and a variable is the time elapsed after the wave arrival at the plate’s point under consideration. …”
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PARAMETER ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF MAGNETIC ADSORPTION UNIT FOR CRAWLER WALL-CLIMBING ROBOT (MT) by ZHAO ZhiHao, TAO YouRui, PEI JiaXin, HU JunYu

“…The length, the width, the height of the permanent magnet, the thickness of the yoke and the distance between the permanent magnet and the wall are selected as the design variables. After the optimized design, the adsorption efficiency of the MAU is increased from 2.029 7 to 3.938 1.…”
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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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Dynamics of a Nonlinear Energy Harvesting System in Time-Delayed Feedback Control under Stochastic Excitations by Shuling Zhang, Ying Zhang, Zhongkui Sun, Xiaxia Duan

“…An equivalent decoupling system can be obtained by using a variable transformation. Based on the standard stochastic averaging method, the Fokker–Plank–Kolmogorov equation and the stationary probability density functions of the amplitude, displacement, and velocity of the harvester are obtained, respectively. …”
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