Causal relationships of vegetation productivity with root zone water availability and atmospheric dryness at the catchment scale by G. W. Abeshu, H.-Y. Li, M. Shi, L. R. Leung

“…The results revealed a maximum lag of 2 months in the intra-annual variability of catchment water supply–productivity and atmospheric water demand–productivity relationships, with hysteresis patterns varying with the catchment's hydrological characteristics. …”
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The agricultural plastic paradox: Feeding more, harming more? by Kai Wang, Xuejun Liu, David R. Chadwick, Changrong Yan, Michaela Reay, Tida Ge, Fan Ding, Jingkuan Wang, Ruimin Qi, Mouliang Xiao, Rui Jiang, Yanling Chen, Ji Ma, Charlotte Lloyd, Richard P. Evershed, Yongming Luo, Yongguan Zhu, Fusuo Zhang, Davey L. Jones

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Agreement of glomerular filtration rate estimation equations for chemotherapy dosing in cancer patients at a tertiary referral hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa. by Wubshet Jote Tolossa, Tigist Workneh Leulseged, Abdu Adem, Feyissa Challa, Tirumebet Mezgebu, Ruth S Aytehgeza, Nebiat Adane Mera, Kalsidagn Girma Asfaw, Momina M Ahmed, Kebede H Begna

“…To confirm the significance of the recorded levels of agreement, a one-sample t-test, a Bland-Altman plot, and a linear regression analysis were performed step by step for variables which proved to have statistical agreement, where a p-value > 0.05 and the presence of heteroscedasticity indicates a non-significant difference and hence the presence of good agreement.…”
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Replacing GRACE/GRACE‐FO C30 With Satellite Laser Ranging: Impacts on Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Change by Bryant D. Loomis, Kenneth E. Rachlin, David N. Wiese, Felix W. Landerer, Scott B. Luthcke

“…The C30 coefficient, which has a large impact on the recovered Antarctic Ice Sheet mass changes, is shown here to be poorly observed by GRACE/GRACE‐FO when either mission is operating without two fully functional accelerometers. …”
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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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Enhancing access to specialist appointments in tertiary healthcare in Shanghai, China: a structured reservation pathway using digital health technologies by Li Li, Tao Zheng, Enhong Dong, Minjie Chen, Xiaojing Zhao, Binyuan Zhang, Xuji Zhao, Weijun Shao, Yiling Fan

“…The generalised linear model, enhanced with specialist and clinical department variables, showed superior predictive accuracy (67.86–68.26%) and model fit over the previous logistic model. …”
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The Effect of Rural Guide Plan on Objective Quality of Life among Rural Communities in Fariman County by Aliakbar Anabestani, Hamdollah Sojasi Qeidari, Fahime Jafari

“…According to the results of Pearson's correlation tests, the findings of present study showed a significant and strong correlation between implementation of rural guide plan and the mental facet of life quality by a 0.75 correlation coefficient, so that rural guide plan explained 57% of the variation of dependent variable, and among guide plan dimensions the changing environmental rural affected the objective improvement of life quality of villagers by 29 percent. …”
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Study of the possibility of controlling the production of low-molecular-weight heparin preparations by domestic test systems (review) by A. L. Berkovsky, E. V. Sergeeva, A. V. Suvorov

“…The data on the wide clinical use of low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) preparations are presented, necessitating the need for efficient and high-quality production of appropriate pharmaceuticals. …”
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An enhanced buck-boost converter for photovoltaic diagnosis application: Accurate MPP tracker and I-V tracer by Yassine Chouay, Mohammed Ouassaid

“…In normal operation, the converter is controlled by neural network (NN) controller to efficiently extract maximum power point (MPP). However, in the event of a system failure, the converter automatically transitions to variable load mode to capture different points on the current-voltage (I-V) curve. …”
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THE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF UNSTEADY HEAT CONDUCTION IN SOLIDS by L. M. Ozherelkova, E. S. Savin

“…Both in the case of high and low temperatures, the temperature dependences of the heat capacity and the thermal conductivity coefficient are power-law, which allows us to bring the original heat conduction equation to a form that allows the use of the classical method of variable separation in solving the corresponding boundary value problems for the heat conduction equation. …”
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Mechanical Impedance Control in the Human Arm While Manually Transporting an Open-Top Fluid Filled Dish by Navit Roth, Rami Seliktar, Joseph Mizrahi

“…The function used for damping included first-order dependence on angular velocity. …”
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A Comparative Study of Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Urban Autonomous Driving: Addressing the Geographic and Regulatory Challenges in CARLA by Yechan Park, Woomin Jun, Sungjin Lee

“…To evaluate the adaptability of each algorithm to geographical variability and complex traffic laws, scenario-specific reward and penalty functions were carefully designed and incorporated. …”
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Fault Estimation for Semi-Markov Jump Neural Networks Based on the Extended State Method by Lihong Rong, Yuexin Pan, Zhimin Tong

“…To alleviate network congestion and optimize communication resources, the Round-Robin protocol is adopted to schedule data transmission efficiently. By constructing a Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional and applying the discrete Wirtinger inequality, sufficient conditions are derived to ensure the mean square exponential stability and dissipative performance of the system. …”
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Agricultural Waste–Derived Biochar for Antibiotics Removal in Aqueous Environment: A Comprehensive Outlook by Varalakshmi Varatharajan, Karthik V., Selvakumar Periyasamy

“…The key elements influencing antibiotic adsorption on biochar, including surface chemistry, pyrolysis conditions, and environmental variables, were discussed in detail. This review focuses specifically on the functional modification of the biochar, the mechanism involved in antibiotic adsorption, and the scalability of this process. …”
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Combined analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequencing data reveals core vaginal bacteria across livestock species by Lucille C. Jonas, Lucille C. Jonas, Curtis R. Youngs, Stephan Schmitz-Esser, Stephan Schmitz-Esser

“…Recent publications have uncovered a high degree of variability of the livestock vaginal microbiota, making it difficult to focus functional research on individual microorganisms. …”
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Integrated analyses of copy number variations and gene expression in lung adenocarcinoma. by Tzu-Pin Lu, Liang-Chuan Lai, Mong-Hsun Tsai, Pei-Chun Chen, Chung-Ping Hsu, Jang-Ming Lee, Chuhsing Kate Hsiao, Eric Y Chuang

“…We demonstrated the reproducibility of these genes in another lung cancer study (p = 0.0034, Fisher's exact test), and showed the concordance between copy number variations and gene expression changes by elevated Pearson correlation coefficients. Pathway analysis revealed two major dysregulated functions in lung tumorigenesis: survival regulation via AKT signaling and cytoskeleton reorganization. …”
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Allometric equation for estimating aboveground biomass of Acacia-Commiphora forest, southern Ethiopia by Wondimagegn Amanuel, Chala Tadesse, Moges Molla, Desalegn Getinet, Zenebe Mekonnen

“…Data was transformed to logarithmic functions and multiple linear regression techniques were used to develop model to estimate aboveground biomass (AGB). …”
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Development of a High-Cell-Density Production Process for a Biotherapeutic Yeast, <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> var. <i>boulardii</i>, for Use as a Human Probiotic by Ghaneshree Moonsamy, Sarisha Singh, Yrielle Roets-Dlamini, Koketso Kenneth Baikgaki, Santosh Omrajah Ramchuran

“…Once the optimised batch was validated in the replicate batches, the statistical analysis indicated a high level of reproducibility, with low variability across key performance indicators such as biomass concentration (unit), CFU production (CFU.mL⁻¹), and substrate utilization efficiency (g.g⁻¹). …”
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DC algorithm for estimation of sparse Gaussian graphical models. by Tomokaze Shiratori, Yuichi Takano

“…Specifically, we convert the cardinality constraint into an equivalent constraint based on the largest-K norm, and reformulate the resultant constrained optimization problem into an unconstrained penalty form with a DC (difference of convex functions) representation. To solve this problem efficiently, we design a DC algorithm in which the graphical lasso algorithm is repeatedly executed to solve convex optimization subproblems. …”
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Gas Transfer Across Air‐Water Interfaces in Inland Waters: From Micro‐Eddies to Super‐Statistics by Gabriel Katul, Andrew Bragg, Ivan Mammarella, Heping Liu, Qi Li, Elie Bou‐Zeid

“…As the coefficient of variation CVe in ϵ increases, αo must be adjusted by a multiplier 1+CVe2−3/32 that was derived from a log‐normal model for the probability density function of ϵ. …”
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