Canal Geometry, Flow Velocity, Dallisgrass (Paspalum dilatatum Poir.) Density and Soil Phosphorous Effects on Hydraulic Resistance of Vegetated Canals by Abolfazl Nasserı

“…Therefore, a regression model comprises both the roughness coefficient as a dependent variable and the flow velocity and canal slope as an independent variable is developed. …”
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Functional analysis of school refusal: An exploratory study in the Indian context by Arun Singh Yadav, Kiragasur Madegowda Rajendra, Lakshmi Sravanti, John Vijay Sagar Kommu, Shekhar Seshadri, Satish Chandra Girimaji

“…The association between school refusal and these variables was examined using Cramer’s V coefficient. …”
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Method of restoring multivariable Boolean function from its derivative by Alexander V. Mazurenko, Nadezhda S. Mogilevskaya

“…Introduction. Boolean functions of several variables are of paramount importance in the coding theory and cryptography. …”
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Functional capacity of patients with coronary artery disease at middle age by Khalida Alwan Mansour, Ali Kathum Jassem

“… Objectives: The study aims to identify the functional capacity for patients with coronary artery disease at middle age, and to find out the significant relation between functional capacity domains with variables patients gender, age, marital status, level of education, and income. …”
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SARE: an optimized method for detection functional regulatory elements in genome by Mohammadjavad Hosseinpoor

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The Quality of Functional Movements and the Back Squat in Amateur and Professional Bodybuilders by VERONIKA ILJINAITĖ, LAIMONAS ŠIUPŠINSKAS, KRISTINA BERŠKIENĖ

“…Statistical analyses applied non-parametric tests (Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney U, and Friedman's) for dependent and independent samples, with significance set at p\<0.05, and the Spearman correlation coefficient and Chi-square test were used to assess relationships between quantitative and qualitative variables…”
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Predicting renal function using fundus photography: role of confounders by Hyun-Woong Park, Hae Ri Kim, Ki Yup Nam, Bum Jun Kim, Taeseen Kang

“…Sex was identified as a confounding variable in creatinine prediction. The MDRD formula was more susceptible to this confounding effect than the CKD-EPI formula. …”
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Physical function evaluation in volleyball training based on intelligent GRNN by Kaiyuan Dong, Borhannudin bin Abdullah, Hazizi bin Abu Saad, Chenxi Lu

“…Abstract This study aims to improve both the evaluation accuracy and the real-time feedback capability in monitoring athletes’ physical function changes during volleyball training. Firstly, based on the framework of the generalized regression neural network, a variable-structure generalized regression neural network (VSGRNN) is proposed and developed. …”
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Bringing Executive Function Testing Online: Assessment Validation Study by Mouna Attarha, Ana Carolina de Figueiredo Pelegrino, Lydia Ouellet, Sarah-Jane Grant, Etienne de Villers-Sidani, Thomas Van Vleet

“…Performance on Freeze Frame was analyzed in relation to self-reported demographic variables and neuropsychological function, using a standardized measure of executive function, the National Institutes of Health Executive Abilities: Measures and Instruments for Neurobehavioral Evaluation and Research (NIH EXAMINER). …”
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Assessment of Pedotransfer Functions for Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Anatolian Soils by Gülay Karahan

“…However, it has been frequently reported that measurement of Ksat is laborious, time-consuming, and expensive due to its high spatial variability and this has motivated researchers to develop indirect methods such as pedotransfer functions (PTFs) for developing Ksat-database in regional and national scales. …”
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Axisymmetric Free Vibration of Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Circular Plates by Yang Li, Yang Gao

“…The finite Hankel transform is utilized to obtain an ordinary differential equation with variable coefficients. By virtue of the proposed exponential law model, we have ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients. …”
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Variational Autoencoder Transfer Functions for Onshore Tsunami Hazard Curves by Willington Renteria, Patrick Lynett, Maile McCann, Behzad Ebrahimi, Hong Kie Thio, Ian Robertson, Chris Siverd, Betsy Hicks

“…Once encoded, the data are represented by a normal distribution of latent variables. The VAE then uses a trained decoder to sample the distribution created by the latent variables and reconstruct a continuous hazard function at the onshore location. …”
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Mixed Cost Function and State Constrains Optimal Control Problems by Hugo Leiva, Guido Tapia-Riera, Jhoana P. Romero-Leiton, Cosme Duque

“…In this paper, we analyze an optimal control problem with a mixed cost function, which combines a terminal cost at the final state and an integral term involving the state and control variables. …”
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The Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation, Riccati Equation, and Airy Functions by Nathan A. Lanfear, Sergei K. Suslov

“…Particular solutions of the corresponding nonlinear Schrödinger equations with variable coefficients are also found. A special case of the quantum parametric oscillator is studied in detail first. …”
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Exploring Flexible Penalization of Bayesian Survival Analysis Using Beta Process Prior for Baseline Hazard by Kazeem A. Dauda, Ebenezer J. Adeniyi, Rasheed K. Lamidi, Olalekan T. Wahab

“…Therefore, this study is motivated to adopt the idea of a penalized semi-parametric Bayesian Cox (PSBC) model through elastic-net and group lasso penalty functions (PSBC-EN and PSBC-GL) to incorporate the grouping structure of the covariates (genes) and optimally perform variable selection. …”
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Bayesian Adaptive Lasso for the Partial Functional Linear Spatial Autoregressive Model by Dengke Xu, Ruiqin Tian, Ying Lu

“…This study introduces a partial functional linear spatial autoregressive model which can explore the relationship between a scalar spatially dependent response variable and predictive variables containing both multiple scalar covariates and a functional covariate. …”
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Functional Correlates of Action Observation of Gait in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease by Giulia Bommarito, Martina Putzolu, Laura Avanzino, Carola Cosentino, Alessandro Botta, Roberta Marchese, Matilde Inglese, Elisa Pelosin

“…Differences between patients with PD (FOG+ and FOG-) and HS were assessed at the level of behavioral and functional analysis. Results. Gait parameters, including gait velocity, stride length, and their coefficients of variability (CV), were different in PD patients compared to HS, whereas gait performance was similar between FOG+ and FOG-. …”
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Error-Function-Based Penalized Quantile Regression in the Linear Mixed Model by Zelin Hang, Xiuli He

“…This is a method of variable selection by ERror Function (ERF) regularization in the linear effects model. …”
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Functional capacity: association with risk for falls, fear of falling and pain in the elderly by Alexandre de Andrade Nadu, Danila Cristina Paquier Sala, Carla de Lima Silva, Odete de Oliveira Monteiro, Paula Cristina Pereira da Costa, Meiry Fernanda Pinto Okuno

“…Spearman’s Correlation Coefficient was used to associate the continuous variables with the Fear of Falling Scale. …”
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Radiographic and Functional Results following Subtalar Arthroereisis in Pediatric Flexible Flatfoot by David Ruiz-Picazo, Plácido Jiménez-Ortega, Francisco Doñate-Pérez, Natalia Gaspar-Aparicio, Victor García-Martín, José Ramírez-Villaescusa, Sergio Losa-Palacios

“…Two expert surgeons from the Pediatric Orthopedics Unit took separate measurements of these angles for subsequent analysis purposes and to obtain the interobserver correlation coefficient for quantitative variables. Pre- and postoperative differences in the measurement of angles were ascertained using Student’s t-test for paired samples; and a functional evaluation of the patients intervened was carried out pre- and postoperatively by administering the parent version of the Oxford Ankle Foot Questionnaire for Children (OxAFQ-C) during a clinical interview. …”
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