A joint learning approach for automated diagnosis of keratinocyte carcinoma using optical attenuation coefficients by Lei Zhang, Xiaoran Li, Wen Chen, Yuanjie Gu, Hao Wu, Zhong Lu, Biqin Dong

“…Here, we propose an automated diagnostic method using the optical attenuation coefficient (OAC) and a joint learning strategy to classify AK, BCC, and normal skin. …”
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Experimental Study: Stress Path Coefficient in Unconsolidated Sands: Effects of Re-Pressurization and Depletion Hysteresis by Sabyasachi Prakash, Michael Myers, George Wong, Lori Hathon, Duane Mikulencak

“…It investigates the variability of horizontal stress path coefficient as a function of changing pore pressure (depressurization and re-pressurization) in unconsolidated sandstone reservoirs. …”
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Heart rate variability in university students engaged in competitive sports at the beginning of a training season by P. N. Chainikov, V. G. Cherkasova, S. V. Muraviev, А. М. Kulesh

“…Objective: to study heart rate variability in university students engaged in competitive sports at the beginning of a training season. …”
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Visit-to-visit glucose variability is associated with echocardiographic variables in people with type 2 diabetes: epidemiological and mendelian randomization approaches by Cheng-Chieh Lin, Chia-Ing Li, Chiu-Shong Liu, Chih-Hsueh Lin, Shing-Yu Yang, Tsai-Chung Li

“…Variability in FPG and HbA1c within one-year prior echocardiographic measurements was calculated using coefficient of variation (CV). …”
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Characterizing the effects of age, puberty, and sex on variability in resting-state functional connectivity in late childhood and early adolescence by Kelly A. Duffy, Andrea Wiglesworth, Donovan J. Roediger, Ellery Island, Bryon A. Mueller, Monica Luciana, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Kathryn R. Cullen, Mark B. Fiecas

“…We found decreased variability in global efficiency across the age range, and increased variability within the frontolimbic network driven primarily by those assigned female at birth (AFAB). …”
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The distribution of Coronal Plane Alignment of the Knee (CPAK) phenotypes in the Malaysian population and their correlation with demographic variables by Wai Kit Wong, Azliana Abu Bakar Sajak, Hwa Sen Chua

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An Efficient Line Search Algorithm for Large Scale Optimization by Abbas Al-Bayati, Ivan Latif

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An Analytical Approximation of the Stress Function for Conical Flywheels by Miguel Garcia, Onofre Orozco-López, Jesús Uribe-Chavira, Andrés Blanco-Ortega

“…The current paper addresses the lack of explicit analytical solutions for stress evaluations in variable-thickness flywheels by proposing an approximate formulation for conical profiles, where thickness varies linearly along the radius. …”
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A flexible multi-agent system for managing demand and variability in hybrid energy systems for rural communities by Ehab S. Ali, M. H. Elkholy, Tomonobu Senjyu, Sahar M. Abd Elazim, Emad S. Hassan, Zuhrir Alaas, Mohammed Elsayed Lotfy

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Modular quantum signal processing in many variables by Zane M. Rossi, Jack L. Ceroni, Isaac L. Chuang

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Resolving structural variability in network models and the brain. by Florian Klimm, Danielle S Bassett, Jean M Carlson, Peter J Mucha

“…We characterize both the empirical and synthetic networks using familiar graph metrics, but presented here in a more complete statistical form, as scatter plots and distributions, to reveal the full range of variability of each measure across scales in the network. …”
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Robust Group Identification and Variable Selection in Regression by Ali Alkenani, Tahir R. Dikheel

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Effects of Mental Fatigue on Gait Performance and Variability by Ali Zardosht, Jessie Daw, Lee T Atkins, C Roger James, Hyung Suk Yang

“…Kinematic data were recorded to assess gait variables such as speed, step length, step time, and step width, along with their coefficients of variation (CV). …”
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VBP-YOLO-prune: Robust apple detection under variable weather via feature-adaptive fusion and efficient YOLO pruning by Haohai You, Hao Wang, Zhanchen Wei, Chunguang Bi, Lijuan Zhang, Xuefang Li, Yingying Yin

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Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Dogs: Evaluating Imaging Parameters and Methodological Variability in Global Longitudinal Strain Assessment by Jonas E. Mogensen, Maiken B. T. Bach, Pernille G. Bay, Tuğba Varlik, Jakob L. Willesen, Caroline H. Gleerup, Jørgen Koch

“…Intra- and inter-observer coefficients of variation (CV) were below 9% for both methods, supporting their reliability. …”
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Multiyear Measurements of the Aerosol Absorption Coefficient Near the Surface in a Small-Sized Urban Area in Portugal by Sérgio Nepomuceno Pereira, Frank Wagner, Ana Maria Silva

“…Also, a strong negative correlation between the aerosol absorption coefficient and the wind speed was verified, and an exponential decay function was found to fit very well to the data. …”
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Genetics of Physiological Variation Within and Between Larval Wild-Type AB and Backcrossed NHGRI-1 Zebrafish (<i>Danio rerio</i>) by Gil Martinez-Bautista, Moira Ryann Cartee, Dyuksha Kunder, Crystelle Lee, Karol Tang, Neha Nagarajan, Pamela Padilla, Warren Burggren

“…To explore the role of genetics in physiological variation, we assessed variation of cardiac function (heart rate, stroke volume, and cardiac output), oxygen consumption, yolk conversion efficiency, and cost of development in embryonic and larval AB wild-type and NHGRI-1 zebrafish (low heterozygosity line backcrossed from AB wild-type) exposed to different temperature and oxygen regimes. …”
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Evaluation of the Variability of Micro and Macro Spray Parameters as a Function of Sampling Time Using a Laser Doppler Analyzer by Dariusz Lodwik, Mariusz Koprowski

“…In the first stage of the research, the variability of the coefficients characterizing the spray spectrum as a function of variable measurement time was analyzed. …”
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Experimental Study on Optimal Refrigerant Charge of Multi-functional Air-conditioning Hot Water Heater by Wang Haifeng, Zhang Shoubing, Yuan Huihui, Sun Yajuan, Li Yuduo, Dong Shanshan

“…A new type of double-flow accumulator was developed, which can automatically adjust the amount of circulating refrigerant on the system of multi-functional air-conditioning/hot-water heater so that the system was more stable and efficient under multi-working modes. …”
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Nonlinear free oscillation of tri-directional functionally graded porous skew-plates with variable thickness in high-thermal environment by Hong Hieu Le, Van Ke Tran, Nhan Thinh Hoang, Tran Ha Phuong Thanh

“…For the first time, a finite element model was constructed based on the improved shear deformation plate theory and the von Kármán assumption to analyze the linear and nonlinear free vibration behaviour of tri-directional functionally graded porous (TFGP) skew-plates with variable thickness resting on variable Pasternak-elastic foundation in high-temperature environments. …”
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