Morpho‐Physiological Traits and Dehydration Tolerance of High‐Altitude Andean Wetland Vegetation in the Chilean Atacama Region by Dariel López, Patricia L. Sáez, Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Fernanda C. Beveridge, Felipe Saavedra‐Mella, León A. Bravo

“…In this study, we characterized the functional trait spectrum of dominant plant species within the Salar de Pedernales, Quebrada Leoncito (Leoncito) and Río Negro HAWAs and explored the relationships between these traits and key environmental variables. …”
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Economic Analysis of Innovation Development Processes in Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan by I. B. Rustamova, M. M. Babadjanova

“…The article provides econometric analysis of agricultural production efficiency in the Republic of Uzbekistan. As methodology for identifying the impact of land, labour resources and capital on the net output of agriculture Kobba - Douglas production function was used. …”
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CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ASPIRIN RESISTANCE IN PATIENTS WITH CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASES by P. J. Dovgalevsky, N. V. Furman, N. F. Puchinian

“…Possible reasons for this are discussed: low compliance with treatment, peculiarities of functional condition of platelets, genetically given variability of platelet receptors etc. …”
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APPROXIMATE SOLUTION OF ONE PROBLEM ON ELECTRICAL OSCILLATIONS IN WIRES WITH THE USE OF POLYLOGARITHMS by P. G. Lasy, I. N. Meleshko

“…In addition, if the initial conditions in the problem are elementary functions, then the solution is also computed using elementary functions. …”
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Estimation of heat transfer parameters by using trained POD-RBF and Grey Wolf Optimizer by Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Nha Thanh Nguyen, Thien Tich Truong

“…The search for optimum design variables is conducted by using a recent heuristic method, namely Grey Wolf Optimizer. …”
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Span of Control in Teamwork and Organization Structure by Katarina Remenova, Zuzana Skorkova, Nadezda Jankelova

“…The results of non-parametric testing (Chi-Square Test of Independence) and rates of association between variables (using Cramér’s V and Phi coefficient and for ordinal variables, Kendall’s tau-b, GoodmanKruskal’s Gamma, Kendall’s tau-c and Somers’ d) indicate that the team size is not related to the level of management, which does not confirm the assumption that the largest teams work at the lowest management level and vice versa, that the team leader at the top level is in charge of the smallest number of people. …”
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Variational Iteration and Linearized Liapunov Methods for Seeking the Analytic Solutions of Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems by Chein-Shan Liu, Botong Li, Chung-Lun Kuo

“…The boundary shape function method transforms the boundary value problem to an initial value problem (IVP) for a new variable. …”
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Home Spirometry for Post-COVID Recovery: A Clinical Validation Study of an Ultrasonic Device by Asli Gorek Dilektasli, Ayten Odabas, Ismet Polat, Abdurrahman Dogan, Guven Ozkaya, Ozge Aydin Guclu, Nilufer Aylin Acet Ozturk, Funda Coskun, Mehmet Karadag

“…FEV1/FVC ratios showed greater variability. Pulmonary function improved significantly over 12 weeks for both methods (<i>p</i> < 0.002). …”
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Application of the variation operator in a genetic algorithm for the synthesis of fuzzy controllers by I. V. Kulikova

“…This article studies the problem of increasing the efficiency of fuzzy controller synthesis in a control system using a genetic algorithm. …”
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Nonlinear Dynamics of an Electromagnetically Actuated Cantilever Beam Under Harmonic External Excitation by Nicolae Herisanu, Bogdan Marinca, Vasile Marinca

“…Also, Pontryagin’s principle with respect to the control variable is applied in the construction of the Lyapunov function.…”
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Relationship Between Physical Performance and Strength of the Ankle Muscles, Pain, and Kinesiophobia in Taekwondo Athletes With Chronic Ankle Instability by Beom-jun Kim, Ui-jae Hwang, Oh-yun Kwon

Local calibration of JPCP transverse cracking and IRI models using maximum likelihood estimation by Rahul Raj Singh, Syed Waqar Haider, James Bryce

“…The approach uses measured data from the Michigan Department of Transportation's (MDOT) pavement management system (PMS) database for 70 jointed plain concrete pavement (JPCP) sections to calibrate and validate transfer functions. The MLE approach is combined with resampling techniques to improve the robustness of calibration coefficients. …”
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Ecological and Ergonomic Aspects of Operating Hybrid Sunflower Cultivation Technologies by M. A. Kerimov, V. V. Vetushko

“…(Research purpose) To enhance the efficiency of hybrid sunflower seed production technologies by developing and validating safe scientific and technical solutions. …”
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Real-time prediction of port water levels based on EMD-PSO-RBFNN by Lijun Wang, Shenghao Liao, Sisi Wang, Jianchuan Yin, Ronghui Li, Jingyu Guan

“…Addressing the spatial variability, temporal dynamics, and non-linearity characteristics of port water levels, a hybrid prediction scheme was proposed, which integrates empirical mode decomposition (EMD) with a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN), optimized using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. …”
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Formulation of multicriteria problem of routing and scheduling of manned and unmanned aircraft in a dynamic environment and approach to its solution using genetic algorithms by G. N. Lebedev, V. B. Malygin, D. A. Mikhaylin, T. Byo

“…The proposed approach will significantly improve the efficiency and quality of flight planning for the airline, taking into account the diversity of aircraft fleet, payload and environmental impact. …”
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Sex differences in anaerobic performance in CrossFit® athletes: a comparison of three different all-out tests by Tomás Ponce-García, Jerónimo García-Romero, Laura Carrasco-Fernández, Alejandro Castillo-Domínguez, Javier Benítez-Porres

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Multiparametric positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Correlations between magnetic resonance imaging functional parameters and18F-fl... by Sheng-Chieh Chan, Shu-Hang Ng, Chih-Hua Yeh, Kai-Ping Chang

“…Materials and Methods: We enrolled 85 patients with primary NPC who simultaneously underwent18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT and PET/MRI before definitive treatment. The following variables were determined: (1) functional parameters from the MRI component, including perfusion values (Ktrans,kep,ve, and initial area under the enhancement curve) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values, and (2) PET parameters, including metabolic tumor volume (MTV). …”
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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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An intelligent hybrid grey wolf-particle swarm optimizer for optimization in complex engineering design problem by Muhammad Suhail Shaikh, Haoyue Lin, Senlin Xie, Xiaoqing Dong, Yifan Lin, Chandan Kumar Shiva, Wulfran Fendzi Mbasso

“…Abstract Engineering design optimization problems present significant challenges due to the complexity of objective functions, which often involve both continuous and discrete design variables, along with multiple constraints. …”
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Resting-State Brain Network Characteristics Related to Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Preliminary fNIRS Proof-of-Concept Study by Guohui Yang, Chenyu Fan, Haozheng Li, Yu Tong, Shuang Lin, Yashuo Feng, Fengzhi Liu, Chunrong Bao, Hongyu Xie, Yi Wu

“…Subject sRSFC strength and dRSFC variability coefficients were evaluated via fNIRS. The study evaluated the feasibility of using fNIRS to measure these connectivity metrics and compared resting-state brain network characteristics between the two groups. …”
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