Regional Determinants of Efficiency Growth of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Evidence from Poland by Teresa Łuczka, Paweł Przepióra

“…Therefore, the interest in its functioning among economists is in fact quite natural. …”
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Optimizing heat exchanger efficiency: Predictive modeling to minimize fouling in crude oil refining by Kouidri Ikram, Kaid-Ameur Djilali, Nadjem Bailek, Jihad A. Younis, Dahmani Abdennasser, Raheem Al-Sabur, Bilel Zerouali, Lorenc Malka, Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos, Ilhami Colak

“…The models were subsequently refined to incorporate key variables, such as inlet and outlet temperatures and mass flow rates, ensuring robustness and generalizability. …”
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Influence of Mismatch of Parameters of Quadrature Channels on the Work of the Adaptive Selection System for Moving Targets by S. I. Ziatdinov

“…An expression is obtained for the frequency transfer function of an adaptive passive noise suppression system with a variable cut-off zone relative to the average frequency of the spectrum of interference signals. …”
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Analyzing Advanced Approaches to Appraisal of Tax Impact on Efficiency of Business Entities in Conditions of Uncertainty by E. A. Danchikov, S. N. Kovalenko

“…The article analyzes the impact of taxation on finance result, one of key indicators of estimating the efficiency of business entity work. The author studies the effect of direct and indirect taxes on efficiency of organization work in the context of conventional-variable and conventional-constant costs and the influence of choosing organizational-legal form on the taxation system of business entity. …”
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A hydrothermal coupling model for permafrost subgrade considering temperature gradient and its application by Jianqing Jia, Zeqing He, Victor O. Tenorio

“…In this study, the dynamic variation of soil permeability coefficient with temperature is considered, the permeability coefficient is defined as a piecewise function with temperature as independent variable, and the hydrothermal coupling equation is established. …”
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Efficient techno-economic modelling of smart parking lots within the electricity distribution networks by Seyed Ashkan Nejati, David Greenwood, Sanchari Deb, Saman Nikkhah

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Modulatory Efficiency of Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) on Collagen-Induced Platelet Aggregation and Dysfunction by Osah Martins Onwuka, Chukwukadibie Adigwe, Oghenefego Michael Adheke, Chamberlin Jamike Elem, Josiah Soipiriala Hart

“…Platelet count, mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet distribution width (PDW), and plateletcrit (PCT) evaluated platelet production and size variability. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. …”
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Automated protocol templates with efficient schedule of activities table generation for healthy volunteer trials by Kyongeun Shin, Sungpil Han, Hyerim Choe, Suein Choi, Seunghoon Han

“…Materials and methods: R Markdown was applied as the primary template development tool to automate the creation of a clinical trial protocol template that adheres to the International Council for Harmonization (ICH) M11 guidelines by enabling the adjustment of dynamic variables and facilitating the standardized presentation of relevant data using associated R packages. …”
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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 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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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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Challenges and future perspectives in using mesenchymal stem cells for efficient bone fracture healing by Dong Han, Weiwei Liu, Jinpeng Gong, Yupeng Ma, Zhengwen Sun

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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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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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An efficient Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm with fixed linear ramp schedule for truss structure optimization by Junsen Xiao, Naruethep Sukulthanasorn, Reika Nomura, Shuji Moriguchi, Kenjiro Terada

“…As a result, the objective function is in a simple format, enabling efficient optimization using QAOA. …”
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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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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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SARE: an optimized method for detection functional regulatory elements in genome by Mohammadjavad Hosseinpoor

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