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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Production components of corn as function of seed distribution along the planting row by Flavio H. da Silva, Paulo C. R. da Cunha, André C. de S. Almeida, Lucas da S. Araújo, Adriano Jakelaitis, Pedro M. da Silveira

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Can Emotional and Behavioral Dysregulation in Youth Be Decoded from Functional Neuroimaging? by Liana C L Portugal, Maria João Rosa, Anil Rao, Genna Bebko, Michele A Bertocci, Amanda K Hinze, Lisa Bonar, Jorge R C Almeida, Susan B Perlman, Amelia Versace, Claudiu Schirda, Michael Travis, Mary Kay Gill, Christine Demeter, Vaibhav A Diwadkar, Gary Ciuffetelli, Eric Rodriguez, Erika E Forbes, Jeffrey L Sunshine, Scott K Holland, Robert A Kowatch, Boris Birmaher, David Axelson, Sarah M Horwitz, Eugene L Arnold, Mary A Fristad, Eric A Youngstrom, Robert L Findling, Mirtes Pereira, Leticia Oliveira, Mary L Phillips, Janaina Mourao-Miranda

“…Medication was treated as a binary confounding variable. Decoded and actual clinical scores were compared using Pearson's correlation coefficient (r) and mean squared error (MSE) to evaluate the models. …”
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Sexual Function and Quality of Life in Iranian Women With Human Papillomavirus Infection by Afsaneh Tehranian, Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, Sare Hatamian, Akram Ghahghaei-Nezamabadi

“…Variables were analysed via correlation coefficient and linear regression tests. …”
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Differential Transform Algorithm for Functional Differential Equations with Time-Dependent Delays by Josef Rebenda, Zuzana Pátíková

“…We focus on retarded equations with delays which in general are functions of the independent variable. The delayed differential equation is turned into an ordinary differential equation using the method of steps. …”
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Structural and tribological characterization of graphene layers grown by low pressure chemical vapor deposition on ASTM A36 steel substrates by Priscila Carvalho Borba Cardoso, André do Nascimento Barbosa, Marcelo Eduardo Huguenin Maia da Costa, Juan Lucas Nachez, Fagner Marçal Andrade, Suzana Bottega Peripolli, José Brant de Campos

“…The effects of surface preparation methods and operational variables on the properties of the resulting graphene layers were systematically explored. …”
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Relationship between muscle strength and motor function in Duchenne muscular dystrophy by Milene F. Nunes, Michele E. Hukuda, Francis M. Favero, Acary B. Oliveira, Mariana C. Voos, Fátima A. Caromano

“…However, the relationship between these variables is controversial. Objective To investigate the relationship between muscle strength and motor function and between these variables and age. …”
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DIGITAL EXAMINATION METHODS OF ANATOMICAL ELEMENTS OF MASTICATORY SYSTEM AND BASIC OCCLUSION RELATIONSHIPS by R.M. Stupnytskyi, V.R. Yarychkivskyi

“… In the modern world, dentistry has achieved a significant possibilities in aesthetic and functional restoration of teeth and dental arches thanks to modern computer technologies. …”
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On the Growth Order and Growth Type of Entire Functions of Several Complex Matrices by M. Abul-Ez, H. Abd-Elmageed, M. Hidan, M. Abdalla

“…In this paper, we establish an explicit relation between the growth of the maximum modulus and the Taylor coefficients of entire functions in several complex matrix variables (FSCMVs) in hyperspherical regions. …”
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