What is the near-natural catchment? An application of hydrological signatures assessment by Huan Xu, Hao Wang, Pan Liu, Xiaojing Zhang, Weibo Liu, Chutian Zhou, Hao Ye, Hongxuan Lei, Yang Liu

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Examination of organizational citizenship behavior influence on employee performance attainment: an empirical investigation by Temesgen Abebaw Wonda

“…To bridge this gap, the study employed a descriptive causal research design and a quantitative approach, using 228 employees as sample respondents. Stratified sampling was first applied to categorize employees based on their job positions, followed by simple random sampling to select respondents. …”
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Seakeeping of Hydrofoil-Equipped Unmanned Surface VehicleBased on LQR and ZOA by Xinhua SHUI, Fuhai DUAN

“…To evaluate the seakeeping of a hydrofoil-equipped unmanned surface vessel(USV), a linear quadratic regulator(LQR) was adopted, and its parameters were optimized using the zebra optimization algorithm(ZOA), with the amplitudes of roll, pitch, and heave motions as key metrics. …”
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Practical implications of the non-linear pedagogy in future physical Education Teachers Training during a body expression session: towards the edge of chaos (Implicaciones práctic... by Teresa Valverde-Esteve

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Modeling of the Geotechnical Properties of Soils Improved with Quarry Dust at Different Compaction Energies by Charles Nwaiwu, Francis Mbamalu, Obinna Ubani

“…The optimum moisture content (OMC) was generally reduced with increasing quarry dust content, but the trend varied with different samples. The UCS values showed no clear trend in the samples studied, and the result suggested that addition of quarry dust does not necessarily increase the UCS of all soil samples but can lead to loss of strength in some soils. …”
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Itararé Group Sandstone as a Sustainable Alternative Material for Photon Radiation Shielding by Gabrielli W. Pietralla, Isonel S. Meneguzzo, Luiz F. Pires

“…Notably, the lowest photon energies (0.015 MeV and 0.1 MeV) displayed significant differences in photon attenuation, as indicated by linear and mass attenuation coefficients. This suggests that the chemical composition of the samples had a considerable impact on their shielding performance. …”
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Novel Portable Device for Post Mortem Interval Estimation Using Vitreous Humor Analysis by Louise Lijcklama à Nijeholt, Michael Fleermann, Micky Breukers, Jaap Knotter, Steven Staal, Brigitte Bruijns

“…These samples were analyzed using the Fisic Medimate™ system to determine the K+/Na+ ratio. …”
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Variant regression modeling of electricity production in the Russian Federation by S. I. Noskov, E. S. Popov, S. P. Seredkin, V. V. Tirskikh, V. D. Toropov

“…Observations are identified that correspond to the maximum and minimum extent to the linear model on the analyzed sample. The values of the contributions of the factors to the right parts of the models are calculated.Conclusion. …”
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Multi‐Scale Analysis of Dispersive Scalar Transport Across Porous Media Under Globally Nonlinear Flow Conditions by Hamid Moghimi, Mohaddeseh Mousavi Nezhad, Alberto Guadagnini

“…Flow and transport processes are analyzed at pore‐scale and larger scales in well‐documented digital Beadpack and Bentheimer sandstone samples. Our simulations comprise linear (Darcy) and nonlinear (Forchheimer) flow regimes and consider a broad interval of values of Péclet number (ranging from 1 × 10−2–5 × 104). …”
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The Use of NIR Spectroscopy and Chemometrics to Identify the Thermal Treatment of Milk in Fiore Sardo PDO Cheese to Detect Fraud by Marco Caredda, Alessio Silvio Dedola, Massimo Pes, Margherita Addis

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Evaluating Interlaboratory Variability in Wastewater-Based COVID-19 Surveillance by Arianna Azzellino, Laura Pellegrinelli, Ramon Pedrini, Andrea Turolla, Barbara Bertasi, Sandro Binda, Sara Castiglioni, Clementina E. Cocuzza, Fabio Ferrari, Andrea Franzetti, Maria Giovanna Guiso, Marina Nadia Losio, Marianna Martinelli, Antonino Martines, Rosario Musumeci, Desdemona Oliva, Laura Sandri, Valeria Primache, Francesco Righi, Annalisa Scarazzato, Silvia Schiarea, Elena Pariani, Emanuela Ammoni, Danilo Cereda, Francesca Malpei

“…A two-way ANOVA framework within Generalized Linear Models was applied, and multiple pairwise comparisons among laboratories were performed using the Bonferroni post hoc test. …”
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Determination of Tacrolimus in Plasma by Paper Spray In-situ Mass Spectrometry Based on Multistage Fragmentation by Fei PAN, Shuang YANG, Zi-yu QU, Di ZHANG, Chun-xia WANG, Hong-bin ZHEN, Zi-hong YE, Xin-hua DAI, Xiang FANG, Hai-di JIANG, Jie XIE, You JIANG

“…In this study, a new multistage fragmentation method for the rapid detection of tacrolimus in plasma by paper spray in-situ mass spectrometry was established using an independently developed quadrupole-linear ion trap tandem mass spectrometry system. To minimize detection time, plasma samples were precipitated with an organic solvent containing an internal standard, and then the supernatant was aspirated for detection. …”
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Locality preserving partial least squares discriminant analysis for face recognition by Muhammad Aminu, Noor Atinah Ahmad

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Dynamics of population parameters for pike <i>Esox lucius</i> L. (Esocidae) from the Anadyr River in the period of 1971-2010 by Sergey I. Grunin

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Long‐Term Observations of Galactic Cosmic Ray LET Spectra in Lunar Orbit by LRO/CRaTER by M. D. Looper, J. E. Mazur, J. B. Blake, H. E. Spence, N. A. Schwadron, J. K. Wilson, A. P. Jordan, C. Zeitlin, A. W. Case, J. C. Kasper, L. W. Townsend, T. J. Stubbs

“…From this vantage point, it samples the interplanetary energetic particle population outside the shielding of the Earth's magnetosphere. …”
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Rapid diagnosis of latent and active pulmonary tuberculosis by autofluorescence spectroscopy of blood plasma combined with artificial neural network algorithm by Fengjiao Yue, Si Li, Lijuan Wu, Xuerong Chen, Jianhua Zhu

“…By optimizing the ANN structure and activation functions, the ANN three-classification model achieves average classification accuracy of 96.3 %, and the accuracy of healthy persons, latent TB infections and active TB patients are 100 %, 83.3 % and 97.5 %, respectively, which is much better than the results of traditional Principal component analysis (PCA) and Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) method. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first research work of differentiating latent, active pulmonary TB cases from healthy samples with autofluorescence spectroscopy. …”
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Guided Reinforcement Learning with Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient for a Rotary Flexible-Link System by Carlos Saldaña Enderica, José Ramon Llata, Carlos Torre-Ferrero

“…The approach integrates the twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (TD3) algorithm with a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) acting as a guiding controller during training. …”
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Developing a reliable predictive model for the biodegradability index in industrial complex effluent by Sadegh Partani, Amin Arzhangi, Hamidreza Azari, Hamidreza Moheghi

“…A prediction model for BOD based on COD was found by analyzing important effluent quality variables using simple linear regression and a strong linear association (BOD = 0.433COD + 222) with R² = 0.94, MSE = 38,829, RMSE = 197.05 was obtained. …”
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Improving forest above-ground biomass estimation using genetic-based feature selection from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data (case study of the Noor forest area in Iran) by Armin Moghimi, Ava Tavakoli Darestani, Nikrouz Mostofi, Mahdiyeh Fathi, Meisam Amani

“…Subsequently, GA was employed to select the most optimal features among them within both Random Forest (RF) and Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) models, leading to enhanced accuracy in the forest AGB estimation process. …”
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Vertical Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Content in Farmland on Southern Slope of Qilian Mountains by Qiu Xunxun, Cao Guangchao, Cao Shengkui, Zhang Zhuo, Cheng Mengyuan, He Qixin, Gao Siyuan, Zhao Meiliang

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