Further observations on savannah elephant tusks by Ian SC Parker

“… The paper analyses weights of 2,425 tusk pairs, and lengths of 398 pairs obtained between 1965 and 1969 from two East African savannah elephant populations, one in Uganda, the other in eastern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania. …”
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Relationship between spiritual/religious beliefs and spiritual well-being of the nursing team by Lívia Helena Pereira da Silva, Ramon Moraes Penha, Maria Júlia Paes da Silva

“…In EBEE, 83.4% (n=98) of the participants had an average of 32.28 (sd = 10.958), considered low. For the subscales of Existential Well-Being, 76.7% (n=90) of participants had an average of 15.5 and for the Religious Well-Being 78.3% (n=92) maintained an average of 14.5, also considered low. …”
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Performance analysis of RIS-assisted mixed RF/THz system by Sai LI, Liang YANG, Qimei CUI, Siyuan YU

“…To solve the problem of the short transmission distance of terahertz (THz) links, the performance of the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted mixed dual-hop radio frequency (RF)/THz system was studied.An RIS was used to enhance signal strength, thereby improving the system performance.Using the fixed-gain amplify-and-forward protocol, the cumulative distribution function and probability density function of the end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio of the RF/THz link were derived.Capitalizing on the statistical characteristics, the analytical expressions of outage probability, average bit error rate, and average channel capacity of the mixed relaying system were further derived.In addition, the asymptotic analyses of the outage probability and the average bit error rate were carried out to obtain the diversity order of the mixed RF/THz system.Simulation results show that the RIS can effectively improve the performance of the mixed RF/THz system.Furthermore, the system performance is related to the channel fading, pointing errors, and propagation distance.…”
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Excision repair cross-complementation group 1 (ERCC1) status and lung cancer outcomes: a meta-analysis of published studies and recommendations. by Richard A Hubner, Richard D Riley, Lucinda J Billingham, Sanjay Popat

“…Random-effects meta-analyses were used to account for between-study heterogeneity, with unadjusted/adjusted effect estimates considered separately.…”
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Nutritional composition, nitrogen-corrected true metabolizable energy, and standardized amino acid digestibility of palm kernel meal from several countries by J.A. Blair, J.L. Emmert, C.M. Parsons

“…Extensive nutritional analyses were conducted for palm kernel meal (PKM) sourced from 5 countries. …”
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Trend Analysis of Lake Surface Temperatures in Lake Van by Kebir Emre Saraçoğlu, Fevziye Ayça Saraçoğlu

“…The average increase in long-term annual average water surface temperatures was calculated as 0,043 °C/year. …”
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Long-term trends in water level fluctuations in lowland lakes in central Europe (Northern Poland) by Mariusz Ptak, Katarzyna Szyga-Pluta, Mariusz Sojka

“…They also provide information about the entirety of processes occurring in the catchment area, both natural and anthropogenic, the result of which is the filling of the lake basin with water. This study analyses changes in water levels of 25 lakes in Poland based on maximum, average, and minimum annual values from the period 1963–2022. …”
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An enhanced deep learning-based feature extraction framework for moving object detection by Upasana Panigrahi, Prabodh Kumar Sahoo, Manoj Kumar Panda, Aswini Kumar Samantaray, Ganapati Panda

“…In the CD-Net 2014 dataset, the model achieved an average precision of 0.8886, an average recall of 0.8583, an average F-measure of 0.8500, and an average percentage of wrong classification error of 0.8200. …”
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Exploring the relationship between self-care agency and quality of life in adults with diabetes: A cross-sectional study. by Kei Takahashi, Chizuko Takeishi, Chiyo Tsutsumi, Tomomi Nakao, Yuichi Sato, Yuji Uchizono, Kiyohide Nunoi, Yasunori Tabira, Yasuko Shimizu

“…After identifying items related to quality of life from single regression and correlation analyses, multiple regression analyses were performed. …”
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Association between serum chloride and prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the general U.S. adult population: evidence from NHANES 2011–2018 by Lun Zhang, Hongpeng Liu, Xiaoling Lv, Jianmei Zhou, Rongfang Zhou, Wenming Xing, Qing Wu

“…Further stratified analyses were also conducted. All data and analyses were conducted using the “Survey” package in R software (Version 4.4.1). …”
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Effect of long-term glucocorticoid therapy on bone mineral density of the patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia by Sezin Ünal, Ayfer Alikaşifoğlu, Alev Özön, Nazlı Gönç, Nurgun Kandemir

“…Correlations of Body Mass Index (BMI)-z-score, average serum 17-hydroxyprogesterone level, duration of treatment, average and cumulative glucocorticoid doses with BMD z-score were evaluated with Spearman analyses. …”
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Design and Testing of an Offset Straw-Returning Machine for Green Manures in Orchards by Quanzhong Zhang, Jinfei Zhao, Xiaowen Yang, Ling Wang, Guangdong Su, Xinying Liu, Chuang Shan, Orkin Rahim, Binghui Yang, Jiean Liao

“…The experimental results show that with an average coverage rate of 90.87% (4.95% away from the optimal value based on the simulation experiments on average), an average crushing length qualification rate of 91.24%, and an average root system damage rate of 5.6%, this device is applicable for its operation conditions. …”
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Moral injury appraisals and PTSD symptoms in treatment-seeking refugees: a latent profile analysis by Nora Mooren, Paul A. Boelen, Anouk van Berlo, Simone M. de la Rie

“…Latent profile analysis was conducted to identify classes and regression analyses to explore differences between classes in terms of age, gender, general psychopathology, and depression.Results: The following three classes were identified: a ‘below average MI and below average PTSD class’ (39%), an ‘average MI-self, below average MI-other and low PTSD class’ (10%) and an ‘above average MI and above average PTSD class’ (50%). …”
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Flexibility in Pragmatic Nuance: The Cognitive Edge of Bilingualism in Language Comprehension and Production by Nurasia Natsir, Nuraziza Aliah

“…Specifically, bilingual participants scored higher on average in both the comprehension test (M = 85.6, SD = 5.3) and the production test (M = 82.4, SD = 5.1), compared to monolinguals who scored an average of 74.2 (SD = 6.8) and 70.3 (SD = 6.4) respectively. …”
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APLICAÇÃO DO GEOPROCESSAMENTO NA AVALIAÇÃO E ESPACIALIZAÇÃO DAS PERDAS FÍSICAS DE ÁGUA DO SISTEMA DE ABASTECIMENTO PÚBLICO DE RONDONÓPOLIS - MT / Application of the Geographic Info... by Jeater Waldemar Maciel Correa Santos

“…In average the losses of water had been of 55% in Rondonópolis for the two analyzedyears, exceeding the average rate of Brazil (40%) and of the Center-West Region (44%) oflosses of invoicing (PMSS, 2004:19).…”
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Benchmark Ratio of Insurance Penetration (BRIP) as a New Relative Measure of Insurance Development and Benchmarks in Insurance by Agnieszka Pobłocka

“…To compare insurers or insurance markets, the average of the entire market is used as a standard (reference point), e.g. average premium, average density or average penetration rate (in a country, a geographic region or the world, e.g. the EU, OECD countries). …”
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Genetic parameters and genome-wide association studies including the X chromosome for various reproduction and semen quality traits in Nellore cattle by Felipe E. de Carvalho, José Bento S. Ferraz, Victor B. Pedrosa, Elisangela C. Matos, Joanir P. Eler, Marcio R. Silva, José D. Guimarães, Fernando Bussiman, Barbara C. A. Silva, Henrique A. Mulim, Artur Oliveira Rocha, Andre C. Araujo, Hui Wen, Gabriel S. Campos, Luiz F. Brito

“…Results The percentage of the total direct heritability (h2 total) explained by the X chromosome markers (h2 x) ranged from 3 to 32% (average: 16.4%) and from 9 to 67% (average: 25.61%) for female reproductive performance and male fertility traits, respectively. …”
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A novel approach to group decision-making using generalized bipolar neutrosophic sets. by Aliya Fahmi, Aziz Khan, Thabet Abdeljawad

“…Comparative and sensitivity analyses highlight the robustness and adaptability of the proposed operators in various decision contexts. …”
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Performance Analysis of Underwater Wireless Sensor Network by Deploying FTP, CBR, and VBR as Applications by K. Sathish, C. V. Ravikumar, Asadi Srinivasulu, Anand Kumar Gupta

“…These parameters include average transmission delay, average jitter, average pathloss, percentage of utilization, and energy consumed in transmit, receive, and idle modes. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF MACROECONOMIC FACTORS ON UNEMPLOYMENT: LITHUANIAN CASE by Akvilė ALEKSANDRAVIČIENĖ, Roberta DULINSKAITĖ, Edgaras MUZIKEVIČIUS

“…This paper analyses the effect of inflation, gross domestic product (GDP) growth, and average salary on unemployment in Lithuania for the period from 2001 to 2021. …”
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