X-Ray Polarization of the Magnetar 1E 1841−045 by Rachael Stewart, George A. Younes, Alice K. Harding, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Matthew G. Baring, Michela Negro, Tod E. Strohmayer, Wynn C. G. Ho, Mason Ng, Zaven Arzoumanian, Hoa Dinh Thi, Niccolò Di Lalla, Teruaki Enoto, Keith Gendreau, Chin-Ping Hu, Alex van Kooten, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Alexander McEwen

“…Our spectropolarimetric analysis indicates that both a blackbody (BB) plus double power-law (PL) and a double blackbody plus power-law spectral model fit the phase-averaged intensity data well, with a hard PL tail (Γ = 1.19 and 1.35, respectively) dominating above ≈5 keV. …”
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CFD Simulation and Robust Design Optimization of the Valve Seat and Orifice Plate in Port Fuel Injector by P. Daopiset, J. Bumrungpetch, E. Juntasaro, A. Likitchatchawankun

“…This created the correlation between design parameters and the averaged mass flow rate. The results indicate that CHA2 was the most impacting parameter on the mass flow rate. …”
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Analyzing and Predicting the Agronomic Effectiveness of Fertilizers Derived from Food Waste Using Data-Driven Models by Ksawery Kuligowski, Quoc Ba Tran, Chinh Chien Nguyen, Piotr Kaczyński, Izabela Konkol, Lesław Świerczek, Adam Cenian, Xuan Cuong Nguyen

“…Plant yield and IENU exhibited substantial variability, averaging 2268 ± 3099 kg/ha and 32.3 ± 92.5 kg N/ha, respectively. …”
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Evaluating Spatiotemporal Variation of Groundwater Depth/Level in Beijing Plain, a Groundwater-Fed Area from 2001 to 2010 by Yuyan Zhou, Weihua Xiao, Jianhua Wang, Yong Zhao, Ya Huang, Jiyang Tian, Yan Chen

“…In this study, spatiotemporal variation of groundwater level from 2001 to 2010 in Beijing Plain has been investigated. Factor analysis has been conducted to identify the primary influencing factor. …”
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Aquifer vulnerability assessment in data-scarce areas: a spatially explicit assessment by Changhyun Jun, Dongkyun Kim, Sayed M. Bateni, Meghdad Biyari, Ely Salwana, Farzaneh Sajedi Hosseini, Amir Mosavi, Hao-Ting Pai, Bahram Choubin

“…Supportive machine learning approaches such as bagged adaptive boosting (BAB), averaged neural network (avNNet), heteroscedastic discriminant analysis (HAD), rotation forest (RotationF), and an ensemble method were applied to assess groundwater vulnerability using k-fold cross-validation. …”
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Impact of frailty in older people on health care demand: simulation modelling of population dynamics to inform service planning by Bronagh Walsh, Carole Fogg, Tracey England, Sally Brailsford, Paul Roderick, Scott Harris, Simon Fraser, Andrew Clegg, Simon de Lusignan, Shihua Zhu, Francesca Lambert, Abigail Barkham, Harnish Patel, Vivienne Windle

“…A cost analysis of both primary and secondary care data was also conducted using generalised linear models to identify factors associated with costs and provide estimates of adjusted mean costs, by frailty and age categories. …”
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Stream water quality variation as a function of physical environmental conditions in an agriculturally dominated catchment by Zsigmond Tibor, Farkas Csilla, Bódi Andor, Bakacsi Zsófia, Tóth Eszter, Dencső Márton, Horel Ágota

“…These groups of daily precipitation totals were i) below 4.8 mm, ii) averaging 6.3 mm, and iii) averaging 23.7 mm. The clusters were most significantly separated along precipitation and FNU values. …”
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Effect of Particle Size on Pore Structure and Fractal Characteristics of Deep Siliceous Shales in Southern Sichuan, China, Measured Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering and Low-Pre... by Hongming Zhan, Xizhe Li, Zhiming Hu, Liqing Chen, Weijun Shen, Wei Guo, Weikang He, Yuhang Zhou

“…Since micropores contribute the majority of the specific surface area in deep shale, the effect of particle size variation on the specific surface area is negligible, averaging only 16.52%. Shales exhibit dual-fractal characteristics. …”
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DeepU-Net: A Parallel Dual-Branch Model for Deeply Fusing Multiscale Features for Road Extraction From High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images by Guoqing Zhou, Haiyang Zhi, Ertao Gao, Yanling Lu, Jianjun Chen, Yuhang Bai, Xiao Zhou

“…The experimental results reveal that the introduced model achieves mean intersection over union scores of 83.18% and 81.43%, which are averagely improved by 1.93% and 1.02%, respectively, for the two datasets, when compared with the six commonly used models. …”
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Comparison of effectiveness of common targeting heuristics in repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment of depression by Thomas Frodl, Irene Neuner, Katrin Sakreida, Nicholas T Trapp, Sarah Kreuzer, Ulrike Rubin, Dieter Schnabel, Jana Hovančáková, Alexander T Sack, Timm B Poeppl

“…Routine strategies were previously incrementally refined and compared in terms of anatomical accuracy, but little is known about their impact on clinical outcomes.Objective To assess the impact of three common scalp-based heuristics for magnetic coil positioning on the treatment outcome of rTMS.Methods This retrospective analysis of real-world clinical data involved patients suffering from a major depressive episode (n=94) who received a 4-week course of excitatory rTMS to the left DLPFC. …”
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A Fast and Efficient Denoising and Surface Reflectance Retrieval Method for ZY1-02D Hyperspectral Data by Qiongqiong Lan, Yaqing He, Qijin Han, Yongguang Zhao, Wan Li, Lu Xu, Dongping Ming

“…The results and analysis demonstrate that the proposed method improves the accuracy of ZY1-02D SR and the method ensures high processing efficiency, requiring only 5 min per scene of ZY1-02D HSI. …”
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Characteristics and factors associated with diameter deviation of rhexis reference circle generated by an image-guided system in cataract surgery: a cross-sectional study by Yabo Fu, Yulong Huang, Xiaobao Liu, Chishan Kang, Wenjie Wu, Qiong Li

“…And we observed that a total of 213 eyes of 174 patients were included in the final analysis. The diameter deviation averaged − 0.24 ± 0.28 mm (P = 0.0001) and was positively correlated with phakic anterior chamber depth (ACD) (P < 0.001) and negatively correlated with white-to-white (WTW) measurement (P < 0.001). …”
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Vehicle-Based Moving Observation of Atmospheric CO2 Mixing Ratio and Carbon Isotope in China: Imprint of Human Activities by Shuran Yang, Lide Tian, Di Wang, Zhongyin Cai, Jiaojiao Han, Ran Tian, Yiliang Chen

“…Keeling plot analysis revealed more depleted δ13C values in northern cities with around −25.96 ± 2.85‰, than around −24.35 ± 2.87‰ in southern cities, owing to heating practice in northern China. …”
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Effects of Organic Acid Coagulants on the Textural and Physical–Chemical Properties of Tofu by Carolina Paz-Yépez, Mariana Gavilanes-Tomalá, Julio Palmay-Paredes, Grace Medina-Galarza, Sebastián Guerrero-Luzuriaga, Borja Velázquez Martí

“…The 5% apple vinegar (T1C5) treatment provided the highest curd yield, averaging 23.73%. This treatment’s protein and moisture contents were 3.93% protein and 69.73% moisture, confirming that better texture characteristics are recorded in tofu at lower pH values. …”
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Investigation of buckling modes of sandwich specimens with facing layers from [0°]s fiber-reinforced plastic under axial compression by V.N. Paimushin, S.A. Kholmogorov, N.V. Polyakova, M.A. Shishov

“…The implementation of these buckling modes is possible for specimens with a considerable relative thickness of the layers package. Based on the analysis of the results obtained, it was shown that failure for these specimens is most likely due to the buckling in such a macroscale flexural-shear mode, which is predominantly transverse-shear and is realized when the compressive stress averaged over the thickness of the facing layers is equal to the shear modulus of the transverse shear of the composite in the vicinity of the end section of the working length of the specimen in its unperturbed state.…”
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Predictive Model with Machine Learning for Environmental Variables and PM_2.5 in Huachac, Junín, Perú by Emery Olarte, Jhonatan Gutierrez, Gwayne Roque, Juan J. Soria, Hugo Fernandez, Jackson Edgardo Pérez Carpio, Orlando Poma

“…Methods: Exploratory data analysis (EDA) and machine learning predictive models were applied. …”
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Aphrodisiac activity of ethanolic root extracts of Acacia pycnantha (Golden Wattle) in healthy male Wistar rats by Enyohwo Dennis Kpomah, Owo Gogo James, Bridget Kpomah

“…Materials & Methods: A. pycnantha roots were extracted using ethanol. Twenty male rats, averagely weighing 250.44 ± 8.72 g, were divided into four groups of five rats per group. …”
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Kidney damage on fertility and pregnancy: A Mendelian randomization. by Jin Ren, Qiuyan Huang, Xiaowei Lie, Xingli Tong, Qi Yao, Ge Zhou

“…Next, we introduced the Bayesian model averaging MR analysis to detect major causal relationships and render the results robust. …”
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Molluscicidal activities of Senna alata silver nanoparticles against adult and egg stages of Lymnaea natalensis by Oyetunde T. Oyeyemi, Elizabeth A. Fasomoyin, Tajudeen O. Oriade, Kabirat A. Sulaiman, Olabisi S. Babatunde, Ifeoluwa T. Oyeyemi

“…Characterization via XRD revealed crystalline peaks at 2θ values of 25.50°, 30.50°, and 38.00°, while SEM showed irregularly shaped particles averaging 20.32 nm with an elemental composition of 47.04% silver. …”
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Cognitive Restructuring untuk Mengurangi Kenakalan Peserta Didik MTs by Ahsaniatil Muawanah, Asrowi Asrowi, Agus Tri Susilo

“…Data collection techniques in this study used a questionnaire. The data analysis technique used the independent sample t-test formula by comparing the averages of the two groups, namely the experimental group and the control group. …”
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