Comprehensive Evaluation of Remote Tower Controllers’ Situation Awareness Level Based on the Entropy Weight Method (EWM)–TOPSIS–Gray Relational Analysis Model by Tingting Lu, Miao Hao, Zhaoning Zhang

“…An evaluation index system was established using the entropy weight method. By calculating the Euclidean distance, Gray relational degree, and comprehensive proximity coefficient, the SA levels of controllers were comprehensively evaluated. …”
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Clinical Efficacy and Safety of a New Method for Pressure Off-load for Patients with Diabetic Foot Syndrome: Ankle-foot Pneumoorthosis with TM Orlett by Galina Yur'evna Strakhova, Sergey Valentinovich Gorokhov, Irina Nikolaevna Ul'yanova, Gagik Radikovich Galstyan

“…Both groups were comparable with regard to age, gender, duration and degree of diabetes compensation and by original wound defect sizes (p >0.05). …”
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Prophylaxis of damage of extrahepatic biliary ducts and pancreatic ducts while performance of gastric resection in accordance to Billroth II method for complicated duodenal ulcers by D. V. Maksymchuk, V. I. Mamchich, V. D. Maksymchuk

“…This permits to determine a degree of ulcerative stenosis, to exterritorize the ulcer and after duodenal mobilization, using the above mentioned method, to apply the duodenal mobilized walls for formation of a stump. …”
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The effect of the scamper strategy in developing reflective thinking and self-awareness in the subject of teaching methods for female students in the College of Basic Education    ... by Sara Ahmad M. Amin

“…Apply at the level (0.05) 3- There is a statistically significant difference in the average scores of post-applications in reflective thinking between the students of the experimental group and the students in the control group, with the winning experimental group. 4- There is a statistically significant difference in the average degrees of self-awareness after the application for the students of the experimental group and the students of the control group, in favor of the experimental group. …”
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Dynamic Response Analysis of Asphalt Pavement under Pavement-Unevenness Excitation by Heng Liu, Xiaoge Liu, Ankang Wei, Yingchun Cai

“…The results show that the pavement unevenness does not affect the average stress and strain of each layer but has a significant effect on the peak value and dispersion degree. …”
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The rapid drawing and application of joint occurrence based on fuzzy equivalence clustering by Honghai Wang, Jianping Hu, Haiyang Tao, Anwen Liu, Yong Liang

“…This article combines the fuzzy equivalent clustering method with the pole plot drawing method to develop a production rose plot drawing system through programming and carries out engineering applications. …”
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Evolving trends and driving factors analysis of green development level in Chengdu plain economic zone by Li Ma, Tianzhi Huang, Hao Chen, Jiankang Mao, Jiankang Mao, Zhongqi Cheng, Yingwei Wang

“…The coupling coordinated development degree (CCD) has steadily improved, however, the overall region is still in a low-level stage of coupled coordinated development. …”
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Verification of the method for classifying the technical state of a turboshaft engine fuel regulator in the space of operational process parameters under factory test conditions by Ihor Ohanian, Sergiy Yepifanov

“…It was determined that the method demonstrates high efficiency in most operational modes; however, its accuracy depends on the degree of correlation between the diagnosed structural parameters and the precision of the mathematical model identification. …”
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R package to estimate intracluster correlation coefficient for nominal and ordinal data by Hrishikesh Chakraborty, Nicole Solomon

“…It is commonly applied in cluster-randomized trials to estimate average within-cluster correlation. Although methods to estimate ICC exist for binary, continuous, and survival data, a new resampling-based approach has been developed for nominal or ordinal responses with more than two categories. …”
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Internal Benchmarking of Thermal Power Plants оf Electric Power Systems by E. M. Farhadzadeh, A. Z. Muradaliyev, Y. Z. Farzaliyev, U. K. Ashurova

“…It is proposed to take into account also the degree of variation of relative deviations (wear), which is adequate to the object’s misalignment. …”
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The spatio-temporal characteristics and influencing factors of sustainable development in China’s provincial areas by Zhang Qinnan, Tao Chunhai, Xin Yun

“…The study’s findings indicate that in 2017, the assessed value of the level of economic sustainability of China’s regions averaged 0.7156, an increase of 7.3% compared to 2006 while the degree of sustainable economic development in the rest of China, except Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, and Xinjiang, has steadily increased between 2006 and 2017, the gap between the regions has also widened, with the eastern region having a much higher level of sustainable economic development than the central and western regions. …”
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Grouped machine learning methods for predicting rock mass parameters in a tunnel boring machine‐driven tunnel based on fuzzy C‐means clustering by Ruirui Wang, Yaodong Ni, Lingli Zhang, Boyang Gao

“…Each testing sample or newly encountered tunneling condition can be predicted by multiple submodels with the weight of the membership degree of the sample to each cluster. The proposed method has been realized by 100 training samples and verified by 30 testing samples collected from the C1 part of the Pearl Delta water resources allocation project. …”
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An approach to reducing blood loss during reconstructive operations on the bones of the skull in children with craniosynostosis by O. N. Pulkina, V. P. Ivanov, E. V. Parshin

“…A comparative analysis of approaches to replacement of intraoperative blood loss before and after the introduction of the proposed method of blood saving was carried out.Results. The level of blood loss in most cases corresponded to 1 and 2 degrees. …”
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A Novel SOH Estimation Method for Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on the PSO–GWO–LSSVM Prediction Model with Multi-Dimensional Health Features Extraction by Xu He, Zhengpu Wu, Jinghan Bai, Junchao Zhu, Lu Lv, Lujun Wang

“…The comparative experiments demonstrate that the proposed method has a certain degree of accuracy, robustness, and generalization capability.…”
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Assessment of the green development level and the identification of obstacles to grass-based livestock husbandry in the farming–pastoral ecotone of northern China by Dan Liu, Jianjun Jin, Xuan Zhang, Xin Qiu, Rui He, Jie Yang

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WORLD OIL PRICE FORECAST ON BASIS OF EXPERT NON-NUMERIC KNOWLEDGE by Yu. A. Nazarova

“…It assumes an estimation the probability of alternative development options based on the ordinal and interval information by double randomization of alternatives’ probabilities, and weight coefficient, which takes into account the importance of the source of the forecast.As a source of expert information we have taken the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, the European Commission, the Energy Information Administration US Department of Energy, Barclays Commodities Research reports and statements of experts of international rating agency Fitch Ratings regarding the average price for Brent crude oil for 2015. As the weighting coefficients we have taken the degree of compliance of analysts’ forecasts for 2013 to reality calculated based on the error variance.The result of the study is to determine the probabilities of each of the alternative outcomes and to identify the most likely range of prices for Brent crude oil for 2015. …”
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Effect of Random Distribution of Initial Imperfection Curvature on The Bearing Capacity of Double -Layer Flat Grids With Different Configurations by Arash Bayat, Hamidreza Ashrafi

“…Finally, the statistical parameters and reliability of each structure were evaluated using the Monte Carlo method. The results show that the flat two-layer grid structure with an orthogonal pattern and without openings has better performance, with not only a higher average vertical load-bearing capacity and reliability but also lower sensitivity to initial member curvature.…”
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Comparison of the quality of logistic regression models and a classification tree in predicting hospital mortality in elderly patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction by K. G. Pereverzeva, S. S. Yakushin, N. N. Peregudova, M. V. Mishutina

“…The probability of an unfavorable outcome based on the constructed classification tree was higher than the average in the analyzed sample in persons without CS, 2-3 degree atrioventricular blocks, and pulmonary edema, but with right bundle branch block on the electrocardiogram (25.0%) and in persons without CS and atrioventricular blockages of 2-3 degrees, but with pulmonary edema and a Q wave on the electrocardiogram (50.0%). …”
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Ecological risk assessment and source identification of heavy metals in the sediments of the Danjiang River Basin: A quantitative method combining multivariate analysis and the APC... by Zhiming Cao, Hui Qian, Yanyan Gao, Kang Li, Yixin Liu, Xiaoxin Shi, Siqi Li, Weijie Zhao, Shuhan Yang, Panpan Tian, Puxia Wu, Yandong Ma

“…This study combined traditional assessment methods with the Nemerow integrated risk index (NIRI), which is improved based on the potential ecological risk index (RI) and the Nemerow integrated pollution index (NIPI), to evaluate the pollution level of sediment in the Danjiang River. …”
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Predictive models for overall health of hydroelectric equipment based on multi-measurement point output by Liu Dong, Kong Lijun, Song Jinghui, Zhou Yiming

“…By comparing and analyzing the predictive performance, error results, and real-time prediction performance before and after model optimization, it was concluded that the prediction model constructed by SBM, hypersphere algorithm, and LSTM network had an overall average improvement of 23.7% in the prediction precision of 12 parameters, including temperature, vibration frequency, pressure, and lubrication degree, for the optimized upper guide bearing, thrust guide bearing, and water guide bearing systems. …”
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