Analysis of Hydration Strength and CO₂ Emissions of Cement–Quartz Powder Binary Blends Considering the Effects of Water/Binder Ratios and Quartz Contents by Bo Yang, Xiao-Yong Wang

“…The water availability coefficient, derived from hydration product measurements with a ratio of 0.2, shows that lower water-to-binder ratios slow hydration as the coefficient exceeds 1. …”
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A scale for measuring graduate nursing students’ academic resilience: a development and psychometric testing study by Yang Shen, Hanbo Feng, Xiaohan Li

“…Confirmatory factor analysis showed that all the fitting indices met the standard. The Cronbach’s α coefficient of the scale was 0.933, and the test-retest reliability coefficient was 0.910. …”
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Rasch Model Analysis of the Psychometric Properties of the Positive Mental Health Scale in Students by Noorellah Yousefi, Alireza Pirkhaefi

“…The aim of the present study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Positive Mental Health Scale based on the Rasch model.Method: This study was quantitative and descriptive, focusing on the analysis of students' responses to the Positive Mental Health Scale, which is based on the Rasch model. …”
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Development and initial validation of a scale to measure attitudes and beliefs of pharmacists toward their work with patients by Jocić Dragana, Krajnović Dušanka

“…The reliability of the scale was determined by the method of internal consistency, on a convenient sample of 123 community pharmacists. …”
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Design of a public health emergency equipment system for bioterrorism events in public places based on literature review, scenario analysis and Delphi consultation by Xiaowen SUN, Yongzhong ZHANG, Chao ZHAO, Tianyang DENG, Song BAI

“…Finally, the Delphi method was used to revise and improve the plan. ResultsThe positive coefficient of expert consultation in both rounds was 100%, and the mean coefficient of expert authority was 0.855. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Prediction of Pitch Response for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines by Ruifeng Chen, Ke Zhang, Min Luo, Ye An, Lixiang Guo

“…The proposed model is applied to two distinct types of FOWTs under three sea states, and the results demonstrate its satisfactory accuracy, with an average correlation coefficient (CC) of 0.9962 and an average coefficient of determination (R²) of 0.9864. …”
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Melt Density Monitoring of Extruder Extrusion Process Based on Multi-source Data Fusion and Convolutional Long Short-term Memory Neural Network by Binbin ZHANG, Zhuyun CHEN, Fei ZHANG, Gang JIN

“…Empirical evaluations reveal a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.975 g/cm³ and a coefficient of determination (<italic>R</italic>²) value of 0.0063, underscoring the superior predictive accuracy of this approach compared to conventional methods. …”
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TRITIUM IN URINE OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF INFLUENCE OF THE BELOYARSKAYA NPP by M. Ya. Chebotina, O. A. Nikolin, L. G. Bondareva, V. N. Rakitsky

“…The goal of the research is to determine relationship between tritium concentration in the body fluid (urine) of people living in the area of influence of the Beloyarskaya NPP and tritium concentration in drinking water.Materials and methods. …”
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AUTOMATED PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN TRANSPORT LOGISTICS by Svitlana Rusanova

“… The article is a continuation of regular research on project management based on efficient transportation. The purpose of the work is to improve the efficiency of management decision-making in the implementation of projects in transport logistics through the use of automated planning and analysis systems. …”
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Adaptive personalized privacy-preserving data collection scheme with local differential privacy by Haina Song, Hua Shen, Nan Zhao, Zhangqing He, Wei Xiong, Minghu Wu, Mingwu Zhang

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Evaluation of genetic algorithm alternatives for wind speed modeling using grey relational analysis by Hilmi Işık, Muhammet Burak Kılıç

“…The proposed alternatives to the GA method are evaluated based on Kolmogorov–Smirnov (KS), coefficient of determination (R2), root mean square error (RMSE), Akaike information criterion, Bayesian information criterion, and power density error (PDE) over three different wind speed datasets. …”
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Tailoring orthotropic mechanical and thermal properties in nonlinear contact, vibration and thermal problems via kriging-based optimization by Yicong Zhou, Jinyan Duan, Guoxin Mao, Jun Hong

“…Customizing suitable material properties for specific applications is always fascinating but challenging for designers, especially for problems with strong nonlinearities. Efficient and universal methods for tailoring material properties to meet required performances in nonlinear scenarios are still needed. …”
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Evaluation of the Routine Childhood Immunization Program Process at Primary Health Care Centers in Salah Al-Dean Governorate by Majid Hassoon, Mohammed Khalifa

“…Instrument content validity is determined by a panel of (18) experts. Internal consistency reliability is determined through Cronbach alpha correlation coefficient. …”
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Genetic diversity of Trichoderma spp. isolated from alkaline pistachio soils using morphological and molecular characteristics by Hossein Alaei, Fahimeh Mirkhani, Amirhossein Mohammadi, Masoumeh Haghdel

“…The genetic similarity coefficient between pairwise isolates varied from 0.50 to 0.98 based on an unweighted paired group method of arithmetic average (UPGMA) cluster analysis. …”
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Multiple Criteria Assessment of Pile-Columns Alternatives by Saulius Sušinskas, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Zenonas Turskis

“…The criteria for evaluation are selected by taking into consideration the interests and goals of the client as well as factors that influence the efficiency of construction process. Their weights were determined by applying entropy method. …”
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ON THE ISSUE OF THE POSSIBLE APPLICATION OF THE MEDIATION INSTITUTION IN TAX DISPUTES by O. A. Abakumova

“…The methodology of the research is general scientific methods (induction and deduction, hypothesis, generalization, abstraction, formalization,analogy, historical approach, system approach, system analysis, modeling, logical-linguistic method, etc.).Results: the benefits of mediation in tax disputes for both parties (the state and the taxpayer) were determined; it is concluded that the use of mediation in tax disputes settlement is an effective means to prevent the increase of the number of court cases and, as a consequence, contributes to the quality of justice. …”
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A preliminary report on the feasibility of regression-based alignment of diagnostic thresholds for harmonized use of international classification criteria for antiphospholipid synd... by Yukari Motoki, Risa Kaneshige, Yuichiro Fujieda, Kenji Oku, Eriko Morishita, Masahiro Ieko, Tatsuya Atsumi, Kiyoshi Ichihara, Junzo Nojima

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Four types of aPLs (aCL/aβ2GPI-IgG/IgM) were measured using six reagents in 50 APS and 50 non-APS patients. …”
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Ultrasonic and Microwave-assisted Solid-Liquid Extraction of Ginkgo biloba Phenolics: Study about Mass Transfer and PID Control by Chi XU, Hebin XU, Rui ZHU, Jing LI, Dandan LI, Yongbin HAN, Yi ZHENG, Yang TAO

“…With a solvent-to-liquid ratio of 1:40 g/mL, the effective diffusion coefficient (De) of polyphenol was determined to be 6.4×10−11 m2/s under ultrasound treatment (103.7 W/L) and ranged from 1.4×10−10 to 1.7×10−10 m2/s under microwave treatment (4800 W/L). …”
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A Multi-Index Fusion Adaptive Cavitation Feature Extraction for Hydraulic Turbine Cavitation Detection by Yi Wang, Feng Li, Mengge Lv, Tianzhen Wang, Xiaohang Wang

“…A multi-index fusion adaptive cavitation feature extraction and cavitation detection method is proposed to solve the above problems. The number of decomposition layers in the multi-index fusion variational mode decomposition (VMD) algorithm is adaptively determined by fusing multiple indicators related to cavitation characteristics, thus retaining more cavitation information and improving the quality of cavitation feature extraction. …”
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In-silico study of lanthanide-based nanoparticles for dual-modal photoacoustic and MRI theranostics by Farid Alidoust Aghdam, Ali Rostami

“…The optimal core size for TiO2-coated nanoparticles was determined to be between 90 and 110 nm, and the core-shell ratio ranged from 0.54 to 0.63, which provides the highest adsorption efficiency. …”
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