The location of the centre of the proximal quadriceps tendon in kinematically aligned total knee arthroplasty is not associated with poor outcome scores or symptomatic patellar ins... by Daniel Razick, Muzammil Akhtar, Stephen M. Howell, Alexander J. Nedopil, Maury L. Hull

“…A Spearman's rank correlation coefficient analysis determined whether there was an association between the location of the PQT and the Forgotten Joint Score (FJS) and Oxford Knee Score (OKS) at 2 years. …”
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Predicting groundwater withdrawals using machine learning with limited metering data: Assessment of training data requirements by Dawit Asfaw, Ryan G. Smith, Sayantan Majumdar, Katherine Grote, Bin Fang, B.B. Wilson, V. Lakshmi, J.J. Butler, Jr.

“…At the 2 km scale, we observed that a model trained on 10 % of the total available data had coefficient of determination (R2) values of 0.98 and 0.75 for training and testing, respectively. …”
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Sex estimation based on tooth measurements using panoramic radiographs with classical and machine-learning classifiers by Samaneh Talebi, Hossien Fallahzadeh, Sara Jambarsang, Fatemeh Ezoddini Ardakani

“…The intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was calculated to assess reliability. …”
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CFD Simulation of Thermal and Thermally Stressed State of the DKVR-10-13 Boiler Drum by Olha Yu. Chernousenko, Artur Yu. Rachynskyi, Oleksandr V. Baraniuk

“…The research was carried out for two operating modes of the boiler unit - nominal and at 60% capacity with numerical methods using the ANSYS-Fluent application program package. …”

Antivirus and antibacterial filters for face masks based on silver quantum dots by Jokanović Vukoman, Zdravković Nemanja, Petrović Božana, Živković Marija, Biočanin Vladimir, Aleksić Ema, Milutinović Jovana, Petrović Tamaš

“…Wettability properties were determined by measuring contact angles with water, and a color fastness test was performed. …”
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Biogenic Synthesis of Ag Nanoparticles, ZnO Nanoparticles, and Ag@ZnO Nanocomposites as Photocatalysts for the Degradation of Brilliant Blue Dye by Vinidu Gamage, Gobika Thiripuranathar, Upul Nishshanka, Namal Priyantha, Manisha De Alwis Goonatilleke, Beth Guiton, Siyath Gunewardene, Sumedha Jayanetti

“…The biogenic WA-mediated ZnO NPs show a remarkable photodegradation efficiency of 65.8% under the optimum conditions of catalytic load, pH, and dye concentration, whereas WA-mediated Ag NPs and Ag@ZnO NC show 13.9% and 63.7% photodegradation efficiency, respectively, at 240 min. …”
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A hybrid deep learning framework for regional reference crop evapotranspiration estimation in the Hetao Irrigation District using limited meteorological data by Xiao Zhang, Yuxin Tao, Chenglong Zhang

“…New hydrological insights for the region: The results indicated that the mass transfer-based CNN-Informer3 model achieved the best estimation performance, with its average Determination Coefficient (R2), Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient (NSE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Relative Root Mean Square Error (RRMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Percentage Bias (PBIAS) of 0.9712, 0.9665, 0.3764 mm/d, 0.1192, 0.2591 mm/d and -3.8143 % for accuracy evaluation, significantly outperforming other models. …”
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SYNTHESIS AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES OF 8-BENZYLIDENHYDRAZINO-1-n-PROPYLTHEOBROMINES by D. G. Ivanchenko, M. I. Romanenko, T. A. Sharapova, K. V. Aleksandrova, A. M. Kamyshny, N. M. Polishchuk

“…Pathogens’ presence in biofilms makes IRI diagnostics more complicated and significantly reduces the efficiency of antimicrobial therapy. Earlier it has been determined that 1.8-disubstituted of theobromine show rather high diuretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antioxidant, hypolipidemic and antimicrobial activity. …”
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Hysteretic Energy Demand under Superposition of Bidirectional Ground Motions by Feng Wang, Jialin Shi, Pengyan Chen

“…According to the analytical results, correction coefficient αs (the simplified value of α) is obtained so that the hysteretic energy demand under bidirectional ground motions can be determined.…”
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An Assessment of the Satisfaction of Students-Teachers with the Quality of Cultural Programs at Farhangian University in the Province of Kordestan by Bakhshali Aeini

“…The sample size based on Krejcie and Morgan table was determined to be 289 members. For the narrative estimation of the instrument, the reference group method, and for the calculation of the final coefficients of the questionnaire, Cronbach’s alpha test were applied. …”
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Predicting body weight in Ross 308 broiler chickens using a data mining algorithm approach by L Bila

“…The CART data mining algorithm was found to be the best model, as it had greater predictive accuracy, and higher Pearson’s correlation coefficient, coefficient of determination, and adjusted coefficient of determination test results, when predicting body weight in both male and female Ross 308 chickens. …”
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Geant4 simulation study of β-γ coincidence detector for 41Ar measurement by FENG Yajie, ZHANG Ruiqin, NIU Yazhou, LI Qi, TONG Lili, WANG Shilian, ZHAO Yungang, FAN Yuanqing, ZHANG Xinjun

“…The γ-ray full-energy peak efficiency increases with the increase of CsI(Tl) scintillator thickness. …”
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قياس كفاءة القطاع المصرفي العراقي الخاص 2011- باستخدام نموذج التحليل الحدودي العشوائي للمدة 2007 by وسام حسين علي العنيزي

“…Ali Al Aneizy Al_wesam_83@yahoo.com Abstract The research aims to measure the Iraqi private banking sector efficiency for the period 2007-2011, after the implementation of financial liberalization and banking procedures in Iraq and using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) method and determined efficient banks, in addition to determine banking sector efficiency in general, to achieve the goals of the research, we application SFA on 20 private Iraqi bank data for the period 2007 to 2011 by using two models : the pooled and random effects model using production function in bank sector, the results showed that Iraq Trade bank is the best bank, which achieved the highest percentage efficiency for investments and loans outputs and the Iraqi banking sector has achieved increasing efficiency ratios during the period 2007-2011 for investments and loans outputs'. …”
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In-Season Potato Nitrogen Prediction Using Multispectral Drone Data and Machine Learning by Ehsan Chatraei Azizabadi, Mohamed El-Shetehy, Xiaodong Cheng, Ali Youssef, Nasem Badreldin

“…The results indicate that RF outperformed SVM and GBR, achieving the highest coefficient of determination (R² = 0.571) and the lowest mean absolute error (MAE = 0.365%) using the RFE feature selection method. …”
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THE IMPACT OF SERVICE QUALITY ON STUDENT SATISFACTION IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN SERBIA by Mirjana Dunić, Njegoš Dragović

“…Based on the analyzed results from the surveys, the most important factor is the differentiation of the chosen faculty in relation to others, followed by the influence of non-teaching staff who perform their work professionally, and in third place comes the efficiency and effects of professors' lectures. The research methodology is based on the collection and analysis of data from the survey, in which the Cronbach-Alpha test, the KMO indicator, and the Pearson correlation coefficient were applied. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF PLATE CONFIGURATION AND CUO NANOFLUIDS ON HEAT TRANSFER AND PRESSURE DROP IN PLATE HEAT EXCHANGERS by Amina H. DhaefAlikhan, Hadi O. Mery, Sadiq Emad Sadiq, Osamah M. Mohammed

“…The experiments aim to determine the optimal heat exchanger configuration (plate numbers) that achieves high thermal performance while minimizing the pressure drop and pumping power. …”
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Interpretable machine learning approach for TBM tunnel crown convergence prediction with Bayesian optimization by Wanrui Hu, Kai Wu, Kai Wu, Heng Liu, Weibang Luo, Xingxing Li, Peng Guan

“…Validation using data from a TBM water conveyance tunnel in Xinjiang, China, confirmed the method’s practical utility, positioning it as an effective auxiliary tool for safer and more efficient TBM tunnel construction.…”
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Investigation of pneumatic transport system of seeding machine "AGRAER-85OH" by V. E. Saitov, R. G. Gataullin

“…On the investigated range of air flow Qv Nv рower to drive the fan is from 4.25 to 7.98 kW; coefficient of efficiency nv of the fan has a value of 0.453; total pressure Pu is in the range from 2889 to 4395 Pa, and a dynamic pressure Pdu from 1155 to 1739 Pa. …”
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Design and predict the potential of imidazole-based organic dyes in dye-sensitized solar cells using fingerprint machine learning and supported by a web application by Mohamed M. Elsenety

“…Among of these, Deep Neural Network models of MLPRegressor algorithm based on the daylight fingerprint shows a significant coefficient of determination combined with the lowest errors. …”
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TBESO-BP: an improved regression model for predicting subclinical mastitis by Kexin Han, Yongqiang Dai, Huan Liu, Junjie Hu, Leilei Liu, Zhihui Wang, Liping Wei

“…The primary objective is to discern models by exhibiting higher predictive accuracy and lower error values.ResultsThe evaluation of the TBESO-BP model in the test phase reveals a coefficient of determination R2 = 0.94, a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 2.07, and a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 5.33. …”
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