Numerical Study of Surrounding Rock Damage in Deep-Buried Tunnels for Building-Integrated Underground Structures by Penglin Zhang, Chong Zhang, Weitao Chen, Chunhui He, Yang Liu, Zhaofei Chu

“…This study investigates the relationship between surrounding rock damage and in situ stress conditions through numerical simulation methods. A constitutive model suitable for simulating rock mass damage was developed and implemented in the LS-DYNA (version R12) code via a user-defined material model, with parameters determined using the Hoek–Brown failure criterion. …”
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Avaliação do Kt para estimativa da evapotranspiração de referência (ETo) em Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ Evaluation of "Class A" pan coefficients to estimate the referential evapotran... by Barbara dos S. Esteves, José C. Mendonça, Elias F. Sousa, Salassier Bernardo

“…<br>In this work, different methods of determination of pan coefficient (Kp) for a daily estimation of referential evapotranspiration (ETo) using the "Class A" pan method (TCA) were analyzed. …”
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Efficient Ammonium Ion Removal from the State Company of Fertilizers Wastewater through Nano Zeolite Treatment by Aseel Tami Abduljabbar, Saadiyah Ahmed Dhahir, Muna Subhi Jamal

“…The Freundlich model best describes the adsorption isotherms with a higher coefficient of determination (R2=0.97) than the Langmuir model with a coefficient of determination (R2=0.80). …”
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Extraction, determination, dietary and environmental risks assessment of phthalate acid esters in bottled water, liquor, and surface water by Jinyang Bai, Zongliang Niu, Yanling Ma, Mengge Ma, Xiaowen He, Zhuhua Tang, Yingying Wen

“…An accurate, rapid, and efficient method called salting-out assisted liquid-liquid extraction (SALLE) combined with gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) for the determination of 16 phthalic acid esters (PAEs) in bottled water, liquor and surface water samples was developed. …”
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Deep learning-based identification of precipitation clouds from all-sky camera data for observatory safety by Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi, Alireza Ghasrimanesh, Habib Khosroshahi

“…We train our model on a set of roughly 2445 images taken by the INO all-sky camera through the deep learning method based on the EfficientNet network. Our model reaches an average accuracy of 99% in determining the cloud rainfall’s potential and an accuracy of 96% for cloud coverage. …”
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Negotiation impact in Supply Chain Management by Elena-Simona Ionel

“…Using qualitative research method through an analysis of recent qualitative and quantitative research, including meta-analysis and case studies, the author identifies negotiation as a strategic leverage that increases supply chain reactivity and efficiency. …”
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EVALUATION OF VARIABLE INTENSITY OF HEAT REMOVAL FROM THE SURFACE OF FALLING AND CRYSTALLIZING MELT DROPLETS IN THE PROCESS OF THEIR PRILLING by E. N. Zvereva, Yu. A. Taran

“…The method of calculation of the intensity of heat removal from the surface of the crystallizing melt droplets is presented. …”
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Efficient Conditions of Enzyme-Assisted Extractions and Pressurized Liquids for Recovering Polyphenols with Antioxidant Capacity from Pisco Grape Pomace as a Sustainable Strategy by Jacqueline Poblete, Mario Aranda, Issis Quispe-Fuentes

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The Optimal Design of an Inclined Porous Plate Wave Absorber Using an Artificial Neural Network Model by Senthil Kumar Natarajan, Seokkyu Cho, Il-Hyoung Cho

“…The trained model was subsequently utilized to predict the averaged reflection coefficient using a larger dataset, aiding in the determination of the optimal wave absorber design. …”
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Global and regional impact of health determinants on life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy, 2000–2018: an econometric analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease s... by Kamran Irandoust, Rajabali Daroudi, Maryam Tajvar, Mehdi Yaseri

“…This study examines the impact of these determinants on life expectancy (LE) and health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) at both regional and global levels using econometric analysis.MethodsThis ecological study included all 194 WHO member countries from 2000 to 2018. …”
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Game and Application Purchasing Patterns on Steam using K-Means Algorithm by Salman Fauzan Fahri Aulia, Yana Aditia Gerhana, Eva Nurlatifah

“…A normalization process is applied to enhance calculation accuracy. The elbow method determines the optimal number of clusters, resulting in three clusters from the k-means algorithm. …”
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Efficiency evaluation of the milling process based on the granulometric analysis of crushed stone-mastic asphalt concrete granulate by D. V. Furmanov, E. S. Budanova

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Universal calibration of a scintillation spectrometer with a NaI(Tl) detector when measuring 137Cs activity in counting samples of arbitrary density and volume by K. A. Sednev, V. A. Nekrasov, V. S. Repin

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Determining the Validity and Reliability of ArtSci-S.P.D. Module On Year 5 Human Circulatory System by Kai Ling Ng, Syakirah Samsudin

“…Implementing the module has been carried out in order to ensure its suitability for using in further research.  Materials and methods. The analysis approach for face validity was Fleiss’ kappa, while the content validity index (CVI) was employed to assess content validity, and the test-retest reliability method was used for measuring reliability. …”
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Designing and determining psychometric properties of the knowledge, attitude, and practice questionnaire for the use of medicinal plants among older adults by Samaneh Pourhadi, Tayebeh Mohammadzadeh, Reza Ghadimi, Parvin Sajadi Kaboudi, Abouzar Dashteban Namaghi

“…In the present study, the content ratio and content index were 0.79 and 0.8, respectively. The correlation coefficient calculations demonstrated the favorable status of the questionnaire based on the test–retest method. …”
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Hybrid lion and exponential PSO-based metaheuristic clustering approach for efficient dynamic data stream management by M. Ananthi, K. Valarmathi, A. Ramathilagam, R. Praveen

“…Thus, a data stream clustering method is essential for exploring and storing the potential amount of information from the historical data determined in a single pass. …”
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Crashing Fault Residence Prediction Using a Hybrid Feature Selection Framework from Multi-Source Data by Xiao Liu, Xianmei Fang, Song Sun, Yangchun Gao, Dan Yang, Meng Yan

“…Extensive experiments on seven open-source software projects show that the SCM framework outperforms seven baseline methods, which include four classifiers and three ranking approaches, across four evaluation metrics such as F-measure, g-mean, MCC, and AUC. …”
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Impact of main idiosyncratic and exogenous factors on cost Efficiency: The case of MENA banking industries - SFA approach by Samar Rizk

“…By using this method, SFAW versus SFAWO, we compare between the efficiency frontiers and scores obtained and understand the effect of the integration of main determinants on efficiency of banks in the MENA region. …”
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Experimental Study and Optimization of Shredding Speed to Improve the Efficiency of Small-Sized Disc Shredder for Plant Residues by Vitaliy V. Krasovskiy, Yuriy B. Gerber

“…There were used Student’s t-test to assess the statistical significance of the results and the Shapiro-Wilk test to determine the normality of distribution. The correlation dependence between the indicators was determined using the Pearson correlation coefficient for normally distributed data. …”
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Investigating the effect of land use type on surface water quality in the Talar watershed in Mazandaran by Fatemeh Shokrian, Karim solaimani, Aref Saberi

“…Objective: To study changes in water resource quality with emphasis on the role of existing land use and geological characteristics during the period 2011-2021 using satellite imagery and quantitative and qualitative data on groundwater resources in the Talar watershed.Method: The Talar is one of the mountainous watersheds in the north of Iran and is located in central Alborz. …”
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