Effect of seedling size on post-planting growth and survival of five Mexican Pinus species and their hybrids by José Alberto Ponce-Figueroa, Pablo Antúnez, José Ciro Hernández-Díaz, José Ángel Prieto-Ruíz, Artemio Carrillo-Parra, Pablito Marcelo López-Serrano, Christian Wehenkel

“…Therefore, the aim was to evaluate the influence of initial morphological parameters of 2,007 nursery seedlings of these species and their hybrids on their growth and survival 44 months after planting in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Methods Spearman’s coefficient (rs) and the unbiased conditional pseudo coefficient of determination (R2c) between each specific predictor and each response variable and their 95% confidence interval (CI95%) were determined using Random Forest, generalized linear model, and bootstrapping. …”
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Structural Design of Segmented Linings for High-Pressure CAES in Underground Workings: Method and Case Study by Sheng Wang, Mengfan Gao, Caichu Xia

“…The method accounts for the shear mechanical behavior of the sliding layer, with parameters determined through laboratory testing. …”
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Reengineering the Management Model of Defense to Overcome Separatism in Papua for National Interests by Faonaso Harefa, Sovian Aritonang, Asep Adang Supriyadi, Cecilia F. Harsono

“…This research was made to determine the effect of defense management on national interests using the mixed methods approach. …”
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ISOA‐DBN: A New Data‐Driven Method for Studying the Operating Characteristics of Air Conditioners by Mengran Zhou, Qiqi Zhang, Feng Hu, Ling Wang, Guangyao Zhou, Weile Kong, Changzhen Wu, Enhan Cui

“…The results show that the model effect is better when DBN is used to study the operating characteristics of air conditioning, and the coefficient of determination reaches 0.9439. Then, the SOA is improved, and its performance is tested. …”
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Research and application of classification warning method for coal spontaneous combustion in goaf under air leakage by Xiaowei ZHAI, Xintian LI, Qinyuan HOU, Teng MA, Bobo SONG, Le HAO

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Parameter uncertainties for imperfect surrogate models in the low-noise regime by Thomas D Swinburne, Danny Perez

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A New Method for Automatic Glacier Extraction by Building Decision Trees Based on Pixel Statistics by Xiao Liu, Hongyi Cheng, Jiang Liu, Xianbao Su, Yuchen Wang, Bin Qiao, Yipeng Wang, Nai’ang Wang

“…In comparison with the commonly used indices, this method demonstrates an improvement in Cohen’s kappa coefficient by more than 3.8%. …”
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Exponential Response Matrix Spectral Nodal Method for the Discrete Ordinates Neutral Particle Transport Model by Iram B. Rivas-Ortiz, Dany Sanchez-Dominguez, Susana Marrero Iglesias, Paulo Eduardo Ambrósio

“…The formulation includes a lambda parameter possible determined by the medium characteristics, e.g., the scattering ratio coefficient and/or empirical methods. …”
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Directed differentiation of embryonic stem cells using a bead-based combinatorial screening method. by Marina Tarunina, Diana Hernandez, Christopher J Johnson, Stanislav Rybtsov, Vidya Ramathas, Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, Thomas Watson, Lilian Hook, Alexander Medvinsky, Chris Mason, Yen Choo

“…We have developed a rapid, bead-based combinatorial screening method to determine optimal combinations of variables that direct stem cell differentiation to produce known or novel cell types having pre-determined characteristics. …”
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Evaluating Land use Mixed-ness on Street Level through Spatial Analyses and Gini Method by Hamid Motieyan, Mohammad Azmoodeh

“…Compared to previous studies, the distinguishing feature of this study is considering the distance of land uses in calculating the amount of dispersion, which will lead to a proper evaluation of the results obtained. 2-Materials and Methods The present study intends to provide a way to spatially analyze the characteristics of streets and land use in an area, through the Gini method, to discuss justice in the distribution of land uses along the streets and at the regional scale. …”
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Video Spectral Methods and Tools for Monitoring of Controlled Parameters of Forest Fires and Oil Spill Accidents by A. S. Sizikov, Y. V. Belyaev, I. M. Tsykman, A. P. Popkov

“…The results of studies made it possible to increase the accuracy of identification of monitoring objects in emergency zones up to two times.The main provisions of the two developed methods were outlined. The first method was methodology for determination of the controlled parameters of forest fires by means of aviation monitoring, which makes it possible to record the maximum values of the degree of polarization of reflected radiation for coal 30–40 % and for semi-coal 15–20 % in the wavelength range from 0.5 to 0.7 μm. …”
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Inversion of In-situ Stress Field of Large Underground Cavern Group in Complex Geology Methods and Applications by Shufeng PEI, Dongsheng ZANG, Changxin SUN, Jianhua HE, Guoliang LI, Bingrui CHEN

“…This method may present issues such as negative regression coefficients for factors, strong collinearity among factors, or insignificant effects. …”
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SIMULATION TEST FOR A PUSH-TYPE PRECISION METERING DEVICE BASED ON DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD by Lingyu Liu, Xiangcai Zhang, Xiupei Cheng, Zhongcai Wei, Xianliang Wang

“…The discrete element method and a regression analysis were used to optimize the working parameters during the seed dropping stage. …”
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ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AS A METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ORTHOPEDIC TREATMENT OF PATHOLOGICAL ABRASION OF HARD TISSUES OF TEETH by G.M. Balia, I.M. Tkachenko, D.M. Korol, V.M. Dvornyk

“…A positive change in EMG indicators, especially the "K" coefficient, and their approach to the indicators of the control group indicates the appropriate choice of the prosthetic method, which will contribute to the process of adaptation to the orthopedic structure and improve the psycho-somatic condition of patients in general. …”
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Rumen gas kinetics: a comparative analysis of two in vitro assessment methods for forage evaluation by Nejc VALCL, Andrej LAVRENČIČ

“…Significant differences were observed between the HGT and ANKOM in the specific gas production rate (parameter C), maximum fermentation rate (MFR) and gas produced after 24 h of incubation (Gas24) for each feed group. High coefficients of determination (R2) were calculated between the methods for the gas kinetic parameters MFR, Gas24, total potential gas production (parameter B), decrease in the specific gas production rate (parameter A), moderate R2 for C, and low R2 for time of maximum fermentation rate (TMFR). …”
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Organization and methods of risk analysis activities of collective investment institutions: the problematic issues and ways of solving by V.L. Maslyuk

“…Presents the future prospects of the development of organizational and methodical basis of risk analysis activities of domestic collective investment institutions to increase their efficiency and attract more participants…”
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Association Between Infant Carrying Methods, Duration, and Trunk Position among Nursing Mothers of Lahore by Somia Faisal, Aroosha Nadeem, Shoaib Waqas

“…However, the physical demands of caring for a newborn can make nursing mothers more prone to developing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Objective: To determine the association between infant carrying methods, duration, and trunk position among nursing mothers of Lahore. …”
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Improvement of Methods for Evaluating Electrical Engineering Enterprises Functioning and Their Structural Components Based on Identical Indicators by Yakovlev A.I., Vasiltsova S.A., Larka L.S.

“…To improve the performance evaluation of electrical engineering enterprises, firms should more accurately, in comparison with the existing methods, determine the contribution of each of their structural units to the results of the activity of the business entity as a whole. …”
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A study on automatic annotation methods for watershed environmental elements based on semantic segmentation models by Peipei He, Taoxing Shen, Yafei Wang, Dantong Zhu, Qingfeng Hu, Hui Li, Weibo Yin, Yi Zhang, Ang Yang

“…Hence, experiments are conducted in three modules: (1) Determination of watershed environmental element sample types. (2) Semi-automated annotated sample production method. …”
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Evaluation methods of artificial demineralization protocols for coronal dentin: a systematic review of laboratory studies by Alaa Esmat Abdel Salam, Hoda Saleh Ismail, Hamdi Hamama

“…Furthermore, this evidence-based study was conducted to identify the most reliable evaluation methods in assessing the efficiency of the reviewed protocols. …”
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