Emission of Brominated Pollutants from Waste Printed Circuit Boards during Thermal Treatment: A Review by Jun Wan, Jia Sun, Xiang-Lin Zhao, An-Sheng Le, Peng-Bo Ren, Ming-Xiu Zhan, Xiao-Qing Lin, Tong Chen

“…The effects of raw materials, temperature, atmosphere, and reaction time on the emission of brominated pollutants are discussed, as are three methods of controlling the pollutants. It was found that when the temperature was controlled at 850–1200°C, the reaction time was greater than 2 s, the air flow rate was 3–4.5 m s−1, and the excess air coefficient was 1–2, the impact of pollutant emissions was relatively small. …”
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Substantial Impact of School Closure on the Transmission Dynamics during the Pandemic Flu H1N1-2009 in Oita, Japan. by Shoko Kawano, Masayuki Kakehashi

“…<h4>Results</h4>The model with a 3-day delay from transmission to reporting yielded the best fit using R2 (the coefficient of determination). This result suggests that the recommended period of school closure is more than 4 days. …”
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Deep learning-based approach for extracting inflorescence morphology features in cut chrysanthemum by Shanpeng Xu, Jingshan Lu, Yin Wu, Huahao Liu, Fadi Chen, Fei Zhang, Sumei Chen, Weimin Fang, Zhiyong Guan

“…Ligulate and bisexual flowers were segmented using an optimized U-Net achieving a reduction of over 95 % in parameters, achieving an average Dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 0.934. For diameter estimation, mean squared errors (MSE) of 6.605 mm (ligulate) and 2.034 mm (bisexual) were obtained, with coefficients of determination (R2) approaching 0.98. …”
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Forecasting Wind Farm Production in the Short, Medium, and Long Terms Using Various Machine Learning Algorithms by Gökhan Ekinci, Harun Kemal Ozturk

“…Five machine learning algorithms were employed—Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Random Forest (RF), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), K-Nearest Neighbors Regression (KNN), and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP ANN)—utilizing both MinMax and Standard Scaling methods. Prediction performance was evaluated using Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Coefficient of Determination (R²), and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) metrics. …”
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Digital solutions for risk management in sustainable development conditions of business ecosystems by Oleksii HNIEZDOVSKYI, Danylo DOMASHENKO, Svitlana DOMASHENKO, Denys MOROZOV, Serhii SHYLO

“…A comprehensive analysis of modern technologies that include artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain, is conducted, their role in improving risk management efficiency is determined. The research methodology combines both theoretical methods (systems analysis, comparative analysis, SWOT analysis) and empirical methods (statistical analysis, machine learning methods, and experimental research). …”
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Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging for radiotherapy response evaluation in high-risk soft tissue sarcoma: A pilot study by Milan van Meekeren, Petra J. van Houdt, Marta Fiocco, Jessica M. Winfield, Christina Messiou, Birthe C. Heeres, Hans Gelderblom, Neeltje Steeghs, Rick Haas, Kirsten van Langevelde

“…For all three parameters, the mean was determined per tumor. Subsequently, repeatability coefficient (RC or %RC) was assessed from B1 and B2 mean values. …”
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STATIC OF ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES WITH MOVABLE INCLINED PLANE FOR MESIAL BATE TREATMENT by P.S. Flis, A.I. Hryhorenko, N.M. Doroshenko, M.M. Tormakhov, V.V. Filonenko

“…Mechanics and mathematical modeling of functionally directing appliance with a movable inclined plane static work for improving sagittal dentoalveolar anomalies and deformations treatment methods. Materials and methods. Maxillodental patient’s static was modeled by the methods of theoretical mechanics during the treatment of mesial occlusion with the appliance with a movable inclined plane. …”
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Evaluation of drug release from topical dosage forms and permeability prediction through the skin barrier (review) by N. B. Melnikova, I. A. Sheferov, A. A. Emasheva, A. A. Sheferova, D. A. Panteleev, A. I. Slivkin

“…Formally, this process, in accordance with pharmacopoeial methods, is assessed using various solubility tests. …”
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Selection of Characteristic Particle Size of Drilling Cuttings Based on Adsorption-Desorption Properties: Experiment and Simulation by Shouye Ma

“…The direct method for measuring gas content based on image processing, that is, comparing the desorption curves of drilling cuttings with the characteristic particle size with the desorption image in the database to determine the gas content of coal seams, can solve the problems of long measurement time and larger measurement errors of the traditional direct method. …”
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Graduate students and supervisors matching decision-making considering stability-based fairness based on TOPSIS and grey correlation degrees by Xiaohua Liu, Qi Yue, Bin Hu, Yuan Tao

“…Attribute weight vectors adjusted by conformity coefficients are formulated based on comparison information of graduate students and the conformity coefficient matrix. …”
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Optimasi Proses Klasterisasi di MySQL DBMS dengan Mengintegrasikan Algoritme MIC-Kmeans Menggunakan Bahasa SQL dalam Stored Procedure by Issa Arwani

“…While, the average value of the coefficient SQL-Kmeans method is 0.68 and categorized as medium structure (value ranges from 0.5 to 0.7). …”
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The role of hepcidin in the pathogenetic mechanisms of anemia of inflammation development in young children with acute inflammatory bacterial diseases of the respiratory system by H. O. Lezhenko, A. O. Pogribna

“…The serum total iron-binding capacity, the coefficient of saturation of iron in transferring was determined. …”
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Radiographic Measurement of Distal Metatarsal Articular Angle Does Not Correlate with In-Vivo Deformity for Juvenile Bunion Deformity by Michael O’Sullivan MD, Kelsie Coe MD, Jacob R. Zide MD, Rusty Hartman BS, Anthony I. Riccio MD

“…A Pearson’s correlation coefficient was calculated to assess the relationship between radiographic and in-vivo measurements. …”
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Activity of the photosynthetic apparatus and productivity of transgenic winter wheat plants with partial suppression of the proline dehydrogenase gene by Galyna Priadkina, Oksana Dubrovna, Serhiy Sytnyk, Maksym Tarasiuk

“…A significant positive correlation was found between the grain productivity of the transgenic plants with the fraction of open reaction centers of PSII, the effective quantum yield and photochemical quenching of fluorescence parameter (the coefficient of determination of the relationship varied from 0.762 to 0.966). …”
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Detection of α-thalassemia South-East Asian deletion based on a fully integrated digital polymerase chain reaction system DropXpert S6 by Youqiong Li, Junwei Ye, Liang Liang, Xiao Tan, Lihong Zheng, Ting Qin, Linfen Yu

“…Objectives: This study aimed to establish a droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) assay for South-East Asian (SEA) deletion based on a fully integrated digital PCR system DropXpert S6.Methods: A total of 151 whole blood samples, 10 chorionic villus samples, and 17 amniotic fluid samples were collected, including 106 SEA heterozygotes, 43 normal individuals, 10 Hb Bart's hydrops details, and 19 SEA deletions combined with other genotypes.Genotypes of these samples were determined by the Gap-PCR method. …”
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Prediction of formation energy for oxides in ODS steels by machine learning by Tian-Xing Yang, Peng Dou

“…Among six ML models employed, the light gradient boosting machine (LGBM) model shows the highest accuracy in predicting the formation energy of the oxides, with root mean square error (RMSE) values of 0.18 eV/atom and 0.27 eV/atom, mean absolute error (MAE) values of 0.11 eV/atom and 0.18 eV/atom, and coefficient of determination (R2) values of 0.96 and 0.92 for the training and testing sets, respectively. …”
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Statistical Modeling and Probable Calculation of the Strength of Materials with Random Distribution of Surface Defects by Roman Kvit, Petro Pukach, Tetyana Salo, Myroslava Vovk

“…The probability of failure, along with the mean value, the dispersion, and the variation coefficient of the plate’s strength, taking into account the surface defects under different types of stress, were determined. …”
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Theoretical and Experimental Study on the Antisliding Performance of Casting Steel Cable Clamps by Yangjie Ruan, Bin Luo, Mingmin Ding, Lifan Huang, Zhengxing Guo

“…According to the results of the data collected by real-time monitoring, the actual ultimate antisliding force of the clamp and the comprehensive friction coefficient are determined. Finally, a comparative study between the theoretical results and the experimental results is conducted. …”
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Digital literacy of library and information science postgraduates and ubiquitous learning in state owned universities, south-south, Nigeria by Onyema Nsirim, Oluchi Okeke

“…The reliability of the instrument was established through test-retest methods and was determined using Cronbach Alpha method which yielded reliability coefficient of 0.89. …”
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Validity and reliability of the functional test for hemiplegic upper Extremity–Thai version by Pisak Chinchai, Pheangrawee Pingmuang, Krongporn Chinchai, Anuchart Kaunnil

“…Concurrent validity was determined by investigating the relationship between the FTHUE-Thai version and the FMA-UE. …”
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