Finite element analysis of dynamic impact damage process of maize kernel based on HyperMesh and LS-DYNA by WANG Bo, WANG Jun, DU Dongdong

“…In addition, prediction models were successfully established with reasonable coefficient of determination (R²) values. …”
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Chloride Ion Corrosion Pattern and Mathematical Model for C60 High-Strength Concrete after Freeze-Thawing Cycles by Yan Li, Bing Li, Lian-ying Zhang, Chao Ma, Jiong Zhu, Ming Li, Hai Pu

“…In this study, the porosities of C60 high-strength concrete after 0, 30, 60, and 90 freeze-thaw cycles determined via the water retention method are 1.30%, 3.65%, 5.14%, and 7.34%, respectively. …”
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Optimizing the Vegetation Health Index for Agricultural Drought Monitoring: Evaluation and Application in the Yellow River Basin by Qinghou Hang, Hao Guo, Xiangchen Meng, Wei Wang, Ying Cao, Rui Liu, Philippe De Maeyer, Yunqian Wang

“…To enhance the vegetation health index (VHI), the optimal time scale for the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) was determined by using the maximum correlation coefficient method, and the calculation method for VHI was optimized. …”
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FORECASTING VALUES OF CHROMATICITY OF DRINKING AND SOURCE WATERS USING ARIMA MODEL AND NEURAL NETWORK by D. V. Makarov, E. A. Kantor, N. A. Krasulina, A. V. Greb, Z. Z. Berezhnova

“…Optimal configurations of ARIMA-models were determined from the results of comparing the averaged values of the root mean squared errors (RMSE); optimal configurations of ANN were determined from the results of comparing the averaged values of RMSE and correlation coefficients (CC) on the test periods.Results. …”
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The Reproducibility of Nuclear Morphometric Measurements in Invasive Breast Carcinoma by Pauliina Kronqvist, Teijo Kuopio, Yrjö Collan, Csaba Horvath, Ülle Tamm

“…The influence of biological variation and the selection of the measurement area was also tested. Morphometrically determined mean nuclear profile area (Pearson’s r 0.89, grading efficiency (GE) 0.95) and standard deviation (SD) of nuclear profile area (Pearson’s r 0.84, GE 0.89) showed high reproducibility. …”
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Free-Electron Screening Mechanism of the Shallow Impurity Breakdown in n-GaAs: Evidences from the Photoelectric Zeeman and Cyclotron Resonance Spectroscopies by O. Z. Alekperov, E. P. Nakhmedov

“…It is shown that an increase in the FC concentration reduces the CCS, which can be assumed as the main factor along with the increase in the ionization coefficient for the SI breakdown in the electric field. …”
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Nasopharyngeal density of respiratory viruses in childhood pneumonia in a highly vaccinated setting: findings from a case–control study by Andrew Martin, Peter Richmond, Adam Jaffe, Mejbah Uddin Bhuiyan, Jurissa Lang, Chisha Sikazwe, Meredith Borland, David Smith, Tom Snelling, Christopher Blyth

“…A decreasing density trend with increasing age was observed—the trend was statistically significant for RSV (regression coefficient −0.04, p=0.004) but not for other viruses. …”
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Role of Psychological Distress in the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care and Self-Management Behaviors of Elderly Patients with T2DM Chronic Complications by Sun X, Wang X, Zhou R, Deng W, Jiang J, Shi Y

“…Furthermore, the total effect of PAID-C on DSMB-O via PACIC was determined to be (0.27+0.22=0.49). Notably, the mediating effect accounted for 54.99%.Conclusion: Psychological distress is intricately linked to self-management behaviour among elderly patients suffering from T2DM and chronic complications. …”
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The validity of a new resilience scale: the Japan Resilience Scale (J-RS) for mothers with a focus on cultural aspects by Mariko Takeuchi, Michiko Matsunaga, Akimitsu Miyake, Ryuichiro Egashira, Sayaka Hotta, Mai Nakano, Misaki Moriguchi, Fumihiko Yasuno, Masako Myowa, Keisuke Hagihara

“…Internal consistency (reliability) of the J-RS was assessed using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, and the final model was determined via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). …”
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Oral health literacy: effectiveness of a homegrown intervention among community-dwelling older Nigerians by B. O. Akinboboye, B. I. Malomo, C. A. Gbiri, A. O. Ogunyemi, A. P. Arikawe, O. A. Obashoro-John

“…Methods A multi-stage and multi-phased mixed-method study was conducted among adults ≥50 years with a Charlson comorbidity index score ≤ 1. …”
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The Noninvasive Measurement of Ocular Rigidity and the Pulsatile Choroidal Volume Change in Children and Young Adults by Martin Reyes, Sage Smith, Kelly Lam, Yasaman Adel, Nimesh B. Patel, OD, PhD, Diane N. Sayah, OD, PhD

“…Intrasession repeatability for OR and ΔV was assessed in 31 eyes and was determined to be excellent based on a single measure intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.912, 95% confidence interval (CI) (0.825, 0.956) and 0.941, 95% CI (0.879, 0.972), respectively and a within-subject standard deviation of 0.0037 μL−1 and 1.14 μL, respectively. …”
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Resistance intensity test (RIT): a novel bioassay for quantifying the level of acaricide resistance in Rhipicephalus microplus ticks by Frans Jongejan, Laura Berger, Laura Homminga, Iris Hulsebos, Alita Petersen, Priscila Teixeira Ferreira, José Reck, Guilherme Klafke

“…Usually, the recommended label dose or an established discriminating dose of an acaricide is used to determine high mortality (≥ 95%) of susceptible tick strains. …”
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Interrelation between the parameters of endogenous vascular regulation, oxidative stress and the markers of inflammatory response in COVID-19 patients while on extracorporeal membr... by E. V. Klychnikova, S. V. Zhuravel, I. V. Ivanov, O. V. Nikitina, E. V. Tazina, A. Yu. Bulanov, A. M. Talyzin, K. A. Popugaev, V. V. Vladimirov, S. S. Petrikov, A. S. Bogdanova

“…To assess the severity of oxidative stress in blood serum, malondialdehyde was determined as a marker of lipid peroxidation. The state of the antioxidant system was assessed in terms of total antioxidant status of blood serum. …”
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The effect of the informative program in the narrative style on the development of the meaning of life among blind students at Al-Noor Institute / Baghdad Governorate by Aasu Saleh Saeed, Alaa Khudair Nassif

“…The researchers used the following statistical methods: (Pearson correlation coefficient, Fakronbach equation, Spearman's equation, T-test for two independent samples, Chi-square, Wilcoxen test, Mann-Whitney test, weighted mean, percent weight). …”
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Understanding preoperative health-related quality of life in rotator cuff tear patients: role of patients’ characteristics by Daniela Brune, Thomas Stojanov, Andreas Marc Müller, David Weibel, Sabina Hunziker, Stephanie Erdbrink, ARCR_Pred Study Group, Laurent Audigé

“…Abstract Background Assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a widely employed method in orthopedics to evaluate patient well-being and measure the effectiveness of surgical interventions. …”
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Explainable machine learning and online calculators to predict heart failure mortality in intensive care units by An‐Tian Chen, Yuhui Zhang, Jian Zhang

“…It showed satisfying area under the curve (AUC), recall, precision, F1 score, Cohen's kappa score and Matthew's correlation coefficient. The concordance index (c‐index) reached 0.7972 in the training cohort and 0.8125 in the testing cohort. …”
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Relationship between gut microbiota and markers of myocardial fibrosis in with chronic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by A. N. Kaburova, O. M. Drapkina, S. M. Yudin, S. N. Koretsky, V. V. Makarov, M. S. Pokrovskaya, S. A. Kraevoy, B. B. Shoybonov, I. A. Efimova

“…The quantitative determination of myocardial fibrosis markers was carried out by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. …”
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Operation Analysis of Automated Unit for Magnetic Pulse Treatment of Garden Strawberry by A. Yu. Izmaylov, D. O. Khort, R. A. Filippov, A. I. Kutyrev, I. G. Smirnov

“…Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM conducts research and development work on the determination of parameters, technical characteristics of machines and operating modes of magnetic pulse treatment (MPT) of plant material in field conditions. …”
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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RISK FACTORS FOR THE OCCURRENCE OF IRON DEFICIENCY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS OF THE KRASNODAR TERRITORY by V. A. Shashel, A. A. Bishenova, E. G. Potyagailo, N. N. Shchegolevataya

“…The serum iron (SJ), serum ferritin (SF) and total iron binding capacity of serum (BFW) were determined. The saturation coefficient of ferric iron was calculated by the formula: NTZ=SZ/OZSS.100%. …”
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Source identification and ecological risk assessment of some heavy metals in surface soils collected from the vicinity of Arad-Kouh processing and disposal complex, Tehran, Iran by Seyedeh Maryam Mohammadi, Bahareh Lorestani, Soheil Sobhan Ardakani, Mehrdad Cheraghi, Lima Tayebi

“…After acid digestion of soil samples, the element contents were determined using ICP-OES. Also, pollution indices, potential ecological risk were computed. …”
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