Mathematical model and numerical calculation of the movement of oil products in helicoidal heat exchangers by Н.Ж. Джайчибеков, Д.Е. Құрманова, А.С. Жұманбаева

“…The method of the log-mean temperature difference, modified for the case of variable viscosity, and the methods of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are used for calculations. …”
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Incorporating genotype information in a precise prediction model for platinum sensitivity in epithelial ovarian cancer by Nai-Yi Du, Yan Li, Hui Zheng, Ya-Kun Liu, Lu-Sha Liu, Jianbang Xie, Shan Kang

“…A predicting model for drug sensitivity was constructed based on those sixteen SNPs. Coefficients of the synergistic effect for each SNP were determined, and an algorithm of the Drug Sensitivity Index (DSI) was built. …”
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Reliability of ultrasound assessment of the rectus femoris muscle thickness: intra-rater, inter-rater, and inter-day analysis accounting for age and sex by Martin Bjørn Stausholm, Katielle Rodrigues da Silva, Pedro Augusto Inácio, Alberto Souza de Sá Filho, Pedro Sardinha Leonardo Lopes-Martins, Jan Magnus Bjordal, Patrícia Sardinha Leonardo, Rodrigo Alvaro B. Lopes-Martins

“…We calculated the Intraclass Correlation Coefficients (ICC) using a two-way random model and determined the 95% minimal detectable difference (MDD). …”
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Association of sleep duration with overweight and obesity among school-aged children and adolescents in Pakistan—An empirical cross-sectional study by Moazzam Tanveer, Alexios Batrakoulis, Ejaz Asghar, Andreas Hohmann, Serge Brand, Matheus S. de Sousa Fernandes, Luca P. Ardigò, Georgian Badicu

“…Overweight and obesity were determined using WHO references. Statistical analyses included Chi-square tests, Pearson correlation coefficients, and logistic regressions. …”
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B1-insensitive T2 mapping of healthy thigh muscles using a T2-prepared 3D TSE sequence. by Elisabeth Klupp, Dominik Weidlich, Sarah Schlaeger, Thomas Baum, Barbara Cervantes, Marcus Deschauer, Hendrik Kooijman, Ernst J Rummeny, Claus Zimmer, Jan S Kirschke, Dimitrios C Karampinos

“…<h4>Purpose</h4>To propose a T2-prepared 3D turbo spin echo (T2prep 3D TSE) sequence for B1-insensitive skeletal muscle T2 mapping and compare its performance with 2D and 3D multi-echo spin echo (MESE) for T2 mapping in thigh muscles of healthy subjects.<h4>Methods</h4>The performance of 2D MESE, 3D MESE and the proposed T2prep 3D TSE in the presence of transmit B1 and B0 inhomogeneities was first simulated. …”
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Time in range–A1c hemoglobin relationship in continuous glucose monitoring of type 1 diabetes: a real-world study by Marina Valenzano, Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti, Adriano Valenzano, Giorgio Grassi

“…HbA1c tests were also carried out in the same occasions and measured values paired with the corresponding TIR data.Results A monovariate linear regression analysis confirms a strong correlation between TIR and HbA1c as found in previous studies, but leveraging more homogeneous data (n=146) collected in real-life conditions. Differences were determined between FGM and rtCGM devices in Pearson’s correlation (rFGM=0.703, rrtCGM=0.739), slope (β1,FGM=−11.77, β1,rtCGM=−10.74) and intercept (β0,FGM=141.19, β0,rtCGM=140.77) coefficients. …”
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Role of emotional control on anxiety and stress among cancer patients by Robert Jan Łuczyk, Kamil Sikora, Agnieszka Bodio, Marta Łuczyk, Monika Baryła‐Matejczuk, Agnieszka Wawryniuk, Katarzyna Sawicka, Agnieszka Zwolak

“…The relationships between the quantitative variables were determined using Spearman's rho coefficients, and the relationships between the quantitative and qualitative variables were verified using Kruskal‐Wallis tests. …”
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Association Between Soluble CD40 Ligand and Hypercholesterolemia in Children and Adolescents by Aynur Küçükçongar Yavaş, Tuba Fatma Eminoğlu, İlyas Okur, Arzu Aral, Alev Hasanoğlu, Leyla Tümer

“…In this study, we investigated the effect of soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L) and clotting activation on children and adolescents with hypercholesterolemia. Materials and Methods: Plasma levels of sCD40L, P-selectin, 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG), and prothrombin fragment 1+2 [(F) 1+2] were determined in thirty-five hypercholesterolemic patients (20 girls and 15 boys; age, median: 13 years) and forty healthy normocholesterolemic subjects (28 girls and 12 boys; age, median: 13 years). …”
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Biological characteristics of bream (Abramis brama Linnaeus, 1758) of the Kremenchuk Reservoir as an object of commercial fishery by N. Rudyk-Leuska, O. Buzevych, M. Leuskyi, I. Burjak

“…The primary material was selected and processed according to generally accepted methods in ichthyology. Total mortality (Z) was determined graphically based on the natural logarithms of the number of age classes in terms of the effort of the standard order of gill nets, as the tangent of the angle of inclination of the regression line; natural mortality (M) of bream was calculated using the coefficients of the Bertalanffy equation. …”
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Search for predictors of achieving minimal disease activity during tofacitinib therapy in patients with psoriatic arthritis by L. D. Vorobyova, T. V. Korotaeva, S. I. Glukhova, E. Yu. Loginova, E. E. Gubar, Yu. L. Korsakova

“…In addition to a general clinical examination and a standard rheumatological examination, the level of secreted DKK-1 protein and health-related quality of life (HRQoL, using a special PsAID-12 questionnaire) were determined. Multivariate stepwise discriminant analysis was used to search for predictors for the achievement of MDA in patients with PsA and to calculate the coefficients.Results and discussion. …”
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Dietary exposure levels to 134Cs, 137Cs, 90Sr, and 239+240Pu in Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident: a duplicate portion study for fiscal years 2012–2014... by Hiroshi Terada, Ikuyo Iijima, Sadaaki Miyake, Tomoko Ota, Ichiro Yamaguchi, Hiroko Kodama, Hideo Sugiyama

“…Therefore, this study employed a duplicate portion approach to examine dietary exposure levels of radionuclides in adults and children following the FDNPP accident. Methods: The study spanned fiscal years 2012–2014 and was conducted in 10 prefectures: Hokkaido, Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Osaka, and Kochi. …”
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Inter-phantom variability in digital mammography: implications for quality control by Gisella Gennaro, Gilberto Contento, Andrea Ballaminut, Francesca Caumo

“…Variability was assessed by calculating intra- and inter-phantom variances and coefficients of variation (COVs). The relative contributions of intra- and inter-phantom variability to total variability were also determined. …”
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Prediction of Key Quality Parameters in Hot Air-Dried Jujubes Based on Hyperspectral Imaging by Quancheng Liu, Chunzhan Yu, Yuxuan Ma, Hongwei Zhang, Lei Yan, Shuxiang Fan

“…For the predictions of <i>L</i>*, <i>a</i>*, <i>b</i>*, SSC, hardness, and moisture content, the best inversion models achieved coefficients of determination <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msubsup><mi>R</mi><mi>p</mi><mn>2</mn></msubsup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> of 0.9972, 0.9970, 0.9857, and 0.9972, respectively. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 on Corporate Cash Holdings and Speed of Adjustment by Abbas Aflatooni, Mohammad Khatiri, Farzad Eivani

“…First, the positive and statistically significant coefficient of the COVID-19 dummy variable in the static models indicated that, after controlling for the determinants of cash holdings, as well as year and industry fixed effects, firms held a higher ratio of cash to non-cash assets (4.52-percentage point) during the COVID-19 pandemic period compared to the pre-pandemic years. …”
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Analytical evaluation of the Uehling potential using binomial expansion theorems by Э. Чопуроглу, Т. Мехметоглу

“…Therefore, presented method is illustrated by analytically calculation of the Uehling potential with the simple binomial coefficients and exponential integral functions. …”
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Erosion Characteristics and Its Simulation of Erosion Amount for an Artificial Forest in an Exposed Feldspathic Sandstone Area by Qin Fucang, Dong Xiaoyu, Yang Zhenqi

“…[Methods] The annual natural rainfall and soil erosion of plots on Pinus tabulaeformis, Apricot, Hippophae rhamnoides, and Caragana korshinskii plantations, and on grassland and bare land were monitored by means of runoff plot monitoring. …”
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STUDY OF QUALITY INDICATORS AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LEAVES, STEMS AND FLOWERS OF <i>INULA VISCOSA </i>(L.) AS PROMISING RAW MATERIALS by R. Mussa, N. V. Sineva, V. V. Vandyshev, S. N. Suslina

“…., a pharmacological and pharmacognostic study of leaf and herb raw materials is carried out using modern pharmacopoeial methods of research and standardization. The results of research of some pharmacognostic characteristics of new types of raw materials are presented for Inula viscosa L. leaves and herb. …”
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Cardiometabolic risk factors in predicting obstructive coronary artery disease in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome by B. I. Geltser, M. M. Tsivanyuk, K. I. Shakhgeldyan, E. D. Emtseva, A. A. Vishnevskiy

“…The developed algorithm for selecting predictors made it possible to determine their significant predictive threshold values and weighting coefficients characterizing the degree of influence on endpoints. …”
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An observational study to develop a scoring system and model to detect risk of hospital admission due to COVID‐19 by Zhe Chen, Nicholas W. Russo, Matthew M. Miller, Robert X. Murphy, David B. Burmeister

“…Using observational study data, we set out to create a predictive model that could anticipate which COVID‐19 patients would likely be admitted and developed a scoring tool that could be used in the clinical setting and for population risk stratification. Methods We retrospectively evaluated data from COVID‐19 patients across a network of 6 hospitals in northeastern Pennsylvania. …”
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3D-Printed Organ-Realistic Phantoms to Verify Quantitative SPECT/CT Accuracy for 177Lu-PSMA-617 Treatment Planning by Lydia J. Wilson, Sara Belko, Eric Gingold, Shuying Wan, Rachel Monane, Robert Pugliese, Firas Mourtada

“…MIM SurePlan MRT SPECTRA Quant software (v7.1.2) reconstructed the acquired SPECT projections into a quantitative SPECT image and we evaluated the accuracy by region-based comparison to the known injected radioactivities and determined recovery coefficients for each organ phantom. …”
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