Assessment of Technetium-99m Labeled Macroaggregated Albumin Rhinoscintigraphy for the Measurement of Nasal Mucociliary Transport Rate: Intratest, Interobserver, and Intraobserver... by Zeki Dostbil, Yusuf Dag, Ozlem Cetinkaya, Mehmet Akdag, Bekir Tasdemir

“…The aim of this study is to assess the intratest, interobserver, and intraobserver reproducibility of nasal mucociliary transport rate (NMTR) measurement. Materials and Methods. Twenty-two subjects were evaluated to determine intratest reproducibility and a group of 35 subjects was examined to determine inter- and intraobserver reproducibility. …”
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Modeling factors related to earthquake preparedness: a structural equation modeling approach by Azadeh Fatehpanah, Elham Maraghi, Anthony Coetzer-Liversage, Mahmood Karimy, Amir H. Pakpour, Majed Maripour, Nematollah Jaafarzadeh Haghighi Fard, Marzieh Araban

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Evaluation of the presence of emerging contaminants in wastewater and seawater using automated solid-phase extraction and ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to ta... by Julia Méndez-Catalán, Cristina Socas-Hernández, Gabriel Jiménez-Skrzypek, Javier Hernández-Borges, Javier González-Sálamo

“…Matrix-matched calibration showed good linearity with determination coefficients ≥ 0.990. Likewise, matrix effect assessment showed a significant signal suppression in almost all the analytes demonstrating the need to consider such effect for a proper quantification of the analytes. …”
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Revolutionizing RIS Networks: LiDAR-Based Data-Driven Approach to Enhance RIS Beamforming by Ahmad M. Nazar, Mohamed Y. Selim, Daji Qiao

“…LiDAR data facilitate user localization, enabling the determination of optimal RIS coefficients. Our approach extends a Graph Neural Network (GNN) by integrating LiDAR-captured user locations as inputs. …”
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QUANTIFICATION OF HYDRAULIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SWELLING MATERIAL by Boris Kavur, Jasmin Jug, Biljana Kovačević Zelić, Ivan Vrkljan

“…The aim of this research was to establish reliable methods for the definition of the hydraulic properties of the swelling material and to verify a proposed swelling model. …”
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The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction Between Leadership and Organizational Performance and the Moderating Effect of Educational Context by Fahrettin Gılıç , Sedat Kanadlı , Yüksel Gündüz , Yusuf İnandı

“…Materials/methods. Meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) technique was used to determine the effect size of the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership, job satisfaction, and organizational performance. …”
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Interaction of integral parameters of physical state and biological age of students aged 17-19 years old in the process of adaptation to standard and experimental physical educatio... by Oleksandr Pryimakov, Marek Sawczuk, Stanislav Prysiazhniuk, Georgiy Korobeynikov, Nataliya Mazurok

“…To process the experimental material, methods of dispersion and canonical analysis were used and multiple correlation and determination coefficients were calculated. …”
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Changes in cerebral haemodynamics in patients depending on the severity and catamnesis of combat traumatic brain injury by I. Chernenko

“…Materials and Methods. The study involved 350 male patients with cTBI, conducted at the Municipal Non-Profit Enterprise of the Kharkiv Regional Council "Regional Hospital for War Invalids." …”
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Sufficient conditions for convergence of positive solutions to linearized two-dimensional sediment transport problem by Alexander I. Sukhinov, Valentina V. Sidoryakina, Andrey A. Sukhinov

“…Therefore, to solve lots of practically important problems associated with the prediction of the dynamics of the back surface of water basins, it is necessary to use spatially two-dimensional models of sediment transportation and effective numerical methods of their implementation. Materials and Methods. …”
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Reliable Web-Based Auditory Cognitive Testing: Observational Study by Meher Lad, John-Paul Taylor, Timothy David Griffiths

“…Future work should explore methods to enhance inclusivity, such as remote guided testing, and address factors like digital literacy and equipment standards to improve the representativeness and quality of web-based auditory research.…”
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Necessidade hídrica da cultura do girassol irrigado na chapada do Apodi Water requirement in the Plateau of irrigated sunflower of Apodi - Brazil by Edmilson G. C. Junior, José F. de Medeiros, Talyana K. de Melo, José Espinola Sobrinho, Gilmar Bristot, Bruno M. de Almeida

“…Being a non traditional crop in the region, there are no studies about the water management, so this work aimed to determine the crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and the crop coefficients (Kc) for the different development stages of the sunflower, cultivar Catissol I, in the plateau of Apodi - RN. …”
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RATIONING OF FUEL CONSUMPTION WITH THE USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY by V. M. Kurganov, A. N. Dorofeev, M. V. Gryaznov

“…Currently, there is no methodology for determining the correction factors for taking into account the existing operating conditions for the stock of vehicles.Materials and methods. …”
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Psychological indicators for healthy aging: validation of the German short version of Ryff’s scales of psychological well-being (SPWB) by Ana N. Tibubos, Anna C. Reinwarth, Iris Reiner, Antonia M. Werner, Philipp S. Wild, Thomas Münzel, Jochem König, Karl J. Lackner, Norbert Pfeiffer, Manfred. E. Beutel

“…Descriptive analyses and inference statistical analyses were performed to assess construct validity. In order to determine the psychometric properties, item characteristics and reliability coefficients were analyzed. …”
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Effects of Size, Section Pattern, and Material on the Tensile Performance of Filled Thin-Walled Tubes by Yue Gao, Fei Shao, Qian Xu, Linyue Bai, Lei Gao, Qingna Ma, Mei Shen, Xintong Yan

“…Tensile performances of filled tubes with circular and square sections were compared with each other through numerical methods. In the current research, the circular section was optimized and prestressed circular hollow support section was proposed. …”
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Anime popularity prediction before huge investments: a multimodal approach using deep learning by Jesús Armenta-Segura, Grigori Sidorov

“…For that reason, and complementing the MSE and R2 metrics, Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients are used. The best results, with Pearson at 0.382 and Spearman at 0.362, along with a well-fitted learning curves, suggests that while these features are relevant, they are not decisive for determining anime popularity and they likely interacts with additional features accessible after further investments. …”
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Adaptive Fractional-Order Consensus Control of Cyber-Physical Power Systems in The Presence of Unbounded Perturbations by Mahmood Nazifi, Mahdi Pourgholi

“…The AFOSMC uses stable adaptive laws to determine these unknown coefficients, ensuring robust performance even under adverse conditions. …”
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ESTIMATING PEASANT FARMS INCOME AND THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF A RURAL POPULATION BASED ON MULTI-FACTORIAL ECONOMETRIC MODELING: A CASE STUDY OF UKRAINE by Mykola DZIAMULYCH, Tetiana SHMATKOVSKA, Antonina GORDIICHUK, Myroslava KUPYRA, Tetiana KOROBCHUK

“…In work was calculated matrix of pair coefficients of correlation between factorial and productive to signs for the studied model. …”
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Intelligent Optimized Combined Model Based on GARCH and SVM for Forecasting Electricity Price of New South Wales, Australia by Yi Yang, Yao Dong, Yanhua Chen, Caihong Li

“…Then, ACO algorithm is applied to determine the weight coefficients. Finally, the forecasting errors by three models are analyzed and compared. …”
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Quality Control of Honey Using New Generation Infrared Spectrometers by Huseyin Ayvaz

“…The composition of honey samples (n=59) collected from different parts of Turkey was analyzed by using established reference methods, giving wide range of concentrations for each parameter. …”
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Path Analysis of Morphological Traits on Weight Traits of Breeding Mya japonica by Xiaoyan XU, Meirong DU, Tinghao WANG, Zengjie JIANG

“…In shellfish farms, to guide selection, it is important to rapidly determine the gonadal condition of the parents based on the appearance and morphology of the shells. …”
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