Asymmetric Shocks and Pension Fund Volatility: A GARCH Approach with Macroeconomic Predictors to an Unexplored Emerging Market by Cristiana Tudor, Aura Girlovan, Gabriel Robert Saiu, Daniel Dumitru Guse

“…In order to examine the volatility dynamics of Romania’s private pension system, this study uses daily net asset value (NAV) data from 2012 to 2024 to evaluate four GARCH-type models: standard GARCH (sGARCH), exponential GARCH (EGARCH), Glosten–Jagannathan–Runkle GARCH (GJR-GARCH), and component GARCH (C-GARCH). …”
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Electrical Characteristics and Desaturation Effectiveness During Horizontal Electrolysis in Calcareous Sand by Yumin Chen, Ying Zhou, Runze Chen, Saeed Sarajpoor, Xiao Xie

“…Three key findings emerged from our investigation: First, the resistivity of calcareous sand displayed a three-stage variation pattern, primarily governed by temperature and gas content evolution. …”
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A Systematic Review of Using Deep Learning Technology in the Steady-State Visually Evoked Potential-Based Brain-Computer Interface Applications: Current Trends and Future Trust Met... by A. S. Albahri, Z. T. Al-qaysi, Laith Alzubaidi, Alhamzah Alnoor, O. S. Albahri, A. H. Alamoodi, Anizah Abu Bakar

“…A trust proposal solution is presented with three methodology phases for evaluating and benchmarking SSVEP-based BCI applications using fuzzy decision-making techniques. …”
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Novel <i>N</i>-Alkyl 3-(3-Benzyloxyquinoxalin-2-yl) Propanamides as Antiproliferative Agents: Design, Synthesis, In Vitro Testing, and In Silico Mechanistic Study by Samar A. Abubshait

“…The docking results showed a specific binding pattern that emphasized the crucial role of the quinoxaline ring and its substituents. …”
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Surveillance of Multidrug-Resistant Genes in Clinically Significant Gram-Negative Bacteria Isolated from Hospital Wastewater by Shriya C. Shetty, Lakshya S. Gowda, Ankeeta Menona Jacob, Kalidas Shetty, A. Veena Shetty

“…In this regard, the present study investigated the occurrence of Gram-negative bacteria from HWW and evaluated the isolates’ multi-drug-resistant (MDR) pattern in the study environment. …”
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Essential medicines are more available than other medicines around the globe. by Yaser T Bazargani, Margaret Ewen, Anthonius de Boer, Hubert G M Leufkens, Aukje K Mantel-Teeuwisse

“…However, despite over 3 decades of international efforts, studies show an inconsistent pattern in the availability of essential medicines. …”
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Development of salivary cortisol circadian rhythm in preterm infants. by Katrin Ivars, Nina Nelson, Annette Theodorsson, Elvar Theodorsson, Jakob O Ström, Evalotte Mörelius

“…The preterm infants showed a cortisol pattern increasingly more alike the full-term infants as the first year progressed. …”
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High prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a tertiary care hospital in Tehran, Iran by Hadi Mehrgan, Mohammad Rahbar, Zohreh Arab-Halvaii

“…Their antibiotic susceptibility pattern was also determined by the disk diffusion method.  …”
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Scent detection dogs detect a species of hard tick, Dermacentor albipictus, with comparable accuracy and efficiency to traditional tick drag surveys by Troy Koser, Aimee Hurt, Laura Thompson, Alyson Courtemanch, Benjamin Wise, Paul Cross

“…Conclusions Estimating detection bias and false negative rates for tick surveillance methods such as tick drags will be important for accurately evaluating tick-borne disease risk across space and into the future. …”
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Exploring the Impact of Magnetic Water on the Physiological and Functional Parameters of Maize as a Vital Industrial Crop by Hamid Bakhtiari, Mohsen Okhovat

“…For this purpose, we provided the experimental design for a semi-large scale in the field. We evaluated three irrigation regimes including 2.31 (100%), 1.73 (75%), and 1.15 (50%) inches per foot with magnetized water, and compared to normal irrigation water during the cultivation period. …”
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Identification of a Necroptosis-Related Prognostic Signature and Associated Regulatory Axis in Lung Adenocarcinoma by Libo Sun, Wenwen Li, Zhenhuan Zhao, Yanhua Zuo, Zhiwu Han

“…Using Pearson’s correlation analysis, we evaluated the correlation between necroptosis-related markers and tumor immune infiltration. …”
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Machine learning-random forest model was used to construct gene signature associated with cuproptosis to predict the prognosis of gastric cancer by Xiaolong Liu, Pengxian Tao, He Su, Yulan Li

“…Kaplan-Meier survival curve, receiver operating characteristics diagram and a nomogram were used to evaluate the reliability of the model. GSEA and gene set variation analysis (GSVA) were used to examine enrichment pathways between high and low risk groups. …”
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An Enhanced Human Evolutionary Optimization Algorithm for Global Optimization and Multi-Threshold Image Segmentation by Liang Xiang, Xiajie Zhao, Jianfeng Wang, Bin Wang

“…Thresholding image segmentation aims to divide an image into a number of regions with different feature attributes in order to facilitate the extraction of image features in the context of image detection and pattern recognition. However, existing threshold image-segmentation methods suffer from the problem of easily falling into locally optimal thresholds, resulting in poor image segmentation. …”
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Analysis of characteristics and therapeutic outcomes in children with Dubberley type IIA capitellar fractures by Chi Kang, Yuan Xiao, Yuhan Huang, Qinghua Liu, ZhiQiang Deng, Xin Liu

“…Fractures were classified according to the Dubberley system, and functional outcomes were evaluated using the Mayo Elbow Performance Score (MEPS) at the final follow-up. …”
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Prevalence and spectrum of PIK3 mutations in breast cancer and their correlation with clinicopathological features: A cross-sectional observational study from South India by HS Darling, Rahul Sud, Deep Kumar Raman

“…The secondary objectives included evaluating the correlation of PIK3CA mutations with clinicopathological features such as tumor grade, stage, receptor status, molecular subtype, and metastatic pattern. …”
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Effect of nongenetic factors on milk compositional aspects and bacteriological quality in Tunisian Maghrebi dromedaries (Camelus dromedarius) reared under a traditional pastoral ma... by Zahran Khaldi, Mounir Nafti, Mohamed Tabarek Jilani

“… This study was planned to evaluate the impact of nongenetic factors on physicochemical composition and microbial quality of milk from Maghrebi camels kept under traditional system in oasis areas of Tunisia. …”
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Morphological-Priors-Guided Network With Semantic Booster and Scalable Bins Module for Height Estimation From Single-View Remote Sensing Images by Tao Zhang, Furong Shi, Yuanping Zhu

“…Second, taking into account the height distribution priors, we propose a scalable bins module that can create fully adaptive bins within a flexible height range for each input image, leading a more accurate delineation of height distribution pattern. The proposed MPG-Net is comprehensively evaluated on two datasets of different scenes (i.e., ISPRS Vaihingen and Potsdam datasets). …”
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Identifying the Optimal Scenario for Reducing Land-Use Conflicts in Regional Development by Weihua Liao, Xingwang Hu, Zhu Huang, Meixin Wei

“…In this study, the conflict risk is assessed based on the landscape pattern index, and the ecological benefit is assessed based on the ecosystem service value, and the ‘conflict risk–ecological benefit’ assessment method is constructed, focusing on the land-use conflicts in areas where the conflict risk increases and the ecological benefit decreases, and evaluating whether there is a best solution to alleviate these conflicts. …”
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Quality of Life in Wilson’s Disease: A Systematic Literature Review by Chakrapani Balijepalli, Kevin Yan, Lakshmi Gullapalli, Stephane Barakat, Helene Chevrou-Severac, Eric Druyts

“… # Conclusion This review demonstrates a need for more up-to-date studies with larger sample sizes to further evaluate QOL in patients with WD. The study also demonstrates the need for a WD-specific instrument to measure the QOL in WD patients.…”
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Functional outcome of distraction osteogenesis in infected nonunion of the tibia by J. Arjun, Hari Sivanandan, Karuppanan Soundarajan, Shebin Christin, Chereddi H. Maheswara Reddy

“…Consequently, this study aims to evaluate the healing rates in long bone nonunion fractures and examine the complications associated with the treatment device. …”
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