Estimating energy expenditure from heart rate in older adults: a case for calibration. by Jennifer A Schrack, Vadim Zipunnikov, Jeff Goldsmith, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Ciprian M Crainiceanu, Luigi Ferrucci

“…Although using five calibration measures provided the greatest reduction in the standard deviation of prediction errors (1.08 kcals/min), substantial improvement was also noted with two (0.75 kcals/min).…”
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Global Secular Trend of Gonadal Size in Men: Review and Analysis of Publications by A. Yu. Seroukhov, A. A. Afoko, I. E. Mamaev

“…Standardization of methods of assessment results obtained will help in reducing errors whilst assisting in the analysis of existing tendencies.…”
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Prediction and analysis of thermal drift in large-scale tooling reference points under non-uniform temperature field by LI Yan, ZHANG Shang'an, WANG Shouchuan, WEI Hongyang, LI Shuanggao, HOU Guoyi

“…The results show that the average relative errors of the simulation results are below 18%, and the average relative errors of the BP neural network results are below 26%, which can effectively improve the measurement field construction accuracy.…”
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Modeling Mechanical Properties of Industrial C-Mn Cast Steels Using Artificial Neural Networks by Saurabh Tiwari, Seongjun Heo, Nokeun Park, Nagireddy Gari S. Reddy

“…The model provides an efficient alternative to costly experimental trials for optimizing C-Mn steels, with prediction errors consistently below 6% compared with 8–20% for traditional empirical methods. …”
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Design and Research on Anti-assembly Drop of Integrated Fast Reactor Cantilever Transfer Mechanism by LIU Zhifang, GUO Xiaoxian, YU Tuanjie, ZHANG Wei, WANG Haozhong

“…Nuclear energy is a high-tech strategic industry and a crucial support for fulfilling emission reduction commitments. The integrated fast reactor represents the world’s mainstream development direction and offers the highest nuclear fuel cycle efficiency. …”
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Quantitative determination of blended proportions in tobacco formulations using near-infrared spectroscopy and transfer learning by Qinlin Xiao, Qinlin Xiao, Ruifang Gu, Li Li, Jing Wen, Xixiang Zhang, Yi Shen, Yang Liu, Lan Xiao, Qinqin Tang, Jun Yang, Yong He, Juan Yang

“…The results show that TCA-PLSR achieved substantial reductions in prediction error in most transfer tasks involving large discrepancies in feature distributions. …”
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Automated Fixed-Point Precision Optimization for FPGA Synthesis by Ines Winandy, Arnaud Dion, Florent Manni, Pierre-Loic Garoche, Dorra Ben Khalifa, Matthieu Martel

“…The distinguishing feature of our technique lies in its formal approach to error analysis: it systematically propagates numerical errors through computations to infer variable-specific fixed-point formats that guarantee user-specified accuracy bounds. …”
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A Double-Cladding Single Polarization Photonic Crystal Fiber and Its Structure Deviation Tolerance by Yating Shen, Longfei Wang, Meisong Liao, Yinyao Liu, Fei Yu, Dakun Wu, Wanjun Bi, Yongzheng Fang, Weiqing Gao

“…The influence of realistic fabrication errors involving structure deviation on SPSM operation has also been systematically investigated.…”
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Chronotherapeutic intervention targeting emotion regulation brain circuitry, symptoms, and suicide risk in adolescents and young adults with bipolar disorder: a pilot randomised tr... by Jihoon A Kim, Anjali Sankar, Rebecca Marks, Erin Carrubba, Bernadette Lecza, Susan Quatrano, Linda Spencer, R. Todd Constable, Brian Pittman, Eli R Lebowitz, Wendy K Silverman, Holly A Swartz, Hilary P Blumberg

“…Nineteen BE-SMART-DR and 16 BE-SMART-ER participants completed the intervention, with 11 and 13, respectively, having pre-intervention and post-intervention functional MRI data.Findings In addition to demonstrating feasibility, only BE-SMART-DR showed pre-treatment to post-treatment improvements in DR regularity (Cohen’s d=0.55; 95% CI [0.06, 1.03]), associated with reductions in left amygdala responses to emotional face stimuli (pFWE (family-wise error)-SVC (small volume correction)<0.05), difficulties in emotion regulation (d=0.75; 95% CI [0.23, 1.25]) and suicide risk (d=0.65; 95% CI [0.15, 1.14]). …”
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Design of a Micro-Plant Factory Using a Validated CFD Model by Xinxin Chen, Tengyuan Hou, Shulin Liu, Yongxiu Guo, Jianping Hu, Gaoming Xu, Guoxin Ma, Wei Liu

“…The accuracy of the CFD model for the micro-plant factory was validated with normalized root mean square error (NMSE) for cultivation layer heights of 250 mm, 300 mm, and 350 mm. …”
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Adding Data Quality to Federated Learning Performance Improvement by Ernesto Gurgel Valente Neto, Solon Alves Peixoto, Valderi Reis Quietinho Leithardt, Juan Francisco de Paz Santana, Julio C. S. Dos Anjos

“…Poor-quality data introduces errors, delays convergence, and increases computational costs. …”
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Research on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of an Ultrahigh-speed Elevator During the Staggering Process Between the Car and Counterweight by B. Liu, J. C. Ma, J. Zhang, M. Z. Li, Z. X. Tian, M. M. Liu, H. Zhang, L. Xu

“…Additionally, the simulation and test errors are within 10%, confirming the accuracy of the numerical calculation method.…”
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Neural Implicit Monocular Visual SLAM for 3D Reconstruction in Planetary Environments by C. Liu, R. Huang, R. Huang, H. Xie, H. Xie, T. Tao, Y. Feng, Y. Feng, X. Tong, X. Tong

“…The results demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms OV²SLAM in localization accuracy, achieving an 85.16% reduction in absolute trajectory errors and maintaining translation errors within 1 m across the entire trajectory. …”
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Reducing sewing defects to increase productivity in the apparel industry of Bangladesh by integrating lean methodology by Md. Limonur Lingkon, Pronab Saha, Abdulla Al Manzid, Md. Hasan, Showra Mahalanobish

“…The purpose of this study is to determine how the Bangladeshi garment industry's sewing defect reduction and productivity enhancement are affected by the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) and 5S (Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) techniques. …”
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Characteristics prediction and optimization for fan duct surface heat exchanger using regional heat transfer correlation and NSWOA aided by Sobol’ by Zhe Xu, Zongling Yu, Xin Ning, Changyin Zhao, Zhihua Zhu, Zhibin Feng

“…Compared to experimental data, the average relative errors of heat transfer capacity and oil-side pressure drop prediction are 9.39 % and 8.39 %, respectively, which indicates that this method is feasible and reliable. …”
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Contributions to increasing the accuracy and reducing the forming forces of robot-based two-point incremental forming by Scholz Peter, Weise Dieter, Pierer Alexander, Naumann Christian, Dix Martin, Terlau Marina, von Freyberg Axel, Fischer Andreas

“…Based on the measurement, a robot position correction will be enabled to achieve a reduction of machine-dependent component tolerances. …”
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Integrating Design for Manufacturing and Assembly Principles in Modular Home Construction: A Comprehensive Framework for Enhanced Efficiency and Sustainability by Sadaf Montazeri, Nicole Odo, Syed Abdul Wasey Naqvi, Zhen Lei

“…The findings indicated that implementing design for manufacturing and assembly principles led to a 40% reduction in design phase duration and a 48% decrease in production errors. …”
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Recurrent Neural-Based Vehicle Demand Forecasting and Relocation Optimization for Car-Sharing System: A Real Use Case in Thailand by Peerapon Vateekul, Panyawut Sri-iesaranusorn, Pawit Aiemvaravutigul, Adsadawut Chanakitkarnchok, Kultida Rojviboonchai

“…It achieved a 3% opportunity loss reduction and 3% less relocation trips, reducing human effort by 17 man-hours/week.…”
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False positive results in the Widal test in adults immunized with the Commirnaty (Pfizer-BioNtech) and BBIBP-CorV (Sinopharm) vaccines against COVID-19 by Jeel Moya-Salazar, Lizbeth Y. Ciprian, Víctor Rojas-Zumaran, Belén Moya-Salazar, Belén Moya-Salazar, Eliane A. Goicochea-Palomino, Hans Contreras-Pulache

“…IntroductionVaccination against COVID-19 has generated a dramatic reduction in deaths and infections worldwide. However, there may be cross-reactivity with numerous biochemical and immunological markers. …”
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Research on Key Parameters of Wellbore Stability for Horizontal Drilling in Offshore Hydrate Reservoirs by Zhengfeng Shan, Xiansi Wang, Zeqin Li, Zhenggang Gong, Nan Ma, Jianbo Zhang, Zhiyuan Wang, Baojiang Sun

“…During the drilling process, the invasion of drilling fluid into this kind of reservoir is likely to induce mass decomposition of gas hydrate and, in turn, a significant reduction in mechanical strength around the wellbore as well as instability of the wellbore. …”
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