Mathematical Modelling and Optimisation of Low-Temperature Drying on Quality Aspects of Rough Rice by Shakeel Ahmed Soomro, Kunjie Chen, Sohail Ahmed Soomro

“…Response surface methodology (RSM) with a central composite design was employed to study the effects of variables, i.e., temperature (X1), time (X2), and air velocity (X3) on responses, i.e., head rice yield (HRY), hardness, lightness, and cooking time. …”
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WHO essential medicines policies and use in developing and transitional countries: an analysis of reported policy implementation and medicines use surveys. by Kathleen Anne Holloway, David Henry

“…There was a positive correlation between the number of policies (out of the 27 policies with an effect size of 2% or more) that countries reported implementing and the composite QUM score (r=0.39, 95% CI 0.14 to 0.59, p=0.003). …”
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Operational C-Band Dual-Polarization Radar QPE for the Subtropical Complex Terrain of Taiwan by Yadong Wang, Jian Zhang, Pao-Liang Chang, Carrie Langston, Brian Kaney, Lin Tang

“…The blockages often force the use of higher tilts data to estimate precipitation at the ground and result in errors due to vertical variations of the radar variables. To obtain accurate radar QPEs in the subtropical complex terrain of Taiwan, a vertically corrected composite algorithm (VCCA) was developed for two C-band polarimetric radars. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 on Forecasting Stock Prices: An Integration of Stationary Wavelet Transform and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory by Daniel Štifanić, Jelena Musulin, Adrijana Miočević, Sandi Baressi Šegota, Roman Šubić, Zlatan Car

“…In this research, authors investigate the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy, more specifically, the impact of COVID-19 on the financial movement of Crude Oil price and three US stock indexes: DJI, S&P 500, and NASDAQ Composite. …”
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Early life gut microbiome and its impact on childhood health and chronic conditions by Harold Nunez, Pamela A. Nieto, Ruben A. Mars, Maryam Ghavami, Cheryl Sew Hoy, Kimberley Sukhum

“…Other challenges are methodological: small sample sizes, lack of longitudinal studies, and poor control of confounding variables. To address these limitations, we advocate for more robust research methodologies to better understand the microbiome’s role in health and disease. …”
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Study of fibrous microplastic and natural microfiber levels in branded milk samples from Italy by Serena Santonicola, Michela Volgare, Mariacristina Cocca, Giampaolo Colavita

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Nivar cyclone-related urban flood vulnerability in Velachery municipality, Chennai by Meena Sakthivel Pandian, N Sridhar, Dinesh Kumar S

“…The vulnerability spider diagram suggests that Cluster 2 is more vulnerable in terms of less capacity to cope, and Cluster 3 is more vulnerable in terms of Exposure, Health, Economic susceptibility, physical susceptibility, less capacity to anticipate, cope and recover. …”
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Clinical implication of aberrant choroidal feeding artery in type 1 macular neovasculopathy by Hyun Seung Yang, Sohee Jeon

“…Although type 1 MNV harbors significant clinical variabilities, the underlying pathomechanism has not been fully elucidated yet. …”
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Assessing the multi-scale predictive ability of ecosystem functional attributes for species distribution modelling. by Salvador Arenas-Castro, João Gonçalves, Paulo Alves, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura, João P Honrado

“…In this regard, satellite-derived Ecosystem Functional Attributes (EFAs) offer a more integrative and quicker evaluation of ecosystem responses to environmental drivers and changes than climate and structural or compositional landscape attributes. …”
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Drivers of coral reef marine protected area performance. by Venetia Alexa Hargreaves-Allen, Susana Mourato, Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland

“…Although certain performance measures were correlated, most were not, suggesting trade-offs that limit the usefulness of composite performance scores. Hypotheses were generated as to the impact of MPA features, aims, location, management and contextual variables on MPA performance from the literature. …”
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A Novel Phantom for Standardized Microcalcification Detection Developed Using a Crystalline Growth System by Dee H. Wu, Caroline Preskitt, Natalie Stratemeier, Hunter Lau, Sreeja Ponnam, Supriya Koya

“…Furthermore, these crystalline-grown phantoms can more accurately represent the physiological shapes and compositions of microcalcifications than do other available phantoms for calcifications and can be evaluated on different systems. …”
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Production of prototype lab-scale oak barrel analogues using additive manufacturing by Hugh Holds, Kerry Wilkinson, David Jeffery, Frances Jack, Sue Bastian

“… Experiments involving the maturation of wine or spirits in oak barrels are economically challenging to undertake, especially when there is a need for extensive replication to account for the compositional variability of oak wood. Barrel maturation is also difficult to emulate at a laboratory scale due to the significant increase in surface-area to volume ratio when working with smaller barrel formats. …”
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Textbook Outcomes for Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Resection: A Multi-Centre Review by Skyle Murphy, Christopher Allan, Andrew Barbour, Victoria Donoghue, B. Mark Smithers

“…Textbook outcomes (TOs) are composite measures developed to compare ideal surgical outcomes for complex oncologic resections. …”
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Multifrequency backscatter classification of seabed sediments using MBES: an integrated approach with ground-truth validation by Moonsoo Lim, Jeongwon Kang, Sunhee Hwang, Eunho Jung, Byung-Cheol Kum, Jongsin Kim

“…Lower-frequency data (170 kHz) were more sensitive to subsurface variability, while higher-frequency data (450 kHz) captured surface texture differences more effectively. …”
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Role of the Perceived Social Responsibility of the Company and the Psychological Mechanisms to Achieve the Employees' Creative Behavior (Case Study: Electro Kavir Company of Yazd) by Marziyeh Dehghanizadeh, Fatemeh Keshavarzi Hedesh

“…Wang & Miao, (2015) showed in their research that creativity and innovation in organizational teams leads various processes of the organization to become more optimal, and influences the environment of the organization to implement creativity and innovation. …”
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Prediction of Performance of Compressed Earthen Construction Using Compressed Stabilized Earthen Cylinders (CSECs) by Robert Hillyard, Brett Story

“…However, onsite manufacturing and innate soil variability increase the variability of CSEB mechanical properties compared to more standardized building materials. …”
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Modelling Energy Demands of Cross-Country Tests in 2-Star to 5-Star Eventing Competitions by Anna M. Liedtke, Hans Meijer, Stephanie Horstmann, Caroline von Reitzenstein, Insa Rump, Katharina Kirsch

“…These findings underline the importance of incorporating both physiological responses and course characteristics in energy assessments. The model supports more targeted conditioning, enhances performance monitoring, and contributes to improved equine welfare by providing a more accurate understanding of workload in cross-country competitions.…”
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Alternative graphemics. Aztec writing system as a case study towards an integrated, digitalised model of non-typographic graphemics by Antonio Perri, Luciano Perondi, Daniele Capo, Roberto Arista, Giampiero Dalai

“…Finally, more coded variables are set to account for broader compositions, since coding systems available so far are not flexible enough to accommodate the encoding of Aztec units.…”
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Evaluation of prognostic models to improve prediction of metastasis in patients following potentially curative treatment for primary colorectal cancer: the PROSPECT trial by Vicky Goh, Susan Mallett, Manuel Rodriguez-Justo, Victor Boulter, Rob Glynne-Jones, Saif Khan, Sarah Lessels, Dominic Patel, Davide Prezzi, Stuart Taylor, Steve Halligan

“…Interventions Collection of prespecified standard clinicopathological variables and more novel imaging, genetic and immunohistochemical biomarkers, followed by 3-year follow-up to identify postoperative metastasis. …”
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Landscape Metrics as Ecological Indicators for PM₁₀ Prediction in European Cities by Seyedehmehrmanzar Sohrab, Nándor Csikós, Péter Szilassi

“…Therefore, we expanded our independent variables by incorporating landscape metrics that capture compositional heterogeneity, including the Shannon diversity index (SHDI), as well as metrics that reflect configurational heterogeneity in urban landscapes, such as the Mean Patch Area (MPA) and Shape Index (SHI). …”
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