The Effect of Vocal Rehabilitation on Patients with Vocal Cord Paralysis by Mila Bunijevac, Andrijana Mikić, Maša Đurišić

“…Measures of central tendency, measures of variability, one-factor analysis of variance, t-test for independent samples, chi-square test and interclass correlation coefficient were applied in statistical data processing. …”
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Sustainability Reporting in Value Creation: The Critical Mediation of Environmental Management Accounting by Laila Oshiana Fitria A'zizah, Nur Prasetyo Aji, Dewita Puspawati, Ovi Itsnaini Ulynnuha, Nur Andriyani

“…This study examines the essential function of Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) as a mediating variable in the correlation between sustainability report disclosures and firm value. …”
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Impact of coffee exports on economic growth in Ethiopia; An empirical investigation by Netsanet Gizaw, Jemal Abafita, Tesfaye Melaku Merra

“…The study employed an extended generalized Cobb–Douglas production function model using data from the National Bank of Ethiopia and World Bank data base from 1980 to 2017. …”
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Robot welding trajectory optimization based on intersecting line welds by FAN Chenhui, LIU Huan, LIU Xuan, TANG Xiang

“…ObjectiveOperational efficiency, smoothness and energy consumption have been bottlenecks in the trajectory optimization for industrial robots in the non-contact processing such as welding and painting. …”
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Fuzzy Goal Programming Procedure to Bilevel Multiobjective Linear Fractional Programming Problems by Mahmoud A. Abo-Sinna, Ibrahim A. Baky

“…In the proposed procedure, the membership functions for the defined fuzzy goals of the decision makers (DMs) objective functions at both levels as well as the membership functions for vector of fuzzy goals of the decision variables controlled by first-level decision maker are developed first in the model formulation of the problem. …”
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DESIGN OF BED SADDLE OF HIGH-SPEED PRECISION CNC LATHE BASED ON TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION by DUAN MingDe, LI Yan, GU JiaJia, ZHANG ZhuangYa

“…Firstly,according to variable density method,which makes bed saddle quality be objective function and allows stiffness as well as natural frequency to be constraint condition was established,then the best structure layout of bed saddle was acquired as a result of topology optimization.Finally,the integral design of the bed saddle was accomplished,with the basis of best structure layout of bed saddle and the requirements of the reasonable design. …”
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Performance assessment of water vortex power plant: Effect of material type and blade number by Hussein M. Zainal, Omer K. Ahmed

“…These results highlight that increasing the number of blades can enhance the rotation speed but may decrease efficiency, reflecting the importance of balancing design and function to achieve optimal performance.…”
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Attributes of Internal Audit and Prevention, Detection and Assessment of Fraud in Pakistan by Naveed Khan, Abdul Rafay, Amer Shakeel

“… With it being considered as a value-added activity, the Internal Audit function (IAF) of a firm is one of the most important functions in an organization. …”
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Enhanced Dung Beetle Optimizer-Optimized KELM for Pile Bearing Capacity Prediction by Bohang Chen, Mingwei Hai, Gaojian Di, Bin Zhou, Qi Zhang, Miao Wang, Yanxiu Guo

“…The model utilizes the pile length, pile diameter, average effective vertical stress, and undrained shear strength as input variables, with the bearing capacity serving as the output variable. …”
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Family hardiness among primary caregivers of breast cancer patients in Hunan Province: a cross-sectional study exploring the relationship with attachment and caregiver preparedness by Xin Sun, Lili Xu, Lijuan Sheng

“…BackgroundFamily hardiness is a key variable contributing to positive family functioning, which has significant effects on the quality of life and the mental health of patientsand caregivers. …”
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Developing a novel layer network structure for a LSTM model to predict mean monthly river streamflow by Amin Gharehbaghi, Redvan Ghasemlounia, Shahaboddin Daneshvar, Farshad Ahmadi

“…For doing so, to select the most effective parameters on MRSF m , the Pearson’s correlation coefficient (PCC) and Cosine amplitude sensitivity (CAS) as features selection process are carried out for potential meteorological variables in the study area (i.e., average monthly temperature (T m ), evaporation (ET m ), and precipitation (P m )) and target (MRSF m ). …”
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Symbolic Framework for Evaluation of NOMA Modulation Impairments Based on Irregular Constellation Diagrams by Nenad Stefanovic, Vladimir Mladenovic, Borisa Jovanovic, Ron Dabora, Asutosh Kar

“…This work presents a new symbolic framework approach for simulating signal processing functions in SDR transmit–receive paths in a dynamic NOMA downlink use case. …”
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On the development of a practical Bayesian optimization algorithm for expensive experiments and simulations with changing environmental conditions by Mike Diessner, Kevin J. Wilson, Richard D. Whalley

“…The method is validated on two synthetic test functions, and the effects of the noise level, the number of environmental parameters, the parameter fluctuation, the variability of the uncontrollable parameters, and the effective domain size are investigated. …”
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Nonlinear Creep Constitutive Model of Rock Considering Hardening Effect by Dipeng Zhu, Zhiyong Hu, Shuguang Zhang, Wei Qiu, Yijie Wang, Donglan Chen, Fan Mingzhuo, Shutian Zhao, Ye Sun, Wenbo Liu

“…To precisely capture the nonlinearity of rock creep and the law of accelerated deformation, a hardening function and a damage variable are introduced. Based on traditional rheological models, creep mechanisms, and damage laws, an accelerated creep constitutive model integrating hardening and damage effects is established. …”
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Quality of Life in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis by Grażyna Franek, Marzena Bieniak, Aleksandra Cieślik

“…In order to calculate the variables, the following measures were used: arithmetic mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, asymmetry coefficient, kurtosis coefficient, Person linear correlation coefficient, Spearman rank correlation coefficient. …”
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Fiscal Sustainability in Iran A Markov-Switching Fiscal Regime Change and Time-Varying Parameter Models Approach by Hossein Aghilifar, Khosrow Piraei, Hashem Zare, Mehrzad Ebrahimi

“…Then the Markov-switching fiscal regime change model and the time-varying parameter fiscal reaction function are estimated. Among the constant parameter linear and non-linear models, only the linear model including control variables has a significant debt-to-GDP ratio coefficient, which its sign is negative. …”
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Magnetic Field Effects on Convective Heat Transfer of Ferrofluid from a Heated Sphere in Porous Media by Ayesha Aktar, Sharaban Thohura, Md. Mamun Molla

“…Numerical outcomes are then represented in terms of local Nusselt number, velocity, temperature profile, and skin friction coefficient, respectively for a range of porosity parameters, ϵ = 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, magnetic effect parameter or Hartmann number, Ha = 0.0, 1.0, 3.0, 5.0 and the ferroparticle volume fraction coefficients, ϕ = 0%, 2%, 4%, 6%. …”
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Maturity Classification and Quality Determination of Cherry Using VNIR Hyperspectral Images and Comprehensive Chemometrics by Yuzhen Wei, Siyi Yao, Feiyue Wu, Qiangguo Yu

“…After the chemometrics related to hyperspectral imaging had been examined, the least square-support vector regression models based on the feature bands, which were selected by the shuffled frog leaping algorithm, showed the best performance, and the determination coefficients of prediction (R2P) for cherry sugar content and acidity reached 0.976 and 0.906, respectively. …”
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Approximation by interpolation spectral subspaces of operators with discrete spectrum by M.I. Dmytryshyn

“…Applications to spectral approximations of the regular elliptic operators with variable smooth coefficients in the space $L_q(\Omega)$ over an open bounded set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ and some self-adjoint ordinary elliptic differential operators in a bounded interval $\Omega=(a,b)$ are shown.…”
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Using machine learning methods to determine a typology of patients with HIV-HCV infection to be treated with antivirals. by Antonio Rivero-Juárez, David Guijo-Rubio, Francisco Tellez, Rosario Palacios, Dolores Merino, Juan Macías, Juan Carlos Fernández, Pedro Antonio Gutiérrez, Antonio Rivero, César Hervás-Martínez

“…This study was based on the Spanish HERACLES cohort (NCT02511496) (April-September 2015, 2940 patients) and involved application of different neural network models with different basis functions (product-unit, sigmoid unit and radial basis function neural networks) for automatic classification of patients for treatment. …”
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