Influence of Migratory Strategy, Group Size, and Environmental Conditions on the Movements of Caribou in Eastern Alaska by Kyle Joly

“…Migration is a diverse behavior exhibited by a wide array of organisms. Variability in the type of movements is rooted in their purpose, environmental factors, demographics, and individual physiological condition. …”
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Optimization with a Very Simple Hybrid Grey Wolf—JAYA Metaheuristic Optimizer by Chiara Furio, Luciano Lamberti, Catalin I. Pruncu

“…The proposed SHGWJA was tested very successfully in seven “real-world” engineering optimization problems taken from various fields, such as civil engineering, aeronautical engineering, mechanical engineering (included in the CEC 2020 test suite on real-world constrained optimization problems) and robotics; these problems include up to 14 optimization variables and 721 nonlinear constraints. Two representative mathematical optimization problems (i.e., Rosenbrock and Rastrigin functions) including up to 1000 variables were also solved. …”
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Effect of Pre-Trip Information in a Traffic Network with Stochastic Travel Conditions: Role of Risk Attitude by Yun Yu, Shiteng Zheng, Yuankai Li, Huaqing Liu, Jianan Cao

“…User equilibrium states of the two regimes have been analyzed, based on the canonical BPR travel time function with power coefficient <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. …”
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Three-dimensional ultrasound for carotid vessel wall volume measurement by Ying-An Chen, Pei-Ya Chen, Shinn-Kuang Lin

“…Gray-scale 3D images from the distal common carotid artery (CCA) to internal carotid artery on both sides were acquired using a single-sweep 3D transducer and analyzed offline by using the vascular plaque quantification function of the Philips QLAB software. Then, the 3D IMT(QLAB intima–media thickness [QIMT]), total plaque volume (TPV), and VWV were measured by a neurologist and a technician, and the interobserver variability was assessed. …”
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Serum Interleukin-6, Interleukin-17A, and transforming growth factor beta are raised in systemic sclerosis with interstitial lung disease by Anupam Wakhlu, Rasmi Ranjan Sahoo, Jyoti Ranjan Parida, Mohit K Rai, Durga P Misra, Vinita Agrawal, Vikas Agarwal

“…Serum IL-6, IL-17A and TGF β1 levels were assayed using ELISA kit and compared among disease subtypes and clinical parameters. Spearman coefficient was used to test correlation between continuous variables. …”
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The Relationship between Calcium-phosphorus Metabolism Disorder and Cognitive Impairment in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients by Geng Ming-hui, Li Yu-yan, Tao Mi, Liao Wen-wen, He Yi-qing, Gao Ping

“…Montreal Cognitive Assessment （MoCA） scale was utilized for evaluating overall cognitive function. They were divided into two groups of cognitive impairment and non-cognitive impairment. …”
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Evaluation of ChatGPT-4 as an Online Outpatient Assistant in Puerperal Mastitis Management: Content Analysis of an Observational Study by Fatih Dolu, Oğuzhan Fatih Ay, Aydın Hakan Kupeli, Enes Karademir, Muhammed Huseyin Büyükavcı

“…However, evaluator variability and the subjective nature of assessments highlight the need for further optimization of AI tools. …”
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Safety Assessment of Loop Closing in Active Distribution Networks Based on Probabilistic Power Flow by Wenchao Cai, Yuan Gao, Xiping Zhang, Qin Si, Jiaoxin Jia, Bingzhen Li

“…By modeling DGs and loads as random variables, their cumulants are efficiently obtained through LHS. …”
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Age-Related Differences in Bimanual Isometric Force Tracking by Elisa Galofaro, Nicola Vale, Giulia Ballardini, Nicola Smania, Maura Casadio

“…Notably, the percentage of total force exerted by the left hand was negatively correlated with the disparity between the left and right coefficients of variation. This study confirms previous findings on the effect of aging on bimanual force control and provides evidence suggesting that the contribution of each hand may depend on the variability in force exertion.…”
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A New Ground-Motion Prediction Model for Shallow Crustal Earthquakes in Türkiye by Ulubey Çeken, Fadime Sertçelik, Abdullah İçen

“…Additionally, a heteroscedastic model was created for aleatory variability as a function of <i>M_W</i>. The closest distance to the surface projection of the fault plane (<i>R_JB</i>) is between 0 and 350 km. …”
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Clinical diagnostic and prognostic value of homocysteine combined with hemoglobin [f (Hcy-Hb)] in cardio-renal syndrome caused by primary acute myocardial infarction by Min-Juan Zeng, Yan-Quan Liu, Ping Pang, Xiao-Jun Chen, He Huang, Rui-Na Huang, Shi-Sen Li, He-Hui Zhang, Yue Yin, Chang-Sen Wang, Jin-Da Lin, Lin Lin, Shao-Peng Chen, Li Xu, Liang-Qing Zhang

“…Conclusion The newly constructed function [f (Hcy-Hb)], integrating Hcy and Hb levels, exhibits robust diagnostic and prognostic value in CRS. …”
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Impact of Low-dose Imaging on PET Quantitative Accuracy and Image Quality by SU Xuesong, GENG Jianhua, ZHENG Rong, WANG Xuejuan

“…Subsequently, the recovery coefficient (RC), contrast recovery coefficient (CRC), contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), percent background variability (PBV), background coefficient of variation (BCV), and residual error (RE) of the lung insert at different image planes were calculated within the phantom. …”

Investigating the relationship between the monetary policy shock through the exchange rate channel on the management quality index in the banking system: by examining the productiv... by Farhad Sharifi Bagha, Jafar Haqiqat, Zahra Karimi Takanloo

“…During this time, the number of changes in the target variables by the variables themselves decreases and the changes in the variables caused by the shock of the exchange rate channel increase. …”
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Long-term evolution of the calibration constant on a mobile water vapour Raman lidar by P. Chazette, J. Totems, F. Laly

“…We note that the use of ground-based measurements does not introduce any more uncertainty in the lidar calibration coefficient than vertical profiles obtained by radiosondes or airborne means. …”
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Engineering safe anti-CD19-CD28ζ CAR T cells with CD8a hinge domain in serum-free media for adoptive immunotherapy by Muthuganesh Muthuvel, Muthuganesh Muthuvel, Thamizhselvi Ganapathy, Trent Spencer, Sunil S. Raikar, Saravanabhavan Thangavel, Alok Srivastava, Alok Srivastava, Alok Srivastava, Sunil Martin

“…CARs are modular synthetic antigen receptors integrating the single-chain variable fragment (scFv) of an immunoglobulin molecule to the TCR signaling. …”
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Deep Learning Approaches for Morphological Classification of Intestinal Organoids by Giovanni Cicceri, Sebastiano Di Bella, Simone Di Franco, Giorgio Stassi, Matilde Todaro, Salvatore Vitabile

“…The use of deep learning (DL) in organoid image analysis becomes crucial to handle complexity, variability, and large amounts of data efficiently and accurately, overcoming the limitations of traditional image processing approaches. …”
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Application of machine learning algorithms for predicting the life-long physiological effects of zinc oxide Micro/Nano particles on Carum copticum by Maryam Mazaheri-Tirani, Soleyman Dayani, Majid Iranpour Mobarakeh

“…All ML algorithms showed varied efficiencies in predicting the nonlinear relationships among parameters, with higher efficiency in predicting the behavior of root and shoot dry mass, root fresh weight and number of flowers according to R2 index. …”
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Assessment of heavy metal exposure risk to aquatic birds in the key wetland habitats of the Yellow River (China), using an integrated model by Jian Ding, Ni Wang, Yaqiao Lian, Qian Li, Xinran Li, Fei Yu

“…Heavy metal pollution poses a growing threat to wetland ecosystems, impacting their structure and function. Chenqiao Wetland and Qinglong Lake (Henan, China), key bird habitats in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, were analyzed for heavy metal contamination. …”
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RAMAS-Net: a module-optimized convolutional network model for aortic valve stenosis recognition in echocardiography by Yejia Gan, Wanzhong Huang, Yan Deng, Xiaoying Xie, Yuanyuan Gu, Yaozhuang Zhou, Qian Zhang, Maosheng Zhang, Yangchun Liu

“…IntroductionAortic stenosis (AS) is a valvular heart disease that obstructs normal blood flow from the left ventricle to the aorta due to pathological changes in the valve, leading to impaired cardiac function. Echocardiography is a key diagnostic tool for AS; however, its accuracy is influenced by inter-observer variability, operator experience, and image quality, which can result in misdiagnosis. …”
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Post-thaw dimethyl sulfoxide reduction in autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell suspensions by Miroslava Jandová, Pavel Měřička, Jiří Gregor, Miriam Lánská, Aleš Bezrouk, Dana Čížková, Jakub Radocha

“…Background and objectives: Dimethyl sulfoxide has become the most common cryoprotectant used for cryopreservation of hematopoietic progenitor cells because of its efficiency, regardless of its potentially toxic side effects. …”
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