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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Underactuated Spatial Mechanism of Vehicle Door Latch with Force Constraint by Sulong Li, Lubin Hang, Mingyuan Wang, Xiaojie Huang

“…Aiming at less space occupation，efficient driving and high-end multi-function of the door latch release branch chain，the type synthesis of single loop spatial mechanism is carried out，and the RRRSR mechanism which could realize power release is obtained. …”
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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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Mediating Effects of Stakeholders and Supervision on Corporate Social Responsibility by Fenghua Wang, Janice Lo, Monica Lam

“…All the standardized path coefficients (β) of direct effects from institutional pressures, market/societal pressures, and structural support to corporate social responsibility benefits are less than 0.1. …”
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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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Applications of mutagenesis methods on affinity maturation of antibodies in vitro by LIU Yuan, LIN Manman, ZHANG Xiao, XU Chongxin, JIAO Linxia, ZHONG Jianfeng, WU Aihua, LIU Xianjin

“…In chain shuffling, a variable heavy or light chain of a specific antibody is recombined with a complementary variable domain library. …”
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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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Treatment of Pediatric Colchicine Poisoning with Single-Pass Albumin Dialysis: A Case Report by Atessa Bahadori, Rishil Patel, Cal Robinson, Steve Balgobin, Michael Zappitelli, Nithiakishna Selvathesan

“…The rationale for CVVHDF with SPAD was based on the high protein binding, variably high volume of distribution, previous reports showing a sieving coefficient of 0.2 with CVVH, and the high mortality risk. …”
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A Data-Driven Approach Based on Deep Neural Network Regression for Predicting the Compressive Strength of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete by Nhat-Duc Hoang, Van-Duc Tran

“…Experimental results show that the L1 regularization helps achieve the most desired performance, with a coefficient of determination (R2) of roughly 0.96. Notably, an asymmetric loss function is used along with Nadam to decrease the percentage of overestimated cases from 50.83% to 27.08%. …”
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Optimally controlled heating of solid particles in a fluidised bed with a dispersive flow of the solid by Poświata Artur, Szwast Zbigniew

“…The mixing rate was described by the axial dispersion coefficient. As any economic values of variables describing analysing process are subject to local and time fluctuations, the accepted objective function describes the total cost of the process expressed in exergy units. …”
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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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Perinatal bisphenol A exposure impairs gut microbial colonization: Implications for offspring obesity and neurodevelopment by Ana López-Moreno, Alfonso Torres-Sánchez, Antonio Suárez, Alicia Ruiz-Rodríguez, Margarita Aguilera

“…Toxicological approaches in animal models have revealed complex effects, using variable doses of BPA, on reproduction, development, obesity, immune function, metabolic and systemic toxicity. …”
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Swarm based Heuristic Optimization of the Recurrent Customers and Standby Server Under General Retrial Times by N. Micheal Mathavavisakan, K. Indhira, Aliakbar Montazer Haghighi

“…Using the supplementary variable technique (SVT), the probability generating functions (PGFs) and steady-state probabilities for the system's states, have been obtained enabling the development of comprehensive performance measures. …”
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Hybrid Multi-Granularity Approach for Few-Shot Image Retrieval with Weak Features by Aiguo Lu, Zican Li, Yanwei Liu, Pandi Liu, Ke Wang

“…The algorithm designs a feature extraction method (AugODNet_BRA) rooted in image augmentation, which efficiently captures high-level semantic features of images with few samples, small targets, and weak features through unsupervised learning. …”
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Optimal Power Flow using An Optimally Tuned Pattern Search Algorithm by Firmansyah Nur Budiman, Taufal Hidayat, Rudi Uswarman

“…The tuning process, performed using the classical interior point method (IPM), provides optimal initial control variable values for the standard pattern search (PS) algorithm. …”
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Analyzing the influence of TOE factors on e-auditing adoption in audit firms: The moderating effect of trust by Reem Al-Araj

“…Data show that trust functions as a supportive variable for the relationship between TOE and e-auditing but provides minimal strength. …”
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Experimental Optimization of the Energy Characteristics of a Ground Penetrating Radar with Continuous Linear-Frequency-Modulated Radiation by I. Yu. Malevich, A. S. Lopatchenko

“…The responses of the system to an increase in the durtion of the probing pulse and a change in the type of window function were evaluated. An empirical dependence of signal losses during propagation in radio channels of LFM GPR has been established. …”
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Neuro-Evolution of Augmenting Topologies for Dynamic Scheduling of Flexible Job Shop Problem by Jian Huang, Yarong Chen, Jabir Mumtaz, Liuyan Zhong

“…This study introduces a neuro-evolution of augmenting topologies (NEAT) algorithm aimed at optimizing the scheduling efficiency in flexible job shops by minimizing both maximum completion and average lag times, taking into account variables like sporadic job arrivals, variable machining durations, tool wear, preventive maintenance, and equipment failures. …”
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The performance of 76 kHz positional acoustic telemetry is challenged by acoustic conditions in the tailrace of a hydroelectric dam by C. Ryan Hill, Antóin M. O’Sullivan, R. Allen Curry, Tommi Linnansaari, Philip M. Harrison

“…Performance improved marginally for the second array (i.e., 200–500 m downstream), but position efficiency was ultimately low (1%), variable across transmitter locations, and negatively correlated with discharge. …”
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