The association of Whole and Segmental Body Composition and Anaerobic Performance in Crossfit® athletes: sex differences and performance prediction by Tomás Ponce-García, Jerónimo García-Romero, Laura Carrasco-Fernández, Alejandro Castillo-Dominguez, Javier Benítez-Porres

“… The main purpose of this study was to establish the association between total and segmental body composition (BC) variables and anaerobic performance and to create optimal models that best predict such performance in CrossFit® (CF) athletes. …”
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Forest fire severity estimation based on the LiDAR-PNOA data and the values of the Composite Burn Index by A. L. Montealegre, M. T. Lamelas, M. A. Tanase, J. de la Riva

“…The aim of this research is to estimate the post-fire severity, relating a pool of independent variables derived from the LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) points clouds delivered by the National Plan for Aerial Orthophotography (PNOA) to field data based on Composite Burn Index collected in four fires located in Aragón (Spain). …”
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3D convolutional deep learning for nonlinear estimation of body composition from whole body morphology by Isaac Y. Tian, Jason Liu, Michael C. Wong, Nisa N. Kelly, Yong E. Liu, Andrea K. Garber, Steven B. Heymsfield, Brian Curless, John A. Shepherd

“…All coefficients of determination (R 2) for all predicted variables were above 0.86 and achieved lower estimation RMSEs than all previous work on 10 metrics of body composition.…”
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Complex Working Condition Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Multi-Feature Fusion and Improved Weighted Balance Distribution Adaptive Approach by Jing Yang, Yanping Bai, Ting Xu, Rong Cheng, Wendong Zhang, Guojun Zhang

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Enhancing water use efficiency: Insights from hydrological variability encounter of multiple water sources and implications for terminal Lake management in arid regions by Kun Liu, Yunfei Chen, Bin Wu, Hailiang Xu, Abdul Waheed, Fan Gao, Bing He, Long Zhou, Jie Wu, Qin Zhang, Jinhao Ju

“…A Copula function was then utilized to construct a joint distribution model, quantifying variability patterns and their cascading effects on ecological water use in Taitema Lake. …”
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Smoothing Photovoltaic Power Fluctuations for Cascade Hydro-PV-Pumped Storage Generation System Based on a Fuzzy CEEMDAN by Lei Chen, Jun Wang, Zhang Sun, Tao Huang, Fan Wu

“…Based on the optimal base power of variable-speed pumped storage station (VSPSS), a smoothing method of fuzzy complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN) is proposed in this paper. …”
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Sugar Maple Litter Decay Rates Are Reduced More Strongly by Drought Than by American Beech Proliferation in the Understory by William F. J. Parsons, Claudele Ghotsa Mekontchou, Audrey Maheu, David Rivest

“…Recurring drought and shifting stand composition through continued beech‐maple competition may threaten the persistence and productivity of northern hardwood communities, thereby affecting ecosystem functioning, including decomposition and associated biogeochemical transformations.…”
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Digital twin-driven design and testing of laser shock processed aluminum-graphene composites for spacecraft docking tribology. by Hosamane Guruswamy Prashantha Kumar, Praveen Kumar Kanti, Dinesh Dishana, Pratik Shukla, Prabhu Paramasivam, Leliso Hobicho Dabelo

“…The constructed Python-based digital twin model employed multi-variable regression analysis for 30 experimental trials yielding an R² value of 0.91 and an RMSE value of 0.026 mm³/N·m. …”
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SO₂ emissions derived from TROPOMI observations over India using a flux-divergence method with variable lifetimes by Y. Chen, Y. Chen, R. J. van der A, J. Ding, H. Eskes, J. E. Williams, N. Theys, A. Tsikerdekis, P. F. Levelt, P. F. Levelt, P. F. Levelt

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Diurnal temperature range drives understory plant community composition in micro-climatically complex temperate montane forests by Adam L Mahood, David M Barnard, Jacob A Macdonald, David W Pittenger, Sarah M Hall, Paula J Fornwalt

“…We studied the seasonal stability of DTR and its effects on fine-scale variation in plant community composition, and used topographic metrics to create spatial models of DTR. …”
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Gut-brain-liver axis in growth hormone deficiency: role of microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acids in ethnic variability and therapeutic development by Dongming Meng, Wei Kong, Sai Cheng, Hua Liu, Congfu Huang

“…This review synthesizes preclinical and clinical data to address ethnic variability in microbiota composition and therapeutic challenges. …”
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Exploring the Influence of Pottery Jar Formula Variables on Flavor Substances Through Feature Ranking and Machine Learning: Case Study of Maotai-Flavored Baijiu by Haili Yang, Xinjun Hu, Jianpin Tian, Liangliang Xie, Manjiao Chen, Dan Huang

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Singular-spectral climate models by Belashev Boris

“…The model is used to describe the variability of the time series variability, reconstruct gaps, and perform a forecast. …”
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Development of a General Composite Scale (GENCOMS) for Progressive Neurodegenerative Diseases and Implications for the Assessment of Disease-Modifying Therapies by Samuel P. Dickson, Craig H. Mallinckrodt, Basia Rogula, Lauren C. Powell, Michele H. Potashman, Vladimir Coric, Gilbert J. L’Italien, Suzanne B. Hendrix

“…A partial least squares regression analysis was conducted with temporal change as the dependent variable and change scores in standardized items as the explanatory variables. …”
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Application of artificial neural network in deoxygenation of water by glucoseoxidase immobilized in calcium alginate/MnO2 composite by A. Abdi, M.Sh Izadkhah, A. Karimi, M. Razzaghi, H. Moradkhani

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Alteration of the gut microbiota’s composition and metabolic output correlates with COVID-19-like severity in obese NASH hamsters by Valentin Sencio, Nicolas Benech, Cyril Robil, Lucie Deruyter, Séverine Heumel, Arnaud Machelart, Thierry Sulpice, Antonin Lamazière, Corinne Grangette, François Briand, Harry Sokol, François Trottein

“…To this end, we set up a nutritional model of obesity with dyslipidemia and NASH in the golden hamster, a relevant preclinical model of COVID-19. …”
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Fine scale prediction of ecological community composition using a two-step sequential Machine Learning ensemble. by Icíar Civantos-Gómez, Javier García-Algarra, David García-Callejas, Javier Galeano, Oscar Godoy, Ignasi Bartomeus

“…This result suggests that predicting future abundances requires longer time series analysis to capture enough variability. In addition, we show that these data-driven models can also suggest how to improve mechanistic models by adding missing variables that affect species performance such as particular soil conditions (e.g. carbonate availability in our case). …”
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Effect of titanium dioxide (Tio2) nanoparticles on the wear rate of marine journal bearings made of composite materials by Suadad Noori Ghani, Ali Sadiq Alithari, Hala Salman Hasan

“…To support the results, a statistical regression analysis was conducted, revealing a strong and significant relationship between the variables. The coefficient of determination (R²) was 0.974, indicating that the model explained 97.4 % of the variance in the data. …”
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Body composition versus body fat percentage as predictors of posture/balance control mobility and stability among football players under 21 years by Mohammed Zerf

“…They were tested by saving tests (Body Fat Percentage (BFP) -Abdominal test (Abdo) - Modified Bass Test of Dynamic Balance (DB) and standing balance (SB)). As a statistical model, we chose regression analysis to predict the superiority of the variables chosen in the current study. …”
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Body composition parameters in initial CT imaging of mechanically ventilated trauma patients: Single‐centre observational study by Hans‐Jonas Meyer, Tihomir Dermendzhiev, Michael Hetz, Georg Osterhoff, Christian Kleber, Timm Denecke, Jeanette Henkelmann, Robert Werdehausen, Gunther Hempel, Manuel F. Struck

“…The analysis included CT‐derived body composition parameters based upon whole‐body trauma CT as prognostic variables for 30‐day mortality, intensive care unit length of stay (ICU LOS) and mechanical ventilation duration. …”
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