Geographic variability in contemporary utilization of PET imaging for prostate cancer: a medicare claims cohort study by Stephan M. Korn, Zhiyu Qian, Hanna Zurl, Nathaniel Hansen, Klara K. Pohl, Daniel Stelzl, Filippo Dagnino, Stuart Lipsitz, Jianyi Zhang, Adam S. Kibel, Caroline M. Moore, Kerry L. Kilbridge, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Stacy Loeb, Hebert Alberto Vargas, Quoc-Dien Trinh, Alexander P. Cole

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Variability and reliability of gait kinematic parameters after controlled tripping in older adults: a preliminary study by Roberta Castilhos Detanico Bohrer, Angélica Lodovico, Marcia Regina Irber Kertscher, Gleber Pereira, André Luiz Felix Rodacki

“…The variability of spatiotemporal and intra- and inter-day angular parameters was low for most variables, except for plantar flexion. …”
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Multi-Variable Transformer-Based Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Fault Diagnosis of Large-Scale Systems by Weiyang Li, Yixin Nie, Fan Yang

“…In order to deal with the multi-variable time series data, we modify the Transformer model, which is the currently most popular model on feature extraction of time series. …”
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Relationship between Duration of Symptom Onset and Hospital Admission with other Variables Among COVID-19 Patients by Yoganathan Chidambaram, Sujith Kumar S, Saravanan T, Merlin Veronika

“…Common symptom reported was fever (63.45%), followed by cough (58.32%), myalgia (23.79%), and breathlessness (14.93%), with the most prevalent comorbidity being diabetes (36.7%). …”
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YIELD STRUCTURE ELEMENTS OF LEAFY AND LEAFLESS PEA SAMPLES: VARIABILITY, CORRELATION AND PROSPECTS OF THEIR USE IN THE BREEDING PROCESS by A. R. Ashiev, K. N. Khabibullin, M. V. Skulova

“…The studies on the variability and correlation of the yield elements of leafy and leafless pea samples have shown that ‘number of kernels per plant’ and ‘kernel weight per plant’ are most variable traits. …”
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Exploring dose–response variability and relative severity assessment in STZ-induced diabetes male NSG mice by Steven R. Talbot, Miriam Heider, Martin Wirth, Anne Jörns, Ortwin Naujok

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The use of cluster analysis in the classification of similarities in variables associated with agricultural greenhouse gases emissions in OECD countries by Alicja Kolasa-Więcek

“…This method is based on grouping of elements in a relatively homogeneous class. The most popular non-hierarchical clustering method is k-means. …”
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Quantitative Variables Derived from the Electroencephalographic Signal to Assess Depth of Anaesthesia in Animals: A Narrative Review by Susanne Figueroa, Olivier L. Levionnois, Alessandro Mirra

“…Information was charted by animal species and reported EEG-derived variables. The most frequently reported variables were spectral edge frequencies, spectral power metrics, suppression ratio, and proprietary indices, such as the Bispectral Index. …”
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Variability of sequence surrounding the Xist gene in rodents suggests taxon-specific regulation of X chromosome inactivation. by Alexander I Shevchenko, Anastasia A Malakhova, Eugeny A Elisaphenko, Nina A Mazurok, Tatyana B Nesterova, Neil Brockdorff, Suren M Zakian

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SIMULATING MACHINING OF CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION PULLEYS IN COMPLEX BLADE TOOL TRAJECTORY IN ANSYS SOFTWARE PACKAGE by A.A. Generalova, A.A. Nikulin, D.S. Bychkov

THE CLIMATE VARIABILITY OF THE AGRICULTURAL YEAR 2016- 2017 CASE STUDY: THE SOUTH-WEST OLTENIA REGION, ROMANIA by Dana Maria (OPREA) CONSTANTIN, Ion MARINICĂ, Nicoleta IONAC, Andreea Floriana MARINICĂ, Elena GRIGORE, Elena BOGAN, Florina TATU

“…As a whole, the agricultural year was droughty in most of the region, with an average annual rainfall of 587.4 mm. …”
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Trends of climate variability and its association with farmers’ perceptions of climate change in Gassera district, southeastern Ethiopia by Henok W/Yohannes Aniye, Tsegaye Bekele, Walelign Worku

“…The results revealed significant (Ρ = 0.00) increasing trends in annual temperature, a decrease in annual rainfall of 2.92 mm/year, and severe rainfall variability for the Belg season. Most of the interviewed farmers reported increases in temperature, erratic rainfall, and drought frequency of 96.24%, 86.47%, and 89.73%, respectively. …”
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Self-Excited Vibration Analysis of Gear-Bearing System with Multipoint Mesh and Variable Bearing Dynamic Coefficients by Hao Zhang, Shiheng Cao, Pengyu Li, Qingkai Han

“…The gear-bearing system is the most important part of integrally centrifugal compressors. …”
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SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF DROUGHT IN ROMANIA DURING 1901-2021 USING THE STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION EVAPOTRANSPIRATION INDEX (SPEI) by Carmen Andreea BĂDĂLUȚĂ, Aritina HALIUC, Gheorghe BĂDĂLUȚĂ, Ramona Elena SCRIBAN

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Modeling the spatial relationship between bike-sharing stations and urban centrality using geographical weight variables by Jianyu Li, Mingxing Hu, Xinyu Zhang, Bing Han, Junheng Qi, Jiemin Zheng, Hui Wang

“…On the basis of existing research on geographically weighted statistical methods, we propose a method for transforming spatial characteristics into geographical weight variables (GWVs). Based on the Xuzhou SBBS dataset, machine learning models with GWVs achieve results that are superior to those resulting from most of the spatial regression models and baseline machine learning models with this SBBS dataset. …”
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Using a Fuzzy NSBM Model with Shared Resources and Undesirable Variables for the Assessment of Universal Banking System by Homa Ghasemi, Esmaeil Najafi, Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, farzad movahedi

“…With regard to the entry of most banks into the competitive environment of universal banking, as a customer-centric approach aiming to provide financial services to customer groups, it is important to assess the performance of the business process in bank branches using this approach. …”
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Patterns of changing surface climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to present in transient model simulations by E. Ziegler, E. Ziegler, N. Weitzel, J.-P. Baudouin, M.-L. Kapsch, U. Mikolajewicz, L. Gregoire, R. Ivanovic, P. J. Valdes, C. Wirths, K. Rehfeld, K. Rehfeld

“…A reanalysis of the LGM exhibits similar global mean variability to most of the ensemble, but spatial patterns vary. …”
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Improving the Classification Accuracy for Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Chinese Salvia miltiorrhiza Using Local Variable Selection by Lianqing Zhu, Haitao Chang, Qun Zhou, Zhongyu Wang

“…In order to improve the classification accuracy of Chinese Salvia miltiorrhiza using near-infrared spectroscopy, a novel local variable selection strategy is thus proposed. Combining the strengths of the local algorithm and interval partial least squares, the spectra data have firstly been divided into several pairs of classes in sample direction and equidistant subintervals in variable direction. …”
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Maxillomandibular Advancement in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Patients: a Restrospective Study on the Sagittal Cephalometric Variables by Paolo Ronchi, Valentina Cinquini, Alessandro Ambrosoli, Alberto Caprioglio

“…Lateral cephalometric radiographs at T1 and T2 measuring sagittal cephalometric variables (SNA, SNB, and ANB) were analyzed, as were the amount of maxillary and mandibular advancement (Co-A and Co-Pog), the distance from the mandibular plane to the most anterior point of the hyoid bone (Mp-H), and the posterior airway space (PAS).Results: Postoperatively, the overall mean AHI dropped from 58.7 ± 16 to 8.1 ± 7.8 events per hour (P < 0.001). …”
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Investigating variability in microbial community composition in replicate environmental DNA samples down lake sediment cores. by John K Pearman, Georgia Thomson-Laing, Jamie D Howarth, Marcus J Vandergoes, Lucy Thompson, Andrew Rees, Susanna A Wood

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