Energy balance analysis of a tropical glacier in the Andes and identification of key meteorological variables for empirical melt estimates by Yoshihiro Asaoka, Genki Saito, Takeshi Yamazaki, Edson Ramirez, Walter W. Immerzeel

“…Most of the net radiation was consumed by the conductive heat flux into the snowpack or glacier ice, contributing to surface temperature increases. …”
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Discriminant Function Analysis for Sex Determination Using Lower Limb Anthropometric Variables in Young Adults of Nigeria Population by Choy Ker Woon, Aliyu Jaafar, Abdulhamid Usman

“…Correlation and discriminant function analysis were performed to ascertain the most discriminative variables for sex classification. …”
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Dynamic Coefficient Investigation for Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Dry Gas Seal Based on Complete Variable Perturbation Model by Ruqi Yan, Baodui Chai, Lu Ma, Hanqing Chen, Xuexing Ding

“…The turbulence coefficient perturbation had the most remarkable influence on the gas film’s dynamic coefficient, compared to the temperature, viscosity, and centrifugal inertia force perturbations. …”
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Investigating Variables Predicting Environmental Awareness in the Context of Education for Sustainable Development: An Analysis Based on TIMSS 2019 Data by Neslihan Üstün, Mustafa Ürey

“…This study aims to investigate to what extent the science self-concept variable from science-related factors, as well as the gender and socioeconomic status (SES) variables from demographic characteristics, predict the environmental awareness of eighth-grade students in Türkiye participating in the TIMSS 2019. …”
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“Keeping us on our toes”: a review of what clinicians need to know about vancomycin-variable Enterococcus by Marten R. Hawkins, Natalia Medvedeva, Hannah Wang, Niaz Banaei, Marisa K. Holubar

“…Multiple mechanisms for this genotypic-phenotypic mismatch have been reported and most commonly involve the regulatory components of the vanA gene cluster. …”
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Pathogenic Variability of Wheat Stem Rust Pathogen (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici) in Hararghe Highlands, Ethiopia by Arif Abrahim, Temam Hussein, Ayele Badebo

“…Ten (10) races were identified by using Puccinia graminis tritici code system: TTGSK, PTJQK, TTSSK, TTKSK, TRSSK, and TTJQK from East Hararghe and TTTSK and TTSQK from West Hararghe zones. Race TTSSK was most frequent (25%) followed by TTKSK (25%) in East Hararghe. …”
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A Pilot Study Using a Smartwatch to Search for Biomarkers of Heart Rate Variability in Active Ulcerative Colitis by Jin Imai, Masashi Ohno, Masaya Sano, Takuro Miyazaki, Hiroaki Suzuki, Atsushi Nishida, Yuto Hashida, Takashi Ueda, Haruhiko Sato, Erika Teramura, Makiko Monma, Mia Fujisawa, Ryuzo Deguchi, Nagamu Inoue, Noriaki Kishimoto, Akiyasu Baba, Masashi Matsushima, Tatehiro Kagawa, Yasuhiro Nishizaki, Akira Andoh, Hidekazu Suzuki

“…Meanwhile, LF showed the most correlation with severity for bowel urgency scores. …”
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A Metaheuristic Approach for a Two-dimensional Fuzzy Version of the Variable Size and Cost Bin Packing Problem by Jorge Herrera Franklin, Alejandro Rosete, Guillermo Sosa-Gómez, Omar Rojas

“…Abstract The Variable Size and Cost Bin Packing Problem (VSCBPP) focuses on minimizing the overall cost of containers used to pack a specified set of items. …”
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Research on variable-length control chart pattern recognition based on sliding window method and SECNN-BiLSTM by Tao Zan, Xiaolong Jia, Xiaoyu Guo, Min Wang, Xiangsheng Gao, Peng Gao

“…Abstract Control charts, as essential tools in Statistical Process Control (SPC), are frequently used to analyze whether production processes are under control. Most existing control chart recognition methods target fixed-length data, failing to meet the needs of recognizing variable-length control charts in production. …”
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Impact of Liminality in Organic Agricultural Tourism on Well-Being: The Role of Memorable Tourism Experiences as a Mediating Variable by Dan Wang, Ching-Cheng Shen

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Coherent South American Monsoon Variability During the Last Millennium Revealed Through High‐Resolution Proxy Records by J. L. P. S. Campos, F. W. Cruz, T. Ambrizzi, M. Deininger, M. Vuille, V. F. Novello, N. M. Strikis

“…Abstract The number of paleoprecipitation records from the South American Monsoon domain that cover the last millennium has increased substantially in past years. However, hitherto most studies focused only on regional aspects, thereby neglecting the role of large‐scale monsoon variability and the mechanisms that link proxy locations in space and time. …”
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Stiffness Optimal Modulation of a Variable Stiffness Energy Storage Hip Exoskeleton and Experiments on Its Assistance Effect by Bingshan Hu, Fengchen Liu, Ke Cheng, Wenming Chen, Xinying Shan, Hongliu Yu

“…In this study, based on the analysis of the energy flow characteristics and stiffness change characteristics of lower limb joints during a human walking on flat ground, a novel variable stiffness energy storage assisted hip exoskeleton is designed, and a stiffness optimization modulation method is proposed to store most of the negative work done by the human hip joint when walking. …”
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89 Predictors of variability in Apple Watch step count data from a 3-year prospective cohort by Aleda Leis, Mingyan Yu, Michael Elliott

“…PA guidelines to reduce these risks and the impact of variability are unclear, and most studies only examine a 7-day activity window. …”
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Evaluating the impact of parameter variability on O2 control and model robustness in modified atmosphere storage for fresh produce by Yogesh B. Kalnar, Cornelia Weltzien, Pramod V. Mahajan

“…The blower ON frequency (BOF) needed for O2 control exhibited a mean of 47.8 ± 3.7 s, illustrating variability due to model parameter uncertainties. The product weight and respiration rate were the most influential parameters affecting the BOF. …”
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Theoretical study of multi-stage and multi-feeding variable pressure humidification-dehumidification (VP-HD) desalination systems by Zohreh Rahimi-Ahar, M. Hatamipour

“…Three-stage humidification is found to be the most efficient in terms of freshwater production and specific power consumption, achieving the highest values of 1.93 L h-1 m-2 and 0.21 kWh L-1, respectively. …”
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What Will the European Climate Look Like in the Future? A Climate Analog Analysis Accounting for Dependencies Between Variables by B. Bulut, M. Vrac, N. deNoblet‐Ducoudré

“…By working on the whole multivariate distributions, the Wasserstein distance allows us to account for dependencies between the variables of interest and for the shape of their distribution. …”
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A framework for predictive modeling of microbiome multi-omics data: latent interacting variable-effects (LIVE) modeling by Javier Munoz Briones, Douglas K. Brubaker

“…Here, we present a framework for integration of microbiome multi-omics data: Latent Interacting Variable Effects (LIVE) modeling. LIVE integrates multi-omics data using single-omic latent variables (LV) organized in a structured meta-model to determine the combinations of features most predictive of a phenotype or condition. …”
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Spatial variability characteristics of soil heavy metals in the cropland and its pollution source identification around the contaminated sites by LI Haiguang, SHI Jiachun, WU Jianjun

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Modeling the relationship between the moral charter derived from Islamic teachings and performance with the mediating variable of employees' perception by leila jahantigh, Abbas Babaeenezhad, Mohsen Zayandehroudi, saeed sayadi

“…Robert Solomon is one of the most famous proponents of this Aristotelian approach to business ethics. …”
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Comparison of phenotypic variability of winter durum wheat varieties and lines according to the color characteristics of grain, cereals and pasta by N. S. Kravchenko, O. A. Kostylenko, N. G. Ignatieva, A. S. Ivanisova

“…The purpose of the current study was to determine the variability of phenotypic characteristics of grain associated with the number of yellow pigments in grain, the color of semolina and finished pasta, to study the correlation between indicators and to identify the most promising ones for further work. …”
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