The Effect of value added in the Air Transport Industry on the employment of that sector by mahdi niknejad, Kambiz Hojabr Kiani, Ahmad Sarlak, Maryam Khoshnevis

“…Result of the long term model estimation shows that the estimated coefficients for the variables (value added, wage and capital price) are statistically meaningful and their values are 0.16, 0.62 and -0.23, respectively.…”
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Lightweight deep learning system for automated bone age assessment in Chinese children: enhancing clinical efficiency and diagnostic accuracy by Pang Hai, Zhang Bin, Liu Kesheng, Li Cong, Xu Fei

“…The second stage employs a modified EfficientNetB3 architecture for fine-grained epiphyseal grade classification, enhanced by the Rectified Adam (RAdam) optimizer and a composite loss function combining center loss and weighted cross-entropy to mitigate class imbalance. …”
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Employment of a Radial Basis Function Model for Predicting the Heating Load of Construction by Yuxuan Dai

“…This work highlights that HL prediction could play a great role in improvements to enhance HVAC system performances, energy efficiencies, and thereby cost benefits. The innovative approaches presented in this research consist of integrating 2 advanced optimizers, namely an Improved Manta-Ray Foraging Optimizer (IMRFO) and a Population-based Vortex Search Algorithm (PVSA), with a Radial Basis Function (RBF). …”
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Probability calculation of building structures considering asymmetry of random values and functions distribution by Yu. V. Krasnoshchekov

“…A method is proposed for approximating the reliability of fairly complex compositions of random variables using statistical parameters (expectation, standard deviation, and skewness coefficient) of two-element functions approximated by a lognormal three-parameter distribution.Conclusions. …”
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A Novel Approach to Transient Fourier Analysis for Electrical Engineering Applications by Mariana Beňová, Branislav Dobrucký, Jozef Šedo, Michal Praženica, Roman Koňarik, Juraj Šimko, Martin Kuchař

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STOCHASTIC FRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION: AN APPLICATION TO ANKARA MOHAIR GOAT FARMING SYSTEM by Mehmet Arif ŞAHİNLİ, Ahmet ÖZÇELİK

“…In this study, we examined both production and technical efficiency of goat's farms in Ankara. The study adopted the stochastic frontier production function to estimate technical efficiency of the mohair goat establishments in the study area. …”
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Measurement and analysis of technical efficiency in the production of wheat and barley crops in Erbil Governorate for the agricultural season 2020-2021 by Keshkhan Yousif Aziz

“…The study used the Cobb-Douglas production function using four traditional production factors, which are (land, labor, machinery, and fertilizers) in addition to a dummy variable (D1), which represents supplementary irrigation, to estimate the parameters of the stochastic frontier model. …”
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The stability of the SARS-COV-2 structure in the presence of variable external heat flux in the vicinity of the water/silver nanofluid: A molecular dynamics simulation by Dongfang Wu, Ali B.M. Ali, Abrar A. Mohammed, As'ad Alizadeh, Soheil Salahshour, M. Hashemian, MengXia Wang

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Induction Motor Geometric Parameter Optimization Using a Metaheuristic Optimization Method for High-Efficiency Motor Design by Hasbi Apaydin, Necibe Füsun Oyman Serteller, Yüksel Oğuz

“…Ten motor design parameters were used as design variables. IM efficiency was improved, as the objective function. …”
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ESTIMATING AND ANALYSING OF DEMAND FUNCTION FOR POULTRY IN IRAQ ROR THE PERIOD (1990 - 2009) by Salim Al-Youzbaki, Suha Mohammad Ahmad Al_Hmdany

“…It was found that the variables (the average per capita income and the size of the population and the prices of poultry meat, red meat, and time) has been deleted variable V average prices of fish meat from the equation for not Manueth. …”
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Isogeometric Analysis for Active Control of Piezoelectric Functionally Graded Plates in Thermal Environment by Tao Liu, Yafen Jiang, Shujun Li, Qingyun Liu, Chao Wang

“…An isogeometric analysis (IGA) method is proposed for investigating the active shape and vibration control of functionally graded plates (FGPs) with surface-bonded piezoelectric materials in a thermal environment. …”
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An Algorithm for the Solution of Integro-Fractional Differential Equations with a Generalized Symmetric Singular Kernel by Sameeha A. Raad, Mohammed A. Abdou

“…Next, to solve this <b>MIE</b>, the authors apply a special technique to separate the variables and produce an integral equation in position with coefficients, in the form of an integral operator in time. …”
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On solutions of certain compatible systems of quadratic trinomial Partial differential-difference equations by R. Mandal, R. Biswas

“…Appl. 483(2), 2020) and then construct some systems of certain quadratic trinomial partial differential-difference equations with arbitrary coefficients. Our objective is to investigate the forms of the finite order transcendental entire functions of several complex variables satisfying the systems of certain quadratic trinomial partial differential-difference equations on $\mathbb{C}^n$. …”
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DETERMINATION OF THE OPTIMUM DOSAGE OF FOOD ADDITIVE «SELEX» FOR FUNCTIONAL BAKERY GOODS PRODUCTION by Naumova N.L.

“…While investigating the dependence between selenium losses in the production process and selenium losses during the product storage and the introduced selenium dosage, the availability of the obvious positive correlation of these variables with significant correlation coefficients has been established. …”
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Brain functional connectivity analysis of fMRI-based Alzheimer's disease data by Maitha S. Alarjani, Badar A. Almarri

“…The core of this framework discovers and analyzes functional connectivity among regions of interest (ROIs) of a human brain. …”
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Clinical and functional significance of determining biological age in women during the reproductive period by E. V. Kudryavtseva, D. A. Berezina, V. V. Bazarny, L. G. Polushina, M. А. Kopenkin, A. N. Troitskaya, V. V. Kovalev

“…The inclusion of antioxidant protection parameters, functional state indicators, and reproductive history makes the method versatile and applicable not only in reproductive medicine but also in general medical practice, obstetrics, gynecology, and other fields.…”
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Evaluating handgrip strength and functional tests as indicators of gait speed in older females by Valentina Muollo, Samuel D’Emanuele, Laura Ghiotto, Doriana Rudi, Federico Schena, Cantor Tarperi

“…Pearson's correlation (r) was used to assess the strength of associations between HGS and functional variables, while multiple linear regression models identified determinants of GS. …”
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An efficient dynamic reliability method for maglev vehicle-bridge systems and its application in random controller parameters analysis by Lidong Wang, Qingrong Li, Xun Zhang, Xiumeng Bu, Peng Hu, Yan Han

“…Next, an adaptive surrogate model of the equivalent extreme value of the system dynamic response is established by combining an adaptive sampling method with radial basis functions. Finally, the adaptive surrogate model and PDEM are combined to further improve the efficiency of the dynamic reliability analysis. …”
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An analysis of agricultural production efficiency of Yellow River Basin based on a three-stage DEA Malmquist model by Xiejun Cheng, Jinxin Bian, Dongmei He, Decai Tang

“…Abstract Agriculture functions as the cornerstone of national development, and the Yellow River Basin (YRB) plays a crucial role in China’s economy. …”
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Non-parametric calibration estimation of distribution function under stratified random sampling by Abdullah Mohammed Alomair, Weineng Zhu, Usman Shahzad, Fawaz Khaled Alarfaj

“…By leveraging auxiliary information under a stratified random sampling (StRS) framework, the proposed methodology employs multiple calibration constraints with a chi-square distance measure to derive calibrated weights, enhancing estimation efficiency. The estimators incorporate key descriptive measures of auxiliary variable, including the CDF and coefficient of variation, and tackle the challenge of bandwidth selection using advanced techniques such as plug-in selectors and cross-validation approaches. …”
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