Life Cycle Assessment of Key Mediterranean Agricultural Products at the Farm Level Using GHG Measurements by Georgios Bartzas, Maria Doula, Konstantinos Komnitsas

“…The uncertainty analysis indicates that among the LCI-based scenarios evaluated, the IS scenario exhibits the lowest variability, with coefficient of variation (CV) values ranging from 0.5% to 7.3%. …”
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Agonist-Antagonist Coactivation Enhances Corticomotor Excitability of Ankle Muscles by Trisha M. Kesar, Andrew Tan, Steven Eicholtz, Kayilan Baker, Jiang Xu, Joanna T. Anderson, Steven L. Wolf, Michael R. Borich

“…Three pairwise comparisons were made for MEP amplitude and coefficient of variability (CV): rest versus coactivation, rest versus antagonist activation, and agonist activation versus coactivation. …”
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A Protocol for Advanced Psychometric Assessment of Surveys by Janet E. Squires, Leslie Hayduk, Alison M. Hutchinson, Lisa A. Cranley, Mark Gierl, Greta G. Cummings, Peter G. Norton, Carole A. Estabrooks

“…Reliability is assessed with internal consistency coefficients and information functions. A unitary approach to validity consisting of accumulating evidence based on instrument content, response processes, internal structure, and relations to other variables is taken. …”
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Adaptive Fractional-Order Nonsingular Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Manipulators by Xin Zhang, Ran Shi

“…Secondly, in view of the problems of large chattering and slow convergence speed in the reaching stage, this paper designs a variable exponential power-reaching law (VEPRL), which has the ability to change the exponential coefficients according to the system state adaptively. …”
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Posterior-only fixation in pelvic fractures: Is it sufficient in lateral compression injuries? by Sameer Aggarwal, Sandeep Patel, Lav Mehta, Mohak Kataria, Vishal Kumar, Prasoon Kumar

“…Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was used for correlation analysis. Results: A total of 25 patients were included, with a mean age of 29.8 years. …”
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Beyond the interface: benchmarking pediatric mobile health applications for monitoring child growth using the Mobile App Rating Scale by Anggi Septia Irawan, Arie Dwi Alristina, Arie Dwi Alristina, Rizky Dzariyani Laili, Nuke Amalia, Arief Purnama Muharram, Adriana Viola Miranda, Bence Döbrössy, Edmond Girasek

“…MARS assessed applications from multiple domains, including engagement, functionality, aesthetics, and information quality. Inter-rater reliability was ensured using the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC). …”
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Optimisation of the performance and structure of soluble ball seat metal sealing rings based on response surface by CHEN Zhen, RAN Qingjie, CHEN Nengpeng, WANG Qiaomu

“…The increase of groove parameters (groove width and depth) can enhance the contact pressure, and at the same time, increase the equivalent stress, which may lead to local strength deficiency.Through the sensitivity analysis, the sensitivity coefficients of the radius of the metal seal ring to the equivalent force and contact pressure were found to reach 0.67 and 0.82, which were the dominant variables affecting the sealing performance; the width and depth of the grooves regulated the stress distribution through the geometric compensation mechanism. …”
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Adsorption of Cd (II) Using Chemically Modified Rice Husk: Characterization, Equilibrium, and Kinetic Studies by Javier Montalvo-Andía, Warren Reátegui-Romero, Alexis D. Peña-Contreras, Walter F. Zaldivar Alvarez, María E. King-Santos, Víctor Fernández-Guzmán, José Luis Guerrero-Guevara, Jhon E. Puris-Naupay

“…Experimental tests were carried out to evaluate the influence of the variables pH, initial concentration of cadmium, and dosage of adsorbent in the adsorption process. …”
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Determinants of oral health-related quality of life in orthodontic aligner wearers: A cross-sectional analysis. by Gabriela Luiza Nunes Souza, José Alcides Almeida de Arruda, Pâmella de Moura Dario, Esdras de Campos França, Marcelo de Araújo Lombardi, Giselle Cabral da Costa, Najara Barbosa Rocha, Lucas Guimarães Abreu

“…Poisson regression was performed to identify factors associated with OHRQoL, reporting beta coefficients (Coef.) and standard errors (SE). Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. …”
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On Simplifying Expressions with Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic by Yury V. Kosolapov

“…We experimentally estimate the dependence of the average number of terms in a linear MBA-expression returned by simplification algorithms on $n$, the number of decoding iterations, and the power of the set of Boolean functions, by which a linear combination with a minimum number of nonzero coefficients is sought. …”
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Assessing the validity and reliability of the persian version of Self-concept and Identity Measure in an Iranian population by Saba Tutunchian, Ali Reza Shafiee-Kandjani, Ayyoub Malek, Behzad Shalchi

“…This study examines the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Self-Concept and Identity Measure, designed to assess healthy and disrupted identity functions. Methods. This study utilized a methodological design and focused on students at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences for the 2023-2024 academic year. …”
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Structural network topologies are associated with deep brain stimulation outcomes in Meige syndrome by Bin Liu, Zhiqi Mao, Xinyuan Yan, Hang Yang, Junpeng Xu, Zhebin Feng, Yanyang Zhang, Xinguang Yu

“…However, the DBS efficacy varies across MS patients and the factors contributing to the variable responses remain enigmatic. We aim to explain the difference in DBS efficacy from a network perspective. …”
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qDESH: a method to quantify disproportionately enlarged subarachnoid space hydrocephalus by Sofia Behndig, Afroditi Lalou, Jan Axelsson, Jenny Larsson, Anders Wåhlin, Pavel Ryska, Ondrej Slezak, Katrine Riklund, Jan Zizka, Jan Malm, Anders Eklund

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Optimizing Load Frequency Control of Multi-Area Power Renewable and Thermal Systems Using Advanced Proportional–Integral–Derivative Controllers and Catch Fish Algorithm by Saleh A. Alnefaie, Abdulaziz Alkuhayli, Abdullah M. Al-Shaalan

“…Renewable energy sources (RESs) are increasingly combined into the power system due to market liberalization and environmental and economic benefits, but their weather-dependent variability causes power production and demand mismatches, leading to issues like frequency and regional power transmission fluctuations. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity of Vegetation Coverage and Its Driving Mechanisms in the Agro-Pastoral Ecotone of Gansu Province: Insights from Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Geodet... by Macao Zhuo, Jianyu Yuan, Jie Li, Guang Li, Lijuan Yan

“…The multi-scale analytical framework developed here provides methodological and empirical support for precision ecological governance in climate-sensitive transitional zones, particularly for optimizing ecological barrier functions in arid and semi-arid regions.…”
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Developing a novel hybrid model based on GRU deep neural network and Whale optimization algorithm for precise forecasting of river’s streamflow by Amin Gharehbaghi, Redvan Ghasemlounia, Farshad Ahmadi, Rasoul Mirabbasi, Ali Torabi Haghighi

“…The Pearson’s correlation coefficient (PCC) and Cosine Amplitude Sensitivity (CAS) as feature (input) selection process determine the only precipitation (P m ) as the most effective input variable among a list of on-site potential climate time series parameters recorded in the study area. …”
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Assessing the Skeletal Muscle Pump During Lower Limb Counterpressure: Lags and Causality in Cardiovascular Regulation by Silvin P. Knight, Eoin Duggan, Feng Xue, Roman Romero‐Ortuno

“…The study provides a novel methodological framework for assessing skeletal muscle pump function and its impact on cardiovascular dynamics. …”
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Extension of the First-Order Recursive Filters Method to Non-Linear Second-Kind Volterra Integral Equations by Rodolphe Heyd

“…In addition, this new approach extends for the first time the field of use of first-order recursive filters, usually restricted to the case of linear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with constant coefficients, to the case of non-linear ODEs with variable coefficients. …”
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Leveraging Cognitive and Speech Ecological Momentary Assessment in Individuals With Phenylketonuria: Development and Usability Study of Cognitive Fluctuations in a Rare Disease Pop... by Shifali Singh, Lisa Kluen, Katelin Curtis, Raquel Norel, Carla Agurto, Elizabeth Grinspoon, Zoe Hawks, Shawn Christ, Susan Waisbren, Guillermo Cecchi, Laura Germine

“…Similarly, to assess variability in task performance over the course of all EMAs, the coefficient of variability was computed; 28% for the task measuring sustained attention, 37% for semantic fluency, 15.8% for the task measuring executive functioning, and 17.6% for processing speed. …”
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Fuzzy System for the Quality Assessment of Educational Multimedia Edition Design by Vsevolod Senkivskyy, Liubomyr Sikora, Nataliia Lysa, Alona Kudriashova, Iryna Pikh

“…A multilevel model of fuzzy logical inference is constructed, representing the dependency between quality factors. Membership functions for linguistic variables are formed and their weight coefficients are determined using pairwise comparison matrices. …”
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