Instant and low-cost detection of urinary microalbumin using smartphone technology and a paper-based platform with a colorimetric ratio analysis by Nutcha Larpant, Chanatnan Tetsiri, Theerasak Rojanarata, Wanida Laiwattanapaisal

“…Under the optimized conditions, the linear range from 10 to 200 mg/L albumin and the detection limit 8.2 mg/L (R2 = 0.99) was obtained. …”
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Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato spirochetes in wild birds in northwestern California: associations with ecological factors, bird behavior and tick infestation. by Erica A Newman, Lars Eisen, Rebecca J Eisen, Natalia Fedorova, Jeomhee M Hasty, Charles Vaughn, Robert S Lane

“…Overall, 623 birds representing 53 species yielded 284 I. pacificus larvae and nymphs. We used generalized linear models and zero-inflated negative binomial models to determine associations of bird behaviors, taxonomic relationships and infestation by I. pacificus with borrelial infection in the birds. …”
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Use of an innovative electronic communications platform (912Rwanda) to improve prehospital transport of injured people in Rwanda: protocol for a type 2 hybrid effectiveness-impleme... by Antonio Belli, Karla Hemming, Justine Davies, Lucia D'Ambruoso, Laura Bojke, Sudha Jayaraman, Agnieszka Ignatowicz, Motunrayo Ajisola, Aurore Nishimwe, Jean Claude Byiringiro, Laura Quinn, Barnabas Tobi Alayande, Nuhu Assuman, Fabien Hagenimana, Ephrem Daniel Sheferaw, Oda Munyura, Rob Rickard, Philbert Muhire, Irene Bagahirwa

“…These outcomes will be evaluated using an interrupted time series analysis, accounting for non-homogeneous variances, auto-regressive errors and non-linear trends where appropriate. Implementation outcomes will be evaluated using the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance (RE-AIM) Qualitative Evaluation for Systematic Translation (QuEST) framework. …”
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Validation of the method for determination of prekallikrein activator in Human Albumin by M. V. Tomilin, E. V. Filatova, M. M. Kuznetsova, V. V. Sudakova, N. V. Zubkova

“…It is established that the method is accurate, linear, high-precision and specific. The method is characterized by the simplicity of the experiment, high accuracy and reproducibility that can be used in terms of control and analytical laboratories. …”
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Enhanced Adsorption of Orange II Using Cationic Surfactant Modified Biochar Pyrolyzed from Cornstalk by Xiao Mi, Guoting Li, Weiyong Zhu, Lili Liu

“…By nonlinear simulation, the Elovich model was the best to describe the adsorption kinetics. For linear simulation of the kinetic data, the pseudo-second-order kinetic model fitted the experimental points better than the pseudo-first-order model. …”
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Future Dynamics of Drought in Areas at Risk: An Interpretation of RCP Projections on a Regional Scale by Pietro Monforte, Sebastiano Imposa

“…Data were aggregated on a 0.50° × 0.50° spatial grid and bias-corrected using linear scaling. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test was applied to assess the statistical compatibility between observed and projected precipitation data. …”
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The Length-Weight Characteristics of Five Elasmobranch Species (Pisces: Chondrichthyes) from Izmir Bay (Aegean Sea Coast of Turkey): Spring 2018 by Burcu Taylan, Bahar Bayhan, Cemil Sağlam, Ali Özcan Babaoğlu, Ali Kara

“…Therefore, difference between mean values obtained according to sexes was not found different. However, A linear correlation between weight- pelvic length for females and weight- preanal length for males according to multiple regression analysis in male and female individuals. …”
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Life cycle assessment of a straw-based fiberboard without binders produced at laboratory scale by Hanna Sofia Leiter, Felix Neudecker, Daniela Groiß-Fürtner, Wolfgang Gindl-Altmutter, Andreas Windsperger, Franziska Hesser

“…To provide a more realistic representation of potential environmental impacts, two upscaling scenarios are evaluated: linear extrapolation and industrial scale using proxy data. …”
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Data-driven insights into groundwater quality: machine and deep learning approaches by Gift Mbuzi, Abdur Rashid Sangi, Baha Ihnaini, Anil Carie, Sruthi Sivarajan, Satish Anamalamudi

“…Partial Dependence Plots (PDP) also caught detailed non-linear relationships among water quality parameters. …”
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Kinetic-hybrid Simulations of Counterpropagating Ion Cyclotron Waves and Proton Scattering in the Near-Sun Solar Wind by Yifan Wu, Chen Shi, Xin Tao, Jinsong Zhao

“…To address this limitation, we employ kinetic-hybrid simulations to replicate the generation and evolution of counterpropagating ICWs under typical plasma conditions in the near-Sun solar wind. Following the linear growth phase, the simulated waves exhibit amplitude and polarization characteristics that closely match the observations. …”
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Prediction of Remaining Service Life of Miniature Circuit Breakers Based on Wiener Process by Lin Ma, Linming Hou, Puquan He, Changxian Wang, Zhenhua Xie, Yao Wang

“…In order to accurately predict the remaining electrical life of MCBs in service, MCB mechanical characterization and dynamic simulation are carried out, and the initial closing angle of MCBs is selected as the degradation characteristic quantity, so as to deeply analyze the evolutionary characteristics of the initial closing angle in the degradation of MCBs and to construct the electrical degradation model of the one-dimensional linear Wiener process in the present study. With the help of the Monte Carlo method, we carry out the electric life simulation analysis to investigate the intrinsic correlation between the degradation of electric performance and the initial closing angle, and we implement the electric life experiment under the 63 A working condition to analyze the dynamic change in the stiffening angle of the test samples. …”
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Agent-Based Control of Interaction Areas in Intralogistics: Concept, Implementation and Simulation by Felix Gehlhoff, Niklas Jobs, Vincent Henkel

“…For benchmarking, a First Come, First Served heuristic and a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) method are also implemented. …”
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Healthcare and productivity costs among Canadian road trauma survivors over the year following injury by Somayeh Momenyan, Herbert Chan, John A. Taylor, John A. Staples, Stirling Bryan, Devin R. Harris, Jeffrey R. Brubacher

“…Outcomes were analyzed with a generalized linear model and quantile regression. We found that average healthcare costs during the year following RT were $19,280 (median $3,791). …”
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Evaluating the Opportunities and Challenges of Domestic PV Installation in Saudi Arabia Based on Field Deployment in Jeddah by Abdulsalam Alghamdi, Luke S. Blunden, Majbaul Alam, AbuBakr S. Bahaj, Patrick A. B. James

“…For each villa, 18 months of electrical consumption and ambient temperature were available pre-installation, followed by 24 months of post-installation PV system monitoring, including incident radiation, generation, and import from the grid. A linear model of the consumption of the villas fitted between 0.016 and 0.019 kWh/m² per cooling degree day, with varying levels of interception. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF NONPARAMETRIC PATH FUNCTION USING HYBRID TRUNCATED SPLINE AND KERNEL FOR MODELING WASTE-TO-ECONOMIC VALUE BEHAVIOR by Usriatur Rohma, Adji Achmad Rinaldo Fernandes, Suci Astutik, Solimun Solimun

“…Nonparametric path analysis is performed if the data does not fulfill the linearity assumption.  This study aims to determine the best nonparametric path function with a hybrid truncated spline and kernel approach among EV values of 0.5; 0.8; and 1. …”
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Global bases for nonplanar loop integrands, generalized unitarity, and the double copy to all loop orders by Zvi Bern, Enrico Herrmann, Radu Roiban, Michael S. Ruf, Mao Zeng

“…Specifically, we can directly read off the coefficients of basis elements without resorting to ansätze or solving linear equations. This novel approach allows us to lift generalized unitarity cuts — expressed as products of tree amplitudes — to loop-level integrands, facilitating the use of the tree-level double copy to generate complete gravitational integrands at any loop order. …”
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Electrodeposition of Au Nanoparticles on 2D Layered Materials and Their Applications in Electrocatalysis of Nitrite by Oana Elena Carp, Mirela-Fernanda Zaltariov, Mariana Pinteala, Adina Arvinte

“…The electrocatalytic activity of gold nanoparticles co-deposited with MoS₂ is superior compared to that of gold nanoparticles deposited either on bare gold electrodes or on 2D materials (graphene and MoS₂), showing good performance with a specific sensitivity of 1.043 μA µM⁻¹ cm⁻² on the linear range of 0.5–600 µM nitrite, with a limit of detection of 0.16 µM and good anti-interference ability.…”
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A Variable Extractant Providing Method for On-The-Go Soil Nitrate Analysis Systems by Saadettin Yıldırım

“…Analysis of variance was performed to determine significance of each variable, namely pulse duration and air pressure. Step wise linear regression analysis was used to develop calibration models for the prediction of extractant mass. …”
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Incidence of hyponatremia with vasopressin exposure in critically ill pediatric patients for postoperative cardiac support and shock management: A single-center, retrospective, cas... by Gustavo R. Alvira-Arill, Nian S. Chang, Helen Y. Lee, Nicole Tomas, Sharmeen Y. Roy, Balagangadhar R. Totapally

“…Differences in characteristics associated with hyponatremia were assessed through the generalized linear models with binomial distribution. Results: In this study, 134 patients who received vasopressin for postoperative cardiac support or shock management were assessed and 28 (21%) patients developed hyponatremia during exposure. …”
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Elemental and Isotopic Fingerprints of Potatoes by Cezara Voica, Ioana Feher, Romulus Puscas, Andreea Maria Iordache, Gabriela Cristea

“…Then, to distinguish the geographical origin, the experimental results were statistically processed using linear discriminant analysis (LDA). The best markers that emphasize Romanian potatoes were identified to be δ¹³C_bulk, δ²H_water, and Sr.…”
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