Correlations Between Cooling Rate, Dendritic Spacing and Hardness in a Brass Alloy for a Variety of Cooling Conditions by Rodrigo André Valenzuela Reyes, Gustavo Paiva Roseiro, Guilherme Lisboa de Gouveia, José Eduardo Spinelli

“…The ratios between GS and DS have been analyzed and correlated with hardness variations as a function of the solidification rates. Additionally, SEM-EDS and CALPHAD analyses elucidate the formation of phases and Zn segregation patterns under varying cooling conditions. …”
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A Study on Denoising Autoencoder Noise Selection for Improving the Fault Diagnosis Rate of Vibration Time Series Data by Jun-gyo Jang, Soon-sup Lee, Se-Yun Hwang, Jae-chul Lee

“…Both Gaussian and high-frequency noise were used to train separate DAE models, and statistical features (mean, RMS, standard deviation, kurtosis, skewness) were extracted from the denoised signals. The fault diagnosis rates were calculated using One-Class Support Vector Machines (OC-SVM) for performance comparison. …”
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Regression Analysis of Heat Release Rate for Box-Type Power Bank Based on Experimental and Machine Learning Methods by Shihan Luo, Hua Chen, Xiaobing Mao, Wenbing Zhu, Yuanyi Xie, Wenbin Wei, Mengmeng Jiang, Chenyang Zhang, Chaozhe Jiang

“…This study uses experimental testing and machine learning regression analysis to explore the heat release rate (HRR) characteristics and influencing factors of box-type power banks under fire conditions. …”
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Modeling of critical sand-carrying flow rate of gas-liquid-solid three-phase flow in an inclined pipe by Guowei Wang, Yong Zhang, Junwei Sun, Qi Xia, Manlai Zhang, Ruiquan Liao

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Mechanical Response and Elastocaloric Performance of Ni-Ti Shape Memory Alloy Sheets Under Varying Strain Rates by Gianmarco Bizzarri, Girolamo Costanza, Ilaria Porroni, Maria Elisa Tata

“…Results suggest distinct rate-dependent patterns in transformation stresses and energy dissipation characteristics across different strain rates. …”
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Salivary Immunoglobulin A Secretion Rate Is Negatively Associated with Cancer Mortality: The West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study. by Anna C Phillips, Douglas Carroll, Mark T Drayson, Geoff Der

“…SIgA concentration revealed a similar but weaker pattern of association. In the present study, higher secretion rates of sIgA were associated with a decreased risk of death from cancer, specifically non-lung cancer, as well as from respiratory disease. …”
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ARIMA based projection of infant mortality rate by the year 2030: a comparative analysis of India and Madhya Pradesh by Abhinav Bahuguna, Akanksha Uniyal, Vidisha Vallabh

“…Methods This paper forecasts the Infant mortality rate (IMR) of India and MP by the year 2030 through autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model after obtaining stationarity by differencing the series of IMR once. …”
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High Gastrointestinal Colonization Rate of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci among Hospitalized Patients: Potential Source for Resistant Gene by Techilo Habtemariam Mengesha, Musa Mohammed Ali, Mulugeta Mengistu, Demissie Assegu Fenta

“…Therefore; this study was aimed to determine the gastrointestinal colonization rate of VRE, its antimicrobial susceptibility profile, and associated factors among hospitalized patients. …”
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Forecasting Inflation Rate Using Support Vector Regression (SVR) Based Weight Attribute Particle Swarm Optimization (WAPSO) by Erlin Mega Priliani, Anggyi Trisnawan Putra, Much Aziz Muslim

“…Data mining is the process of finding patterns or interesting information in selected data by using a particular technique or method. …”
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Ragweed pollen rain impact on allergy rate and severity in Krasnodar: a three-year non-randomised controlled study by Ya. V. Klimenko, N. O. Milchenko, A. N. Moroz, I. I. Pavlyuchenko, E. A. Alekseenko

“…Anthesis in ragweed moderately correlates with the rate of medical visits.…”
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Influence of lighting on sleep behaviour, circadian rhythm and spontaneous blink rate in stabled riding school horses (Equus caballus). by Linda Greening, Eilis Harkin, Panoraia Kyriazopoulou, Zoe Heppelthwaite, Francesca Aragona, John A Browne, Andrew Hemmings, Jane M Williams, Barbara A Murphy

“…During week 4 of each experimental period, spontaneous blink rate was recorded twice for 30 min, behaviour of horses in their stables was recorded continuously for 72 h, and hair samples for circadian clock gene analysis were collected at 4-h intervals for 52 h. …”
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Quantifying drivers of long-term changes in tropical cyclone intensification rates over the North Atlantic using the EBDS model by Kexin Song, Ruifen Zhan, Yuqing Wang, Jing Xu

“…Tropical cyclone (TC) intensification rate (IR) critically influences TC intensity, yet the key factors governing its long-term variations over the North Atlantic (NA) remain poorly understood. …”
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Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids among primary healthcare workers in Johannesburg health district: High rate of underreporting by Collins C.E. Mbah, Zuberu B. Elabor, Olufemi B. Omole

“…The aim of this study was to determine the rate of BBF exposure, the extent of reporting and the reasons for not reporting among HCWs in PHC facilities in Johannesburg, South Africa. …”
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Growth analysis of sideoats grama [Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr.] in different plant strata by Sait JUANES-MARQUEZ, Perpetuo ÁLVAREZ-VÁZQUEZ, José E. GARCÍA-MARTÍNEZ, Filogonio J. HERNÁNDEZ-GUZMÁN, Juan A. ENCINA-DOMÍNGUEZ, Josué I. GARCÍA-LÓPEZ

“…Leaf area index (LAI), specific leaf area (SLA), leaf area duration (LAD), biomass duration (BDM), absolute growth rate (AGR), relative growth rate (RGR), net assimilation rate (NAR), and crop growth rate (CGR), were measured at 14-day intervals over 120 days after sowing (DAS). …”
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A repeating earthquake catalog for Northern Chile by Jonas Folesky, Jörn Kummerow, Laurens Jan Hofman

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antibiotic prescription rates in out-of-hours primary care – a register-based study in Denmark by Emil Krogh, Katrine Bjørnshave Bomholt, Mette Amalie Nebsbjerg, Claus Høstrup Vestergaard, Morten Bondo Christensen, Linda Huibers

“…Further research should explore if antibiotic prescription rates have returned to pre-pandemic levels, and if the introduction of video consultations has affected antibiotic prescription patterns in OOH primary care.…”
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Improved Culture Positivity Rate after Modified Culture Technique of Dialysis Effluent Fluid in Peritoneal Dialysis-related Peritonitis Cases by Shilpi Gupta, Nandita Hazra

“…The purpose of the present study is to compare the culture positivity rate before and after implementation of revised International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis guidelines, 2016 as well as to study the etiology and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of causative organisms in our center. …”
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Budget Impact Analysis of Treatment Flow Optimization in Epilepsy Patients: Estimating Potential Impacts with Increased Referral Rate to Specialized Care by Masaki Iwasaki, Takashi Saito, Akiko Tsubota, Tatsunori Murata, Yuta Fukuoka, Kazutaka Jin

“…# Objectives We developed a Markov model to simulate a treatment flow of epilepsy patients who refer to specialized care from non-specialized care, and to surgery from specialized care for estimation of patient distributions and expenditures caused by increasing the referral rate for specialized care. # Methods This budget impact analysis of treatment flow optimization in epilepsy patients was performed as a long-term simulation using the Markov model by comparing the current treatment flow and the optimized treatment flow. …”
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Can heart rate variability demonstrate the effects and the levels of mindfulness? A repeated-measures study on experienced and novice mindfulness practitioners by Yanping Wei, Yifei Xu, Wanlin Chen, Jing Zheng, Hang Chen, Shulin Chen

“…Abstract Background Heart rate variability (HRV) is a potential biomarker that might demonstrate the effects of mindfulness, but it might be influenced by practice experiences. …”
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Relationship Between Leaf C/N Ratio and Insecticidal Protein Expression in Bt Cotton as Affected by High Temperature and N Rate by Xiang ZHANG, Chun-hua LÜ, Yuan CHEN, Gui-xia WANG, Yuan CHEN, De-hua CHEN

“…C/N ratio and Bt protein content were both measured at peak square period and peak boll period respectively under 5-7 d high temperature and different nitrogen fertilizer rates on the Yangzhou University Farm and the Ludong Cotton Farm, China. …”
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