For Good Reason: Analyzing How Students Define Difficulty in RateMyProfessor.com Comments by Alexis Teagarden, Michael Carlozzi

“…  Can student comments help solve a problem that student ratings helped create?  We argue that the comment section of student evaluations of teaching (SET) offers a rich site for studying student perspectives on teaching and learning, particularly how students define and value course and instructor difficulty. …”
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Acoustic emission and crack evolution characteristics of cemented tailings backfill under different loading rates by Shenghua YIN, Yun ZHOU, Xiaobing YANG, Wei CHEN, Junwei CHEN

“…To investigate the dynamic regulation mechanism of loading rate on crack evolution in cemented tailings backfill (CTB), uniaxial compression tests with acoustic emission (AE) monitoring were conducted at loading rates v of 0.002, 0.004, 0.008, and 0.010 mm/s. …”
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Dysphagia education in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: student self-competency ratings during their dysphagia course by Sana Smaoui, Sandhya Ganesan, Trish Williams

“…The objectives of this study were to explore patterns in self-perceived competency ratings for SLT students at AAU and determine the impact of clinical experiences during student training. …”
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MODELING OPEN UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN KALIMANTAN ISLAND USING NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION WITH FOURIER SERIES ESTIMATOR by Rahmania Rahmania, Sifriyani Sifriyani, Andrea Tri Rian Dani

“…Furthermore, based on the results of parameter significance testing either simultaneously or partially, it shows that all predictor variables have a significant effect on the open unemployment rate. The predictor variables include the labor force participation rate, the average length of schooling, the percentage of poor people, economic growth rate, and total population.…”
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The Effect of Pain on the Relationship Between Triage Acuity and Emergency Department Hospitalization Rate and Length of Stay by Yan-He Lin, Nai-Wen Ku, Chia-Hsin Ko, Eric H. Chou, Chih-Hung Wang, Tsung-Chien Lu, Chien-Hua Huang, Chu-Lin Tsai

“…Triage level 1 was associated with the highest rate of hospitalization (35%), with a gradual decrease in hospitalization rate from levels 2 to 4. …”
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Effect of Initial Scratch on Ship Bottom Plate Corrosion Rate and Structural Crashworthiness in Grounding Incidents by Ocid MURSID, Dean Nadhif ALFARIS, Tuswan TUSWAN, Ahmad Fauzan ZAKKI, Aulia WINDYANDARI, Karno R. MALAU, Haris NUBLI

“…Based on seawater corrosion experiments, the plate's corrosion rate increases quadratically with the scratch area, which is then used for grounding simulations. …”
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Assessment of Future Flood Loss in the Daqing River Basin Based on Flood Loss Rate Function by SHI Rongqing, HUANG Lingmei, LI Jia, SHEN Ao

“…The multiple regression function effectively captures the variation pattern of flood loss rates, with a coefficient of determination (<italic>R</italic>²) ≥ 0.89 and a root mean square error (RMSE) ≤ 0.047 3. …”
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The relationship between sleep time and self-rated health: an analysis based on Italian survey data by Guido Citoni

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Maximizing the Information Transfer Rate of a Myoelectric Classification System for Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury by Jonathan Eby, Jose Zariffa

“…The objectives of this study were: 1) demonstrate that optimizing the design parameters of a myoelectric control system (number of gestures, gesture rate) for each participant can increase the information transfer rate (ITR), and 2) characterize the relationship between the optimal design parameters and the pattern of impairment. …”
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Endplate morphology affects the risk of complications by changing the grafted bony occupancy rate in OLIF patients by Xiao Hu, Haiying Fu, Run Lin, Liyu Ran, Xingrui Peng, Tianhang Xie, Jiancheng Zeng

“…The relationship between endplate morphology parameters and GBOR values was significant. The nonfusion rate was significantly higher in the superior endplate. …”
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Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Is Associated With Higher R2 Relaxation Rate: An MRI and Pathology Study by Md Tahmid Yasar, Arnold M. Evia, Mahir Tazwar, Sue E. Leurgans, David A. Bennett, Julie A. Schneider, Konstantinos Arfanakis

“…Transverse relaxation rate (R2) is a major source of contrast in MRI. This study tested the hypothesis that CAA is associated with R2, extracted the spatial pattern of CAA‐related R2 abnormalities, and evaluated R2 at different CAA severity levels in a large number of community‐based older adults. …”
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Numerical assessments of scour depth predictions downstream of box culverts under various flow and blockage conditions by Kaywan Othman Ahmed, Mohammad Reza Kavianpour, Ata Amini, Younes Aminpour

“…The analysis revealed that predictions from numerical models corresponded closely with experimental outcomes, although the scour depths calculated by the models were generally lower than those observed under both steady and unsteady flow conditions. While blockage rates notably impacted scour patterns in the first hydrograph of unsteady flows, increasing blockage percentages did not reliably result in proportional increases in scour depth, as seen in the second hydrograph for unsteady and both steady flow conditions.…”
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Molecular evolution of TRPC4 regulatory sequences supports a role in mammalian thermoregulatory adaptation by Robert S. Cornman

“…In descendant eutherian mammals, Trpc4 became far more constrained, with an evolutionary rate less than half that of tetrapod clades lacking NST, a pattern was not seen in other Trp channel genes. …”
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A cross-national analysis of demographic variation in self-rated mental health across 22 countries by Chukwuemeka N. Okafor, Ducel Jean-Berluche, Jason Paltzer, Elizabeth Kwon, Nikolitsa Grigoropoulou, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Byron R. Johnson

“…However, other patterns, such as the distribution of self-rated mental health by marital status, vary by country. …”
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Dynamics of Regional Business Cycles in Colombian Cities: Identification of Growth Rates, Recession Propagation, and Cluster Analysis by Juan David Valencia Beltrán

“…First, we find heterogeneous values by identifying expansion and recession growth rates using employment and economic covariables. …”
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Temporal coding carries more stable cortical visual representations than firing rate over time by Hanlin Zhu, Fei He, Pavlo Zolotavin, Saumil Patel, Andreas S. Tolias, Lan Luan, Chong Xie

“…However, previous studies report varying degrees of gradual neural activity changes over time in slow dynamic (1-5 seconds) firing rate code. Here we show that temporal codes, which capture structures in visually evoked fast (tens of milliseconds) spiking patterns, support the stability of visual representations. …”
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MODELING TOTAL FERTILITY RATE IN INDONESIA: A COMPARISON OF FOURIER SERIES REGRESSION AND ELASTIC NET REGRESSION by Fadhilah Fitri, Melin Wanike Ketrin, Mawanda Almuhayar

“…The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) describes population growth and socioeconomic development of a country. …”
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Lethality level casualty assessment method for earthquake landslide hazards based on the expansion effect of the mortality rate by Xia Chaoxu, Qi Wenhua, Li Huayue, Nie Gaozhong

“…Through analysis of historical earthquake records, we determined the proportions of fatalities attributed to different causes, integrating seismic intensity data, population distribution information, to establish intensity-dependent mortality rates for earthquake-triggered landslides. We systematically compiled the spatial distribution patterns, occurrence frequency, and density characteristics of landslides induced by historical earthquakes through field surveys and literature analysis. …”
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Strain rate sensitivity metrics of PSU and PPSU high-performance polymers in extrusion-based additive manufacturing by Nectarios Vidakis, Markos Petousis, Nikolaos Mountakis, Maria Spyridaki, Ioannis Valsamos, Emmanuel Kymakis

“…Besides the thermal evaluation of the filaments, the samples were examined through scanning electron microscopy to document and identify their failure patterns. The findings indicate that both PSU and PPSU exhibit remarkable strain rate sensitivity. …”
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Validity of smartwatch-derived estimates of lactate threshold heart rate and pace compared to graded exercise testing by Changda Lu, Wei Cui, Zheng Zhu, Yiwei Wu, Qingjun Xing, Bingyu Pan, Bingyu Pan, Yanfei Shen, Yanfei Shen

“…One hundred healthy recreational runners underwent indoor graded exercise tests followed by outdoor tests using Huawei (n = 100), Garmin (n = 23), and Coros (n = 17) smartwatches to compare differences in testing protocols and LT HR and LT Pace.ResultsThe success rates for a single test were 78% for Huawei®, 65.22% for Garmin®, and 47.06% for Coros®. …”
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