Characterization of engineering properties and modeling mass and fruit fraction of wood apple (Limonia acidissima) fruit for post-harvest processing by Sahithi Murakonda, Gopesh Patel, Madhuresh Dwivedi

“…The fruit has less coefficient of friction on galvanized steel (0.17) and angle of repose is measured to be 55.16. …”
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Multi-Modalities in Mobile Technology for Assisted Learning Performance in Higher Education in China by Ruichen Yuan, Habibah Ab Jalil, Muhd Khaizer Omar

“…Mobile technology, especially mobile learning, has long been an emerging and thriving field, and remains a main theme in mobile learning applications and systems. …”
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Contextual Regularization-Based Energy Optimization for Segmenting Breast Tumor in DCE-MRI by Priyadharshini Babu, Mythili Asaithambi, Sudhakar Mogappair Suriyakumar

“…The complexity analysis of CRBEO with time and space has justified its extension to real-time clinical diagnosis.…”
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Exploring Physics-Informed Neural Networks for the Generalized Nonlinear Sine-Gordon Equation by Alemayehu Tamirie Deresse, Tamirat Temesgen Dufera

“…To incorporate physical information for the sine-Gordon equation, a multiobjective loss function has been defined consisting of the residual of governing partial differential equation (PDE), initial conditions, and various boundary conditions. …”
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Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system variations in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with different complications and treatments: Implications for glucose metabolism. by Ningning Wang, Junhui Li, Erjun Tian, Shutong Li, Shuai Liu, Fei Cao, Junfeng Kong, Baohong Yue

“…Statistical analyses, including Spearman rank correlation and multiple linear regression, were conducted to assess the relationship between RAAS components and glucose metabolism indexes such as HbA1c, FBG, CP, HOMA-β, HOMA-IR, and UACR.…”
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SIZE DISTRIBUTION AND SORTING DEGREE OF THE RECENT SEDIMENTS OF AL-KHAZER RIVER/ NORTHERN IRAQ by Khalid F. Hassan

“…Numerical treatment of grain size curves has been done on the basis of some quintiles read from the empirical cumulative distribution function (CDF) curve: phi median size, sorting, skewness and kurtosis. …”
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Growth Hormone Therapy for Paediatric Growth Disorders: The Past, Present, and Future by Martin O. Savage, Abdullah Alherbish

“…Abnormal pituitary function was linked to excessive height and acromegaly in the late 19th century. …”
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Oscillation rheometry of curing process of epoxy binders modified with polyetherimide by S. V. Polunin, K. A. Atamas, I. Yu. Gorbunova, P. A. Morozova, K. M. Marakhovsky

“…The storage modulus and loss modulus of epoxyamine systems were measured as a function of curing time on the Anton Paar MCR 302 rheometer. …”
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On the Expressiveness of the Approach to Constructing PLC-programs by LTL-Specification by E. V. Kuzmin, D. A. Ryabukhin, V. A. Sokolov

“…This approach provides an ability of correctness analysis of PLC-programs by the model checking method. The linear temporal logic LTL is used as a language of specification of the program behavior. …”
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Association between herbicide exposure and liver enzyme levels in a middle-aged and elderly population by Weiya LI, Zhuoya ZHAO, Xu CHENG, Jun AN, Shiyang ZHANG, Chengyong JIA, Meian HE

“…BackgroundThe widespread use of herbicides has led to environmental contamination and has implications for human health. …”
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LEGAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY: UKRAINIAN AND EUROPEAN DIMENSIONS by Olena Hafurova, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Tamara Novak

“…Firstly, there is an objective need today to find an effective alternative to the linear economic model, which is based on intensive extraction and use of resources, followed by waste disposal, and which has a negative impact on the environment and depletes natural resources. …”
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Waiting Time Distribution of Supra-arcade Downflows by Zichao Yang, Rui Liu

“…Based on statistical evaluations, we found that most of the WTDs are best fitted by a power-law function with the slope ranging from 1.7 to 2.4, in accordance with the prediction of nonstationary Poisson processes or self-organized criticality; but often they can also be fitted almost equally well by a log-normal function. …”
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Determination of Steel Losses and Optimization of the Thickness of the Transformer Magnetic Conductor Sheets by S. M. Plotnikov

“…Based on the fact that the dependence of the magnetization loss on the thickness of the magnetic conductor plates is a decreasing linear function, and the eddy current loss is an ascending parabolic function, an expression of the optimal thickness of the plates has been found, the implementation of which makes the losses of steel minimal. …”
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A case of glial fibrillary acidotic protein (GFAP) meningoencephalitis with rheumatoid arthritis by Mehri Salari, Masoud Etemadifar, Reyhaneh Soleymani, Aditya Ashok Murgai, Ronak Rashedi

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Letter from the Editor by Germán A. Prieto

“…Similarly, Oktar and Erdogan use linear trend and wavelet analysis to continuous GNSS data showing both displacements due to tectonic as well as atmospheric and hydrologic effects. …”
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Predicting the Robustness of Large Real-World Social Networks Using a Machine Learning Model by Ngoc-Kim-Khanh Nguyen, Quang Nguyen, Hai-Ha Pham, Thi-Trang Le, Tuan-Minh Nguyen, Davide Cassi, Francesco Scotognella, Roberto Alfieri, Michele Bellingeri

“…., the capacity of a network holding its main functionality when a proportion of its nodes/edges are damaged, is useful in many real applications. …”
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THE PROPOSAL MODEL OF RATIONAL WORKFORCE ASSIGNMENT IN DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY BY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS BASED 0-1 INTEGER PROGRAMMING by Yılmaz GÖKŞEN, Hakan AŞAN, Onur DOĞAN, Mustafa ÜNLÜ, Osman PALA

“…The Assignment model of the type of linear programming models is a mathematical method used to match the right person for the right job. …”
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Multicenter Study Examining Temporal Trends in Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage Over Six Years Using Joinpoint Regression by Timbre Backen, Kristin Salottolo, David Acuna, Carlos H. Palacio, Gina Berg, Andrea Tsoris, Robert Madayag, Kaysie Banton, David Bar-Or

“…Three of the four most prevalent comorbidities significantly increased: hypertension linearly increased 2.1% biannually, functional dependence increased 25.5% biannually through June 2019, and chronic anticoagulant use increased 19.0% biannually through June 2019 and then 3.1% thereafter. …”
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Dynamic Simulation Modeling of Industrial Robot Kinematics in Industry 4.0 by Guang Jin, Shuai Ma, Zhenghui Li

“…To address the problem that each parameter error has different degrees of influence on the end position error, a method is proposed to calculate the influence weight of each parameter error on the end position error based on the MD-H error model. …”
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GENERATION AND COLLECTION OF TOBACCO AEROSOL FOR SHISHA by N. N. Bubnova, M. V. Shkidyuk

“…Qualitative characteristics of tobacco aerosol for shisha are determined by the functional purpose and depend on the component composition of the tobacco mixture and the coal used.The purpose of the research is to develop a methodology for the comprehensive assessment of tobacco for shisha based on modern methods of product quality control and includes the following steps:- monitoring of the studies to determine the component composition of the hookah mixture and the aerosol produced;- analysis of hookah mixture testing modes and development of an aerosol generation protocol;- development of a method for collecting aerosol on a laboratory smoking machine; - quantitative analysis of toxic analytes by HPLC MS / MS method.Methods have been developed for the machine generation and collection of tobacco aerosol for hookah, taking into account low concentrations of the analyzed toxic substances.The expediency of using the HPLC MS / MS method to determine the quantity of the following substances in tobacco aerosol for shisha has been substantiated:- carbonyl compounds (formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acrolein) by detection on an electrospray source in the negative polarity mode- tobacco specific nitrosoamines (NNN and NNK) by detection on an electrospray source in the positive polarity mode.During the research laboratory and analytical equipment was used: a five-channel linear CERULEAN SM 405 smoking machine; Thermo Scientific Dionex UltiMate 3000 liquid chromatograph and TSQ Quantiva mass spectrometer.Obtaining experimental data on the quantitative determination of the component composition of the aerosol produced by tobacco for shisha using hookah systems is relevant for assessing toxic characteristics of the product.…”
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