Background/Objectives: Cancer is a dynamic and complex disease that remains largely untreated despite major advances in oncology and treatment. In this context, we aimed here to investigate optimal control techniques in the management of tumor growth...
Background/Objectives: X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), the most frequent heritable cause of hypophosphatemic rickets, is characterized by impaired linear growth and skeletal deformities, that can lead to disproportionate short stature. Linear growth...
30 September 2019
Ensuring normal linear growth is one of the major therapeutic aims in the management of type one diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in children and adolescents. Many studies in the literature have shown that pediatric patients with T1DM frequently present some...
In this paper, we consider the general mean-field backward doubly stochastic differential equations (mean-field BDSDEs) whose generator f can be discontinuous in y. We prove the existence theorem of solutions under stochastic linear growth conditions...
Background: Linear growth during childhood is a key indicator of health status and child development, and liquid cow’s milk has been proposed as a potentially relevant dietary component for this outcome. In this systematic review, we aimed to s...
To our knowledge, the relationships among soil zinc, serum zinc and children’s linear growth have not been studied geographically or at a national level in any country. We use data from the cross-sectional, nationally representative Ethiopian N...
Fission yeast is commonly used as a model organism in eukaryotic cell growth studies. To describe the cells’ length growth patterns during the mitotic cycle, different models have been proposed previously as linear, exponential, bilinear and biexpone...
In the current study, the genetic architecture of growth and linear type traits were investigated in Akkaraman sheep. Estimations of genomic heritability, genetic correlations, and phenotypic correlations were implemented for 17 growth and linear typ...
This study presents the growth data of indigenous Bargur cattle calves maintained at the Bargur Cattle Research Station, Tamil Nadu, India. Bargur cattle are an endangered breed known for their adaptability to hilly environments and production potent...
This paper proposed an efficient two-dimensional fatigue crack growth simulation program for linear elastic materials using an incremental crack growth procedure. The Visual Fortran programming language was used to develop the finite element code. Th...
Food-based interventions to improve linear growth are most often applied in low- and middle-income countries. However, not all food interventions have been proven to be effective in promoting linear growth. This study aimed to assess the impact and e...
Background and aims: Childhood and adolescence are critical periods for linear growth and preventing stunting. Current evidence indicates that dietary protein intake in children and adolescents is often two to three times higher than the recommendati...
In applying a hierarchical mixed model to genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) of longitudinal data, dimensionality reduction through modeling repeated measurements improves both computational efficiency and statistical power. Legendre polynomials...
Given an unbounded non-decreasing positive function
Limited evidence is available on the associations of high-quality protein and energy intake, serum transthyretin (TTR), serum amino acids and serum insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) with linear growth of young children. Data collected during the b...
Linear mixed-effects modeling has been used to characterize fish growth changes over time, but early studies did not fully consider the implicit relationship among the three major factors of fish age, year-class, and sampling year in model developmen...
13 December 2017
The non-linear relationship between provincial economic growth and carbon emissions is investigated by using panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) models. The research indicates that, on the condition of separately taking Gross Domestic Product p...
Low-temperature growth of diamond films using the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method is not so widely reported and its initial periods of nucleation and growth phenomenon are of particular interest to the researchers. Four sets of substrates were...
Background: The juvenile-pubertal period is a critical window for linear growth and bone mass accumulation. This study investigated the joint effects of folic acid (FA) and colostrum basic protein (CBP)-fortified milk powder on growth, bone health, a...
In the Al alloy A2024-T3 extruded material, a rod-like structure is generated parallel to the extrusion direction. In this study, the effects of rod-like structures on fatigue crack initiation and growth behavior were comprehensively investigated. Tw...
Linear growth is a complex process and is considered one of the best indicators of children’s well-being and health. Genetics, epigenetics and environment (mainly stress and availability of nutrients) are the main regulators of growth. Nutritio...
In this article, two well-known standard models with continuous time, which are proposed by two Nobel laureates in economics, Robert M. Solow and Robert E. Lucas, are generalized. The continuous time standard models of economic growth do not account...
Water resource and environment capacity have become two of the most important restrictions for sustainable development in resource-based cities whose leading industries are the exploitation and processing of resources. Taking Ordos in China as an exa...
This study characterizes the growth of weaned Large White × Landrace hybrid piglets from 6 to 20 kg live body weight (BW) under real farm conditions. Batches of 50 castrated male pigs and 50 gilts were weighed repeatedly over two 6-week breedin...
This paper analyzes the causal link between aggregated and disaggregated levels of energy consumption and economic growth in Mexico between 1965 and 2014, with the presence of structural breaks stemming from the series. To that end, unit root with st...
Layered flows that are commonly observed in stratified turbulence are susceptible to the Taylor–Caulfield Instability. While the modal stability properties of layered shear flows have been examined, the non-modal growth of perturbations has not...
We investigate the linear Rayleigh–Taylor instability within the framework of two-dimensional viscous primitive equations (VPE) under hydrostatic approximation, which govern large-scale oceanic and atmospheric flows. For steady quiescent backgr...
25 September 2024
Despite existing research on child undernutrition in the tropics, a comprehensive understanding of how weather patterns impact childhood growth remains limited. This study summarizes and estimates the effect of rainfall and temperature patterns on ch...
Stunting remains a major public health issue for pre-school children globally. Dairy product consumption is suboptimal in China. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dairy intake and linear growth in Chinese pre-school ch...
The unicellular microalga Phaeodactylum tricornutum exhibits the ability to accumulate triacylglycerols to a high specific content when nutrients are limited in the culture medium. Therefore, the organism is a promising candidate for biodiesel produc...
We revisit the problem of studying the solutions growth order in complex higher order linear differential equations with entire and meromorphic coefficients of
This paper presents computational modeling of a crack growth path under mixed-mode loadings in linear elastic materials and investigates the influence of a hole on both fatigue crack propagation and fatigue life when subjected to constant amplitude l...
Background: Our study intended to investigate the null hypothesis that there is no effect of diet consistency on rat mandibular growth. Methods: A total sample of 24 female wistar rats, 30 days old, was used in this study. In the first group, the rat...
China is a country with one of the most disaster losses in the world. In this paper, a comprehensive evaluation of disaster losses in China was carried out based on the TOPSIS model of entropy weight. Then, linear and nonlinear models were establishe...
The main objective of this work was to present a numerical modelling of crack growth path in linear elastic materials under mixed-mode loadings, as well as to study the effect of presence of a hole on fatigue crack propagation and fatigue life in a m...
The aim of this study was to investigate the potential non-linear relationship between growth and walking ability (WA). The phenotypic data included body weights at 12 and 20 weeks and WA at 20 weeks of age measured on 276,059 male turkeys. The growt...
Fish is a good animal-source protein for growth and development. The main objective of the study was to assess the efficacy of fish during the early complementary feeding period on infants’ linear growth in the Samfya district of the Luapula Pr...
Zinc supplementation in children in endemic area of zinc deficiency had been reported of growth enhancement; however, the results were inconsistence. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of zinc supplementation on growth of school-aged children....
Data on the impact of the ketogenic diet (KD) on children’s growth remain controversial. Here, we retrospectively investigated the occurrence of linear growth retardation in 34 children (47% males; age range: 2−17 years) diagnosed with dr...
The development of a country’s economy is directly related to the use of energy in that country’s economic sectors. Therefore, the energy–environmental Kuznets curve (EEKC) is often used when analysing a country’s potential an...
This paper contributes to a wide range of studies on Cohesion policy (CP) outcomes by proposing a new approach to directly examine its effect on convergence. We extended the non-linear specification of the conditional β-convergence model by introduci...
We aim to accelerate the linear equation solver for crack growth simulation based on the phase field model. As a first step, we analyze the properties of the coefficient matrices and prove that they are symmetric positive definite. This justifies the...
Automated greenhouse production systems frequently employ non-destructive techniques, such as computer vision-based methods, to accurately measure plant physiological properties and monitor crop growth. By utilizing an automated image acquisition and...
Eucalyptus globulus Labill. is one of the most important species in the paper industry. Teratosphaeria nubilosa has affected plantations worldwide, infecting young foliage. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are essential to identify genomi...
The paper examines the impact of foreign direct investment and environmental pollution on economic growth in an emerging economy. We used annual data covering the period of 1986–2020 and the non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) to...
Background/Objectives: Pediatric obesity is linked to adverse metabolic outcomes and altered growth trajectories. Conventional weight-reduction strategies often raise concerns regarding potential impairment of linear growth, highlighting the need for...
Background/Objectives: Malnutrition is common in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and may affect growth, disease severity, and clinical outcomes. The aim of our study was to assess nutritional status and linear growth at diagnosis and duri...
Many researchers’ attentions have been attracted to various growth properties of meromorphic solution f (of finite
Linear growth is traditionally attributed to the growth hormone (GH)/insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) axis, yet “growth without GH” is documented. We report five patients with severe GH deficiency—one congenital and four acquire...
Peruvian fresh blueberry exports have expanded rapidly since 2012, yet strong seasonality and price–volume fluctuations continue to complicate trade planning and export decision-making, thereby threatening the long-term economic sustainability...
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