This paper introduces and studies alternating points of two set-valued mappings acting between two 0-complete strong partial b-metric spaces. An alternating point is a mutually compatible pair of states, each of which belongs to the image of the othe...
The minimum purchase price policy for wheat and rice implemented by the Chinese government has achieved the fundamental goals of stabilizing grain prices, promoting production, and ensuring food security. This policy has also had negative impacts suc...
This paper investigates how market expectations regarding profitability mean reversion are reflected in stock prices. We propose a model that infers implicit expectations of future earnings using publicly available share prices based on the assumptio...
Regression adjustment is often used to estimate average treatment effect (ATE) in randomized experiments. Recently, some penalty-based regression adjustment methods have been proposed to handle the high-dimensional problem. However, these existing hi...
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The available methodologies to estimate the obesity-attributable mortality fraction (OAMF) affect the levels found and hamper the construction of time series. Our aim was to assess the impact of using different techniques to estimate the levels and t...
Information technology (IT) has become common in various economic and social fields, accompanied by the objective of facilitating the development of human society. However, the business value of IT has always been uncertain, with the IT “produc...
The nonlinear ARDL (NARDL) model by Shin et al. tests for asymmetric adjustment by decomposing a forcing variable into cumulated positive and negative changes. We study this linear-in-parameters partial-sum design when the forcing variable is station...
We analyze the relationship of CO2 emissions per capita and primary energy per capita with gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and other relevant variables in Colombia for the period 1971–2017. Two partial adjustment models are estimated th...
Coliform bacteria pollution poses a significant challenge to water quality in the Brunei River, a critical resource in Brunei Darussalam. This study investigates the impact of seasonal variations and population growth on coliform concentrations acros...
Annex A of EN 1992-1-1:2023—recently revised and amended in the context of the Second Generation of Eurocodes—introduces a method to adjust partial safety factors for the resistance side alongside a set of factors for different conditions...
We sought to evaluate the association of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) adjusted for parenchymal mass reduction with long-term renal function in patients undergoing partial nephrectomy. A total of 629 patients undergoing partial nephrectomy...
Spherical parallel robots (SPR) are widely used in industries and robotic rehabilitation. Designing such systems for better balance properties is still a challenge. This paper presents a work to minimize the shaking moment for a fully force-balanced...
This study investigates the impact of countries’ fundamental risk on the speed of adjustment (SOA) towards firms’ target capital structures. Using a dataset comprising 17,747 non-financial firms from 44 countries, this study finds that a...
This study analyzes how changes in oil prices are transmitted to gasoline prices in Korea. We attempt to identify the main causes of the observed price asymmetry and offer plausible theories by investigating price transmission at different levels of...
Problems of low temperature, low pressure, low oxygen, and high carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the air-conditioning (AC) trains of the Qinghai-Tibet railway can affect the health and comfort of passengers and cause altitude sickness. When the...
Warmer growing seasons, variations to grape ripening dynamics, and stylistic changes have contributed to increased wine alcohol levels, which can negatively impact sensory properties. As a consequence, winemakers have sought technological innovations...
Vibration control of composite structures coupled with distributed masses under random excitations is a significant issue. In this paper, partial and ordinary differential coupling equations are obtained from a periodic sandwich plate coupled with su...
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit gut mucosal immune alterations, but the co-regulatory architecture linking stool immune proteins and cytokines within the same cohort remains unstudied. In 115 children (74 ASD, 41 controls; age 5&...
Apples are widely cultivated in the Republic of Korea and are preferred by consumers for their sweetness. Soluble solid content (SSC) is measured non-destructively using near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy; however, the SSC measurement error increases w...
A multivariate CVAR(1) model for some observed variables and some unobserved variables is analysed using its infinite order CVAR representation of the observations. Cointegration and adjustment coefficients in the infinite order CVAR are found as fun...
Pregnancy increases susceptibility to gingival inflammation, and saliva may help characterize associated host-response profiles. This cross-sectional study compared nine salivary proteins and inflammatory mediators between pregnant women with high an...
This study examines whether Moroccan agricultural small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adjust their leverage toward a target capital structure and estimates the speed of adjustment. Drawing on the dynamic trade-off perspective and the partial-a...
This retrospective cohort study examines effectiveness of partial oral antibiotic regimens in uncomplicated bloodstream infections (BSIs) due to Streptococcus species compared to standard intravenous therapy. Adult patients with uncomplicated strepto...
Parental phubbing, as a family risk factor, is associated with adolescents’ mental health. School adjustment represents another important developmental domain among adolescents. Drawing upon ecological systems theory and family systems theory,...
Hydroxyapatite (HA), a typical inorganic component of bone, is a widely utilized biomaterial for bone tissue repair and regeneration due to its excellent properties. Inspired by the recent findings on the important roles of protein in biomineralizati...
The association between lipid levels and uric acid disorders remains controversial. We evaluated the association between dyslipidemia and gout in a large cohort from the Korean National Health Insurance Service-Health Screening Cohort. Among the 514,...
The inequality within the 27 European member states has been studied. Six indicators proclaimed by Eurostat to be the main indicators charactere the countries: (i) the relative median at-risk-of-poverty gap, (ii) the income distribution, (iii) the in...
Background: Sarcopenia, characterized by loss of muscle mass, strength, and function, reduces independence and quality of life in older adults. Strength exercise (STR) mitigates these age-related declines, but evidence of short-term effectiveness rem...
Background: South Korea reports one of the highest adolescent suicide rates among OECD countries. Both psychological factors (perceived stress, depression) and somatic/behavioral factors (atopic disease, obesity, diet, physical activity) have been pr...
Affect recognition has emerged as a potential mechanism underlying the social competence challenges experienced by pediatric brain tumour survivors (PBTSs). However, many social interactions were altered during the pandemic, with the widespread use o...
Background/Objectives: With the globalization of companies, the cross-cultural adjustment of expatriates working overseas is becoming an increasingly important topic. However, little research has been carried out on the brain, which is the source of...
Background/Objectives: Family caregivers of people with schizophrenia experience substantial psychological and practical demands associated with long-term caregiving. This study examined whether participation in a web-based digital psychoeducation pr...
A resilient robot can recover its original function after partial damage of the system. This paper develops an underactuated resilient robot that utilizes a combination of passive joints, active joints, adjustable links, and passive links. A novel me...
The existing physical layer security technology based on fountain codes needs to ensure that the legal channel is superior to the eavesdropping channel; when the quality of the legal channel and the eavesdropping channel are close, the information se...
(1) Background: Carotenoids may be inversely associated with inflammatory markers (i.e., TNF-α, IL-6, IL-1β). However, data are scarce on retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4) in humans. We examined the associations among serum carotenoids, RBP4 and sever...
Residential valuation under the comparison principle requires systematic adjustment for material differences between comparable units. In high-density, high-rise housing markets, however, visual amenities such as harbour and skyline views are often t...
Numerosity processing across small, moderate, and large ranges may relate differently to children’s mathematical ability, but apparent differences may reflect shared developmental variation and task characteristics. We examined numerosity proce...
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The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between coping and anxiety in caregivers of dependent older adult relatives. A cross-sectional study was carried out in the province of Jaén (Andalusia, Spain). The convenience sample consi...
This work presents an alternative to the conventional photovoltaic maximum power point tracking (MPPT) methods, by using an opposition-based learning firefly algorithm (OFA) that improves the performance of the Photovoltaic (PV) system both in the un...
Non-spherical polymer nanoparticles (NPs) have gained attention in various fields, but their fabrication remains challenging. In this study, we present a simple protocol for synthesizing partially etched polystyrene (PS) nanoparticles through emulsio...
In northern Argentina, the assessment of degraded forests is a big challenge for both science and practice, due to their heterogeneous structure. However, new technologies could contribute to mapping post-disturbance canopy cover and basal area in de...
Due to the increasing demand for international education, the number of international students in Korea has been rapidly increasing. Accordingly, well adjusting to college has been a main interest for both academic institutions and international stud...
The goal of this study was to determine how the loss of dates affected food security in Saudi Arabia from 2000 to 2021. The researchers achieved this by using food security indicators, economic equations to quantify agricultural resource losses, and...
Flood frequency analysis using partial series data has been shown to provide better estimates of small to medium magnitude flood events than the annual series, but the annual series is more often employed due to its simplicity. Where partial series a...
Bosten Lake and Taitema Lake are important inland lakes in arid Northwest China, but recent fish-assemblage variation in these systems remains poorly resolved. We surveyed fish communities at 10 sites in Bosten Lake and four sites in Taitema Lake fro...
An adjustable optical cage generated by focusing a partially coherent beam with nonconventional correlation function named the Bessel–Gaussian correlated Schell-model (BGCSM) beam is investigated in detail. With the help of the generalized Huyg...
A new decoding method for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is presented to lower the energy consumption of LDPC decoders for NAND flash-based storage systems. Since the channel condition of NAND flash memory is reliable for most of its lifetime,...
Light detection and ranging (Lidar) spatial coordinates, especially height data, and the intensity data of point clouds are often used for strip adjustment in airborne Lidar. However, inconsistency in the intensity data and then intensity gradient da...
Background/Objectives: Analysis of the density and spatial distribution of pulmonary infiltrates of patients with high-grade (≥3) pneumonitis after radiochemotherapy and durvalumab consolidation (RT/CTx + IO) was performed in order to define dosim...
Background/Objectives: Artificial intelligence (AI) may support rotator cuff MRI interpretation; however, its performance relative to clinicians at different experience levels remains uncertain. We compared a locked YOLO11m-based model with prespecif...
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