Correlations play a pivotal role in various fields of science, particularly in quantum mechanics, yet their proper quantification remains a subject of debate. In this work, we aimed to discuss the challenge of defining a reliable measure of total cor...
Recent studies proposed the use of Total Correlation to describe functional connectivity among brain regions as a multivariate alternative to conventional pairwise measures such as correlation or mutual information. In this work, we build on this ide...
The sampling distribution of the total correlation (TC) for a d-dimensional standardized multivariate Gaussian random variable with an identity covariance matrix is derived. It is shown to be the distribution of a sum of generalized beta random varia...
Hyperspectral image (HSI) quality is generally degraded by diverse noise contamination during acquisition, which adversely impacts subsequent processing performance. Current techniques predominantly rely on nuclear norms and low-rank matrix approxima...
We present a statistical analysis of total column ozone records obtained from satellite measurements and from two global climate chemistry models on global scale. Firstly, a spectral weight analysis is performed where the relative strength of semiann...
Agriculture contributes extensively to the economic development of countries; however, it is one of the main water-consuming industries. Revealing the characteristics and network structure of agricultural water use efficiency (AWUE) is conducive to g...
The measurement of soil total nitrogen (TN) by hyperspectral remote sensing provides an important tool for soil restoration programs in areas with subsided land caused by the extraction of natural resources. This study used the local correlation max...
Electrostatic interactions between dielectric surfaces and different fluorophores used in ultrasensitive fluorescence microscopy are investigated using objective-based Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (TIR-FCS). The int...
Excessive total nitrogen (TN) in water bodies leads to eutrophication, algal blooms, and hypoxia, which pose significant risks to aquatic ecosystems and human health. Accurate real-time TN prediction is crucial for effective water quality management....
The accurate prediction of total phosphorus (TP) is crucial for the early detection of water quality eutrophication. However, predicting TP concentrations among canal sites is challenging due to their complex spatiotemporal dependencies. To address t...
The measurement of green total factor productivity (GTFP) helps to improve environmental evaluation and to supervise environmental protection. This article establishes a system of assessment indicators (AIS) for GTFP and computes the GTFPs of 30 prov...
In this study, we conduct a correlation analysis between the daily occurrence times of the increase and decrease anomalies in the global total electron content (TEC) in the ionosphere, and the daily earthquake energy release within 110–130°...
Grape pomace is a valuable source of various bioactive compounds such as plant-derived polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). The commercial demand of grape skin and seed powders as nutraceuticals is still growing. However, no distincti...
This contribution lays the foundation for the European database of explanted UHMWPE liners from total joint replacements. Three EU countries (Czech Republic, Italy and Spain) have joined their datasets containing anonymized patient data (such as age...
Five antioxidant and two oxidative stress assays were applied to serum samples of 43 healthy males. The antioxidant tests showed different inter-assay correlations. A very good correlation of 0.807 was observed between the ferric reducing ability of...
Using first principles from inference, we design a set of functionals for the purposes of ranking joint probability distributions with respect to their correlations. Starting with a general functional, we impose its desired behavior through the Princ...
Background: Cervical cancer ranks as the fourth most common cancer affecting women globally, with HPV as the primary etiology agent. Prophylactic HPV vaccines have substantially reduced the incidence of cervical cancer. Methods: This study assessed t...
In this review, we discuss the zero and finite temperature behavior of various bipartite quantum and total correlation measures, the skew information-based quantum coherence and the local quantum uncertainty in the thermal ground state of the one-dim...
This article aims to analyze the relationship between fuel consumption (gasoline, diesel, and Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) and total production in Ecuadorian companies that use some fuel in their processes, in addition to quantifying the CO2 emissions...
The paper presents the comparison of quality of six different commercial apple juices produced in Poland. The apple juices came from two different Polish companies. From each manufacturer three various juices were selected: two cloudy and clarified o...
Xanthine oxidase (XOD) is a key enzyme that promotes the oxidation of xanthine/hypoxanthine to form uric acid, and the accumulation of uric acid leads to hyperuricaemia. The prevalence of gout caused by hyperuricaemia is increasing year by year. TAOZ...
The increasingly sophisticated investigations of complex systems require more robust estimates of the correlations between the measured quantities. The traditional Pearson Correlation Coefficient is easy to calculate but is sensitive only to linear c...
The increasingly sophisticated investigations of complex systems require more robust estimates of the correlations between the measured quantities. The traditional Pearson correlation coefficient is easy to calculate but sensitive only to linear corr...
Soil salinization is one of the major geological environmental issues in the coastal area of Panjin City, Liaoning Province. By collecting soil samples from the upper 0–40 cm and conducting total salt content tests, this study summarizes the st...
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is a significant pulse crop in Australia, with an industry value of over AUD 1.3 billion. However, there are few studies investigating the levels of health-benefiting constituents in desi chickpeas and the impacts of var...
Erythroxylum nummularium is a native Brazilian species with limited phytochemical and pharmacological characterization. This study aimed to investigate the chemical composition and biological properties of methanolic extracts and fractions obtained f...
This study evaluates the impact of measurement campaign duration on wind resource characterization using three MCP (Measure–Correlate–Predict) models: Total Least Squares (TLS), Multiple Linear Regression (LR), and Quantile Gradient Boost...
Stationary points for four geometrically different states of methylene: bent and linear triplet methylene, bent and linear singlet methylene were investigated using the highly reliable post-HF CCSD(T) method. Extrapolations to the CCSD(T) basis set (...
The 27-day oscillation in total electron content (TEC) is analysed by means of world maps of TEC. The TEC maps are derived from measurements of the ground receiver network of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and are provided by the Inter...
Antioxidant activity (AOA) in fruits of Sambucus nigra and several new elderberry interspecific hybrids involving S. javanica (JA), S. nigra subsp. nigra (NI), S. nigra subsp. nigra ‘Black Beauty’ (BB), S. nigra subsp. cerulea (CER) and S. racemosa (...
Previous pepper studies indicated that biomass production and the amounts of bioactive compounds were dependent on light sources, maturity processes and pepper genotypes. However, the above topic has received little attention in supplemental light ve...
Although spice extracts are well known to exhibit antibacterial properties, there is lack of a comprehensive evaluation of the antibacterial effect of spices against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In the present study, ethanolic extracts from a total...
The degradation of Zinc Oxide Surge Arresters (ZnOSA) is commonly detected by the resistive component of its leakage current ‘Ir’. The methods previously employed to extract the resistive component of the leakage current were intricate an...
Fast-food establishments today often sell fried food without proper control over the frying oil, and french fries are a prime example. Neglecting the maintenance of frying oil can lead to decreased taste, health concerns, and operational inefficienci...
We investigate the effect of the interatomic distances and thermal reservoir on the coherence dynamics of the atoms considering the dipole–dipole interaction (DDI) and collective damping effect (CDE). We show that the control and protection of...
Vietnam has diverse and long-established tea plantations but scientific data on the characteristics of Vietnamese teas are still limited. Chemical and biological properties including total polyphenol and flavonoid contents (TPCs and TFCs), antioxidan...
Scientists express concern about increasing levels of greenhouse gases mainly due to fossil fuel consumption and deforestation. In response to the latter, policy-makers have introduced a range of policy measures to conserve and enhance forest ecosyst...
Crop production is directly associated with the improvement of germplasm, which is mainly reliant on genetic diversity. Diversity among various genotypes has been investigated employing a variety of statistical approaches. The most widely utilized of...
Systemic low-grade inflammation plays a key role in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) but the process may be modulated by consuming fermented soy foods. Here, we aim to evaluate the effect of a fermented soy powder Q-CAN® on inflamm...
This paper presents a novel method for determining parameters and uncertainty bands of nonlinear functions fitted to data obtained from measurements. In this procedure, one or two new variables are implemented to linearize this function for using the...
Soybean is a critical economic, oil and industrial raw material crop, yet its production is often hindered by pathogen infection and pesticide residues. This study explored the synergistic effects of Rhizophagus intraradices and mycorrhizal helper ba...
Consumers are showing increasing awareness of the concept of ‘functional foods’: foods that can provide health benefits in addition to their nutritional value. There is particular demand for foods with a high antioxidant and phenolic cont...
Background/Objectives: Accurate measurement of total protein (TP) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is crucial for diagnosing various neurological conditions. This study aims to evaluate the concordance between a routine colorimetric method and a recently...
In Mexico, there is a deficit in the production of pine resin, because it relies on natural forests only. Therefore, it is necessary to select provenances and phenotypes of potential species such as P. oocarpa. The objective was to determine the diff...
In order to overcome the drawbacks of low search efficiency and susceptibility to local optimal traps in PSO, this study proposes a multi-strategy particle swarm optimization (PSO) with information acquisition, referred to as IA-DTPSO. Firstly, Sobol...
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), predominantly driven by cyanobacteria, pose significant risks to water quality, public health, and aquatic ecosystems. Lake Erie, particularly its western basin, has been severely impacted by HABs, largely due to nutrient...
Optoacoustic tomography (OAT) is a hybrid biomedical imaging modality that usually employs a transducer array to detect laser-generated ultrasonic signals. The reconstructed image suffers low contrast and degraded resolution due to the limited bandwi...
Earth flows are complex gravitational events characterised by a heterogeneous displacement pattern in terms of scale, style, and orientation. As a result, their monitoring, for both knowledge and emergency purposes, represents a relevant challenge in...
Understanding how chemical composition, phenolic profile, volatile compounds and sensory attributes evolve during wine aging is essential for optimizing quality in premium red wines. This study investigated four consecutive vintages (2017–2020)...
We develop a unified information-theoretic framework for the analysis of cancer transcriptomic dysregulation across measurement modalities. Three functionals capture distributional, network-aware, and joint-dependence aspects of expression: the Shann...
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