The Tibetan Plateau (TP) vegetation plays an important role in the local ecosystem, which responds significantly to climate change and can affect local and large-scale weather and climate anomalies. However, little attention has been paid to its year...
Aerosol optical depth (AOD) is an important physical variable used to characterize atmospheric turbidity for the management and control of air pollution. This study aims to analyze the factors influencing the spatial and temporal variability in AOD a...
Quality of service in urban surface transit has a great impact on sustainable urban mobility, with travel time being one of the most important indicators of service reliability. But urban surface transit is prone to many disturbance factors causing t...
Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) describes the decrease in pain perception of a test stimulus (TS) when presented together with a heterotopic painful conditioning stimulus (CS). Inter-individual differences in CPM are large and have been suggested t...
Evapotranspiration is a vital component of the land surface process, thus, a more accurate estimate of evapotranspiration is of great significance to agricultural production, research on climate change, and other activities. In order to explore the s...
The seasonal and regional variability of Arctic sea ice area (SIA) and thickness (SIT) were investigated between 1979 and 2020 for the Atlantic sector (AS), Pacific sector (PS) and Barents–Kara Seas (BKSs). We applied the SIA data from remote s...
Negative air ions (NAIs) exert positive effects on human health. Urban green spaces produce NAIs and perform valuable ecological functions; this phenomenon has attracted much attention. However, NAIs in urban green spaces are influenced by many facto...
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Background: The aim of the study was to compare the continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)-determined glycaemic variability (GV) of pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and without GDM (CG; control group). The secondary aim was to eva...
The detrimental effect of hyperglycemia and glucose variability (GV) on target organs in diabetes can be implemented through a wide network of regulatory peptides. In this study, we assessed a broad panel of serum cytokines and growth factors in subj...
The article presented the analysis of the impact that various kinds of technological inaccuracies have on the properties of fresh masonry mortars and plasters. Analyzed were the inaccuracies in dosing of mortar components, namely, water, lime, and ai...
Soil moisture, as an important variable affecting water–heat exchange between land and atmosphere, is an important feedback to climate change. Soil moisture is of great concern in Northern China, where arable land is extensive, but water resour...
Confirmatory factor analysis is some of the most widely used statistical techniques in the social sciences. Frequently, variables (i.e., items) stemming from questionnaires are analyzed. Two competing approaches for estimating confirmatory factor ana...
Data on the light absorption by seawater and its components are needed in many theoretical and practical aspects of marine science and engineering. However, up to now, there is a lack of such data for the northeastern part of the Black Sea. This arti...
This paper studies variable selection for the data set, which has heavy-tailed distribution and high correlations within blocks of covariates. Motivated by econometric and financial studies, we consider using quantile regression to model the heavy-ta...
We provide evidence on the least biased ways to identify causal effects in situations where there are multiple outcomes that all depend on the same endogenous regressor and a reasonable but potentially contaminated instrumental variable that is avail...
In this study, power quality coefficients that determine the distortion of electrical systems are established. The power factor is chosen as a universal criterion for electromagnetic and electro-energetic compatibility of distorted sources and distor...
Due to the complexity and long-term nature of geological evolution, geotechnical strength parameters exhibit significant spatial variability, which has a crucial impact on slope stability assessment. While traditional numerical methods combined with...
For model-based state of charge (SOC) estimation methods, the battery model parameters change with temperature, SOC, and so forth, causing the estimation error to increase. Constantly updating model parameters during battery operation, also known as...
After decades of economic development in China, its energy consumption still relies heavily on coal, and the dominant segment of our economy—the industrial sectors with large coal input—have caused massive wastewater pollution. To provide...
Studies show that the valve lift (VL) of the cam-driven hydraulic variable valve actuation (VVA) can be continuously adjusted in the range of 0–8.2 mm by controlling the opening of the throttling valve. In the present study, an orthogonal exper...
Under the continuously changing conditions of the environment, the exploration of spatial variability of soil erosion at a sub-annual temporal resolution, as well as the identification of high-soil loss time periods and areas, are crucial for impleme...
The sideslip angle and the yaw rate are the key state parameters for vehicle handling and stability control. To improve the accuracy of the input parameters and the time-varying characteristics of noise covariance in state estimation, a combined meth...
Hilbert integral inequalities are beautiful inequalities with a symmetric structure, and have attracted much attention because of their important applications in the study of integral operators, and the Hilbert-type integral inequality involving vari...
The Cuk power factor correction (PFC) converter with an input inductor operating discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) is widely utilized for its advantages of continuous input and output currents, low output voltage ripple, and simple control. However...
Single-chain variable fragments (scFv) are antigen-recognizing variable fragments of antibodies (FV) where both subunits (VL and VH) are connected via an artificial linker. One particular scFv, iKM33, directed against blood coagulation factor VIII (F...
Phelan–McDermid syndrome (PMS) is a multi-systemic disorder characterized by both genetic and phenotypic variability. Genetic abnormalities causing PMS span from pathogenic variants of the SHANK3 gene to chromosomal rearrangements affecting the...
Understanding the temporal and spatial variability of water quality is important in order to establish effective customized management strategies for polluted aquatic ecosystems. Although various water quality management methods have been proposed ba...
In humans, the variation in resting metabolic rate (RMR) might be associated with health-related factors, as suggested by previous studies. This study explored whether the intra-assessment RMR variability (expressed as a coefficient of variation (CV;...
17 May 2018
Industrial companies indicate a tendency to eliminate variations in operator strategies, particularly following implementation of the lean principle. Companies believe when the operators perform the same prescribed tasks, they have to execute them in...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key component of the water balance, which influences hydrometeorology, water resources, carbon and other biogeochemical cycles, and ecosystem diversity. This study aims to investigate the spatio-temporal variations of ET...
The regions near the Tropic of Cancer are a latitudinal geographical zone with typical climatic, topographic, and human landscape features. It is necessary to explore the region’s net primary productivity (NPP) dynamics as it combines complex t...
Surface ozone (O3) is a harmful pollutant and effective strategies must be developed for its reduction. In this study, the impact of meteorological factors on the annual O3 variability for South Korea were analyzed. In addition, the regional differen...
Grasshoppers are highly destructive pests, and their outbreak can directly damage livestock development. Grasshopper outbreaks can be monitored and forecasted through dynamic analysis of their potential geographic distribution and main influencing fa...
Adipose tissue is a dynamic regulatory organ that has profound effects on the overall health of patients. Unfortunately, inconsistencies in human adipose tissues are extensive and multifactorial, including large variability in cellular sizes, lipid c...
The goal of this study was to generate a method to examine seasonal variability by climatic classification and Pacific seasonal factors to identify extreme wet and dry events in northern Mexico for the period 1952–2013. Using the standardized precipi...
The transport sector is responsible for a significant amount of global carbon emissions, and several policies are being implemented at different levels to reduce its impact. To properly assess the effectiveness of planned measures, analysts often rel...
The objective of this article is to analyze the impacts of climatic, physiographic, and land use/cover factors on the spatiotemporal variability of 7-day low-flow occurrence dates for 17 rivers during the period 1950–2023 in winter and summer i...
The presence of emerging organic micropollutants (such as pharmaceuticals) in sewage has been, for a long time, an issue of great concern within the international scientific debate. This item represents one of the main challenges related to a sustain...
Fatty acids (FAs) of milk fat are considered to be important nutritional components of the diets of a significant portion of the human population and substantially affect human health. With regard to dairy farming, the FA profile is also seen as an i...
Pulse wave transit time (PWTT) is the time difference between the occurrence of an R-wave on an electrocardiogram and the detection of pulsatile signals on a pulse oximeter, which reflects changes in blood pressure (BP) corresponding to the vessel wa...
Community Earth System Model-Large Ensemble (CESM-LE) simulations are used to partition the Surface Air Temperature (SAT) trends over East Asia into the contribution of external forcing factors and internal variability. In the historical period (1966...
Battery management is the key technical link for electric vehicles. A good battery management system can realize the balanced charge and discharge of batteries, reducing the capacity degradation and the loss of health caused by battery overcharge and...
Aging is a major non-modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), in part due to its detrimental effects on vascular endothelial function. Dietary interventions, including those rich in plant-based components or following dietary patterns...
The objectives of this study were to identify and rank the covariables of soil-forming factors that affect the distribution and spatial variability of pH in an agricultural area and to obtain a predictive map of soil pH. Samples of topsoil were obtai...
Background: This study aimed to analyse the variability in the incidence of the pharyngocutaneous fistula (PCF), the most common complication following a total laryngectomy (TLE), and to identify the underlying causes for fluctuations in incidence ra...
The intra-assessment resting metabolic rate variability is related to cardiometabolic health, as suggested by previous literature. We studied whether that variability (expressed as coefficient of variation [CV; %]) for oxygen consumption (VO2), carbo...
(1) Background: Knowledge about the behavior of antibiotics in critically ill patients has been increasing in recent years. Some studies have concluded that a high percentage may be outside the therapeutic range. The most likely cause of this is the...
Dementia is one of the most disabling non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Unlike in Alzheimer’s disease, the vascular pathology in PD is less documented. Due to the uncertain role of commonly investigated metabolic or vascular factors, e....
Recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) has emerged as a prominent vector for in vivo gene therapy, owing to its distinct advantages. Accurate determination of the rAAV genome titer is crucial for ensuring the safe and effective administration of c...
The variability of hydrochemical parameters, the heterogeneity of the habitat, and a low level of anthropogenic impact, create the premises for conserving the high biodiversity of aquatic communities of small water bodies. The study of small water bo...
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