Lithological controls of the Mg isotope composition of the Lena River across seasons and its impact on the annual isotope flux to the Arctic Ocean by Mavromatis, V, Porcelli, D, Andersson, PS, Korets, MA, Pokrovsky, OS

“…This allows cost-effective assessment of mean riverine isotopic signatures of other elements in both small and large rivers to the Arctic Ocean.…”

Development of SX chart for quality control by Ng, Charmaine Xue Ming.

“…Furthermore, while it is nearly as effective as, or slightly inferior to the CUSUM chart in detecting process mean shifts, the SX chart is much simpler in its operation.…”
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Distributed local linear parameter estimation using gaussian SPAWN by Leng, Mei, Tay, Wee Peng, Quek, Tony Q. S., Shin, Hyundong

“…We show that gSPAWN converges in mean and has mean-square stability under some technical sufficient conditions, and we describe an application of gSPAWN to a network localization problem in non-line-of-sight environments. …”
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The near wake of a sinusoidal wavy cylinder with a large spanwise wavelength using time-resolved particle image velocimetry by Bai, H. L., Zang, B., New, Tze How

“…Flow structures are documented in detail, in terms of time-mean flows, Reynolds stresses, and dominant structures. …”
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Testing the effect of ecolabels on the environmental impact of food purchases in worksite cafeterias: a randomised controlled trial by Luick, M, Stewart, C, Clark, M, Bateman, P, Biggs, E, Cook, B, Little, M, Wren, GM, Jebb, SA, Pechey, R

“…Results: There was no significant effect of the intervention on the environmental impact scores of meals sold (mean difference between control and intervention sites: -1.4%, 95%CI: -33.6%, + 30.8%). …”

Pilot feasibility study to determine the utility of direct access and quantitative magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) in the assessment of suspected acute biliary o... by Novak, A, Acharya, A, Beer, S, Espinosa, A, Smith, GB, Saga, C, Andrews, J, Bailey, A, Soonawalla, Z, Bungay, H, Pavlides, M

“…One patient was excluded from analysis. Mean patient time to diagnostic report and mean per patient associated direct medical cost and mean cost to diagnosis for the direct MRCP and standard of care group was 2.53 days, £449.54, and £647 respectively for the direct MRCP group and 4.18 days costing £742.06 and £896 for standard care. …”

Knowledge, attitude and practice in burn first aid among nursing student at school of health sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia by Munir, Muhammad Shafiq

“…The mean attitude score was 3.464, with 83 respondents (49.4%) showing a favourable attitude, while the mean practice score was 0.652, with 83 respondents (49.4%) displaying poor practice. …”
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A study on the application of discrete curvature feature extraction and optimization algorithms to battery health estimation by Goh, Hui Hwang, An, Zhen, Zhang, Dongdong, Dai, Wei, Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono, Goh, Kai Chen

“…The error evaluation metrics used are mean absolute error (MAE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), and root mean square error (RMSE). …”
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Application of nanobubbles in floating kinetics models for efficient oil removal from produced water by Daud, M F C, Khamidun, M H, Mohamed, R M S R, Ali, U F M, Razi, M A M

“…Statistical analyses were performed, considering parameters such as coefficient of determination (R2), root mean squared error (RMSE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), and mean absolute deviation (MAD). …”
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The fine line between jianli guanxi and la guanxi. by Loh, Wan Fong.

“…Participants were 12 Taiwanese males (mean age = 43.7) and 23 Taiwanese females (mean age = 36.3) from various occupations and socioeconomic backgrounds. …”
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Innovative green building forms for sustainable community by Puah, Lesle Wei Jian.

“…When aspect ratio increases from 1 to 5, the mean temperature increased by 4.1oC.…”
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Kalman filtering with scheduled measurements - part I : estimation framework by You, Keyou, Xie, Lihua

“…Moreover, necessary and sufficient conditions for stability of the mean square estimation error are provided.…”
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Aquatic and benthic bacteria responses to feed and fertiliser application in trials with the freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man) by MacLean, M.H., Ang, K.J., Brown, J.H., Jauncey, K.

“…Differences in bacterial abundance and mean cell size were evident between treatments. The discussion considers the importance of bacterial productivity and food web dynamics. © 1994.…”
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Effects of positive education approach on academic boredom, intrinsic motivation, positive emotions and thought-action repertoire among private college students in Shaanxi Province... by Jie, Zheng

“…In addition, the mean score in IM for post-test (M=62.52, SD=12.07) was significantly higher than that for pre-test (M=53.58, SD=13.80) (p .01). …”
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Demystifying the diagnostic potentials of air-conducted ocular and cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential test elicited by a custom-built chirp stimulus among patients with... by Abdallatif, Athar Mazen Rasmi

“…The cVEMP testing was conducted on 55 healthy adults with a mean age of 29.5 ± 9.1 years and 43 patients with vestibular disorders with a mean age of 41.6 ± 8.9 years. …”
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Dynamically optimal portfolio selection with frictions and portfolio constraints by Ye, Zi

“…Among a variety of decision-making models on this topic, this thesis studies two different representatives of portfolio optimization in a discrete-time setting, namely classical mean-variance and behavioural S-shaped portfolio optimization. …”
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Perceputal rendering algorithm by Gong, Yi Fan

“…The perceptual model is a combination of K-mean Clustering method and Visual Importance theory. …”
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Global minimum variance portfolio : an application to the Singapore stock market by Lim, Ching Jie, Walker, Cheryl Chia, Cheng, Paul Shin Wee, Ng, Nicolson Bowen

“…Furthermore, the look-back periods have no significant impact on the mean returns of the portfolio within each model.…”
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An investigation of finite wings with leading edge protuberances by Gan, Christopher De Hao

“…This is confirmed by the streamline and mean vorticity plots further downstream on the airfoil. …”
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Lane formation and aggregation spots in a model of ants by Bruna, M, Burger, M, de Wit, O

“…Remarkably, the mean-field PDE not only supports aggregation spots and lane formation but also unveils a bistable region where these two behaviors compete. …”