Glioblastoma (GBM) remains one of the most challenging forms of cancer to treat, despite that extensive molecular profiling is now available. Indeed, intratumoral cellular heterogeneity, receptor redundancy, and adaptive resistance through compensato...
Background: Telerehabilitation can extend fall prevention to underserved groups. Clinician uptake remains limited. We evaluated factors associated with physical therapists’ belief in and readiness to implement the Otago Exercise Program (OEP) v...
The problem of learning graph-based data structures from data has attracted considerable attention in the past decade. Different types of data can be used to infer the graph structure, such as graphical Lasso, which is learned from multiple graph sig...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly employed for parcel logistics while simultaneously serving as aerial communication platforms. However, jointly optimizing pickup-and-delivery operations and wireless communication raises a large-scale...
Objectives: Despite the critical role fathers play in family health decisions, most research on HPV vaccination focuses predominantly on mothers. This study examines gender differences in HPV knowledge and vaccination attitudes among Greek parents, a...
The aim of the study was to investigate the MLST types and genes encoding Clostridioides difficile toxins from fecal clinical samples of patients from two large Bulgarian cities. Overall, 100 toxigenic isolates were obtained during a 10-year period f...
Pregnancy termination remains a delicate and contentious reproductive health issue because of a variety of political, economic, religious, and social reasons. The present study examined the associations between demographic and socio-economic factors...
Object retrieval systems measure the degree of similarity of the shape of 3D models. They search for the elements of the 3D model databases that resemble the query model. In structural bioinformatics, the query model is a protein tertiary/quaternary...
In western China, railway lines are sparse, and there is a large fluctuation in transport demand under different transportation scenarios, which yields severe difficulties in setting up a signaling system and making a train timetable. To meet the flu...
Livestock husbandry insurance (LHI) is increasingly gaining acceptance in developing countries, relative to its efficacy in mitigating the covariate risks faced by households in vulnerable agrarian communities. However, this risk-mitigating tool has...
The early detection and rapid quantification of acute ischemic lesions play pivotal roles in stroke management. We developed a deep learning algorithm for the automatic binary classification of the Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomographic Sc...
The building damage status is vital to plan rescue and reconstruction after a disaster and is also hard to detect and judge its level. Most existing studies focus on binary classification, and the attention of the model is distracted. In this study,...
The synthesis of ester compounds is one of the most important chemical processes. In this work, Zn-Mg-Al mixed oxides with different Zn2+/Mg2+ molar ratios were prepared via co-precipitation method and supported gold nanoclusters to study the direct...
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) deployment for IoT Edge applications requires strong skills in hardware and software. In this paper, a novel design framework fully automated for Edge applications is proposed to perform such a deployment on System-on-Chip...
Due to population growth and economic development, there has been an increase in global wastewater (WW) generation footprint. There are different technologies associated with the wastewater treatment (WWT) process. The challenge is to select technolo...
Known to be NP-complete, domination number problems in graphs and networks arise in many real-life applications, ranging from the design of wireless sensor networks and biological networks to social networks. Initially introduced by Blessing et al.,...
This paper focuses on minimizing the annual operative costs in monopolar DC distribution networks with the inclusion of solar photovoltaic (PV) generators while considering a planning period of 20 years. This problem is formulated through a mixed-int...
The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is widely used to assess executive function, specifically mental flexibility. Item Response Theory (IRT) has several advantages over classical test theory, including the invariance of the measure. This study aim...
The art of tying knots is exploited in nature and occurs in multiple applications ranging from being an essential part of scouting programs to engineering molecular knots. Biomolecular knots, such as knotted proteins, bear various cellular functions,...
The development and improvement of thin film deposition techniques is an important research topic to obtain new materials at submicro and nano scale with high homogeneity and thickness control. Here, we designed and built an automated device for the...
Integrating renewable energy sources (RES) into island microgrids is usually done to provide a cost-effective electricity supply. The integration process is carried out by scheduling generating unit operations with a unit commitment (UC) scheme to en...
Coamorphous formation in binary systems of valsartan (Val) with 4,4′-bipyridine (Bipy) and trimethoprim (Tri) was investigated for mixtures with a mole fraction of 0.16~0.86 of valsartan and evaluated in terms of the glass transition temperatur...
In recent times, the progress of Intelligent Unmanned Wireless Sensor Networks (IUWSNs) has inspired scientists to develop inventive task allocation algorithms. These efficient techniques serve as robust stochastic optimization methods, aimed at maxi...
Due to the rapid growth in the amount of wind energy connected to distribution grids, they are exposed to higher network constraints, which poses additional challenges to system operation. Based on regulation, the system operator has the right to cur...
13 July 2016
Stop-skipping is a key method for alleviating congestion in rail transit, where schedules are sometimes difficult to implement. Several mechanisms have been proposed and analyzed in the literature, but very few performance comparisons are available....
An air distributor is a major component of industrial fluidized beds and its design significantly affects the quality of fluidization. In this study, a hybrid design of an annular distributor was tested for swirling fluidized beds (SFBs). Using this...
27 November 2018
Literature points out the role of parenting on adolescent cyberbullying involvement. However, it is necessary to clarify how gender affects this relationship. The aim of this study has been to examine the relation between the adolescents’ perce...
The performances of thermodynamics cycles are dependent on the properties of refrigerants. The performances of Vuilleumier (VM) cycle heat pump adopting mixture refrigerants are analyzed by MATLAB software using REFPROP programming. At given operatin...
Inspired by the principles of quantum mechanics, we constructed a model of students’ misconceptions about heat and temperature, conceptualized as a quantum system represented by a density matrix. Within this framework, the presence or absence o...
Optimizing resource allocation often requires a trade-off between multiple objectives. Since projects must be fully implemented or not at all, this issue is modeled as an integer programming problem, precisely a knapsack-type problem, where decision...
Satellite communication systems, especially multi-beam low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites, could cater to the needs of different industrial applications through flexible resource allocation. Unfortunately, due to the wide coverage of LEO satellites, th...
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is a common problem in all cities worldwide; it is expected to increase to 3400 billion tons by 2050. In Mexico, an average of 108,146 tons of MSW are generated daily. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a computer tool that a...
Gender-independent, intersex, non-binary, and transgender (GIaNT) youth have puberty health and sex education needs that are different from cisgender youth. Unfortunately, this population has historically been excluded from curricula pertaining to th...
Forest ecosystems deliver ecosystem services (ESs) that are essential for the well-being of local communities. These services necessitate a clear understanding of their perception among community members in order to facilitate informed and sustainabl...
In human–computer interaction, translating information between binary and numerical representations and human concepts remains an active research area aimed at bridging the gap while preserving the core meaning of the information. The field con...
Recently, the integration of optimal battery dispatch and demand response has received much attention in improving DC microgrid operation under uncertainties in the grid-connect condition and distributed generations. However, the majority of prior st...
Background: The benefit of adding programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitors to the treatment of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), both neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) and adjuvant therapy (AT), is not...
Background: The misuse of antibiotics in both humans and food-producing animals poses significant risks to human health and contributes to the rise of antibiotic resistance. Raising public awareness is crucial to managing antibiotic resistance, parti...
Unexpected in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) in the emergency department is defined as an unexpected cardiac arrest during the stay in the emergency department with measured vital signs when entering the emergency department, requiring immediate emer...
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a clinically distinct autoimmune connective tissue disease characterized by immune dysregulation, vasculopathy, and excessive fibrosis. Monocytes and macrophages (Mo/Mφ) contribute to these processes through heterogene...
24 May 2021
Few studies have been conducted to classify and predict the influence of nutritional intake on overweight/obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) based on deep learning such as deep neural network (DNN). The present st...
(1) Background: Patients’ satisfaction is based on the perceived health care services of individuals and is influenced by the level of care provided by the health care system. It is often based on the patients’ expectations of care and se...
Background: The association between physical activity and vitamin D status is not yet fully understood. This study aims to investigate the prevalence of physical inactivity and its associated factors, including serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) con...
Background: The implant–abutment interface has been thoroughly examined due to its impact on the success of implant healing and longevity. Removing the abutment is advantageous, but it changes the biomechanics of the implant fixture and restora...
We present a novel implementation of the adaptively annealed thermodynamic integration technique using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC). Thermodynamic integration with importance sampling and adaptive annealing is an especially useful method for estimat...
In recent years, intermodal transport has become an increasingly attractive alternative to freight shippers. However, the current intermodal freight transport is not as efficient as it could be. Oftentimes an empty container needs to be transported f...
Intestinal parasites, helminths, and protozoa challenge health and welfare of pigs and deteriorate the sustainability of swine farms leading to monetary losses. A multicentric survey was conducted for approximately one year. Overall, 1150 fecal sampl...
We present a novel implementation of the adaptively annealed thermodynamic integration technique using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC). Thermodynamic integration with importance sampling and adaptive annealing is an especially useful method for estimat...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation introduced the Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) of rice in 2008. The adoption rate of GAPs is still low. As the first step of the adoption process, this study investigates farmers’ awareness of the l...
This paper investigates the problems of locating yards and allocating works of train formation among yards based on the train service network. It not only involves the modifications of the scales of existing yards, either improving, or downsizing or...
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