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An Automatic Data Completeness Check Framework for Open Government Data

  • Sovit Bhandari,
  • Navin Ranjan,
  • Yeong-Chan Kim,
  • Jong-Do Park,
  • Kwang-Il Hwang,
  • Woo-Hyuk Kim,
  • Youn-Sik Hong and
  • Hoon Kim

6 October 2021

In recent years, the governments in many countries have recognized the importance of data in boosting their economies. As a result, they are implementing the philosophy of open government data (OGD) to make public data easily and freely available to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,980 Views
16 Pages

Inflammatory Blood Markers as Prognostic and Predictive Factors in Early Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

  • Ileana Corbeau,
  • Simon Thezenas,
  • Aurelie Maran-Gonzalez,
  • Pierre-Emmanuel Colombo,
  • William Jacot and
  • Severine Guiu

18 September 2020

Background: Inflammatory blood markers, such as neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR), have been reported as putative prognostic factors for survival and predictive factors for pathological complete response and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,901 Views
12 Pages

Morphological and Morphometrical Aspects of the Auditory Ossicles in the European Badger (Meles Meles)

  • Cristian Martonos,
  • Alexandru Gudea,
  • Călin Lațiu,
  • Milos Blagojevic and
  • Florin Stan

8 September 2022

Given the scarce morphological data regarding the middle ear anatomy of this species, the paper attempts to describe the morphological and morphometrical data of the auditory ossicles in the badger. The study was performed using the standard morpholo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,497 Views
18 Pages

6 November 2024

Estimating the completion cost accurately in the early phases of construction projects is critical to their success. However, cost overruns are almost inevitable due to the risks inherent in construction projects. Hence, the completion cost fluctuate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,211 Views
17 Pages

Bandwidth-Aware Rescheduling Mechanism in SDN-Based Data Center Networks

  • Ming-Chin Chuang,
  • Chia-Cheng Yen and
  • Chia-Jui Hung

Recently, with the increase in network bandwidth, various cloud computing applications have become popular. A large number of network data packets will be generated in such a network. However, most existing network architectures cannot effectively ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,862 Views
17 Pages

2 July 2020

Large radiometric and geometric distortion in multi-source images leads to fewer matching points with high matching blunder ratios, and global geometric relationship models between multi-sensor images are inexplicit. Thus, traditional matching blunde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,922 Views
6 Pages

Can Hematological Parameters Play a Role in the Differential Diagnosis of Adrenal Tumors?

  • Mehmet Gürkan Arıkan,
  • Göktan Altuğ Öz,
  • Nur Gülce İşkan,
  • Necdet Süt,
  • İlkan Yüksel and
  • Ersan Arda

11 May 2021

There have been few studies reported with conflicting results in the use of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), redcell-distribution-width (RDW), etc. for predicting prognosis and differential diagnosis of adrenal tumo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,150 Views
19 Pages

Data completeness is one of the most common challenges that hinder the performance of data analytics platforms. Different studies have assessed the effect of missing values on different classification models based on a single evaluation metric, namel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,281 Views
22 Pages

Compressive Sampling with Multiple Bit Spread Spectrum-Based Data Hiding

  • Gelar Budiman,
  • Andriyan Bayu Suksmono and
  • Donny Danudirdjo

24 June 2020

We propose a novel data hiding method in an audio host with a compressive sampling technique. An over-complete dictionary represents a group of watermarks. Each row of the dictionary is a Hadamard sequence representing multiple bits of the watermark....

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,626 Views
19 Pages

Lifestyles and Cycling Behavior—Data from a Cross-Sectional Study

  • Martin Loidl,
  • Christian Werner,
  • Laura Heym,
  • Patrick Kofler and
  • Günther Innerebner

17 October 2019

Cycling experiences a remarkable renaissance as an everyday mode of transport and in an increasing number of cities, cycling substantially contributes to the overall traffic. However, cyclists are not a homogeneous group of road users, but very diver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,038 Views
14 Pages

Prognostic Value of Routine Biomarkers in the Early Stage of COVID-19

  • Andrea Mihajlović,
  • David Ivanov,
  • Borislav Tapavički,
  • Milica Marković,
  • Dragana Vukas,
  • Ana Miljković,
  • Dejana Bajić,
  • Isidora Semnic,
  • Maja Bogdan and
  • Dea Karaba Jakovljević
  • + 3 authors

Various biomarkers like certain complete blood cell count parameters and the derived ratios including neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio are commonly used to evaluate disease severity. Our study aimed to establish if baseline levels of complete blood...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,213 Views
18 Pages

Multi-Task Learning and Improved TextRank for Knowledge Graph Completion

  • Hao Tian,
  • Xiaoxiong Zhang,
  • Yuhan Wang and
  • Daojian Zeng

20 October 2022

Knowledge graph completion is an important technology for supplementing knowledge graphs and improving data quality. However, the existing knowledge graph completion methods ignore the features of triple relations, and the introduced entity descripti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,491 Views
20 Pages

16 August 2021

In this study, experimental work was carried out on reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) plates. This study aims to examine the effect of the reinforcement ratio on the flexural behavior of these be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,077 Views
17 Pages

Prediction of Remaining Useful Life of Battery Using Partial Discharge Data

  • Qaiser Hussain,
  • Sunguk Yun,
  • Jaekyun Jeong,
  • Mangyu Lee and
  • Jungeun Kim

1 September 2024

Lithium-ion batteries are cornerstones of renewable technologies, which is why they are used in many applications, specifically in electric vehicles and portable electronics. The accurate estimation of the remaining useful life (RUL) of a battery is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,628 Views
11 Pages

19 November 2024

Little is known about the impacts of fatigue after cancer treatment, including whether cancer-related fatigue impacts people’s use of healthcare. This study sought to examine how cancer-related fatigue impacts healthcare use after completing ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,519 Views
13 Pages

Oxidative and Antioxidative Status Expressed as OSI Index and GSH/GSSG Ratio in Children with Bone Tumors after Anticancer Therapy Completion

  • Joanna Gajewska,
  • Magdalena Chełchowska,
  • Magdalena Rychłowska-Pruszyńska,
  • Teresa Klepacka and
  • Jadwiga Ambroszkiewicz

17 March 2022

Aims. There are no data on the redox status of children with bone tumors in complete disease remission. Therefore, the presented study examined the reduced/oxidized glutathione (GSH/GSSG) ratio, total oxidant capacity (TOC) and total antioxidant capa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,511 Views
24 Pages

Integrated Earthquake Catalog II: The Western Sector of the Russian Arctic

  • Inessa A. Vorobieva,
  • Alexei D. Gvishiani,
  • Peter N. Shebalin,
  • Boris A. Dzeboev,
  • Boris V. Dzeranov,
  • Anna A. Skorkina,
  • Natalia A. Sergeeva and
  • Natalia A. Fomenko

13 June 2023

The article is a continuation of the research on creating the most complete and representative earthquake catalogs by combining all available data from regional, national, and international seismological agencies and reducing magnitudes to a uniform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,937 Views
18 Pages

We develop a phase-resolved wave field reconstruction method by the learning-based downsampling network for processing large amounts of inhomogeneous data from non-contact wave optical observations. The Waves Acquisition Stereo System (WASS) extracts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,114 Views
20 Pages

Flow Ratio and Temperature Effects on River Confluence Mixing: Field-Based Insights

  • Seol Ha Ahn,
  • Chang Hyun Lee,
  • Si Wan Lyu and
  • Young Do Kim

28 August 2025

Understanding mixing behavior at river confluences is essential for effective watershed management in response to increasing environmental issues such as algal blooms and chemical pollution. This study focused on the confluence of the Nakdong and Geu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,505 Views
19 Pages

21 January 2022

Conducting laboratory direct shear tests on granular materials is a common practice in geotechnical engineering. This is usually done by following the ASTM D3080/D3080M-11 (hereafter named ASTM), which stipulates a minimum required value of 10 for sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,312 Views
8 Pages

27 May 2021

In disease modeling, a key statistical problem is the estimation of lower and upper tail probabilities of health events from given data sets of small size and limited range. Assuming such constraints, we describe a computational framework for the sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,088 Views
14 Pages

23 February 2019

Sparse sensing schemes based on matrix completion for data collection have been proposed to reduce the power consumption of data-sensing and transmission in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). While extensive efforts have been made to improve the recove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,558 Views
21 Pages

2 August 2024

This paper presents a detailed study on the main parameters and performance evaluation of microjet engines, at take-off regime and at various engine working regimes, based on thermodynamic analysis of a particular engine data library, from different...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,497 Views
16 Pages

25 February 2017

The complete error-in-variables-model (EVM) framework, consisting of both design of experiments and parameter estimation stages, is applied to the terpolymerization of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid (AMPS, M1), acrylamide (AAm, M2) and ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,565 Views
9 Pages

The full-rate linear phase detector (PD) has not only phase detection capability but also single-sided frequency detection capability intrinsically. Previously, this fact has been discovered by researching the phase and frequency characteristics of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
947 Views
24 Pages

This article presents an efficient non-isolated DC-DC hybrid converter for direct large-ratio step-down applications such as data centers. The converter topology employs a three-level-assisted Dickson switched capacitor network and interleaved dual i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,011 Views
12 Pages

14 December 2024

The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of different compositions of poultry-based artificial diets on the biological and morphometric parameters of the almond moth, Ephestia cautella. Three artificial diets (ADs) were prepared, where the comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,902 Views
12 Pages

Who Is Classified as Untestable on Brief Cognitive Screens in an Acute Stroke Setting?

  • Emma Elliott,
  • Bogna A. Drozdowska,
  • Martin Taylor-Rowan,
  • Robert C. Shaw,
  • Gillian Cuthbertson and
  • Terence J. Quinn

Full completion of cognitive screening tests can be problematic in the context of a stroke. Our aim was to examine the completion of various brief cognitive screens and explore reasons for untestability. Data were collected from consecutive stroke ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,145 Views
13 Pages

Urinary Potassium and Kidney Function Decline in the Population—Observational Study

  • Massimo Cirillo,
  • Giancarlo Bilancio,
  • Pierpaolo Cavallo,
  • Raffaele Palladino,
  • Enrico Zulli,
  • Rachele Villa,
  • Rosangela Veneziano and
  • Martino Laurenzi

10 August 2021

Background—Some data suggest favorable effects of a high potassium intake on kidney function. The present population-based study investigated cross-sectional and longitudinal relations of urinary potassium with kidney function. Methods—Study cohort i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,536 Views
15 Pages

10 February 2022

The combustion and emission characteristics of surrogate diesel fuel homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) with different combustion boundary conditions and n-butanol (NB) mixing ratios are studied in this work. Engine data of a two-stroke l...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,052 Views
11 Pages

30 April 2024

The tracking of carbon and aerosol co-emissions is essential for environmental management. Satellite-based atmospheric synoptic observation networks provide large-scale and multifaceted data to help resolve emission behaviors. This study employs a co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
24,376 Views
20 Pages

19 August 2018

In agriculture, a rising number of sustainability assessments are available that also comprise financial ratios. In a literature review of farm management textbooks, taking account of the differences between European and North American practices and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,283 Views
12 Pages

Advance Directives and Factors Associated with the Completion in Patients with Heart Failure

  • JinShil Kim,
  • Mi-Seung Shin,
  • Albert Youngwoo Jang,
  • Shinmi Kim,
  • Seongkum Heo,
  • EunSeok Cha and
  • Minjeong An

Advance directive (AD) has been underutilized among patients with heart failure (HF). This study was performed to explore the ADs and examine factors associated with the completion of an AD survey in patients with HF. In a descriptive, correlational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,264 Views
19 Pages

Association Between Cardiovascular Disease and Complete Edentulism in U.S. Adults

  • Saud Alyahya,
  • Basel Hamoud,
  • Ali Alqattan,
  • Masoud Almasoud,
  • Yousef Almehjan,
  • Rashed Alajmi,
  • Hesham Alhazmi and
  • Hend Alqaderi

26 August 2025

(1) Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and edentulism are major public health challenges with shared risk factors and overlapping inflammatory pathways. This study investigates the association between complete tooth loss and CVD. (2) Methods: D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,914 Views
26 Pages

The Venom of Vipera ammodytes ammodytes: Proteomics, Neurotoxic Effect and Neutralization by Antivenom

  • Saša R. Ivanović,
  • Dina Rešetar Maslov,
  • Ivana Rubić,
  • Vladimir Mrljak,
  • Irena Živković,
  • Nevena Borozan,
  • Jelica Grujić-Milanović and
  • Sunčica Borozan

28 November 2024

Deep proteomic analyses identified, in total, 159 master proteins (with 1% FDR and 2 unique peptides) from 26 protein families in the venom of Vipera ammodytes ammodytes (Vaa). Data are available via ProteomeXchange with the identifier PXD056495. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,909 Views
17 Pages

Histopathological and Haemogram Features Correlate with Prognosis in Rectal Cancer Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation without Pathological Complete Response

  • Yu-Ming Huang,
  • Hsi-Hsien Hsu,
  • Chien-Kuo Liu,
  • Ching-Kuo Yang,
  • Po-Li Tsai,
  • Tzu-Yin Tang,
  • Shih-Ming Hsu and
  • Yu-Jen Chen

23 August 2022

Background: Neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy (NCRT) followed by surgery is the standard treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC); approximately 80% of patients do not achieve complete response. Identifying prognostic factors predictive o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,974 Views
14 Pages

Factors Affecting the Transition from Paper to Digital Data Collection for Mobile Tuberculosis Active Case Finding in Low Internet Access Settings in Pakistan

  • Christina Mergenthaler,
  • Jake D. Mathewson,
  • Abdullah Latif,
  • Hasan Tahir,
  • Vincent Meurrens,
  • Andreas van Werle,
  • Aamna Rashid,
  • Muhammad Tariq,
  • Tanveer Ahmed and
  • Farah Naureen
  • + 1 author

Between September 2020 and March 2021, Mercy Corps piloted hybrid digital (CAPI) and paper-based (PAPI) data collection as part of its tuberculosis (TB) active case finding strategy. Data were collected using CAPI and PAPI at 140 TB chest camps in lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,145 Views
18 Pages

4 December 2021

Magnetotelluric (MT) sounding data can easily be damaged by various types of noise, especially in industrial areas, where the quality of measured data is poor. Most traditional de-noising methods are ineffective to the low signal-to-noise ratio of da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,352 Views
23 Pages

Building on the job demands–resources (JD-R) and allostatic load (AL) models, in the present study we examined the role of smart working (SW) in the longitudinal association between workload/job autonomy (JA) and a possible biomarker of work-re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,887 Views
11 Pages

Positive Programmed Cell Death-Ligand 1 Expression Predicts Poor Treatment Outcomes in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients Receiving Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy

  • Wan-Ting Huang,
  • Hung-I Lu,
  • Yu-Ming Wang,
  • Yen-Hao Chen,
  • Chien-Ming Lo,
  • Wei-Che Lin,
  • Ya-Chun Lan,
  • Ling-Huei Tseng and
  • Shau-Hsuan Li

3 November 2019

Background: Programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is present in a subgroup of cancer patients who may be favorable targets for immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies. However, the significance of the PD-L1 expression in esophageal squamous cell carci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
867 Views
11 Pages

Postoperative Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index as a Determinant of Tolerance to S-1 Adjuvant Chemotherapy After Curative Surgery for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Cohort Study with External Validation

  • Naotake Funamizu,
  • Akimasa Sakamoto,
  • Shozo Mori,
  • Miku Iwata,
  • Mikiya Shine,
  • Chihiro Ito,
  • Mio Uraoka,
  • Yoshitomo Ueno,
  • Kei Tamura and
  • Yoshiaki Kamei
  • + 3 authors

26 April 2025

S-1 adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) is the standard treatment for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) after curative surgery in Japan. Our prior research suggested that a lower postoperative geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI) predicts S-1 discont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
12,151 Views
24 Pages

6 February 2025

Accurate prediction of the Sharpe ratio, a key metric for risk-adjusted returns in financial markets, remains a significant challenge due to the complex and stochastic nature of stock price movements. This paper introduces a novel deep learning model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,609 Views
12 Pages

Geoduck clams are important commercial marine resources in Southeast Asia. However, the complete mitochondrial genome of the native geoduck clam in South Korea has not been reported yet. This study reports a geoduck clam collected from the east coast...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,204 Views
13 Pages

Neural-Network-Inspired Correlation (N2IC) Model for Estimating Biodiesel Conversion in Algal Biodiesel Units

  • Abdullah Bin Mahfouz,
  • Abulhassan Ali,
  • Mark Crocker,
  • Anas Ahmed,
  • Rizwan Nasir and
  • Pau Loke Show

Algal biodiesel is of growing interest in reducing carbon emissions to the atmosphere. The production of biodiesel is affected by many process parameters. Although many research works have been conducted, the influence of each parameter on biodiesel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,399 Views
16 Pages

7 January 2025

Background: Modeling tools should be tested against real-world outcomes to confirm their predictive ability compared to random chance. Insights is an analytical tool within the biomathematical modeling software SAFTE-FAST that identifies work pattern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,281 Views
9 Pages

23 December 2022

Gross efficiency (GE) and the index of pedal force effectiveness (IFE) are important factors that enhance cyclists’ performance; however, the effects of changing pedal force (gear ratio) and cadence on these indices while riding on a road racin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,403 Views
19 Pages

Enhanced Metakaolin Reactivity in Blended Cement with Additional Calcium Hydroxide

  • Kira Weise,
  • Neven Ukrainczyk,
  • Aaron Duncan and
  • Eduardus Koenders

4 January 2022

This study aims to increase the pozzolanic reactivity of metakaolin (MK) in Portland cement (PC) blends by adding additional calcium hydroxide (CH_add) to the initial mixture. Cement paste samples were prepared with PC, MK and water with a water-to-b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
400 Views
9 Pages

Low-Grade Inflammatory Hematological Markers in Otolaryngologic Diseases: A Preliminary Report

  • María Aurora Maravilla-Domínguez,
  • Beatriz Teresita Martín-Márquez,
  • Flavio Sandoval-García,
  • Verónica Adriana Montes-Varela,
  • Nicté Selene Fajardo-Robledo,
  • Fernanda Isadora Corona-Meraz and
  • Soraya Amalí Zavaleta-Muñiz

3 October 2025

Background/Objectives: Complete blood count tests are inexpensive and widely available and may help identify low-grade inflammation in otolaryngologic (Ear, Nose and Throat, ENT) diseases, such as facial paralysis and hearing loss. This study aimed t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,775 Views
7 Pages

Thoracic Curve Correction Ratio: An Objective Measure to Guide against Overcorrection of a Main Thoracic Curve in the Setting of a Structural Proximal Thoracic Curve

  • Matthew R. Landrum,
  • Andrew H. Milby,
  • Burt Yaszay,
  • Stefan Parent,
  • Susan E. Nelson,
  • Joshua M. Pahys,
  • Amer F. Samdani,
  • Anthony C. Capraro,
  • John M. Flynn and
  • Patrick J. Cahill
  • + 1 author

11 March 2022

Purpose: The correction of double thoracic (Lenke 2) curves has been associated with higher rates of postoperative shoulder imbalance that may compromise long-term outcomes following spinal deformity correction. A number of methods have been proposed...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,022 Views
11 Pages

Early Dropout Prediction in MOOCs through Supervised Learning and Hyperparameter Optimization

  • Theodor Panagiotakopoulos,
  • Sotiris Kotsiantis,
  • Georgios Kostopoulos,
  • Omiros Iatrellis and
  • Achilles Kameas

Over recent years, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have gained increasing popularity in the field of online education. Students with different needs and learning specificities are able to attend a wide range of specialized online courses offered...

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