We propose and show efficiency of a new fuzzy-transform-based numerical method of solving ordinary differential equations with boundary conditions. The focus is on weak solutions and a special construction of a two-parameterized family of test functi...
As one of the most technically and managerially complex types of construction projects, super-high-rise buildings require deep multidisciplinary integration and intensive collaboration throughout their lifecycle. Conventional stage-based delivery mod...
The notion of a semiring-valued fuzzy set is introduced for special commutative partially pre-ordered semirings, including basic operations with these fuzzy structures. It is showed that many standard
The notion of rational F-contractions using
Primary congenital hypothyroidism is easily diagnosed on the basis of elevated plasma levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). In contrast, in the rare disorders of thyroid hormone resistance, TSH and, in mild cases, also thyroid hormone levels a...
This study explores the effectiveness of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) as an implicit measurement tool for evaluating sweetness intensity and affective value. Thirty-two participants tasted sucrose solutions at concentrations of 0.15...
The main purpose of this article is to improve, generalize and complement some recently established results for Perov’s type F-contractions. In our approach, we use only the property (F1) of Wardowski while other authors employed all three conditions...
Imputing missing values in high-dimensional time-series data remains a significant challenge in statistics and machine learning. Although various methods have been proposed in recent years, many struggle with limitations and reduced accuracy, particu...
LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries are among the earliest commercialized and most discarded lithium-ion batteries. Although existing recovery technologies focus on the conversion of LiFePO4 to Li2CO3, challenges associated with achieving near-full recovery and...
In this paper, a new multi-valued generalized F-contraction mapping is given. Using it, the existence of PPF-dependent fixed point for such mappings in the Razumikhin class is obtained. Moreover, an application for nonlinear integral equations with d...
Background: The prognostic value of conducting 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging has yielded different results in patients with laryngeal cancer and hypopharyngeal cancer, but these results are controversial, and there is a lack of dedicated studies on each typ...
Background: Undifferentiated soft-tissue sarcomas (USTS) are one of the most common sarcoma histotypes in adults. The standard of care is surgical excision plus adjuvant radiotherapy, while the use of perioperative chemotherapy is still controversial...
This study aimed to investigate the association between the 68Ga- or 18F-radiolabeled prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) tracer expression, represented by the maximum standardised uptake value (SUVmax) of the dominant intraprostatic lesion, an...
Sea cucumber peptides have been shown to possess a number of functions, including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, and anti-fatigue effects, as well as immune regulation and promotion of collagen synthesis. Among these, high F-value oligop...
In this study, we introduce set-valued Prešić type almost contractive mapping, Prešić type almost F-contractive mapping and set-valued Prešić type almost F-contractive mapping in metric space and prove some fixed point results fo...
In the last years intoxications after consumption of Illicium verum Hook. f. have been reported due to adulterations with I. anisatum L.. Many efforts have already been made to develop a simple method which would enable the detection of I. anisatum i...
Background/Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the additional value of [18F]F-fluorocholine ([18F]F-FCH) PET/CT over contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) in detecting the recurrence of brain metastases (BMs) after stereotactic ra...
An interesting property of the inverse F-transform
The Earth’s synthetic density and gravitational models can be used to validate numerical methods for global (or large-scale) gravimetric forward and inverse modelling formulated either in the spatial or spectral domains. The Preliminary Referen...
This paper introduces polynomial F-contractions, a novel category of contractive mappings within metric spaces. This concept synthesizes two powerful generalizations of the Banach contraction principle: the F-contractions originally developed by Ward...
Malignant melanoma is one of the more aggressive cancers in the skin, with an increasing incidence every year. Melanoma has a better prognosis if diagnosed early and survival tends to decrease once the disease has metastasized. Positron emission tomo...
Neuroeconomics merges neuroscience, economics, and psychology to investigate the neural basis of decision making. Decision making involves assessing outcomes with subjective value, shaped by emotions and experiences, which are crucial in economic dec...
To clarify the prognostic value of 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) in Neurolymphomatosis (NL), we retrospectively reviewed medical records of all NL patients who had undergone 18F-FDG...
Objects: To evaluate the prognostic value of radiomics features extracted from 18F-FDG-PET/CT images and integrated with clinical characteristics and conventional PET/CT metrics in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) patients. Methods: We retrosp...
Background and Objectives: To investigate the diagnostic performance of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) and subsequent ultrasonography (US) for determining cervical nodal metastasis in oncology patien...
Background: Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is a complication of organ transplantation classified according to the WHO as nondestructive, polymorphic, monomorphic, and classic Hodgkin Lymphoma subtypes. In this retrospective study...
Background: Imaging tumor FDG avidity could complement prognostic implication in thymic epithelial tumors. We thus investigated the prognostic value of volume-based 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/CT parameters in...
Purpose: To define an imaging risk profile in a population of patients affected by Pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (PanNENs) candidates to surgery, by assessing the predictive role of 68Ga-DOTATOC and 18F-FDG PET/CT and PET/MR derived parameters...
The Longnan mountainous area, characterized by its complex geological structure and fragile geological environment, is one of the four major regions in China prone to geological disasters. Previous studies have employed traditional evaluation methods...
In this paper, we set up an adequate condition for the presence of a solution of the nonlinear matrix equation. To do so, we prove the existence of fixed points for multi-valued modified F-contractions in the context of complete metric spaces, which...
The acoustic activity in beam-shaped specimens made of cement is studied, assuming that the beams are loaded in three-point bending under a step-wise loading scheme. Attention is focused to the attenuation of the acoustic activity during the constant...
In the present work, the thermal pasteurization process of shell eggs was studied through Computational Fluid Dynamics. For large-size eggs (63–72 g), the required heating times at several different heating medium (water) temperatures, namely 5...
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been used for classification tasks involving functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), though typically focusing only on fractions of the brain in the analysis. Recent work combined shallow neural networks (...
Purpose: to investigate the preoperative role of ML-based classification using conventional 18F-FDG PET parameters and clinical data in predicting features of EC aggressiveness. Methods: retrospective study, including 123 EC patients who underwent 18...
Tailoring treatment in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is paramount to maximize outcomes while avoiding unnecessary toxicity. We aimed to compare the performance of SUVmax reduction (ΔSUVmax%) and the PET ratio (rPET) versus the Deauville score (...
This study evaluated the prognostic value of metabolic parameters based on the standardized uptake value (SUV) normalized by total body weight (bwSUV) and by lean body mass (SUL) measured on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/compute...
Under aerobic conditions, some cancers switch to glycolysis to cover their energy requirements. Taking advantage of this process, functional imaging techniques such as PET-CT can be used to detect and assess tumorous tissues. The aim of this study wa...
Recent studies have identified various factors influencing how medical students choose medical specialties. An important factor that has been overlooked is learning approach. For Qatar-based medical students aspiring to train overseas, specialty pref...
Accurate estimation of tail dependence is difficult due to model misspecification and data contamination. This paper introduces a class of minimum f-divergence estimators for the tail dependence coefficient that unifies robust estimation with extreme...
Lymphoma is the third most common paediatric cancer. Early detection of high-risk patients is necessary to anticipate those who require intensive therapy and follow-up. Current literature shows that residual tumor avidity on PET (Positron Emission To...
The acquisition of in vivo radiopharmaceutical distribution through imaging is time-consuming due to dosimetry, which requires the subject to be scanned at several time points post-injection. This study aimed to generate delayed positron emission tom...
Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) translate electroencephalography (EEG) signals into control commands, offering potential solutions for motor-impaired individuals. While traditional BCI studies often focus solely on amplitude variations or inte...
Thermal processing of white radish using retort sterilization at different temperatures was investigated according to the dimension of the package. Four different samples with the same weight and volume were placed in packages with different dimensio...
A short-range, compact, real-time pulsed laser rangefinder is constructed based on pulsed time-of-flight (ToF) method. In order to reduce timing discrimination error and achieve high ranging accuracy, gray-value distance correction and temperature co...
Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton) plays a crucial role in Guatemala’s agriculture, supporting local families and covering 169,429.29 ha (making it the world’s leading producer). Since its introduction to Guatemala in 1910, limite...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) generally presents a low avidity for 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-d-glucose (FDG) in PET/CT although an increased FDG uptake seems to relate to more aggressive biological factors. To define the prognostic value of PET/CT with...
Two categories of lower and upper lattice-valued F-transforms with fuzzy relations as morphisms are introduced, as generalisations of standard categories of F-transforms with maps as morphisms. Although F-transforms are defined using special structur...
YOLO (You Only Look Once) is a one-stage detector that predicts object classes and bounding boxes in a single pass without an explicit region proposal step. In contrast, two-stage detectors first generate candidate regions. The YOLO NAS-L model is sp...
Background/Objectives: Deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) is a commonly used technique to reduce the mean heart dose (MHD), which is critical for minimizing late cardiac side effects in breast cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy (RT). Altho...
Conventional diagnostic imaging is often ineffective in revealing the underlying cause in a considerable proportion of patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO). The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic value of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglu...
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