A space-time variational method is developed for retrieving upper-level vortex winds from geostationary satellite rapid infrared scans over hurricanes. In this method, new vortex-flow-dependent correlation functions are formulated for the radial and...
Information regarding newly added construction land can be extracted from high-resolution remote sensing images. The retrieval accuracy of land cover changes across the country has improved, and the illegal use of land is actively monitored. To addre...
We propose two new iterative algorithms for solving K-pseudomonotone variational inequality problems in the framework of real Hilbert spaces. These newly proposed methods are obtained by combining the viscosity approximation algorithm, the Picard Man...
Polycondensation and ring-opening polymerization are two important polymer synthesis methods. Poly(lactic acid), the most typical biodegradable polymer, has been researched extensively from 1900s. It is of significant importance to have an up-to-date...
There is a need to find innovative learning methods that enable accelerated learning of a foreign language. This study examined the effect of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in acquiring a foreign language, which combines cognitive and emo...
This paper defines time-series numerical association rule mining in smart-agriculture applications from an explainable-AI perspective. Two novel explainable methods are presented, along with a newly developed algorithm for time-series numerical assoc...
To improve software quality, the source code that composes software has to be improved, and improving the important code that largely affects the software quality should be a cost-effective method. Static analysis defines important codes as those tha...
Background: Transition from clinical to academia requires newly appointed nurse educators to deploy certain coping strategies to thrive in their newly assumed roles. This is because this period is often coupled with high teaching expectations, resear...
Follow-up experimental designs are popularly used in industry. In practice, some important factors may be neglected for various reasons in the first-stage experiment and they need to be added in the next stage. In this paper, we propose a method for...
The process from leaf sprouting to senescence is a phenological response, which is caused by the effect of temperature and moisture on the physiological response during the life cycle of trees. Therefore, detecting newly grown leaves could be useful...
In this paper, new oscillation criteria for second-order half-linear neutral delay differential equations are established, using a recently developed method of iteratively improved monotonicity properties of a nonoscillatory solution. Our approach al...
Background: Newly licensed physicians play a significant role in healthcare systems. However, they often lack knowledge about vaccine practices. This study aims to evaluate their ability to distinguish between fake news and the actual side effects of...
This research focuses on estimating the population median within a stratified random sampling framework by using robust statistical measures with transformation-based methodologies. An efficient estimator aims to minimize both the bias and the varian...
Identifying built environment barriers to walkability is the first step toward monitoring and improving our walking environment. Although conventional approaches (i.e., surveys by experts or pedestrians, walking interviews, etc.) to identify built en...
29 December 2019
Background: Assuring quality training for future nursing professionals is essential to preserving population health and socio-economic development. Quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area places students in a leading role to transform...
The most important advantage of conjugate gradient methods (CGs) is that these methods have low memory requirements and convergence speed. This paper contains two main parts that deal with two application problems, as follows. In the first part, thre...
In wireless sensor networks, energy efficiency is important because sensor nodes have limited energy. 3-dimensional group management medium access control (3-D GM-MAC) is an attractive MAC protocol for application to the Internet of Things (IoT) envi...
For both traditional classification and current popular deep learning methods, the limited sample classification problem is very challenging, and the lack of samples is an important factor affecting the classification performance. Our work includes t...
Background/Objectives: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide, and the effectiveness of statin therapy is critically dependent on patient adherence and persistence. The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence an...
This manuscript studies the M-fractional Landau–Ginzburg–Higgs (M-fLGH) equation in comprehending superconductivity and drift cyclotron waves in radially inhomogeneous plasmas, especially for coherent ion cyclotron wave propagation, aimin...
Ticks serve as important vectors of a variety of pathogens. Recently, the viral and prokaryotic microbiomes in ticks have been explored using next-generation sequencing to understand the physiology of ticks and their interactions with pathogens. Howe...
This article aimed to study the effects of chitosan fiber and a newly modifying agent, based on organosolv lignin, on mechanical and thermal performances and the enzymatic degradation of PLA/chitosan biocomposites. A newly modifying agent based on po...
Due to the great advances in information technology, an increasing number of social platforms have appeared. Friend recommendation is an important task in social media, but newly built social platforms have insufficient information to predict entity...
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to develop and validate comorbidity-based severity adjustment methods for acute cerebrovascular disease by recalibrating the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and constructing a CCS-based comorbidity index to im...
Scintillators play an important role in radiation detection and imaging. Thallium-doped cesium iodide (CsI:Tl) and sodium iodide (NaI:Tl) are two of the major scintillators that have been used for many applications for many decades. In this paper, we...
10 October 2023
Introduction: Despite being one of the most frequent chronic digestive diseases worldwide, with a prevalence of 1%, celiac disease (CD) remains severely underdiagnosed. Among the instruments used to improve its diagnostic rate, hematologic parameters...
We introduce a new and a faster iterative method for the approximation of the fixed point of multivalued nonexpansive mappings in the setting of uniformly convex Banach spaces. We prove some stability and data-dependence results for this novel iterat...
This research aims to study and assess state-of-the-art physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) from different researchers’ perspectives. The PRISMA framework was used for a systematic literature review, and 120 research articles from the comp...
Large language models, despite their strong performance, frequently produce hallucinated content due to excessive reliance on pre-trained knowledge while insufficiently integrating newly provided context. We introduce LACD, a technique that dynamical...
Studying particle discharge rates in fluidized bed technology is important for optimizing continuous processes and improving product quality. This study investigates particle discharge, specifically the mass outflow rate, from a pilot-scale fluidized...
This study investigates the engineering characteristics of a newly commissioned higher education building through the Bioharmological Conformity Assessment (BCA) method, specifically using the 2020vEB version. The BCA is a novel evaluation approach t...
Background. Many new cancer medicines have been developed that can improve patients’ outcomes. However, access to these agents comes later in Europe than in the United States (US). The aim of this study is to assess the access in Europe to newl...
(1) Background: Refugees are a population group at imminent risk of death, being forced to migrate to countries with different cultures. Many of the refugees are at great risk of malnutrition, especially adolescent orphans. The aim of the study was t...
Identifying sedimentary facies represents a fundamental aspect of oil and gas exploration. In recent years, geologists have employed deep learning methods to develop comprehensive predictions of sedimentary facies. However, their methods are often co...
Malware intrusion is a serious threat to cybersecurity; that is why new and innovative methods are constantly being developed to detect and prevent it. This research focuses on malware intrusion detection through the usage of system calls and machine...
Topology optimization (TO) of engineering products is an important design task to maximize performance and efficiency, which can be divided into two main categories of gradient-based and non-gradient-based methods. In recent years, significant attent...
Purpose: To evaluate the role of tumor invasiveness profile in a homogeneous cohort of patients with newly diagnosed GBM (2021 WHO) that underwent SUPR by the RANO criteria, and to analyze its impact on survival outcomes. Methods: Patients with newly...
Background/Objectives: Existing research has highlighted the stress associated with the transition from student to practitioner among newly hired nurses, often resulting in diminished professional quality of life (ProQOL). However, there remains a de...
Objective: Accurate diagnosis of sentinel lymph node (SLN) status after neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) for breast cancer is crucial for guiding axillary management. This study aimed to evaluate novel contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) patterns for assess...
Porous silicon has been utilized within a wide spectrum of industries, as well as being used in basic research for engineering and biomedical fields. Recently, surface modification methods have been constantly coming under the spotlight, mostly in re...
Agricultural mechanization occupies a key position in modern agriculture. Aiming at the fruit recognition target detection part of the picking robot, a mango recognition method based on an improved YOLOv4 network structure is proposed, which can quic...
Background: This study aimed to assess the relative efficacy of modern radiotherapy strategies in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma. Method: A comprehensive literature review was conducted through MEDLINE, Embase and the Cochrane Central Reg...
Background/Objectives: Achieving a sufficient volume of augmented bone, particularly for vertical bone regeneration, remains challenging. This study investigated the use of basic fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) to promote bone augmentation beyond...
Submarine volcanism in shallow waters (<100 m), particularly in remote settings, is difficult to monitor quantitatively and, in the rare formation of islands, it is challenging to understand the rapid-paced erosion. However, these newly erupted vo...
Background: Little is known about the impact of MF on quality of life (QoL) in newly diagnosed patients. Objectives: To describe the impact of the MF diagnosis on QoL, patient expectations, and treatment satisfaction over the first 6 months after dia...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, multi-organ autoimmune disease which rarely presents with peritoneal involvement. As such, its diagnosis in the emergency department (ED) based on a clinical presentation of gastrointestinal symptoms i...
Background: Lung cancer (LC) is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. In Ontario, Canada, there are significant survival differences for patients with newly diagnosed LC across the 14 provincial regions. Methods: A population-based retrospec...
WFV (Wide Field of View) cameras on-board Gaofen-1 satellite (gaofen means high resolution) provide unparalleled global observations with both high spatial and high temporal resolutions. However, the accuracy of the radiometric calibration remains un...
To solve the problem with pan-drug resistant and extensively drug-resistant Gram-negative microbes, newly approved drugs such as ceftazidime/avibactam, cefiderocol, plazomicin, meropenem/vaborbactam, and eravacycline have been introduced in practice....
Objective: The objective of this study was to describe the rates of adverse clinical outcomes, including all-cause mortality, heart failure (HF) hospitalization, myocardial infarction, and stroke, in patients newly diagnosed with HF to provide a comp...
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