To improve the distributed carbon emission optimization control capability of the smart distribution network system, thereby reducing the carbon emissions in the distribution process, it is a very important issue to comprehensively analyze the import...
Air pressure monitoring is the basis of mining-intelligent ventilation. In order to optimize the coverage of monitoring nodes, the node importance in the ventilation network was taken as the optimization basis in this study. Two evaluation indexes of...
27 June 2025
Background: A number of factors might affect survival in oral squamous cell carcinoma. Nodal status is one of the most important prognosticators affecting survival. Studies have shown that pattern of invasion is an important aspect related to surviva...
Collecting a myriad of prototype data through various types of monitoring sensors plays a virtual important role in many aspects of dam safety such as real-time grasp of safety state, exposure of hidden dangers, and inspection design and construction...
Colorectal cancer is the third most frequently reported malignancy and also the third leading cancer-related cause of death worldwide. Lymph node evaluation, both preoperatively and postoperatively, represents an important aspect of the diagnosis and...
Among the diverse and important applications that networks currently have is the modeling of infectious diseases. Immunization, or the process of protecting nodes in the network, plays a key role in stopping diseases from spreading. Hence the importa...
Inland ports have become elements of the modern transport and logistics infrastructure hub and play an important role in shaping urban spatial texture. However, the spatial dimensions of their development have received little attention in the existin...
It is very important to accurately identify the critical nodes of the power grid for its safe and stable operation. In this paper, a method for identifying the critical nodes of the power grid based on the improved entropy weight method (IEWM) is pro...
The scientific and rational assessment of the evolution of node importance in rail transit line networks is important for the sustainability of transportation systems. Based on the complex network theory, this study develops a weighted network model...
In order to optimize the network layout of urban agglomerations, improve the comprehensive benefits of transportation networks and promote the sustainable development of urban agglomerations, this paper studies the main trunk line selection model of...
In this paper we formally define the hierarchical clustering network problem (HCNP) as the problem to find a good hierarchical partition of a network. This new problem focuses on the dynamic process of the clustering rather than on the final picture...
In complex networks, identifying critical nodes plays an important role in information dissemination. Due to the dual property of nodes to both propagate and receive information, information is propagated repeatedly in a restricted area where critica...
With the rapid development of Internet technology, the innovative value and importance of the open source product community (OSPC) is becoming increasingly significant. Ensuring high robustness is essential to the stable development of OSPC with open...
Sensor placement for disaster prevention for important users in urban water distribution networks is essential for post-earthquake monitoring and repair. Herein, we proposed a sensor placement approach for disaster prevention monitoring for important...
As an important area for mobile wireless networks, Intermittently Connected Networks (ICNs) have received increasing attention in practice and research in recent years. The main goals of the ICN routing protocol are to maximize the delivery probabili...
The structural characteristics and robustness of subway networks are important for improving the safety and efficiency of subway operations. Based on complex network theory, this study analyzed the structural characteristics of the Hefei subway netwo...
The identification of influential nodes in complex networks modeling manufacturing environments is a critical aspect, especially when considering both structure and nodal attributes. This becomes particularly relevant given that conventional weighted...
Background and Objectives: Axillary lymph node (ALN) status is one of the most important prognostic factors in breast cancer. Numerous studies have evaluated less invasive methods for accurate staging. To investigate the diagnostic performance of ult...
Graphs can be found in almost every part of modern life: social networks, road networks, biology, and so on. Finding the most important node is a vital issue. Up to this date, numerous centrality measures were proposed to address this problem; howeve...
How to develop a trust management model and then to efficiently control and manage nodes is an important issue in the scope of social network security. In this paper, a trust management model based on a cloud model is proposed. The cloud model uses a...
Traffic flow prediction, crucial for traffic management, relies on spatial and temporal data to achieve high accuracy. However, standard performance metrics only measure the average prediction errors and overlook the spatiotemporal aspects. To addres...
Accurate differentiation of benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes is important for prognosis and treatment planning in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. We evaluated the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance image (MRI)...
As the scale of shipboard power systems expands, their vulnerability becomes increasingly prominent. Identifying vulnerable points in ship power grids is essential for enhancing system stability, optimizing overall performance, and ensuring safe navi...
Short-term traffic speed forecasting based on sensor-derived traffic signals is important for route guidance, adaptive signal control, congestion management and intelligent transportation services. Accurate prediction remains challenging because urba...
In recent years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become a crucial technology for infrastructure monitoring. To ensure the reliability of monitoring services, evaluating the network’s reliability is particularly important. Sensor nodes are...
The seamless operation of inter-connected smart devices in Internet of Things (IoT) wireless sensor networks (WSNs) requires consistently available end-to-end routes. However, the sensor nodes that rely on a very limited power source tend to cause di...
Background: Due to recent changes in breast cancer treatment strategy, significantly more patients are treated with neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NST). Radiological methods do not precisely determine axillary lymph node status, with up to 30% of pati...
This paper proposes a wireless inclinometer sensor node for structural health monitoring (SHM) that can be applied to civil engineering and building structures subjected to various loadings. The inclinometer used in this study employs a method for ca...
Introduction: One of the most important prognostic factors in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), a condition with a high mortality rate, is the presence of mediastinal lymph node metastases alongside distant metastases. The aim of this study was to...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can provide data acquisition for long-term environment monitoring, which are important parts of Internet of Things (IoT). In the WSN-assisted IoT, energy efficient routing algorithms are required to maintain a long net...
An effective evaluation of transportation network efficiency/performance is essential to the establishment of sustainable development in any transportation system. Based on a redefinition of transportation network efficiency, a quantitative efficienc...
The correct management of Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) allows to obtain a reliable system. When a pipe failure occurs in a network and it is necessary to isolate a zone, it is possible that some nodes do not guarantee service for the users due...
RPL (routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks) is an important candidate routing algorithm for low-power and lossy network (LLN) scenarios. To solve the problems of using a single routing metric or no clearly weighting distribution theory of...
Background/Objectives: Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, making lymph node recovery critical for treatment decisions and prognosis. The relationship between body mass index (BMI) and the number of lymph nodes retrieved duri...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in our modern society and their development is rapidly accelerating. Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) have opened a new window of opportunity to create new value-added services. However, the characterist...
Mast Cells (MCs) play a role in immune responses and more recently MCs have been involved in tumoral angiogenesis. In particular MCs can release tryptase, a potent in vivo and in vitro pro-angiogenic factor via proteinase-activated receptor-2 (PAR-2)...
Background: The accurate identification of malignant lymph nodes in cervical ultrasound images is crucial for early diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditional evaluation metrics, such as accuracy and the Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC), often fa...
The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature of sarcoma of the parotid gland in order to analyze the main factors affecting survival rate. A systematic literature review was performed between January 1990 to November 2021, and 88...
Background: Head and neck (H&N) cutaneous melanomas have poorer outcomes than melanomas at other sites, yet sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB)—a key prognostic tool in clinically node-negative disease—is less frequently performed, part...
Network Lifetime is one of the most important metrics in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). In this paper, a relay selection scheme is proposed under the topology constrains specified in the IEEE 802.15.6 standard to maximize the lifetime of WBANs...
Background: Supraclavicular lymph nodes (SCLNs) are often indicative of malignancy, but the effectiveness of ultrasound (US) and hematological parameters in their assessment and the prognosis of patients with malignant SCLNs need further study. Metho...
The fault transitivity of machining center components causes their fault propagation indexes to demonstrate dynamic time variability, which affects their importance. The method proposed in this study overcomes the biases of existing methods of evalua...
In urban gas network leakage monitoring, the optimized placement of sensors plays a pivotal role in ensuring public safety and minimizing system maintenance costs. This study introduces an innovative approach that integrates hierarchical clustering w...
Background: Understanding how logistics structure affects fiscal performance and exposure to disruption is critical in import-dependent economies. This study examines the concentration of Ecuador’s import logistics system using customs revenue...
To build robust condition monitoring solutions, it is important to identify signals that capture relevant information. However, how a degradation affects a given part of machinery might not be clear at the beginning. As a result, exploration measurem...
Blockchain systems are popular technologies that have recently emerged. As a decentralized system, blockchain technology has provided many solutions and many problems associated with these solutions. One of its most important problems is that while p...
Shale gas is an important unconventional energy resource in China with considerable development potential. However, the coupling of hazards during simultaneous dual-well drilling on multi-well pads has not been adequately quantified. This study exami...
Accurate identification of key nodes in complex networks is vital for optimizing system robustness and controlling information spread. Existing centrality metrics struggle to balance the continuous extraction of global topological features with the f...
18 November 2025
In recent years, network psychometrics has emerged as an alternative to the reflective latent variable model. This model conceptualizes traits as complex systems of behaviors mutually interacting with each other. Although this model offers important...
Selenoproteins are proteins that contain selenium within selenocysteine residues. To date, twenty-five mammalian selenoproteins have been identified; however, the functions of nearly half of these selenoproteins are unknown. Although alterations in s...
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