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9 Citations
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Uncertainty-Aware Self-Attention Model for Time Series Prediction with Missing Values

  • Jiabao Li,
  • Chengjun Wang,
  • Wenhang Su,
  • Dongdong Ye and
  • Ziyang Wang

Missing values in time series data present a significant challenge, often degrading the performance of downstream tasks such as classification and forecasting. Traditional approaches address this issue by first imputing the missing values and then in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Fractional Calculus in Machine Learning and Biomedical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,993 Views
14 Pages

25 August 2022

Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction is recently a hot spot in industrial big data analysis research. It aims at obtaining the health status of the equipment in advance and making intelligent maintenance decisions. However, values missing is a comm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Diagnosis and Health Management of Power Machinery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,659 Views
16 Pages

An ENSO Prediction Model Based on Backtracking Multiple Initial Values: Ordinary Differential Equations–Memory Kernel Function

  • Qianrong Ma,
  • Yingxiao Sun,
  • Shiquan Wan,
  • Yu Gu and ,
  • Yang Bai and
  • Jiayi Mu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 July 2023

This article presents a new prediction model, the ordinary differential equations–memory kernel function (ODE–MKF), constructed from multiple backtracking initial values (MBIV). The model is similar to a simplified numerical model after s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate and Environmental Changes Monitored by Satellite Remote Sensing (Third Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
372 Views
15 Pages

8 September 2026

This study aimed to determine the apparent metabolizable energy (AME), nitrogen-corrected AME (AMEn), and net energy (NE) values of corn for Arbor Acres (AA) broilers aged 12–14 and 26–28 days and to develop prediction equations. Ten corn...

(This article belongs to the Section Poultry)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,877 Views
18 Pages

2 February 2025

This study investigates the efficacy of various genomic prediction models—Genomic Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (GBLUP), Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB), and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)—...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Animal–Computer Interaction: Advances and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,731 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2025

Although genomic selection can accelerate livestock breeding, its application in many countries is hindered due to the limited size of reference populations. To address this issue, researchers have explored methods of combining multiple breeds to cre...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Genetics and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,676 Views
18 Pages

15 March 2013

The accuracy of diagnostic tests with binary end-points is most frequently measured by sensitivity and specificity. However, from the clinical perspective, the main purpose of a diagnostic agent is to assess the probability of a patient actually bein...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,945 Views
16 Pages

20 March 2020

Diagrammatic formats are useful for summarizing the processes of evaluation and comparison of forecasts in plant pathology and other disciplines where decisions about interventions for the purpose of disease management are often based on a proxy risk...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Information Theory to Epidemiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,596 Views
19 Pages

22 June 2021

A binary diagnostic test is a medical test that is applied to an individual in order to determine the presence or the absence of a certain disease and whose result can be positive or negative. A positive result indicates the presence of the disease,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Social and Health Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,557 Views
23 Pages

Evaluation and Benefit of Imprecise Value Prediction for Certain Types of Instructions

  • Uroš Radenković,
  • Marko Mićović and
  • Zaharije Radivojević

24 August 2023

Based on branch prediction, value prediction has emerged as a solution for problems caused by true data dependencies in pipelined processors. While branch predictors have binary outcomes (taken/not taken), value predictors face a challenging task as...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,517 Views
18 Pages

We present Value Prediction for Security (VPsec), a novel hardware-only framework to counter fault attacks in modern microprocessors, while preserving the performance benefits of Value Prediction (VP.) VP is an elegant and hitherto mature microarchit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Layer Security and Trust for Legacy Systems and Supply Chain Assurance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,808 Views
11 Pages

26 May 2020

The predictive receiver operating characteristic (PROC) curve is a diagrammatic format with application in the statistical evaluation of probabilistic disease forecasts. The PROC curve differs from the more well-known receiver operating characteristi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Information Theory to Epidemiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
3,489 Views
20 Pages

10 January 2023

The natural gas quality fluctuates in complex natural gas pipeline networks, because of the influence of the pipeline transmission process, changes in the gas source, and fluctuations in customer demand in the mixing process. Based on the dynamic cha...

  • Review
  • Open Access
254 Views
21 Pages

Review on Non-Destructive Prediction of Recycled Aggregate Crushing Value

  • Feng Liu,
  • Hao Sun,
  • Yongjun Lan,
  • Shen Zhang and
  • Hongbo Li

13 October 2026

The resource utilization of recycled aggregates is of paramount importance, and the crushing value serves as a core indicator for evaluating their mechanical properties and classification applications. This paper systematically reviews the research p...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
364 Views
40 Pages

1 August 2026

Accurate wind speed prediction is crucial for enhancing wind power generation efficiency and ensuring grid stability. While previous research has predominantly focused on point-valued or interval-valued predictions using common-frequency data, these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,666 Views
12 Pages

24 July 2023

Most machine learning (ML) models produce black box predictions that are difficult, if not impossible, to understand. In pharmaceutical research, black box predictions work against the acceptance of ML models for guiding experimental work. Hence, the...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,676 Views
20 Pages

20 July 2021

Pixel value ordering and prediction error expansion (PVO+PEE) is a very successful reversible data hiding (RDH) scheme. A series of studies were proposed to improve the performance of the PVO-based scheme. However, the embedding capacity of those sch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Mathematical Methods in Intelligent Multimedia: Security and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,037 Views
20 Pages

9 March 2021

The conversion from functional requirements (FRs) to design parameters is the foundation of product customization. However, original customer needs usually result in incomplete FRs, limited by customers’ incomprehension on the design requirements of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,128 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of Factors Influencing the Ecosystem Service Value in Yuzhong County and Multi-Scenario Predictions

  • Jixuan Yan,
  • Gengxin Zhang,
  • Wenning Wang,
  • Zichen Guo and ,
  • Jie Li,
  • Xiangdong Yao,
  • Pengcheng Gao,
  • Qiang Li,
  • Meihua Zhang and
  • Miao Song
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

11 April 2025

The value of ecosystem services (ESV) serves as a crucial metric for assessing the cost-effectiveness of ecosystems and evaluating their economic worth. Predicting the evolution of ESV across various land uses under different scenarios is essential f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,397 Views
22 Pages

19 March 2021

Use of a case-control design to compare the accuracy of two binary diagnostic tests is frequent in clinical practice. This design consists of applying the two diagnostic tests to all of the individuals in a sample of those who have the disease and in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics in Biomedicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,663 Views
18 Pages

16 September 2024

This study introduces an empirical model designed to predict the maximum values of time-dependent data across four turbulence-related fields: hydrogen combustion in renewable energy systems, urban microclimate effects on cultural heritage, shipping e...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,221 Views
19 Pages

Predictive Modeling of Aggregate Polished Stone Value from Mineralogical and Chemical Composition

  • Khedoudja Soudani,
  • Yazid Bounefla,
  • Veronique Cerezo and
  • Smail Haddadi

26 March 2026

The polished stone value (PSV) is a key parameter for assessing the resistance of aggregates to polishing in the laboratory. It is included in technical specifications and serves as both a regulatory and contractual criterion for selecting aggregates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,685 Views
14 Pages

Background/Objectives: This work introduces accuracy- and precision-ROC curves in addition to SS– and PV–ROC curves and shows a novel means of profiling biomarker characteristics for validation of optimal cutoffs in clinical diagnostics a...

(This article belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
429 Views
21 Pages

Coal Calorific Value Prediction via Multi-View Transformer

  • Donglian Zhang,
  • Junzhuang Li,
  • Zhefei Tian,
  • Yilu Guo and ,
  • Xiaoqiang Ren,
  • Wenqi Ren,
  • Xiang Li and
  • Peiyi Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

4 July 2026

Accurate measurement of coal calorific value is critical for efficient power generation. To address the limitations of conventional models on large-scale, heterogeneous datasets, this study proposes a novel deep learning framework, the Multi-View Tra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Methods for Chemometric Spectroscopy: Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,935 Views
17 Pages

Selected Indicators Used in Cephalometric Analysis and Their Predictive Value in Defining Sagittal Discrepancy Malocclusions: A Comparative Study

  • Jacek Kotuła,
  • Krzysztof Kotuła,
  • Małgorzata Kotarska,
  • Joanna Lis and ,
  • Beata Kawala,
  • Michał Sarul and
  • Anna Ewa Kuc
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 May 2025

Background: In the coming years, the lateral cephalogram will remain, in many cases, the preferred diagnostic tool for planning and reliably assessing the results of orthodontic treatment. The aim of this study was to compare the predictive value and...

(This article belongs to the Section Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,299 Views
24 Pages

Sex-Dependent Differences in Predictive Value of the C2HEST Score in Subjects with COVID-19—A Secondary Analysis of the COLOS Study

  • Piotr Rola,
  • Adrian Doroszko,
  • Małgorzata Trocha,
  • Katarzyna Giniewicz and ,
  • Krzysztof Kujawa,
  • Marek Skarupski,
  • Damian Gajecki,
  • Jakub Gawryś,
  • Tomasz Matys and
  • Katarzyna Madziarska
  • + 22 authors+ 17 authors

17 March 2022

Background: Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of evidence suggests that COVID-19 presents sex-dependent differences in clinical course and outcomes. Nevertheless, there is still an unmet need to stratify the risk for poor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk Factors for COVID-19 Infection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,091 Views
21 Pages

24 October 2025

This study addresses the limitations of traditional coal calorific value prediction models, which primarily rely on linear regression and single-source proximate analysis data. Based on 465 Chinese coal samples and integrating proximate analysis, ult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,103 Views
13 Pages

27 March 2019

Due to the poor thermal properties of conventional thermal fluids such as water, oil and ethylene glycol, small solid particles are added to these fluids to enhance heat transfer. Since the viscosity change determines the rheological behavior of a li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanofluids and Their Applications 2019)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,021 Views
18 Pages

Comparison of the Stability and Accuracy of Deterministic Project Cost Prediction Methods in Earned Value Management

  • Alexis Barrientos-Orellana,
  • Pablo Ballesteros-Pérez,
  • Daniel Mora-Melià,
  • Alberto Cerezo-Narváez and
  • Jimmy H. Gutiérrez-Bahamondes

Completing a project on time and on budget are essential factors for the success of any project. One technique that allows predicting the final cost of a project is earned value management (EVM). In this technique, different mathematical methods for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Project Management in Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
484 Views
19 Pages

10 September 2026

Predicting driver-state evolution in extra-long tunnel corridors remains challenging because of prolonged spatial confinement and repeated lighting transitions. This study uses a statistical human–vehicle composite, the comprehensive driving in...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,679 Views
18 Pages

The Predictive Value of Anticholinergic Burden Measures in Relation to Cognitive Impairment in Older Chronic Complex Patients

  • Ángela Tristancho-Pérez,
  • Ángela Villalba-Moreno,
  • María Dolores López-Malo de Molina,
  • Bernardo Santos-Ramos and
  • Susana Sánchez-Fidalgo

11 June 2022

Anticholinergic burden (AB) is related to cognitive impairment (CI) and older complex chronic patients (OCCP) are more susceptible. Our objective was to evaluate the predictive value of ten anticholinergic scales to predict a potential CI due to anti...

(This article belongs to the Section Clinical Neurology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,506 Views
17 Pages

XLNet-Based Prediction Model for CVSS Metric Values

  • Fan Shi,
  • Shaofeng Kai,
  • Jinghua Zheng and
  • Yao Zhong

7 September 2022

A plethora of software vulnerabilities are exposed daily, posing a severe threat to the Internet. It is almost impossible for security experts or software developers to deal with all vulnerabilities. Therefore, it is imperative to rapidly assess the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Big Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,101 Views
26 Pages

8 November 2024

As an important part of the urban ecosystem, urban green space provides a variety of ecosystem services, including climate regulation, soil conservation, carbon sink and oxygen release, and biodiversity protection. However, existing remote sensing ev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Monitoring and Assessment of Forest, Grassland, Wetland and Urban Ecosystem)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,982 Views
18 Pages

VMD-WSLSTM Load Prediction Model Based on Shapley Values

  • Bilin Shao,
  • Yichuan Yan and
  • Huibin Zeng

11 January 2022

Accurate short-term load forecasting can ensure the safe operation of the grid. Decomposing load data into smooth components by decomposition algorithms is a common approach to address data volatility. However, each component of the decomposition mus...

(This article belongs to the Topic Optimisation, Optimal Control and Nonlinear Dynamics in Electrical Power, Energy Storage and Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
691 Views
34 Pages

With the widespread adoption of multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) technology, channel state information (CSI) prediction has become a crucial technique for enhancing the performance of wireless communication systems. Traditional channel pre...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,501 Views
17 Pages

Statistical Prediction of Future Sports Records Based on Record Values

  • Christina Empacher,
  • Udo Kamps and
  • Grigoriy Volovskiy

11 January 2023

Point prediction of future record values based on sequences of previous lower or upper records is considered by means of the method of maximum product of spacings, where the underlying distribution is assumed to be a power function distribution and a...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Theory and Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,579 Views
11 Pages

PRRSV RNA Detection and Predictive Values Between Different Sow and Neonatal Litter Sample Types

  • Peng Li,
  • Isadora Machado,
  • Thomas Petznick,
  • Emily Pratt and ,
  • Jinnan Xiao,
  • Chris Sievers,
  • Paul Yeske,
  • Swami Jayaraman,
  • Daniel C. A. Moraes and
  • Daniel C. L. Linhares
  • + 13 authors+ 8 authors

10 February 2025

Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV), a major challenge for the swine industry, can be transmitted both vertically and horizontally. Common sample types, including processing fluid, serum, and family oral fluid, can neither det...

(This article belongs to the Section Veterinary Microbiology, Parasitology and Immunology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,045 Views
12 Pages

Prognostic Value of Baseline 18F-FDG PET/CT to Predict Brain Metastasis Development in Melanoma Patients

  • Forough Kalantari,
  • Seyed Ali Mirshahvalad,
  • Magdalena Hoellwerth,
  • Gregor Schweighofer-Zwink and ,
  • Ursula Huber-Schönauer,
  • Wolfgang Hitzl,
  • Gundula Rendl,
  • Peter Koelblinger,
  • Christian Pirich and
  • Mohsen Beheshti
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

26 December 2023

To investigate the value of 18F-FDG-PET/CT in predicting the occurrence of brain metastases in melanoma patients, in this retrospective study 201 consecutive patients with pathology-proven melanoma, between 2008 and 2021, were reviewed. Those who und...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue PET/CT in Tumor Immunotherapy Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,837 Views
16 Pages

Estimation and Prediction of Record Values Using Pivotal Quantities and Copulas

  • Jeongwook Lee,
  • Joon Jin Song,
  • Yongku Kim and
  • Jung In Seo

1 October 2020

Recently, the area of sea ice is rapidly decreasing due to global warming, and since the Arctic sea ice has a great impact on climate change, interest in this is increasing very much all over the world. In fact, the area of sea ice reached a record l...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,142 Views
17 Pages

Evaluation of Effective Energy Values of Six Protein Ingredients Fed to Beagles and Predictive Energy Equations for Protein Feedstuff

  • Qiaoru Zhang,
  • Haoran Sun,
  • Zuer Gao,
  • Hui Zhao and ,
  • Zhangrong Peng and
  • Tietao Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 May 2024

This study evaluated the nutrition composition, the nutrient digestibility, and the energy value of six protein ingredients used in pet food by the difference method in six beagles within a 7 × 6 incomplete Latin square design. The results show...

(This article belongs to the Topic Research on Companion Animal Nutrition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,298 Views
14 Pages

3 February 2021

The advantage of quantum mechanics to shift up the ability to econometrically understand extreme tail losses in financial data has become more desirable, especially in cases of Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) predictions. Behind the n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Theory Applications of Finance and Macroeconomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
355 Views
29 Pages

End-to-End Prediction-to-Decision Certificates for Inverse Design with Vector-Valued Response Surfaces

  • Daniel López-Rodríguez,
  • Jorge Jordán-Núñez,
  • Bàrbara Micó-Vicent and
  • Macarena Boix-García

1 September 2026

We study prediction-to-decision certification for inverse design with vector-valued response surfaces. An unknown response map is estimated from data, a target response is prescribed, and a decision is obtained by minimizing a target-loss function. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Optimal Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,414 Views
19 Pages

1 September 2025

With the widespread application of artificial intelligence in real estate price prediction, model explainability has become a critical factor influencing its acceptability and trustworthiness. The Shapley value, as a classic cooperative game theory m...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
298 Views
33 Pages

23 September 2026

The low-carbon transition has strengthened the link between corporate carbon performance and financial risk. This study examines whether carbon performance improves the out-of-sample prediction of financial distress beyond conventional financial indi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,699 Views
25 Pages

Mortality Predictive Value of the C2HEST Score in Elderly Subjects with COVID-19—A Subanalysis of the COLOS Study

  • Piotr Rola,
  • Adrian Doroszko,
  • Małgorzata Trocha,
  • Katarzyna Giniewicz and ,
  • Krzysztof Kujawa,
  • Marek Skarupski,
  • Jakub Gawryś,
  • Tomasz Matys,
  • Ewa Szahidewicz-Krupska and
  • Katarzyna Madziarska
  • + 16 authors+ 11 authors

14 February 2022

Senility has been identified among the strongest risk predictors for unfavorable COVID-19-outcome. However, even in the elderly population, the clinical course of infection in individual patients remains unpredictable. Hence, there is an urgent need...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Clinical Features of COVID-19 in Elderly Patients)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,523 Views
11 Pages

Predictive Value of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron-Emission Tomography Metabolic and Volumetric Parameters for Systemic Metastasis in Tonsillar Cancer

  • Jooin Bang,
  • Hye Lim Park,
  • Ie Ryung Yoo,
  • Hyun-Il Shin and ,
  • Geun-Jeon Kim,
  • Dong-Il Sun and
  • Sang-Yeon Kim
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 December 2022

Although the prognosis of tonsillar cancer (human papillomavirus-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma) is improving, disease control failure (distant metastasis) still occurs in some cases. We explored whether several 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,279 Views
8 Pages

Predictive Value of Serial Rapid Shallow Breathing Index Measurements for Extubation Success in Intensive Care Unit Patients

  • Semin Turhan,
  • Duygu Tutan,
  • Yeliz Şahiner,
  • Alperen Kısa and ,
  • Sibel Önen Özdemir,
  • Mehmet Berksun Tutan,
  • Selçuk Kayır and
  • Güvenç Doğan
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

16 August 2024

Background and Objectives: Extubation success in ICU patients is crucial for reducing ventilator-associated complications, morbidity, and mortality. The Rapid Shallow Breathing Index (RSBI) is a widely used predictor for weaning from mechanical venti...

(This article belongs to the Section Intensive Care/ Anesthesiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,295 Views
12 Pages

The Value of Boey, PULP and ASA Scores in Predicting 30-Day Mortality and Morbidity: A Single-Center Retrospective Study

  • Diogo Acosta,
  • Teresa Elói,
  • Ana Martins,
  • Pedro Ponte and ,
  • Rayanne Silva,
  • Pilar Ferreira,
  • Miguel Catarino,
  • Gonçalo Reis,
  • Joana Rodrigues and
  • Maria Leite
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Background/Objectives: A perforated peptic ulcer (PPU) is a life-threatening surgical emergency, with high levels of mortality and morbidity reported in the literature. Recognizing which patients are at most risk of developing complications or losing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the Management of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,566 Views
33 Pages

23 October 2025

This paper addresses the cold-start problem and rare event prediction challenges in Olympic medal forecasting by proposing a predictive framework that integrates multi-granularity transfer learning with extreme value theory. The framework comprises t...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)

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