Classification of medical imaging technologies: results from Türkiye by Hakan Temiz, Tuncay Kara

“…It also suggests that regional utilization patterns may align more with functional similarities than with geographic proximity. …”
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Patients' satisfaction, expectation, care, and maintenance of fixed prosthesis by Nada Kashbur, Iman Bugaighis

“…Descriptive statistics and Spearman rank correlation coefficient tests were undertaken between the examined variables. …”
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Bankruptcy rules and sustainable water management: A MODSIM-NSGAII simulation multi-objective optimization framework for equitable transboundary water allocation by Bentolhoda Asl-Rousta, S. Jamshid Mousavi

“…This study addresses these challenges by introducing a new optimal bankruptcy rule (OpPro rule) through a simulation-optimization model (MODSIM-NSGAII), where MODSIM simulates the spatial and temporal variability of water resources, and the NSGA-II optimization algorithm includes two objective functions of maximizing basin-wide ecological sustainability and maximizing economic efficiency reflecting ''equitable and reasonable utilization'' of water. …”
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Factors Influencing Telemedicine Adoption Among Health Care Professionals: Qualitative Interview Study by Fiona Schürmann, Daniel Westmattelmann, Gerhard Schewe

“…Perceived benefits encompassed convenience through reduced travel time (5/14, 36%), improved care quality due to higher accessibility (8/14, 57%), and operational efficiency (7/14, 50%). Trust referents played a pivotal role; trust in technology was linked to functionality (6/14, 43%) and reliability (5/14, 36%), while trust in treatment depended on effective collaboration (9/14, 64%). …”
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PileBetaGR: An R-based integrative tool for predicting the geometric reliability index of piles using load-displacement curves by Xing Zheng Wu

“…The application compiles a series of functions for analyzing load-displacement data: (i) a power law regression is used to fit each load-displacement curve, yielding a set of regression parameters for the site; (ii) a normal copula model is established to fit the joint distribution of these regression variables, allowing a geometric reliability index to be computed; (iii) the critical environmental contour is determined based on the joint probability density function and the limit state function. …”
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Grid-connected PV inverter system control optimization using Grey Wolf optimized PID controller by Monika Gupta, P. M. Tiwari, R. K. Viral, Ashish Shrivastava, Basem Abu Zneid, Iryna Hunko

“…Conventional controllers such as P and PI are widely used in PV applications due to their simplicity, but they exhibit notable limitations in dynamic environments, including increased Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), slower transient response, and poor voltage regulation—particularly under variable irradiance conditions. The proposed GWO-PID method overcomes these limitations by leveraging the GWO algorithm’s global search capability to dynamically optimize the PID gains (Kp, Ki, Kd) based on a composite fitness function that minimizes Mean Squared Error (MSE) and THD. …”
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Fiscal Sustainability in Iran A Markov-Switching Fiscal Regime Change and Time-Varying Parameter Models Approach by Hossein Aghilifar, Khosrow Piraei, Hashem Zare, Mehrzad Ebrahimi

“…Then the Markov-switching fiscal regime change model and the time-varying parameter fiscal reaction function are estimated. Among the constant parameter linear and non-linear models, only the linear model including control variables has a significant debt-to-GDP ratio coefficient, which its sign is negative. …”
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Impacts of early postpartum behavioral patterns on the fertility and milk production of tropical dairy cows by Aqeel Raza, Kumail Abbas, Theerawat Swangchan-Uthai, Henk Hogeveen, Chaidate Inchaisri

“…Reproductive performance was analyzed using Cox proportional hazard models, while lactation dynamics were modeled using the Wood function to estimate peak yield, peak time, and persistency. …”
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Finding the optimal probe state for multiparameter quantum metrology using conic programming by Masahito Hayashi, Yingkai Ouyang

“…The algorithm involves a conic program, which minimizes a linear objective function subject to conic constraints on a operator-valued variable. …”
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Extreme combination of wind effects and analysis of wind load characteristics for low-rise buildings by Haiwei Guan, Yuji Tian, Yuliang Qi, Weihu Chen

“…Based on transcendental probability theory, the probability density functions of two non-Gaussian scalar sums of wind effects are derived from the relationship between the probability density of the sum of random variables and the joint probability density function of sub-random variables by Hermite polynomial transformation. …”
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REVIVAL OF TOURISM DEMAND IN THE POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERIOD - A STATISTICAL OVERVIEW IN ROMANIA by Agatha POPESCU, Cristina TINDECHE, Alina MARCUTA, Liviu MARCUTA, Adelaida HONTUS, Mirela STANCIU, Daniela-Mirela PLESOIANU

“…Dynamics of the tourist arrivals and overnight stays involved to establish the trend using polynomial regression functions and determination coefficient. The results showed that the recovery of the tourist flow from its lowest level registered in 2020, the worst year of tourism during the pandemic, needed three years to attain a higher performance than in 2019, a year which was considered the peak in Romania's tourism. …”
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Rapid global fitting of large fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy datasets. by Sean C Warren, Anca Margineanu, Dominic Alibhai, Douglas J Kelly, Clifford Talbot, Yuriy Alexandrov, Ian Munro, Matilda Katan, Chris Dunsby, Paul M W French

“…This approach is often considered to be prohibitively slow and/or computationally expensive but we present here a computationally efficient global analysis algorithm for the analysis of time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) or time-gated FLIM data based on variable projection. …”
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Strain-specific properties and T cells regulate the susceptibility to papilloma induction by Mus musculus papillomavirus 1. by Alessandra Handisurya, Patricia M Day, Cynthia D Thompson, Michael Bonelli, Douglas R Lowy, John T Schiller

“…Thus, the functional cooperation of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells is required to protect this strain. …”
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Fuzzy rank fusion of deep neural networks for weed identification in groundnut crop by Akshay Dheeraj, Rajnish Kumar Chaturvedi, Sapna Nigam, Md. Ashraful Haque, Sudeep Marwaha

“…By combining selective and variable rate spraying, the smart herbicide sprayer effectively manages herbicide amounts. …”
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Evaluating Sensitivity of the Ranking of Forest Fuel Treatments to Manager’s Risk Attitudes and the Importance of Treatment Objectives, Montana, USA by Tony Prato, Travis Paveglio

“…The conceptual framework involves (1) defining a utility function on an index that is a weighted average of fuel treatment objectives and incorporates a manager’s risk attitude; (2) using the utility function to calculate utility values for FTSs; (3) applying the stochastic efficiency with respect to a function method to utility values to obtain certainty equivalents (CEs); and (4) ranking FTSs based on statistically significant differences in median CEs for pairs of FTSs. …”
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Modeling of Ozone Interactions with Various Air Pollutants and Meteorological Factors Using Jaya and Teaching-Learning Based Optimization (TLBO) Algorithms by Nurcan Öztürk

“…In conclusion, it is shown that Jaya and TLBO algorithms can be used in the optimization of the regression function coefficients in modelling some air pollutants interactions and the best-fit equation for each parameter is obtained from the quadratic function.…”
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ANALYSIS OF PATH NONPARAMETRIC TRUNCATED SPLINE MAXIMUM CUBIC ORDER IN BANKING CREDIT OF RISK BEHAVIOR MODEL by Devi Veda Amanda, Atiek Iriany, Adji Achmad Rinaldo Fernandes, Solimun Solimun

“…Based on the results of the analysis, it is known that the best-truncated spline nonparametric path model is the quadratic order of 2 knots with a coefficient of determination of 85.50%; the significance of the best-truncated spline nonparametric path estimator shows that all exogenous variables have a significant effect on endogenous variables.…”
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Intelligent wearable devices with audio collection capabilities to assess chronic obstructive pulmonary disease severity by Chunbo Zhang, Kunyao Yu, Zhe Jin, Yingcong Bao, Cheng Zhang, Jiping Liao, Guangfa Wang

“…A logistic regression model using the RR and blowing sounds as key predictors achieved accuracies of 0.77–0.89 in determining the GOLD grade, with a Cohen's kappa coefficient of 0.6757. Conclusions Audio data were more strongly correlated with lung function in COPD patients than were physiological parameters. …”
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Fractional Dynamics of Laser-Induced Heat Transfer in Metallic Thin Films: Analytical Approach by M. A. I. Essawy, Reham A. Rezk, Ayman M. Mostafa

“…Dynamic profiles demonstrate the responsiveness of heat transfer to thermal and optical variables. The innovation resides in the meticulous analytical formulation utilizing a realistic laser source, the clear significance of the absorption parameter that enhances the temperature amplitude, the incorporation of the Mittag–Leffler function, and a comprehensive investigation of fractional photothermal effects in metallic nano-systems. …”
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Reliability analysis of landing gear operation based on improved support vector machine-based decomposed-coordinated by ZHANG Lei, CHEN Junyu, FENG Jun, FENG Yunwen, LIU Lei

“…The case results show that the proposed ISVM-DC can accurately decompose and coordinate the architecture of landing gear operational failure, and efficiently construct and solve the reliability performance function.…”
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