Quality Improvement in Critical Care: Selection and Development of Quality Indicators by Carla A. Chrusch, Claudio M. Martin, The Quality Improvement in Critical Care Project

“…Six domains of ICU function were identified: safe, timely, efficient, effective, patient/family satisfaction, and staff work life. …”
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Enhancing Crack Segmentation Network with Multiple Selective Fusion Mechanisms by Yang Chen, Tao Yang, Shuai Dong, Like Wang, Bida Pei, Yunlong Wang

“…Furthermore, the proposed MSF-CrackNet also significantly reduces computational complexity, with only 2.39 million parameters and 8.58 GFLOPs, making it a practical and efficient solution for real-world crack detection tasks, especially in scenarios with limited computational resources.…”
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Optimizing Cervical Cancer Diagnosis with Feature Selection and Deep Learning by Łukasz Jeleń, Izabela Stankiewicz-Antosz, Maria Chosia, Michał Jeleń

“…The results demonstrate that optimized feature sets, paired with SVM classifiers, achieve classification performance comparable to those of CNNs while significantly reducing computational complexity. This finding underscores the potential of feature reduction techniques in creating efficient diagnostic frameworks. …”
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Investigation and selection of initial materials as possible sources for obtaining sorbents by I. A. Таgaev, S. U. Tursunova, L. S. Andriyko

“… The information about selection of initial materials based on bentonite, brown coal and technical soot for obtaining new sorbents is presented in this article. …”
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The analysis of landscape design and plant selection under deep learning by Lian Li, JiYon Lee

“…Abstract This paper explores the application of deep learning (DL) techniques in landscape design and plant selection, aiming to enhance design efficiency and quality through automated plant leaf image recognition (PLIR). …”
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EIM: A Novel Evolutionary Influence Maximizer in Complex Networks by Vahideh Sahargahi, Vahid Majidnezhad, Saeid Taghavi Afshord, Yasser Jafari

“…This article introduces a double-chromosome evolutionary algorithm to tackle this challenge efficiently. This method introduces a smart operator for stochastic selection based on the node degree to initialize the primary solutions. …”
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Selective electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to dinitrogen: Mechanisms, catalysts, and challenges by Jiayu Chen, Anni Wu, Yongfeng Xie, Yumin Zhang, Hu Zheng, Wei Teng

“…While extensive research has focused on ammonia production, selective N2 production remains challenging due to complex pathways, limitations in detection, and the difficulty of controlling reaction on the electrocatalysts. …”
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Enhanced multi-objective Evolutionary Mating Algorithm with improved crowding distance and Levy flight for optimizing comfort index and energy consumption in smart buildings by Muhammad Naim Bin Nordin, Mohd Herwan Sulaiman, Nor Farizan Zakaria, Zuriani Mustaffa

“…While current Evolutionary Mating Algorithms (EMA) primarily focus on single-objective optimization and rely on weighted functions for handling multiple objectives, such approaches prove impractical for the complex trade-offs between comfort index and energy efficiency. …”
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Complex interspecific and intersexual patterns of wing design in Heliconius butterflies by Luis Mendoza-Cuenca

“…In butterflies, interspecific and intersexual variation in wing design morphology modifies aerodynamic efficiency and individuals’ flight costs. Wing design involves traits like wing shape and size, which determine flight performance and behavioral ability, which determine individuals’ flight performance and behavioural capacity under their ecological and reproductive requirements. …”
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A YOLO-Based Method for Head Detection in Complex Scenes by Ming Xie, Xiaobing Yang, Boxu Li, Yingjie Fan

“…This not only improves the detection performance but also greatly aids in enhancing the detection efficiency and accuracy. Our method achieves impressive results for head detection in complex scenarios, with average accuracy of 82.2%, and has the advantage of rapid loss convergence during training.…”
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Optimizing Open Radio Access Network Systems with LLAMA V2 for Enhanced Mobile Broadband, Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications, and Massive Machine-Type Communications: A Fram... by H. Ahmed Tahir, Walaa Alayed, Waqar ul Hassan, Thuan Dinh Do

“…LLAMA_V2 was selected for its superior ability to capture complex network dynamics, surpassing traditional AI/ML models. …”
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Nonlocal flat optics for size-selective image processing and denoising by Sandeep Kumar Chamoli, Chunqi Jin, Yandong Fan, Mehdi Kiani, Heedong Goh, Chen Huang, Shuyu Guo, Yuntong Wang, Fei Zhu, Guohua Xing, Bo Li, Tian Bai, Andrea Alù, Wei Li

“…So far, the proposed devices have been focusing on canonical operations, such as differentiations to perform edge detection across all objects in a complex scene. Yet, undesired background noise and clutter can hinder such operations, requiring target selection with digital post-processing which inherently limits the overall accuracy, efficiency and speed. …”
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A Distributed Coalition Selection of Distribution Centers for Delivery Stations by Fan Wu, Ming Yu, Jingya Zhang, Yicheng Fan, Ming Li

“…Unlike centralized optimization methods, the proposed approach enables real-time decision-making with reduced computational complexity while maintaining both system-wide efficiency and individual delivery station satisfaction. …”
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ANALYSIS OF SELECTED TRANSPORTATION NETWORK STRUCTURES BASED ON GRAPH MEASURES by Renata ŻOCHOWSKA, Piotr SOCZÓWKA

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Time Complexity of Training DNNs With Parallel Computing for Wireless Communications by Pengyu Cong, Chenyang Yang, Shengqian Han, Shuangfeng Han, Xiaoyun Wang

“…Since practical wireless systems require retraining due to operating in open and dynamic environments, it is crucial to analyze the factors affecting the training complexity, which can guide the DNN architecture selection and the hyper-parameter tuning for efficient policy learning. …”
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Angle Modulated Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms for Feature Selection by Gürcan Yavuz, Doğan Aydin

“…To present the effectiveness of the problem presentation with angle modulation and to determine the efficiency of the proposed method, six variants of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithms employ angle modulation for feature selection. …”
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Radio Frequency Link and User Selection Algorithm for 5G Mobile Communication System by Zhengnan Lv, Zhenghao Xi

“…The algorithm is based on the correlation dictionary and achieves the efficient and optimal selection of large-scale antenna arrays in the millimetre-wave band. …”
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Comparative analysis of machine learning models for predicting water quality index in Dhaka’s rivers of Bangladesh by Mosaraf Hosan Nishat, Md. Habibur Rahman Bejoy Khan, Tahmeed Ahmed, Syed Nahin Hossain, Amimul Ahsan, M. M. El-Sergany, Md. Shafiquzzaman, Monzur Alam Imteaz, Mohammad T. Alresheedi

“…This study contributes to the field of environmental science by offering a novel integration of feature selection techniques with ML models to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness of water quality monitoring. …”
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A New Ritodrine Selective Electrode and its Pharmaceutical Application by Reda Ammar

“…A novel ritodrine hydrochloride ion-selective PVC membrane electrode based on ion-pair complex of ritodrine-tetra phenyl borate was prepared with di-n-butyl phosphate as a plasticizer. …”
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Reliability analysis of wireless communication equipment based on model selection by SUN Jin, HU Jicheng, JIAO Yaqi, WANG Kun

“…The research of equipment failure distribution is the basis of reliability engineering. In view of the complex structure and failure mechanism of wireless communication equipment, numerous failure distribution types, difficulty in selecting and evaluating reliability models and other problems, this paper starts from the research on equipment failure distribution at the bottom level, takes typical wireless communication system vehicle self-organizing network equipment as the research object, and compares and analyzes the correlation coefficients and error values of equipment life exponential distribution, lognormal distribution and two-parameter Weibull distribution. …”
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