The Diagnostic Value of 3.0 T Magnetic Resonance Imaging Combined with Carbohydrate Antigen 125 and Human Epididymis Protein 4 in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer by Tie Cao, Dongqing Wang, Xiaoyu Chen, Lirong Zhang, Wanhong Chen

“…The levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), C-reactive protein (CRP), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), anti-mullerian hormone (AMH), CA125, and HE4 were determined. The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value and the clinical diagnostic value of MRI, CA125, HE4, and their combination were analyzed. …”
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Developing an Extenics-Based Model for Evaluating Bus Transit System by Yufeng Liu, Steven Chien, Dawei Hu, Ning Wang, Rui Zhang

“…The hybrid weights associated with the indices are determined by subjective weights through analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and objective weights through the entropy method. …”
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Automated detection of hard exudates in retinal fundus images for diabetic retinopathy screening using textural-based radon transform and morphology reconstruction by Esmat Ramezanzadeh, Naser Shoeibi, Akram Feizabadi, Touka Banaee, Mohammad Hossein Bahreyni Tussi, Meysam Tavakoli

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Processes of charge, mass and heat transfer in FeNi composite by Л.О. Пащенко, В.В. Богданов, Р.В. Вовк, С.В. Дукаров, М.В. Кислиця, С.В. Петрушенко, В.М. Сухов, Г.Я. Хаджай, І.Л. Гулатіс, Е.С. Геворкян, С.Р. Вовк, A. Feher, Junyi Du, J.N. Latosińska

“…The nickel content, estimated by the concentration dependence of the mutual diffusion coefficient, which determines the kinetics of the process of homogenization of the electroconsolidated sample of the Fe - Ni composite, was ~ 70 at. %. …”
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Pareto Optimal Solutions for Stochastic Dynamic Programming Problems via Monte Carlo Simulation by R. T. N. Cardoso, R. H. C. Takahashi, F. R. B. Cruz

“…The results obtained attest for the efficiency and efficacy of the algorithm in solving these important stochastic optimization problems.…”
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Material Visual Perception and Discharging Robot Control for Baijiu Fermented Grains in Underground Tank by Yan Zhao, Zhongxun Wang, Hui Li, Chang Wang, Jianhua Zhang, Jingyuan Zhu, Xuan Liu

“…Finally, a digging motion control method is proposed and experimentally validated for feasibility and operational efficiency.…”
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Technique on Vehicle Damage Assessment After Collisions Using Optical Radar Technology and Iterative Closest Point Algorithm by Shih-Lin Lin, Yi-Hsuan Chen

“…With the rapid advancement of technology, there is an increasing need for quick and accurate analysis of vehicle accident severity, determination of accident liability, assessment of vehicle damage extent, and efficient calculation of insurance compensation. …”
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Parametric Analysis of Position and Direction of Laminated Composite C-Spar on Aeroelastic Flutter in Aircraft Tail by Ahmad Reza Ghasemi, Hamid Rabieyan-Najafabadi, Hossein Nejatbakhsh, Amin Gharaei

“…This method provides a more accurate and efficient way to evaluate these important parameters. …”
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Supplier Selection and Order Allocation in A Pharmaceutical Wholesaler by Ryan Hikmah Fadilla, Cucuk Nur Rosyidi, Wakhid Ahmad Jauhari

“…Subsequently, the results from TOPSIS inform the determination of optimal order allocation through a Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) method. …”
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Perovskite Quantum Dot/Zinc Oxide Composite Films for Enhanced Luminance by Nikita Khairnar, Hyukmin Kwon, Sunwoo Park, Sangwook Park, Hayoon Lee, Jongwook Park

“…This study involved investigating the method for creating a CsPbBr₃ and ZnO mixture and determining the optimal mixing ratio. …”
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Transient stability improvement of a transmission system through the application of an artificial neural network-based high-voltage direct current system by Chibuike Peter Ohanu, Uche C Ogbuefi, Emenike Ejiogu

“…The Newton–Raphson power flow method is employed to determine the base-case characteristics of the network. …”
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Nurses\' Performance and Related Factors in End-of-Life Care in the Intensive Care Unit: A Cross-sectional Study by Maryam Tabrizi, Masoomeh Adib, Tahereh Khaleghdoost Mohamadi, Saman Maroufizadeh

“…Based on the regression model, the total performance score of nurses regarding end-of-life care in nurses with master's education was significantly 22.28 units lower than nurses with bachelor's education (b= -22.28و 95% CI; -38.62 to -5.96, P=0.008). The coefficient of determination (R2) was 0.05, which indicates that 5.0% of the variations in the total performance score of nurses regarding end-of-life care are explained by their personal and occupational characteristics. …”
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Application of Wood’s Lamp in Dermatological and Dental Photodiagnostics by Mirosław Kwaśny, Paulina Stachnio, Aneta Bombalska

“…In the experimental part, this study examined the possibilities of the light source in photodiagnostics combined with the photodynamic method (PDT) and determined the lower detection limit of the basic photosensitizer in dermatology—protoporphyrin IX (PPIX). …”
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Simultaneous Shape and Stacking Sequence Optimization of Laminated Composite Free-Form Shells Using Multi-Island Genetic Algorithm by Bingbing San, Zhi Xiao, Ye Qiu

“…The optimization objective is determined as maximizing fundamental natural frequency to obtain largest stiffness of shells. …”
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Microbiological Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Sewage Sludge Sanitization with Solar Drying Technology by Zbigniew Paluszak, Krzysztof Skowron, Małgorzata Sypuła, Karolina Jadwiga Skowron

“…The number of reisolated microorganisms was determined with MPN method and the percentage of invasive A. suum eggs—with the microscope counting. …”
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Markers of Brain Damage in Severe Concomitant Injury by Ye. V. Grigoryev, Ye. A. Kameneva, T. G. Grishanova, M. N. Deragin, A. V. Budayev

“…The paper describes a clinical case of early enteral feeding with an immune formula in a patient with significant heart failure after cardiosurgical intervention who is on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. The safety and efficiency of nutritional support were monitored, by estimating blood acid-base balance and oxygenation level and by controlling the residual gastric volume, which enabled the volume of the given enteral mixture to be increased up to 2600 kcal by day 3, by providing the body’s energy needs determined by calculation techniques. …”
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Dynamic switching based real-time routing in low-duty-cycle wireless sensor networks by Quan CHEN, Hong GAO

“…The dynamic switching based real-time(DSRT)routing protocol was proposed to handle the arbitrary end-to-end(E2E)real-time communication in the low-duty-cycle wireless sensor networks.Firstly,the concept of available speed was designed to compensate for the big sleep latency and facilitate discovering the routes with less latency based on two-hop neighbors’ information(at lease about 20% routing path with less latency was discovered by DRST in the experiments).Moreover,it was noticed that the congestion extent in the low-duty-cycle network was determined not only by the number of packets in the network output queue,but also the destination of the packets.However,the traditional method with one-hop neighbors’ information cannot differentiate this kind of congestion.Therefore,combined with the dynamic switching mechanism,the DSRT proposed a congestion avoiding algorithm by classifying the packets in the queue.Through comprehensive experiments,the efficiency of routing discovering and congestion avoiding of the DSRT protocol is demonstrated,and the E2E delay is decreased by at least 200% when the traffic was high.…”
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Water Leaching of Wood Barks for Biocarbon Production by Zsuzsanna Czegeny, Istvan S. Czirok, Gergo Szabo, Zoltan Sebestyen, Bence Babinszki, Emma Jakab, Liang Wang, Oyvind Skreiberg

“…Water leaching of birch bark, pine bark and spruce bark performed at 25 and 60 °C with and without stirring was tested as a pretreatment method to reduce the inorganic content of the feedstock. …”
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Influence of the Technological Parameter and Die Structure on Metal Flow Line for Precision Forging Car Gear Blank by Li Tianxing, Zhang Xunlei, Fu Jianzhong, Gao Zhenshan, Wu Shuaibin, Yang Chao

“…The method of pre- control optimization can effectively reduce the number of tests,reduce the production costs and increase the production efficiency. …”
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RESEARCH ON PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS AND MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF CYLINDRICAL PRESSURE STRUCTURE by LIU Feng, TU ChaoHua, ZHAO YanKai

“…In order to improve the design efficiency and performance of the cylindrical pressure structure,strength and stability analysis methods were determined,the initial scheme was analyzed. the second development of Abaqus software was carried out by using Python language,Abaqus was integrated with i Sight software,the parametric analysis flow of pressure structure was designed,could realize automatic modeling and analysis of cylindrical pressure structure. the most Latin hypercube method was used to selectting the sample points,the sensitivity analysis of the design variables were carried out,The comparison of the fitting accuracy shown that the response surface model had the highest accuracy,the approximate model of the cylindrical pressure structure based on the fourth-order response surface was obtained. the multi-objective optimization model was established,The second generation of non dominated sorting genetic algorithm was used to solving the multi-objective optimization problem,the results shown that the weight of the optimization scheme was reduced,while the ultimate strength was greatly improved,improved the performance of the cylindrical pressure structure.…”
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