A MATHEMATICAL APPROACH TO INVESTMENT WITH CHARGE ON BALANCE AND VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER WEIBULL MORTALITY FORCE FUNCTION by Edikan Edem Akpanibah, Peter Benneth, Ase Matthias Esabai

“…Furthermore, an optimization problem is established from the extended Hamilton Jacobi Bellman (EHJB) equation using variational method. By applying the variable separation technique and mean variance utility, the optimal control strategy (OCS) and the efficient frontier are obtained. …”
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Pengelolaan Arsip Personal Berbasis Digital Dengan Pendekatan Records Continuum Model Di IAIN Curup by Oktafian Histori, Yeti Tamala Anggraini

“… This study aims to determine how personal archives are managed at IAIN Curup including the challenges and practices implemented. …”
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Providing a Robust Dynamic Pricing Model and Comparing It with Static Pricing in Multi-level Supply Chains Using a Game Theory Approach by Sara Mehrjoo, Hanan Amoozad Mahdirji, Jalil Heidary Dahoei, Seyyed Hossein Razavi Haji Agha, Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh

“…Objective Designing a multi-level supply chain network with efficient product flow management is an important issue in supply chain management. …”
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Biogenic Synthesis of Ag Nanoparticles, ZnO Nanoparticles, and Ag@ZnO Nanocomposites as Photocatalysts for the Degradation of Brilliant Blue Dye by Vinidu Gamage, Gobika Thiripuranathar, Upul Nishshanka, Namal Priyantha, Manisha De Alwis Goonatilleke, Beth Guiton, Siyath Gunewardene, Sumedha Jayanetti

“…The biogenic WA-mediated ZnO NPs show a remarkable photodegradation efficiency of 65.8% under the optimum conditions of catalytic load, pH, and dye concentration, whereas WA-mediated Ag NPs and Ag@ZnO NC show 13.9% and 63.7% photodegradation efficiency, respectively, at 240 min. …”
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Design and Trajectory Optimization of Traffic Cone Recovery Manipulator based on Groove Cam Joint by Yushan Li, Hairong Guo, Xiangyuan Hu, Lü Antao

“…Based on a dual parallel four-bar mechanism and gear joint series-type traffic cone recovery manipulator, which has the problem of low recovery efficiency and difficult to achieve optimal motion trajectory of fixed gear ratio joints. …”
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Proposed New Retinopathy of Prematurity Screening Criteria: Evidence for Including Older and Heavier Filipino Premature Babies by Kristine Corpus, MD, Jose Melvin Jimenez IV, MD, Rachelle Anzures, MD, Rena Ivy Bascuna, MD, Ricardo Ventura, MD, Macario Reandelar Jr., MD, MSPH

“…Objective: (1) To determine if preterm babies with ROP are missed with the existing Philippine Pediatric Society-Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology 2005 screening criteria of ≤32 weeks gestational age (GA) and ≤1,500 grams birth weight (BW), (2) to determine the incidence (missed-out rate) of these babies with ROP (>32 weeks GA, >1,500 grams BW), (3) to describe their profile, and (4) to determine the appropriate upper limit for GA and BW that can provide safe and efficient screening for severe ROP. …”
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Assessment of Ecological City Development in Urban Settlements of East Azarbaijan Province with an Emphasis on the Theoretical Model of Sustainable Development by Hosain Nazmfar, Ali Eshghei charborj, Saeedeh Alavi

“…Therefore, this study is trying to follow the evaluation of the development boom in Eastern Azerbaijan province within the framework of the theoretical model of sustainable development using PROMETHEE V. 2- Materials and Methods This study is a kind of descriptive and analytical one regarding the purpose of the application and to methods. …”
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Vision transformers for automated detection of pig interactions in groups by Gbadegesin Taiwo, Sunil Vadera, Ali Alameer

“…The model's ability to recognize contextual spatial data enables strong detection even in complex contexts, due to the use of Gaussian Error Linear Unit (GELU) an activation function responsible for introduction of non-linear data to the model and Multi Head Attention feature that ensures all relevant details contained in a data are captured in Vision Transformer. The method provides an efficient method for monitoring swine behaviour for instance, contact between pigs, facilitating better livestock management and livestock welfare. …”
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Valuation Standards and Estimation Accuracy in the Appraisal of a Building Housing Vertical Farming by Giuseppe Cucuzza

“…Our comparison between the two approaches focuses on determining the capitalization rate, which determines the estimated value. …”
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Antivirus Mask Selection Under Spherical Fuzzy Information by Serhat Aydın, Emrah Köksalmış

“…Finally, the best antivirus mask is determined for public use and we present the advantages of the proposed method in results section.…”
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A Numerical Study for Solving Fractional-Order Optimal Control Systems with Free and Non-Free Terminal Time Using B-Cubic Spline by Oday Al-Shaher, M Mahmoudi, Mohammed Sahib Mechee

“…A numerical comparison has been introduced between the analytical solutions with numerical solutions using the proposed method. Exemplifications of implementations using various computer simulations revealed that the proposed method is both accurate and efficient. …”
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Development and application of an early prediction model for risk of bloodstream infection based on real-world study by Xiefei Hu, Shenshen Zhi, Yang Li, Yuming Cheng, Haiping Fan, Haorong Li, Zihao Meng, Jiaxin Xie, Shu Tang, Wei Li

“…However, existing diagnostic methods are flawed by low specificity, long detection times and high demands on testing platforms. …”
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Altered albumin/neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio are associated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality for advanced cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome by Xiaoshuang Yin, Jinmei Zou, Jing Yang

“…Future research should focus on incorporating additional biomarkers, validating the indices in larger and more diverse cohorts, and employing advanced analytical methods to refine the diagnostic efficiency of ANLR and NLR for better clinical utility.…”
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Changes of the pro-hormone levels of vitamin D 25(OH)D in patients with newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis treatment failure by R. M. Yasinskyi, O. M. Raznatovska

“…This approach will prevent treatment failure and, as a consequence, improve treatment efficiency. Purpose. To determine changes in the pro-hormone levels of vitamin D 25(OH)D in patients with NDTB treatment failure during the intensive phase of antimycobacterial therapy. …”
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Effects of Different Fertilization Measures on Bacterial Community Structure in Seed Production Corn Fields by Yirong Yang, Zhenhua Zhao, Bo Dong, Rui Zhang, Jing Jiang, Fengjie Ma, Yingying Zhang, Jianhua Zhao, Dandan Du, Jindong Qiu, Chong Li

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Controlling Mie scattering response to refractive index variations via light field manipulation by Jianzhi Zeng, Hanqing Cai, Jiachen Liu, Haifeng Hu

“…Abstract We present an efficient method for determining the T-matrix of axisymmetric particles using the finite element method (FEM) in conjunction with an analytical approach that expands the scattered field using vector spherical harmonics (VSHs). …”
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Biophysical modeling and experimental analysis of the dynamics of C. elegans body-wall muscle cells. by Xuexing Du, Jennifer Crodelle, Victor James Barranca, Songting Li, Yunzhu Shi, Shangbang Gao, Douglas Zhou

“…To ensure the model accurately reflects cellular responses under depolarizing currents, we develop a parallel simulation-based inference method for determining the model's free parameters. …”
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Crack detection on beams by time-frequency analysis of transient flexural waves by Anastasia APOSTOLOUDIA, Evanthia DOUKA, Leontios J. HADJILEONTIADIS, Ioannis T. REKANOS, Athanasios TROCHIDIS

“…Wave experiments in a slender brass beam are in good agreement with predictions verifying the efficiency of the method. In view of the results obtained, the advantages and shortcomings of the time-frequency representations employed are presented and discussed.…”
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Research on scene matching positioning technology for large-scale indoor scenes by Chenchen Zhou, Yujin Kuang, Tongfei Hu, Xiaoguo Zhang

“…Firstly, a prior database via the Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF feature extraction algorithm, employing a bag-of-words model for efficient feature matching, is proposed. Then, a Hidden Markov Model-based relocalization method uses historical information to quickly identify the actual corresponding place in similar indoor scenes, and the Perspective-n-Points are used to determinate the camera pose. …”
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Route to Measure Exact Parameters of Bio-Nanostructures Self-Assembly by Mikhail Kryuchkov, Jana Valnohova, Vladimir L. Katanaev

“…In this article, we introduce a novel method to determine the key parameters describing the self-assembly mechanism of bio-nanostructures. …”
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