Design and Improvement of Routing Protocol for Field Observation Instrument Networking Based on LEACH Protocol by Jiuyuan Huo, Xingyue Deng, Hamzah Murad Mohammed Al-Neshmi

“…Firstly, the FOI-LEACH was proposed to mainly improve the LEACH protocol in three aspects: (1) the network nodes are heterogeneous and combined with the characteristics of field observation instrument networking. …”
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Reversible data hiding scheme based on enhanced image smoothness by Jinghan WANG, Hui ZHU, Helin LI, Hui LI, Xiaopeng YANG

“…With the prosperity of Internet technology and the popularity of social networks, reversible data hiding technology has been widely adopted in concealed information transmission of medical and military fields with its advantages on secret information recovery.Traditional reversible data hiding schemes mainly focus on the enhancement of embedding capacity and the reduction of the distortion rate of stego image, but pay less attention to the understanding of image details with the human eyes.Thus, it is difficult to resist hidden information detection methods.To solve the above challenge, a reversible data hiding algorithm was proposed, which ensured the visual quality of the stego image in the process of data hiding through the image visual smoothness enhancement.Specifically, the original image was divided into reference area and non-reference area.The secret data was embedded through the translation of the difference, which was calculated according to the predicted pixel value and the original pixel value of the non-reference area.To guarantee the visual quality of the image, smoothing mechanism was constructed, in which a Gaussian filter was utilized as a template to filter the predicted value and to add the filter difference into the cover image without loss.The pixel value of the reference region was used as edge information for lossless restoration of the original image.The filtering coefficient in Gaussian function was exploited as the embedded key to ensure the security of secret information.Simulation results regarding a large number of classical image data sets illustrated that the visual smoothness of stego image processed by this scheme was effectively enhanced with lower distortion rate, higher embedding rate, and higher embedding and extraction efficiency.In a typical circumstance, the similarity between the generated stego image and the Gaussian filter image can reach 0.9963.The PSNR and the embedded capacity can be up to 37.346 and 0.3289 BPP, respectively.…”
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TEACHING COMPUTATIONAL THINKING IN SAUDI ARABIAN SCHOOLS USING SMARTPHONE APPS by Abdullah Alenezi

“…Computational thinking, encompassing problem-solving, computational logic, and algorithmic thinking, is an essential skill in the modern world. …”
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Landslide Segmentation in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images: The Van–UPerAttnSeg Framework with Multi-Scale Feature Enhancement by Chang Li, Quan Zou, Guoqing Li, Wenyang Yu

“…However, traditional methods of landslide recognition mainly rely on visual interpretation and manual recognition of remote sensing images, which are time-consuming and susceptible to subjective factors, thereby limiting the accuracy and efficiency of recognition. …”
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Outlier Traffic Flow Detection and Pattern Analysis Under Unplanned Disruptions: A Low-Rank Robust Decomposition Model by Zhipeng Duan

“…The accelerated proximal gradient solution algorithm is applied to obtain the decomposition results. …”
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Signal mining and risk analysis of tisotumab vedotin adverse events based on the FAERS database by JuanJuan Li, Yang Zhao, Xueqin Yang, Juan Zheng, Ting Yuan, Qian Tang, Mei Guo

“…However, its adverse events (AE) are mainly recorded in clinical trials, lacking of real-world data. …”
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Two-stage deep reinforcement learning method for agile optical satellite scheduling problem by Zheng Liu, Wei Xiong, Zhuoya Jia, Chi Han

“…A neural network is designed as the observation scheduling network to determine observation actions for the sequenced tasks, which is well trained by the soft actor-critic algorithm. Finally, extensive experiments show that the proposed method, along with the designed mechanisms and strategy, is superior to comparison algorithms in terms of solution quality, generalization performance, and computation efficiency.…”
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MIMO-OFDM/OCDM low-complexity equalization under a doubly dispersive channel in wireless sensor networks by Ahmad AA Solyman, Hani Attar, Mohammad R Khosravi, Baki Koyuncu

“…Moreover, the proposed work is applied over multiple-input multiple-output systems rather than the conventional single-antenna orthogonal chirp division multiplexing systems, based on the discrete fractional cosine transform orthogonal chirp division multiplexing system to mitigate the effect of frequency-selective and time-varying channels, using low-complexity equalizers, specifically by ignoring the intercarrier interference coming from faraway subcarriers and using the LSMR iteration algorithm to decrease the equalization complexity, mainly with long orthogonal chirp division multiplexing symbols, such as the TV symbols. …”
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Describing Pulmonary Nodules Using 3D Clustering by Amera Al-Funjan, Farid Meziane, Rob Aspin

“…This paper combines algorithms to cluster and define nodule’s features in 3D visualization. …”
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Learning Rates for -Regularized Kernel Classifiers by Hongzhi Tong, Di-Rong Chen, Fenghong Yang

“…We consider a family of classification algorithms generated from a regularization kernel scheme associated with -regularizer and convex loss function. …”
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ALLERGY TO ANTIBIOTICS IN CHILDREN: WHO IS TO BLAME AND WHAT TO DO? by I. V. Andreeva, O. U. Stetsyuk

“…The review describes the main types of allergic reactions to the antibacterial drugs most widely used in children. …”
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Approximation of Fixed Points of Weak Bregman Relatively Nonexpansive Mappings in Banach Spaces by Jiawei Chen, Zhongping Wan, Liuyang Yuan, Yue Zheng

“…By using projection techniques, we construct several modification of Mann type iterative algorithms with errors and Halpern-type iterative algorithms with errors to find fixed points of weak Bregman relatively nonexpansive mappings and Bregman relatively nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces. …”
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Management of aromatase inhibitor-associated bone loss (AIBL) in women with hormone-sensitive breast cancer: An updated joint position statement of the IOF, CABS, ECTS, IEG, ESCEO,... by Peyman Hadji, Matty Aapro, Nasser Al-Dagri, Majed Alokail, Emmanuel Biver, Jean-Jacques Body, Maria Luisa Brandi, Janet Brown, Cyrille Confavreux, Bernard Cortet, Matthew Drake, Peter Ebeling, Erik Fink Eriksen, Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan, Theresa A. Guise, Nick C. Harvey, Andreas Kurth, Bente Langdahl, Willem Lems, Radmila Matijevic, Eugene McCloskey, Rossella Nappi, Santiago Palacios, Georg Pfeiler, Jean-Yves Reginster, René Rizzoli, Daniele Santini, Sansin Tuzun, Catherine Van Poznak, Tobias De Villiers, M. Carola Zillikens, Robert Coleman

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Machine Learning Accurately Predicts Need for Critical Care Support in Patients Admitted to Hospital for Community-Acquired Pneumonia by George S. Chen, BSc, Terry Lee, PhD, Jennifer L.Y. Tsang, MD, Alexandra Binnie, MD, Anne McCarthy, MD, Juthaporn Cowan, MD, Patrick Archambault, MD, Francois Lellouche, MD, Alexis F. Turgeon, MD, MSc, Jennifer Yoon, MD, Francois Lamontagne, MD, Allison McGeer, MD, Josh Douglas, MD, Peter Daley, MD, Robert Fowler, MD, David M. Maslove, MD, Brent W. Winston, MD, Todd C. Lee, MD, Karen C. Tran, MD, Matthew P. Cheng, MD, Donald C. Vinh, MD, John H. Boyd, MD, Keith R. Walley, MD, Joel Singer, PhD, John C. Marshall, MD, James A. Russell, MD, for the Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Toward InnoVAtive Treatment (CAPTIVATE) Investigators

“…None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:. Performance was evaluated with area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) and accuracy. …”
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Estimating retention in HIV care accounting for patient transfers: A national laboratory cohort study in South Africa. by Matthew P Fox, Jacob Bor, Alana T Brennan, William B MacLeod, Mhairi Maskew, Wendy S Stevens, Sergio Carmona

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Persistence of Yellow fever virus outside the Amazon Basin, causing epidemics in Southeast Brazil, from 2016 to 2018. by Izabela Maurício de Rezende, Lívia Sacchetto, Érica Munhoz de Mello, Pedro Augusto Alves, Felipe Campos de Melo Iani, Talita Émile Ribeiro Adelino, Myrian Morato Duarte, Ana Luísa Furtado Cury, André Felipe Leal Bernardes, Tayrine Araújo Santos, Leonardo Soares Pereira, Maria Rita Teixeira Dutra, Dario Brock Ramalho, Benoit de Thoisy, Erna Geessien Kroon, Giliane de Souza Trindade, Betânia Paiva Drumond

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El método de elementos finitos como alternativa en el cálculo de engranajes. // The finite elements method as altenative in gear design. by G. González Rey, P. Frechilla Fernández, R. José García Martín

“…In this paper, bases for the generation method of teeth profile of spur gears, an algorithm for bending stresses<br />calculation and the comparison of results obtained by one and another method are exposed.…”
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Standardised packaging, minimum excise tax, and RYO focussed tax rise implications for UK tobacco pricing. by Rosemary Hiscock, Nicole H Augustin, J Robert Branston, Anna B Gilmore

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Results of external quality control study in flow cytometric acute lymphoblastic leukemia diagnostics by A. M. Popov, T. U. Verzhbitskaya, E. E. Zueva, O. V. Anan’eva, E. V. Babenko, L. V. Baydun, E. A. Belyakova, E. V. Boyakova, O. G. Bortnikova, M. V. Gorchakova, L. Yu. Grivtsova, E. N. Grinkevich, Yu. V. Davydova, E. I. Zakhar’ko, O. I. Illarionova, N. M. Kaprano, E. A. Koroleva, S. A. Kochengina, E. G. Kuz’mina, E. A. Kustova, T. A. Makarova, Yu. V. Mirolyubova, O. E. Murashkina, T. Yu. Mushkarina, E. S. Nisheva, I. A. Novikova, E. Yu. Osipova, G. E. Pluzhnikova, M. E. Pochtar, N. V. Pronkina, E. V. Rusanova, E. B. Rybkina, O. V. Seliverstova, N. N. Tupitsin, G. I. Uleyskaya, N. T. Urazalieva, L. G. Fechina, O. V. Khoroshikh, O. E. Tsareva, L. A. Shchekina, S. A. Plyasunova, S. A. Lugovskaya

“…Continuation of similar QC rounds following by consecutive discussions with further development of consensus diagnostic algorithm could be the first step for standardization of ALL immunophenotyping in Russian Federation and CIS countries.…”
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Spatiotemporal variation of the association between climate dynamics and HFRS outbreaks in Eastern China during 2005-2016 and its geographic determinants. by Junyu He, George Christakos, Jiaping Wu, Bernard Cazelles, Quan Qian, Di Mu, Yong Wang, Wenwu Yin, Wenyi Zhang

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