Antibody responses to Borrelia burgdorferi detected by western blot vary geographically in Canada. by Nicholas H Ogden, Julie Arsenault, Todd F Hatchette, Samir Mechai, L Robbin Lindsay

“…Simplification of this algorithm would be advantageous unless it impacts test performance. …”
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Electric Submersible Pump Fault Diagnosis Based on Laplacian Eigenmaps and Weighted Extreme Learning Machine by XU Zekun, FU Jun, GAO Xiaoyong, ZHANG Yu, LI Qiang, TAN Chaodong

“…Electric submersible pump (ESP) oil production technology is widely used in non-flowing high-yield wells and high water-cut wells, but equipment faults are prone to occur during operation, and subsequent maintenance may trigger long-term downtime, which may cause incalculable economic losses. …”
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Harmony Search Based Parameter Ensemble Adaptation for Differential Evolution by Rammohan Mallipeddi

“…In differential evolution (DE) algorithm, depending on the characteristics of the problem at hand and the available computational resources, different strategies combined with a different set of parameters may be effective. …”
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An Improved Hashing Approach for Biological Sequence to Solve Exact Pattern Matching Problems by Prince Mahmud, Anisur Rahman, Kamrul Hasan Talukder

“…Despite sprinting, hash-based pattern matching algorithms may have hash collisions. The Efficient Hashing Method (EHM) algorithm is improved in this research. …”
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Dynamically Dimensioned Search Grey Wolf Optimizer Based on Positional Interaction Information by Fu Yan, Jianzhong Xu, Kumchol Yun

“…This drawback of the GWO algorithm may be attributed to an insufficiency in its position-updated equation, which disregards the positional interaction information about the three best grey wolves (i.e., the three leaders). …”
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Scalable circuit depth reduction in feedback-based quantum optimization with a quadratic approximation by Don Arai, Ken N. Okada, Yuichiro Nakano, Kosuke Mitarai, Keisuke Fujii

“…Combinatorial optimization problems are one of the areas where near-term noisy quantum computers may have practical advantage against classical computers. …”
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An effective selection of retrieval schemes for data fusion by Batri Krishnan

“…Merging the results from more retrieval systems/schemes may enhance the performance of the Information Retrieval system. …”
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MTS pilot tone tracking for "wow" distortion determination by Piotr PASTUSZAK

“…It is based on the high-frequency bias tracking algorithm and further modified to minimize the influence of acoustic-band audio signals which may interfere with the 15.734 kHz MTS pilot tone.…”
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Theory Analysis for the Convergence of Kernel-Regularized Online Binary Classification Learning Associated with RKBSs by Lin Liu, Xiaoling Pan, Baohuai Sheng

“…It is known that more and more mathematicians have paid their attention to the field of learning with a Banach space since Banach spaces may provide abundant inner-product structures. We give investigations on the convergence of a kernel-regularized online binary classification learning algorithm in the setting of reproducing kernel Banach spaces (RKBSs), design an online iteration algorithm with the subdifferential of the norm and the logistic loss, and provide an upper bound for the learning rate, which shows that the online learning algorithm converges if RKBSs satisfy 2-uniform convexity.…”
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Application of Blind Deblurring Reconstruction Technique to SPECT Imaging by Heng Li, Yibin Zheng

“…It is hard to determine the SPECT system PSF analytically, although it may be measured experimentally. We formulated a blind deblurring reconstruction algorithm to estimate both the spatial radioactivity distribution and the system PSF from the set of blurred projection images. …”
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Routing in Duty-Cycled Surveillance Sensor Networks by Zhong Shen, Peng Zhang

“…We theoretically prove the correctness of the proposed algorithm, and extensive simulation results show that the performance of our algorithm outperforms other existing algorithms.…”
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A New Discrete Grid-Based Bacterial Foraging Optimizer to Solve Complex Influence Maximization of Social Networks by Yichuan Zhang, Yibo Yong, Shujun Yang, Tian Zhang

“…In this algorithm, a novel grid-based reproduction strategy and a direction-adjustment-based chemotaxis strategy are devised to enhance the algorithm’s searchability. …”
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Supply chain finance credit risk assessment using support vector machine–based ensemble improved with noise elimination by Ying Liu, Lihua Huang

“…However, noise may increase the complexity of the algorithm building and destroy the performance of classifier. …”
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Research on Feature Extraction of Indicator Card Data for Sucker-Rod Pump Working Condition Diagnosis by Yunhua Yu, Haitao Shi, Lifei Mi

“…Furthermore, the characteristic of rotational invariance, both in the Fourier Descriptors algorithm and the Geometric Moment Vector algorithm, may result in improper pattern recognition of indicator card data when used for sucker-rod pump working condition diagnosis.…”
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Molecular sub-classification of renal epithelial tumors using meta-analysis of gene expression microarrays. by Thomas Sanford, Paul H Chung, Ariel Reinish, Vladimir Valera, Ramaprasad Srinivasan, W Marston Linehan, Gennady Bratslavsky

“…This algorithm may aid in selecting molecular therapies and may improve the accuracy of subtyping of renal cortical tumors.…”
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Adaptive Feature Selection of Unbalanced Data for Skiing Teaching by Tao Feng

“…In skiing teaching, the data may show an unbalanced distribution. For example, the sample size of some common movements (such as straight downhill) may be much larger than that of some difficult movements (such as aerial spins). …”
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Prediction of protein interactions with function in protein (de-)phosphorylation. by Aimilia-Christina Vagiona, Sofia Notopoulou, Zbyněk Zdráhal, Mariane Gonçalves-Kulik, Spyros Petrakis, Miguel A Andrade-Navarro

“…Thus, our algorithm may infer phosphorylation activity on proteins through directed PPIs.…”
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Implementation of the methodology for calculation of the three-phase equilibrium of hydrocarbons and the aqueous phase by Oleg Aksenov, Mikhail Kozlov, Eduard Usov, Dmitry Taylakov, Nikita Kayurov, Alexander Cheremisin

“…In order to increase phase composition calculation stability, a modification for stationary point selection algorithm is proposed. Moreover, unexpected behavior of the algorithm may be revealed during implementation, which is not described in the original articles. …”
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2D Lidar-Based SLAM and Path Planning for Indoor Rescue Using Mobile Robots by Xuexi Zhang, Jiajun Lai, Dongliang Xu, Huaijun Li, Minyue Fu

“…Finally, the results of this paper may facilitate researchers quickly and clearly selecting appropriate algorithms to build SLAM systems according to their own demands.…”
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Improving energy efficiency and network performance in IaaS cloud with virtual machine placement by Jian-kang DONG, Hong-bo WANG, Yang-yang LI, Shi-duan CHENG

“…The existing virtual machine(VM) placement schemes mostly reduce energy consumption by optimizing utilization of physical server or network element.However,the aggressive consolidation of these resources may lead to network performance degradation.In view of this,a VM placement scheme was proposed to achieve two objectives.One is to minimize the number of activating physical machines and network elements to reduce the energy consumption,and the other is to minimize the maximum link utilization to improve the network performance.This scheme is able to reduce the energy consumption caused by physical servers and network equipment while optimizing the network performance,making a trade off between energy efficiency and network performance.A novel two-stage heuristic algorithm for a solution was designed.Firstly,the hierarchical clustering algorithm based on minimum cut and best fit algorithm was used to optimize energy efficiency,and then,local search algorithm was used to minimize the maximum link utilization.The simulations show that this solution achieves good results.…”
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