Comparing Effectiveness of Active and Passive Client Follow-Up Approaches in Sustaining the Continued Use of Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) in Rural Punjab: A Multice... by Waqas Hameed, Syed Khurram Azmat, Moazzam Ali, Muhammad Ishaque, Ghazunfer Abbas, Erik Munroe, Rebecca Harrison, Wajahat Hussain Shamsi, Ghulam Mustafa, Omar Farooq Khan, Safdar Ali, Aftab Ahmed

“…The primary outcome was cumulative probability of method continuation at 12-month among LARC users.…”
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Power Control for Full-Duplex Device-to-Device Underlaid Cellular Networks: A Stackelberg Game Approach by Zhen Yang, Titi Liu, Guobin Chen

“…We build an optimization problem under the outage probability constraint and power constraint and the transmission power of the users is obtained by using the Lagrangian dual decomposition method. …”
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Study on Nuclear Accident Precursors Using AHP and BBN by Sujin Park, Huichang Yang, Gyunyoung Heo, Muhammad Zubair, Rahman Khalil Ur

“…The pair-wise importance between precursors is calculated by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the results are converted into node probability tables of the BBN model. Using this method, the sensitivity and the posterior probability of each precursor can be analyzed so that it enables making prioritization for the factors. …”
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Cash transfers and fertility: Evidence from Poland’s Family 500+ Policy by Anna Bokun

“…Which groups of women responded to the cash transfer? METHODS: Using the Polish Household Budget Survey (2010–2018), I estimate linear probability regression models to identify the effect of the cash transfer on the probability of a birth as a function of a woman’s cash transfer eligibility, including heterogeneous effects by age, income, and education. …”
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Minimization of Resource Consumption with URLLC Constraints for Relay-Assisted IIoT by Yujie Zhao, Tao Peng, Yichen Guo, Yijing Niu, Wenbo Wang

“…Consequently, the closed-form solution to optimal blocklength allocation is derived. In the second subproblem, the total blocklength is minimized via a bisection search method. …”
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Risks of acts of terrorism and specific features of their estimation by N. P. Tikhomirov, A. V. Novikov

“…Specificity of these risks are shown, which are connected with unlimited spheres of activity and methods of terrorists, vagueness of their reasoning and so on, which determines the high level of uncertainty in probability estimation, damages and other consequences of their activity. …”
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Resilient Operation Strategies for Integrated Power-Gas Systems by Behdad Faridpak, Petr Musilek

“…The uncertainties of HILP events are modeled by different moment-based probability distributions. In this regard, considering the nature of each uncertain variable, a different probabilistic method is utilized. …”
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Dynamic power control scheme for C-V2X communication with channel inversion by Jieping ZHAI, Xiaolan LIU, Hailin XIAO

“…In cellular vehicle-to-everything（C-V2X）system, V2V（vehicle-to-vehicle）-based communication utilizes the spectrum resource of cellular users（CUE）to reduce the load of base stations, and thus realize partial near-field V2V communication.Although the V2V-based communication can improve the transmission rate of system, it causes co-frequency interference.To solve the problem, a dynamic power control scheme with channel inversion was proposed.In this scheme, channel inversion power control on V2V users（VUE）was performed to compensate the truncation interruption caused by limited transmission power in the non-truncated area, where the co-frequency interference between cellular users and V2V users was solved through dynamic power control.Furthermore, the optimal dual solution of objective function was obtained by Lagrange multiplier method and the optimal power allocation was carried out for cellular users and V2V users by bisection method, which met the rate requirements of all cellular users.Finally, the total transmission rate of V2V users was maximized.Numerical simulation results were shown that when the total outage probability of V2V users was 0.866, the proposed scheme was promoted by 48%.…”
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Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization for Chance Constrained Facility Location Under Uncertain Demand by Iman Seyedi, Antonio Candelieri, Enza Messina, Francesco Archetti

“…The purpose of this paper is to present a novel optimization framework that enhances Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization (WDRO) for chance-constrained facility location problems under demand uncertainty. Traditional methods often rely on predefined probability distributions, limiting their flexibility in adapting to real-world demand fluctuations. …”
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Blockchain and Game Theory-Based Strategies for Anti-Jamming and Eavesdropping in EH-CR Networks by Haifeng Hou, Ruiquan Lin, Jun Wang, Sheng Li, Wencheng Chen

“…Considering the possible interference caused by channel switching and the greedy principle of Malicious User (MU), the proposed two-layer game method gradually optimizes the sensing detection probability and secure communication rate with time slot iteration. …”
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Fin failure tolerant control of agile air vehicle using feedback linearization by Asghar Ashrafifar, Mohsen Fathi Jegarkandi

“…Furthermore, the control allocation method is modified to accommodate the condition of the fins and generate the desired control moment. …”
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Aplikasi Pertimbangan Wisata di Pulau Lombok dengan Metode Fuzzy Mamdani & Algoritma Genetika by Zainul Harir, Ida Bagus Ketut Widiartha, Royana Afwani

“…Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used in providing optimal budget allocation in traveling on Lombok IslandThe results of testing with manual calculations and different defuzzification models have 100% accurate, the application of GA obtained optimal budget allocation on crossover probability (pc) and mutation probability (pm) combination with (pc) 0.7 and (pm) 0.2. …”
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Developing an electronic surprise question to predict end-of-life prognosis in a prospective cohort study of acute hospital admissions by Baldev Singh, Nisha Kumari-Dewat, Adam Ryder, Vijay Klaire, Hannah Jennens, Kamran Ahmed, Mona Sidhu, Ananth Viswanath, Emma Parry

“…Participants: 18,838 acute medical admissions. Interventions: Allocation of mortality probability by binary logistic regression model (X2=6,650.2, p<0.001, r2 = 0.43) and stepwise algorithmic risk-stratification. …”
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Spatiotemporal patterns of wet–dry encounters between water source and receiving areas in the South-to-North water transfer project by Yuping Han, Jinhang Li, Mengdie Zhao

“…Abstract As global water scarcity becomes more acute, cross-basin water diversion projects, such as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China, need scientific risk assessment methods to ensure sustainable water allocation. This study proposes a coupling analysis framework based on Copula-Bayesian, which fills the gap in the systematic risk research of large-scale water transfer projects. …”
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Evaluation of Drug Adherence in Older Adults With Polypharmac by Farideh Bastani, Hamid Haghani, Mahdi Maleki

“…The participants were selected using a non-probability sampling method (continuous method with categorical proportional allocation). …”
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Integrate computation intelligence with Bayes theorem into complex construction installation: a heuristic two-stage resource scheduling optimisation approach by Jia Zhao, Wenhao Wang, Liyuan Zhang, Yan Ding

“…The MERD approach incorporates intelligent computing principles from computer science into the resource scheduling of the construction process, modelling the installation scheduling problem into a combinatorial optimisation problem. Designing the probability method based on Bayes theorem, the MERD approach carries out an installation provisioning mechanism to optimise personnel and device allocation in the selected area. …”
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Identification of patients at risk of new onset heart failure: Utilizing a large statewide health information exchange to train and validate a risk prediction model. by Son Q Duong, Le Zheng, Minjie Xia, Bo Jin, Modi Liu, Zhen Li, Shiying Hao, Shaun T Alfreds, Karl G Sylvester, Eric Widen, Jeffery J Teuteberg, Doff B McElhinney, Xuefeng B Ling

“…We applied machine-learning methods to model the one-year risk of incident-HF from the Maine statewide-HIE.…”
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The effect of health insurance reimbursement rates on middle-aged and elderly people’s hospital choices: evidence from China by Biao Li, Xiang Liang, Xiulin Qi

“…Methods This study is conducted using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) database. …”
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The Influence of Natural Resource Potential and Sovereign Wealth Fund Strategy on Organizational Performance: The Mediating Role of Human Resource Strategy in Indonesia by Raden Muhamad Rizza Fahlevi, Bahtiar Usman, Sarfilianty Anggiani

“…Using a correlational quantitative method, a non-probability sampling approach, and purposive sampling, the study targets managerial officials in government agencies and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the renewable energy sector. …”
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Examining geospatial and temporal distribution of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella disease occurrence in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and modelling study by Florian Marks, John A Crump, Jan Jacobs, Bieke Tack, Fabio Fiorino, Elena Pettini, Jong-Hoon Kim, Christian S Marchello

“…While our knowledge of a larger-scale variation is growing, understanding of the subnational variation in iNTS disease occurrence is lacking, yet crucial for targeted intervention.Method We performed a systematic review of reported occurrences of iNTS disease in sub-Saharan Africa, consulting literature from PubMed, Embase and Web of Science published since 2000. …”
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