Prediction of regional water resources carrying capacity based on stochastic simulation: A case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration by Wentao Xu, Junliang Jin, Jianyun Zhang, Shanshui Yuan, Ming Tang, Yanli Liu, Tiesheng Guan

“…Traditional prediction methods obtained a definite WRCC value but fail to reflect the uncertainty of WRCC changes and limit reference for the optimal allocation of water resources. …”
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Calculation of risks of information security of telecommunication enterprise by L. M. Il’chenko, E. K. Bragina, I. E. Egorov, S. I. Zaysev

“…The result of this work was the calculation of information security risks, based on the allocation of valuable assets of the organization, the degree of potential damage in the implementation of threats to such assets and the probability of the implementation of threats to the information system of the telecommunication enterprise. …”
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Decision-Making Model for Life Cycle Management of Aircraft Components by Igor Kabashkin, Vitaly Susanin

“…The model incorporates a comprehensive approach that combines reliability assessment, economic analysis, and continuous re-evaluation to optimize maintenance, replacement, and life extension decisions. The optimization method on the base of genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to minimize total life cycle costs while maintaining component reliability within acceptable thresholds. …”
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Performance Analysis for Cooperative Communication System in Optical IoUT Network With HDAF Strategy by Shuang Li, Ping Wang, Weina Pang, Wei Wang, Lixin Guo

“…With the help of Gauss-Hermite and Gauss-Legendre quadrature numerical methods, the closed-form expressions of the average bit error ratio (ABER) and outage probability for this cooperative optical HDAF-IoUT system are derived and verified by the Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. …”
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Power and sample size calculation for non-inferiority trials with treatment switching in intention-to-treat analysis comparing RMSTs by Austin Shih, Chih-Yuan Hsu, Yu Shyr

“…Real-world and simulated examples are used to illustrate the proposed method and examine how switching probability, switching time, the relative effectiveness of treatments, allocation ratio, entry patterns, and event time distribution influence powers and sample sizes. nifts adjusts the non-inferiority margins intended for NI trials without treatment switching to accommodate the presence of treatment switching in the designs. …”
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Cost-utility and budget impact analyses of valganciclovir for cytomegalovirus retinitis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus in Thailand by Tippawan Wongwian, Jatapat Hemapanpairoa, Nattanichcha Kulthanachairojana

“…Therefore, this study aimed to analyse the cost-utility and budget impact of oral valganciclovir compared with IV ganciclovir for CMVR treatment in PLHIV in Thailand.Methods A hybrid decision tree/Markov model was developed to estimate costs, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), and life years (LYs). …”
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Prioritization of Bridges to Improve Emergency Road Network Performance after the Earthquake by Alireza Shooreshi, Hassan Zoghi

“…In this paper, to prioritize bridges in an emergency road network, a five-stage methodology is presented using analytical methods and an optimization model. Given the importance of network length and critical points connectivity in the efficiency of the emergency road network, the probability of failure, network length, and travel time have been used as major indicators in prioritizing bridges for retrofit funding, especially in the first 72 hours after the disaster. …”
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Application of Levy flight-based harmony search algorithm for the flexible job shop scheduling by Jun Li, Yang Zhou

“…Abstract The Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) is an extension of the classical job shop scheduling problem, which is characterized by the fact that each process can be processed on multiple candidate machines, and needs to solve the two subproblems of machine allocation and process sequencing simultaneously. Since FJSP is an NP-hard problem, its complexity and multi-objective characteristics make the traditional exact methods inefficient. …”
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Metaheuristic-Based Cepstral Sensing Technique for Prolonging Network Lifetime and Mitigating Primary User Emulation Attacks in Cognitive Radio Sensor Network by V. Abilasha, A. Karthikeyan

“…Conversely, by manipulating secondary users, Primary User Emulation Attack (PUEA) create severe threats to security and cause improper spectrum allocation and higher energy usage. To overcome this issue, we present a Cepstral Spectrum Sensing Multi-Hop Whale Optimization Algorithm (CSSMWA) and the proposed cepstral sensing uses a Logarithmic Spectral Derivative algorithm that aids in identifying authentic primary users from mimicked signals due to its feature-revealing properties, elevating the ability to identify the precision of PUEAs, perform better than other methods with low, moderate to high noise levels. …”
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Integrated Communication, Sensing, Computing, and Control for Industrial Power Protection Systems: Analysis and Performance Optimization by Tongshan Liu, Jiangtao Zhang, You Liu, Chunyou Zhuang, Hao Li, Yuanyuan Chen

“…To further enhance system performance, this paper proposes a joint optimization method aimed at simultaneously optimizing the control law and uplink-downlink bandwidth allocation to minimize the system’s control cost.…”
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Individualized Analysis of Nipple‐Sparing Mastectomy Versus Modified Radical Mastectomy Using Deep Learning by Enzhao Zhu, Linmei Zhang, Pu Ai, Jiayi Wang, Chunyu Hu, Huiqing Pan, Weizhong Shi, Ziqin Xu, Yidan Fang, Zisheng Ai

“…To mitigate bias in treatment allocation, advanced statistical methods, including propensity score matching (PSM) and inverse probability treatment weighting (IPTW), were applied. …”
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Factors associated with weighing a child at birth: Evidence from 16 sub-Saharan African countries. by Alex Bawuah, Samuel Ampaw, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah

“…This paper explores the demand-side predictors of newborn weighing.<h4>Methods</h4>Data were obtained from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) of 16 countries in SSA, conducted from 2014 to 2021. …”
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Distributed Photovoltaic Distribution Voltage Prediction Based on eXtreme Gradient Boosting and Time Convolutional Networks by Fang Yuan, Yong Lu, Zhi Xie, Shenxiang Dai

“…The current distribution voltage prediction methods have low accuracy and cannot realize more efficient system power allocation. …”
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Age of Information Analysis for Multi-Priority Queue and Non-Orthoganal Multiple Access (NOMA)-Enabled Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything in Internet of Vehicles by Zheng Zhang, Qiong Wu, Pingyi Fan, Qiang Fan

“…However, semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), which relies on distributed sensing, may lead to a high number of collisions due to the lack of centralized coordination in resource allocation. On the other hand, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) can alleviate the problem of reduced packet reception probability due to collisions. …”
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Probabilistic Interference Prediction for Dynamic 6G In-X Sub-Networks by Pramesh Gautam, Carsten Bockelmann, Armin Dekorsy

“…Simulation results show that the proposed predictors outperform the baseline method in terms of coverage probability, with improvements ranging from 22&#x2013;33% and 4&#x2013;13% over VISPGPR for Bernoulli random and deterministic traffic, respectively. …”
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A Novel Two-Stream Network for Few-Shot Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification by Yaolin Lei, Yangyang Li, Heting Mao

“…Thankfully, the recently proposed discriminative enhanced attention-based deep nearest neighbor neural network (DEADN4) method has introduced episodic training- and attention-based strategies to reduce the effect of background noise on the classification accuracy. …”
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Two dynamical models for male infertility and their stability and sensitivity analysis by Somaye Ghiasi Hafezi, Mahdi Ranjbar, Atena Ghasemabadi, Sohrab Effati, Alvand Naserghandi, Kosar Namakin, Farzad Allameh

“…Our dynamical models evaluate ART success rates in our subgroups considering couples under Intrauterine insemination (IUI), In Vitro Fertilization–Embryo Transfer (IVF), Intra–Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) treatment methods. Sensitivity analysis of parameters suggests that an increase in infertile couples who use IUI and ICSI treatment methods can result in better disease control and a more favorable outcome. …”
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Freedom from infection: enhancing decision-making for malaria elimination by Chris Drakeley, Dyah A S Lesmanawati, Riris Andono Ahmad, Lindsey Wu, Isabel Byrne, Henry Surendra, Luca Nelli, Risalia Reni Arisanti, Iqbal R F Elyazar, Elin Dumont, Jason Matthiopoulos, Gillian Stresman

“…Our approach addresses the limitations of traditional criteria for declaring freedom from disease and opens the path to true optimisation of the allocation of limited resources. Our findings emphasise the urgent need to reassess existing methods to accurately confirm malaria elimination, and the importance of using comprehensive modelling techniques to continually monitor and maintain the effectiveness of current surveillance systems, enabling decisions grounded in quantitative evidence.…”
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Prognosis of Nonagenarian ICU Patients A Bayesian analysis of prospective European studies by Daniel Dankl, Raphael Romano Bruno, Michael Beil, Hans Flaatten, Malte Kelm, Sviri Sigal, Wojciech Szczeklik, Muhammed Elhadi, Michael Joannidis, Andreas Koköfer, Barbara Schreiber, Franz Singhartinger, Sandra Oeyen, Brian Marsh, Rui Moreno, Susannah Leaver, Dylan W De Lange, Bertrand Guidet, Ariane Boumendil, Christian Jung, Bernhard Wernly

“…Some studies suggest that elderly ICU patients have outcomes similar to slightly younger patients, but skepticism remains due to clinical judgment, cultural attitudes, and resource allocation concerns. Methods We reassessed the 30-day mortality risk of nonagenarians admitted to ICUs using data from the VIP1, VIP2, and COVIP registries. …”
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Schedule-based analysis of airborne transmission risk in public transportation systems by Jiali Zhou, Haris N. Koutsopoulos

“…However, quantitative analysis of the effectiveness of transmission risk mitigation methods in public transportation is lacking. The paper develops an airborne transmission risk modeling framework based on the Wells-Riley model using as inputs transit operating characteristics, schedule, Origin-Destination (OD) demand, and virus characteristics. …”
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