Temporal disruption in tuberculosis incidence patterns during COVID-19: a time series analysis in China by Jiarui Zhang, Zhong Sun, Qi Deng, Yidan Yu, Xingyue Dian, Juan Luo, Thilakavathy Karuppiah, Narcisse Joseph, Guozhong He

“…Additionally, we compared the fitting and forecasting performance of the SARIMA, Prophet, and LSTM models using RMSE (root mean squared error), MAE (mean absolute error), and MAPE (mean absolute percentage error) indexes prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. …”
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Approximate Analytic Solutions of Transient Nonlinear Heat Conduction with Temperature-Dependent Thermal Diffusivity by M. T. Mustafa, A. F. M. Arif, Khalid Masood

“…It is based on an effective combination of Lie symmetry method, homotopy perturbation method, finite element method, and simulation based error reduction techniques. Implementation of the proposed approach is demonstrated by applying it to determine approximate analytic solutions of real life problems consisting of transient nonlinear heat conduction in semi-infinite bars made of stainless steel AISI 304 and mild steel. …”
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Development and Evaluation of a LiFi-Transceiver Module for TMTC Intra-Satellite Communication by Marek Jahnke, Benjamin Palmer, Ulf Kulau

“…The use of Light Fidelity (LiFi) can enable the reduction of satellite mass by reducing the wiring harness while avoiding electromagnetic interference. …”
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Development and validation of scales measuring self-efficacy and behavioral capability in managing common medical emergencies in dental clinics by Yasmine N. Alawaji, Hussam M. Alqahtani, Abdulmohsen Alfadley, Aram Alshehri, Ali Aboalela, Sahr H. Altuwaijri, Farraj Albalawi, Sara A. Kalagi, Abdulrhman Alghamdi, Abdullah Alshibani, Meshal Alharbi, Meshary Binhotan, Nesrin A. Alharthy

“…The mean reduction of self-efficacy in females was 12.5 points (95% CI: -3.4, -21.5) compared to males. …”
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ASSESSMENT WITH HIGH PRECISION OF MEASUREMENT SIGNAL PARAMETERS USING COMPENSATION OF ITS TIME DELAY IN LEAKAGE CHANNELS OF SPEECH INFORMAYTION by V. K. Zheleznyak, I. B. Burachonak

“…High accuracy and sensitivity assessment of the parameters of a complex measurement signal with a large base in information leakage channel on background high level of noise achieved by compensating with a minimum mean square error its time delay and frequency offset.…”
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A Novel Miniaturized Four-Ridged Horn Antenna with Enhanced Gain by Yunqing Cao, Menglong Wang, Daoyuan Sun, Dan Shan

“…By filling the FRHA with the epoxy-laminated glass cloth board, the side length of the aperture realizes 48% reduction comparing to a traditional ridged horn antenna. …”
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Improving Precision and Reducing Runtime of Microscopic Traffic Simulators through Stratified Sampling by Khewal Bhupendra Kesur

“…LHS is found to outperform AV, and reductions of up to 71% in the standard error of estimates of traffic network performance relative to independent sampling are obtained. …”
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Image Denoise based on Undecimated Wavelet Transform: A Comparative Analysis by Israa Hashim Latif

“…The initial section examined the performance of Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) utilizing MATLAB, indicating that biorthogonal wavelets provide optimal noise reduction with minimal degradation of detail. …”
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Learned Shrinkage Approach for Low-Dose Reconstruction in Computed Tomography by Joseph Shtok, Michael Elad, Michael Zibulevsky

“…The optimization is performed with respect to an error functional in the image domain that combines the mean square error with a gradient-based penalty, promoting image sharpness. …”
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NUMERICAL METHOD FOR ESTIMATION OF TENSILE LOAD IN TIE-RODS by Kseniia Riabova, Luca Collini, Rinaldo Garziera

“…Qualitative analysis of the results showed a significant reduction of the error compared to models with different boundary conditions. …”
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Influence of Center Component Floating on the Load-sharing Characteristic of Planetary Transmission System by Yangyang Du, Xiaosun Wang, Xue Yang, Bo Jiao, Shijing Wu

“…In order to investigate the load-sharing performance of the 2K-H planetary gear transmission system， a translation-torsion coupling dynamics model is established with considering the nonlinear factors of time-varying meshing stiffness and the overall meshing error and so on， the dimensionless differential equations with 18 degrees of freedom of the system are deduced in this model. …”
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Improved Response Surface Method Based on Linear Gradient Iterative Criterion by Yu Xia, Wenzheng Kong, Yingye Yu, Yiying Hu, Jinyou Li

“…Aiming at the problem of big calculation error in solving reliability index by the traditional response surface method, an improved response surface method based on the linear gradient iteration criterion is proposed. …”
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Finite-Time Bounded Model-Based Event-Triggered Control for Distributed Fuzzy T-S Systems by Davood Nazari Maryam Abadi, Ali Moarefianpour, Nima Mahdian Dehkordi

“…Model-based state estimation reduces the state error and consequently leads to reduction of data transmission instants. …”
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High Dynamic Optimized Carrier Loop Improvement for Tracking Doppler Rates by Amirhossein Fereidountabar, Gian Carlo Cardarilli, Marco Re

“…The main advantages of this approach are the reduction of the computation complexity and smaller phase error. …”
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A Lightweight Design Method for Aviation Gear Web based on OptiStruct-Abaqus by Yandong Wang, Siyu Chen, Jinyuan Tang

“…The actual optimal design results show that under the condition of guaranteeing strength and transmission error, the overall weight of the gear is reduced by 39.6%, and the effect of weight reduction is obvious, thus realizing the goal of gear lightweight design.…”
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Mapping the most effective measures to optimize carrot slice tray drying using physics-based and Monte Carlo simulations by Jörg Schemminger, Sharvari Raut, Barbara Sturm, Thijs Defraeye

“…To reduce energy consumption, it proves beneficial to reduce the airspeed from 1.8 m/s to 0.6 m/s - a 35 % reduction. However, this adjustment results in a 77 % drop in carotene retention and a 48 % reduction in throughput. …”
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Parental acceptance of novel children's medical syringes and their influencing factors by Su Wen Luo, Peng Rui Yang

“…Technology anxiety and time and error reduction emerge as key factors influencing perceived risks.ConclusionsThis study offers product designers crucial insights into purchasing factors for children's medical products, aims to enhance product development and iteration efficiency, and promotes more accurate innovation, decision-making, and communication. …”
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Active-Margin Transmission Power Control for Wireless Sensor Networks by Byung-Hee Son, Kwang-Jin Kim, Ye Li, Young-Wan Choi

“…The AM-TPC improves the reliability and reduces the power consumption, because it prevents unnecessary retransmission by reducing the number of error packets. By using the AM-TPC in mobile environments, we have experimentally obtained 28.3% reduction in current consumption when compared with using maximum power transmission.…”
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Research on Hybrid Hysteresis Modeling of Harmonic Reducer based on Parallel with Memristor Hysteresis Model and Neural Network by Xuanju Dang, Fang Wei

“…The model validation mean square error is 0.06.…”
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Research on POI quality prediction based on KPCA-GA-BP neural network by Lu LIU, Dan YANG, Ruijie CHEN, Jia LI, Xi ZHOU

“…At present, in network optimization, network quality evaluation and prediction are generally based on communities, and a flexible evaluation system for POI network quality was proposed following the research idea of “research on dimensionality increase and implementation of dimensionality reduction”.However, it involves many network KPI, resulting in a relatively complex evaluation system for POI network comprehensive quality and low prediction accuracy.In order to improve the prediction accuracy of POI network quality, KPCA was used to compress the correlation of input variables of BP neural network, the structure of BP neural network was simplified, and then the connection weights and threshold parameters of BP neural network were optimized through GA.Compared with the prediction results of traditional BP neural network, the prediction accuracy is improved by 10.9%, and the mean square error performance is significantly reduced, it can play a better supporting role in the prediction of POI network quality.…”
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