Treatment Planning Strategies for Interstitial Ultrasound Ablation of Prostate Cancer by Pragya Gupta, Tamas Heffter, Muhammad Zubair, I-Chow Hsu, E. Clif Burdette, Chris J. Diederich

“…A priori planning, based upon these pre-calculated lethal thermal dose and iso-temperature clouds, was devised for iterative device selection and positioning. Full 3D patient-specific anatomic modeling of actual placement of single or multiple applicators to conformally ablate target regions can be applied, with optional integrated pilot-point temperature-based feedback control and urethral/rectum cooling. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tests for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis by Sun Y, Hu D, Yu M, Liang SB, Zheng Y, Wang X, Tong G

“…Bayesian calculations were performed using the Rstan package, specifying parameters like MCMC chain count, iteration count, and operational cycles. The methodological quality of included studies was assessed using the QUADAS-2 tool.Results: Out of 15,877 studies, 180 were included in the quantitative synthesis, and 102 were used in head-to-head meta-analyses. …”
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Human-Centered Design of an mHealth Tool for Optimizing HIV Index Testing in Wartime Ukraine: Formative Research Case Study by Nancy Puttkammer, Elizabeth Dunbar, Myroslava Germanovych, Mariia Rosol, Matthew Golden, Anna Hubashova, Vladyslav Fedorchenko, Larisa Hetman, Liudmyla Legkostup, Jan Flowers, Olena Nesterova

“…The CASI-Plus study’s formative phase, carried out from May 2023 to July 2024, adapted human-centered design (HCD) methods grounded in principles of empathy, iteration, and creative ideation. The study involved 3 steps: formative HCD, including in-depth individual interviews with clients, such as men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs, and internet-based design workshops with HCWs from rural and urban HIV clinics in Chernihiv and Dnipro; software platform assessment and heuristic evaluation, including assessment of open-source mHealth platforms against CASI-Plus requirements, prototype development, and testing of the REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) prototype based on usability heuristics; and usability walk-throughs, including simulated cases with HCWs and clients. …”
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Pengembangan Aplikasi Sistem Informasi Pendataan Bangunan (SIPBANG) pada Dinas Pekerjaan Umum dan Penataan Ruang (DPUPR) Kota Malang Menggunakan Framework Scrum by Muhamad Rifky, Yusi Tyroni Mursityo, Bondan Sapta Prakoso

“…The development system that used scrum was able to finish developing the system successfully with two sprint iterations and successfully produced the SIPBANG that suits DPUPR’s needs. …”
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Optimizing N-1 Contingency Rankings Using a Nature-Inspired Modified Sine Cosine Algorithm by Irnanda Priyadi, Novalio Daratha, Teddy Surya Gunawan, Kalamullah Ramli, Febrian Jalistio, Hazlie Mokhlis

“…The MSCA method is validated using the IEEE 30-bus test case, focusing on optimal parameter tuning for population size, iterations, and key variables. Results demonstrate that MSCA achieves a high capture ratio of 96.67%, explores only 8.33 × 10??…”
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A Mobile Health Intervention to Support Collaborative Decision-Making in Mental Health Care: Development and Usability by Kristin Lie Romm, Mari Skoge, Elizabeth Ann Barrett, Lars-Christian Berentzen, Dagfinn Bergsager, Pål Fugelli, Thomas Bjella, Erlend Strand Gardsjord, Kristine Kling, Sindre Hembre Kruse, Kari Jorunn Kværner, Ingrid Melle, Erlend Mork, Henrik Myhre Ihler, Eline Borger Rognli, Carmen Simonsen, Tor Gunnar Værnes, Sofie Ragnhild Aminoff

“…However, successful implementation requires thorough testing, iterative development, and evaluations of both utility and treatment effects. …”
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Nature and prevalence of long-term conditions in people with intellectual disability: retrospective longitudinal population-based study by Ashley Akbari, Navjot Kaur, Rania Kousovista, Gemma Lewin, Emeka Abakasanga, Rishika Shivamurthy, Georgina Cosma, Gyuchan Jun, Satheesh Gangadharan

“…Conditions which were less prevalent in the intellectual disability cohort, but which were treated during ≥6% of total hospital admissions include cancer, cardiac arrhythmias and cerebral palsy.Conclusions This study establishes a range of 40 relevant long-term conditions for people with intellectual disability through an iterative process, which included a review of the available literature and a series of discussions with a Professional Advisory Panel and Patient and Public Involvement groups of this research project. …”
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Screening and identification of vascular endothelial cell targeting peptide in gastric cancer through novel integrated in vitro and in vivo strategy by Yan-ting Zhang, Sheng-hui Wang, Li Zhao, Hui-min Wang, Lin Wang, Rong-rong Shi, Si-chao Liang, Bao-feng Li, Bei Chen

“…After four rounds of iterative screening, a targeting peptide specifically targeting gastric cancer vasculature was obtained. …”
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Security decision method for the edge of multi-layer satellite network based on reinforcement learning by Peiliang ZUO, Shaolong HOU, Chao GUO, Hua JIANG, Wenbo WANG

“…Selection;the strategy acts on the satellite network,which will change the state of the environment,and the environment will evaluate the strategy and feed it back to the edge center node in the form of reward;the edge center node will perform error calculation and update the Q value based on the new environment state and income,in order to optimize the action selection strategy,so as to obtain higher rewards and new environmental states; the above process is continuously iterated to finally obtain the optimal strategy. …”
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Multimodal data deep learning method for predicting symptomatic pneumonitis caused by lung cancer radiotherapy combined with immunotherapy by Mingyu Yang, Jianli Ma, Chengcheng Zhang, Liming Zhang, Jianyu Xu, Shilong Liu, Jian Li, Jiabin Han, Songliu Hu

“…This process was repeated five times, and the results from these iterations were aggregated to compute the average values of performance metrics, thereby assessing the overall performance and stability of the model.ResultsThe multimodal fusion model developed in this research, which incorporated depth image characteristics, radiomics properties, and clinical data, demonstrated an AUC of 0.922 (95% CI: 0.902-0.945, P value < 0.001). …”
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Optimization of Dual-energy Spectral Lower-extremity Computed Tomography Venography Scanning Protocol: Phantom Study by Shigeng WANG, Renwang PU, Yijun LIU, Xin FANG, Wei WEI, Beibei LI

“…The imaging parameters for Group A were as follows: tube voltage of 120 kVp, auto tube-current technology (100~600 mA), noise index (NI) of 10, and image reconstruction using 40% posterior multimodel adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR-V). The imaging parameters for Group B were spectral imaging (GSI) mode, instantaneous dual tube voltage of 80/140 kVp, tube current with GSI Assist technology, and three scan groups based on NI values of 10, 11, and 12. …”
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Human motion capture data recovery based on non-convex low-rank priors of temporal difference(非凸时序差分低秩约束的人体运动捕获数据恢复算法) by 胡文玉(HU Wenyu), 彭绍婷(PENG Shaoting), 郭震宇(GUO Zhenyu), 黄慧英(HUANG Huiying)

“…The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is used to solve the problem, and the Newton-Raphson iterative method is used to solve the sub-problems. …”
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Harnessing Human-Centered Design for Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions and Implementation Strategies in Community Settings: Protocol for Redesign to Improve Usability, Enga... by Aaron R Lyon, Sean A Munson, Michael D Pullmann, Brittany Mosser, Tricia Aung, John Fortney, Alex Dopp, Katie P Osterhage, Helen G Haile, Kathryn E Bruzios, Brittany E Blanchard, Ryan Allred, Macey R Fuller, Patrick J Raue, Ian Bennett, Jill Locke, Karen Bearss, Denise Walker, Elizabeth Connors, Eric Bruns, Jenna Van Draanen, Doyanne Darnell, Patricia A Areán

“…The Center’s second round of funding (2023-2028) focuses on using the Discover, Design and Build, and Test (DDBT) framework to address 3 priority clinical intervention and implementation strategy mechanisms (ie, usability, engagement, and appropriateness), which we identified as challenges to implementation and scalability during the first iteration of the center. Local redesign teams work collaboratively and share decision-making to carry out DDBT. …”
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Amplifying children’s leadership roles and voice in decision-making through co-production in outside of school hours care: qualitative findings from the connect promote and protect... by Alyssa C. Milton, Alyssa C. Milton, Alyssa C. Milton, Kristin Ballesteros, Helen Hernandez, Yenni Hwang, Nick Glozier, Nick Glozier, Tom McClean, Haley M. LaMonica, Haley M. LaMonica, Karen Thorpe, Karen Thorpe, Ian B. Hickie, Ian B. Hickie

“…Two researchers undertook iterative coding using NVivo12 software, with themes developed and refined in ongoing team discussion.ResultsThe analysis identified nine sub-themes that related to child co-production and voice in CP3, which were organised into two super-ordinate themes: (1) processes that enable child agency and voice and (2) the impact of child agency and voice. …”
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Bioassays for the evaluation of the attractiveness of attractive targeted sugar bait (ATSB) against Anopheles mosquitoes in controlled semi-field systems by Frank S. C. Tenywa, Ummi A. Kibondo, Julian Entwistle, Osward Dogan, Mapipi Haruna, Restuta P. Phisoo, Jason Moore, Jane J. Machange, Haji Makame, Frederic Tripet, Pie Müller, Mathias Mondy, Derric Nimmo, Jennifer C. Stevenson, Sarah J. Moore

“…Of the four prototypes tested, the latest iteration, ASB prototype v1.2.1, showed the highest intrinsic attraction of both Anopheles species, attracting 91.2% [95% CI 87.9–94.5%]. …”
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The generation and evaluation of TKO/hCD55/hTM/hEPCR gene-modified pigs for clinical organ xenotransplantation by Guoli Huai, Yong Wang, Jiaxiang Du, Zhenhui Cheng, Yuxuan Xie, Jia Zhou, Hongmei Tang, Yanyan Jiang, Xiangyang Xing, Shaoping Deng, Dengke Pan, Dengke Pan, Dengke Pan

“…This study investigates the generation of TKO/hCD55/hTM/hEPCR (6GE) pigs and evaluates their compatibility with human immune and coagulation systems.MethodsThe 6GE pigs were generated through iterative genome editing and F1 generation breeding. …”
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Élaboration de la trousse « Profitez au maximum de votre journée » pour les prestataires de soins primaires : étude d’établissement de consensus pour la mise en pratique de lignes... by Tamara L. Morgan, Michelle S. Fortier, Rahul Jain, Kirstin N. Lane, Kaleigh Maclaren, Taylor McFadden, Jeanette Prorok, Jill Robison, Zachary J. Weston, Jennifer R. Tomasone

“…Le but de cette étude était de décrire comment un consensus a été obtenu sur les éléments de la trousse au moyen de révisions itératives afin d’améliorer son utilité en vue de sa publication en septembre 2022 ainsi que de résumer les premiers efforts de diffusion. …”
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Changes of Narrative: Osvald Sirén’s Photographic Modeling of Modern Research on Chinese Garden by Jiuwen GU, Yuanfeng SHI, Shan JIA

“…This process of overcoming photographic practice constraints is also the driving force behind photographic equipment iteration. Photographers’ strong artistic aspirations under limited technical conditions have given garden photography, as a sub-category of photography, an exceptional artistic character. …”
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Width evolution of channel belts as a random walk by J. M. Turowski, J. M. Turowski, F. McNab, A. Bufe, A. Bufe, S. Tofelde

“…We exploit the properties of random walks to obtain equations for the distance from a channel that is unlikely to be inundated in a given time interval (law of the iterated logarithm), distributions of times the channel requires to return to its origin and to first arrive at a given position away from the origin, and the mean lateral drift speed of steady-state channel belts. …”
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Real-time Detection Algorithm of Expanded Feed Image on the Water Surface Based on Improved YOLOv11 by ZHOU Xiushan, WEN Luting, JIE Baifei, ZHENG Haifeng, WU Qiqi, LI Kene, LIANG Junneng, LI Yijian, WEN Jiayan, JIANG Linyuan

“…Notably, under the same number of iterations, the YOLOv11-AP2S model achieved higher mAP50 values and lower losses, demonstrating its superiority in detection performance. …”
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