Development and design validation of a novel network meta-analysis presentation tool for multiple outcomes: a qualitative descriptive study by Lehana Thabane, Jason W Busse, Behnam Sadeghirad, Gordon H Guyatt, Mohit Bhandari, Romina Brignardello-Petersen, Fernando Kenji Nampo, Carlos A Cuello-Garcia, Raveendhara R Bannuru, Mark R Phillips, Yu Jia Guo, Sofia Bzovsky

“…We; therefore, developed and iteratively modified a presentation method that effectively summarises NMA results of multiple outcomes for clinicians using this new interpretation approach.Design Qualitative descriptive study.Setting A steering group of seven individuals with experience in NMA and design validation studies developed two colour-coded presentation formats for evaluation. …”
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The Hybrid Steepest Descent Method for Split Variational Inclusion and Constrained Convex Minimization Problems by Jitsupa Deepho, Poom Kumam

“…We introduced an implicit and an explicit iteration method based on the hybrid steepest descent method for finding a common element of the set of solutions of a constrained convex minimization problem and the set of solutions of a split variational inclusion problem.…”
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New Integral Inequalities with Weakly Singular Kernel for Discontinuous Functions and Their Applications to Impulsive Fractional Differential Systems by Jing Shao

“…Some new integral inequalities with weakly singular kernel for discontinuous functions are established using the method of successive iteration and properties of Mittag-Leffler function, which can be used in the qualitative analysis of the solutions to certain impulsive fractional differential systems.…”
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Cooperative Optimization QoS Cloud Routing Protocol Based on Bacterial Opportunistic Foraging and Chemotaxis Perception for Mobile Internet by Shujuan Wang, Long He, Guiru Cheng

“…This mechanism is based on the characteristics of drug resistance of bacteria and the structure of the field, and through many iterations of the individual behavior and population behavior the bacteria can be spread to the food gathering area with a certain probability. …”
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Complexities in Assessing Structural Health of Civil Infrastructures by Abdullah Al-Hussein, Achintya Haldar

“…Instead of using one long duration time-history in one global iteration, very short duration time-histories and multiple global iterations with weight factors are used to locate the defect spot more accurately and efficiently. …”
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Path Optimization in Robotic Welding of Plate Heat Exchangers: An Improved Ant Colony Approach by Xianlong Chu, Xinning Li, Hu Wu, Xianhai Yang, Liyong Yang

“…The experimental results show that the IACAG algorithm has excellent performance in welding heat exchanger path planning and can achieve lower calculation time and iteration times under the conditions of optimal solution and zero deviation, showing comprehensive advantages in solution quality, stability, and efficiency.…”
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SVD-Aided Beamforming and Power Allocation Algorithm for Multiuser Turbo-BLAST System Uplink with Imperfect CSI by Xiaomin Chen, Xiangbin Yu, Dazhuan Xu

“…Furthermore, BER performance can be enhanced by the modified iterative detection. The effect of CSI imperfection is evaluated, which is proved to be a useful tool to assess the system performance with imperfect CSI.…”
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Higher-Order Expansions for Estimators in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters by Paul Rilstone

“…We allow for both one-step estimators, in which the nuisance and parameters of interest are jointly estimated; and also two-step (or iterated) estimators, in which the nuisance parameters are first estimated. …”
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Predicting the Optimal Treatment for Diseases Using Whale Optimization Algorithm by Sudad Abed, Zuhal Adel Madlool

“…We obtained good results for predicting the appropriate treatment for the disease in the proposed research, compared to the results obtained when applying the PSO algorithm before development in state of earlier, where the results obtained in the proposed research had higher accuracy than the results in in state of earlier at high iterations starting from 200 iterations and also had a lower error rate.: …”
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Aspectual reduplication in Sign Language of the Netherlands: reconsidering phonological constraints and aspectual distinctions by van Boven Cindy

“…The study focuses on three aspect types that have been found to be encoded by reduplication across sign languages – habitual, continuative, and iterative – and addresses potential phonological restrictions. …”
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Algorithm study of digital HPA predistortion using one novel memory type BP neural network by Chun-hui HUANG, Yong-jie WEN

“…Based on the characteristic analysis of the high power amplifier (HPA) in wide-band CMMB repeater stations,a novel neural network was proposed which can respectively process the memory effect and the nonlinear of power amplifier.The novel model based on real-valued time-delay neural networks(RVTDNN) uses the Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) optimization to iteratively update the coefficients of the neural network.Due to the new parameters w⁰in the novel NN model,the modified formulas of LM algorithm were provided.Next，in order to eliminate the over-fitting of LM algorithm,the Bayesian regularization algorithm was applied to the predistortion system.Additionally,the predistorter of CMMB repeater stations based on the indirect learning method was constructed to simulate the nonlinearity and memory effect of HPA.Simulation results show that both the NN models can improve system performance and reduce ACEPR (adjacent channel error power ratio ) by about 30 dB.Moreover,with the mean square error less than 10⁻⁶,the coefficient of network for FIR-NLNNN is about half of that for RVTDNN.Similarly,the times of multiplication and addition in the iterative process of FIR-NLNNN are about 25% of that for RVTDNN.…”
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Particle Swarm Algorithms to Solve Engineering Problems: A Comparison of Performance by Giordano Tomassetti, Leticia Cagnina

“…Comparison is made both in terms of fixed iterations tests to judge the solution quality reached and fixed threshold to evaluate how quickly each algorithm reaches near-optimal solutions. …”
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CFD-Guided Development of Test Rigs for Studying Erosion and Large-Particle Damage of Thermal Barrier Coatings by Maria A. Kuczmarski, Robert A. Miller, Dongming Zhu

“…Rig development is typically an iterative process of making incremental modifications to improve the rig performance for testing requirements. …”
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Differential privacy budget optimization based on deep learning in IoT by Dan LUO, Ruzhi XU, Zhitao GUAN

“…In order to effectively process the massive data brought by the large-scale application of the internet of things (IoT), deep learning is widely used in IoT environment.However, in the training process of deep learning, there are security threats such as reasoning attacks and model reverse attacks, which can lead to the leakage of the original data input to the model.Applying differential privacy to protect the training process parameters of the deep model is an effective way to solve this problem.A differential privacy budget optimization method was proposed based on deep learning in IoT, which adaptively allocates different budgets according to the iterative change of parameters.In order to avoid the excessive noise, a regularization term was introduced to constrain the disturbance term.Preventing the neural network from over fitting also helps to learn the salient features of the model.Experiments show that this method can effectively enhance the generalization ability of the model.As the number of iterations increases, the accuracy of the model trained after adding noise is almost the same as that obtained by training using the original data, which not only achieves privacy protection, but also guarantees the availability, which means balance the privacy and availability.…”
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Optimum Design Research on the Link Mechanism of the JP72 Lifting Jet Fire Truck Boom System by Guo Tong, Wang Jiawen, Liang Yingnan, Peng Buyu, Liu Tao, Liu Yiqun

“…After several iterations of calculation and optimization design, the design scheme that met the work requirements was successfully obtained.…”
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Joint transmit filter and sparse array design with transmit subaperturing FDA‐MIMO radar by Zihang Ding, Junwei Xie

“…However, the optimisation problem is non‐convex. A cycle iteration algorithm is proposed to obtain the optimal transmit filters and sparse array. …”
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Establishment and performance analysis of RIS-assisted coded relay cooperation system based on LDPC product codes by Shunwai ZHANG, Jin WANG

“…To pursue the ultra-reliable information transmission, the system which combined the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology and coded relay cooperation technology was investigated.The RIS-assisted coded relay cooperation system model based on low density parity check (LDPC) product codes was established.Based on LDPC product codes, the information matrix was row-encoded by the source node and column-encoded by the relay node, respectively.An efficient joint iterative decoding algorithm was proposed.The two received signals at the destination were row-decoded and column-decoded iteratively to update the logarithmic likelihood ratios of information bits, and then the decoding decision was made.The closed-form solutions of the outage probability and the channel capacity with finite codelength were theoretically derived.Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the proposed system obviously outperforms the traditional coded relay cooperation.The more number of RIS elements, the more significant advantage can be obtained.Simulation results also demonstrate that the channel capacity with finite codelength approaches the ideal channel capacity with the codelength of LDPC product codes increasing.…”
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An Efficient Blind Image Deblurring Using a Smoothing Function by Kittiya Khongkraphan, Aniruth Phonon, Sainuddeen Nuiphom

“…This paper introduces an efficient deblurring image method based on a convolution-based and an iterative concept. Our method does not require specific conditions on images, so it can be widely applied for unspecific generic images. …”
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Ranking Influential Nodes in Complex Networks with Information Entropy Method by Nan Zhao, Jingjing Bao, Nan Chen

“…Our work combines sigmod function and iteration information to obtain the position index. …”
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Discrete Approaches to Continuous Boundary Value Problems: Existence and Convergence of Solutions by Douglas R. Anderson, Christopher C. Tisdell

“…Picard iterations) in the absence of Lipschitz conditions. …”
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