Design and implementation of adaptive mimic voting device oriented to persistent connection by Dacheng ZHOU, Hongchang CHEN, Guozhen CHENG, Weizhen HE, Ke SHANG, Hongchao HU

“…Results:A series of comparative experiments between the prototype system of the adaptive mimic voter and the traditional mimic voter is conducted as follows. (1) The evaluation of memory resource occupancy shows that the peak physical memory consumption and the total time of consuming physical memory when the adaptive mimic voter transmits 20MB web resources in chunked transfer encoding are significantly lower than those of the traditional mimic voter. (2) The evaluation of transmission delay shows that the response time of the adaptive mimic voter in the voting processing of 10MB to 320MB chunked transfer-encoded webpage resources is relatively low, indicating that its voting speed has been significantly improved. (3) The concurrency performance evaluation shows that the average of response time of the system applying the adaptive mimic voter under the request concurrency of 1000 to 5000 is lower than that of the traditional mimic voter,and the voting processing throughput is higher than that of the traditional mimic voter.(4)The evaluation of voting accuracy shows that the adaptive mimic voter based on the voting algorithm selects the strategy set is slightly weaker than the semantic feature algorithm and the AHP algorithm while far superior to the character similarity algorithm in the traditional mimic voter, which reveals that the adaptive mimic voter has an acceptable voting accuracy. …”
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Sistem Identifikasi Penyakit Paru Obstruktif Kronik (PPOK) Berdasarkan Suara Paru-Paru Menggunakan Jaringan Saraf Tiruan Berbasis Raspberry Pi by Lindhu Parang Kusuma, Barlian Henryranu Prasetio, Eko Setiawan

“…The output of this system is a visualization of the sound of the lungs captured by the stethoscope and the diagnosis of the lung condition displayed in real-time. Based on the tests that have been done, the accuracy rate obtained by the system is 93.35% with a computational time of 3.116 s. …”
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Meta Analysis of Clinical Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Compounds of Huoxue Yangyin in the Treatment of Vocal Cord Polyp after Surgery by GE Xiaoni, ZHU Ling, SONG Ruohui, TU Yanhong, ZHENG Rixin

“…The outcome indicators including clinical efficacy, clinical symptom subsidence time, clinical symptom score, voice acoustic analysis, grade rough breathy asthenic strained (GRBAS), adverse reactions. …”
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First clinical cases of leishmaniosis in meerkats (Suricata suricatta) housed in wildlife parks in Madrid, Spain by Pablo Moraleda-Berral, Rosa Gálvez, Eva Martínez-Nevado, Lino Pérez de Quadros, Juncal García, Manuel de la Riva-Fraga, Juan Pedro Barrera, Efrén Estévez-Sánchez, Lourdes Cano, Rocío Checa, María Ángeles Jiménez-Martínez, Ana Montoya, Guadalupe Miró

“…Positive results were obtained by nested and real-time PCR from different tissues such as blood, hair, oral, and conjunctival swabs. …”
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A clinical efficacy analysis of single-port thoracoscopic lung resection in the treatment of male patients with non-small cell lung cancer using surface localization and CT-guided... by Qinghua Wang, Yujie He, Xiaowei Xie, Qinghua Wu

“…Results: Postoperatively, the study group had shorter operation time (124.15 ± 12.52 minutes), hospital stay (7.38 ± 0.73 days), drainage tube removal time (5.75 ± 0.57 days), and lower levels of Cytokeratin 19 fragment (CYFRA21-1) (3.03 ± 0.51 ng/mL), Carcino-Embryonic Antigen (CEA) (9.77 ± 0.96 ng/mL), Cancer Antigen 19-9 (CA199) (45.57 ± 4.86 U/mL), Squamous Cell Carcinoma Antigen (SCC) (21.29 ± 2.38 g/L), Epinephrine (E) (60.87 ± 6.41 pg/mL), Norepinephrine (NE) (185.32 ± 18.53 pg/mL), and Cortisol (Cor) (97.63 ± 9.76 ng/mL) compared to the control group (operation time: 136.85 ± 13.77 minutes; hospital stay: 9.67 ± 0.91 days; drainage tube removal time: 7.23 ± 0.69 days; CYFRA21-1: 4.87 ± 0.55 ng/mL; CEA: 12.68 ± 1.32 ng/mL; CA199: 16.38 ± 1.59 U/mL; SCC: 10.58 ± 1.12 g/L; E: 77.86 ± 7.86 pg/mL; NE: 226.76 ± 22.66 pg/mL; Cor: 119.87 ± 11.89 ng/mL). …”
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Mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of the CLoCk cohort study. by Laura Panagi, Simon R White, Snehal M Pinto Pereira, Manjula D Nugawela, Isobel Heyman, Kishan Sharma, Terence Stephenson, Trudie Chalder, Natalia K Rojas, Emma Dalrymple, Kelsey McOwat, Ruth Simmons, Olivia Swann, CLoCk Consortium, Tamsin Ford, Roz Shafran

“…However, associations with time varied by age, such that older participants reported greater deterioration in mental health over time (B = 0.12 (per month), 95% CI = 0.10 to 0.14 for 15 to 17y; 0.08 (95% CI = 0.06 to 0.10) for 11 to 14y; pinteraction = 0.002) and by sex, with greater deterioration in girls. …”
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Lifestyle risk behaviours among adolescents: a two-year longitudinal study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by Nicola Clare Newton, Maree Teesson, Jennifer Debenham, Cath Chapman, Bridie Osman, Lauren Anne Gardner, Fiona Elizabeth Wylie, Katrina Elizabeth Champion

“…Objective To examine changes in the prevalence of six key chronic disease risk factors (the “Big 6”), from before (2019) to during (2021) the COVID-19 pandemic, among a large and geographically diverse sample of adolescents, and whether differences over time are associated with lockdown status and gender.Design Prospective cohort study.Setting Three Australian states (New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia) spanning over 3000 km.Participants 983 adolescents (baseline Mage=12.6, SD=0.5, 54.8% girl) drawn from the control group of the Health4Life Study.Primary outcomes The prevalence of physical inactivity, poor diet (insufficient fruit and vegetable intake, high sugar-sweetened beverage intake, high discretionary food intake), poor sleep, excessive recreational screen time, alcohol use and tobacco use.Results The prevalence of excessive recreational screen time (prevalence ratios (PR)=1.06, 95% CI=1.03 to 1.11), insufficient fruit intake (PR=1.50, 95% CI=1.26 to 1.79), and alcohol (PR=4.34, 95% CI=2.82 to 6.67) and tobacco use (PR=4.05 95% CI=1.86 to 8.84) increased over the 2-year period, with alcohol use increasing more among girls (PR=2.34, 95% CI=1.19 to 4.62). …”
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Associations between media parenting practices and early adolescent consumption of R-rated movies and mature-rated video games by Jason M. Nagata, Karen Li, Shirley S. Sui, Jonanne Talebloo, Christopher D. Otmar, Iris Yuefan Shao, Orsolya Kiss, Kyle T. Ganson, Alexander Testa, Jinbo He, Fiona C. Baker

“…Punitive measures, such as restricting screen time as a punishment are slightly associated with increased engagement with such content. …”
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Clinical Observation on Chronic Low Back Pain Treated by Sling and Tuina Exercise Therapy by Ning WANG, Yi DING, Qiangqiang XU, Jiapeng ZHANG, LI Li

“…All treatment lasted for four weeks, once a day, 30 minutes each time, five times a week. The changes of thickness of transversus abdominal muscle and multifidus muscle were detected by using musculoskeletal ultrasound, the patient's pain improvement was assessed by the visual analogue scale (VAS), the improvement of dysfunction was assessed by the Oswestry dysfunction index (ODI), and the patient's persistent sitting condition was assessed by the continuous sitting time before treatment and four weeks after treatment respectively. …”
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Generative adversarial networks based adaptive modulation and coding for next-generation 5G communication systems by A. Manikandan, Rakesh Thoppaen Suresh Babu, S Jai Ganesh, T. Sanjay

“…However, the channel's quality can be impacted by several variables, including distance, fading, noise, and interference in the time-varying channel. Hence it won't be easy to approximate the channel state information (CSI) accurately for time-varying channels. …”
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Removal of Pb from Water by Adsorption on Apple Pomace: Equilibrium, Kinetics, and Thermodynamics Studies by Piar Chand, Yogesh B. Pakade

“…The adsorption-influencing factors such as pH, dose, and time were optimized by batch adsorption study. A 0.8 g dose, 4.0 pH, and 80 min of contact time were optimized for maximum adsorption of Pb on AP. …”
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Objective Imaging Diagnostics for Dry Eye Disease by Sang Beom Han, Yu-Chi Liu, Karim Mohamed-Noriega, Louis Tong, Jodhbir S. Mehta

“…Traditional diagnostic tests for dry eye disease (DED), such as fluorescein tear film break-up time and the Schirmer test, are often associated with poor reproducibility and reliability, which make the diagnosis, follow-up, and management of the disease challenging. …”
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Is There an Association between Socioeconomic Status and Body Mass Index among Adolescents in Mauritius? by Waqia Begum Fokeena, Rajesh Jeewon

“…Poor diet quality and less time spent in PA at school could explain BMI discrepancies between SES groups.…”
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Model Reduction Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Predictive Control of Distributed Reactor System by Alejandro Marquez, Jairo José Espinosa Oviedo, Darci Odloak

“…This paper studies the application of proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) to reduce the order of distributed reactor models with axial and radial diffusion and the implementation of model predictive control (MPC) based on discrete-time linear time invariant (LTI) reduced-order models. …”
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Ustor: cloud storage system based on regenerating codes by Qing LIU, Dan FENG, Bai LI

“…Observations can be drawn from the experimental re-sults: first, erasure coding guarantees data reliability, increasing 5%～10% response time compared with non-coding; sec-ond, speed of FRC encode, decode and repair are a little slower than Reed-Solomon(RS) code, and the time gap of en-coding 256MB by two codes is less than 0.5 seconds; third, compared with traditional RS codes, FRC reduces more than 25% data amount needed to download during a repair in the experiment.…”
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New species and new records of hybotid dance flies (Diptera: Hybotidae: Tachydromiinae) from Iranian mangrove habitats by Igor V. Shamshev, Ebrahim Gilasian

“…The family Hybotidae (Insecta: Diptera, Empidoidea) is recorded for the first time from mangrove habitats in Iran (Hormozgan Province). …”
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Optimization of 3D Printing Process Parameters of Polylactic Acid Filament Based on the Mechanical Test by S. Raja, Anant Prakash Agrawal, Pravin P Patil, P. Thimothy, Rey Y. Capangpangan, Piyush Singhal, Mulugeta Tadesse Wotango

“…Thus, through this research, one can find the best PLA filament printing parameters and their timing.…”
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Modelling and Investigation of the Dynamic Behavior of a Penny-Shaped Interface Crack in Piezoelectric Bimaterials by Yani Zhang, Junlin Li, Di Liu, Xiufeng Xie

“…The results show that the fracture toughness of a penny-shaped interface crack in piezoelectric bimaterials is related to the thickness of the material, the impact time, the material characteristics, and the electric field. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE PLANE STRAIN DYNAMIC FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF 20CRMNTI BASED ON IMPROVED HPB PLATFORM by SONG Kun, ZHANG XiaoDi, DING Jun, HUANG Xia, HE XiaoJin, WANG JiaBin, WANG LuSheng

“…To obtain the dynamic fracture toughness of 20 Cr Mn Ti,an impact loading test was conducted on three-point bending specimens with the improved Hopkinson pressure bar.Dynamic stress intensity factor was determined by the spring mass model.The onset time of crack initiation is experimentally detected using the strain gauge method.Dynamic fracture toughness of20 Cr Mn Ti with type I crack was obtained through the above experimental procedure.The geometrical dispersion distortion caused by lateral inertia effect is effectively inhibited by the wave shaping technique,to ensure the consistency of stress wave signal in measuring point and loading point is guaranteed.At the same time,the high-speed camera system was used to collect the image and the change of the surface strain field during the loading process was analyzed with GOM Correlate.The results show that samples before crack initiation has reached the dynamic strain balance,ensure the validity of the experiment.…”
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Fuzzy Diagnostic System for Oleo-Pneumatic Drive Mechanism of High-Voltage Circuit Breakers by Viorel Nicolau

“…The fuzzy inputs give information about the number of starts and time of functioning per hour, in terms of short-term components, and their mean values. …”
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