The Direct Healthcare Expenditures of Prostate Cancer by Disease Severity: Evidence from US National Survey Data by Peter J. Mallow, Jie Chen, John A. Rizzo, John R. Penrod, Geralyn C. Trudel, Teresa M. Zyczynski

“…When aggregated to the US population, PC accounted for an incremental annual cost of $15 billion. …”
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Predicting Downward Longwave Radiation for Various Land Use in All-Sky Condition: Northeast Florida by Chi-Han Cheng, Fidelia Nnadi

“…The all-sky land use-adapted model with all factors taken into account performs better than other existing models statistically. …”
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Vibration mechanism study based on coupled dynamic model for TBM main drive system by Wenjun Xu, Hanyang Wu, Junzhou Huo, Dongyun Wang

“…In this paper, multi-degree-of-freedom coupled dynamics model of the main drive system containing the cutterhead, gear drive, shield, and propulsion system was established, taking bearing and drive gear nonlinear contact forces, uncertain load into account. A multi-position vibration test was carried out based on practical engineering. …”
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Development of Approaches to an Organizational and Functional Structure Creating of the Eurasian Economic Union Digital Transport Corridors Ecosystem by O. V. Miasnikova, T. G. Tabolich

“…The using area of the proposed solutions: further creation of the National Electronic Transport and Logistics System in the Republic of Belarus, taking into account the development of the EAEU's digital transport corridors ecosystem.…”
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Collision Avoidance in Circular Motion of a Fixed-Wing Drone Formation Based on Rotational Modification of Artificial Potential Field by Tagir Muslimov

“…In this case, the limited maneuverability of UAVs of exactly fixed-wing type requires taking into account the peculiarities of their dynamics in the synthesis of the collision avoidance algorithm. …”
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Safety Assessment and Risk Estimation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Operating in National Airspace System by Xuejun Zhang, Yang Liu, Yu Zhang, Xiangmin Guan, Daniel Delahaye, Li Tang

“…Both fixed-wing and rotary-wing UAVs are taken into account under a real scenario that is further partitioned into different zones to make the evaluation more precise. …”
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Organizational structure of the Mangalarga herd and the influence of geographic distribution and different coats on the genetic diversity by Andreza Correia da Silva, Juliano Martins Santiago, Jorge Eduardo Cavalcante Lucena, Caline Angélica de Menezes Sá Nascimento, Janaina Kelli Gomes Arandas, Laura Leandro da Rocha, Ana Paula Gomes Pinto

“…In the RP, the sorrel coat accounted for 87.58% of the genetic contribution. Considering different coat colors as subpopulations, the mean value estimated for FIS in the RP was 0.0103, FIT of 0.0107, FST of 0.0004, F of 3.53%, and AR of 3.29%. …”
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Criterion for Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Behavior at the Interface of a Coal Measure Composite Reservoir by Yifeng Guo, Runxu Zhang, Xinghua Zhang, Kangkang Han, Fazhi Yan, Cunbao Deng, Zhixin Jin

“…This criterion takes into account the influences of the injection parameters and is of great significance to gaining a better understanding of the propagation behavior of hydraulic fractures at an interlayer interface.…”
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Cerebellar re-irradiation after whole brain radiotherapy significant symptom relief with minimal toxicity in metastatic brain patients by Ory Haisraely, Marcia Jaffe, Yaacov Richard Lawerence, Alicia Talianksy, Alicia Taliansky

“…Re-irradiation is often necessary for recurrent disease, particularly in the cerebellum, which accounts for 10–20% of cases. Cerebellar metastases are associated with distinct symptoms and poorer prognoses compared to supratentorial lesions. …”
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Defining competence profiles in obstetrics and gynecology using the modified requirement tracking questionnaire by Baptiste Tarasi, Viktor Oubaid, David Baud

“…The aim of this study is to define the competence profile needed in this sector for daily professional activity, in order to account for these criteria in future recruitment. …”
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LSTM+MA: A Time-Series Model for Predicting Pavement IRI by Tianjie Zhang, Alex Smith, Huachun Zhai, Yang Lu

“…However, the existing research on IRI prediction mainly focuses on using linear regression or traditional machine learning, which cannot take into account the historical effects of IRI caused by climate, traffic, pavement construction and intermittent maintenance. …”
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Coding Readiness Assessment: A Measure of Computational Thinking for Preschoolers by Emily Relkin, Christopher Doss, Victoria L. Jones, John F. Pane

“…Girls scored slightly higher than boys, although the difference was not significant when age and race were taken into account. The CRA showed acceptable levels of reliability in terms of internal consistency (α = 0.78) and test–retest reliability (<i>r</i> = 0.65). …”
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Calculation of Start-Up Time of Passive Catalytic Hydrogen Recombiner of Localization Safety System of a Nuclear Power Plant Equipped with VVER by V. V. Sorokin

“…Local cross-sectional averages and transmission coefficients are used, the latter taking into account the influence of free convection and chemical reaction. …”
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La ‘Umma est-elle une communauté linguistique ? by Chahrazed Dahou

“…Knowing that Algeria is officially an Arab country; is it possible to explain its sociolinguistic configuration without taking into account the contents of the “Umma” diglossique ideology? …”
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Ecology through the eyes of a non-ecologist by Janusz Uchmański

“…Ecology also takes into account those individuals who have lost in the process of natural selection. …”
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Floristic Inventory and Diversity Assessment at Two Locations along the Shores of Cape Coast, Ghana by Gertrude Lucky Aku Dali, Sethiler Arthur, Paul Kwame Essandoh

“…Anthropogenic activities at the Hutchland beach might have accounted for the lower species diversity and evenness there. …”
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Procedural Guaranteeing of Tenants Rights in Case of Land Use for Farming by V. V. Nezhevelo

“…Thus, starting from 2018, within the framework of the judicial reform and the creation of a new Supreme Court of Ukraine, a prudent legal position began to emerge regarding the need to appeal in these situations to commercial courts within the economic jurisdiction and to file claims against farm enterprises, which as legal entities are the defendant in the case, being the actual user. Taking into account the above, the author has studied the scientific environment within the aspect of solving the issue of procedural guaranteeing of the rights of the tenants of land plots that are actually used by farm enterprises for conducting this activity. …”
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted UAV Path Planning Relying on Cumulative Reward Mode and Region Segmentation by Zhipeng Wang, Soon Xin Ng, Mohammed EI-Hajjar

“…Our proposed region segmentation aims to reduce the probability of DRL agents falling into local optimal trap, while our proposed cumulative reward model takes into account the distance from the node to the destination and the density of obstacles near the node, which solves the problem of sparse training data faced by the DRL algorithms in the path planning task. …”
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Modelling Hollow Microneedle-Mediated Drug Delivery in Skin Considering Drug Binding by Tanmoy Bhuimali, Sarifuddin, Diganta Bhusan Das, Prashanta Kumar Mandal

“…The drug’s reversible specific saturable binding to its receptors and the kinetics of reversible absorption across the blood and tissue compartments have been taken into account. <b>Methods:</b> The governing equations representing the flow of interstitial fluid, the transport of verapamil in the viable skin and the concentrations in the blood and tissue compartments are solved using combined Marker and Cell and Immersed Boundary Methods to gain a quantitative understanding of the model under consideration. …”
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TO THE SUBJECT OF DEVELOPMENT OF POWER SUPPLY PROCESS FOR INDUSTRIAL HEAT TECHNOLOGIES AND HEAT SUPPLY SYSTEMS IN BELARUS by B. M. Khrоustalev, V. N. Romaniuk, V. A. Sednin, A. A. Bobich, D. B. Muslina, T. V. Bubyr

“…The existing technical framework, that ensured the proposed changes, is also taking into account.…”
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