Orthodontic interventions as a management option for children with residual obstructive sleep apnea: a cohort study protocol by Carlos Flores-Mir, Nathalia Carolina Fernandes Fagundes, Arnaldo Perez-Garcia, Daniel Graf, Giseon Heo

“…The effectiveness of the intervention will be analysed by the assessment of sleep parameters, medical history (from medical chart reviews), questionnaire responses, craniofacial characteristics and metabolomic markers using an algorithm to be developed.Ethics and dissemination This study was approved by the Health Research Ethics Board-Health Panel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (Pro00084763). …”
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SymbolNet: neural symbolic regression with adaptive dynamic pruning for compression by Ho Fung Tsoi, Vladimir Loncar, Sridhara Dasu, Philip Harris

“…However, finding compact expressions for high-dimensional datasets remains challenging due to the inherent limitations of genetic programming (GP), the search algorithm of most symbolic regression (SR) methods. …”
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A Dynamic Bayesian Network-Based Real-Time Crash Prediction Model for Urban Elevated Expressway by Xian Liu, Jian Lu, Zeyang Cheng, Xiaochi Ma

“…Random Forest (RF) method was employed to identify the most important variables, which were used to build DBN-based RTCPMs. The PC algorithm combined with expert experience was further applied to investigate the coupling interdependency among traffic flow characteristics in the DBN model. …”
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Jidoka-DT simulator programmed by hybridize XGboost-LSTM to evaluate helmets quality produced by Rice-Straw-alumina plastic dough to resist shocks and impenetrable by Ahmed M. Abed, Ahmed Fathy, Radwa A. El Behairy, Tamer S Gaafar

“…The FEM classified via XGboost algorithm to divide the helmet surface according to the severity of ground shock and analyses the forces via Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) that are hybridised to meet the benefits of both. …”
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The White Matter Functional Abnormalities in Patients with Transient Ischemic Attack: A Reinforcement Learning Approach by Huibin Ma, Zhou Xie, Lina Huang, Yanyan Gao, Linlin Zhan, Su Hu, Jiaxi Zhang, Qingguo Ding

“…The altered ALFF and fALFF values were defined as features of the reinforcement learning method involving a Q-learning algorithm. Results. Compared with HCs, patients with TIA showed decreased ALFF in the right cingulate gyrus/right superior longitudinal fasciculus/left superior corona radiata and decreased fALFF in the right cerebral peduncle/right cingulate gyrus/middle cerebellar peduncle. …”
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Influence of Support Vector Regression (SVR) on Cryogenic Face Milling by Rao M. C. Karthik, Rashmi L. Malghan, Fuat Kara, Arunkumar Shettigar, Shrikantha S. Rao, Mervin A. Herbert

“…The benchmark function of the proposed mode hybrid-bias (BNN-SVR) algorithm showcases the propensity to emerge out of the local minimum and coincide with the optimal target value. …”
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Estimating whole-body centre of mass sway during quiet standing with inertial measurement units. by Liam H Foulger, Emma R Reiter, Calvin Kuo, Mark G Carpenter, Jean-Sébastien Blouin

“…These results indicate that IMUs can be used to estimate CoM displacements during quiet standing and that four IMUs are necessary to do so. Using an algorithm based on a simple biomechanical model, researchers and clinicians can estimate whole-body CoM displacements accurately during unperturbed quiet standing. …”
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Patch-Level and Neighborhood-Dependency Spatial Optimization Method (PNO): Application to Urban Land-Use Planning to Facilitate Both Socio-Economic and Environmental Development in... by Yuhan Cheng, Xiuyuan Zhang, Qi Zhou, Xiaoyan Dong, Shihong Du

“…The PNO represents land-use patterns in a graph structure, quantifies land-use patterns’ impacts on the population, economy, and land surface temperature, defines the spatiotemporal constraints of land-use optimization considering neighborhood-dependency and optimization sequences, and finally optimizes land uses and their spatial layouts based on a multi-objective genetic algorithm. Experiments were conducted in the urban area of Beijing, and the results suggested that, after optimization, the population and GDP can be improved by 667,323 people (4.72%) and USD 10.69 billion in products (2.75%) in the study area; meanwhile, the land surface temperature can be reduced by 0.12 °C (−0.32%). …”
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Evaluation of EGFR-TKIs and ICIs treatment stratification in non-small cell lung cancer using an encrypted multidimensional radiomics approach by Xingping Zhang, Xingting Qiu, Yue Zhang, Qingwen Lai, Yanchun Zhang, Guijuan Zhang

“…Materials and methods This multicenter study incorporated various data types from 506 NSCLC patients, which underwent preprocessing through anonymization methods and were securely encrypted using the AES-CBC algorithm. We developed one clinical model and three radiomics models based on clinical factors and radiomics scores (RadScore) of three distinct regions to evaluate treatment response. …”
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Investigation of the influence of the heterogeneous structure of concrete on its strength by V.M. Volchuk, M.A. Kotov, Ye G. Plakhtii, O.A. Tymoshenko, O.H. Zinkevych

“…The relevance of the work lies in the possibility to carry out express-assessment of the quality of concrete products and structures using the developed algorithm with the use of portable equipment: photographing the structure of concrete; estimation of the range of colour range of the structure elements; calculation of the fractal dimensionality of the structure elements using the developed program; automatic strength prediction. …”
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Centroid-AME: An open-source software for estimating avian migration trajectories using population centroids movement in the annual cycle by Shi Feng, Alice C. Hughes, Qinmin Yang, Leyi Li, Chao Li

“…We apply an unsupervised Mean-Shift clustering algorithm to extract dense clusters of observations and identify subgroups of the species population. …”
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Feasibility assessment of a pharmaco-kinetic behavior based yield model of salivary cotinine among tobacco users by E.C. Hensel, R.J. Robinson

“…Results: Model training demonstrated the PkBBY model was able to predict the bedtime salivary cotinine of participants within + /- 220 ng/mL 95 % confidence interval on the regression, based on their observed puff topography. The training algorithm estimated the conversion from nicotine ingested into the concentration of salivary cotinine as 28.8 [(ng/mL cotinine)/(mg nicotine ingested)], and the half-lives of nicotine and cotinine to be 4.4 and 49 [hours], respectively. …”
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Predicting the risk of hematoma expansion in acute intracerebral hemorrhage: the GIVE score by Tian-Nan Yang, Xin-Ni Lv, Zi-Jie Wang, Xiao Hu, Li-Bo Zhao, Jing Cheng, Qi Li

“…Conclusion A six-point scoring algorithm has been developed and validated to assess the risk of HE in patients with ICH. …”
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Multiclass Supervised Learning Approach for SAR-COV2 Severity and Scope Prediction: SC2SSP Framework by Shaik Khasim Saheb, B. Narayanan, T.V. Narayana Rao

“…Results: The model utilizes the Exact Greedy Algorithm to classify the spread and impact of the virus in different regions. …”
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Efficacy and safety of new protease inhibitor faldaprevir in treatment of hepatitis C by M. V. Mayevskaya, M. S. Zharkova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…In 88% of previously untreated patients it was possible to reduce treatment duration for triple algorithm (with faldaprevir application) to 12 wks with the subsequent transition to interferon and ribavirin for 12 wks (according to data of STARTVerso1 study). …”
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Using Attention for Improving Defect Detection in Existing RC Bridges by Sergio Ruggieri, Angelo Cardellicchio, Andrea Nettis, Vito Reno, Giuseppina Uva

“…Visual explanations achieved via the Eigen-CAM algorithm were also exploited to evaluate the reliability of the predictions. …”
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Machine learning assisted prediction with data driven robust optimization: Machining process modeling of hard part turning of DC53 for tooling applications supporting semiconductor... by Mehdi Tlija, Muhammad Sana, Anamta Khan, Sana Hassan, Muhammad Umar Farooq

“…The optimized architectures are used as prediction models to a non-sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) to determine the optimal compromise among all conflicting responses. …”
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Toward Privacy Preservation Using Clustering Based Anonymization: Recent Advances and Future Research Outlook by Abdul Majeed, Safiullah Khan, Seong Oun Hwang

“…Despite the success of other solutions, anonymization has been widely used in commercial settings for privacy preservation because of its algorithmic simplicity and low computing overhead. It facilitates unconstrained analysis of published data that DP and the other latest techniques cannot offer, and it is a mainstream solution for responsible data science. …”
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Cross-Cultural Sense-Making of Global Health Crises: A Text Mining Study of Public Opinions on Social Media Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Developed and Developing Economies by Adham Kahlawi, Firas Masri, Wasim Ahmed, Josep Vidal-Alaball

“…In total, 284,512 posts from Italy, 261,978 posts from the United Kingdom, and 209,725 posts from Egypt were analyzed using the latent Dirichlet allocation algorithm to identify key thematic topics and track shifts in discourse across time and regions. …”
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Management of Uncertainty by Statistical Process Control and a Genetic Tuned Fuzzy System by Stephan Birle, Mohamed Ahmed Hussein, Thomas Becker

“…Additionally, in order to stay within the process corridors, a genetic algorithm was applied to tune the input and output fuzzy sets of a preliminarily parameterized fuzzy controller. …”
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