Assessment of Patients with a DePuy ASR Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacement: Results of Applying the Guidelines of the Spanish Society of Hip Surgery in a Tertiary Referral Hospital by Jenaro Fernández-Valencia, Xavier Gallart, Guillem Bori, Sebastián Garcia Ramiro, Andrés Combalía, Josep Riba

“…We present the results of the assessment of our patients treated with this device, according to the Spanish Society of Hip Surgery (SECCA) algorithm published in 2011. This retrospective study evaluates 83 consecutive ASR cups, followed up at a mean of 2.9 years. …”
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Cluster-driven non-uniform characteristic analysis of underwater target acoustic scattering field by Tianyang Xu, Hongjian Jia, Jixing Qin

“…Secondly, the t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding algorithm is employed to improve the internal connection of the feature vector in the low-dimensional feature space and to construct the visualized feature space. …”
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Enhanced defect sensing technology in turbid water environments using multi-beam sonar by Wenhui Wang, Yikai Li, Rufei He, Yao Li

“…By employing the weighted time average (WMT) algorithm, we calculate the time window for each beam within the water environment. …”
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Quantum-Enhanced K-Medoids Clustering: Comparative Analysis of Stroke Medical Data by Ricardo Siahaan, Swingly Purba, Jeremia Siregar, Marvin Frans Sakti Hutabarat, Rasmi Sitohang

“…The findings of this research reveal improvements in the K-Medoids algorithm with Manhattan distance calculation influenced by the integration of a quantum computing framework. …”
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Back Analysis of Rock Hydraulic Fracturing by Coupling Numerical Model and Computational Intelligent Technology by Shaojun Li, Hongbo Zhao, Xiating Feng, Quan Jiang, Qiancheng Sun

“…The artificial bee colony algorithm is applied in back analysis to find the optimal in situ stress and elastic parameters. …”
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Noise Robustness of Quantum Relaxation for Combinatorial Optimization by Kentaro Tamura, Yohichi Suzuki, Rudy Raymond, C. Hiroshi Watanabe, Yuki Sato, Ruho Kondo, Michihiko Sugawara, Naoki Yamamoto

“…., the Hamiltonian utilizing the encoding of three bits into one qubit by QRAC, is less affected by noise compared with the conventional Ising Hamiltonian used in the quantum annealer and the quantum approximate optimization algorithm. Based on this observation, we discuss a plausible mechanism behind the robustness of QRAO under depolarizing noise. …”
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An Optimal Adaptive Control of DC-Microgrid with the Aim of Accurate Current Sharing and Voltage Regulation According to the Load Variation and Gray-Wolf Optimization by Muhammad Hammad Saeed, Sajid Iqbal, Madni Sohail, Usman Akram

“…For more accuracy, a gray-wolf algorithm has been used to optimize the droop gains. …”
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A Cognitive Radio Spectrum Sensing Method for an OFDM Signal Based on Deep Learning and Cycle Spectrum by Guangliang Pan, Jun Li, Fei Lin

“…Firstly, we analyze the cyclic autocorrelation of an OFDM signal and the cyclic spectrum obtained by the time domain smoothing fast Fourier transformation (FFT) accumulation algorithm (FAM), and the cyclic spectrum is normalized to gray scale processing to form a cyclic autocorrelation gray scale image. …”
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FPGA-Based Implementation of All-Digital QPSK Carrier Recovery Loop Combining Costas Loop and Maximum Likelihood Frequency Estimator by Kaiyu Wang, Zhiming Song, Xianwei Qi, Qingxin Yan, Zhenan Tang

“…Besides, considering that, for MLFE, the accurate estimation of frequency offset is associated with the linear characteristic of its frequency discriminator (FD), the Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer (CORDIC) algorithm is introduced into the FD based on MLFE to unwrap linearly phase difference. …”
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DYSSS: A Dynamic and Context-Aware Security System for Shared Sensor Networks by Claudio M. de Farias, Luci Pirmez, Luiz F. R. C. Carmo, Davidson Boccardo, Flávia C. Delicato, Igor L. dos Santos, Renato Pinheiro, Rafael O. Costa

“…Its basic feature is the nodes neighborhood monitoring and collaboration (through the use of the Byzantine algorithm) to identify an attack and enhance security. …”
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Gallbladder Volvulus in a Patient with Type I Choledochal Cyst: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by George Younan, Max Schumm, Fadwa Ali, Kathleen K. Christians

“…We describe in this report the first case of gallbladder volvulus in a patient with a choledochal cyst and propose a management algorithm of a very rare biliary tree pathology combination.…”
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Developments on a 22 GHz microwave radiometer and reprocessing of 13-year time series for water vapour studies by A. Bell, A. Bell, E. Sauvageat, E. Sauvageat, E. Sauvageat, G. Stober, G. Stober, K. Hocke, K. Hocke, A. Murk, A. Murk

“…This has comprised of a new calibration which has been integrated into the framework for the calibration of other University of Bern radiometers and a new retrieval algorithm. The installation of a new spectrometer on the instrument has also allowed the comparison and correction of past observations. …”
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Finite family groups for fermionic and leptoquark mixing patterns by Jordan Bernigaud, Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas, Jim Talbert

“…Assuming experimentally interesting CKM and PMNS matrix elements, our algorithm finds an abundance of predictive non-Abelian flavour groups and therefore provides promising directions for future model building in the flavoured leptoquark space, regardless of whether the anomalous R K ∗ $$ {\mathcal{R}}_{K^{\left(\ast \right)}} $$ measurements withstand further experimental scrutiny.…”
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A portable gas sensor based on In2O3@CuO P–N heterojunction connected via Wi-Fi to a smartphone for real-time carbon monoxide determination by Sina Khalili, Mohsen Majidi, Morteza Bahrami, Majid Roshanaei, Tayyebeh Madrakian, Abbas Afkhami

“…To process the information obtained from the gas sensor, an algorithm has been constructed, trained, and integrated into a smartphone for this purpose. …”
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An intelligent humidity sensing system for human behavior recognition by Huabin Yang, Qiming Guo, Guidong Chen, Yuefang Zhao, Meng Shi, Na Zhou, Chengjun Huang, Haiyang Mao

“…With the assistance of a machine learning algorithm, a behavior recognition system based on the humidity sensor has been constructed, enabling behavior states to be classified and identified with an accuracy of up to 96.2%. …”
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Comparative Study of Dual-Rotor Permanent Magnet Machines with Series and Parallel Magnetic Circuits by Zhitong Ran, Zi-Qiang Zhu, Dawei Liang

“…The machines are optimized using the finite element analysis (FEA) based on the genetic algorithm. It shows that the PDRPM machine with the tooth coil (TC) configuration has the highest permanent magnet (PM) utilisation compared to the PDRPM with toroidal winding (TW) configuration and the SDRPM machine with the TC configuration under different slot/pole number combinations. …”
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Architecture for Resource Allocation in the Internet of Vehicles for Cooperating Driving System by Nafeesa kalsoom, Iftikhar Ahmad, Roobaea Alroobaea, Muhammad Ahsan Raza, Samina Khalid, Zaheed Ahmed, Ihsan Ali

“…We implemented our proposed scheme by incorporating the density-based scattered clustering algorithm with noise for vehicular clustering. The proposed scheme’s performance shows significant improvement in terms of throughput compared with existing D2D approaches.…”
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Chaotic Dynamics of a Mixed Rayleigh–Liénard Oscillator Driven by Parametric Periodic Damping and External Excitations by Yélomè Judicaël Fernando Kpomahou, Laurent Amoussou Hinvi, Joseph Adébiyi Adéchinan, Clément Hodévèwan Miwadinou

“…Bifurcation structures of our system are performed through the fourth-order Runge–Kutta ode 45 algorithm. It is found that the system displays a remarkable route to chaos. …”
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Minimum-Cost QoS-Constrained Deployment and Routing Policies for Wireless Relay Networks by Frank Yeong-Sung Lin, Chiu-Han Hsiao, Kuo-Chung Chu, Yi-Heng Liu

“…In the planning stages, we not only derive a multicast tree routing algorithm to both determine and fulfill the QoS requirements to enhance throughput, but we also utilize the Lagrangian relaxation (LR) method in conjunction with optimization-based heuristics and conduct computational experiments to evaluate the performance. …”
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A Novel Deep Sparse Filtering Method for Intelligent Fault Diagnosis by Acoustic Signal Processing by Guowei Zhang, Jinrui Wang, Baokun Han, Sixiang Jia, Xiaoyu Wang, Jingtao He

“…In the second stage, the learned features are obtained by training batch-normalized DSF with frequency-domain signals, and then the features are fine-tuned by backpropagation (BP) algorithm. In the third stage, softmax regression is used as a classifier for heath condition recognition based on the fine-tuned features. …”
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