The Burden of Cost in Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome: Predictions for the Next Decade by Christopher A. Jones, David G. Chapman, Peter Weimersheimer, Luca Fernandez, Oscar Alejandro Mesa, Christian Peters, Bart M. Vanaudenaerde, Mitchell C. Norotsky, Robin Vos

“…As such, BOS is estimated to present a burden of cost that must be evaluated in a new light to include the wider societal perspective.…”
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Predicting Disease Onset from Mutation Status Using Proband and Relative Data with Applications to Huntington's Disease by Tianle Chen, Yuanjia Wang, Yanyuan Ma, Karen Marder, Douglas R. Langbehn

“…Our analyses reveal that the estimated cumulative risk of HD symptom onset obtained from the combined data is slightly lower than the risk estimated from the proband data alone.…”
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The impact of parameter variation in the quantification of forensic genetic evidence by Camila Costa, Carolina Figueiredo, Sandra Costa, Paulo Miguel Ferreira, António Amorim, Lourdes Prieto, Nádia Pinto

“…The obtained results show that the estimation of these parameters must not be overlooked, as they may considerably impact the outcome. …”
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Heat Capacity of Fish Oil at High Temperatures and Pressures by Z.I. Zaripov, R.R. Nakipov, S.V. Mazanov, A.Kh. Sadykov, A.R. Gabitova, A.U. Aetov, F.M. Gumerov

“…The expanded measurement uncertainty of heat capacity is estimated to be 2.4%, pressure is estimated to be 0.05% and temperature is estimated to be 15 mK. …”
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Simulation of Threshold UV Exposure Time for Vitamin D Synthesis in South Korea by Sang Seo Park, Yun Gon Lee, Migyoung Kim, Jaemin Kim, Ja-Ho Koo, Chang Ki Kim, Junshik Um, Jongmin Yoon

“…Additionally, to consider cloud extinction after the estimation of clear-sky UV radiation using a radiative transfer model simulation, a cloud modification factor was applied. …”
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Vaccination strategies for Ebola in the democratic republic of Congo: the who-Ebola modeling collaboration by Marco Ajelli, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Alhassane Touré, Abdourahamane Diallo, Maria Litvinova, Stefano Merler, Sabué Mulangu, Aminata Bagayoko, Aissatou Bah, Ibrahima Bah, Aissatou Barry, Fatoumata Barry, Mohamed Chérif, Doussou Condé, Alpha A. Diallo, Fatoumata Diallo, Mory Diakité, Kassié Doré, Koundouno A. Mapan, Thérèse Koundouno, Patrice K. Onivogui, Fassou Lamah, Henry Maneno, Alphonse Nomou, Kourouma Sekouba, Ismaila Sani, Abdoulaye Soumah, Mamadou M. Sy, Pierre-Stéphane Gsell, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ana Maria Henao-Restrepo, Ibrahima Socé Fall, Mike J. Ryan, Peter Salama, Alessandro Vespignani, Ira M. Longini, Jr.

“…As compared to alternative vaccination strategies, ring vaccination was estimated to be the most efficient.…”
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Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato antibodies in English adult blood donors: A nationwide cross-sectional study, 2021–2022 by Eilish Hart, John Tulloch, Daniel Bailey, Tim Brooks, Heli Harvala, Peter Simmonds, Roberto Vivancos, Neil French, Amanda Semper

“…Background: Estimates of Lyme disease incidence in England are based on reporting of cases with a laboratory-confirmed diagnosis only, underestimating total cases. …”
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Fuzzy Reliability Analysis of the COVID-19 Mortality Rate Using a New Modified Kies Kumaraswamy Model by Fathy H. Riad, Bader Alruwaili, Ehab M. Almetwally, Eslam Hussam

“…We used both conventional and Bayesian approaches to make various sorts of estimations. A simulation research was carried out to investigate the performance of the classical and Bayesian estimators. …”
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Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control for Leader-Follower Multi-Agent Systems with Time Delay by Chang Zhang, Yawei Wu, Lina Yao

“…Firstly, a robust distributed observer on the basis of the relative estimation error is put forward to obtain the fault estimation information. …”
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Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Tracking Control of Nonaffine Nonlinear Systems with Actuator Failure by Hongcheng Zhou, Dezhi Xu, Daobo Wang, Le Ge

“…A model approximation method which is a solution that bridges the gap between affine and nonaffine control systems is developed firstly. A joint estimation approach is based on unscented Kalman filter, in which both failure parameters and states are simultaneously estimated by means of the argument state vector composed of the unknown faults and states. …”
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Whole space case for solution formula of Korteweg type fluid motion in R3 by Bagus Suhada Dede, Maryani Sri, Renny Renny, Triyani Triyani, Hendriya Guswanto Bambang, Kartiwi Mira

“…For the further research we can consider not only estimating the solution operator families of the Korteweg theory of capillarity but also estimating the optimal decay for solution to the non-linear problem.…”
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HIV model incorporating differential progression for treatment-naive and treatment-experienced infectives by Esther Chigidi, Edward M. Lungu

“…To illustrate ourmodel, we have applied it to estimate adult HIV prevalence, the HIVpopulation, the number of new infectives and the number of AIDSdeaths for Botswana for the period 1984 to 2012. …”
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Two-Level Brezzi-Pitkäranta Stabilized Finite Element Methods for the Incompressible Flows by Rong An, Xian Wang

“…The stability and error estimates of finite element solutions are derived for classical one-level method. …”
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An Efficient Algorithm for Ill-Conditioned Separable Nonlinear Least Squares by Jiayan Wang, Lanlan Guo, Zongmin Li, Xueqin Wang, Zhengqing Fu

“…When the linear parameters are estimated, the Tikhonov regularization method is used to solve the ill-conditioned problems. …”
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Dry Friction Interblade Damping by 3D FEM Modelling of Bladed Disk: HPC Calculations Compared with Experiment by Luděk Pešek, Pavel Šnábl, Vítězslav Bula

“…HPC computation with a proposed strategy was used to lower the computational time of the nonlinear solution of the wheel resonant attenuation used for damping estimation. Comparison of experimental and numerical results of damping estimation yields a very good agreement.…”
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PSEUDO-EXHAUSTIVE MEMORY DEVICES TESTING BASED ON MULTIPLE MARCH TESTS 1 by V. N. Yarmolik, I. Mrozek, B. A. Levantsevich

“…The validity of analytical estimates is shown experimentally and the possibility of pseudo-exhaustive memory testing is confirmed.…”
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Conditional Analysis for Mixed Covariates, with Application to Feed Intake of Lactating Sows by S. Y. Park, C. Li, S. M. Mendoza Benavides, E. van Heugten, A. M. Staicu

“…The methodology accommodates flexible model structure, allows for joint estimation of the quantiles at all levels, and provides a computationally efficient estimation algorithm. …”
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Constraints for Jaccard index-based rotational symmetry focus position in binary images by N.A. Lomov, O.S. Seredin, D.V. Liakhov, O.A. Kushnir

“…This study proposes analytical estimate for the size of a binary raster figure region which is guaranteed to contain the rotational symmetry focus. …”
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A Novel Approach to Measure the Hydraulic Capacitance of a Microfluidic Membrane Pump by Chun-Hui Wu, Chia-Wei Chen, Long-Sheng Kuo, Ping-Hei Chen

“…Membrane deflection equations were modified from various studies to propose six theoretical equations to estimate the hydraulic capacitance of a microfluidic membrane pump. …”
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Edge Statistics for Lozenge Tilings of Polygons, II: Airy Line Ensemble by Amol Aggarwal, Jiaoyang Huang

“…To realize this comparison, we require a nearly optimal concentration estimate for the tiling height function, which we establish by exhibiting a certain Markov chain on the set of all tilings that preserves such concentration estimates under its dynamics.…”
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