Analysis of Type-II Censored Competing Risks’ Data under Reduced New Modified Weibull Distribution by Saad J. Almalki, Tahani A. Abushal, M. D. Alsulami, G. A. Abd-Elmougod

“…The real and simulated datasets are analyzed for illustrative purposes. Finally, the estimators are compared with the Monte Carlo simulation study.…”
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Metal Concentrations in Soil Paste Extracts as Affected by Extraction Ratio by Filip M.G. Tack, Nic Dezillie, Marc G. Verloo

“…Saturated paste extracts are sometimes used to estimate metal levels in the soil solution. To assess the significance of heavy-metal concentrations measured in saturation extracts, soil paste extracts were prepared with distilled water in amounts ranging from 60–200% of the moisture content at saturation. …”
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Observer-Based Aperiodic Time-Triggered Intermittent Control for Exponential Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems by Xueming Xu, Qingzhi Wang, Baozeng Fu, Lijie Wang

“…OATICP only relies on the output information at sampling instants to estimate the state of the agent itself, and the state estimation information of the neighbor agents at sampling instants to generate the control signal. …”
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Friction Characteristics of Post-Tensioned Tendons of Full-Scale Structures Based on Site Tests by Haoyun Yuan, Yuan Li, Bin Zhou, Shuanhai He, Peizhi Wang

“…Field test results showed that Bayesian quantile regression method was more effective and significant in the estimation of the friction coefficient.…”
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Mean-Square Convergence of Drift-Implicit One-Step Methods for Neutral Stochastic Delay Differential Equations with Jump Diffusion by Lin Hu, Siqing Gan

“…It is shown that under certain conditions global error estimates for a method can be inferred from estimates on its local error. …”
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Research on Analysis Method of Traffic Congestion Mechanism Based on Improved Cell Transmission Model by Hongzhao Dong, Shuai Ma, Mingfei Guo, Dongxu Liu

“…The result shows that the method could predict the duration of the initial congestion and estimate its spatial diffusion accurately.…”
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Mathematical Model for Transmission and Control of Malaria Disease in Ihandiro Sub-County Kasese District. by Birumbu, Brian

“…The model was fitted to data on malaria incidence in Kasese District, Uganda, to estimate key parameters related to the disease dynamics. …”
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Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: A Comparison of the Framingham, PROCAM, and DAD Equations in HIV-Infected Persons by Max Weyler Nery, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, Erika Aparecida Silveira, Clarissa Alencar de Sousa, Marianne de Oliveira Falco, Aline de Cássia Oliveira de Castro, Jorge Tannus Esper, Luis Carlos Silva e Souza, Marília Dalva Turchi

“…This study aims to estimate the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and to assess the agreement between the Framingham, Framingham with aggravating factors, PROCAM, and DAD equations in HIV-infected patients. …”
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Potential plant extinctions with the loss of the Pleistocene mammoth steppe by Jérémy Courtin, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Simeon Lisovski, Ying Liu, Inger Greve Alsos, Boris K. Biskaborn, Bernhard Diekmann, Martin Melles, Bernd Wagner, Luidmila Pestryakova, James Russell, Yongsong Huang, Ulrike Herzschuh

“…Overall, potential plant extinctions track changes in temperature, in vegetation, and in megafauna extinctions at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Estimated potential plant extinction rates were 1.7–5.9 extinctions per million species years (E/MSY), above background extinction rates but below modern estimates. …”
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Pre-screening of endomysial microvessel density by fast random forest image processing machine learning algorithm accelerates recognition of a modified vascular network in idiopath... by Alessandro Massaro, Gerardo Cazzato, Giuseppe Ingravallo, Nadia Casatta, Carmelo Lupo, Angelo Vacca, Florenzo Iannone, Francesco Girolamo

“…The time spent for this analysis was 90% less than the manual choice of microvessels (estimated time considering the computational time and the time spent to manually detecting the microvessels features). …”
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Dynamic displacement measurement of a wind turbine tower using accelerometers: tilt error compensation and validation by C. Jonscher, P. Helming, D. Märtins, A. Fischer, D. Bonilla, B. Hofmeister, T. Grießmann, R. Rolfes

“…This tilt error must be quantified and taken into account; otherwise it can lead to incorrect evaluations, especially in the fatigue estimation or the dynamic displacement estimation using accelerometers. …”
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An Improved MG Model for Turbulent Mixing Parameterization in the Northwestern South China Sea by Minghao Hu, Lingling Xie, Mingming Li, Quanan Zheng, Feihong Zeng, Xiaotong Chen

“…The results show that the estimation error of the MG model is still more than one order of magnitude in the NSCS. …”
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Review of Adaptive Cell Selection Techniques in LTE-Advanced Heterogeneous Networks by M. A. Gadam, Maryam Abdulazeez Ahmed, Chee Kyun Ng, Nor Kamariah Nordin, Aduwati Sali, Fazirulhisyam Hashim

“…Moreover, more accurate cell load estimation is obtained in the extended RBUR adaptive CRE bias technique through constant bit rate (CBR) traffic, which further improved load balancing as against the estimation based on the number of user equipment (UE). …”
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Achieving the Recommended Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressure: A Randomized Control Study Comparing Loss of Resistance Syringe to Pilot Balloon Palpation by Fred Bulamba, Andrew Kintu, Nodreen Ayupo, Charles Kojjo, Lameck Ssemogerere, Agnes Wabule, Arthur Kwizera

“…Therefore, anesthesia providers commonly rely on subjective methods to estimate safe endotracheal cuff pressure. This study set out to determine the efficacy of the loss of resistance syringe method at estimating endotracheal cuff pressures. …”
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Health system costs of providing outpatient care for diabetes in people with TB in the Philippines by T. Yamanaka, M.C. Castro, J.P. Ferrer, J.A. Solon, S.E. Cox, Y.V. Laurence, A. Vassall

“…The monthly cost per patient was estimated at USD8.95 to USD12.36. CONCLUSION: Our study provides the first estimates of costs for providing integrated DM outpatient services and TB care in a low- and middle-income country. …”
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Hepatitis B Learning Needs Assessment of Family Medicine Trainees in Canada: Results of a Nationwide Survey by Justina J Sam, E Jenny Heathcote, David KH Wong, Douglas L Wooster, Hemant Shah

“…BACKGROUND: An estimated 350 million people worldwide have chronic hepatitis B (CHB), which is a major cause of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.…”
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Asymptotical investigations of the general distributions of the maxima and minima by Algimantas Aksomaitis

“… The convergence rate estimations in the limit theorem of the general distribution functions of the extreme values are presented. …”
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Strong Nonagricultural Demand Keeps Agricultural Land Values Increasing by John E. Reynolds

“…The survey questionnaire was designed to obtain estimates of the market value for different types of land as of May 2005. …”
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Mobility-Assisted on-Demand Routing Algorithm for MANETs in the Presence of Location Errors by Trung Kien Vu, Sungoh Kwon

“…Location awareness enables mobile nodes to predict their mobility and enhances routing performance by estimating link duration and selecting reliable routes. …”
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A Semiparametric Approach for Modeling Partially Linear Autoregressive Model with Skew Normal Innovations by Leila Sakhabakhsh, Rahman Farnoosh, Afshin Fallah, Mohammadhassan Behzadi

“…Then, the conditional maximum-likelihood approach is used to estimate the unknown parameters through the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm. …”
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