Perioperative Glycemic Control: Main Factor in Reducing Postoperative Complications in Diabetic Patients by Ariel Leonardo Alarcón Vela, Ximena Patricia Santacruz Solís, Ronelsys Martínez

“…The incidence and prevalence of diabetes mellitus has increased exponentially worldwide in recent decades. Diabetic patients are more likely to suffer serious complications in surgical procedures compared to the general population. …”
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The interplay between models and public health policies: Regional control for a class of spatially structured epidemics (think globally, act locally) by Vincenzo Capasso, Sebastian AniȚa

“…It has been proved that it is possible to diminish exponentially the epidemic process, in the whole habitat, just by reducing the concentration of the pollutant in a nonempty and sufficiently large subset of the spatial domain. …”
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Network inference with hidden units by Joanna Tyrcha, John Hertz

“…For the stochastic case, performing the exact calculation requires, in general, repeated summations over an number of configurations that grows exponentially with the size of the system and the data length, which is not feasible for large systems. …”
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Experimental Study on Pressure-Deformation-Contact Resistance Characteristics of Converter Transformer Valve Side Casing Louver Contacts by Shihong Hu, Zhicheng Huang, Jiahui Chen, Chi Yuan, Bozhang Feng, Tao Zhao, Yunpeng Liu

“…The results show that the contact resistance decreases exponentially with the increase of the pressure on the louver contacts, and the contact resistance decreases with the increase of load current applied on the louver contacts. …”
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A note on global stability for malaria infections model with latencies by Jinliang Wang, Jingmei Pang, Toshikazu Kuniya

“…The authors just showed global stability of endemic equilibrium for two specific probability functions: exponential functions and step functions. Here, we show that if there is no recovery, the endemic equilibrium is globally stable for $\Re_0>1$ without other additional conditions. …”
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Deterministic and Stochastic Study for an Infected Computer Network Model Powered by a System of Antivirus Programs by Youness El Ansari, Ali El Myr, Lahcen Omari

“…., the number of viruses tends exponentially to zero). The ergodicity of the solution and the stationary distribution can be obtained if the basic reproduction number Rp is bigger than 1, and the intensities of stochastic fluctuations are small enough. …”
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Intelligent Controllers for Multirobot Competitive and Dynamic Tracking by Mei Liu, Shuai Li, Xiaodi Li, Long Jin, Chenfu Yi, Zhiguan Huang

“…For the case of all-to-all communication between robots, theoretical analysis is presented to prove the exponential stability of the whole system. In real applications of robotic networks, a robot may only be allowed to exchange information with a limited number of neighbors. …”
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EARLY AND LATE STAGE PROFILES FOR A CHEMOTAXIS MODEL WITH DENSITY-DEPENDENT JUMP PROBABILITY by Tianyuan Xu, Shanming Ji, Chunhua Jin, Ming Mei, Jingxue Yin

“…The global convergence of the original weak solution to the steady state with exponential rate $O(e^{-ct})$ for some $c \gt 0$ is also obtained.…”
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Quantum Fuzzy Inference Engine for Particle Accelerator Control by Giovanni Acampora, Michele Grossi, Michael Schenk, Roberto Schiattarella

“…In this scenario, a quantum fuzzy inference engine (QFIE) was proposed as a quantum algorithm able to generate an exponential computational advantage over conventional fuzzy inference engines. …”
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MOTION STABILITY ANALYSIS OF FOUR ROTOR AIRCRAFT BASED ON LYAPUNOV INDEX METHOD by TANG MingJun, SUN Shuai

“…Secondly, the stability analysis was carried out by Lyapunov exponential analysis. The Lyapunov exponent was calculated and the main parameters affecting the Lyapunov exponent were analyzed. …”
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A Labeled Multi-Bernoulli Filter Based on Maximum Likelihood Recursive Updating by Yuhan Song, Han Shen-Tu, Junhao Lin, Yizhen Wei, Yunfei Guo

“…However, when tracking multiple targets in dense clutters, the computational complexity of the traditional labeled multi-Bernoulli filter will increase exponentially. A labeled multi-Bernoulli tracking algorithm based on maximum likelihood recursive update is proposed, which can reduce the computational scale while maintaining tracking accuracy. …”
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A Study of Moving from Cloud Computing to Fog Computing by Hindreen Rashid Abdulqadir, Subhi R. M. Zeebaree, Hanan M. Shukur, Mohammed Mohammed Sadeeq, Baraa Wasfi Salim, Azar Abid Salih, Shakir Fattah Kak

“…The exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology poses various challenges to the classic centralized cloud computing paradigm, including high latency, limited capacity, and network failure. …”
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IoT and Cloud Computing Issues, Challenges and Opportunities: A Review by Mohammed Mohammed Sadeeq, Nasiba M. Abdulkareem, Subhi R. M. Zeebaree, Dindar Mikaeel Ahmed, Ahmed Saifullah Sami, Rizgar R. Zebari

“… With the exponential growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), multiple outlets are constantly producing a vast volume of data. …”
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Confidence Interval Estimation of an ROC Curve: An Application of Generalized Half Normal and Weibull Distributions by S. Balaswamy, R. Vishnu Vardhan

“…Such types of ROC models are referred to as bidistributional ROC models, for example Binormal, Bi-Exponential, Bi-Logistic and so forth. However, in practical situations, we come across data which are skewed in nature with extended tails. …”
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Automation of Hessian-Based Tubularity Measure Response Function in 3D Biomedical Images by Oleksandr P. Dzyubak, Erik L. Ritman

“…This large-scale range presents two major problems; one is just making the measurements, and the other is the exponential increase of component numbers with decreasing scale. …”
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Advanced Harmony Search with Ant Colony Optimization for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem by Ho-Yoeng Yun, Suk-Jae Jeong, Kyung-Sup Kim

“…The TSP, in general, is well known as an NP-complete problem, whose computational complexity increases exponentially by increasing the number of cities. In our algorithm, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is used to search the local optimum in the solution space, followed by the use of the Harmony Search to escape the local optimum determined by the ACO and to move towards a global optimum. …”
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Impacts of Thermal Inertia Factor on Adiabatic Decomposition of 40% Mass Content DCP in Ethyl Benzene by Xiaojuan Wu, Liping Chen, Guoning Rao, Wanghua Chen, Ruili Yin

“…ARC experiment showed that with the increase of inertia factor (Φ), the measured initial decomposition temperature (Ton) would be higher and the caculated Ea and pre-exponential factor (A) would be greater. It was also proved that after modification of Φ, TD24 was relatively consistent near Ton, but different at higher temperatures. …”
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Monte Carlo Simulation of Linear Polymer Thermal Depolymerization under Isothermal and Dynamic Modes by Elena V. Bystritskaya, Oleg N. Karpukhin, Alla V. Kutsenova

“…Treatment of the model kinetic curves of degradation using the nonlinear regression method by the Avrami equation, under both isothermal and dynamic modes, gives correct activation energy and pre-exponential factor values independently of the initial PDI. …”
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A Comparison of Bullwhip Effect under Various Forecasting Techniques in Supply Chains with Two Retailers by Junhai Ma, Xiaogang Ma

“…The bullwhip effect is measured, respectively, under the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE), moving average (MA), and exponential smoothing (ES) forecasting techniques. The effect of parameters on the bullwhip effect under three forecasting methods is analyzed and the bullwhip effect under three forecasting methods is compared. …”
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Efficient Algorithms for Optimal 4-Bit Reversible Logic System Synthesis by Zhiqiang Li, Hanwu Chen, Guowu Yang, Wenjie Liu

“…Owing to the exponential nature of the memory and run-time complexity, many methods can only synthesize 3-bit reversible circuits and cannot synthesize 4-bit reversible circuits well. …”
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