A proton therapy model using discrete difference equations with an example of treating hepatocellular carcinoma by Erin N. Bodine, K. Lars Monia

“…Specifically, we use data from studies of Hepatocellular carcinoma, a common form of liver cancer. …”
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Efficient Parallel Implementation of Active Appearance Model Fitting Algorithm on GPU by Jinwei Wang, Xirong Ma, Yuanping Zhu, Jizhou Sun

“…To compare the performance of our algorithm with different data sizes, we built sixteen face AAM models of different dimensional textures. …”
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Ongoing invasions by American bullfrogs and red-eared sliders in the Republic of Korea by Desiree Andersen, Amaël Borzée, Yikweon Jang

“…We additionally modeled habitat suitability under a variety of climate scenarios, spanning 2021–2100 in order to determine possible climate change-based spread. …”
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Path-Based Approach for Expanding Rail Transit Network in a Metropolitan Area by Anjun Li, Dian Wang, Qiyuan Peng, Lisha Wang

“…A core transit network with multiclass rail transit systems has been constructed in many metropolitan areas worldwide. In this study, we aimed to expand an existing network to shorten travel time and improve service quality under the restriction of limited transport supply. …”
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Scaffold-enabled high-resolution cryo-EM structure determination of RNA by Daniel B. Haack, Boris Rudolfs, Shouhong Jin, Alexandra Khitun, Kevin M. Weeks, Navtej Toor

“…Using this scaffold approach, we determined the structure of raiA at 2.5 Å in the core. …”
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Ophiocordyceps salganeicola, a parasite of social cockroaches in Japan and insights into the evolution of other closely-related Blattodea-associated lineages by João P. M. Araújo, Mitsuru G. Moriguchi, Shigeru Uchiyama, Noriko Kinjo, Yu Matsuura

“…We have also investigated the evolutionary relationships between Ophiocordyceps and termites and present the phylogenetic placement of O. cf. blattae. …”
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Cooperative NOMA system with incremental relaying over Nakagami- fading channels by Zhenling Wang, Dawei Qiao

“…In our article, we apply incremental relay to the cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access network, in which the incremental relay employs amplify and forward protocol. …”
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HIV and Menopause: A Systematic Review of the Effects of HIV Infection on Age at Menopause and the Effects of Menopause on Response to Antiretroviral Therapy by Kentaro Imai, Madeline Y. Sutton, Rennatus Mdodo, Carlos del Rio

“…We used the Ovid Medline database from 1980 to 2012. …”
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Detection of UAV GPS Spoofing Attacks Using a Stacked Ensemble Method by Ting Ma, Xiaofeng Zhang, Zhexin Miao

“…First, we applied the synthetic minority oversampling (SMOTE) technique to the dataset to address the issue of class imbalance. …”
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Dynamic optimization of a two-stage fractional system in microbial batch process by Xiaopeng Yi, Huey Tyng Cheong, Zhaohua Gong, Chongyang Liu, Kok Lay Teo

“…In this paper, we proposed a dynamic optimization problem involving a two-stage fractional system subjected to both a terminal state inequality constraint and continuous state inequality constraints in a microbial batch process. …”
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Topical Review: Basic Psychological Needs in Adolescents with Chronic Pain—A Self-Determination Perspective by Annina Riggenbach, Liesbet Goubert, Stijn Van Petegem, Rémy Amouroux

“…However, the role of the basic psychological needs received little attention in a pediatric-pain population. Yet, we propose that need satisfaction may be a resilience factor and need frustration a risk factor, for living with chronic pain. …”
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Constructing “Society’s Soldiers”: Identity Work, (Total) Defence Willingness and the Swedish Home Guard by Jenny Malmström, Joakim Berndtsson

“…Analytically, we draw on theories of organizational, military, and collective social identity to probe identity-building strategies and how they relate to the idea of defence willingness. …”
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The Effect of Flood Exposure on Insurance Adoption Among US Households by June Choi, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Marshall Burke

“…We find that a flood disaster declaration in a given year increases the take‐up rate of insurance by 7% in the following year, but that the effect diminishes in subsequent years and is gone after 5 years. …”
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Sound recurrence analysis for acoustic scene classification by Jakob Abeßer, Zhiwei Liang, Bernhard Seeber

“…In the second part, we evaluate three strategies to incorporate self-similarity matrices as an additional input feature to a convolutional neural network architecture for ASC. …”
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Maximizing the lifetime of wireless sensor networks in trains for monitoring long-distance goods transportation by Huiting Xu, Xi Jin, Fanxin Kong, Qingxu Deng

“…We study the wireless sensor network deployment problem in developing a monitoring system with the goal of maximizing the network lifetime under constraints derived from the real application scenario. …”
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Active learning-assisted directed evolution by Jason Yang, Ravi G. Lal, James C. Bowden, Raul Astudillo, Mikhail A. Hameedi, Sukhvinder Kaur, Matthew Hill, Yisong Yue, Frances H. Arnold

“…We apply ALDE to an engineering landscape that is challenging for DE: optimization of five epistatic residues in the active site of an enzyme. …”
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Multiscale correlations between joint and tissue-specific biomechanics and anatomy in postmortem ovine stifles by Aritra Chatterjee, Zachary Robert Davis, Timothy Lescun, Deva D. Chan

“…We observe positive correlations between joint laxity forces and the inter-epicondylar distance. …”
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Efficiency Control in Iridium Complex-Based Phosphorescent Light-Emitting Diodes by Boucar Diouf, Woo Sik Jeon, Ramchandra Pode, Jang Hyuk Kwon

“…We show that there is an ideal concentration for a maximum efficiency of PhOLEDs. …”
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A Proposed Chaotic-Switched Turbo Coding Design and Its Application for Half-Duplex Relay Channel by Tamer H. M. Soliman, Fengfan Yang, S. Ejaz

“…To support our research, we provide different schemes to design a chaotic secure reliable turbo coding system which we call chaotic-switched turbo coding schemes. …”
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Reliability Analysis of Baremetal and FreeRTOS Applications on Microchip PolarFire SoC RISC-V Multiprocessors Using High-Energy Protons by Andre M. P. Mattos, Douglas A. Santos, Luigi Dilillo

“…Finally, we evaluate the effectiveness of error mitigation and awareness in PolarFire SoC using built-in monitoring and test instrumentation with enhanced observability.…”
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