A cost-based comparison of quarantine strategies for new emerging diseases by Anuj Mubayi, Christopher Kribs Zaleta, Maia Martcheva, Carlos Castillo-Chávez

“…A classical epidemiological framework is used to provide a preliminary cost analysis of the effects of quarantine and isolation on the dynamics of infectious diseases for which no treatment or immediate diagnosis tools are available.Within this framework we consider the cost incurred from the implementation of three types of dynamic control strategies. …”
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Dysregulated Functions of Lung Macrophage Populations in COPD by Theodore S. Kapellos, Kevin Bassler, Anna C. Aschenbrenner, Wataru Fujii, Joachim L. Schultze

“…We primarily focus on the dysregulated capacity of alveolar macrophages to secrete proinflammatory mediators and proteases, induce oxidative stress, engulf microbes and apoptotic cells, and express surface and intracellular markers in patients with COPD. …”
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Intelligent Boarding Modelling and Evaluation: A Simulation-Based Approach by Lijuan Luo, Shaozhi Hong, Shanshan Shang, Xiaoli Zhou, Junyu Yang, Yu Pan

“…However, this method requires passengers to stand in queue in advance. Secondly, we put forward a deterministic queue-ordered boarding method to improve it. …”
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Combining machine-learned and empirical force fields with the parareal algorithm: application to the diffusion of atomistic defects by Gorynina, Olga, Legoll, Frédéric, Lelièvre, Tony, Perez, Danny

“…We numerically investigate an adaptive version of the parareal algorithm in the context of molecular dynamics. …”
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Rao-Blackwellized Gaussian Sum Particle Filtering for Multipath Assisted Positioning by Markus Ulmschneider, Christian Gentner, Thomas Jost, Armin Dammann

“…Since data association, that is, finding correspondences among landmarks, is essential for robust long-term SLAM, we also derive a data association scheme. We evaluate our filtering approach for multipath assisted positioning by simulations in an urban scenario and by outdoor measurements.…”
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Clustering Large-Scale Biomedical Data to Model Dynamic Accumulation Processes in Disease Progression and Anti-Microbial Resistance Evolution by Kazeem A. Dauda, Olav N. L. Aga, Iain G. Johnston

“…Focussing on hypercubic hidden Markov models (HyperHMM), we introduce several approaches for interpreting, estimating, and bounding the results of the dynamics in these cases and discuss how biomedical insight could be gained from such analyses. …”
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Spin transport properties in a topological insulator sandwiched between two-dimensional magnetic layers by Nezhat Pournaghavi, Banasree Sadhukhan, Anna Delin

“…Combining DFT and tight-binding calculations, along with non-equilibrium Green’s function formalism, we show that a well-defined exchange gap appears in the band structure in which spin-polarised edge states flow. …”
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Be Your Sister’s Keeper: Personal Experience of Travelling a Lonely Journey in Academia by Duduzile Mzindle

“…I argue that as black women, we need to create spaces where we can offer another not only a shoulder to cry on but encourage each other to navigate the academy and its mazes. …”
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A Tragical Paediatric Case History of Intraorbital and Intracranial Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma by K. Aniba, M. Laghmari, M. Lmejjati, H. Ghannane, S. Ait Benali

“…Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare tumor of intermediate malignancy. We report a case of intracranial and intraorbitar EHE. …”
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Price Cap Models in Pharmaceutical Online-to-Offline Supply Chains by Yi Zheng, Li Liu, Victor Shi, Bin Liu, Wenxing Huang

“…We focus on four price cap models: no price cap regulation, pharmaceutical manufacturer’s price cap regulation, pharmacy price cap regulation, and linkage price cap regulation. …”
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SP-Loc: A crowdsourcing fingerprint based shop-level indoor localization algorithm integrating shop popularity without the indoor map by Jie Wei, Fang Zhao, Haiyong Luo

“…Naturally utilizing the Wi-Fi, GPS, and time-stamp fingerprints collected from the smartphone when user paid as the crowdsourcing fingerprint, we avoid the requirement for indoor map and get rid of both devices cost and manual signal collecting process. …”
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Gamisoyo-San Ameliorates Neuroinflammation in the Spinal Cord of hSOD1G93A Transgenic Mice by MuDan Cai, Eun Jin Yang

“…We observed that GSS reduces the expression of glial markers, including those for microglia and astrocytes, and prevents neuronal loss. …”
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Limits and Risks of Digital Transformation by T. S. Akhromeeva, G. G. Malinetskiy, S. A. Posashkov

“…This process has a number of restrictions and risks we consider. The mathematical theory of complexity reveals a large class of the restrictions. …”
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Ontology-based expansion of virtual gene panels to improve diagnostic efficiency for rare genetic diseases by Jaemoon Shin, Toyofumi Fujiwara, Hirotomo Saitsu, Atsuko Yamaguchi

“…We also performed computational experiments on an evaluation dataset comprising 74 patients to determine the optimal VGP design method. …”
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Rossomyrmex, the Slave-Maker Ants from the Arid Steppe Environments by F. Ruano, O. Sanllorente, A. Lenoir, A. Tinaut

“…The host-parasite genera Proformica-Rossomyrmex present four pairs of species with a very wide range of distribution from China to Southeastern Spain, from huge extended plains to the top of high mountains. Here we review (1) the published data on these pairs in comparison to other slave-makers; (2) the different dispersal ability in hosts and parasites inferred from genetics (chance of migration conditions the evolutionary potential of the species); (3) the evolutionary potential of host and parasite determining the coevolutionary process in each host-parasite system that we treat to define using cuticular chemical data. …”
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Caregiver-child neural synchrony: Magic, mirage, or developmental mechanism? by Ellen C. Roche, Elizabeth Redcay, Rachel R. Romeo

“…Throughout, we highlight open questions alongside best practices for optimizing two-brain fNIRS to examine hypothesized developmental mechanisms. …”
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Computation of separate ratio and regression estimator under Neutrosophic stratified sampling: an application to climate data by Abhishek Singh, Hemant Kulkarni, Florentin Smarandache, Gajendra Vishwakarma

“…In this article, we introduce a novel approach by presenting separate ratio and regression estimators in the context of neutrosophic stratified sampling for the very first time, incorporating auxiliary variables. …”
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Machine learning of swimming data via wisdom of crowd and regression analysis by Jiang Xie, Junfu Xu, Celine Nie, Qing Nie

“…To address this problem, we propose a new method by combining multiple inference methods to derive Wisdom of Crowd Classifier (WoCC). …”
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Subvolcanic petrology of the Pico dos Três Estados region (SE Brazil): Implications for Alkaline Magmatic Evolution by Graciano Carlos de Freitas, Artur Corval, Júlio Cesar Lopes da Silva, Helena Saraiva Koenow Pinheiro, Sérgio de Castro Valente

“…Still regarding fieldwork, we found that there are signs of magma mingling processes in the area. …”
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Potential Antinociceptive Effects of Chinese Propolis and Identification on Its Active Compounds by Liping Sun, Lei Liao, Bei Wang

“…By analyzing using UPLC-Q-TOF-MS, we showed that 40W was rich in phenolic acids, like caffeic acid, while 40E, 70E, and 95E have relatively high levels in flavonoids, like galangin, pinocembrin, and chrysin. …”
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