Association between weight-adjusted-waist index and long-term prognostic outcomes in cardiovascular disease patients: results from the NHANES 1999–2018 study by Hanbin Li, Wen Zhong, Hongxin Cheng, Shiqi Wang, Ran Li, Lu Wang, Chengqi He, Quan Wei

“…The risk of all-cause mortality increased with WWI and showed a linear association in patients with congestive heart failure, heart attack (P-overall < 0.05, P − nonlinear > 0.05); WWI was nonlinearly associated with the risk of all-cause mortality in patients with coronary heart disease and angina (P-overall < 0.05, P − nonlinear < 0.05). …”
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Both Low and High Postprocedural hsCRP Associate with Increased Risk of Death in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Treated by Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Runzhen Chen, Chen Liu, Peng Zhou, Yu Tan, Zhaoxue Sheng, Jiannan Li, Jinying Zhou, Yi Chen, Li Song, Hanjun Zhao, Hongbing Yan

“…RCS analysis depicted a J-shaped association between postprocedural hsCRP and mortality (P for nonlinearity=0.004). Similar association was observed between hsCRP and cardiac death (P for nonlinearity=0.014), but not for noncardiac mortality (P for nonlinearity=0.228). …”
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A Novel Electrical Load Forecasting Model for Extreme Weather Events Based on Improved Gated Spiking Neural P Systems and Frequency Enhanced Channel Attention Mechanism by Yuanshuo Guo, Jun Wang, Yan Zhong, Tao Wang, Zeyuan Sui

“…This paper proposes a basic framework for future load forecasting researches of sustainable energy systems under extreme weather events and provides new direction for membrane computing model in terms of load forecasting. Inspired by nonlinear spiking mechanisms in nonlinear spiking neural P systems, the gated spiking neural P (GSNP) model is a new recurrent-like network. …”
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Risk of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome associated with meteorological factors in diverse epidemic regions: a nationwide longitudinal study in China by Nan Chang, Wenzhong Huang, Yanlin Niu, Zhihu Xu, Yuan Gao, Tingting Ye, Zihao Wang, Xiaohui Wei, Yuming Guo, Qiyong Liu

“…Furthermore, the association between relative humidity and HFRS incidence exhibited as a monotonic negative correlation in Rattus-dominant regions, while Apodemus-dominant regions showed a nonlinear, inverted U-shaped association. Conclusions This study highlights the heterogeneous effects of meteorological factors on HFRS incidence across different epidemic regions. …”
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Tension Strength Prediction of Transverse Branch Plate-to-Rectangular Joint with Concrete Filling by Zhihua Xiong, Yongjian Liu, Bin Liu, Lei Jiang

“…Tension strength equations were proposed for both CBPRH joints with and without PBR by nonlinear regression. The chord axial stress reduction factor was discussed and a modified equation originated from hollow joint was recommended for CBPRH joint. …”
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WH-EA: An Evolutionary Algorithm for Wiener-Hammerstein System Identification by J. Zambrano, J. Sanchis, J. M. Herrero, M. Martínez

“…The performance of the proposed approach is analysed by using a demonstration example and a nonlinear system identification benchmark.…”
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Robust optimization of air based relay for internet of things based on UAV by Wei WANG, Renqian GU, Li3 PENG, Jijun ZHAO, Zhongcheng WEI, Cunxi CHANG

“…Faced with the need of key regional information transmission in the emergency situation where the perception network lacks of ground base stations, considered about the uncertainty of spatial positioning of emergency internet of things (eIoT) nodes, a robust optimization method for air-based relay of eIoT based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was proposed.Firstly, the system modeling of this kind of eIoT was carried out.Secondly, according to the fact that the non-convex and nonlinear model has a great correlation with the positioning accuracy of the ground-based eIoT equipment and the tiny disturbance of the positioning information can lead to the invalid solution of the model, the system model was relaxed and the uncertainty description of the location data of the eIoT equipment was introduced, Then the robust equivalent model of the low altitude UAV relay communication power optimization problem was obtained.Thirdly, the model solving algorithm was given.Finally, the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method were verified from the deployment of UAV and communication energy consumption.At the same time, the factors effecting the effectiveness of the proposed method were analyzed.…”
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Characterization of Polymer Surfaces by the Use of Different Wetting Theories Regarding Acid-Base Properties by Eduard Kraus, Lukas Orf, Michael Heilig, Benjamin Baudrit, Irina Starostina, Oleg Stoyanov

“…Striving for a better understanding of the adhesive polymer interactions in adhesively joined polymers, the methods of Berger and van Oss-Chaudhury-Good were found as the most suitable methods for the investigation of wetting on solid polymer surfaces. Methods of nonlinear systems by Della Volpe and Siboni were adapted and evaluated on plastic surfaces. …”
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Improved Transient Performance of a Fuzzy Modified Model Reference Adaptive Controller for an Interacting Coupled Tank System Using Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm by Asan Mohideen Khansadurai, Valarmathi Krishnasamy, Radhakrishnan Thota Karunakaran

“…It is concluded that the proposed controller can be used to obtain very good transient performance for the control of nonlinear processes.…”
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Decoupling Control Strategy of BLIM considering Rotor Mass Eccentricity by Wenshao Bu, Biao Li, Chunxiao Lu

“…., bearingless induction motor, is a multivariable, nonlinear, and strong coupling object; to achieve its high performance magnetic suspension operation control and overcome the influence of the rotor mass eccentricity, a decoupling control strategy considering the rotor mass eccentricity is proposed. …”
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Effect of Human and Bovine Serum Albumin on kinetic Chemiluminescence of Mn (III)-Tetrakis (4-Sulfonatophenyl) Porphyrin-Luminol-Hydrogen Peroxide System by Sayed Yahya Kazemi, Seyed Mohammad Abedirad

“…The investigated parameters involved pseudo-first-order rise and fall rate constant for the chemiluminescence burst, maximum level intensity, time to reach maximum intensity, total light yield, and values of the intensity at maximum CL which were evaluated by nonlinear least square program KINFIT. Because of interaction of metalloporphyrin with proteins, the CL parameters are drastically affected. …”
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Model Reduction Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Predictive Control of Distributed Reactor System by Alejandro Marquez, Jairo José Espinosa Oviedo, Darci Odloak

“…Around these optimal profiles, the nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), that model the reactor are linearized, and afterwards the linear PDEs are discretized in space giving as a result a high-order linear model. …”
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Travelling wave solutions of the reaction-diffusion mathematical model of glioblastoma growth: An Abel equation based approach by Tiberiu Harko, Man Kwong Mak

“…We consider quasi-stationary (travelling wave type) solutions to a nonlinearreaction-diffusion equation with arbitrary, autonomous coefficients,describing the evolution of glioblastomas, aggressive primary brain tumorsthat are characterized by extensive infiltration into the brain and arehighly resistant to treatment. The second order nonlinear equationdescribing the glioblastoma growth through travelling waves can be reduced to a first order Abel typeequation. …”
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Study on discrete prediction model for mechanical behavior of buried pipelines under the influence of differential frost heave by Xiyan Zhang, Lei Chen, Lipei Guan

“…On this basis, the properties of nonlinear frost heaving springs are disclosed. A model of pipeline mechanical state is derived to understand the deformation and stress at any moment, allowing the dynamic prediction of mechanical behaviors. …”
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CSO Intelligent Optimization of Drag Torque Parameters of Wet Brakes Based on the SSA-BP Approximate Model by Li Jie, Wang Shuai, Lan Hai, Wang Zhiyong

“…To solve the engineering problem of power loss in wet brakes under non-braking conditions, taking into consideration the influence of the lubricating oil in the clearance of friction pairs on the drag torque of the friction pair, making use of the strong nonlinear fitting ability of the sparrow-search-algorithm-back propagation (SSA-BP) neural network, and taking the no-load operating condition of wet brakes as the input variable and the drag torque as the output variable, an approximate model of wet brakes is established. …”
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A Review of the Detection Methods for Climate Regime Shifts by Qunqun Liu, Shiquan Wan, Bin Gu

“…With the development of nonlinear science, many new methods have been presented for detecting an abrupt dynamic change in recent years, which is useful supplement for the abrupt change detection methods.…”
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Morphometrics and evolution: the challenge of crossing rugged phenotypic landscapes with straight paths by P. D. Polly

“…Dense sampling of shape space and the use of fully multivariate and, perhaps, nonlinear methods can help forestall potential problems.…”
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Numerical Investigation of Load-Carrying Capacity of GFRP-Reinforced Rectangular Concrete Members Using CDP Model in ABAQUS by Ali Raza, Qaiser uz Zaman Khan, Afaq Ahmad

“…The present work demonstrates the nonlinear finite element analysis (NLFEA) of 13 concentrically and eccentrically loaded short rectangular concrete column specimens reinforced with GFRP and conventional steel bars. …”
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Discontinuous differential equation for modelling the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by Michal Fečkan, Shan Li, JinRong Wang

“…This primarily included cases with piecewise constant vorticity, piecewise linear vorticity, and piecewise nonlinear vorticity. Additionally, we provided some examples to verify our results.…”
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On Discrete Fractional Integral Inequalities for a Class of Functions by Saima Rashid, Hijaz Ahmad, Aasma Khalid, Yu-Ming Chu

“…The governing high discretization of problems is an advanced version of the existing forms that can be transformed into linear and nonlinear difference equations using appropriately adjusted transformations invoking property of observing the new chaotic behaviors of the logistic map. …”
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