INCORPORATING PUBLIC INPUT WITH GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) FOR BICYCLE STRATEGIC PLANNING by Jiangli Li, June Chae-Un

“…The mix-methods approach included an intercept survey and several small group meetings. The non-probability sample design was used in this particular case because of the quick turn-around requirement and exploratory nature of the study with no financial resource. …”
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Structural Damage Identification Method Based on Parametric Boundary Condition Optimization by Wei Guo, Wei Jiang

“…The results show that the prediction error of fatigue life is 16% less under various stress ranges, a rectangular identification frame with a certain probability guarantee rate is used to realize multitype seismic damage classification and location, the average accuracy of the identification of concrete cracking and spalling, steel bar exposure, and buckling is more than 80%, and the average coverage rate is more than 88%. …”
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A New Erosion Model for Wind-Induced Structural Vibrations by Keqin Yan, Yi Zhang, Tao Cheng

“…Based on an experiment study, the effects of these parameters in erosion coefficient is analyzed and discussed. The probability distribution and value range of erosion coefficient are also presented in this technical note. …”
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Two Cases of Heavy Chain MGUS by Jan Van Keer, Björn Meijers, Michel Delforge, Gregor Verhoef, Koen Poesen

“…In the absence of specialized guidelines, we suggest a similar follow-up as for MGUS, while taking into account the higher probability of progression to lymphoma than to myeloma.…”
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A model for operational risk of industrial facilities including ageing/test degradation effects and maintenance effectiveness by S.F. Quintão Ribeiro, J.J. Rivero

“…The proposed methodology considers the time dependency of standby failure probabilities through instantaneous unavailability models, depending on the specific standby time for each component at the given moment, instead of using the same constant values. …”
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Reinsurance in the Supplementary Health: A Counterfactual Study on the Impacts of Reinsurance Treaties Adoption by Healthcare Plans Operators in Brazil by Caio Alexandrino Costa Areias, João Vinícius de França Carvalho

“…By introducing quota share, with retentions of 60% and 80% of the aggregate expenses, and Stop-Loss treaties, with retention limits of 80% and 95%, it was verified that the ruin probability decreased in the first case by around 40% and 20%. …”
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Residual Life Prediction of Metro Traction Motor Bearing Based on Convolutional Neural Network by Yanwei Xu, Weiwei Cai, Tancheng Xie, Pengfei Zhao

“…The results show that the probability of predicting the stage of bearing life based on multiple eigenvalues and convolutional neural network is more than 98%.…”
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Risk Measurement for Portfolio Credit Risk Based on a Mixed Poisson Model by Rongda Chen, Huanhuan Yu

“…Relationship between default probability and loss level reflected through the MC simulation has practical features. …”
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Response to: Comment on “Does the Equivalence between Gravitational Mass and Energy Survive for a Composite Quantum Body?” by A. G. Lebed

“…This perturbation results in the appearance of a finite probability for an electron to be excited at higher energy levels and to emit a photon. …”
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Corporate Governance and Business Management, A Case Study of Equity Bank-Kampala, Uganda by Eliab Mpora, Byamukama, Frank, Hagumamina, Moses, Agaba, Chrisostom, Oketch, Arthur, Sunday

“…Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient for transparency and business management was r = 0.633, which was positive with probability value (p = 0.000) that is less than α = 0.01 level of significance, showing a positive relationship between transparency and organizational performance at the one per cent level of significance. …”
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Effect of Sucrose Spray on some Phytochemical Characteristics of Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) under Field Conditions by Vahid Akbarpour, Hossein Aruei, Kambiz Mashayekhi, Majid Azizi Arani, Mohammad Ali Bahmanyar

“…Results: The results of the analysis of variance showed that the simple effect of the solvent type and sucrose concentration on all studied traits at the probability level of 0.01 and the interaction effect of the treatments on all traits, except for the amount of ribodiozide, were significant at the probability level of 0.05 and on the amount of steviozide at the probability level of 0.01. …”
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On Value Distribution for the Mellin Transform of the Fourth Power of the Riemann Zeta Function by Virginija Garbaliauskienė, Audronė Rimkevičienė, Mindaugas Stoncelis, Darius Šiaučiūnas

“…In this paper, the asymptotic behavior of the modified Mellin transform <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi mathvariant="script">Z</mi><mn>2</mn></msub><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>s</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>s</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>σ</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>t</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, of the fourth power of the Riemann zeta function is characterized by weak convergence of probability measures in the space of analytic functions. …”
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Is first-line treatment with polatuzumab vedotin–rituximab–cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and prednisone (pola-R-CHP) for previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma cost-eff... by Lin Yang, Ting Chen, Qiuling Zhao, Liangliang Dong, Wanfu Zhong, Wenbin Liu, Xiuliang Qiu, Ruyi Huang, Shengqiang Huang, Ruixiang Xie

“…Probabilistic sensitivity analyses indicated that pola-R-CHP had a low probability of being cost-effective under the current WTP threshold. …”
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Automatic GPR detection of grouting defects behind the tunnel shield segments based on wavelet coherence analysis combined with modified Res-RCNN by Dengyi Wang, Ming Peng, Liu Liu, Xiongyao Xie, Zhenming Shi, Yaoying Liang, Jian Shen, Qiyu Wu

“…Finally, the post-processing and visualization automatically give an intuitive clear feature map that shows the location and probability of the grouting defects along the tunnel. …”
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La répartition des chimpanzés à Sebitoli (Parc National de Kibale, Ouganda): influence des facteurs naturels et anthropiques by Sarah Bortolamiol, Marianne Cohen, Milena Palibrk, Sabrina Krief

“…We obtained a map representing the probability of chimpanzee’s occurrence regarding natural and anthropogenic factors. …”
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An Incentive Mechanism Model of Credit Behavior of SMEs Based on the Perspective of Credit Default Swaps by Shenghong Wu, Pei Mu, Jiaxian Shen, Wenyi Wang

“…The result shows that the CDS contract leads to insufficient supervision after a bank loan, the moral hazard of the SMEs rises, and the probability of credit default events increases. In addition, in view of CDS, the SMEs can access more credit funds.…”
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Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analyses of a Pebble Bed HTGR Loss of Cooling Event by Gerhard Strydom

“…Eight model input parameters were selected for inclusion in this study, and after the input parameters variations and probability density functions were specified, a total of 800 steady state and depressurized loss of forced cooling (DLOFC) transient PEBBED-THERMIX calculations were performed. …”
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Outage Analysis of Train-to-Train Communication Model over Nakagami-m Channel in High-Speed Railway by Pengyu Liu, Xiaojuan Zhou, Zhangdui Zhong

“…We first present a new closed form for the sum of squared independent Nakagami-m variates and then derive an expression for the outage probability of the identical and non-identical Nakagami-m channels in three cases. …”
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Land Use Change Trend Assessment Using RS and Data GIS (Case Study: Urban Area of Ardabil) by Morteza Akbaryan, Diana Dortaj, Laila Abedi Fard

“…Preparing the images and performing the necessary preprocesses, the land use map of the study area for the years 1990, 2000 and 2010 was made in four classes of residential, agricultural, rangeland and water zones by using the maximum probability method. The results of the evaluations indicate that in the period from 1990 to 2010, residential lands have increased from 26.4 to 51.4 km2. …”
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An Information Geometric Perspective on the Complexity of Macroscopic Predictions Arising from Incomplete Information by Sean Alan Ali, Carlo Cafaro, Steven Gassner, Adom Giffin

“…The IGE is an information geometric measure of complexity of geodesic paths on curved statistical manifolds underlying the entropic dynamics of systems specified in terms of probability distributions. In this manuscript, we discuss several illustrative examples wherein our modeling scheme is employed to infer macroscopic predictions when only partial knowledge of the microscopic nature of a given system is available. …”
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