Modeling and prediction of HIV in China: transmission rates structured by infection ages by Yicang Zhou, Yiming Shao, Yuhua Ruan, Jianqing Xu, Zhien Ma, Changlin Mei, Jianhong Wu

“…Despite the large variation in this statistical data attributable to theknowledge of HIV, surveillance efforts, and uncertain events, and although thereported data counts individuals who might have been infected many yearsago, our analysis shows that the model structured on infection age can assistus in extracting from this data set very useful information about transmissiontrends and about effectiveness of various control measures.…”
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Optimization of multiple access in the energy harvesting wireless sensor network with delivery deadline constraint by Aoqin YANG, Aoyu GONG, Ting FANG, Lei DENG, Qiang LI, Yijin ZHANG

“…With the wide application of the energy harvesting wireless sensor network (WSN) in many real-time communication scenarios, such as environmental monitoring, industrial automation and battlefield surveillance, the multiple access of such WSN needs to take into account both the delivery deadline constraint of data packets and the energy harvesting dynamics of sensor nodes.Due to the inherent decoupling of interference, delivery urgency and remaining energy, the design and optimization of such multiple access are more challenging than that of traditional multiple access that only needs to take into account the packet traffic pattern.A centralized access scheme was designed with the access actions relying on the global knowledge of current delivery urgency and remaining energy.And then, to avoid the costly overhead in the centralized access, a decentralized access scheme was designed with the access probabilities merely relying on the local knowledge of delivery urgency and remaining energy.Under the objective of maximizing the network throughput, the centralized access schemes were formulated with complete and simplified knowledge as two Markov decision processes (MDPs), respectively, and the backward induction algorithm was used to obtain optimal centralized policies for these MDPs.Furthermore, the decentralized access was formulated with simplified knowledge as a decentralized MDP, and the Markov policy search was used to propose an ε-optimal decentralized policy.Simulations under a wide range of network configurations were provided to verify the effectiveness of the simplified modeling and demonstrate the performance advantage of the proposed polices.…”
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Opportunities for implementing digital applications to monitor the impact of risk-minimization measures within the pharmacovigilance process: Scoping review of published literature by Ilko Getov, Denitsa Panayotova, Stanimir Dobrev, Maria Dimitrova, Valentina Petkova

“…The findings suggest digital tools such as mobile applications, web-based platforms, and electronic health record integrations are effective mechanisms for the collection of real-world data, patient-reported outcomes, and patient engagement in terms of drug safety surveillance. These tools address significant challenges inherent in traditional systems, such as underreporting and data fragmentation. …”
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Integrated Pest Management for Mosquito Reduction around Homes and Neighborhoods by C. Roxanne Rutledge Connelly, Elizabeth Bolles, D. Culbert, James DeValerio, Michael Donahoe, K. Gabel, R. Jordi, J. McLaughlin, Anita Neal, Sally Scalera, E. Toro, Joseph Walter

“…Modern mosquito control emphasizes source reduction to eliminate areas where mosquitoes thrive; surveillance to determine whether pesticide applications are necessary; screening; sanitation; and other techniques described in this document. …”
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Correspondência espacial entre a suinocultura intensiva e a incidência de COVID-19 nos EUA, Brasil e Alemanha by Larissa Bombardi, Immo Fiebrig, Pablo Luiz Maia Nepomuceno

“…Countries that are characterized by being among the largest pork producers in the world, as well as, at least the United States and Brazil, are among those that have presented the highest contagion rates by the new coronavirus.As a result, it was possible to identify an evident correspondence in the spatial distribution of these data in the three countries, indicating the urgent need for further investigation and on-the-spot monitoring by the health surveillance agencies and the producing companies of the sector.…”
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Current trends of Carbapenemase Production Amongst Multi-drug Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria in a Tertiary-Care Hospital in West Bengal by Arunima Chakravarty, Raja Ray, Ananda S. Mondal, Hirak J. Raj

“…Objectives: Our aim was to study the prevalence of Carbapenemase producing multi-drug-resistant gram-negative bacteria in different zones of our hospital to aid in antimicrobial resistance surveillance. Material and Methods: All clinical samples sent for culture and sensitivity study during the study period were followed up for detection of Carbapenemase production by phenotypic tests such as Carbapenem Inactivation tests and Carba NP test. …”
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Challenges in managing ossifying fibroma of the maxilla: A case report by Prisca Anindhita, Hery Susilo, Wilma Agustina, Yudi Siswanto

“…Close postoperative surveillance is required to monitor for recurrence and facilitate timely intervention. …”
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Studying Impacts of Urban Impermeability on Fear of Crime Using the Space Syntax Method; The Kuruçeşme Neighborhood as the Case Study by Meysam Soleimani, Maryam Golabi

“…The former suffers from a lack of “natural surveillance” and physical disorders, while the latter engenders extreme “territoriality”, resulting in social incivilities. …”
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The Natural History and Outcomes of the Patients with Carcinosarcoma Involving Kidney and Renal Pelvis by Jue Wang, Fen Wei Wang, Anne Kessinger

“…Forty-three patients with CSKP, diagnosed between January 1973 and December 2007, were identified from the national Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database and reviewed. …”
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Clinical Accuracy of Instrument-Read SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Diagnostic Tests (Ag-IRRDTs) by Ali Umit Keskin, Pinar Ciragil, Aynur Eren Topkaya

“…Pooled sensitivity and specificity of SARS-CoV-2 Ag-IRRDTs did not demonstrate a significant superiority over SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests which do not require a reader instrument, even in the case where surveillance and screening datasets were excluded from the analysis. …”
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A Study of Islamic Moderation Discourse Among Female Scholars in Banyumas Regency Based on Their Interpretation of Radical-Indicating Hadiths by Munawir Munawir, Laily Liddini, Klawing Arjuna

“…In the context of the spread of Islamic radicalism in Indonesia, Banyumas Regency is categorized as a yellow zone, signifying it is under surveillance by Densus 88 and BNPT. Islamic radicalism is triggered by numerous factors, with one of the primary causes being a textualistic and non-comprehensive understanding of religious texts, including hadith. …”
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Epigenetic Alterations in Bladder Cancer and Their Potential Clinical Implications by Han Han, Erika M. Wolff, Gangning Liang

“…Since certain epigenetic alterations precede histopathological changes, they can serve as excellent markers for the development of diagnostic, prognostic, and surveillance tools. In addition, their dynamic nature and reversibility with pharmacological interventions open new and exciting avenues for therapies. …”
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Integrated Pest Management for Mosquito Reduction around Homes and Neighborhoods by C. Roxanne Rutledge Connelly, Elizabeth Bolles, D. Culbert, James DeValerio, Michael Donahoe, K. Gabel, R. Jordi, J. McLaughlin, Anita Neal, Sally Scalera, E. Toro, Joseph Walter

“…Modern mosquito control emphasizes source reduction to eliminate areas where mosquitoes thrive; surveillance to determine whether pesticide applications are necessary; screening; sanitation; and other techniques described in this document. …”
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Costa cantábrica (Santillana del Mar, España) (2019) by Alberto Cabrerizo

“…Human activity has resulted in buildings either on the upper clear part for observation and surveillance, or protected by the direction and power of the strata, a space for shelter and religious activity. …”
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Gastric Pouch Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour Post-Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: A First Reported Case by Wissam Dib, Melissa Kyriakos Saad, Georges El Hachem, Bassim Sawan, Elias Saikaly

“…From here, combining the observations of clinicians treating and following up patients post-bariatric surgery in an international database will be beneficial to patients, and aid in development of surveillance guidelines.…”
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Service Time-Based Region Division in OVSF-Based Wireless Networks with Adaptive LTE-M Network for Machine to Machine Communications by Vipin Balyan, Davinder S. Saini, Bhasker Gupta

“…The IoT applications are usually short-lived applications like smart sensing, surveillance systems for home or businesses, and data uploading applications like metering. …”
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Optimal Adaptive Antijamming in Wireless Sensor Networks by Yanmin Zhu, Xiangpeng Li, Bo Li

“…Wireless sensor networks have been widely applied to various application domains such as environmental monitoring and surveillance. Because of reliance on the open transmission media, a sensor network may suffer from radio jamming attacks, which are easy to launch but difficult to defend. …”
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COVID-19: An Update on the Latest Therapeutic Agents by Ke-Yan Loo, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Kar-Wai Hong, Kok-Gan Chan, Vengadesh Letchumanan

“…Nevertheless, continuous surveillance is imperative in ensuring that these treatment methods maintain efficacy and safety profiles in treating COVID-19 caused by different variants of the virus. …”
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Improving person re-identification based on two-stage training of convolutional neural networks and augmentation by S. A. Ihnatsyeva, R. P. Bohush

“…The main goal is to improve person re-identification accuracy in distributed video surveillance systems.Methods. Machine learning methods are applied.Result. …”
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Prosthetic Aortic Valve Stenosis in End-Stage Renal Failure by Michael Mao, Mirelle El Ters, Sunil Mankad, Mira Keddis, Soon Park, Qi Qian

“…More frequent clinical followup and surveillance echocardiogram for dialysis patients with bioprosthetic aortic valve may facilitate timely management of valvular stenosis.…”
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