Re-conceptualizing trafficking-in-persons victimization using latent class analysis: Results from a community study in Cape Town, South Africa by Annah K. Bender, Erica L. Koegler, Edna G. Rich, Nicolette V. Roman, Rumi Kato Price

“…A modified screening tool based on domains of trafficking identified by the inaugural Prevalence Reduction Innovation Forum (PRIF) was most robust in identifying and classifying victims. …”
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Optimization of multioutlet hydrant location and pressurized irrigation network layout using the GRASP metaheuristic by César González-Pavón, Carmen Virginia Palau, Juan Manzano-Juárez, Santiago Guillem-Picó, Ibán Balbastre-Peralta

“…Comparative analysis with networks designed using conventional methods reveals significant improvements, with up to 31.1% more hydrants required and a 14.8% reduction in overall costs. By obtaining a greater number of multioutlet hydrants, both the diameter and the linear meters of connections to the plot to be drawn are considerably reduced, which greatly reduces land excavation. …”
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Optical Versus Electronic Implementation of Probabilistic Graphical Inference and Experimental Device Demonstration Using Nonlinear Photonics by Masoud Babaeian, Patrick Keiffer, Mark A. Neifeld, Ratchaneekorn Thamvichai, Robert A. Norwood, Pierre-A. Blanche, John Wissinger, N. Peyghambarian

“…In this paper, we study both computation and communications power consumption of optical-based and electronic-based implementations of the probabilistic inference algorithm used in solving large scale problems. Our analysis indicates that the optical implementation provides substantial reduction for power and area compare to the electronic-based solutions as problems become large. …”
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Remote sensing-based assessment of four decades of land use/land cover change in the Sigi River Watershed, East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania by Simon Chidodo, Simon Chidodo, Lulu Zhang, Azin Zarei, Karl-Heinz Feger

“…These changes have caused a drastic reduction in ecosystem services. Understanding the spatial and temporal patterns of LULC change in relation to topographic attributes is essential for effective watershed management, as it provides insights into landscape heterogeneity and supports evidence-based conservation planning. …”
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Spatiotemporal Analysis and Anomalous Trends of Asia AOD (2001–2024): Insights from a Deep Learning Fusion Model and EOF Decomposition by Yu Ding, Wenjia Ni, Jiaxin Dong, Jie Yang, Shiyao Meng, Siwei Li

“…However, satellite-derived AOD datasets frequently suffer from missing values due to factors such as cloud cover, algorithmic limitations, and various atmospheric conditions. …”
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«Gastroenterological» rheumatology: differential diagnosis of early arthritis by E. A. Galushko, A. M. Lila

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A longan-picking sequence planning method for UAV system based on multi-target tracking by Kaixuan Wu, Meiqi Zhang, Linlin Shi, Hengxu Chen, Yuju Mai, Mingda Luo, Hengyi Lin, Jun Li

“…First, a specialized lightweight target detection algorithm, YOLOv8s-Longan, is developed to achieve high-precision target localization and facilitate lightweight model deployment. …”
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Scalable FPGA Implementation of a Reliability-Based Direct Turbo Decoder for Short Block Codes by Senthil Murugan, Ramesh Bhakthavatchalu, Karthi Balasubramanian, B. Yamuna, Deepak Mishra, Sree Ranjani Rajendran

“…This paper presents the first hardware implementation of the RCODD algorithm on an FPGA, featuring a serial architecture optimized for minimal memory usage and logic complexity. …”
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An Asymptotic Analysis of the Gradient Remediability Problem for Disturbed Distributed Linear Systems by Soraya Rekkab, Samir Benhadid, Raheam Al-Saphory

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Identification of veterinary and medically important blood parasites using contrastive loss-based self-supervised learning by Supasuta Busayakanon, Morakot Kaewthamasorn, Natchapon Pinetsuksai, Teerawat Tongloy, Santhad Chuwongin, Siridech Boonsang, Veerayuth Kittichai

“…As a result, multi-class classification prediction demonstrated that model performance exceeded 91% for the F1 score, except for the early stage of Trypanosoma evansi, which showed an F1 score of 87%. …”
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Age and sex specific thresholds for risk stratification of cardiovascular disease and clinical decision making: prospective open cohort study by Matthew Sperrin, Angela M Wood, Lois Kim, Zhe Xu, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Stephen Kaptoge, Juliet Usher-Smith, Matthew Arnold, Lisa Pennells, Ryan Chung

“…Objective To quantify the potential advantages of using 10 year risk prediction models for cardiovascular disease, in combination with risk thresholds specific to both age and sex, to identify individuals at high risk of cardiovascular disease for allocation of statin treatment.Design Prospective open cohort study.Setting Primary care data from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink GOLD, linked with hospital admissions from Hospital Episode Statistics and national mortality records from the Office for National Statistics in England, 1 January 2006 to 31 May 2019.Participants 1 046 736 individuals (aged 40-85 years) with no cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or a history of statin treatment at baseline using data from electronic health records.Main outcome measures 10 year risk of cardiovascular disease, calculated with version 2 of the QRISK cardiovascular disease risk algorithm (QRISK2), with two main strategies to identify individuals at high risk: in strategy A, estimated risk was a fixed cut-off value of ≥10% (ie, as per the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines); in strategy B, estimated risk was ≥10% or ≥90th centile of age and sex specific risk distributions.Results Compared with strategy A, strategy B stratified 20 241 (149.8%) more women aged ≤53 years and 9832 (150.2%) more men aged ≤47 years as having a high risk of cardiovascular disease; for all other ages the strategies were the same. …”
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4D-CTA image and geometry dataset for kinematic analysis of abdominal aortic aneurysmsZenodo by Mostafa Jamshidian, Adam Wittek, Saeideh Sekhavat, Farah Alkhatib, Jens Carsten Ritter, Paul M. Parizel, Donatien Le Liepvre, Florian Bernard, Ludovic Minvielle, Antoine Fondanèche, Jane Polce, Christopher Wood, Karol Miller

“…The images were acquired at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Western Australia and provided to the researchers at the Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory at The University of Western Australia (ISML-UWA), where image-based AAA kinematic analysis was performed using a newly created algorithm, as described in [1]. The AAA geometries were extracted using an automated image processing pipeline comprising AI-based segmentation with PRAEVAorta software by NUREA (https://www.nurea-soft.com/), automated post-processing with the ISML-UWA in-house code (https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07238), and surface model extraction using the freely available BioPARR (Biomechanics-based Prediction of Aneurysm Rupture Risk) (https://bioparr.mech.uwa.edu.au/) and 3D Slicer (https://www.slicer.org/) software packages [2,3]. …”
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A comprehensive techno-economic analysis for a PHEV-integrated microgrid system involving wind uncertainty and diverse demand side management policies by Bishwajit Dey, Laishram Khumanleima Chanu, Gulshan Sharma, Pitshou N. Bokoro

“…Some of the additional benefits of implementing the hybrid DSM strategy were a 24 % reduction in peak load demand, a 22 % improvement in load factor, and 50 kWh of energy saved at the end of the day. …”
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Use of Spectral Clustering for Identifying Circulation Patterns of the East Korea Warm Current and Its Extension by Eun Young Lee, Dong Eun Lee, Hye-Ji Kim, Haedo Baek, Young Ho Kim, Young-Gyu Park

“…By applying a spectral clustering algorithm, three distinct patterns in the East Korea Warm Current (EKWC) and its extension were identified from daily maps of reanalyzed sea surface heights spanning the past 30 years. …”
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Pilot-Based Codebook Non-Orthogonal Artificial Noise Schemes for Physical Layer Security: Secrecy Capacity Optimization Under Unknown Eavesdropper Channels by Yi Zhang, Yebo Gu, Tao Zhao, Bo Wang

“…However, the design of NORAN leads to a reduction in the channel capacity of legitimate channels, thereby limiting its application in practical systems. …”
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Adaptive Determination of Optimum Switching Frequency in SiC-PWM-Based Motor Drives: A Speed-Dependent Core Loss Correction Approach by Sepideh Amirpour, Sima Soltanipour, Torbjorn Thiringer, Pranav Katta

“…The analysis integrates electromagnetic field simulations in Ansys Maxwell with the drive system control algorithm in Ansys Twin Builder, ensuring an accurate representation of their interactions. …”
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Goal-directed dehydration therapy in sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome guided by volumetric hemodynamic monitoring by N. O. Khromacheva, E. V. Fot, V. V. Kuzkov, M. Yu. Kirov

“…The extravascular compartment dehydration algorithm attenuated pulmonary edema and acute kidney injury more efficiently. …”
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Is there a competitive advantage to using multivariate statistical or machine learning methods over the Bross formula in the hdPS framework for bias and variance estimation? by Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, Yang Lei

“…Tailoring the choice of method to the epidemiological scenario is essential for optimizing the balance between bias reduction and precision.…”
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A sustainable neuromorphic framework for disease diagnosis using digital medical imaging by Rutwik Gulakala, Marcus Stoffel

“…Inspired by the recent development of neuromorphic hardware, a sustainable neural network framework is proposed, leading to an energy reduction down to a thousandth compared to the current state-of-the-art second-generation counterpart of artificial neural networks. …”
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The Air Transportation System as a Subsystem of Modern Communication Space: Analysis Based on Transfer Entropy Graphs by Sagit Valeev, Natalya Kondratyeva

“…The entropy transfer algorithm was used as an analysis tool. In the course of the research, the features of dynamic changes in the properties of the communication space were revealed. …”
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