Assessing the Effect of Water on Submerged and Floating Plastic Detection Using Remote Sensing and K-Means Clustering by Lenka Fronkova, Ralph P. Brayne, Joseph W. Ribeiro, Martin Cliffen, Francesco Beccari, James H. W. Arnott

“…A K-Means unsupervised clustering algorithm was used to classify the images into two clusters: plastic and water. …”
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Application of a modified set of GoogLeNet and ResNet-18 convolutional neural networks towards the identification of environmentally derived-MPLs in the Yadkin-pee dee river basin by Wesley Allen Williams, Anirudh Arunprasad, Shyam Aravamudhan

“…However, for the external trial, pictorial data from Primpke (FTIR) and DongMiller (Raman) was predicted less accurately, with the largest loss occurring across the following sets: U[GN(Raman) and RN(FTIR)], 45.5 and 35; p-value:, .3268 and .5476. …”
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Criteria for diagnosis of humoral rejection using the method of 2D-speckle-tracking echocardiography by L. K. Tkhatl, T. V. Stavenchuk, E. D. Kosmachova, I. A. Pashkova

“…The proposed diagnostic algorithm will predict humoral rejection.…”
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Pharmacoeconomic analysis of antiretroviral therapy regimes in the Syrian Arab Republic by Yu. Sh. Gushchina, А. Yu. Abramov, Y. J. Haitham

“…Based on the obtained data, the average cost of combinations of certain antiretroviral drugs classes was calculated. To predict the results of using various ART regimens for 5 years, discounting was used for each year of the time horizon, except for the first year.Results. …”
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Association between frailty and pain in older people at high risk of future hospitalization by Huan-Ji Dong, Joakim Yang, Maria M. Johansson, Maria M. Johansson, Anneli Peolsson, Anneli Peolsson, Marco Barbero, Magnus Nord, Magnus Nord

“…However, the models with ADL-staircase score (OR: 1.4, 95% CI: 1.2–1.6) had a higher explanatory power (Nagelkerke R2: 0.39) in predicting frailty than those without this aspect (R2: 0.10 and 0.13).ConclusionIn older people at high risk of hospitalization, pain frequency seemed to be related to frailty, whilst ADL dependency demonstrated a stronger association.…”
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The Use of Economic and Mathematical Modeling in Assessing the Competitiveness of Tourism Industry Enterprises by S. N. Medvedeva, V. P. Pavlyuk

“…The article discusses the modeling of competitive advantages in the tourism industry, which makes it possible to determine the significant parameters of independent variables, and it was also proposed that the model with fixed effects is the most adequate for predicting the tourism potential of the Sevastopol region.It should be noted that it is almost impossible to achieve an increase in competitiveness by chance. …”
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Assessment of suitable habitat of Semen Armeniacae Amarum. in China under different climatic conditions by Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 and Maxent model by Donglai Ma, Zikang Lu, Zhiqiang Xue, Zihan Yu, Xuhong Duan, Xian Gu, Yukun Yao, Le Cai, Kaiyan Zheng

“…(PS) and Prunus armeniaca L. (PA) are predicted to contract, whereas the range of Prunus mandshurica (Maxim.) …”
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Measurement-Based Assessment of Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort in Households Under Non-Controllable Conditions by George M. Stavrakakis, Dimitris Bakirtzis, Dimitrios Tziritas, Panagiotis L. Zervas, Emmanuel Fotakis, Sofia Yfanti, Nikolaos Savvakis, Dimitris A. Katsaprakakis

“…The recorded indoor environmental conditions are initially compiled to the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) index, followed by the formulation of databases of hourly electricity consumption, PMV and local outdoor climate conditions retrieved by an official source of meteorological conditions. …”
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Automatic Segmentation of the Infraorbital Canal in CBCT Images: Anatomical Structure Recognition Using Artificial Intelligence by Ismail Gumussoy, Emre Haylaz, Suayip Burak Duman, Fahrettin Kalabalık, Muhammet Can Eren, Seyda Say, Ozer Celik, Ibrahim Sevki Bayrakdar

“…The nnU-Net v2 architecture was applied to the training and test datasets to predict and generate appropriate algorithm weight factors. …”
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Anorexia-cachexia syndrome in cancer patients: pathogenetic aspects and treatment options by A. V. Snegovoy, V. B. Larionova, I. V. Kononenko

“…Secondly, it will provide an opportunity to develop a diagnostic algorithm to prevent it. Third, the use of the identified criteria for predicting and outcome of complications both on an outpatient basis and in a hospital will be aimed at creating favorable conditions for anticancer therapy and thereby improving long-term treatment results and patients quality of life. …”
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A Seq-to-Seq Temporal Convolutional Network for Volleyball Jump Monitoring Using a Waist-Mounted IMU by Meng Shang, Camilla de Bleecker, Jos Vanrenterghem, Roel de Ridder, Sabine Verschueren, Carolina Varon, Walter de Raedt, Bart Vanrumste

“…In the lab sessions, most jump counts showed small differences between the predicted jumps and video-annotated jumps, with an overall count showing a Limit of Agreement (LoA) of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.1\pm 3.40$ </tex-math></inline-formula> (r =0.884). …”
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Development and Validation of a Discrete Element Simulation Model for Pressing Holes in Sowing Substrates by Hongmei Xia, Chuheng Deng, Teng Yang, Runxin Huang, Jianhua Ou, Lingjin Dong, Dewen Tao, Long Qi

“…A neural network model for predicting the angle of repose was constructed, and a genetic algorithm was applied to optimize the significant contact mechanical parameters. …”
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Determination of the positioning accuracy of industrial manipulators using a digital photo/video camera by N. V. Norkina, F. A. Mevis

“…The positioning accuracy of the manipulator varies depending on the operating modes of the robot and is difficult to predict and difficult to analyze. The accuracy of positioning is influenced by the design features of the robot manipulator, the speed of movement and rotation of the manipulator, intermediate stops and accelerations, vibrations, both own and caused by the location of the robot in production. …”
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Validation of the inadequate delivery of oxygen index in an adult cardiovascular intensive care unitCentral MessagePerspective by Heather Holman, BS, Dimitar Baronov, PhD, Jeff McMurray, MD, Arman Kilic, MD, Marc Katz, MD, Sanford Zeigler, MD

“…We hypothesized that an ML algorithm could predict impaired delivery of oxygen (IDO2) with comparable discrimination to invasive mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) measurement. …”
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Rapid test for the qualitative simultaneous determination of cardiac fatty acid-binding protein and cardiac troponin I in the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome by V. A. Kokorin, I. G. Gordeev, M. N. Arefyev, A. Ya. Goncharova, A. A. Yakovtsova

“…Further studies will clarify the place of this technique in the modern algorithm for the management of patients with ACS and evaluate the possibility of using the rapid test in predicting the course of the disease.…”
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Optimization Problem for Probabilistic Time Intervals of Quasi-Deterministic Output and Self-Similar Input Data Packet Flow in Telecommunication Networks by G. I. Linets, R. A. Voronkin, G. V. Slyusarev, S. V. Govorova

“…The use of quasi-deterministic flows makes it possible to predict the load of network resources, which can be the basis for improving the quality of user service. …”
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The Short-Term Impacts of the 2017 Portuguese Wildfires on Human Health and Visibility: A Case Study by Diogo Lopes, Isilda Cunha Menezes, Johnny Reis, Sílvia Coelho, Miguel Almeida, Domingos Xavier Viegas, Carlos Borrego, Ana Isabel Miranda

“…This study emphasises the use of numerical models to predict, with high spatial and temporal resolutions, the population that may be exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution caused by ongoing wildfires. …”
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Effectiveness of Timely Isolation of Patients with Respiratory Infection in a Children's Hospital: a Simulation Study by N. V. Saperkin, L. Ju. Poslova, M. Ju. Kirillin, M. E. Garbuz, O. V. Kovalishena

“…Statistically significant differences in the predicted number of ARVI cases with different probabilities of isolation were revealed.Conclusion. …”
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Results of anti-VEGF therapy in patients with uveal melanoma by V.A. Yarovaya, E.O. Malakshinova, V.A. Pismenskaya, R.A. Loginov, A.A. Yarovoi

“…Radiation retinopathy (RR) in the form of macular edema (ME) is a predictable complication of radiation therapy (RT) in uveal melanoma (UM). …”
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Enhancing Cross-Domain Remote Sensing Scene Classification by Multi-Source Subdomain Distribution Alignment Network by Yong Wang, Zhehao Shu, Yinzhi Feng, Rui Liu, Qiusheng Cao, Danping Li, Lei Wang

“…Finally, a dual-domain feature classifier is employed to make predictions by averaging the outputs from multiple classifiers. …”
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