Mixed Redundancy Strategy for Modular Multilevel Converters in High-Power Applications by Miad Ahmadi, Aditya Shekhar, Pavol Bauer

“…Also, the Monte Carlo simulation methodology is proposed to evaluate the practicality and effectiveness of the proposed MRS scheme. Finally, the insights of this study are applied to existing literature.…”
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Enhanced framework for ensemble effort estimation by using recursive‐based classification by Azath Hussain, Maheswari Raja, Pandimurugan Vellaisamy, Sangeetha Krishnan, Lakshminarayanan Rajendran

“…The outcomes are executed to offer the best accuracy and thereby providing efficient prediction of effort estimation. Finally, the performance is measured with parameters such as Magnitude of Balanced Relative Error (MBRE), mean absolute residual, mean inverted balanced relative error, mean magnitude of error relative and mean magnitude of relative error. …”
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Evolutionary Algorithms and Quantum Computing: Recent Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges by Junaid Ur Rehman, Muhammad Shohibul Ulum, Abdurrahman Wachid Shaffar, Amirul Adlil Hakim, Mujirin, Zaid Abdullah, Hayder Al-Hraishawi, Symeon Chatzinotas, Hyundong Shin

“…Furthermore, we investigate the role of nature-inspired metaheuristics in enhancing the performance of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers by fine-tuning their parameters. Finally, we discuss some of the recent progress at the intersection of both computing frameworks to highlight the current status and potential of the currently available quantum computing hardware. …”
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Regulatory role of S1P and its receptors in sepsis-induced liver injury by Bin Wang, Bin Wang, Xiaoyu Wu, Xiaoyu Wu, Jiangfeng Cheng, Jiangfeng Cheng, Junming Ye, Junming Ye, Hongquan Zhu, Hongquan Zhu, Xiaofeng Liu, Xiaofeng Liu

“…This paper focused on the mechanistic pathways through which S1P and its receptors modulate immunity, bile acid metabolism, and liver-intestinal circulation in septic liver injury. Finally, the relationships between S1P and its receptors with liver inflammation and metabolism and the use of related drugs for the treatment of liver injury were examined. …”
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Real-Time Human Motion Capture Driven by a Wireless Sensor Network by Peng-zhan Chen, Jie Li, Man Luo, Nian-hua Zhu

“…The method collects articular movement data on the basis of rigid body dynamics through a miniature sensor network, controls the human skeleton model, and reproduces human posture according to the features of human articular movement. Finally, the feasibility of the system is validated by testing of system properties via capture of continuous dynamic movement. …”
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Equilibrium and kinetics studies of Direct blue 71 adsorption from aqueous solutions using modified zeolite by Nezam Mirzaei, Amir Hossein Mahvi, Hooshyar Hossini

“…In Langmuir analysis, the maximum adsorption capacity (q m ) by 13.66 mg/g was determined. Finally, the characteristics of zeolite including both natural and modified, such as compositions, surface morphology by X-ray diffraction technique (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were obtained. …”
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Analysis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia drug sensitivity by changes in impedance via stromal cell adherence. by Annie Luong, Fabio Cerignoli, Yama Abassi, Nora Heisterkamp, Hisham Abdel-Azim

“…This system was able to discriminate sensitivity of two relapsed Philadelphia chromosome (Ph) positive ALLs to four different targeted kinase inhibitors. Moreover, differences in sensitivity of two CRLF2-drivenBCP-ALL cell lines to ruxolitinib were also seen. …”
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Study of the mechanism of high-efficient in-situ SO2 fixation during oxidative roasting of high‑sulfur iron ores and DFT calculation by Xiaojiao Chen, Yuming Ren, Wenjun Gao, Na Zhao

“…Moreover, the sulfur-fixation activities of CaO and MgO were also compared in depth by Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculation in terms of surface adsorption energy, transition state and partitioned density of states (PDOS). Finally, the sulfur-fixation mechanism was analyzed in depth by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) tests in terms of phase composition, crystal structure and surface morphology. …”
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Network Coded Wireless Cooperative Multicast with Minimum Transmission Cost by Xiumin Wang, Jin Wang, Shukui Zhang

“…For the case when the clusters are not predefined, we propose a cluster division algorithm such that the destination nodes within each cluster can conduct data exchange locally with energy efficiency. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.…”
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Accreditation of primary health care services: A systematic review by Babak Rastegarimehr, Ahmad Ahmadi Teymourlouy, Hasan Abolghasem Gorji

“…The studies were evaluated with Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Tools (JBI) critical appraisal tools checklist, and finally, the data were analyzed using the framework analysis method. …”
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Marginal Zone Lymphoma Complicated by Protein Losing Enteropathy by Nadine Stanek, Peter Bauerfeind, Guido Herzog, Henriette Heinrich, Matthias Sauter, Daniela Lenggenhager, Cäcilia Reiner, Markus G. Manz, Jeroen S. Goede, Benjamin Misselwitz

“…Additional treatments with steroids, octreotide, a diet devoid of long-chain fatty-acids, and parenteral nutrition did not prevent further clinical deterioration with marked weight loss (23 kg), further reduction in albumin concentrations (nadir 8 g/L), and a pronounced drop in performance status. Finally, immunochemotherapy with rituximab and bendamustine resulted in hematological remission and remarkable clinical improvement. 18 months after therapy the patient remains free of gastrointestinal complaints and has regained his body weight with normal albumin levels. …”
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Child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for child and adolescent mental health by Hannah McDowell, Sophie Barriault, Tracie O. Afifi, Elisa Romano, Nicole Racine, Nicole Racine

“…Using a heuristic model of child maltreatment and its downstream influence on child mental health, we discuss risk and protective factors for maltreatment as well as mechanisms by which maltreatment operates to influence child and adolescent mental health. Finally, based on the accumulated evidence, we provide important recommendations for advancing research on child maltreatment, emphasizing the necessity for routine monitoring of maltreatment exposure at a population level, and discussing the implications for the field of child protection. …”
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A Hybrid Digital-Signature and Zero-Watermarking Approach for Authentication and Protection of Sensitive Electronic Documents by Omar Tayan, Muhammad N. Kabir, Yasser M. Alginahi

“…Additionally, enhancements in resource utilisation and reduced redundancies were achieved in comparison to traditional encryption-based approaches. Finally, analysis and remarks are made about the current state of the art, and future research issues are discussed under the given constraints.…”
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Representaciones sociales de los Derechos Humanos protegidos por el Derecho Internacional Humanitario en estudiantes de la Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores by Fernando García, Diana R. Bernal, Anyela Moreno

“…Este artículo presenta los resultados finales de la investigación "Representaciones sociales de los Derechos Humanos protegidos por el Derecho Internacional Humanitario en estudiantes de la Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores", investigación de tipo cualitativo que hace uso de las técnicas del diferencial semántico y el grupo focal. …”
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Review of Spot Electricity Price Prediction Studies Based on Machine Learning Methods by JIA Heping, GUO Yuchen, MA Qianxin, YANG Zhenglin, ZHENG Yaxian, ZENG Dan, LIU Dunnan

“…This study then analyzed the evaluation criteria for spot electricity price prediction models based on machine learning， and summarized the model hyperparameter training requirements and the practical application of relevant prediction methods. Finally， in view of the challenges of machine learning methods in electricity price prediction research， this study outlined future research directions to provide constructive references for the development of the spot market under the construction of a unified national electricity market.…”
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Alzheimer’s disease recognition using graph neural network by leveraging image-text similarity from vision language model by Byounghwa Lee, Jeong-Uk Bang, Hwa Jeon Song, Byung Ok Kang

“…Then, we employ a vision language model to represent the relationship between the parts of the image and the corresponding descriptive sentences as a bipartite graph. Finally, we use a graph convolutional network (GCN), considering each subject as an individual graph, to classify AD patients through a graph-level classification task. …”
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A Lightweight Person Detector for Surveillance Footage Based on YOLOv8n by Qicheng Wang, Guoqiang Feng, Zongzhe Li

“…Next, a heterogeneous PAFPN with improved MSBlock was formed using heterogeneous convolution kernels. Finally, AKConv, a variable kernel convolution, was applied to further reduce the number of parameters and the computational cost while improving accuracy. …”
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Retail commodity detection method based on location learnable visual center mechanism by Xiaohua LYU, Mingchen WEI, Libo LIU

“…To address the problem of low detection accuracy caused by the difficulty in effectively capturing significant and diversified feature information for packaging deformation and overlap products, a location learnable visual center (LLVC) mechanism was designed to improve YOLOX-s, achieving higher detection accuracy.To effectively deal with product packaging deformation and overlap phenomena, firstly, global context information was captured through a lightweight multi-layer perceptron to help the model better understand spatial information in product features.Secondly, the local feature representation ability was enhanced by the designed LLVC and the spatial information was used to allocate learnable weights for local features to increase the attention of discriminative local features.Finally, the intersection over union (IoU) loss function was replaced with centered intersection over union (CIoU) and power parameters were introduced on this basis to effectively reduce the missed detection rate.Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves an accuracy of 91.3% on the retail product checkout (RPC) dataset, which is 2.2% higher than YOLOX-s and better than current mainstream lightweight object detection algorithms.At the same time, frame per second (FPS) is 97 frame/s, and the model size is 9.48 MB.It can accurately and in real-time detect retail products in scenarios where computing resources are limited.…”
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A Green Demand-Responsive Airport Shuttle Service Problem with Time-Varying Speeds by Ming Wei, Binbin Jing, Jian Yin, Yang Zang

“…Since this task is an NP-hard problem, a heuristic-based nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) is also presented to find Pareto optimal solutions in a reasonable amount of time. Finally, a real-world example is provided to illustrate the proposed methodology. …”
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Improved Laplacian Biogeography-Based Optimization Algorithm and Its Application to QAP by Xinming Zhang, Doudou Wang, Haiyan Chen, Wentao Mao, Shangwang Liu, Guoqi Liu, Zhi Dou

“…Third, an improved Laplace migration operator is formulated for other habitats’ updating to improve the search ability and the operability. Finally, some measures such as example learning, mutation operation removing, and greedy selection are adopted mostly to reduce the computation complexity of LxBBO. …”
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