Comparison of structural health assessment capabilities in epoxy – carbon black and epoxy – carbon nanotube nanocomposites by F. Inam, B. R. Bhat, N. Luhyna, T. Vo

“…A novel method for comparing structural health of different types of brittle epoxy nanocomposites filled with carbon nanostructured fillers is presented. …”
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Reliability evaluation of wireless multimedia sensor networks based on instantaneous availability by Yi Yang, Sixin Wang, Wei Xu, Kunlun Wei

“…The failure is regarded as a percolation process, and the percolation threshold is taken as the failure indicator in this method. …”
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Segmental Dynamic Duty Cycle Control for Sampling Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks by Lufeng Mo, Yujia Jiang, Guoying Wang, Jizhong Zhao

“…That is to say, the SDDC method needs smaller sampling rate if the reconstructive error threshold is given and consequently saves more energy.…”
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Distributed Photovoltaic Power Outlier Detection Based on Quantile Regression Neural Network by WANG Xiaoqian, ZHOU Yusheng, MAO Yuanjun, LI Bin, ZHOU Wenqing, SU Sheng

“…First, the solar irradiance characteristics of sunny days are analyzed, and the influence of rainy weather is excluded by using a sunny day screening method. Then, the power output correlation of different power stations is analyzed to identify the photovoltaic stations with high power output correlation, which is used as a horizontal reference. …”
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Genetic variants associated with sepsis-associated acute kidney injury. by Nicholas J Douville, Lisa Bastarache, Emily Bertucci-Richter, Snehal Patil, Elizabeth S Jewell, Robert E Freundlich, Miklos D Kertai, Milo C Engoren

“…No variants exceeded our threshold for genome-wide significance (P<5x10-8), however, a total of 13 variants exceeded the suggestive (P<1x10-6) threshold. …”
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Progress and Challenges in Morphodynamics of Braided Rivers in Source Region of Yangtze River by LI Zhi-wei, OUYANG Wei-qi

“…There is currently no systematic method to predict the overall impacts of such bidirectional changes on braided river morphology, and research on threshold identification and irreversible responses remains lacking. …”
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Making IoT Networks Highly Fault-Tolerant Through Power Fault Prediction, Isolation and Composite Networking in the Device Layer by Kodanda Rama Sastry Jammalamadaka, Bhupati Chokara, Sasi Bhanu Jammalamadaka, Balakrishna Kamesh Duvvuri

“…High availability of the IoT network is challenging as the networks are prone to failures due to various faults occurring within the different layers of the IoT networks. Most of the failures in the device layer are due to furious signals created by the devices when the power left in the devices approaches the threshold level. …”
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Assessing Sangguniang Kabataan Programs: A Baseline Study in Developing a Comprehensive Plan for the Development of the Youth in Cuenca, Batangas by Renniel Jayson Jacinto Rosales

“…The Sangguniang Kabataan is an essential part of the government to develop the youth in the society and to encourage a meaningful youth participation in different sectors in the community. This study assesses the Sangguniang Kabataan performance in Cuenca, Batangas as it encapsulates the strength and weaknesses of the programs together with the needs, comments, and suggestions of the youth as guided by the National Youth Commission’s Nine Centers of Meaningful Youth Participation in line with some selected United Nations Sustainable Developmental Goals through a mixed-method study. …”
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Simulating the impact of electron beam energy deposition on lead target temperature by Walid Oueslati

“…Leveraging FLUKA software, we simulate the intricate interplay between electrons and the target surface, analyzing variations in deposited energy across different target thicknesses. Beyond elucidating the electron-target interaction, our investigation extends to predicting crucial parameters such as the maximum operational threshold and surface temperature distribution of the target. …”
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Research on incremental deployment mechanism of network modality for polymorphic network environment by Jiong LI, Yuxiang HU, Pengshuai CUI, Le TIAN, Yongji DONG

“…Polymorphic networks support diverse network requirements and can coexist, evolve, and change on a unified physical or logical infrastructure in the form of network modality.They can maximize the innovation vitality of network technology driven by new applications.The evolution and development of modality require the incremental deployment of modality to meet the needs of convenience and privacy protection in the multi-user deployment process.However, the deployment of current network functions still uses the one-by-one deployment method, resulting in high complexity of the deployment of new modality, and mutual exposure of processing logic between different users.To address these issues, an incremental deployment mechanism for polymorphic network environments was proposed.Firstly, an incremental deployment mechanism for network modality was designed.Then, the incremental deployment of modality was abstracted as a graph merging problem based on this mechanism, and an adjacency list-based merge parsing graph algorithm was designed.The simulation results indicate that the proposed mechanism can achieve fast and correct merging of network modality, support incremental modality deployment, and greatly reduce the application deployment and service provision threshold of new network systems.…”
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Vehicle detection and recognition algorithm based on function improvement of YOLOv3 by SONG Huajie, ZHOU Lei

“…In view of this defect, the loss function of YOLOv3 algorithm was improved, the wide-height coordinate error was modified into the form of proportion, the non-maximum suppression method of the original model was improved and the overlap threshold was changed from the fixed value to the form of attenuation function. …”
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Research on incremental deployment mechanism of network modality for polymorphic network environment by Jiong LI, Yuxiang HU, Pengshuai CUI, Le TIAN, Yongji DONG

“…Polymorphic networks support diverse network requirements and can coexist, evolve, and change on a unified physical or logical infrastructure in the form of network modality.They can maximize the innovation vitality of network technology driven by new applications.The evolution and development of modality require the incremental deployment of modality to meet the needs of convenience and privacy protection in the multi-user deployment process.However, the deployment of current network functions still uses the one-by-one deployment method, resulting in high complexity of the deployment of new modality, and mutual exposure of processing logic between different users.To address these issues, an incremental deployment mechanism for polymorphic network environments was proposed.Firstly, an incremental deployment mechanism for network modality was designed.Then, the incremental deployment of modality was abstracted as a graph merging problem based on this mechanism, and an adjacency list-based merge parsing graph algorithm was designed.The simulation results indicate that the proposed mechanism can achieve fast and correct merging of network modality, support incremental modality deployment, and greatly reduce the application deployment and service provision threshold of new network systems.…”
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Factors Affecting the Elevation of Inflammatory Markers Before Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty by Byung-Chan Choi, MD, PhD, Byung-Woo Min, MD, PhD, Kyung-Jae Lee, MD, PhD

“…Although the distribution of inflammatory markers was different, only CRP level was different based on normal range. …”
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1,5-anhydroglucitol in diabetes: its role in diagnostics, screening, glycemic status assessment, and the prediction of complications by V. V. Klimontov, M. V. Dashkin

“…Under hyperglycemic conditions, when the renal threshold for glucose is exceeded, concentration of 1,5-AG decreases due to competitive inhibition of 1,5-AG reabsorption by glucose. …”
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WPD-Based Noise Reduction for Microseismic Data Through Adaptive Coefficient Shrinkage and Multi-Basis Fusion by Yaqi Zhang, Zhiqiang Lan, Zheng Shi, Yuhang Xue, Jie Wang, Kun Zhu, Jian He, Xiujian Chou

“…Firstly, this method utilizes energy filtering to eliminate noise that is not temporally correlated with microseismic waveforms, then employs time-varying thresholds to refine the edges of these waveforms, effectively leveraging time and amplitude information to preserve the details of waveform edge. …”
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Epidemiological and health economic implications of symptom propagation in respiratory pathogens: A mathematical modelling investigation. by Phoebe Asplin, Matt J Keeling, Rebecca Mancy, Edward M Hill

“…Although this effect could be harnessed to amplify the impact of interventions that reduce symptom severity, the mechanistic representation of symptom propagation within mathematical and health economic modelling of respiratory diseases is understudied.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>We propose a novel framework for incorporating different levels of symptom propagation into models of infectious disease transmission via a single parameter, α. …”
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Quantification of Pretreatment Effects of Potassium Silicate on Germination and Growth Indices of Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) under Salinity Stress Using Empirical Models by Qais Fahd Hussein, Ali Hatami, Alireza Taab, Nabil Rahim Lahmod, Somayeh Hajinia

“…Considering the increasing challenge of water and soil salinity and its limiting effects on the growth, development, and production of faba bean, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of potassium silicate on improving germination and growth indices, and to determine the tolerance threshold of faba bean seeds to salinity stress. Materials and MethodsA factorial experiment was conducted based on completely randomized design with four replications at the Laboratory of Ilam University, Iran, in 2024. …”
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A cost-effective strategy for identifying Angiostrongylus spp. larvae in Achatina fulica: combined morphological and molecular biology by Ling Jiang, Tianmei Li, Yingrui Jiang, Yuhua Liu, Shaorong Chen, Hongkun Liu, Wen Fang, Shenhua Zhao, Rong Li, Yunhai Guo

“…Notably, AcanITS1 qPCR demonstrated superior sensitivity with a detection threshold of 10 pg/μl, outperforming the PCR with a threshold of 10 ng/μl. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of self-sampling and enhanced strategies for HPV prevention among men who have sex with men in China: a modeling study by Zhen-Hao Wu, Yu-Jing An, Zhen-Xing Chu, Xin-Ru Li, An-Yang Hou, Yong-Jun Jiang, Qing-Hai Hu

“…However, its cost-effectiveness and effective combination with vaccination must be evaluated, particularly in the absence of national HPV vaccination immunization programs among men. Methods We constructed a decision-analytic Markov model to assess the cost-effectiveness of the status quo, HPV self-sampling at different intervals, vaccination alone, and HPV self-sampling–vaccination combination based on the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), from a healthcare system perspective. …”
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Associations between thyroid function, thyroid hormone sensitivity indices, and frailty: Insights from a large cross-sectional study by Yusheng Zhang, Daowen Zhang, Chenwen Yuan, Yiming Wang, Hao Zhu, Yu Duan

“…In the middle-aged group, significant nonlinear relationships were also found between frailty and FT4, FT3/FT4, and Thyroid Feedback Quantile-based Index (TFQI(FT4)) (P nonlinear <0.05). Threshold effect analysis revealed consistent inflection points for FT3 (K = 3.5) across age groups, while FT4 and TFQI(FT4) had different inflection points in middle-aged and older individuals. …”
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