Prediction model of middle school student performance based on MBSO and MDBO-BP-Adaboost method by Rencheng Fang, Tao Zhou, Baohua Yu, Zhigang Li, Long Ma, Tao Luo, Yongcai Zhang, Xinqi Liu

“…Predictions of student performance are important to the education system as a whole, helping students to know how their learning is changing and adjusting teachers' and school policymakers' plans for their future growth. …”
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Diagnostic Utility of Broad Range Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene PCR with Degradation of Human and Free Bacterial DNA in Bloodstream Infection Is More Sensitive Than an In-House Developed... by Petra Rogina, Miha Skvarc, David Stubljar, Romina Kofol, Achim Kaasch

“…Broad range 16S rRNA gene PCR was performed from whole blood (SepsiTest) or blood plasma (IHP) and compared to blood culture results. …”
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Phase Diagram of Extensive-Rank Symmetric Matrix Denoising beyond Rotational Invariance by Jean Barbier, Francesco Camilli, Justin Ko, Koki Okajima

“…In this case, the information-theoretic limits and an efficient Bayes-optimal denoising algorithm, called the rotational invariant estimator, are known. …”
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Autonomous and adaptive congestion control for machine-type communication in cellular network by Qi Pan, Xiangming Wen, Zhaoming Lu, Wenpeng Jing, Haijun Zhang

“…Simultaneously, an effective estimation algorithm for the traffic load of base stations is also designed to represent the network traffic load without frequent information exchanges among devices or base stations. …”
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Several Theses in Support of an Integrative Understanding of the Administrative Process by P. I. Kononov

“…Examples are given that show the existence of a common algorithm for resolving administrative cases by both administrative-public bodies and courts, which indicates a single procedural nature of the corresponding types of judicial and extrajudicial activities and the absence of fundamental differences between them. …”
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Mixed Event-Frame Vision System for Daytime Preceding Vehicle Taillight Signal Measurement Using Event-Based Neuromorphic Vision Sensor by Zhengfa Liu, Guang Chen, Ya Wu, Jiatong Du, Jörg Conradt, Alois Knoll

“…The event-based neuromorphic vision sensor is a bioinspired sensor that records pixel-level intensity changes, called events, as well as the whole picture of the scene. The events naturally respond to illumination changes (such as the ON and OFF state of taillights) in the scene with very low latency. …”
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Integrated Optimization of Pipe Routing and Clamp Layout for Aeroengine Using Improved MOALO by Qiang Liu, Zhi Tang, Huijuan Liu, Jiapeng Yu, Hui Ma, Yonghua Yang

“…To this end, the MOALO (multiobjective ant lion optimizer) algorithm is modified by introducing the levy flight strategy to improve the global search performance and convergence speed, and it is further used as a basic computation tool. …”
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Design of FPGA-Based Accelerator for Convolutional Neural Network under Heterogeneous Computing Framework with OpenCL by Li Luo, Yakun Wu, Fei Qiao, Yi Yang, Qi Wei, Xiaobo Zhou, Yongkai Fan, Shuzheng Xu, Xinjun Liu, Huazhong Yang

“…Among these, FPGA can accelerate the computation by mapping the algorithm to the parallel hardware instead of CPU, which cannot fully exploit the parallelism. …”
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Preliminary Research on Intelligent Baking Room Dehydration and Drying Technology for Rice Sterile Seeds by Man Luo

“…In the process of rice seed production, seed drying is an important link in the whole process of seed quality control, and the problems in mechanical drying are important factors affecting the quality of rice seed. …”
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The optimum sizing of zero-emission water-cooled VCR cycle based on exergo-economic-environmental assessment criteria by triple-objective MPSO by Seyedeh Mohadeseh Miri, Mahmood Farzaneh-Gord, Alireza Hosseinpour, Mohit Bajaj, Ievgen Zaitsev

“…The daily COP and exergy efficiency of the whole system has improved up to 98% and 40%, after substituting the optimum design variable parameters. …”
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Detecting phishing gangs via taint analysis on the Ethereum blockchain by Kangrui Huang, Weili Chen, Zibin Zheng

“…Based on this, we propose a heuristics algorithm for phishing gang detection. And we also summarize gang patterns and reveal money laundering in phishing activities. …”
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Use of deep learning in early software bug detection by Syed Mibran Hassan Zaidi, Maria Khan, Mustafa Latif, Ali Akhtar, Sallar Khan

“…In the software maintenance and development process, software bug identification is a significant challenge because this is connected with the successful software in its whole state. To increase software efficiency, dependability, and quality early software problem identification is important. …”
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Automatic detection of pupil reactions in cataract surgery videos. by Natalia Sokolova, Klaus Schoeffmann, Mario Taschwer, Stephanie Sarny, Doris Putzgruber-Adamitsch, Yosuf El-Shabrawi

“…A continuous measurement of pupil changes over the whole surgery, that would achieve clinically more relevant data, has not yet been described. …”
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Incentivization and Aggregation Schemes for Federated Learning Applications by Vikas Hassija, Vaibhav Chawla, Vinay Chamola, Biplab Sikdar

“…To motivate participants, we must incentivize the whole process by rewarding each participant for their contribution to the training process of the federated learning model. …”
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Predicting antimicrobial mechanism-of-action from transcriptomes: A generalizable explainable artificial intelligence approach. by Josh L Espinoza, Chris L Dupont, Aubrie O'Rourke, Sinem Beyhan, Pavel Morales, Amy Spoering, Kirsten J Meyer, Agnes P Chan, Yongwook Choi, William C Nierman, Kim Lewis, Karen E Nelson

“…We evaluated our methods using whole transcriptome responses from Escherichia coli challenged with 41 known antibiotics and 9 crude extracts while depositing 122 transcriptomes unique to this study. …”
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Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics of Infections Associated with Surgery and Treatment of Oncological Diseases by G. G. Badamshina, V. B. Ziatdinov, L. M. Fatkhutdinova, G. M. Тrukhina, B. A. Bakirov, A. V. Tutelian, G. Sh. Isaeva

“…Microbiological monitoring of emerging HAIs is an efficient tool for managerial decision making and the development of an algorithm for anti-epidemic measures in the departments and the hospital as a whole for the reduction of risk of infection.…”
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Optimal Configuration of Hybrid Energy Storage Capacity for Wind Farms Considering Carbon Trading Revenue by Chongde CHEN, Qiang GUO, Ziqiu SONG, Yang HU

“…The simulation results show that the hierarchical moving average method is more suitable for determining the target in smoothing wind power, and the hybrid energy storage of lithium battery and flywheel can improve the net income of the energy storage system of wind farms in the whole life cycle.…”
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Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of the Morphological Development of Gully Erosion on the Chinese Loess Plateau by Jinfei Hu, Yifan He, Keyao Huang, Pengfei Li, Shugang Li, Lu Yan, Bingzhe Tang

“…The erosion and deposition on a gully slope were quantified using the M3C2 algorithm. The results show that the proportion of sediment yield of the gully slope in the whole slope–gully system ranged from 81.5% to 99.7% for different flow discharges (25, 40, 55, 70, and 85 L/min). …”
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The Spatial and Dynamic Monitoring in Ensuring the Management of Energy Security of Enterprises by Budanov Mykola P.

“…It is proved that one of the elements of ensuring the management of energy security of enterprise is the spatial and dynamic monitoring of external and internal negative factors in the form of threats and risks, both for the energy enterprise itself as a whole and for its objects of generation, transmission, distribution and consumption of energy. …”
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Design, modeling and manufacture error identification of a new 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) compliant parallel manipulator by H. Li, W. Chen, L. Yi, C. Leng, H. Wu

“…The Levenberg–Marquardt optimization algorithm is utilized to solve the identification model, with the results verified through finite-element analysis. …”
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