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The modified discrete KP equation is the Bäcklund transformation for the Hirota’s discrete KP equation or the Hirota-Miwa equation. We construct the modified discrete KP equation with self-consistent sources via source generation procedure and clarify the algebraic structure of the resulting coupled...

Since distributed stream analytics is treated as a kind of cloud service, there exists a pressing need for its reliability and fault-tolerance, to guarantee the streaming data tuples to be processed in the order of their generation in every dataflow path, with each tuple processed once and only once....

This paper deals with the consensus problem for multi-agent systems with fixed topologies. The agents are described by Lipschitz nonlinear systems. Only output information of each agent can be obtained from its neighbor agents. A distributed adaptive consensus algorithm via dynamic output feedback is...

Urban flood risk assessment supported by accurate and precise modeling could make great contributions to urban flood management. In this paper, an urban drainage system model of Shijiazhuang city was built based on the MIKE21, MIKE URBAN and MIKE 11 modules in MIKE FLOOD platform in order to provide...

In this paper, properties of operations and algebraic structures of hesitant fuzzy sets are investigated. Semilattices of hesitant fuzzy sets with union and intersection are discussed, respectively. By using ⊕ and ⊗ operators, the commutative monoid of hesitant fuzzy sets is provided, moreover,...

We study the general applicability of the Clarkson­Kruskal's direct method, which is known to be related to symmetry reduction methods, for the similarity solutions of nonlinear evolution equations (NEEs). We give a theorem that will, when satisfied, immediately simplify the reduction procedure or ansatz...

A long history of first place awards in World RoboCup Rescue Robot competitions is Invigorating Robot Activity Project (iRAP) such as iRAP_PRO, iRAP_FURIOUS, iRAP_JUNIOR, and iRAP_ROBOT. In this paper, we would like to introduce and explain an autonomous system of our rescue robots for detection and...

Studies have shown an increased risk of breast cancer associated with diabetes which may be due to differences in mammography use among women who have diabetes compared with women who do not have diabetes. Baseline data was used from the Southern Community Cohort Study – a prospective cohort study conducted...

To evaluate the relationship between the Human Development Index (HDI) and its components with oral cancer (OC) in Latin America. Ecological study in 20 Latin American countries in 2010 and 2017, which evaluated the relationship between the Age-Standardized Rates (ASRs) of incidence and mortality from...

This paper proposes a new flexible four-parameter model called Marshall–Olkin power generalized Weibull (MOPGW) distribution which provides symmetrical, reversed-J shaped, left-skewed and right-skewed densities, and bathtub, unimodal, increasing, constant, decreasing, J shaped, and reversed-J shaped...

Background: Mental stress is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, little is known about the impact of mental stress on arterial function in middle-aged and older adults. Objective: This study is aimed to investigate the association between mental stress and arterial function in this population. Methods:...

The log-logistic distribution (also known as the Fisk distribution in economics) is widely used in survival analysis when the failure rate function presents a unimodal shape. In this paper, we introduce the Zografos- Balakrishnan log-logistic distribution, which contains the log-logistic distribution...

Genetic algorithms (GAs) are stochastic optimization techniques, and we have studied the effects of stochastic fluctuation in the process of GA evolution. A mathematical study was carried out for GA on OneMax function within the framework of Markov chain model. We obtained the steady state solution,...

This paper considers the problem of erosion in choke valves used on offshore oil platforms. A parameter commonly used to assess the valve erosion state is the flow coefficient, which can be analytically calculated as a function of both measured and allocated parameters. Since the allocated parameter...

Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) offer a new means to support smokers as a virtual coach and motivate them to quit smoking. In this study we assess the feasibility and acceptability of an ECA to support quit smoking (“aka ECA-Q”). ECA-Q, a 14-days program, delivered through Tablet computers, interacts...

Giant panda is the world-class precious endangered species, facing the canine distemper and other important infectious diseases on its wild and captive population of a serious threat. In this study, we used MaxEnt model and combined with ArcGIS analysis to predict the potential risk of canine distemper...

An influence of the quantum potential on the Chern­Simons solitons leads to quatization of the statistical parameter = me2 /g, and the quantum potential strenght s = 1 - m2 . A new type of exponentially localized Chern­Simons solitons for the Bloch electrons near the hyperbolic energy band boundary are...

The family of simple quasilinear systems in one space variable is partitioned into classes of commuting flows, i.e., symmetry classes. The systems in a symmetry class have the same zeroth order conserved densities and the same Hamiltonian structure. The zeroth and first order conservation laws and the...

Recommender systems are applications that have emerged in the e-commerce area in order to assist users in their searches in electronic shops. These shops usually offer a wide range of items that cover the necessities of a great variety of users. Nevertheless, searching in such a wide range of items could...

We consider the purely sequential procedure for estimating the scale parameter of a gamma distribution with known shape parameter, when the risk function is bounded by the known preassigned number. In this paper, we provide asymptotic formulas for the expectation of the total sample size. Also, we propose...

Background: Reflected pressure waves from the lower body to the heart in overweight subjects return early and augment aortic systolic pressure and increase left ventricular (LV) afterload and wasted energy. Methods: Central aortic pressure waves were generated from radial artery pressure waves recorded...

We used population-based data on all diagnosed people living with Human Immunodeficiency (HIV) reported to the National AIDS Programme in 1984–2018 to describe the HIV epidemiology in Oman. A total of 3060 Omanis were diagnosed with HIV from 1984 to 2018. The proportions of new infections attributed...

In this study, a parallel wire-type teaching device with a force sensor and a hybrid position/force teaching and control method are developed to facilely teach robot manipulators using human hands instead of teaching pendants. A direct teaching method based on a hybrid position/force control is proposed...

Recently, SSD caching is widely studied for VM-based systems. In this paper we propose a novel hypervisor-based SSD caching scheme, employing a new metric to accurately determine the demand on SSD cache space of each VM. Computer simulation confirms that it substantially improves the accuracy of cache...

India has the highest number of maternal (2010) and child (2009) deaths in the world suggesting a poor coverage in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) care services. This study assessed the coverage gap in MNCH care across districts in India using a robust aggregate Coverage Gap Index (CGI) developed...

This retrospective study aimed to address whether or to what extent spatial and non-spatial factors with a focus on a healthcare delivery system would influence successful tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes in Urmia, Iran. In this cross-sectional study, data of 452 new TB cases were extracted from...

There have been many studies on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) in which each autonomous agent obtains its own control rule by Reinforcement Learning (RL). Here, we hypothesize that different agents having individuality is more effective than uniform agents in terms of role differentiation...

Scheduling problems are generally treated as NP – complete combinatorial optimization problems which is a multi-objective and multi constraint one. Repair shop Job sequencing and operator allocation is one such NP – complete problem. For such problems, an efficient technique is required that...

For two-dimensional lattice equations the standard definition of integrability is that it should be possible to extend the map consistently to three dimensions, i.e., that it is "consistent around a cube" (CAC). Recently Adler, Bobenko and Suris conducted a search based on this principle, together with...

In this paper we further investigate some applications of Nambu mechanics in hydrdynamical systems. Using the Euler equations for a rotating rigid body Névir and Blender [J. Phys. A 26 (1993), L1189­L1193] had demonstrated the connection btween Nambu mechanics and noncanonical Hamiltonian mechanics....

It is shown that for a certain class of Yang-Baxter maps (or set-theoretical solutions to the quantum Yang-Baxter equation) the Lax representation can be derived straight from the map itself. A similar phenomenon for 3D consistent equations on quagraphs has been recently discovered by A. Bobenko and...

We comment upon the very essence, roots, potentials, and applicability of computational intelligence and soft computing. We followed a different path than those traditionally employed, and which are so well and in a deep and comprehensive way documented in other papers in this special issue. First, we...

In this paper, a new approach for contingency determination in a portfolio of construction projects is proposed. The model proposed helps an agency find the level of confidence needed for individual projects to ensure that the portfolio budget will meet the minimum level of confidence based on available...

The digital transformation revolution has been crawling toward almost all aspects of our lives. One form of the digital transformation revolution appears in the transformation of our routine everyday tasks into computer executable programs in the form of web, desktop and mobile applications. The vast...

Rapid detection of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is important for the successful treatment of tuberculosis. Fluoroquinolone and aminoglycoside resistance detection by molecular methods becomes more complex due to cross resistance among them. Thus, we aimed to determine cross-resistance...

In this retrospective study we reviewed the clinical course of every patient with multiple myeloma treated from 2006 to 2016 at Vejle Hospital: 303 patients with a median age of 69 years at diagnosis received a median of four (range 1–18) lines of therapy; 149 in a 2006–2010 cohort and 154 in a 2011–2016...

For any baseline continuous G distribution, we propose a new generalized family called the Kumaraswamy-G Poisson (denoted with the prefix “Kw-GP”) with three extra positive parameters. Some special distributions in the new family such as the Kw-Weibull Poisson, Kw-gamma Poisson and Kw-beta Poisson distributions...

The problem of characterizing a distribution is an important problem which has recently attracted the attention of many researchers. Thus, various characterizations have been established in many different directions. The present work deals with the characterizations of a general class of distributions....

The multiplication in the Virasoro algebra [ep, eq] = (p - q)ep+q + p3 - p p+q, p, q Z, [, ep] = 0, comes from the commutator [ep, eq] = ep eq - eq ep in a quasiassociative algebra with the multiplication ep eq = q(1 + q)

Scheduling of mixed-criticality systems (MCS) on a common computational platform is challenging because conventional scheduling approaches may cause inefficient utilization of shared computing resources. In this paper, we propose an approach called Clustering-based Partitioned Earliest Deadline First...

Introduction: Community-based direct observed treatment (DOT) providers are an important bridge for the national tuberculosis programme in India to reach the unreached. The present study has explored the knowledge, attitude, practice and barriers perceived by the community-based DOT providers. Methods:...

This study aimed to investigate whether a single bout of Self-myofascial Release (SMR) has a beneficial effect on peripheral and central Blood Pressure (BP) and different parameters of arterial stiffness. Twenty nine healthy male recreational athletes (26.1 ± 2.9 years, BMI 23.4 ± 1.5 kg/m2) completed...

In this article, we explain how to extend the Lie symmetry analysis method for n-coupled system of fractional ordinary differential equations in the sense of Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative. Also, we systematically investigated how to derive Lie point symmetries of scalar and coupled fractional...

The existence of a new type of cusped solitary wave, which decays algebraically at infinity, for a nonlinear equation modeling the free surface evolution of moderate amplitude waves in shallow water is established by employing qualitative analysis for differential equations. Furthermore, the exact parametric...

If we know the statistics of central tendency and dispersion, we still cannot nature a complete design about the distribution. About these measures we should know more information's of skewness and kurtosis, which are enables us to have a design the distribution. However, there is evidence that...

RNA-seq technology has been widely used as an alternative approach to traditional microarrays in transcript analysis. Sometimes gene expression by sequencing, which generates RNA-seq data set, may have missing read counts. These missing values can adversely affect downstream analyses. Most of the methods...

Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) has shown aberrant brain functional networks at a conventional low-frequency range (0.01-0.08 Hz) in individuals with generalized tonic-clonic seizure (GTCS). However, it is unclear how functional networks hubs change across different frequency...

Pattern reformation problem on a grid plane is an interesting problem. Suppose there is a group of mobile robots on a square grid plane with the number of robots equaling to the number of columns/rows of the grid plane. The mobile robots are commanded to change to another formation as soon as possible....

Allocating tasks to distributed sites in Global Software Development (GSD) projects is often done unsystematically and based on the personal experience of project managers. Wrong allocation decisions increase the project’s risks as tasks have dependencies that are inherited by the distributed sites....

Although kabuki is a genre of, so to speak, traditional performing arts, it also has many of the characteristics of a contemporary genre, including such various elements as narrative, drama, dance, and music. This analysis and study will contribute to the design and development of studies on digital-narrative...