Optimal scheduling of energy systems incorporating load management schemes by Krishnan, Ashok

“…Thereafter, the two stages are coordinated using an iterative procedure. The utility of the proposed optimization model is demonstrated using illustrative case studies. …”
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The theory of optical birefringence by Barron, L

“…Since each term is then gauge-invariant, this Hamiltonian is particularly suited to the application of diagrammatic perturbation theory which follows from the iteration of the scattering matrix in the interaction representation (Chapter Five). …”

Medication management in older people: the MEMORABLE realist synthesis by Maidment, ID, Lawson, S, Wong, G, Booth, A, Watson, A, McKeown, J, Zaman, H, Mullan, J, Bailey, S

“…Following RAMESES (Realist And Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards) guidelines, articles were screened and iteratively analysed with interview data, to generate theory-informed (normalisation process theory) explanations.…”

Implementation of patient-reported outcome measurement in gender-affirming care by Kamran, R

“…A total of 64 patients and 9 healthcare professionals qualitatively identified support for the PG-PROM-GAC, and identified suggestions for improvement on its presentation, and considerations for impact of PROM selection and gender clinic resources. Data were used to iterate the PG-PROM-GAC and deploy it at a gender clinic. …”

Can building a community of practice improve pharmacovigilance in low-resource settings? by Walker, RJ

“…</p> <p>Adopting an action research mixed methods approach, this project built upon on a rapid consensus-gathering methodology developed by TGHN, which had been implemented successfully to address wider COVID-19 research priorities and iteratively drive the improvement of knowledge, skills and methods gaps in the field of Global Health.…”

On random embeddings and their application to optimisation by Shao, Z

“…We also include suitable linear algebra tools for rank-deficient and for sparse problems that lead to our implementation, Ski-LLS, outperforming not only sketching-based routines on randomly-generated input, but also state of the art direct solver SPQR and iterative code HSL on certain subsets of the sparse Florida matrix collection; namely, on least squares problems that are significantly over-determined, or moderately sparse, or difficult.…”

Prediction And Simulation Of Spatial Pattern For Urban Growth And Change In Land Use In Sana’a City, Yemen by Al-Shalabi, Mohamed Abdullah

“…Results from the calibration modes- coarse, fine, and final represented the top five scorings from thousands of iterations. The composite results of the optimum values for the diffusion, spread, slope and road gravity parameters show successive improvements in the parameters that control the behavior of the system. …”
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Gerakbalas Penawaran Koko Malaysia by Ismail, A. Rahman

“…Analisa kajian adalah menggunakan 'teknik maximum Likelihood iteration' (M.L.I.T.) pemerosesaan data siri masa.Hasil dari kajian menunjukkan Model Ketiga penawaran koko Malaysia, yang telah dibentuk dari Model Sara S. …”
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VHF adaptive antenna using a rear defogger by Abdullah, Noorsaliza

“…The proposed antenna has a fast convergence times, the convergence time is less than 50 ms and the iteration number is less than 70. Measurement in Rayleigh fading environment also been conducted, it shows that by applying the beamforming the BER is improved. …”
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Pretreatment Prediction of Adaptive Radiation Therapy Eligibility Using MRI-Based Radiomics for Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Patients by Ting-ting Yu, Sai-kit Lam, Lok-hang To, Ka-yan Tse, Nong-yi Cheng, Yeuk-nam Fan, Cheuk-lai Lo, Ka-wa Or, Man-lok Chan, Ka-ching Hui, Fong-chi Chan, Wai-ming Hui, Lo-kin Ngai, Francis Kar-ho Lee, Kwok-hung Au, Celia Wai-yi Yip, Yong Zhang, Jing Cai

“…A double cross-validation approach of 100 resampled iterations with 3-fold nested cross-validation was employed in LASSO during model construction. …”
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The Pharmacokinetics of Doxycycline in Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) Following Intravenous and Oral Administrations by Ning Xu, Ning Xu, Ning Xu, Yu Fu, Bo Cheng, Bo Cheng, Yongtao Liu, Yongtao Liu, Yongtao Liu, Qiuhong Yang, Qiuhong Yang, Qiuhong Yang, Jing Dong, Jing Dong, Jing Dong, Yibin Yang, Yibin Yang, Yibin Yang, Shun Zhou, Shun Zhou, Shun Zhou, Yi Song, Yi Song, Xiaohui Ai, Xiaohui Ai, Xiaohui Ai

“…For the calculation of BA values at the same condition, the data obtained from intravenous injection were also iterated based on a non-compartmental model, and the corresponding parameters of λz, t1/2λz, Vz, Cl, and AUC0-144 were 0.019 1/h, 36.26 h, 480.00 mL/kg, 9.10 mL/h/kg, and 514.45 μg.h/mL, respectively. …”
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A self-management psychoeducational eHealth program to support and empower people with advanced cancer and their family caregivers: Development using the scrum methodology by Vincent Van Goethem, Sigrid Dierickx, Orphé Matthys, Laurel Northouse, Line Lund, Catherine Jordan, Elena Turola, Maaike van der Wel, David Scott, Richard Harding, Luc Deliens, Lore Lapeire, Peter Hudson, Aline De Vleminck, Joachim Cohen

“…Using the Scrum methodology facilitated iterative development to address these issues. For some challenges, such as tailoring, we had to make pragmatic choices due to time and resource limitations. …”
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Lung Subregion Partitioning by Incremental Dose Intervals Improves Omics-Based Prediction for Acute Radiation Pneumonitis in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients by Bing Li, Xiaoli Zheng, Jiang Zhang, Saikit Lam, Wei Guo, Yunhan Wang, Sunan Cui, Xinzhi Teng, Yuanpeng Zhang, Zongrui Ma, Ta Zhou, Zhaoyang Lou, Lingguang Meng, Hong Ge, Jing Cai

“…Subsequently, Ridge regression was adopted to develop six models for ARP using the six feature groups. Thirty iterations of resampling were implemented to assess overall model performance by using the area under the Receiver-Operating-Characteristic curve (AUC), accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. (2) Results: The SR-RDF model achieved the best classification performance and provided significantly better predictability than the WL-RDF model in training cohort (Average AUC: 0.98 ± 0.01 vs. 0.90 ± 0.02, <i>p</i> < 0.001) and testing cohort (Average AUC: 0.88 ± 0.05 vs. 0.80 ± 0.04, <i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Enhancing automated analysis of marine soundscapes using ecoacoustic indices and machine learning by Ben Williams, Timothy A.C. Lamont, Lucille Chapuis, Harry R. Harding, Eleanor B. May, Mochyudho E. Prasetya, Marie J. Seraphim, Jamaluddin Jompa, David J. Smith, Noel Janetski, Andrew N. Radford, Stephen D. Simpson

“…The pooled classification rate of 1000 cross-validated iterations of the model had a 91.7% 0.8, mean SE) success rate at correctly classifying individual recordings. …”
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Adapting a social network intervention for use in secondary mental health services using a collaborative approach with service users, carers/supporters and health professionals in... by Helen Brooks, Angela Devereux-Fitzgerald, Laura Richmond, Neil Caton, Alice Newton, James Downs, Karina Lovell, Penny Bee, Mary Gemma Cherry, Bridget Young, Ivaylo Vassilev, Clare Rotheram, Anne Rogers

“…In Phase 2 (ADAPT), we worked iteratively with eight service users, nine carers, six professionals/volunteers and our patient and public advisory group. …”
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Design and implementation of a clinical decision support tool for primary palliative Care for Emergency Medicine (PRIM-ER) by Audrey Tan, Mark Durbin, Frank R. Chung, Ada L. Rubin, Allison M. Cuthel, Jordan A. McQuilkin, Aram S. Modrek, Catherine Jamin, Nicholas Gavin, Devin Mann, Jordan L. Swartz, Jonathan S. Austrian, Paul A. Testa, Jacob D. Hill, Corita R. Grudzen, Group Authorship: Corita R. Grudzen on behalf of the PRIM-ER Clinical Informatics Advisory Board

“…The multidisciplinary workshops identified two primary objectives of the CDS: to identify patients with indicators of serious life limiting illness, and to assist with referrals to services such as palliative care or social work. Additionally, the iterative design process yielded three specific patient scenarios that trigger a clinical alert to fire, including: 1) when an advance care planning document was present, 2) when a patient had a previous disposition to hospice, and 3) when historical and/or current clinical data points identify a serious life-limiting illness without an advance care planning document present. …”
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Synthesis of the Evidence on What Works for Whom in Telemental Health: Rapid Realist Review by Merle Schlief, Katherine R K Saunders, Rebecca Appleton, Phoebe Barnett, Norha Vera San Juan, Una Foye, Rachel Rowan Olive, Karen Machin, Prisha Shah, Beverley Chipp, Natasha Lyons, Camilla Tamworth, Karen Persaud, Monika Badhan, Carrie-Ann Black, Jacqueline Sin, Simon Riches, Tom Graham, Jeremy Greening, Farida Pirani, Raza Griffiths, Tamar Jeynes, Rose McCabe, Brynmor Lloyd-Evans, Alan Simpson, Justin J Needle, Kylee Trevillion, Sonia Johnson

“…CMO configurations formulated from these sources were iteratively refined, including through discussions with an expert reference group, including researchers with relevant lived experience and frontline clinicians, and consultation with experts focused on three priority groups: children and young people, users of inpatient and crisis care services, and digitally excluded groups. …”
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The burden of injury in Central, Eastern, and Western European sub-region: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study by Juanita A. Haagsma, Periklis Charalampous, Filippo Ariani, Anne Gallay, Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Evangelia Nena, Che Henry Ngwa, Alexander Rommel, Ausra Zelviene, Kedir Hussein Abegaz, Hanadi Al Hamad, Luciana Albano, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Tudorel Andrei, Ippazio Cosimo Antonazzo, Olatunde Aremu, Ashokan Arumugam, Alok Atreya, Avinash Aujayeb, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Luchuo Engelbert Bain, Maciej Banach, Till Winfried Bärnighausen, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Massimiliano Beghi, Derrick A. Bennett, Akshaya S. Bhagavathula, Félix Carvalho, Giulio Castelpietra, Ledda Caterina, Joht Singh Chandan, Rosa A. S. Couto, Natália Cruz-Martins, Giovanni Damiani, Anna Dastiridou, Andreas K. Demetriades, Diana Dias-da-Silva, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Eduarda Fernandes, Pietro Ferrara, Florian Fischer, Urbano Fra.Paleo, Silvia Ghirini, James C. Glasbey, Ionela-Roxana Glavan, Nelson G. M. Gomes, Michal Grivna, Netanja I. Harlianto, Josep Maria Haro, M. Tasdik Hasan, Sorin Hostiuc, Ivo Iavicoli, Milena D. Ilic, Irena M. Ilic, Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Jost B. Jonas, Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak, Mikk Jürisson, Joonas H. Kauppila, Gbenga A. Kayode, Moien A. B. Khan, Adnan Kisa, Sezer Kisa, Ai Koyanagi, Manasi Kumar, Om P. Kurmi, Carlo La-Vecchia, Demetris Lamnisos, Savita Lasrado, Paolo Lauriola, Shai Linn, Joana A. Loureiro, Raimundas Lunevicius, Aurea Madureira-Carvalho, Enkeleint A. Mechili, Azeem Majeed, Ritesh G. Menezes, Alexios-Fotios A. Mentis, Atte Meretoja, Tomislav Mestrovic, Tomasz Miazgowski, Bartosz Miazgowski, Andreea Mirica, Mariam Molokhia, Shafiu Mohammed, Lorenzo Monasta, Francesk Mulita, Mukhammad David Naimzada, Ionut Negoi, Subas Neupane, Bogdan Oancea, Hans Orru, Adrian Otoiu, Nikita Otstavnov, Stanislav S. Otstavnov, Alicia Padron-Monedero, Songhomitra Panda-Jonas, Shahina Pardhan, Jay Patel, Paolo Pedersini, Marina Pinheiro, Ivo Rakovac, Chythra R. Rao, Salman Rawaf, David Laith Rawaf, Violet Rodrigues, Luca Ronfani, Dominic Sagoe, Francesco Sanmarchi, Milena M. Santric-Milicevic, Brijesh Sathian, Aziz Sheikh, Rahman Shiri, Siddharudha Shivalli, Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, Rannveig Sigurvinsdottir, Valentin Yurievich Skryabin, Anna Aleksandrovna Skryabina, Catalin-Gabriel Smarandache, Bogdan Socea, Raúl A. R. C. Sousa, Paschalis Steiropoulos, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Fimka Tozija, Sarah Van de Velde, Tommi Juhani Vasankari, Massimiliano Veroux, Francesco S. Violante, Vasiliy Vlassov, Yanzhong Wang, Ali Yadollahpour, Sanni Yaya, Mikhail Sergeevich Zastrozhin, Anasthasia Zastrozhina, Suzanne Polinder, Marek Majdan

“…Abstract Background Injury remains a major concern to public health in the European region. Previous iterations of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study showed wide variation in injury death and disability adjusted life year (DALY) rates across Europe, indicating injury inequality gaps between sub-regions and countries. …”
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Adapting a home telemonitoring intervention for underserved Hispanic/Latino patients with type 2 diabetes: an acceptability and feasibility study by Renee Pekmezaris, Myia S. Williams, Briana Pascarelli, Kayla D. Finuf, Yael T. Harris, Alyson K. Myers, Tonya Taylor, Myriam Kline, Vidhi H. Patel, Lawrence M. Murray, Samy I. McFarlane, Karalyn Pappas, Martin L. Lesser, Amgad N. Makaryus, Sabrina Martinez, Andrjez Kozikowski, Jennifer Polo, Josephine Guzman, Roman Zeltser, Jose Marino, Maria Pena, Ralph J. DiClemente, Dilcia Granville

“…Utilizing the ADAPT-ITT framework, key stakeholders were engaged over an 8-month iterative process using a combination of strategies, including focus groups and structured interviews. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of Rheumatic Heart Disease Echocardiographic Screening in Brazil: Data from the PROVAR+ Study: Cost-effectiveness of RHD screening in Brazil by Jasper Ubels, Craig Sable, Andrea Z. Beaton, Maria Carmo P. Nunes, Kaciane K. B. Oliveira, Lara C. Castro, Isabella M. Teixeira, Gabriela Z. L. Ruiz, Letícia Maria M. Rabelo, Alison R. Tompsett, Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro, Klas-Göran Sahlen, Bruno R. Nascimento, On behalf of the PROVAR+ (Programa de RastreamentO da VAlvopatia Reumática e Outras Doenças Cardiovasculares) investigators

“…Probabilistic modelling shows that the intervention could be considered cost-effective in 70% of the iterations. Conclusion: Screening for RHD with hand held echocardiographic machines in 11-year-old children in the target population is cost-effective in the Brazilian context. …”
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