Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, or sleeve gastrectomy for severe obesity: the By-Band-Sleeve multi-centre, open label, three-group randomised controlled trial by Agrawal, S, Ahmed, A, Andrews, RC, Fermont, JM, Koleva-Kolarova, R, Pouwels, K, Wordsworth, S

Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Ferrari, AJ, Santomauro, DF, Aali, A, Lacey, BWH, Rodriguez, JAB

“…<p><b>Methods</b></p> The GBD 2021 disease and injury burden analysis estimated years lived with disability (YLDs), years of life lost (YLLs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries using 100 983 data sources. …”

An energy-efficient self-adaptive duty cycle MAC protocol for traffic-dynamic wireless sensor networks by Zhao, Yi Zhi, Ma, Maode, Miao, Chun Yan

“…When network experience with very low or very high traffic load, the protocol further adjusts duty cycle dynamically based on the traffic load, thus reducing inefficient duty cycle or reduce end-to-end delay. …”
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Essays in dynamic pricing, channel control and channel competition by Song, Boqian

“…First, we study the service unbundling issue of a seller who separates the sales of a fixed-priced add-on and dynamically adjusts the price of the capacitated basic service along the horizon. …”
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Universal Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems by Lopez, Brett T., Slotine, Jean-Jacques E.

“…This letter develops a new direct adaptive control framework that extends the certainty equivalence principle to general nonlinear systems with unmatched model uncertainties. The approach adjusts the rate of adaptation online to eliminate the effects of parameter estimation transients on stability. …”
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Semantic constraint on preposition incorporation of postverbal locative PPs in Mandarin Chinese by Peck, Jeeyoung, Lin, Jingxia

“…Previous studies claim that adjunct phrases which quantify an event, such as event delimiters, may behave like arguments (“the delimiter hypothesis”). …”
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The augmented human — seeing sounds by Lim, Nicole Sze Ting

“…Through a user-friendly web interface, a user uploads a video and adjusts settings for its processing. Speech separation and speech recognition models are then applied to produce an annotated video with captions differentiated by speaker. …”
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Thermal management of 3D integrated circuits with microchannel-based liquid cooling by Qian, Hanhua

“…A runtime proactive thermal management scheme, which adjusts flow rate according to predicted future cooling demand is proposed based on this thermal model. …”
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Parallel Dynamic Maximal Matching by Ghaffari, Mohsen, Trygub, Anton

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Maximizing DRL-based energy efficiency in IRS-NOMA using a DDPG algorithm for the next generation of wireless communications by Audah, Kamil, Noordin, Nor K., Hussein, Wala'a, Rasid, Mod Fadlee B. A., Sali, Aduwati, Flah, Aymen

“…This study focuses on a Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) algorithm that intelligently adjusts IRS phase-shift matrices and access point beamforming in NOMA DT. …”
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Evaluating Prediction Mechanisms: A Profitability Test by Sethi, Rajiv, Seager, Julie, Cai, Emily, Benjamin, Daniel, Morstatter, Fred, Bobrownicki, Olivia, Cheng, Yuqi, Kumar, Anushka, Wanganoo, Anusha

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Price-based distributed resource allocation for femtocell networks by Yuan, Pu, Liang, Ying-Chang, Bi, Guoan

“…We prove the existence and uniqueness of Nash Equilibrium (NE) and introduce fully distributed algorithm based on simultaneous iterative-water-filling (IWF) like algorithm, which adjusts the sub-carrier price iteratively and the maximum transmit power. …”
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Enhanced thermoelectric properties of AgSbTe2 by doping for room-middle temperature applications by Toh, Clara Lin Long

“…The incorporation of dopants inhibits the formation of secondary phases, reduces lattice thermal conductivity, and adjusts carrier concentrations. The characterisation of the samples was carried out using X-ray Diffraction (XRD), and the thermoelectric properties of the samples were measured using ULVAC ZEM-3 and Laser Flash Analysis (LFA). …”
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Point cloud denoising by robust PCA dimension reduction by Guo, Yu

“…This is combined with an adaptive clustering mechanism that dynamically adjusts parameters based on local data features, which has been shown to significantly improve the preservation of basic data features while removing redundant and noisy data. …”
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An ultra-low power asynchronous-logic in-situ self-adaptive VDD system for wireless sensor networks by Lin, Tong, Chong, Kwen-Siong, Chang, Joseph Sylvester, Gwee, Bah Hwee

“…The effort to achieve the lowest possible power operation is by means of adjusting VDD to the minimum voltage (within 50 mV) for said conditions. …”
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Integrated in-memory sensor and computing of artificial vision system based on reversible bonding transition-induced nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots (N-CQDs) by Yu, Tianqi, Li, Jie, Lei, Wei, Shafe, Suhaidi, Mohtar, Mohd Nazim, Jindapetch, Nattha, van Dommelen, Paphavee, Zhao, Zhiwei

“…The physical mechanism can be attributed to the reversible transition between C–N and C=N with lower binding energy induced by the electric field and the generation of photogenerated carriers by ultraviolet light irradiation, which adjusts the conductivity of the initial N-CQDs to implement resistance switching. …”

Design of EWMA control chart for minimizing the proportion of defective units by Shamsuzzaman, Mohammad, Wu, Zhang

“…Design/methodology/approach – The design algorithm adjusts the sample size n, sampling interval h, lower and upper control limits LCL and UCL, and the EWMA weight factor ? …”
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Novel reactive power control strategy for mitigating voltage rise in the Malaysian low voltage distribution network with high PV penetration by Alwez, Mustafa Abo, Jasni, Jasronita, Wahab, Raghad, Mohd.Radzi, Mohd Amran, Azis, Norhafiz

“…Unlike conventional methods with fixed reactive power references, the proposed technique dynamically adjusts the reactive power reference in real time, considering voltage and active power injection. …”
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Dynamically-biased fixed-point LSTM for time series processing in AIoT edge device by Hu, Jinhai, Goh, Wang Ling, Gao, Yuan

“…Different from the conventional LSTM which uses static bias, DB-LSTM adjusts the cell bias dynamically based on the previous status. …”
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A Wurster-type covalent organic framework with internal electron transfer-enhanced catalytic capacity for tumor therapy by Liu, Yang, Zhao, Huan, Wang, Shihuai, Niu, Rui, Bi, Shuai, Han, Wang-Kang, Wang, Yinghui, Song, Shuyan, Zhang, Hongjie, Zhao, Yanli

“…The covalently anchored cobaloxime adjusts the energy band structure of TB COF and provides it with good substrate adsorption sites, enabling it to act as an electron transmission bridge between the COF and substrate in proton reduction catalytic reactions. …”
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