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Patients diagnosed with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) typically experience a poor prognosis, and it is essential to predict overall survival (OS) and stratify patients based on distinct prognostic risks.
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In the latter half of the twentieth century, a significant climate phenomenon “diurnal asymmetric warming” emerged, wherein global land surface temperatures increased more rapidly during the night than during ...
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Open AccessFire carbon emissions over Equatorial Asia reduced by shortened dry seasons
Fire carbon emissions over Equatorial Asia (EQAS) play a critical role in the global carbon cycle. Most regional fire emissions (89.0%) occur in the dry season, but how changes in the dry-season length affect ...
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The majority of rivers in the world have been dammed, and over 45,000 large reservoirs have been constructed for multiple purposes. Riparian and reservoir shorelines are the two most important wetland types in...
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Advances in sensors and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are enabling real-time environmental monitoring, which has the potential to provide a plethora of fine-grained data to assist in understanding the symbio...
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Open AccessGreedy scheduling of tasks with time constraints for energy-efficient cloud-computing data centers
In this paper, we introduce a model of task scheduling for a cloud-computing data center to analyze energy-efficient task scheduling. We formulate the assignments of tasks to servers as an integer-programming ...
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Cognitive Radio Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in Healthcare
Low-cost automated health monitoring system sees a high demand with the Presidents’ proposal on health care reform. Legacy health care monitoring systems demand a great amount of resources such as health care ...
