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Open AccessAssessing reliability and validity of the Chinese version of Crown–Crisp experience index and its application in coal miners
In China, coal miners are the primary workforce in coal mining, and among all patients with occupational diseases, 90% suffer from pneumoconiosis. Therefore, the psychological problems resulting from the dual ...
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Open AccessAssessing reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Crown-Crisp Experience Index and its application in pneumoconiosis patients
In China, among all patients with occupational diseases, 90% have pneumoconiosis. The disease, which leads to psychological problems, seriously affects patients’ lives. The Crown-Crisp Experience Index (CCEI) ...
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An efficient auction mechanism for regional logistics synchronization
This paper is the first attempt to propose an efficient auction mechanism for the regional logistics synchronization (RLS) problem, which aims to capture both logistics punctuality and simultaneity in a regional ...
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Adaptive brainstorm optimisation with multiple strategies
Brainstorm optimisation (BSO) algorithm is a recently developed swarm intelligence algorithm inspired by the human problem-solving process. BSO has been shown to be an efficient method for creating better idea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Augmented Brain Storm Optimization with Mutation Strategies
Brain storm optimization (BSO) is a recently proposed novel and promising swarm intelligence algorithm which models the human brainstorming problem-solving process. In BSO, the search areas are grouped into se...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Recommending PSO Variants Using Meta-Learning Framework for Global Optimization
Since inception, particle swarm optimization (PSO) has raised a great interest across various disciplines, thus producing a large number of PSO variants with respective strengths. However, a variant may perfor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hydraulic Characteristic Analysis of Changing Top-Altitude Tail Tunnel and its Application
For some hydropower stations with a proper length tail tunnel, if its tailrace level is varied within a certain range, changing top-altitude tail tunnel instead of tail surge tank with large area is a reasonab...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
3-D Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Characteristics of Lateral Intake of Pumped Storage Plant
The intake employed in the pumped storage plant is characteristic of complex two-direction flow. In this paper, the velocity distribution and head losses of the lateral intake in pumped storage plant have been...