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Towards efficient simulation-based constrained temporal graph pattern matching
In the context of searching a single data graph G, graph pattern matching is to find all the occurrences of a pattern graph Q in G, specified by a matching rule. It is of paramount importance in many real applica...
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A design method for contact contour based on the distribution of target contact pressure
An effective human–machine interface is of utmost importance. However, the current methods for designing contact contours are not entirely flawless, frequently relying on experience and multiple design iterati...
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Open AccessPredictors of Pancreatitis Among Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treated with Vedolizumab: Observation from a Large Global Safety Database
Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are at increased risk of pancreatitis. Data from a global safety database (GSD) were queried to identify risk factors for pancreatitis in vedolizumab-treated pa...
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Open AccessA consensus algorithm based on the worst consistency index of hesitant fuzzy preference relations in group decision-making
This paper mainly solves the individual consistency and group consensus in the decision-making with hesitant fuzzy preference relations (HFPRs). The worst consistency index (WCI) is used to measure the individ...
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Open AccessEvaluation of the Utilization Efficiency of Water Resources in China Based on ZSG-DEA: A Perspective of Water–Energy–Food Nexus
The main resources needed for human survival are water, energy and food, and the research on the relationship among the three resources has become the research topic. Due to the shortage of natural resources, ...
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Open AccessPancreatic α and β cells are globally phase-locked
The Ca2+ modulated pulsatile glucagon and insulin secretions by pancreatic α and β cells play a crucial role in glucose homeostasis. However, how α and β cells coordinate to produce various Ca2+ oscillation patte...
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Impact and trade off analysis of land use change on spatial pattern of ecosystem services in Chishui River Basin
The motivation of this fundamental research is to reveal the response of ecosystem services to land use change and to support the sustainable development of ecology, economy, and society. Considering the fragi...
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Open AccessDistinct BTK inhibitors differentially induce apoptosis but similarly suppress chemotaxis and lipid accumulation in mantle cell lymphoma
The more selective second-generation BTK inhibitors (BTKi) Acalabrutinib and Zanubrutinib and the first-generation BTKi Ibrutinib are highlighted by their clinical effectiveness in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), ...
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A Focally Discriminative Loss for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
The maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) as a representative distribution metric between source domain and target domain has been widely applied in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), where both domains follow dif...
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Towards distributed node similarity search on graphs
Node similarity search on graphs has wide applications in recommendation, link prediction, to name just a few. However, existing studies are insufficient due to two reasons: (i) the scale of the real-world gra...
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Distributed time-respecting flow graph pattern matching on temporal graphs
Graph pattern matching, one of the most fundamental graph problems, has been extensively investigated in the literature. Nonetheless, existing efforts mostly focus on general graphs without time information, f...
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Efficient distributed reachability querying of massive temporal graphs
Reachability computation is a fundamental graph functionality with a wide range of applications. In spite of this, little work has as yet been done on efficient reachability queries over temporal graphs, which...
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Ship Twin-propeller Jet Model used to Predict the Initial Velocity and Velocity Distribution within Diffusing Jet
The current research proposed the theoretical model for ship twin-propeller jet based on the axial momentum theory and Gaussian normal distribution. The twin-propeller jet model is compared to the more matured...
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Management’s personal ideology and financial reporting quality
We investigate the relation between managers’ personal ideologies and financial reporting quality. We use Federal Elections Commission data to develop three proxies for managers’ personal ideologies and test t...
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Distributed Reachability Queries on Massive Graphs
Reachability querying is one of the most fundamental graph problems, and it has many applications in graph analytics and processing. Although a substantial number of algorithms are proposed, most of them are c...
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Open AccessEvaluation on the Efficiency of Water-Energy-Food Nexus Based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Malmquist in Different Regions of China
Water-energy-food (W-E-F) nexus is an essential element for human survival, as well as the basis for the sustainable development of regional economy and ecological environment. Water resource is an important i...
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Odd lot trading and earnings announcements
This study investigates odd lot trading, both trades and orders, around quarterly earnings announcements to determine whether odd lot traders are informed regarding the information contained in earnings announ...
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Open AccessCALCB splice region pathogenic variants leading to plasma cell neurotropic enrichment in type 1 autoimmune pancreatitis
Recently, we have demonstrated that PRSS1 mutations cause ectopic trypsinogen activation and thereby result in type 1 autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP). However, the molecules involved in inducing obliterative vas...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Maintenance Organization Value Chain Analysis and Its Formalization
In order to achieve Business process improvement (BPI), value chain analysis is widely utilized in enterprises. In related published researches, maintenance processes are only discussed as supporting activitie...
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Transcranial approach for treatment for traumatic optic chiasm syndrome
To describe the visual outcome of patients with a traumatic optic chiasm syndrome, with and without neurosurgical intervention. The retrospective clinical interventional study included 14 patients, who either ...
