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January 2025
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Nagarjuna College of Engineering and Technology, Bengaluru, 562164, Karnataka, India.
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are imperative to a huge range of packages, along with environmental monitoring, healthcare structures, army surveillance, and smart infrastructure, however they're faced with numerous demanding situations that impede their functionality, including confined strength sources, routing inefficiencies, security vulnerabilities, excessive latency, and the important requirement to keep Quality of Service (QoS). Conventional strategies generally goal particular troubles, like strength optimization or improving QoS, frequently failing to provide a holistic answer that effectively balances more than one crucial elements concurrently. To deal with those challenges, we advocate a novel routing framework that is both steady and power-efficient, leveraging an Improved Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System (IT2FLS) optimized by means of the Reptile Search Algorithm (RSA).
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December 2024
Epidemiology and Health Research Lab, Institute of Clinical Physiology of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IFC), Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 1, Pisa, 56124, Italy. Electronic address:
Objective: This study aims to identify risk factors associated with gambling engagement and the likelihood of problem behavior, distinguishing by type of gambling activity and examining the impact of online gambling.
Methods: Data about 85,420 students aged 16 from 33 countries participating in the 2019 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) were analyzed through a three-stage sequential probit model, specifically focusing on four types of activity: lotteries, slot machines, cards, and betting. Furthermore, predicted probabilities were calculated for subsamples of students engaging in different types of gambling activities to explore their influence on the likelihood of problem gambling behavior, conditioned on online gambling involvement.
Am J Nurs
February 2024
Marissa P. Bartmess is clinical assistant professor at the College of Nursing, University of South Carolina, Columbia. Carole R. Myers is a professor emerita at the College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK), where Pamela D. Hardesty is a professor and Sandra P. Thomas is a professor and chair of the PhD program. Kate Atchley is director of the Executive MBA in Healthcare Leadership and the Physician Executive MBA programs at UTK's Haslam College of Business. Marissa P. Bartmess received study funding through a Sigma Small Grant from the Gamma Chi Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and the Sara Rosenbalm Croley Endowed Dean's Chair held by Victoria Niederhauser at UTK. Contact author: Marissa P. Bartmess, . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Background: Nurse staffing committees offer a means for improving nurse staffing and nursing work environments in hospital settings by giving direct care nurses opportunities to contribute to staffing decision-making. These committees may be mandated by state law, as is the case currently in nine U.S.
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November 2023
6Department of General Surgery, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Splenic cysts are rare; their absence of an epithelial wall determines whether they're real cysts or pseudocysts. Spontaneous nonparasitic actual tumors are those that develop early in life at the anterior pole of the splenic and are typically epidermoid, dermoid, or endodermal. Surgical therapy is suggested for symptomatic, large (more than 5 cm) cysts or complicated.
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December 2021
School of Design and Built Environment, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6102, Australia.
Sensing technologies present great improvements in construction performance including the safety, productivity, and quality. However, the corresponding applications in real projects are far behind compared with the academically research. This research aims to discover dominate influence factors in the sensing technologies adoption and ultimately develop a governance framework facilitating adoption processes.
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