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Design of improved JAYA algorithm for cigarette finished product logistics delivery

Systems and Soft Computing
The accelerated proliferation of cigarette sales has precipitated an escalation in the industry's logistics distribution demand. This has given rise to salient issues, including elevated distribution costs and diminished delivery efficiency.
Jun Wen, Yewei Hu, Le Li, Zongrui Wu, Guangwei Xiao, Kai Guo, Lei Li   +6 more
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Cigarette Smoking Habits Among University Students: Prevalence and Associated Factors [PDF]

, 2017
Smoking is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in the world and is estimated to kill 5 million people each year worldwide. If current patterns of tobacco consumption continue, smoking will kill more than 8 million people each year globally by the ...
Jamshed, J. (Junaid), Khan, M. M. (Muhammad), Latif, Z. (Zahid)   +2 more
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Combining Three Peripheral Blood Biomarkers to Stratify Rheumatoid Arthritis–Associated Interstitial Lung Disease Risk

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The purpose was to evaluate a biomarker score consisting of MUC5B rs35705950 promoter variant, plasma matrix metalloproteinase‐7 (MMP‐7), and serum anti–malondialdehyde‐acetaldehyde (anti‐MAA) antibody for rheumatoid arthritis (RA)–associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) risk stratification.
Kelsey Coziahr, Austin M. Wheeler, Brent A. Luedders, Michael Duryee, Halie Frideres, Katherine D. Wysham, Grant W. Cannon, Gary Kunkel, Dana P. Ascherman, Paul A. Monach, Gail S. Kerr, Andreas M. Reimold, Scott M. Matson, Joshua F. Baker, Geoffrey M. Thiele, Ted R. Mikuls, Bryant R. England   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engineering Thermal Cross-Linking in Nanofiltration Membranes for Efficient Nicotine Extraction from Tobacco Extract

Membranes
Tobacco extract contains numerous valuable components, among which nicotine possesses significant potential for high-value applications despite its well-known health risks.
He Du, Xinyuan Wang, Baodan Na, Yajun Ye, Yuemei Qiao, Linda Li, Ye Tian, Xiaoping Ning, Zhigang Wang, Xingquan Zhao, Chen Chen   +10 more
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Effect of Xanthan Gum on the Preparation and Physicochemical Properties of Citral Pickering Emulsion Film

Shipin gongye ke-ji, 2022
In this paper, the oil-in-water Pickering emulsion of citral was prepared by a high-speed homogenization method with β-cyclodextrin as emulsifier and xanthan gum as external phase stabilizer, and the emulsion obtained was mixed with chitosan solution to ...
Xuehong LI, Suli GAO, Guoqiang YU, Kai ZANG, Chen WANG, Xiangfan WANG, Hongying DING   +6 more
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A Comparison of Sociodemographic Correlates of Cigarette, Alcohol, and Energy Drink Consumption among High School Students in the United States, 2010-2015 [PDF]

, 2018
OBJECTIVE: Despite growing awareness about the harmful physiological effects of energy drinks, especially among young people, there is little regulation governing the marketing and sale of these products to adolescents.
Cha, Eun Me, Hoelscher, Deanna M., Ranjit, Nalini   +2 more
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Evaluating a Pragmatic Strength Alternative for Frailty Measurement and Assessing Its Predictive Capacity Against Established Frailty Instruments in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Frailty occurs prematurely in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is associated with poor health outcomes. We compared the performance of four frailty instruments, including a pragmatic alternative measure using chair sit‐to‐stand (STS), and evaluated their abilities to predict poor health outcomes.
Kylie E. Riggles, Hannah F. Brubeck, Adrienne D. Tanus, Courtney N. Loecker, Punyasha Roul, Bryant R. England, Elizabeth R. Wahl, James S. Andrews, Namrata Singh, Joshua F. Baker, Patricia P. Katz, Dolores M. Shoback, Jose M. Garcia, Ariela R. Orkaby, Katherine D. Wysham   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robust PBFD Nonlinear Filtering Scheme for Active Noise Cancellation With Remote Acoustic Sensing

IEEE Access
Nonlinear active noise cancellation/control (NANC) systems have attracted attention for attenuating noises using remote acoustic sensing techniques. Controlling noises at the remote virtual loaction involve higher computational requirements.
Yongde Li, Hongming He, Yao Liu, Baodong Cheng, Shangrui Song, Pengji Zhu   +5 more
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Stochastic Resonance with Parameter Estimation for Enhancing Unknown Compound Fault Detection of Bearings

Sensors, 2023
Although stochastic resonance (SR) has been widely used to enhance weak fault signatures in machinery and has obtained remarkable achievements in engineering application, the parameter optimization of the existing SR-based methods requires the ...
Min Xu, Chao Zheng, Kelei Sun, Li Xu, Zijian Qiao, Zhihui Lai   +5 more
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Developing and Evaluating a Laboratory‐Based Frailty Index for the Prediction of Long‐Term Health Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to construct and evaluate the first laboratory‐based frailty index (FI‐Lab) for predicting adverse outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare its predictive ability to that of an existing clinical FI. Methods We used data from a single‐center prospective cohort of adult patients with SLE whose baseline visit ...
Grace Burns, Samuel D. Searle, Alexandra Legge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source