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Semi-field evaluation of aquatic predators for the control of Anopheles funestus in rural south-eastern Tanzania

Malaria Journal
Background Biological control is a promising alternative or complementary approach for controlling vector populations in response to the spread of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors.
Herieth H. Mahenge, Letus L. Muyaga, Joel D. Nkya, Andrew D. Kafwenji, Yohana A. Mwalugelo, Najat F. Kahamba, Halfan S. Ngowo, Emmanuel W. Kaindoa   +7 more
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Control variates for sensitivity estimation [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, 2010
Tarik Borogovac, Na Sun, Pirooz Vakili
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How does pretreatment expectancy influence pain outcomes with electroacupuncture and battlefield acupuncture in cancer survivors?

Integrative Medicine Research
Background: Outcome expectancy is an important component of non-specific effect that may play an important role in pain research and clinical care.
Xiaotong Li, Raymond E. Baser, Karolina Bryl, Lindsay Amann, Susan Chimonas, Jun J. Mao   +5 more
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Hybrid model of care for older persons for improvement of frailty index—a community-based interventional study in an urban setting

BMC Geriatrics
Background An older person undergoes a ‘disablement’ process with aging. A comprehensive geriatric assessment centered around the functional status informs the healthcare provider of their frailty status, based on which tailored interventions may be ...
Pritish Baskaran T B, Pankaja Raghav, Kikkeri Hanumantha Setty Naveen   +2 more
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Simulation and performance research of absorption heat pump unit based on R134a-DMF working fluid pair

Energy and Built Environment
R134a-DMF absorption heat pump unit is an energy-saving heat pump unit that can utilize renewable energy, and has great potential in the refrigeration and heating fields of urban and rural areas.
Zhaoyi Zhuang, Jin Zhao, Jiapeng Pan, Teng Zhang, Qiang Han   +4 more
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Diffusion approximations and control variates for MCMC [PDF]

, 2018
A new methodology is presented for the construction of control variates to reduce the variance of additive functionals of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) samplers.
Durmus, Alain, Meyn, Sean, Moulines, Éric, Brosse, Nicolas   +3 more
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Effectiveness of 0.01% atropine and orthokeratology for incipient myopia: a 1-year retrospective study

BMC Ophthalmology
Purpose To investigate and compare the effectiveness of 0.01% low-dose atropine (LA) and orthokeratology lenses (OK) monotherapy versus single-vision spectacles (SV) in controlling low myopia in clinical settings.
Xiaona Sun, Huihui Chu, Ru Zhang, Lingling Han, Jifeng Yu   +4 more
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Random Projections with Control Variates

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, 2017
Keegan Kang, Giles Hooker
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Control Variates and Optimal Designs in Metamodeling [PDF]

, 2013
At the heart of most modeling issues is a focus on variance reduction. Experimental designs are chosen based on both efficiency and a variety of variance based criteria.
Meents, Joshua B.
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Enhancing Monte Carlo integration by control variates and statistical learning

This thesis focuses on enhancing Monte Carlo integration through the use of control variates, a variance reduction technique involving special functions with known integrals.
Zhuman, Aigerim
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