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Analysis of the Contributory Factors to Accidents at Signalized Intersections using Generalized Estimating Equation with Negative Binomial Distribution

Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2023
Ensuring safety on roadways and controlling conflicting and merging streams of traffic at signalized intersections has become a major concern for transportation engineers and road users globally and locally.
Nasreen A. Hussein, Rayya Hassan
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Association between multimorbidity trajectories and incident disability among mid to older age adults: China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Although multimorbidity is a risk factor for disability, the relationship between the accumulative patterns of multimorbidity and disability remains poorly understood.
Zaixing Shi, Zeyun Zhang, Kanglin Shi, Bohan Yu, Zhongquan Jiang, Li Yang, Jianlin Lin, Ya Fang   +7 more
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HIV transmission and associated factors under the scale-up of HIV antiretroviral therapy: a population-based longitudinal molecular network study

Virology Journal, 2023
Objectives To evaluate the prevention efficacy of scaling up HIV/AIDS antiretroviral therapy (ART) on HIV transmission at the population level and determine associated factors of HIV secondary transmission.
Yi Chen, Zhiqiang Cao, Jianjun Li, Jin Chen, Qiuying Zhu, Shujia Liang, Guanghua Lan, Hui Xing, Lingjie Liao, Yi Feng, Yiming Shao, Yuhua Ruan, Huanhuan Chen   +12 more
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An Analysis of the Fractional-Order Option Pricing Problem for Two Assets by the Generalized Laplace Variational Iteration Approach

Fractal and Fractional, 2022
An option is the right to buy or sell a good at a predetermined price in the future. For customers or financial companies, knowing an option’s pricing is crucial.
Sivaporn Ampun, Panumart Sawangtong, Wannika Sawangtong   +2 more
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Revisiting the stability of mini-implants used for orthodontic anchorage

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2015
The aim of this study is to comprehensively analyze the potential factors affecting the failure rates of three types of mini-implants used for orthodontic anchorage.
Chung-Chen Jane Yao, Hao-Hueng Chang, Jenny Zwei-Chieng Chang, Hsiang-Hua Lai, Shao-Chun Lu, Yi-Jane Chen   +5 more
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Teriparatide treatment shows faster healing than sacroplasty for postmenopausal women with sacral insufficiency fracture

Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia, 2023
Objectives: Sacral insufficiency fracture (SIF) is not an uncommon osteoporosis fracture among the elderly. Aside from traditional treatments, sacroplasty and teriparatide (TPTD) injection have been introduced.
Yao-Chun Yang, Min-Hong Hsieh, Jui-Teng Chien, Keng-Chang Liu, Chang-Chen Yang   +4 more
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Generalized Terzaghi’s Effective Stress Equation for Unsaturated Soil: An Independent Phase Balance Approach That Considers a Pore Water Content Gradient

Geofluids, 2022
The effective stress equation for unsaturated soil is the most important equation in unsaturated soil mechanics. It has been derived by many scholars using different methods.
Lifeng Zeng, Longtan Shao
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Bootstrap Confidence Intervals For Local Likelihood, Local Estimating Equations And Varying Coefficient Models [PDF]

, 2000
Four powerful generalizations of the usual local polynomial nonparametric regression methodology are (a) local polynomial methods in generalized linear models; (b) varying coefficient generalized linear models, where the possibly multivariate ...
Carroll, R. J., Galindo, C. D., Kauermann, Göran, Liang, H.   +3 more
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Global sensitivity analysis for stochastic simulators based on generalized lambda surrogate models [PDF]

, 2021
Global sensitivity analysis aims at quantifying the impact of input variability onto the variation of the response of a computational model. It has been widely applied to deterministic simulators, for which a set of input parameters has a unique ...
Sudret, B., Zhu, X.
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Estimating Equations for Density Dependent Markov Jump Processes

Mathematics, 2021
Reaction networks are important tools for modeling a variety of biological phenomena across a wide range of scales, for example as models of gene regulation within a cell or infectious disease outbreaks in a population. Hence, calibrating these models to
Oluseyi Odubote, Daniel F. Linder
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