Published in Inflammatory bowel diseases
Many patients with Crohn's disease (CD) who lose response to the standard ustekinumab dose interval of every 8 weeks (q8w) undergo dose intensification to q4w or q6w. However, baseline factors that predict success or failure after dose intensification are unknown. We sought to identify predictors of failure of ustekinumab after dose intensification...
Traffic congestion is a major issue that can be solved by suggesting drivers alternative routes they are willing to take. This concept has been formalized as a strategic routing problem in which a single alternative route is suggested to an existing one. We extend this formalization and introduce the Multiple-Routes problem, which is given a start ...
Balancing and redispatch are essential services for the security and stability of the electricity network. Balancing refers to continuously maintaining a balance between supply and demand through activating flexible resources. Redispatch refers to changing the dispatch of generators to remedy network congestion. The need for flexibility resources f...
The roof slab of a nuclear reactor supports all the components and sub-systems. It needs to resist the seismic loads in accordance with load-carrying criteria. The static stress analysis of the reactor roof slab reveals that high-stress concentration was present in the pump penetration shell (PPS) that supports the primary sodium pump. This paper p...
Improving the surface quality after burnishing operation has been the subject of various published investigations. Unfortunately, the trade-off analysis between the energy consumption and surface characteristics of the internal burnishing has been not addressed due to the expensive cost and huge efforts required. The objective of the present work i...
Published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
As one of the most vulnerable cancers of women, the incidence rate of breast cancer in China is increasing at an annual rate of 3%, and the incidence is younger. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct research on the risk of breast cancer, including the cause of disease and the prediction of breast cancer risk based on historical data. Data based st...
Višjenivojski programski jeziki programerjem omogočajo pisanje bolj abstraktne in razumljive kode, poleg tega pa omogočajo večjo prenosljivost programov med različnimi sistemi. Prevajalniki za take jezike morajo znati napisan program prevesti v strojno kodo, ki se lahko izvaja na procesorski enoti, zaradi velike konkurence na trgu pa morajo poskrbe...
Published in The Journal of arthroplasty
Arthroplasty payment traditionally includes 118 minutes for postoperative rounds and 69 minutes for postoperative office visits, amounting to 187 minutes and 7 work relative value units. Rapid recovery, ambulatory procedures, and bundled payments have altered the burden of care, with multiple studies showing an increase in physician work. Policy ch...
We study approachability theory in the presence of constraints. Given a repeated game with vector payoffs, we study the pairs of sets (A, D) in the payoff space such that Player 1 can guarantee that the long-run average payoff converges to the set A, while the average payoff always remains in D. We provide a full characterization of these pairs whe...
Published in Environmental technology
Optimization of a single-stage, partial nitritation/anammox (PN/A) process for a reject water treatment in a continuous-flow, moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) was presented. Response surface method (RSM) was combined with simulation experiments conducted with the validated mathematical model of PN/A in MBBR. The total inorganic nitrogen (TIN) remo...
