Introduction Human papillomavirus(HPV)vaccination is a cornerstone of cervical cancer prevention,particularly in low-and middle-income countries(LMICs),where the burden of disease remains high~1.The World Health Organ...Introduction Human papillomavirus(HPV)vaccination is a cornerstone of cervical cancer prevention,particularly in low-and middle-income countries(LMICs),where the burden of disease remains high~1.The World Health Organization(WHO)HPV Vaccine Introduction Clearing House reported that 147 countries(of 194 reporting)had fully introduced the HPV vaccine into their national schedules as of 20242.After COVID-19 pandemic disruptions,global coverage is again increasing.展开更多
Road Side Units(RSUs)are the essential component of vehicular communication for the objective of improving safety and mobility in the road transportation.RSUs are generally deployed at the roadside and more specifical...Road Side Units(RSUs)are the essential component of vehicular communication for the objective of improving safety and mobility in the road transportation.RSUs are generally deployed at the roadside and more specifically at the intersections in order to collect traffic information from the vehicles and disseminate alarms and messages in emergency situations to the neighborhood vehicles cooperating with the network.However,the development of a predominant RSUs placement algorithm for ensuring competent communication in VANETs is a challenging issue due to the hindrance of obstacles like water bodies,trees and buildings.In this paper,Ruppert’s Delaunay Triangulation Refinement Scheme(RDTRS)for optimal RSUs placement is proposed for accurately estimating the optimal number of RSUs that has the possibility of enhancing the area of coverage during data communication.This RDTRS is proposed by considering the maximum number of factors such as global coverage,intersection popularity,vehicle density and obstacles present in the map for optimal RSUs placement,which is considered as the core improvement over the existing RSUs optimal placement strategies.It is contributed for deploying requisite RSUs with essential transmission range for maximal coverage in the convex map such that each position of the map could be effectively covered by at least one RSU in the presence of obstacles.The simulation experiments of the proposed RDTRS are conducted with complex road traffic environments.The results of this proposed RDTRS confirmed its predominance in reducing the end-to-end delay by 21.32%,packet loss by 9.38%with improved packet delivery rate of 10.68%,compared to the benchmarked schemes.展开更多
Remote sensing techniques have the potential to provide information on agricultural crops quantitatively , instantaneously and above all nondestructively over large areas . Crop simulation models describe the relation...Remote sensing techniques have the potential to provide information on agricultural crops quantitatively , instantaneously and above all nondestructively over large areas . Crop simulation models describe the relationship between physiological processes in plants and environmental growing conditions. The integration between remote sensing data and crop growth simulation model is an important trend for yield estimation and prediction, since remote sensing can provide information on the actual status of the agricultural crop. In this study, a new model(Rice-SRS) was developed based mainly on ORYZA1 model and modified to accept remote sensing data as input from different sources. The model can accept three kinds of NDVI data: NOAA AVHRR(LAC)-NDVI,NOAA AVHRR(GAC)-NDVI and radiometric measurements-NDVI. The integration between NOAA AVHRR (LAC) data and simulation model as applied to Rice-SRS resulted in accurate estimates for rice yield in the Shaoxing area, reduced the estimating error to 1.027%,0.794% and (-0.787%) for early, single, and late season respectively. Utilizing NDVI data derived from NOAA AVHRR (GAC) as input in Rice-SRS can yield good estimation for rice yield with the average error (-7.43%). Testing the new model for radiometric measurements showed that the average estimation error for 10 varieties under early rice conditions was less than 1%.展开更多
In order to achieve global multiple seamless coverage,space-based internet usually adopts low Earth orbit(LEO)mega-constellation networks structure,which has the characteristics of high network topology dynamics,limit...In order to achieve global multiple seamless coverage,space-based internet usually adopts low Earth orbit(LEO)mega-constellation networks structure,which has the characteristics of high network topology dynamics,limited on-board computing and storage capacity,and uneven distribution of ground traffic.Such features may cause problems such as high transmission delay,network congestion and link interruption.Establishing a stable,efficient and balanced satellite communication link can effectively alleviate the performance of the transmission delay,load balancing,and network throughput.Taking advantage of the regularity of network topology,a pre-coded inter-satellite routing algorithm with load balancing is proposed,which includes 3 parts:(a)the routing sequence coding method and the concept of gateway satellite Service Region(GSSR)are proposed;(b)the initial routing sequence of GSSR is generated based on the maximum network flow method under the ideal situation of uniform satellite traffic distribution;(c)aiming at the uneven distribution of traffic,the Sinkhorn algorithm is used to improve the load balancing performance of inter-satellite links.Simulation results show that,for the Starlink Group-4 constellation,the proposed method can maintain a low transmission delay and improve the load balancing together with the network throughout performance with minimal hops and low time complexity.展开更多
文摘Introduction Human papillomavirus(HPV)vaccination is a cornerstone of cervical cancer prevention,particularly in low-and middle-income countries(LMICs),where the burden of disease remains high~1.The World Health Organization(WHO)HPV Vaccine Introduction Clearing House reported that 147 countries(of 194 reporting)had fully introduced the HPV vaccine into their national schedules as of 20242.After COVID-19 pandemic disruptions,global coverage is again increasing.
文摘Road Side Units(RSUs)are the essential component of vehicular communication for the objective of improving safety and mobility in the road transportation.RSUs are generally deployed at the roadside and more specifically at the intersections in order to collect traffic information from the vehicles and disseminate alarms and messages in emergency situations to the neighborhood vehicles cooperating with the network.However,the development of a predominant RSUs placement algorithm for ensuring competent communication in VANETs is a challenging issue due to the hindrance of obstacles like water bodies,trees and buildings.In this paper,Ruppert’s Delaunay Triangulation Refinement Scheme(RDTRS)for optimal RSUs placement is proposed for accurately estimating the optimal number of RSUs that has the possibility of enhancing the area of coverage during data communication.This RDTRS is proposed by considering the maximum number of factors such as global coverage,intersection popularity,vehicle density and obstacles present in the map for optimal RSUs placement,which is considered as the core improvement over the existing RSUs optimal placement strategies.It is contributed for deploying requisite RSUs with essential transmission range for maximal coverage in the convex map such that each position of the map could be effectively covered by at least one RSU in the presence of obstacles.The simulation experiments of the proposed RDTRS are conducted with complex road traffic environments.The results of this proposed RDTRS confirmed its predominance in reducing the end-to-end delay by 21.32%,packet loss by 9.38%with improved packet delivery rate of 10.68%,compared to the benchmarked schemes.
文摘Remote sensing techniques have the potential to provide information on agricultural crops quantitatively , instantaneously and above all nondestructively over large areas . Crop simulation models describe the relationship between physiological processes in plants and environmental growing conditions. The integration between remote sensing data and crop growth simulation model is an important trend for yield estimation and prediction, since remote sensing can provide information on the actual status of the agricultural crop. In this study, a new model(Rice-SRS) was developed based mainly on ORYZA1 model and modified to accept remote sensing data as input from different sources. The model can accept three kinds of NDVI data: NOAA AVHRR(LAC)-NDVI,NOAA AVHRR(GAC)-NDVI and radiometric measurements-NDVI. The integration between NOAA AVHRR (LAC) data and simulation model as applied to Rice-SRS resulted in accurate estimates for rice yield in the Shaoxing area, reduced the estimating error to 1.027%,0.794% and (-0.787%) for early, single, and late season respectively. Utilizing NDVI data derived from NOAA AVHRR (GAC) as input in Rice-SRS can yield good estimation for rice yield with the average error (-7.43%). Testing the new model for radiometric measurements showed that the average estimation error for 10 varieties under early rice conditions was less than 1%.
基金supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Hubei Province(grant number 2022BID017)the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(grant numbers 2019B010158001)the Scientific Research Project of National University of Defense Technology(No.ZK22-02).
文摘In order to achieve global multiple seamless coverage,space-based internet usually adopts low Earth orbit(LEO)mega-constellation networks structure,which has the characteristics of high network topology dynamics,limited on-board computing and storage capacity,and uneven distribution of ground traffic.Such features may cause problems such as high transmission delay,network congestion and link interruption.Establishing a stable,efficient and balanced satellite communication link can effectively alleviate the performance of the transmission delay,load balancing,and network throughput.Taking advantage of the regularity of network topology,a pre-coded inter-satellite routing algorithm with load balancing is proposed,which includes 3 parts:(a)the routing sequence coding method and the concept of gateway satellite Service Region(GSSR)are proposed;(b)the initial routing sequence of GSSR is generated based on the maximum network flow method under the ideal situation of uniform satellite traffic distribution;(c)aiming at the uneven distribution of traffic,the Sinkhorn algorithm is used to improve the load balancing performance of inter-satellite links.Simulation results show that,for the Starlink Group-4 constellation,the proposed method can maintain a low transmission delay and improve the load balancing together with the network throughout performance with minimal hops and low time complexity.
