Parametric kernel methods currently dominate the literature regarding the construction of animal home ranges (HRs) and utilization distributions (UDs). These methods frequently fail to capture the kinds of hard boundaries common to many natural systems. Recently a local convex hull (LoCoH) nonparametric kernel method, which generalizes the minimum convex polygon (MCP) method, was shown to be mo...

BACKGROUND The UK government currently recommends that all patients receive medicines reconciliation (MR) from a member of the pharmacy team within 24 hours of admission and subsequent discharge. The cost-effectiveness of this intervention is unknown. A pilot study to inform the design of a future randomised controlled trial to determine effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a pharmacist-deli...

PURPOSE We propose a novel method to monitor bladder wall mechanical properties as a function of filling volume, with the potential application to bladder compliance assessment. The proposed ultrasound bladder vibrometry (UBV) method uses ultrasound to excite and track Lamb waves on the bladder wall from which its mechanical properties are derived by fitting measurements to an analytical model....

In this letter, we consider the decoding delay minimizing problem for delivering a frame of packets to set user-devices (UDs) using instantly decodable network coding (IDNC). considered device-to-device (D2D) network, UDs have limited coverage zones that represent clusters and can speed up delivery requested other by sending IDNC packets. The minimization is joint optimization selecting transmi...

Background and Aim Buprenorphine (BUP) maintenance treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) begins with supervised daily dosing. We estimated the clinical effectiveness of a novel incentivised medication adherence abstinence monitoring protocol in BUP to enable contingent access increasing take-home supplies. Design Two-arm, single-centre, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial outpatient mainte...

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common complication seen after urodynamic studies (UDS). It unknown whether having a history of recurrent UTI increases this risk or leads to worse outcomes. The primary objective study identify incidence UDS in patients with UTI. secondary compare outcomes and without This was retrospective cohort investigating following comparing outcome determine if ...

Despite the Yangtze River Basin (YRB)’s abundant land and forestry resources, there is still a dearth of research on forecasting habitat quality changes resulting from various geographic environmental factors that drive landscape transformations. Hence, this study concentrates YRB as focal area, with aim utilizing Patch Landscape Upscaling Simulation model (PLUS) to scrutinize spatial distribut...

The BGOOD photoproduction experiment accesses forward meson angles and low momentum exchange kinematics in the uds sector, which may be sensitive to molecular-like hadronic structure. Recent highlights are summarised these proceedings.

Often resource selection functions (RSFs) are developed by comparing resource attributes of used sites to unused or available ones. We present alternative approaches to the analysis of resource selection based on the utilization distribution (UD). Our objectives are to describe the rationale for estimation of RSFs based on UDs, offer advice about computing UDs and RSFs, and illustrate their use...