This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless network, where a UAV is dispatched to gather information from ground sensor nodes (SN) and transfer the collected data depot. The freshness captured by age of (AoI) metric, whilst energy consumption seen as another performance criterion. Most importantly, AoI efficiency are inherently competing metrics, since decreasing requi...

To the Editors: The January 1, 2007, issue of Clinical Cancer Research includes a retrospective analysis by Dr. Smith of two previously reported prospective studies of gonadotropinreleasing hormone agonist treatment in men with locally advanced or recurrent nonmetastatic prostate cancer (1). It was concluded that despite lower pretreatment serum testosterone levels, obese men have higher total ...

This paper aims to assess the application of Support Vector Machine (SVM) regression in order to analysis flexible pavements. To this end, 10000 Four-layer flexible pavement sections consisted of asphalt concrete layer, granular base layer, granular subbase layer, and subgrade soil were analyzed under the effect of standard axle loading using multi-layered elastic theory and pavement critical r...

This paper presents a heuristic approach based on the POPMUSIC framework for a large scale Multi Depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (MDVRPTW) derived from real world data. Popmusic is a very powerful tool for tackling large problem instances. A Memetic Algorithm (MA) is used as an optimiser in the Popmusic framework. It is shown that a population based search combined with decompos...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare the efficacy of long-acting risperidone and zuclopenthixol in subjects with schizophrenia and substance abuse. METHOD A total of 115 subjects with schizophrenia and substance use disorders were enrolled for an open, randomized, controlled, 6-month follow-up study. Fifty-seven subjects were selected for treatment with long-acting injectable risperidone, wh...

this paper evaluates a new and simple controller design method based on qft (quantitative feedback theory) for a two-link manipulator whose first link is rigid and the second is flexible. a piezoelectric patch is attached to the surface of the flexible link for vibration suppression of it. this system is modeled as a nonlinear multi-input multi-output (mimo) control systems whose inputs are two...