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Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Facility•Piscataway, New Jersey, United States•
About: Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science is a facility organization based out in Piscataway, New Jersey, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Local search (optimization) & Optimization problem. The organization has 140 authors who have published 175 publications receiving 2345 citations.
Topics: Local search (optimization), Optimization problem, Very-large-scale integration, Auxiliary function, Nonlinear programming
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TL;DR: Modelling shows that negative outcomes for measles, chickenpox, and rubella are 5·8 times worse than would be expected in a pre-vaccine era in which the average age at infection would have been lower.
Abstract: Summary Background Childhood vaccination remains the focus of heated public debate. Parents struggle to understand the potential risks associated with vaccination but both parents and physicians assume that they understand the risks associated with infection. This study was done to characterise how modern vaccination practices have altered patient risks from infection. Methods In this modelling study, we use mathematical analysis to explore how modern-era vaccination practices have changed the risks of severe outcomes for some infections by changing the landscape for disease transmission. We show these effects using published data from outbreaks in the USA for measles, chickenpox, and rubella. Calculation of risk estimation was the main outcome of this study. Findings Our calculations show that negative outcomes are 4·5 times worse for measles, 2·2 times worse for chickenpox, and 5·8 times worse for rubella than would be expected in a pre-vaccine era in which the average age at infection would have been lower. Interpretation As vaccination makes preventable illness rarer, for some diseases, it also increases the expected severity of each case. Because estimates of case risks rely on data for severity generated during a pre-vaccine era they underestimate negative outcomes in the modern post-vaccine epidemiological landscape. Physicians and parents should understand when making decisions about their children's health and safety that remaining unvaccinated in a predominantly vaccine-protected community exposes their children to the most severe possible outcomes for many preventable diseases. Funding None.
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TL;DR: Based on a reinterpretation of the square-error criterion for classical clustering, a “separate-and-conquer” version of K-Means clustering is presented and a contribution weight is determined for each variable of every cluster.
Abstract: Based on a reinterpretation of the square-error criterion for classical clustering, a “separate-and-conquer” version of K-Means clustering is presented and a contribution weight is determined for each variable of every cluster The weight is used to produce conjunctive concepts that describe clusters and to reduce or transform the variable (feature) space
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TL;DR: Theoretically, it is proved that the proposed complex-valued neural dynamical approach is globally stable and convergent to the optimal solution, and significantly generalizes the real-valued nonlinear Lagrange network completely in the complex domain.
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TL;DR: The theory of meaningfulness of statements using numerical scales is summarized in this paper, where applications of this theory deal with average performance, importance ratings, statistical tests, indices of consumer confidence, psychophysical scaling, block modeling of social structure, structural modeling in decision making, and the analysis of order and matching experiments.
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Aravind Srinivasan | 60 | 266 | 13711 |
Ding-Zhu Du | 52 | 421 | 13489 |
Elena N. Naumova | 47 | 232 | 8593 |
Rebecca N. Wright | 37 | 113 | 4722 |
Boris Mirkin | 35 | 178 | 6722 |
Mona Singh | 32 | 91 | 5451 |
Fred S. Roberts | 32 | 181 | 5286 |
Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf | 31 | 135 | 3624 |
Rephael Wenger | 26 | 67 | 1900 |
Marios Mavronicolas | 26 | 151 | 2880 |
Seoung Bum Kim | 26 | 165 | 2260 |
M. Montaz Ali | 26 | 101 | 3093 |
Lazaros K. Gallos | 24 | 69 | 4770 |
Myong K. Jeong | 24 | 95 | 1955 |
Nina H. Fefferman | 23 | 107 | 2362 |