Background The relationship of social determinants of health (SDOH), environmental exposures and medical history to lung function trajectories is underexplored. A better understanding of these ...

Objectives In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), severe exacerbations (ECOPDs) impose significant morbidity and mortality. Current guidelines emphasise using ECOPD history to ...

This study provides important evidence that negative affect is associated with slower cognitive processing in daily life, with findings replicated across three independent samples and supported by ...

Function secret sharing (FSS) is a secret sharing technique for functions in a specific function class, mainly including distributed point function (DPF) and distributed comparison function (DCF). As ...

The LHS indicates that g is a function of D variables whereas the RHS indicates that g is a function of only 1 variable.

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Abstract: Existing performance analysis of wireless systems based on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) over fading channels has primarily focused on providing statistical insights into the sum ...

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We present the Mathematica package MultiHypExp that allows for the expansion of multivariate hypergeometric functions (MHFs), especially those likely to appear as solutions of multi-loop, multi-scale ...

Finding the extrema of a multivariable function is an essential skill in calculus and applied mathematics. This process allows you to determine the minima and maxima of a function across multiple ...