A novel inverted generalized gamma(IGG)distribution,proposed for data modelling with an upside-down bathtub hazard rate,is considered.In many real-world practical situations,when a researcher wants to conduct a compar...A novel inverted generalized gamma(IGG)distribution,proposed for data modelling with an upside-down bathtub hazard rate,is considered.In many real-world practical situations,when a researcher wants to conduct a comparative study of the life testing of items based on cost and duration of testing,censoring strategies are frequently used.From this point of view,in the presence of censored data compiled from the most well-known progressively Type-Ⅱ censoring technique,this study examines different parameters of the IGG distribution.From a classical point of view,the likelihood and product of spacing estimation methods are considered.Observed Fisher information and the deltamethod are used to obtain the approximate confidence intervals for any unknown parametric function of the suggestedmodel.In the Bayesian paradigm,the same traditional inferential approaches are used to estimate all unknown subjects.Markov-Chain with Monte-Carlo steps are considered to approximate all Bayes’findings.Extensive numerical comparisons are presented to examine the performance of the proposed methodologies using various criteria of accuracy.Further,using several optimality criteria,the optimumprogressive censoring design is suggested.To highlight how the proposed estimators can be used in practice and to verify the flexibility of the proposed model,we analyze the failure times of twenty mechanical components of a diesel engine.展开更多
Several densities or probability laws of continuous random variables derive from the Euler Gamma function. These laws form the basis of sampling theory, namely hypothesis testing and estimation. Namely the gamma, beta...Several densities or probability laws of continuous random variables derive from the Euler Gamma function. These laws form the basis of sampling theory, namely hypothesis testing and estimation. Namely the gamma, beta, and Student law, through the chi-square law and the normal law are all distributions resulting from applications of Euleur functions.展开更多
BACKGROUND This study was designed to investigate the clinical efficacy and safety of Gamma Knife®combined with transarterial chemoembolization(TACE)and immunotherapy in the treatment of primary liver cancer.AIM ...BACKGROUND This study was designed to investigate the clinical efficacy and safety of Gamma Knife®combined with transarterial chemoembolization(TACE)and immunotherapy in the treatment of primary liver cancer.AIM To investigate the clinical efficacy and safety of Gamma Knife®combined with TACE and immune-targeted therapy in the treatment of primary liver cancer.METHODS Clinical data from 51 patients with primary liver cancer admitted to our hospital between May 2018 and October 2022 were retrospectively collected.All patients underwent Gamma Knife®treatment combined with TACE and immunotherapy.The clinical efficacy,changes in liver function,overall survival(OS),and progression-free survival(PFS)of patients with different treatment responses were evaluated,and adverse reactions were recorded.RESULTS The last follow-up for this study was conducted on October 31,2023.Clinical evaluation of the 51 patients with primary liver cancer revealed a partial response(PR)in 27 patients,accounting for 52.94%(27/51);stable disease(SD)in 16 patients,accounting for 31.37%(16/51);and progressive disease(PD)in 8 patients,accounting for 15.69%(8/51).The objective response rate was 52.94%,and the disease control rate was 84.31%.Alanine aminotransferase,aspartate aminotransferase,lactate dehydrogenase,and alpha-fetoprotein isoform levels decreased after treatment compared with pretreatment(all P=0.000).The median OS was 26 months[95%confidence interval(95%CI):19.946-32.054]in the PR group and 19 months(95%CI:14.156-23.125)in the SD+PD group,with a statistically significant difference(P=0.015).The median PFS was 20 months(95%CI:18.441-34.559)in the PR group and 12 months(95%CI:8.745-13.425)in the SD+PD group,with a statistically significant difference(P=0.002).Common adverse reactions during treatment included nausea and vomiting(39.22%),thrombocytopenia(27.45%),and leukopenia(25.49%),with no treatment-related deaths reported.CONCLUSION Gamma Knife®combined with TACE and immune-targeted therapy is safe and effective in the treatment of primary liver cancer and has a good effect on improving the clinical benefit rate and liver function of patients.展开更多
Long-term levodopa administration can lead to the development of levodopa-induced dyskinesia.Gamma oscillations are a widely recognized hallmark of abnormal neural electrical activity in levodopa-induced dyskinesia.Cu...Long-term levodopa administration can lead to the development of levodopa-induced dyskinesia.Gamma oscillations are a widely recognized hallmark of abnormal neural electrical activity in levodopa-induced dyskinesia.Currently,studies have reported increased oscillation power in cases of levodopa-induced dyskinesia.However,little is known about how the other electrophysiological parameters of gamma oscillations are altered in levodopa-induced dyskinesia.Furthermore,the role of the dopamine D3 receptor,which is implicated in levodopa-induced dyskinesia,in movement disorder-related changes in neural oscillations is unclear.We found that the cortico-striatal functional connectivity of beta oscillations was enhanced in a model of Parkinson’s disease.Furthermore,levodopa application enhanced cortical gamma oscillations in cortico-striatal projections and cortical gamma aperiodic components,as well as bidirectional primary motor cortex(M1)↔dorsolateral striatum gamma flow.Administration of PD128907(a selective dopamine D3 receptor agonist)induced dyskinesia and excessive gamma oscillations with a bidirectional M1↔dorsolateral striatum flow.However,administration of PG01037(a selective dopamine D3 receptor antagonist)attenuated dyskinesia,suppressed gamma oscillations and cortical gamma aperiodic components,and decreased gamma causality in the M1→dorsolateral striatum direction.These findings suggest that the dopamine D3 receptor plays a role in dyskinesia-related oscillatory activity,and that it has potential as a therapeutic target for levodopa-induced dyskinesia.展开更多
In this paper, the q-analogue of the Stirling formula for the q-gamma function (Moak formula) is exploited to prove the complete monotonicity properties of some functions involving the q-gamma and the q-polygamma fu...In this paper, the q-analogue of the Stirling formula for the q-gamma function (Moak formula) is exploited to prove the complete monotonicity properties of some functions involving the q-gamma and the q-polygamma functions for all real number q 〉 0. The monotonicity of these functions is used to establish sharp inequalities for the q-gamma and the q-polygamma functions and the q-Harmonic number. Our results are shown to be a generalization of results which were obtained by Selvi and Batir [23].展开更多
A set of point spread functions (PSF) has been obtained by means of Monte-Carlo simulation for asmall gamma camera with a pinhole collimator of various hole diameters. The FOV (field of view) of the camera isexpended ...A set of point spread functions (PSF) has been obtained by means of Monte-Carlo simulation for asmall gamma camera with a pinhole collimator of various hole diameters. The FOV (field of view) of the camera isexpended from 45 mm to 70 mm in diameter. The position dependence of the variances of PSF is presented, and theacceptance for the 140 kev gamma rays is explored. A phantom of 70 mm in diameter was experimentally imaged inthe camera with effective FOV of only 45 mm in diameter.展开更多
The present work aims to achieve a fast and accurate analytical solution of the point kinetics equations applied to subcritical reactors such as ADS (Accelerator-Driven System), assuming a linear reactivity and extern...The present work aims to achieve a fast and accurate analytical solution of the point kinetics equations applied to subcritical reactors such as ADS (Accelerator-Driven System), assuming a linear reactivity and external source variation. It was used a new set of point kinetics equations for subcritical systems based on the model proposed by Gandini & Salvatores. In this work it was employed the integrating factor method. The analytical solution for the case of interest was obtained by using only an approximation which consists of disregarding the term of the second derivative for neutron density in relation to time when compared with the other terms of the equation. And also, it is proposed an approximation for the upper incomplete gamma function found in the solution in order to make the computational processing faster. In addition, for purposes of validation and comparison a numerical solution was obtained by the finite differences method. Finally, it can be concluded that the obtained solution is accurate and has fast numerical processing time, especially when compared with the results of numerical solution by finite difference. One can also observe that the gamma approximation used achieve a high accuracy for the usual parameters. Thus we got satisfactory results when the solution is applied to practical situations, such as a reactor startup.展开更多
In this paper,by deriving an inequality involving the generating function of the Bernoulli numbers,the author introduces a new ratio of finitely many gamma functions,finds complete monotonicity of the second logarithm...In this paper,by deriving an inequality involving the generating function of the Bernoulli numbers,the author introduces a new ratio of finitely many gamma functions,finds complete monotonicity of the second logarithmic derivative of the ratio,and simply reviews the complete monotonicity of several linear combinations of finitely many digamma or trigamma functions.展开更多
The non-elementary integrals involving elementary exponential, hyperbolic and trigonometric functions, <img src="Edit_699140d3-f569-463e-b835-7ccdab822717.png" width="290" height="22" ...The non-elementary integrals involving elementary exponential, hyperbolic and trigonometric functions, <img src="Edit_699140d3-f569-463e-b835-7ccdab822717.png" width="290" height="22" alt="" /><img src="Edit_bdd10470-9b63-4b2d-9cec-636969547ca5.png" width="90" height="22" alt="" /><span style="white-space:normal;">and <img src="Edit_e9cd6876-e2b8-45cf-ba17-391f054679b4.png" width="90" height="21" alt="" /></span>where <span style="white-space:nowrap;"><em>α</em>,<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><em>η</em></span><em></em></span> and <span style="white-space:nowrap;"><em>β</em></span> are real or complex constants are evaluated in terms of the confluent hypergeometric function <sub>1</sub><em>F</em><sub>1</sub> and the hypergeometric function <sub>1</sub><em>F</em><sub>2</sub>. The hyperbolic and Euler identities are used to derive some identities involving exponential, hyperbolic, trigonometric functions and the hypergeometric functions <sub style="white-space:normal;">1</sub><em style="white-space:normal;">F</em><sub style="white-space:normal;">1</sub> and <sub style="white-space:normal;">1</sub><em style="white-space:normal;">F</em><sub style="white-space:normal;">2</sub>. Having evaluated, these non-elementary integrals, some new probability measures generalizing the gamma-type and Gaussian distributions are also obtained. The obtained generalized probability distributions may, for example, allow to perform better statistical tests than those already known (e.g. chi-square (<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><em>x</em><sup>2</sup></span>) statistical tests and other statistical tests constructed based on the central limit theorem (CLT)), while avoiding the use of computational approximations (or methods) which are in general expensive and associated with numerical errors.展开更多
Starting with the binomial coefficient and using its infinite product representation, the infinite product representation of the gamma function and of the zeta function are composed of an exponential and of a trigonom...Starting with the binomial coefficient and using its infinite product representation, the infinite product representation of the gamma function and of the zeta function are composed of an exponential and of a trigonometric component and proved. It is proved, that all these components define imaginary roots on the critical line, if written in the form as they are in the functional equation of the zeta function.展开更多
由于动车组车轮受加工装配及工况载荷等不确定因素的影响,车轮退化过程复杂,存在显著的个体差异及多个性能退化特征量,且多个退化特征量间相互耦合,仅考虑单个性能特征量难以全面反映其退化过程。因此,以轮缘和轮径作为车轮退化特征量,...由于动车组车轮受加工装配及工况载荷等不确定因素的影响,车轮退化过程复杂,存在显著的个体差异及多个性能退化特征量,且多个退化特征量间相互耦合,仅考虑单个性能特征量难以全面反映其退化过程。因此,以轮缘和轮径作为车轮退化特征量,通过随机化尺度参数表征车轮个体差异,采用Gamma过程和Copula函数建立二元相关退化模型,并根据赤池信息准则(Akaike Information Criterion, AIC)筛选Copula函数,得到可靠度解析式。基于某型动车组车轮实测磨耗数据,对车轮进行可靠性分析,同时通过车辆动力学模型进行仿真验证。结果显示:考虑二元相关时的可靠性结果比仅考虑一元退化更贴近车辆实际运行情况;根据动力学仿真结果体现了考虑个体差异的必要性,表明所提模型能够更准确地表征车轮退化过程,可为可靠性分析以及维修决策优化提供理论支撑。展开更多
基金funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research and Libraries,Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,through the Program of Research Project Funding after Publication,Grant No.(RPFAP-34-1445).
文摘A novel inverted generalized gamma(IGG)distribution,proposed for data modelling with an upside-down bathtub hazard rate,is considered.In many real-world practical situations,when a researcher wants to conduct a comparative study of the life testing of items based on cost and duration of testing,censoring strategies are frequently used.From this point of view,in the presence of censored data compiled from the most well-known progressively Type-Ⅱ censoring technique,this study examines different parameters of the IGG distribution.From a classical point of view,the likelihood and product of spacing estimation methods are considered.Observed Fisher information and the deltamethod are used to obtain the approximate confidence intervals for any unknown parametric function of the suggestedmodel.In the Bayesian paradigm,the same traditional inferential approaches are used to estimate all unknown subjects.Markov-Chain with Monte-Carlo steps are considered to approximate all Bayes’findings.Extensive numerical comparisons are presented to examine the performance of the proposed methodologies using various criteria of accuracy.Further,using several optimality criteria,the optimumprogressive censoring design is suggested.To highlight how the proposed estimators can be used in practice and to verify the flexibility of the proposed model,we analyze the failure times of twenty mechanical components of a diesel engine.
文摘Several densities or probability laws of continuous random variables derive from the Euler Gamma function. These laws form the basis of sampling theory, namely hypothesis testing and estimation. Namely the gamma, beta, and Student law, through the chi-square law and the normal law are all distributions resulting from applications of Euleur functions.
文摘BACKGROUND This study was designed to investigate the clinical efficacy and safety of Gamma Knife®combined with transarterial chemoembolization(TACE)and immunotherapy in the treatment of primary liver cancer.AIM To investigate the clinical efficacy and safety of Gamma Knife®combined with TACE and immune-targeted therapy in the treatment of primary liver cancer.METHODS Clinical data from 51 patients with primary liver cancer admitted to our hospital between May 2018 and October 2022 were retrospectively collected.All patients underwent Gamma Knife®treatment combined with TACE and immunotherapy.The clinical efficacy,changes in liver function,overall survival(OS),and progression-free survival(PFS)of patients with different treatment responses were evaluated,and adverse reactions were recorded.RESULTS The last follow-up for this study was conducted on October 31,2023.Clinical evaluation of the 51 patients with primary liver cancer revealed a partial response(PR)in 27 patients,accounting for 52.94%(27/51);stable disease(SD)in 16 patients,accounting for 31.37%(16/51);and progressive disease(PD)in 8 patients,accounting for 15.69%(8/51).The objective response rate was 52.94%,and the disease control rate was 84.31%.Alanine aminotransferase,aspartate aminotransferase,lactate dehydrogenase,and alpha-fetoprotein isoform levels decreased after treatment compared with pretreatment(all P=0.000).The median OS was 26 months[95%confidence interval(95%CI):19.946-32.054]in the PR group and 19 months(95%CI:14.156-23.125)in the SD+PD group,with a statistically significant difference(P=0.015).The median PFS was 20 months(95%CI:18.441-34.559)in the PR group and 12 months(95%CI:8.745-13.425)in the SD+PD group,with a statistically significant difference(P=0.002).Common adverse reactions during treatment included nausea and vomiting(39.22%),thrombocytopenia(27.45%),and leukopenia(25.49%),with no treatment-related deaths reported.CONCLUSION Gamma Knife®combined with TACE and immune-targeted therapy is safe and effective in the treatment of primary liver cancer and has a good effect on improving the clinical benefit rate and liver function of patients.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.82071254(to WZ).
文摘Long-term levodopa administration can lead to the development of levodopa-induced dyskinesia.Gamma oscillations are a widely recognized hallmark of abnormal neural electrical activity in levodopa-induced dyskinesia.Currently,studies have reported increased oscillation power in cases of levodopa-induced dyskinesia.However,little is known about how the other electrophysiological parameters of gamma oscillations are altered in levodopa-induced dyskinesia.Furthermore,the role of the dopamine D3 receptor,which is implicated in levodopa-induced dyskinesia,in movement disorder-related changes in neural oscillations is unclear.We found that the cortico-striatal functional connectivity of beta oscillations was enhanced in a model of Parkinson’s disease.Furthermore,levodopa application enhanced cortical gamma oscillations in cortico-striatal projections and cortical gamma aperiodic components,as well as bidirectional primary motor cortex(M1)↔dorsolateral striatum gamma flow.Administration of PD128907(a selective dopamine D3 receptor agonist)induced dyskinesia and excessive gamma oscillations with a bidirectional M1↔dorsolateral striatum flow.However,administration of PG01037(a selective dopamine D3 receptor antagonist)attenuated dyskinesia,suppressed gamma oscillations and cortical gamma aperiodic components,and decreased gamma causality in the M1→dorsolateral striatum direction.These findings suggest that the dopamine D3 receptor plays a role in dyskinesia-related oscillatory activity,and that it has potential as a therapeutic target for levodopa-induced dyskinesia.
文摘In this paper, the q-analogue of the Stirling formula for the q-gamma function (Moak formula) is exploited to prove the complete monotonicity properties of some functions involving the q-gamma and the q-polygamma functions for all real number q 〉 0. The monotonicity of these functions is used to establish sharp inequalities for the q-gamma and the q-polygamma functions and the q-Harmonic number. Our results are shown to be a generalization of results which were obtained by Selvi and Batir [23].
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10275063)
文摘A set of point spread functions (PSF) has been obtained by means of Monte-Carlo simulation for asmall gamma camera with a pinhole collimator of various hole diameters. The FOV (field of view) of the camera isexpended from 45 mm to 70 mm in diameter. The position dependence of the variances of PSF is presented, and theacceptance for the 140 kev gamma rays is explored. A phantom of 70 mm in diameter was experimentally imaged inthe camera with effective FOV of only 45 mm in diameter.
文摘The present work aims to achieve a fast and accurate analytical solution of the point kinetics equations applied to subcritical reactors such as ADS (Accelerator-Driven System), assuming a linear reactivity and external source variation. It was used a new set of point kinetics equations for subcritical systems based on the model proposed by Gandini & Salvatores. In this work it was employed the integrating factor method. The analytical solution for the case of interest was obtained by using only an approximation which consists of disregarding the term of the second derivative for neutron density in relation to time when compared with the other terms of the equation. And also, it is proposed an approximation for the upper incomplete gamma function found in the solution in order to make the computational processing faster. In addition, for purposes of validation and comparison a numerical solution was obtained by the finite differences method. Finally, it can be concluded that the obtained solution is accurate and has fast numerical processing time, especially when compared with the results of numerical solution by finite difference. One can also observe that the gamma approximation used achieve a high accuracy for the usual parameters. Thus we got satisfactory results when the solution is applied to practical situations, such as a reactor startup.
基金partially supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China(12061033)。
文摘In this paper,by deriving an inequality involving the generating function of the Bernoulli numbers,the author introduces a new ratio of finitely many gamma functions,finds complete monotonicity of the second logarithmic derivative of the ratio,and simply reviews the complete monotonicity of several linear combinations of finitely many digamma or trigamma functions.
文摘The non-elementary integrals involving elementary exponential, hyperbolic and trigonometric functions, <img src="Edit_699140d3-f569-463e-b835-7ccdab822717.png" width="290" height="22" alt="" /><img src="Edit_bdd10470-9b63-4b2d-9cec-636969547ca5.png" width="90" height="22" alt="" /><span style="white-space:normal;">and <img src="Edit_e9cd6876-e2b8-45cf-ba17-391f054679b4.png" width="90" height="21" alt="" /></span>where <span style="white-space:nowrap;"><em>α</em>,<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><em>η</em></span><em></em></span> and <span style="white-space:nowrap;"><em>β</em></span> are real or complex constants are evaluated in terms of the confluent hypergeometric function <sub>1</sub><em>F</em><sub>1</sub> and the hypergeometric function <sub>1</sub><em>F</em><sub>2</sub>. The hyperbolic and Euler identities are used to derive some identities involving exponential, hyperbolic, trigonometric functions and the hypergeometric functions <sub style="white-space:normal;">1</sub><em style="white-space:normal;">F</em><sub style="white-space:normal;">1</sub> and <sub style="white-space:normal;">1</sub><em style="white-space:normal;">F</em><sub style="white-space:normal;">2</sub>. Having evaluated, these non-elementary integrals, some new probability measures generalizing the gamma-type and Gaussian distributions are also obtained. The obtained generalized probability distributions may, for example, allow to perform better statistical tests than those already known (e.g. chi-square (<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><em>x</em><sup>2</sup></span>) statistical tests and other statistical tests constructed based on the central limit theorem (CLT)), while avoiding the use of computational approximations (or methods) which are in general expensive and associated with numerical errors.
文摘Starting with the binomial coefficient and using its infinite product representation, the infinite product representation of the gamma function and of the zeta function are composed of an exponential and of a trigonometric component and proved. It is proved, that all these components define imaginary roots on the critical line, if written in the form as they are in the functional equation of the zeta function.
文摘由于动车组车轮受加工装配及工况载荷等不确定因素的影响,车轮退化过程复杂,存在显著的个体差异及多个性能退化特征量,且多个退化特征量间相互耦合,仅考虑单个性能特征量难以全面反映其退化过程。因此,以轮缘和轮径作为车轮退化特征量,通过随机化尺度参数表征车轮个体差异,采用Gamma过程和Copula函数建立二元相关退化模型,并根据赤池信息准则(Akaike Information Criterion, AIC)筛选Copula函数,得到可靠度解析式。基于某型动车组车轮实测磨耗数据,对车轮进行可靠性分析,同时通过车辆动力学模型进行仿真验证。结果显示:考虑二元相关时的可靠性结果比仅考虑一元退化更贴近车辆实际运行情况;根据动力学仿真结果体现了考虑个体差异的必要性,表明所提模型能够更准确地表征车轮退化过程,可为可靠性分析以及维修决策优化提供理论支撑。