To solve the time-variant Sylvester equation, in 2013, Li et al. proposed the zeroing neural network with sign-bi-power function (ZNN-SBPF) model via constructing a nonlinear activation function. In ...

Unfavorable social determinants of health (SDoH) disproportionately affect lung function in non-Hispanic Black and Mexican/Hispanic Americans.

Ken Ono, a top mathematician and advisor at the University of Virginia, has helped uncover a striking new way to find prime numbers—those puzzling building blocks of arithmetic that have kept ...

The study led by first author Wan Chi Chang, MS, showed that the new race-neutral equation led to 2.5–4-fold more Black ...

As a result, they unintentionally contribute to health disparities. Updated equation still underused In 2022, the Global Lung Initiative (GLI) Network updated lung function reference equations.

Following use of race-neutral vs. -specific lung function equations, spirometry findings and patterns differed, especially among Black children/adolescents, according to results published in JAMA ...

The Loewner differential equation, introduced by Charles Loewner in 1923, describes the time evolution of a family of conformal (angle-preserving) functions defined on subsets of the complex plane.

Adjustment for race is discouraged in lung-function testing, but the implications of adopting race-neutral equations have not been comprehensively quantified. We obtained longitudinal data from ...