A Novel Model to Detect and Classify Fresh and Damaged Fruits to Reduce Food Waste Using a Deep Learning Technique by T. Bharath Kumar, Deepak Prashar, Gayatri Vaidya, Vipin Kumar, S. Deva Kumar, F. Sammy

“…Various fruits were employed in this study, including apples, bananas, and oranges. For classifying photographs into fresh and decaying fruits, softmax is used, while CNN obtains fruit image properties. …”
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Planlı Eskitme Kavramı Bağlamında Tüketici Tutumları by Merve Çerçi, Nurhan Zeynep Tosun

“…Bu amaç doğrultusunda deney ve kontrol grubu olarak ayrılan katılımcılardan,deney grubuna Apple’ın reklam filmleri izlettirilirken, kontrol grubuna izlettirilmemiştir. …”
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From fitness trackers to medical devices: wearable technologies by Zhi Zhou

“…A popular smartwatch in the market is the Apple Watch. Apart from commercial uses, wearable technology is incorporated into navigation systems, advanced textiles, and healthcare. …”
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Rachel Carson’s enduring call: a 60-year echo for harmony with nature by Olcay Ünver, Gavrielle Orman, Kiril Hristovski

“…We showcase success stories from the citrus and apple industries, demonstrating significant reductions in synthetic pesticide use through the implementation of these methods. …”
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Efficacy of Household and Commercial Washing Agents in Removing the Pesticide Thiabendazole Residues from Fruits by Xinyi Du, Lauren Ho, Sisheng Li, Jeffery Doherty, Junghak Lee, John M. Clark, Lili He

“…Both protocols were effective across various fruits (apples, grapes, lemons, strawberries), validated by liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analyses. …”
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Mobilization of fruit, small fruit and nut crop genetic resources in Belarus by Z. A. Kazlouskaya, L. V. Fralova, A. A. Taranau, V. A. Yakimovich, I. G. Palubiatka

“…By 2021, 105 unique landraces were tested in the plant introduction and quarantine nursery and planted in the field gene bank, including 28 accessions of apple, 33 of pear, 11 of sour cherry, 5 of sweet cherry, 9 of plum, 8 of apricot, 1 of almond, 2 of hazel, 3 of garden strawberry, 1 of black chokeberry, 1 of viburnum, and 1 of bird cherry. …”
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Molecularly Imprinted Polymers-Coated CdTe Quantum Dots for Highly Sensitive and Selective Fluorescent Determination of Ferulic Acid by Zhihong Wang, Ruiqing Long, Mijun Peng, Te Li, Shuyun Shi

“…Satisfactory recoveries from 91.8% to 110.3% were achieved with precisions below 6.6% for FA analysis in real pineapple juice and apple juice by developed CdTe-QDs@MIPs. The fluorescence results coincided well with those obtained by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). …”
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Oral Midazolam Premedication for Children Undergoing General Anaesthesia for Dental Care by Saad A. Sheta, Maha AlSarheed

“…The children were randomly assigned to one of 3 groups and received orally 0.5, 0.75, or 1.0 mg/kg of injectable midazolam mixed with apple juice 30 minutes before separation from parents. …”
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Diagnosing Cardiac Amyloidosis: From Heart Failure to Electrical Storm by Adithya T. Mathews, Abu-Sayeef Mirza, Chandrashekar Bohra, Akshay G. Mathews, Philip Ritucci-Chinni, Jamie L. Weber, William W. Bulkeley, Maqsood Siddique, David Whitaker, Richard Bowerman

“…Autopsy revealed gross cardiomegaly and left ventricular hypertrophy with Congo red staining revealing amyloid fibrils with apple-green birefringence. This case demonstrates the rapid progression of cardiac amyloidosis from acute-onset diastolic heart failure to uncontrollable ventricular tachycardia, and eventually death. …”
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Subtropical and flower crops breeding at the Subtropical Scientific Centre by A. V. Ryndin, R. V. Kulyan, N. A. Slepchenko

“…Over the past five years, FRC SSC of RAS has created 50 new cultivars: 26 pelargonium, 15 anemone, 5 freesia, 2 chrysanthemum, 1 persimmon and 1 apple and submitted them to the State Cultivar Commission. …”
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Effects of Chewing Different Flavored Gums on Salivary Flow Rate and pH by Maryam Karami Nogourani, Mohsen Janghorbani, Raha Kowsari Isfahan, Mozhgan Hosseini Beheshti

“…During 1–3 minutes, strawberry- and apple-flavored gums showed higher SFR, respectively. …”
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A mixed method evaluation of ecosystem services and services-to-ecosystems illuminates culturally important trees in a settled landscape by Jacqueline Hamilton, Murray M. Humphries, Elena M. Bennett

“…However, some trees were mentioned disproportionately more frequently than their biophysical abundance, likely due to high mortality in the case of ash and cultural importance in the case of apples. Apple trees were culturally important and linked to the most diverse services-to-ecosystems. …”
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Jupiter Evolutionary Models Incorporating Stably Stratified Regions by Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Ankan Sur, Yubo Su, Adam Burrows

“…Hence, using the new code APPLE , we attempt to put a nonadiabatic Jupiter into an evolutionary context. …”
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Evaluation of Crude Oil Extracts from Plants for Controlling Maize Infestations Caused by the Weevil Sitophilus zeamais (Motschulsky) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Fikadu Kifle, Melaku Girma, Araya Gebresilassie, Yitbarek Woldehawariat, Estifanos Ele

“…The experiments were carried out to assess the effectiveness of crude plant oil from Eucalyptus globulus, neem (Azadirachta indica), marigold (Tagetes minuta), moringa (Moringa stenopetala), Ayobangira (Ocimum basilicum), custard apple (Annona squamosa), and Chenopodium ambrosioides. …”
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Phloem cell responses to the feeding activity of Eriosoma lanigerum on Malus domestica by Ravena Malheiros Nogueira, Gracielle Pimenta Pereira Bragança, Edgard Augusto de Toledo Picoli, Denis Coelho de Oliveira, Rosy Mary dos Santos Isaias

“…Peculiarly, the smaller sieve pores in the sieve plates of the STE located in the galls and stem portions above and below them and the deposition of P-protein in the stem portions below the galls limit the bidirectional transport of nutrients, benefiting the transport of photoassimilates to the gall proximal region and reducing the vigor of apple tree stems.…”
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Feasibility of Remote Real-Time Guidance of a Cardiac Examination Performed by Novices Using a Pocket-Sized Ultrasound Device by Tuan V. Mai, David T. Ahn, Colin T. Phillips, Donna L. Agan, Bruce J. Kimura

“…Real-time remote audiovisual guidance and interpretation by the cardiologist were performed using the iPhone 4/iPod (FaceTime, Apple, Inc.) attached to the PUD and transmitted data wirelessly. …”
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Deposition Characteristics of Air-Assisted Sprayer Based on Canopy Volume and Leaf Area of Orchard Trees by Chenchen Gu, Jiahui Sun, Si Li, Shuo Yang, Wei Zou, Changyuan Zhai

“…The study provides a scientific foundation for air control in precision pesticide application in apple orchards and contributes to the rapid development of precision spraying technologies.…”
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Fruit Volatile Fingerprints Characterized among Four Commercial Cultivars of Thai Durian (Durio zibethinus) by Wattana Aschariyaphotha, Chalermchai Wongs-Aree, Kitti Bodhipadma, Sompoch Noichinda

“…“Chanee” ripe flesh exhibited the strongest durian smell among the four varieties, whereas “Monthong” exhibited a strong apple-like fruity odor and “Kanyao” was more green fruity. …”
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Attentive Self-supervised Contrastive Learning (ASCL) for plant disease classification by Getinet Yilma, Mesfin Dagne, Mohammed Kemal Ahmed, Ravindra Babu Bellam

“…The pre-trained weights were then fine-tuned on small-scale unseen datasets extracted from the 17-class PlantVillage Taiwan Tomato and Apple datasets. Despite involving fewer than 17 classes, the high variability within each class, such as the disease progression stages, underscores the fine-grained nature of the classification task. …”
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A comparison between the effect of Oral Melatonin and Hydroxyzine for preventing preoperative Anxiety in Pediatric Patients undergoing Adenotonsillectomy: A randomized, double-blin... by Sarah Omar Mousa, Amany Khairy Abo El Hussien, Gehad Hanafy Abdalgaliel

“…Patients and methods: In a randomized, double-blinded, prospective study, 90 children of both sexes aged 3 to 10, were divided into three equal groups, all the patients received 10 ml of apple juice 2 hours preoperatively. In group M 0.1mg/kg of melatonin syrup was added, group H 1mg/kg of crushed hydroxyzine tablet was added, while group C received the juice alone. …”
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