Summary of the 2023 (1st edition) Report of TCEP (Tracking Clean Energy Progress) by the International Energy Agency (IEA), and Proposed Process for Computing a Single Aggregate Ra... by Marzouk Osama A.

“…Out of the TCEP’s 53 assessed components, only three were rated as “On track”, and these are (1) Solar Photovoltaic (PV), (2) Electric Vehicles (EV), and (3) Building Lighting. For the remaining 50 assessed components of TCEP; 28 were rated as “More efforts needed”, and 22 were rated as “Not on track”. …”
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Analysis of the Narrative and Its Connection with the Theme in Cheraghha Ra Man Khamoosh Mekonam by Timoor Malmir, Hosein Asadijozani

“…Cheraghha Ra Man Khamoosh Mekonam (I Will Turn off the Lights) is Zoya Pirzad's debut novel revolving on the theme of loneliness and the boredom ensuing from this loneliness. …”
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Thermal performance evaluation of phase changing materials in double glazing units for office buildings in Egypt by Omar Abdel-Rahman, El Rouby, Mohamed Moemen Afify

“…Abstract Nowadays glass curtain walls are used widely in modern buildings as they offer a significant aesthetic appearance and provide the building with natural lighting. However, their poor thermal resistance leads to excessive usage of mechanical systems to achieve thermal comfort which in turn increases the energy consumption in buildings. …”
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Checkmate to Bioethics? by Fabio Alberto Garzón Díaz

“… Bioethics, as the first cousin of philosophy, suffers from what philosopher Hegel told us during his lifetime, “When philosophy paints lights and shadows, an aspect of life has grown old, and cannot be rejuvenated, but only understood. …”
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A Feature-Enhanced Small Object Detection Algorithm Based on Attention Mechanism by Zhe Quan, Jun Sun

“…However, due to factors such as the environment, lighting, altitude, and angle, UAV images face challenges like small object sizes, high object density, and significant background interference, making object detection tasks difficult. …”
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Challenges in the Implementation of Fiscal Decentralization and It’s Effects on the Health Sector in Uganda by George Stanley, Kinyata, Siraje, Kaaya

“…The study reviews various writers on fiscal decentralization Programmes and high lights the problems affecting Uganda’s Health sector service delivery. …”
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Degradation of PVDF-Coated Fabrics after Engineering Applications: Correlations between Surface Microstructure, Physical Properties, and Mechanical Properties Based on Statistical... by Yingying Shang, Bin Yang, Minger Wu, Youji Tao, Jiaxiang Qin

“…Firstly, spectrocolorimetry tests were carried out to determine the evolution of chromaticity and lightness. Other methods such as contact angle and thickness measurements were used to characterize the physical properties. …”
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Research progress of optical signal processing with orbital angular momentum by Jun LIU, Jian WANG

“…Light beams carrying OAM (orbital angular momentum) exploit the transverse spatial distribution of photons and have helical phase front.In recent years, similar to the WDM (wavelength-division multiplexing) technology, OAM multiplexing technology has attracted widespread interest and made remarkable progress in high-speed and large-capacity optical signal transmission.It is worth noting that, optical signal processing is also the key technology of optical communication systems in addition to optical signal transmission.A complete OAM-based optical communication network system includes both OAM multiplexing transmission along network links and OAM signal processing at network nodes.The research progress of optical signal processing with OAM were reviewed, and different optical signal processing functions with OAM and the various OAM-based optical signal processing technologies in different application scenarios were comprehensively summarized.Meanwhile, the future development trend of optical signal processing with OAM was analyzed and its prospect was discussed.The optical signal processing technologies with OAM improve the OAM-based space-division multiplexing optical communication systems, which is expected to provide solutions for realizing efficient and flexible information management of OAM and addressing the new capacity crunch of optical communications.…”
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Chemical Characteristics and Physical Properties of Functional Snacks Enriched with Powdered Tomato by Wójtowicz Agnieszka, Zalewska-Korona Marta, Jabłońska-Ryś Ewa, Skalicka-Woźniak Krystyna, Oniszczuk Anna

“…Snacks enriched with tomato exhibited a lower expansion ratio, water absorption and solubility indices, lightness and sensory characteristics but higher density, hardness and redness than corn snacks. …”
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Performance ratio of the PLTS system for blue swimming crab handling on the boat in field testing and PVsyst software simulation by Kuncoro Ari, Agus Setiawan Ahmad, Natsir Moh, Sasmita Suparman, Wisnugroho Susilo, Setiyobudi Nanang, Zarochman, Hufiadi, Suryo Sukoraharjo Sri, Wassahua Zainal, Muji Permana Sofiyan, Nurbaya Sari Rodiah, Catur Nugroho Kuncoro, Arif Nugraha Bambang

“…We have designed an off-grid PLTS for the initial processing of BSC and lighting. This research aims to determine the performance ratio (PR) of the off-grid PLTS for the initial processing of the BSC compared to simulations using PVsyst software. …”
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How Color Properties Can Be Used to Elicit Emotions in Video Games by Erik Geslin, Laurent Jégou, Danny Beaudoin

“…Our results show a significant correlation between luminance, saturation, lightness, and the emotions of joy, sadness, fear, and serenity experienced by participants viewing 24 video game images. …”
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Automating the quantification of coastal change using historical aerial photography: A case study along the coastline of county Cork, Ireland by Emma Chalençon, Fiona Cawkwell, Michael O’Shea, Jimmy Murphy

“…The approach relies on the Normalised Green–Blue Difference Index (NGBDI), which is versatile enough to discriminate disparate coastal vegetation environments, at different resolutions and in various lighting and seasonal conditions. An iterative optimal threshold process and the use of LiDAR ancillary datasets resulted in an automated vegetation line measurement with uncertainties estimated to be between 0.6 and 1.2 m. …”
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Design and Development of a Wayside AI‐Assisted Vision System for Online Train Wheel Inspection by Muhammad Zakir Shaikh, Sanaullah Mehran, Enrique Nava Baro, Agata Manolova, Mohammad Aslam Uqaili, Tanweer Hussain, Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

“…Further avenues for countering lighting issues and defect detection are provided.…”
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Bolt Loosening Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv8 and Image Matching by Peihe Jiang, Yuhang Geng, Zhongqi Sang, Lifeng Lin

“…The results demonstrate that the bolt target detection model can accurately locate and crop bolt positions and identify loosening angles under various shooting angles, distances, and lighting conditions. At specific shooting angles and appropriate distances, the detection error threshold was less than 2°. …”
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MLPR: YOLOv3 for Real-Time License Plate Recognition in Moroccan Video Streams by Hatim Derrouz, Hamza Alami, Reda Rabie

“…However, ALPR is a challenging task due to several factors, including differences in vehicle license plates between countries, a lack of public datasets, environmental factors that can decrease the performance of recognition models, and challenging lighting conditions for vehicle license plates. In this work, we present an ALPR system for real-time applications specifically designed to detect and recognize Moroccan license plates. …”
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A hypothetical comparative evaluation system for arctic indoors by Seyed-Amin Tabatabaeifard, Jean-François Lalonde, Marc Hébert, André Potvin, Claude MH. Demers

“…Preliminary experiments contrast indoor environments in terms of circadian lighting, thermal uniformity, and view access to outside in the 360° field of view (VAR360). …”
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Design and Implementation of a Deep Learning-Based Hand Gesture Recognition System for Rehabilitation Internet-of-Things (RIoT) Environments Using MediaPipe by Nurul Hanis Mohd Dhuzuki, Ahmad Anwar Zainuddin, Nur Anis Sofea Kamarul Zaman, Alin Nur Maisarah Ahmad Razmi, Wonderful Shammah Kaitane, Asmarani Ahmad Puzi, Mohd Naqiuddin Johar, Maslina Yazid, Nor Azlin Mohd Nordin, Shahrul Naim Sidek, Hasan Firdaus Mohd Zaki

“…The methodology involves the integration of MediaPipe for detecting hand landmarks and adaptive sensitivity algorithms to ensure reliable recognition across different environments, such as varying lighting and hand positions. Future work could incorporate additional deep-learning models like CNNs and RNNs to enhance gesture classification accuracy. …”
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Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Pavement Crack Detection by Haifeng Wan, Lei Gao, Manman Su, Qirun Sun, Lei Huang

“…Achieving high detection accuracy of pavement cracks with complex textures under different lighting conditions is still challenging. In this context, an encoder-decoder network-based architecture named CrackResAttentionNet was proposed in this study, and the position attention module and channel attention module were connected after each encoder to summarize remote contextual information. …”
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Implementation Of Convolutional Neural Network (Cnn) Based On Mobile Application For Rice Quality Determination by Muhammad Zainal Altim, Abdullah Basalamah, kasman kasman

“…In web browser usage, the data shown is also affected by lighting. The accuracy level of the built model reached above 99.8 percent with a validation accuracy rate of 99.7 percent in the data training process. …”
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Emulsion-Type Chicken Sausage Quality with Fat Substitution by Rice Starches during Freeze-Thaw Cycles by A. Kosim, P. Rumpagaporn, K. Vangnai

“…The result showed that the incorporation of non-waxy and waxy rice starch up to 9% increased the emulsion stability, lightness (L*), and the value of hardness, gumminess, and chewiness of chicken sausage (p<0.05). …”
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