Reading-off the non-geometric scalar potentials with U-dual fluxes by Sayan Biswas, George K. Leontaris, Pramod Shukla

“…It has been observed that the scalar potentials induced by such generalized superpotentials typically have an enormous amount of terms, making it hard to study any phenomenological aspects such as moduli stabilization. …”
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VULNERABLITY OF RURAL LIVELIHOODS IN NINH THUAN PROVINCE TO DROUGHT by Tan Luc Chau, Ha Anh Hoang, Thai Hiep Vo, Thanh Ha Dang

“…The results showed that farmers’ livelihood outcomes were generally low. The regression identified the financial (β=0.230 and 0.205), social (β=0.200 and 0.291), and human capital (β=0.195 and 0.196) impacts on farmers’ livelihood outcomes from both mild and severe droughts. …”
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Brittleness evaluation of main coal seams in Permian Taiyuan-Shanxi formations, Baode block, Ordos Basin: based on a convolutional neural network method by Qingfeng ZHANG, Ziling LI, Jikun ZHANG, Shuai HAO, Xiaoguang SUN, Yanjie SHANG, Yun ZUO

“…The brittleness indices the main coal seams, 4+5# and 8+9#, in the Baode block were generally low. The brittleness index of the 4+5# seam was slightly higher than that of the 8+9# seam. …”
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Multi-scale sparse convolution and point convolution adaptive fusion point cloud semantic segmentation method by Yuxuan Bi, Peng Liu, Tianyi Zhang, Jialin Shi, Caixia Wang

“…Experimental comparisons and ablation studies conducted on the SemanticKITTI and nuScenes datasets validate the generality and effectiveness of the proposed approach. …”
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Properties of Wood Powder Sheets Extruded with Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose and Citric Acid after Heating by Hiroyuki Hiratsuka, Xiangyu Tao, Yuki Tokunaga, Hiroshi Nonaka

“…Plastic products generally have excellent thermal plasticity and water resistance. …”
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Investigation and prediction of fatigue performance of SLM 316 L stainless steel based on small build orientation variations and heat treatment effects by Andrei Yankin, Asma Perveen, Didier Talamona

“…Fatigue tests indicated minor differences between conditions in the low-cycle region but larger gaps in the high-cycle region, where heat-treated samples generally showed superior performance. Inclination angle had a greater effect on fatigue life in the as-built state, with horizontal part orientations outperforming vertical ones. …”
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Panoramic analysis of 2D dirubidium telluride monolayer benchmarking the DFT approach by G. Sneha, R. D. Eithiraj

“…The Perdew-Bruke-Ernzerhof (PBE) form of generalized gradient approximation (GGA) functional in WIEN2k was deployed for the analysis of all these material properties. …”
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Spatiotemporal analysis of ecosystem services and the impact of new-type urbanization: A case study of Chengdu, China by Pinjian Li, Tianhong Li

“…The new-type urbanization factors were generally found to be negatively correlated with ESs, with environmental urbanization making a greater contribution. …”
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Survey of Indoor Air Pollution Health Literacy among Community-dwelling Adults in Taiwan by Jia-Ling Wu, Yu-Han Huang, Yi-Chin Huang, Chien-Cheng Jung, Pei-Chen Lee, Ming-Yeng Lin, Wen-Hsuan Hou, Chung-Yi Li

“…The weighted sample size was 616 subjects aged between 20 and 88 years old (mean: 45.8 years, standard deviation: 18.1). Generally, adult residents of Taiwan showed only a moderate level of overall IAPHL, with the highest and lowest matric-specific score for “understanding” and “appraisi ng,” respectively. …”
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(Pseudo) sluicing in Preposition Stranding Contexts: The Case of Ta'izzi Arabic by Mustafa Ahmed Al-humari

“…The Arabic dialect under study seems to allow sluicing with preposition stranding, thus constituting, in principle, counterevidence to Preposition Stranding Generalization (PSG) proposed by Merchant (2001). That is, Arabic permits a preposition to be stranded under sluicing, though this is not allowed in regular wh-movements. …”
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Robust adaptive optimization for sustainable water demand prediction in water distribution systems by Ke Wang, Jiayang Meng, Zhangquan Wang, Kehua Zhao, Banteng Liu

“…To further enhance the model’s robustness, an innovative optimization algorithm is incorporated within the CEEMD process to minimize the variance in multi-scale arrangement entropy among the decomposed components, thereby improving the model’s generalization capabilities. The predictive power of the proposed model is harnessed through the construction of deep neural networks that utilize the decomposed data to forecast minutely water demand. …”
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On the assessment and reliability of political and ideological education in colleges using deep learning methods by Yongsheng Ma, Xianhui Sun, Aiqun Ma

“…The ANN exhibited the highest errors, with a training RMSE (root mean squares error) of 14.13 and test RMSE of 13.55, indicating weak generalization. The CNN showed substantial improvement, with a training RMSE of 9.31 and test RMSE of 9.32, reflecting moderate but consistent performance. …”
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A Semi-portable Enclosure to Measure Emission Rates from Small Fugitive Sources: Leaf Blower Dust Example by Dennis Fitz, David Pankratz, Sally Pederson, James Bristow

“…The EPA addresses some fugitive emission rates in their AP-42 document and these generally were developed from upwind-downwind sampling. …”
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Log-Driven Behavior Discrimination of Process Robots Using Entropy Similarity by Lu Li, Huan Fang

“…Finally, a series of experiments are conducted on a set of publicly available datasets, validating the feasibility, generality, and effectiveness of the proposed method.…”
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Intestinal Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Patients with Bronchial Asthma by O. Yu. Zolnikova, N. D. Potskhverashvili, N. I. Kokina, A. S. Trukhmanov, V. T. Ivashkin

“…All participants underwent a generally accepted range of clinical and laboratory studies, as well as functional respiratory tests. …”
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Two-Stage Treatment of Enterocutaneous Fistulas by V. Yu. Struchkov, S. V. Berelavichus, E. A. Akhtanin, D. S. Gorin, M. V. Dvukhzhilov, A. A. Goev, A. I. Burmistrov, P. V. Markov, A. G. Kriger

“…Two-stage treatment including multicomponent therapy (nutritional support, infection generalization control, local wound treatment) and reconstructive surgery allowed to reduce mortality rates to 3.4 %, which proves the effectiveness of this method.…”
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Disrupting effects of neonicotinoids and their interaction with metals on thyroid hormone, an evidence of children in a rural area, South China by Ling-Chuan Guo, Pan Zhu, Chunyan Gui, Jing Deng, Yanhong Gao, Chaoyang Long, Han Zhang, Zhanlu Lv, Shengbing Yu

“…Based on linear regression, generalized additive model, and Bayesian kernel machine regression, neonicotinoids levels were found to be correlated with TH, TBG, and TSH levels, with stronger effects for metabolites than parent compounds in most cases. …”
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Phantom-based investigation of block sequential regularised expectation maximisation (BSREM) reconstruction for zirconium-89 PET-CT for varied count levels by Lara M. Bonney, Matthew D. Walker, Daniel R. McGowan

“…The effect of varying beta on several measures of image quality was characterised for the case of a phantom, with the results indicating that the value of beta for optimal Zr-89 quantitation is lower than what is generally used for optimal visualisation. This work demonstrates the need for careful attention to the reconstruction methods used for quantitative imaging studies, such as those required for theragnostic imaging.…”
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Peculiar index relations, 2D TQFT, and universality of SUSY enhancement by Matthew Buican, Linfeng Li, Takahiro Nishinaka

“…., the Minahan-Nemeschansky E6 theory and various generalizations). We then reinterpret the TQFT expressions for the indices of our AD theories in terms of the topology of the corresponding 3D mirror quivers, and we show that our isolated AD theories generically admit renormalization group (RG) flows to interacting superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with thirty-two (Poincaré plus special) supercharges. …”
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND QUALITY OF FINANCIAL REPORTING BY BANKS IN NIGERIA by S.L ADAM, I. A MUHAMMED, Eunice T OLUGANNA, H.K.K ABDULKAREEM

“…The study employs a Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) for a period of seven years (2012-2018). …”
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