AReLU: Agile Rectified Linear Unit for Improving Lightweight Convolutional Neural Networks by Fu Chen, Yepeng Guan

“…Moreover, CS-AReLU shows its capacity of capturing dependencies among different samples in a batch, achieving higher recognition accuracy on fine-grained classification task.…”
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Comparative study of stability models for identifying stable spring wheat genotypes in diverse conditions by Vijay Kamal Meena, Ram Kumar Sharma, Subhash Chand, Shahil Kumar, Kapil Choudhary

“…Abstract To assess the agronomic performance and genetic stability for grain yield, a set of 36 spring wheat genotypes were grown consecutively for two crop seasons in six environments with varying sowing dates at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi using randomized complete block design with three replications. …”
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Endophytic Bacillus bacteria with RNase activity in the resistance of potato plants to viruses by G. F. Burkhanova, A. V. Sorokan, E. A. Cherepanova, E. R. Sarvarova, R. M. Khairullin, I. V. Maksimov

“…The results showed that the inoculation of potato with B. subtilis 26D and B. thuringiensis increased the grain yield by 32–43 %. In addition, the treatment of potato plants with Bacillus spp. significantly reduced the infection of potato plants with virus M. …”
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Progress towards Sustainable Utilisation and Management of Food Wastes in the Global Economy by Purabi R. Ghosh, Derek Fawcett, Shashi B. Sharma, Gerrard Eddy Jai Poinern

“…The present review examines various reports currently in the literature and quantifies waste levels and examines the trends in wastage for various food sectors such as fruit and vegetable, fisheries, meat and poultry, grain, milk, and dairy. Factors contributing to food waste, effective cost/benefit food waste utilisation methods, sustainability and environment considerations, and public acceptance are identified as hurdles in preventing large-scale food waste processing. …”
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Investigation to Improve the Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics Using Laser-Textured Copper-Grooved Surfaces by Dharmendra Mani, Suresh Sivan, Hafiz Muhammad Ali, Udaya Kumar Ganesan

“…In addition to the microchannel effect, the grain structuring during the laser machining process creates additional nucleation sites which has proven its effectiveness in improving the pool boiling performance. …”
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Early testing on S1 lines of black corn (Zea mays L.) from the Ecuadorian highlands by Jorge Merino, William Viera, Javier Garófalo, Paúl Mejía, Víctor Sánchez

“…The lines presented statistical differences (P ≤ 0.05) in the variables days to male and female flowering, plant height, ear height, leaf disease, ear length, weight of 100 kernels and grain yield. All the variables showed inbreeding depression, except days to male flowering, which presented a low increase. …”
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Analysis of Economic-Biological Traits of Hull-Less Barley and Creation of Source Material for Resistance to Environmental Stress Factors by L. A. Tokhetova, S. I. Umirzakov, R. D. Nurymova, B. K. Baizhanova, G. B. Akhmedova

“…The influence of the type of ripening of the variety and weather conditions of vegetation on the formation and variability of the grain yield of spring hull-less barley is shown. …”
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Impact of processing conditions on the rehydration kinetics and texture profile of freeze-dried carbohydrates sources by Vitor Andre Silva Vidal, Sara Slettemark Juel, Kirill Mukhatov, Ida-Johanne Jensen, Jørgen Lerfall

“…The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of boiling, freeze-drying, and the subsequent rehydration process on the rehydration kinetics of different carbohydrate sources (potato, rice, white pasta, and whole-grain pasta) and texture profile. The effects of boiling time, freeze-drying, rehydration time, and temperature (20, 50, and 90 °C) on the carbohydrate samples were investigated through analyses of moisture content, rehydration capacity, and texture profile. …”
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Change of Tensile Properties with Aging Time and Temperature in Al-Si-Cu-Mg 354 Cast Alloys with/without Minor Addition of Ni and/or Zr by J. Hernandez-Sandoval, M. H. Abdelaziz, E. A. Elsharkawi, A. M. Samuel, F. H. Samuel

“…The main effect of Zr addition lies in a significant reduction in the alloy grain size ∼40%, rather than an increase in the mechanical properties. …”
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Effects of Magnesium Content on Structure and Electrochemical Properties of La-Mg-Pr-Al-Mn-Co-Ni Hydrogen Storage Alloys by L. M. C. Zarpelon, E. P. Banczek, L. G. Martinez, N. B. Lima, I. Costa, R. N. Faria

“…The partial substitution of La by Mg refined the grain structure while the total substitution changed it from equiaxed to columnar. …”
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Extracting Implicit User Preferences in Conversational Recommender Systems Using Large Language Models by Woo-Seok Kim, Seongho Lim, Gun-Woo Kim, Sang-Min Choi

“…Initially, LLMs identify implicit user preferences from conversations, which are then refined into fine-grained numerical values using a BERT-based multi-label classifier to enhance recommendation precision. …”
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Microstructural and mechanical properties degradation of the acceleration/deceleration zones in stainless steel 316L fabricated by selective laser melting by Won-Sang Shin, Taehyun Lee, Hyonkee Sohn, Yoon-Jun Kim, Changkyoo Park

“…A detailed analysis reveals that these zones exhibit unique microstructures, including random sub-grain sizes, σ phase formation, and multiple defects, differing from constant speed scan (CSS) zones. …”
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Conformational Dynamics of Mitochondrial Inorganic Pyrophosphatase hPPA2 and Its Changes Caused by Pathogenic Mutations by Ekaterina Bezpalaya, Svetlana Kurilova, Nataliya Vorobyeva, Elena Rodina

“…The current work describes the conformational dynamics of a structural model of human mitochondrial pyrophosphatase hPPA2 using molecular dynamics simulation, all-atom principal component analysis, and coarse-grained normal mode analysis. In addition to the wild-type enzyme, four mutant variants of hPPA2 were characterized that correspond to the natural pathogenic variants causing severe mitochondrial dysfunction and cardio pathologies. …”
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Investigation of Structural, Magnetic, and Optical Properties of ZnO Codoped with Co and Cd by Lubna Mustafa, Safia Anjum, Salma Waseem, Rehana Zia, Rameesha Choudhry, Shahid M. Ramay, Asif Mahmood, Shahid Atiq, Salah Ud-Din Khan

“…Structural morphology of the samples has been investigated by a scanning electron microscope and grain size has been determined. Raman spectra and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy revealed the successful incorporation of Co and Cd ions into the host ZnO lattice.…”
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Structural Design and Testing of a Corn Header for Soybean–Corn Intercropping by Zhipeng Cao, Qiqiang Li, Linfeng Chen, Yang Zhou, Junshan Nie, Qi Chen, Yuanfeng Xiao, Shaohao Zhou, Lihua Zhang

“…The optimal working parameter combination for the combine harvester includes a forward speed of 0.94 m/s, a stalk roll rotational speed of 566.5 r/min, and a kernel moisture content of 25%, under which conditions the grain loss rate of the corn header is 0.32% and the ear loss rate is 1.1%. …”
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A Few-Shot Knowledge Graph Completion Model With Neighbor Filter and Affine Attention by Hongfang Gong, Yingjing Ding, Minyi Ma

“…However, existing FKGC approaches suffer from the drawbacks of not fully utilizing the structural information in KGs and ignoring the fine-grained information of interactions between entity pairs. …”
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Investigation on enhancing strength and ductility of as-cast Mg-Gd-Y-Zn-Zr alloy by fine-tuning Zn/RE ratio by Yongfeng Li, Ang Zhang, Chuangming Li, Hecong Xie, Hengrui Hu, Bin Jiang, Yuyang Gao, Yuhong Cui, Zongliang Tan, Zhihua Dong, Fusheng Pan

“…The improvement in ductility is attributed to the {10 1‾ 2} twins facilitating the grain deviation from hard orientations and the activation of non-basal <c+a> slip. …”
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On the Elevated Temperature, Tensile Properties of Al-Cu Cast Alloys: Role of Heat Treatment by A. Girgis, A. M. Samuel, H. W. Doty, S. Valtierra, F. H. Samuel

“…The present study aims to investigate the mechanical properties of a newly developed aluminum Al-6.5% Cu-based alloy, coded HT200, as well as to determine how these properties can be further improved using grain refinement and heat treatment. As a result, the effects of different heat treatments and alloying additions on the ambient and high-temperature tensile properties were examined. …”
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Melatonin Promotes Yield Increase in Wheat by Regulating Its Antioxidant System and Growth Under Drought Stress by Xue Li, Jia Liu, Cuiping Zhang, Ze Liu, Xiang Guo, Shaoxiang Li, Hongsheng Li, Kun Liu, Kunzhi Li, Mingliang Ding

“…Further studies demonstrated that 100 µM melatonin seed coating promoted the increase in the thousand-grain weight and yield of wheat under drought stress. …”
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Multi-level representation learning via ConvNeXt-based network for unaligned cross-view matching by Fangli Guan, Nan Zhao, Zhixiang Fang, Ling Jiang, Jianhui Zhang, Yue Yu, Haosheng Huang

“…However, most of the existing methods focus on extracting fine-grained features and ignore the connection of contextual information in the image. …”
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