Application of the Salp Swarm Algorithm to Optimal Design of Tuned Inductive Choke by Łukasz Knypiński, Milena Kurzawa, Rafał Wojciechowski, Michał Gwóźdź

“…A lumped-parameters model of a tuned inductive choke was developed, with the device’s structure described by three design variables. As an optimality criterion, the multi-objective compromise function was adopted. …”
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Assessing the stability of indoor farming systems using data outlier detection by Jean Pompeo, Ziwen Yu, Chi Zhang, Songzi Wu, Ying Zhang, Celina Gomez, Melanie Correll

“…Ensuring data quality in CEA systems is essential, as it affects system stability and operational efficiency. This research aims to assess system stability by analyzing the correlation between cumulative agricultural operations (Agr.Ops) and air temperature data variability.MethodsThe methodology involved collecting air temperature data from IoT sensors in the CEA system throughout lettuce cultivation trials. …”
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A secondary analysis of gait after a 4-week postural intervention for older adults with hyperkyphosis by L. C. Hughes, A. L. Ellis, H. L. Rogers, M. Hadley, R. V. Galloway

“…Pearson correlation coefficients were utilized to investigate correlations between all variables at baseline and in pre- and post intervention change values. …”
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Dynamic Stability of a Circular Pre-Stressed Elastic Orthotropic Plate Subjected to Shock Excitation by Yuriy A. Rossikhin, Marina V. Shitikova

“…Behind the fronts of these waves, the solution is constructed in terms of ray series, which coefficients are the different order discontinuities in partial time-derivatives of the desired functions, and a variable is the time elapsed after the wave arrival at the plate’s point under consideration. …”
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Effects of two types of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on brain network in Parkinson’s disease by Shuo Liu, Shuo Yang, Chen Wang, Jiarui Li, Lei Wang

“…The iTBS group showed post-treatment changes involving more brain regions in spatiotemporal variability. This study demonstrates that compared to 10Hz-rTMS, iTBS can reduce treatment time while providing superior improvement in functional brain connectivity for PD patients.…”
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Replacing GRACE/GRACE‐FO C30 With Satellite Laser Ranging: Impacts on Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Change by Bryant D. Loomis, Kenneth E. Rachlin, David N. Wiese, Felix W. Landerer, Scott B. Luthcke

“…The C30 coefficient, which has a large impact on the recovered Antarctic Ice Sheet mass changes, is shown here to be poorly observed by GRACE/GRACE‐FO when either mission is operating without two fully functional accelerometers. …”
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Complementing Dynamical Downscaling With Super‐Resolution Convolutional Neural Networks by Deeksha Rastogi, Haoran Niu, Linsey Passarella, Salil Mahajan, Shih‐Chieh Kao, Pouya Vahmani, Andrew D. Jones

“…Modifications, such as incorporating elevation data and data pre‐processing enhances overall model performance, while using exponential and quantile loss functions improve the simulation of extremes. Our findings show SRCNN models efficiently and skillfully downscale precipitation from GCMs. …”
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The Effect of Rural Guide Plan on Objective Quality of Life among Rural Communities in Fariman County by Aliakbar Anabestani, Hamdollah Sojasi Qeidari, Fahime Jafari

“…According to the results of Pearson's correlation tests, the findings of present study showed a significant and strong correlation between implementation of rural guide plan and the mental facet of life quality by a 0.75 correlation coefficient, so that rural guide plan explained 57% of the variation of dependent variable, and among guide plan dimensions the changing environmental rural affected the objective improvement of life quality of villagers by 29 percent. …”
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Development of a Plant-Based Beverage with Tarwi (<i>Lupinus mutabilis</i>) Milk, Polysaccharides from Cushuro (<i>Nostoc sphaericum</i>), and Blueberry Extract by Santos Calderón, Renzo Bañón

“…The response variables were protein (%) content and viscosity coefficient (mPa·s). …”
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THE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF UNSTEADY HEAT CONDUCTION IN SOLIDS by L. M. Ozherelkova, E. S. Savin

“…Both in the case of high and low temperatures, the temperature dependences of the heat capacity and the thermal conductivity coefficient are power-law, which allows us to bring the original heat conduction equation to a form that allows the use of the classical method of variable separation in solving the corresponding boundary value problems for the heat conduction equation. …”
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Mechanical Impedance Control in the Human Arm While Manually Transporting an Open-Top Fluid Filled Dish by Navit Roth, Rami Seliktar, Joseph Mizrahi

“…The function used for damping included first-order dependence on angular velocity. …”
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Land-Cover Semantic Segmentation for Very-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery Using Deep Transfer Learning and Active Contour Loss by Miguel Chicchon, Francisco James Leon Trujillo, Ivan Sipiran, Ricardo Madrid

“…We assessed the U-Net-scSE, FT-U-NetFormer, and DC-Swin architectures, incorporating transfer learning and active contour loss functions to improve performance on semantic segmentation tasks. …”
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Advanced microfluidic strategies for core-shell nanoparticles: the next-generation of polymeric and lipid-based drug nanocarriers by Giuseppe Nunziata, Alessandro Borroni, Filippo Rossi

“…Microfluidic technology has transformed the synthesis of core-shell nanoparticles (CSNPs), providing an unprecedented level of control over their structural and functional properties. This review critically evaluates recent advancements, highlighting the superiority of microfluidic methods over conventional batch techniques, which often suffer from variability and scalability issues. …”
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UNFOLDING FACTORS INFLUENCING PINEAPPLE PRODUCTION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM BAGAMOYO IN TANZANIA by Isaka Kasyupa, Bahati Ilembo

“…The coefficient of determination 𝑅 ଶ = 0.81 showed that the explanatory variables were fit for the model as 81% of the variation in the production of pineapples is explained by the selected seven factors. …”
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Improving Monitoring of Indoor RF-EMF Exposure Using IoT-Embedded Sensors and Kriging Techniques by Randa Jabeur, Alaa Alaerjan

“…These networks consist of numerous sensor nodes, often deployed in challenging terrains where maintenance is difficult. Efficient monitoring approaches are essential to maximize the functionality and lifespan of each sensor node, thereby improving the overall performance of the WSN. …”
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Removal of chromium from synthetic wastewater by electrocoagulation and using natural coagulant (blend of hen eggshell powder with lime): optimization of response surface methodolo... by Werkne Sorsa Muleta, Firomsa Bidira Abdi, Endrias Adane Bekele

“…The central composite design of the response surface methodology was employed to estimate and optimize process variables, such as initial Cr concentration (225–475 mg/L), solution pH (5–9), and current density (0.35–045 A/m2), and treatment time (30–40 min) with an electrode distance (ED) of 0.5 and 1 cm, respectively. 99.90% and 99.74% of removal efficiencies were observed at initial Cr concentration of 456.11 mg/L, a solution pH of 5.45, with current density of 0.47 A/m2, and treatment time of 36.84 min. …”
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Simulation of wheat yield by nitrogen and nonlinearity of environmental conditions by Ana P. B. Trautmann, José A. G. da Silva, Manuel O. Binelo, Antonio C. Valdiero, Luana Henrichsen, Natiane C. F. Basso

“…The experimental design was a randomized block design with four repetitions in a 4 x 3 factorial scheme for N-fertilizer doses (0, 30, 60, 120 kg ha-1) and nutrient supply forms [100% in phenological stage V3 (third expanded leaf); (70%/30%) in the phenological stage V3/V6 (third and sixth expanded leaf) and; fractionated (70%/30%) at the phenological stage V3/E (third expanded leaf and beginning of grain filling)], respectively, in the soybean/wheat and corn/wheat systems. The pertinence functions and the linguistic values established for the input and output variables are adequate for the use of fuzzy logic. …”
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The Relationship Between Supply Environment, Supply Chain Integration and Performance Considering Opportunistic Behaviors by Abbas َAsadi, safanaz Heidari

“…Then, inferential statistics are employed to explain the relationships between variables and generalize the results to the society. …”
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Internet News Headlines: Ontological and Orthological Aspects by E. N. Shirokova

“…The author comes to the conclusion that the focus on the variability and efficiency of headings leads not only to the appearance of lexical and grammatical errors, but also to their replication and consolidation in the mind of the addressee as a result of changes in the structure of cognitive models.…”
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A Multi-objective Transmission Expansion Planning Strategy: A Bilevel Programming Method by S. Zolfaghari-Moghaddam, T. Akbari

“…This paper describes a methodology for transmission expansion planning (TEP) within a deregulated electricity market. Two objective functions including investment cost (IC) and congestion cost (CC) are considered. …”
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