GAN-based image prediction of maize growth across varieties and developmental stages by Xinyi Wang, Shilong Liu, Zhihao Wang, Zedong Geng, Weikun Li, Chengxiu Wu, Yingjie Xiao, Wanneng Yang, Lingfeng Duan

“…Results This article proposed a visualized growth prediction method based on an improved Pix2PixHD network, incorporating spatial attention mechanisms, an improved loss function, and a modified dropout strategy to enhance prediction accuracy and visual fidelity. …”
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Correlation between Stressful Life Events and Suicidal Ideation among Patients with Schizophrenia in Remission Stage: A Cross-sectional Study by Ashok Silamban, Kailash Sureshkumar, Aravindh Manogaran, Shabeeba Z Kailash

“…Introduction: Patients with schizophrenia often exhibit impaired executive brain function, which disrupts their daily activities. Relapse in schizophrenia has been linked to stressful life events. …”
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Open real-time, non-invasive fish detection and size estimation utilizing binocular camera system in a Portuguese river affected by hydropeaking by Jürgen Soom, Isabel Boavida, Renan Leite, Maria João Costa, Gert Toming, Mairo Leier, Jeffrey A. Tuhtan

“…Nonetheless, employing an automated camera system for underwater monitoring requires that the algorithms function under highly variable environmental conditions, which affect the ability to detect and assess fish size. …”
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LNT-YOLO: A Lightweight Nighttime Traffic Light Detection Model by Syahrul Munir, Huei-Yung Lin

“…A novel SEAM attention module is proposed to refine the features that represent both the spatial and channel information by leveraging the features from the Simple Attention Module (SimAM) and Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) mechanism. The HSM-EIoU loss function is also proposed to accurately detect a small traffic light by amplifying the loss for hard-sample objects. …”
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Spatial Analysis of the Relationship between Ecological Factors and Housing Prices in Tehran by Atefeh Kolyaei, Tahir Prizadi, Habibollah Fasihi

“…Among the independent variables, the average annual temperature, distance from river valleys, distance from fault lines, and green coverage showed the highest correlation coefficients; however, these relationships were negative, indicating an inverse correlation. …”
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Does charcoal act as a protective agent in fish nutrition to increase growth and physiological performance? A meta-analysis by Aliati Iswantari, Vitas Atmadi Prakoso, Nunak Nafiqoh, Rendy Ginanjar, Henti Hendalastuti Rachmat, Agung Irawan, Kurniawan Kurniawan, Mochammad Zamroni, Fathur Rochman, Danung Nur Adli, Mohammad Miftakhus Sholikin, Arif Wibowo, Anuraga Jayanegara

“…Charcoal notably reduced aspartate aminotransferase and increased immunoglobulin levels, suggesting benefits for liver function and immunity. Meta-regression revealed dose-dependent improvements with wood charcoal, whereas responses to bamboo and activated charcoal were variable. …”
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AESware: Developing AES-enabled low-power multicore processors leveraging open RISC-V cores with a shared lightweight AES accelerator by Eunjin Choi, Jina Park, Kyuseung Han, Woojoo Lee

“…AESware supports variable key lengths and ensures minimal power consumption with a compact design. …”
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The Relationship Between Biometric Features of Trees and the Intensity of Birch Sap Leakage in Various Forest Sites by Szczepan Kopeć, Paweł Staniszewski, Robert Tomusiak, Maciej Bilek, Dariusz Zastocki, Tadeusz Moskalik

“…Research on the utility value of birch sap and the influence of a number of factors on its efficiency and quality has been carried out in many research centers, but so far, there are not many studies on the variability of such parameters as a function of time, taking into account the entire period of sap leakage. …”
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Imbalanced Power Spectral Generation for Respiratory Rate and Uncertainty Estimations Based on Photoplethysmography Signal by Soojeong Lee, Mugahed A. Al-antari, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi, Yeong Hyeon Gu

“…Thus, accurate estimation of RRs for cardiopulmonary function is essential for home health monitoring systems. …”
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Effects of Exercise on Physical Fitness in Older Adults with and Without Severe Cognitive Impairment by Oliver Ramos-Álvarez, Elkin Eduardo Roldán-Aguilar, Mariano Altamiranda-Saavedra, Juan Carlos Marín, Víctor Arufe-Giráldez

“…Physical fitness is defined as the ability to perform daily activities efficiently and without excessive fatigue, involving anthropometric variables and physical capacities. …”
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Development and Validation of Quantile Regression Forests for Prediction of Reference Quantiles in Handgrip and Chair‐Stand Test by Giulia Giordano, Luca Mastrantoni, Francesco Landi, The Lookup 8+ Study Group

“…The predictive outputs of these models may serve as surrogate biomarkers of the aging process, capturing functional decline.…”
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Skin hyperspectral imaging and machine learning to accurately predict the muscular poly-unsaturated fatty acids contents in fish by Yi-Ming Cao, Yan Zhang, Qi Wang, Ran Zhao, Mingxi Hou, Shuang-Ting Yu, Kai-Kuo Wang, Ying-Jie Chen, Xiao-Qing Sun, Shijing Liu, Jiong-Tang Li

“…With the skin spectra of fish, five ML methods, including the extreme learning machine (ELM), random forest (RF), radial basis function (RBF), back propagation (BP), and least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) methods, were used to predict the PUFAs and EPA + DHA contents. …”
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Theoretical and technical concept of cemented backfill material for flexible enhanced thermal energy storage in coal underground space by Chao LYU, Wenyu LYU, Qiang SUN, Panshi XIE, Ding LANG, Songtao JI, Jianjun HU

“…The research status of backfill mining is analyzed based on the current coal mining technology and the scientific concept of "cemented backfill material for flexible enhanced thermal energy storage (CBM–FETES)" is proposed by integrating the idea of functional filling. The core of CBM–FETES is to ensure the four essential conditions: the suitability of geological conditions, the feasibility of thermal storage and extraction technologies, high efficiency in heat and mass transfer, and the safety and stability of the operational cycle. …”
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Research on Geometric Mappings in Complex Systems Analysis by Yanyan Cui, Chaojun Wang, Sifeng Zhu

“…We mainly discuss the properties of a new subclass of starlike functions, namely, almost starlike functions of complex order λ, in one and several complex variables. …”
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Vibration Analysis of Rotating Tapered Timoshenko Beams by a New Finite Element Model by Bulent Yardimoglu

“…A new finite element model is developed and subsequently used for transverse vibrations of tapered Timoshenko beams with rectangular cross-section. The displacement functions of the finite element are derived from the coupled displacement field (the polynomial coefficients of transverse displacement and cross-sectional rotation are coupled through consideration of the differential equations of equilibrium) approach by considering the tapering functions of breadth and depth of the beam. …”
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Gevrey Asymptotics for Logarithmic-Type Solutions to Singularly Perturbed Problems with Nonlocal Nonlinearities by Stéphane Malek

“…Their coefficients and forcing terms comprise polynomial and logarithmic-type functions in time and are bounded holomorphic in space. …”
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Evaluating the Potential Use of Wearable Fitness Devices as a Measure of Outcomes in Orthopaedics by Jordan Henderson BS, Santiago Logan-Baca BS, Sara Kisiel BS, Fadi Muheidat PhD, David Jaffe MD

“…Surveys utilized were the Foot and Ankle Ability Measure Computerized Adaptive Testing (FAAM CAT), PROMIS physical function, mobility and pain interference scores, and Visual Analog Scale (VAS). …”
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Machine learning-driven benchmarking of China's wastewater treatment plant electricity consumption by Minjian Li, Chongqiao Tang, Junhan Gu, Nianchu Li, Ahemaide Zhou, Kunlin Wu, Zhibo Zhang, Hui Huang, Hongqiang Ren

“…To overcome the complexity of wastewater compositions, an unsupervised machine learning algorithm, spectral clustering, is introduced to analyze 2,576 WWTPs across China, effectively characterizing influent quality as a single variable and contributing to robust benchmarks with 75 % of the fittings achieving coefficients of determination (R2) >0.85. …”
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Homogenization in Sobolev Spaces with Nonstandard Growth: Brief Review of Methods and Applications by Brahim Amaziane, Leonid Pankratov

“…We review recent results on the homogenization in Sobolev spaces with variable exponents. In particular, we are dealing with the Γ-convergence of variational functionals with rapidly oscillating coefficients, the homogenization of the Dirichlet and Neumann variational problems in strongly perforated domains, as well as double porosity type problems. …”
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Analytical methods for assessing the quality of sugarcane bagasse compost and improving the physicomechanical properties toward densification by Ehsan Sarlaki, Mohammad Hossein Kianmehr, Marzieh Ghorbani

“…For both responses of specific energy consumption and bulk density of SBCs, a two-factor interaction (2FI) model with the highest correlation coefficient and the lowest standard deviation was proposed. …”
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