Efficiency of the Outpatient Diabetes Care System in Czechia: A Geodemographic Perspective by Kateřina Brázová, Luděk Šídlo, Jan Bělobrádek

“…The paper examines the intensity and structure of the use of health services and outlines the current functioning thereof in the context of diabetes care in Czechia. …”
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Weight illusions explained by efficient coding based on correlated natural statistics by Paul M. Bays

“…We show that the precision with which human observers estimate object weight varies as a function of both mass and volume in a manner consistent with the estimated joint distribution of those properties among everyday objects. …”
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Analyzing the influence of regulatory capture on environmental efficiency within institutional frameworks by Feng Wang, Feng Wang, Farooq Muhammad Sabil, Farooq Muhammad Sabil, Nazia Feroze, Cheng Tongshun, Faisal Feroze

“…It utilizes provincial-level panel data from China and applies the Slack-Based Measure (SBM) model to assess environmental efficiency. Key institutional variables—including indicators of government quality and legal robustness—are incorporated to examine how they interact with and influence the effects of regulatory capture.ResultsFindings reveal that regulatory capture significantly hinders regional environmental efficiency. …”
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An efficient hybrid downscaling framework to estimate high-resolution river hydrodynamics by Z. Tan, D. Xu, S. Taraphdar, J. Ma, G. Bisht, L. R. Leung

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Energy efficiency in middle-income countries with DEA: An approach for Latin America by Néstor Xavier Maya, M.M. Prieto, Laura Megido

“…From this analysis, the production function, the technical efficiency, the total energy efficiency factor and their respective correlation coefficients versus the per capita income variable are obtained for each country. …”
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Optimizing capacitor size and placement in radial distribution networks for maximum efficiency by R. Arunjothi, K.P. Meena

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Enhanced Lightweight YOLO Model for Efficient Vehicle Detection in Satellite Imagery by Mohamad Haniff Junos, Anis Salwa Mohd Khairuddin, Elmi Abu Bakar, Ahmad Faizul Hawary

“…Vehicle detection in satellite images is a challenging task due to the variability in scale and resolution, complex background, and variability in object appearance. …”
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Engineering novel CRISPRi repressors for highly efficient mammalian gene regulation by Andrew Kristof, Krithika Karunakaran, Christopher Allen, Paula Mizote, Sophie Briggs, Zixin Jian, Patrick Nash, John Blazeck

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DANNET: deep attention neural network for efficient ear identification in biometrics by Deepthy Mary Alex, Kalpana Chowdary M., Hanan Abdullah Mengash, Venkata Dasu M., Natalia Kryvinska, Chinna Babu J., Ajmeera Kiran

“…This shift has highlighted the need for reliable biometric systems that can function effectively even when facial features are partially obscured. …”
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The Impact of the Preferential Attachment Level on the Innovation Network Structure and Innovation Efficiency by Lei Hua, Zhong Yang, Jiyou Shao, Dan Jin

“…In the formation process of innovation networks, the level of preferential attachment between agents has an important impact on the resulting structural and functional characteristics of a network. A simulation model of innovation networks with variable preferential levels of attachment is established to study these impacts. …”
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An innovative high-throughput genome releaser for rapid and efficient PCR screening by Guoliang Yuan, Aljon Salalila, Sungjoo Hwang, Zhiqun Daniel Deng, Zhiqun Daniel Deng, Shuang Deng

“…Additionally, we developed software to support its automated functions. Our results demonstrated that the specially engineered 96-well plate and HTGR effectively squash fungal spores, releasing sufficient genomic DNA for PCR screening with 100% efficiency. …”
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Experimental analysis of innovative perforated heat sinks for enhanced photovoltaic efficiency by Sebastian-Valeriu Hudișteanu, Nelu-Cristian Cherecheș, Florin-Emilian Țurcanu, Iuliana Hudișteanu, Marina Verdeș, Ana-Diana Ancaș

“…The experimental setup was placed on a roof terrace, exposing the panels to real-world weather and functional conditions. Each cooling solution, designed with variable characteristics, aimed to efficiently dissipate heat generated by the PV panels, particularly during warmer seasons. …”
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Short light/dark cycles favour photosynthetic efficiency and growth in grapevines by Mariana Gómez Tournier, Laurent Torregrosa, Jana Kändler, Angélique Christophe, Romain Boulord, Anna Medici, Anne Pellegrino

“…We evaluated photosynthetic efficiency, leaf growth, biomass production and partitioning, and resource use efficiency (water and light). …”
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Eficiência de uso da radiação solar na produtividade do trigo decorrente da adubação nitrogenada Solar radiation use efficiency on the wheat grain yield as a function of nitrogen f... by Alexandre B. Heinemann, Luís F. Stone, Agostinho D. Didonet, Maria da G. Trindade, Bruno B. Soares, José A. A. Moreira, Abelardo D. Cánovas

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An Efficient Coupled Genetic Algorithm-NLP Method for Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis

“…Solving such problems leads to difficulties in the optimization of continuous and binary variables. This paper presents a new efficient and robust method in which structural parameters are optimized by genetic algorithm (G.A.) and continuous variables are handled due to a modified objective function for maximum energy recovery (MER). …”
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Evaluation of the Efficiency of Metaheuristic Algorithms in the Optimal Design of Pile Wall Retaining Systems by Farshad Taiyari

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An efficient eigenvector-based crossover for differential evolution: Simplifying with rank-one updates by Tae Jong Choi

“…We propose a new approach to enhancing the efficiency of the differential evolution (DE) algorithm, specifically targeting rotational invariance. …”
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Photocatalytic Efficiency of TiO2-Biomass Loaded Mixture for Wastewater Treatment by Devagi Kanakaraju, Soon Pang Wong

“…The objective of this study was to assess the efficiency of a novel TiO2/modified sago bark (TiO2/MSB) mixture for the degradation of sago wastewater effluent by employing response surface methodology (RSM) using chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal as the target parameter. …”
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Demonstrating Efficient and Robust Bosonic State Reconstruction via Optimized Excitation Counting by Tanjung Krisnanda, Clara Yun Fontaine, Adrian Copetudo, Pengtao Song, Kai Xiang Lee, Ni-Ni Huang, Fernando Valadares, Timothy C.H. Liew, Yvonne Y. Gao

“…In this work, we introduce an efficient and robust technique of optimized reconstruction with excitation-number sampling (ORENS) based on the idea of the generalized Q function. …”
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A New Paradigm in AC Drive Control: Data-Driven Control by Learning Through the High-Efficiency Data Set—Generalizations and Applications to a PMSM Drive Control System by Madalin Costin, Ion Bivol

“…Knowing a reasonable number of optimal efficiency operation points, an interpolation Radial Base Function (RBF) control was built. …”
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