Beyond Efficiency: The Social and Ecological Costs of Plant Factories in Urban Farming—A Review by László Csambalik, Izóra Gál, Krisztina Madaras, Andrea Tóbiás, Péter Pusztai

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New Bipolar Electrosurgical Vessel Sealing Device Provides Improved Performance and Procedural Efficiency by Chambers R, Sarno D, Roweton S

“…For all other ex vivo and in vivo performance characteristics, no statistically significant differences were found between XP Maryland and the other devices.Conclusion: The study demonstrated the consistent and reliable performance of XP Maryland and the two early LigaSure devices. …”
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Evaluation of transduction efficiency in pancreatic beta and alpha cells utilizing various AAV serotypes by Vishal Ahuja, Sanjeev Jeyabalan, Emmanuel S. Tzanakakis

“…Both AAV2 and AAV9 displayed slightly higher tropism for α-cells than for β-cells, potentially mirroring differences in the expression of heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG)-processing enzymes. …”
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Ultrafiltration of Whole Milk: Impact of Homogenization and Ultrafiltration Temperature on Processing Efficiency and Component Retention by Pramith U. Don, Zeel Modi, Kartik Shah, Prafulla Salunke

“…There were significant differences in compositional parameters. T1 retentate had significantly (<i>p</i> < 0.05) higher crude protein (CP), Ca, Mg, and Zn retention. …”
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Research on efficient numerical method of air flow and heat transfer in a refrigerated truck by Shiming Liu, Qi Deng, Yingsun Sun, Puxian Ding

“…The study also quantifies the impact of turbulent viscosity differences on convergence behavior. Both k-ω models accurately predict the overall temperature field, aligning well with experimental data despite minor local discrepancies. …”
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Exploring the potential of interdental brush in oral cytology: a pilot study on sampling efficiency by Elif Çelebi, Melisa Öçbe, Enver Alper Sinanoğlu, Merva Soluk Tekkeşin

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Assessing acoustic receiver detection efficiency using autocorrelation adjusted machine learning models by Devon A. Smith, James A. Crossman, Eduardo G. Martins

“…Abstract Background Detection efficiency is a key performance metric for acoustic telemetry arrays, providing an estimate of the probability of detecting a passing tagged organism. …”
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On the issue of increasing operational energy efficiency of eight-axle passenger DC electric locomotives by I. N. Nikonchuk

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Febuxostat efficiently reduces the progression of chronic kidney disease in asymptomatic hyperuricemia: an interventional study by Showkat Azad, Pradip Kumar Dutta, Md Nurul Huda, Mohammad Abdul Kader, Biplob Kumar Barua, Mohammad Shawkat Ali, Maria Mehjabin Akhi, Mishu Rahman, Jannatul Efte Ekra, Md. Sujan Islam, Sadia Afrin, Mohammed Mehadi Hassan Chowdhury, Subodh Kumar Sarkar, Ashekul Islam

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EFINet: Efficient Feature Interaction Network for Real-Time RGB-D Semantic Segmentation by Zhe Yang, Baozhong Mu, Mingxun Wang, Xin Wang, Jie Xu, Baolu Yang, Cheng Yang, Hong Li, Rongqi Lv

“…It requires models to balance computational cost and performance by employing more efficient mechanisms to effectively recognize differences in RGB-D multimodal information, retain complementary information, and reduce redundancies. …”
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Multi-Omics Integration Reveals the Impact of Gastrointestinal Microbiota on Feed Efficiency in Tan Sheep by Guohan Sun, Xiaohong Han, Tonggao Liu, Xinrui Zhang, An Shi, Chong Yang, Jinzhong Tao

“…Elucidating the mechanisms by which gastrointestinal microbiota influence the feed conversion ratio (FCR) in ruminants is significantly important for enhancing feed utilization efficiency in these animals. In this study, RT-qPCR, 16S rRNA sequencing, and metabolomic techniques were systematically employed to compare the microbial community structures in the rumen, cecum, and rectum, as well as the differences in rumen metabolites between high- and low-FCR Tan sheep. …”
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A Comparative Evaluation of Antimicrobial Efficacy of Five Different Herbal Solutions: Propolis, Azadirachta Indica (Neem), Triphala, Green Tea, and Turmeric against Enterococcus F... by Omni P. Jain, Ronel Lairenlakpam, Pallavi Priya, Vidhur Chouhan, Karishma Anand, Deepika Dhandoria

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Evaluating spatiotemporal variations in agricultural production efficiency and total factor productivity change index across China by CHANG Siyuan, SHANG Songhao

“…【Objective】Water shortage is a pressing issue in many regions of China, where significant differences exist in agricultural production conditions and efficiency among provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions. …”
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YOLO-EFM: Efficient traffic flow monitoring algorithm with enhanced multi-level information fusion by Shizhou Xu, Kaidi Cui

“…The study establishes a generalized efficient layer aggregation network incorporating Sobel convolution and develops a novel feature focus module that effectively aggregates information from different feature map levels. …”
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Probing the Pitfalls: Understanding SVD’s Shortcomings in Language Model Compression by Сергей Александрович Плетенев

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Adequate Irrigation Amount per Application Is Required to Secure Uniform Water Management in Drip Irrigation Systems by Sooeon Lee, Lynne Seymour, Jongyun Kim

“…Soil moisture sensor-based drip irrigation enables efficient irrigation practices by delivering the required water to plants. …”
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Structural Health Monitoring of Laminated Composites Using Lightweight Transfer Learning by Muhammad Muzammil Azad, Izaz Raouf, Muhammad Sohail, Heung Soo Kim

“…However, due to their orthotropic nature, composite laminates are prone to several different types of damage, with delamination being the most prevalent and serious. …”
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A two-stage distributionally robust CVaR-constrained framework and its approximations for self-scheduling microgrid by Chen Zhang, Jinbao Jian, Linfeng Yang

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Research on a Joint Extraction Method of Track Circuit Entities and Relations Integrating Global Pointer and Tensor Learning by Yanrui Chen, Guangwu Chen, Peng Li

“…To address the issue of efficiently reusing the massive amount of unstructured knowledge generated during the handling of track circuit equipment faults and to automate the construction of knowledge graphs in the railway maintenance domain, it is crucial to leverage knowledge extraction techniques to efficiently extract relational triplets from fault maintenance text data. …”
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Optimizing fully-efficient two-stage models for genomic selection using open-source software by Javier Fernández-González, Julio Isidro y Sánchez

“…Our simulation studies demonstrate the impact of the fully-efficient methodology on prediction accuracy across different implementations and scenarios. …”
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