Lessons learned from the co-development of operational climate forecast services for vineyards management by N. Pérez-Zanón, V. Agudetse, E. Baulenas, P.A. Bretonnière, C. Delgado-Torres, N. González-Reviriego, A. Manrique-Suñén, A. Nicodemou, M. Olid, Ll. Palma, M. Terrado, B. Basile, F. Carteni, A. Dente, C. Ezquerra, F. Oldani, M. Otero, F. Santos-Alves, M. Torres, J. Valente, A. Soret

“…In the co-design phase, more intense engagement methods were implemented to communicate the capabilities of climate forecasts and design the product’s visualisation. …”
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Microgrid Reliability Incorporating Uncertainty in Weather and Equipment Failure by Sakthivelnathan Nallainathan, Ali Arefi, Christopher Lund, Ali Mehrizi-Sani

“…This study employs two methods to assess and contrast the reliability of a standalone microgrid (SMG) system in order to achieve this goal: (i) random uncertainty within a selected confidence interval and (ii) splitting the cumulative distribution function (CDF) into five regions of equal probability. …”
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Pedestrian Vision Language Model for Intentions Prediction by Farzeen Munir, Shoaib Azam, Tsvetomila Mihaylova, Ville Kyrki, Tomasz Piotr Kucner

“…Traditional deep learning methods have limitations in capturing the complexities of pedestrian behavior, often relying on simplistic representations or indirect inference from visual cues, which hinders their explainability. …”
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Preparation of dental and nursing professionals within Swedish higher education: navigating to confidence in literacies and professional knowledge by Nikolaos Christidis, Jakob Tomasson, Armin Rataghi, Maria Christidis

“…We analyzed the data using non-parametrical methods. Results Upon graduation, the dentists scored high in academic and professional literacy and knowledge. …”
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Synergy-CLIP: Extending CLIP With Multi-Modal Integration for Robust Representation Learning by Sangyeon Cho, Jangyeong Jeon, Mingi Kim, Junyeong Kim

“…In this study, we propose Synergy-CLIP, a novel framework that extends the contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) architecture to enhance multi-modal representation learning by integrating visual, textual, and audio modalities. Unlike existing methods that focus on adapting individual modalities to vanilla-CLIP, Synergy-CLIP aligns and captures latent information across three modalities equally. …”
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Surgical treatment of diabetic macular edema by R. R. Fayzrakhmanov, O. A. Pavlovsky, M. A. Lukinykh, N. S. Egorova

“…Various methods of surgical treatment of DR, which can impact the course of DME, are analyzed, including vitreoretinal surgery using vitrectomy with or without membrane peeling of the internal limiting and epiretinal membranes. …”
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Modern aproaches to diabetic macular edema diagnosticks by A. V. Doga, P. L. Volodin, E. V. Ivanova, D. A. Buryakov, O. I. Nikitin, F> A. Avakyan

“…Thus, early diagnosis and timely treatment of this disease is the key to successfully counteract the uncontrolled decline in the patient’s visual functions. In this article, the team of authors highlighted the possibilities of informative instrumental research methods available in the Arsenal of modern ophthalmological services. …”
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Development of Monoclonal Antibodies for Identifying Plant-Parasitic Nematodes by Bogale M., Sampson E., Hu W., Baniya A., Mishra S., Kwon K., Lopez-Nicora H. D., DiGennaro P.

“…Currently available nematode identification techniques rely on visual microscopic examination of their morphology and limited molecular assays. …”
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The Problem of Grade Inflation: Measurement and Analysis by Andrei R. Markov, Natalia L. Shagas, Elena V. Merekina, Alexandra A. Moskaleva

“…These include: normative regulation of grade distribution; equalizing of grade distribution for different types of courses; stricter regulation of student course selection by types of courses.  …”
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Intrarater and interrater reliability of pulse examination in traditional Indian Ayurvedic medicine by Vrinda Kurande, Rasmus Waagepetersen, Egon Toft, Ramjee Prasad

“…Methods: Fifteen registered Ayurvedic doctors with 3–15 years of experience examined the pulse of 20 healthy volunteers twice, for a total of 600 examinations. …”
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Gold from copper mining as a case study for allocation in life cycle assessment by Benjamin Fritz, Mario Schmidt

“…We demonstrate that the prioritization of allocation methods prescribed by ISO 14044 is often inapplicable. …”
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Property is only another name for monopoly by E. A. Posner, E. G. Weyl

“…Objective: to consider the possibility of a property tax promoting allocative efficiency without losses to investment efficiency. Methods: dialectical approach to the cognition of social phenomena, enabling to analyze them in their historical development and functioning in the context of a set of objective and subjective factors, which determined the choice of the following research methods: formal-logical, comparative-legal, sociological.Results: the existing system of private property interferes with allocative efficiency by giving owners the power to hold out for excessive prices. …”
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Socket Sealing Using Free Gingival Grafts: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Ralitsa Yotsova

“…Forty patients aged 30–65 were equally and randomly allocated to the SS or the control groups. …”
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RRMSE-enhanced weighted voting regressor for improved ensemble regression. by Shikun Chen, Wenlong Zheng

“…Ensemble regression methods are widely used to improve prediction accuracy by combining multiple regression models, especially when dealing with continuous numerical targets. …”
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State sanctions policy: Historical and legal review by Aleksey A. Malinovsky, Elena N. Trikoz

“…The sanctions practice of modern states is introducing increasingly sophisticated methods of political, economic, trade, organizational and legal restrictions, which constitute an institutional strategy of multi-vector impact on the "target state". …”
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Practical guidelines for developing digital health solutions to increase equity in dementia care in the UK by Beth Wolff, Simon Nielsen, Achilles Kiwanuka

“…However, despite all the proposed and observed advantages of DHS, a growing body of research suggests that these DHS are not equally accessible to all. This research aimed to assess whether equity frameworks for digital health solutions can be used to guide the development of digital health solutions to increase access to care for dementia patients in the UK and, thereafter, develop practical guidelines to guide the design of equitable DHS products to address this growing issue.MethodsA scoping review across four databases and grey literature was done to identify equity frameworks and design principles for DHS. …”
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Inequality of Labor Income in Kazakhstan’s Regions: Trends, Causes and Opportunities for Reduction by N. K. Nurlanova, F. M. Dnishev, F. G. Alzhanova, N. K. Saparbek

“…In the modern world, income inequality is growing, the share of labor income is decreasing, and the problems of overcoming poverty and equalizing people’s living standards have become acute. …”
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Firefly Algorithm based Feature Selection for Arabic Text Classification by Souad Larabi Marie-Sainte, Nada Alalyani

“…Furthermore, experiments on OSAC real dataset along with a comparison with the state-of-the-art methods are performed. The proposed method achieves a precision value equals to 0.994. …”
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Urinary stone ablation with a thulium fibre laser: a rate-of-completion evaluation by I. A. Arbuzov, V. S. Chernega

“…We used physical methods of estimation of specific values when we developed a universal indicator of specific value of stone mass reduction.Results. …”
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Sales Promotion and Growth of Bread Bakery Business in Kabale Municipality: A Case Study of Elite Bakery. by Ahurira, Isabel

“…In chapter three this is where the methods of data collection were put into action. The research used both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. …”
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