Exploring the Impact of School-Based Physical and Perceived Environments on Students’ Physical Activity During Recess: A Case Study of Four Schools in Xi’an, China by Qing Wang, Yan Wang, Lan Zhou, Yong Nan

“…The study’s results confirmed previous findings from a social–ecological perspective and provide a comprehensive assessment framework that includes the spatial organization/spatial quality of the school and the perceived variables of safety, comfort, aesthetics, accessibility and functionality. …”
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Development of Speech Therapy Application for Children with Stuttering (STACS) by Janith Raj Jayaraju, Amudhu Sankar

“…Conclusion: Most parents found this prototype app easy to use, efficient in training their children, and highly functional. …”
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Decarbonisation pathways for industrial clusters through multi-energy systems by Ugochukwu Ngwaka, Yousaf Khalid, Janie Ling-Chin, John Counsell, Ruben Pinedo-Cuenca, Huda Dawood, Andrew J. Smallbone, Nashwan Dawood, Anthony P. Roskilly

“…Given the complex and nonlinear interconnections among systems within a multi-energy cluster, this study extends the dynamic multi-vector methodology to multi-energy system clusters, representing variables as nodes and converting them into transfer functions for system integration. …”
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Why is Multi-Business Forestry Needed to Overcome the Low Performance of Forestry Governance and Food Security in Indonesia? by Suryanto Suryanto, Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat, Suria Darma Tarigan, Iskandar Zulkarnaen Siregar, Ishak Yassir, Mangarah Silalahi, Irdika Mansur, Rhett D. Harisson, Agus Wahyudi, Lutfy Abdulah

“…Results showed that CLD formulated in 280 sub-models in a total of 4,764 decision variables with an error deviation of 6.4%. The SM Mb-F simulation on two sample concession units produces a projected increase in wood supply, employment, and state revenue, plus the provision of new functions such as food, NTFP, and environmental services. …”
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Exploring the nexus of many-body theories through neural network techniques: the tangent model by Senwei Liang, Karol Kowalski, Chao Yang, Nicholas P Bauman

“…The NN representation not only allows us to evaluate the effective interactions efficiently for various geometrical configurations of chemical systems corresponding to various levels of complexity of the underlying wave functions, but also reveals that the bare and effective interactions are related by a tangent function of some latent variables. …”
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Optimization of the flow guiding fins configuration and tube arrangements in a shell and tube heat exchanger: coupling response surface methodology and CFD by Xiangmin Shao, Ali Marzban, Farzad Pourfattah, Omid Ali Akbari, Gholamreza Ahmadi, Nafiseh Emami, Soheil Salahshour

“…In both laminar and turbulent flow regimes, the objective functions include the maximum heat transfer and the minimum pressure drop. …”
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The Impact of Corporate Governance on Earnings Management in Palestine: The Moderating Effects of Political Instability by Ali Hassan Ibraheem Aljadba, Norhaziah Nawai, Nur Hidayah Laili

“…The results of this work may assist the regulatory bodies, policymakers, and practitioners in revising the corporate governance code to promote the efficiency of the BOD and AC monitoring functions for the purpose to improve the faithfulness and reliability of financial reports and also to deter the management from engaging in critical levels of EM.…”
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Building electrical consumption patterns forecasting based on a novel hybrid deep learning model by Nasser Shahsavari-Pour, Azim Heydari, Farshid Keynia, Afef Fekih, Aylar Shahsavari-Pour

“…Specifically, the proposed model comprises three key components: (i) a mutual information-based feature selection method to identify the most significant input variables influencing energy consumption; (ii) a variational mode decomposition (VMD) approach to decompose the original energy consumption signal into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs), capturing relevant trends and eliminating noise; and (iii) a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to perform time-series forecasting of the target energy consumption values. …”
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The Relationship between the Reorganization of Higher Education Institutions' Operations in Poland During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Student Loyalty by Sojkin Bogdan, Bartkowiak Paweł, Michalak Szymon

“…Using exploratory factor analysis (EFA), the main components were identified for various variables pertaining to the functioning, organization, and delivery of online classes, as well as for aspects associated with university operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Histological and molecular characterization of the digestive system of early weaned juveniles of Arapaima sp. reared in a recirculating aquaculture system. by Maria J Darias, Guillain Estivals, Karl B Andree, Christian Fernández-Méndez, Roger Bazán, Chantal Cahu, Enric Gisbert, Diana Castro-Ruiz

“…However, reliance on natural breeding and parental care in earthen ponds results in variable fingerling survival, hindering production. …”
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Surrogate modeling of passive microwave circuits using recurrent neural networks and domain confinement by Kaustab C. Sahu, Slawomir Koziel, Anna Pietrenko-Dabrowska

“…Utilization of frequency as a sequential variable handled by RNN is a distinguishing feature of our approach, which leads to the enhancement of dependability and cost efficiency. …”
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Antigenic characterization of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein precursor incorporated into nanodiscs. by Kristen C Witt, Luis Castillo-Menendez, Haitao Ding, Nicole Espy, Shijian Zhang, John C Kappes, Joseph Sodroski

“…Here we investigate variables associated with reconstitution of the HIV-1 Env precursor into nanodiscs, nanoscale lipid bilayer discs enclosed by membrane scaffolding proteins. …”
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Optimization of the Screw Conveyor Device Based on a GA-BP Neural Network by Qiang Guo, Yunpeng Zhuang, Houzhuo Xu, Wei Li, Haitao Li, Zhidong Wu

“…In this paper, we analyze the force and velocity components acting on the straw, give the design principles for the screw’s conveying parameters under the premise of ensuring maximum conveying capacity and minimum power consumption, and determine the optimal design variables, objective functions, and constraints according to the specific optimization problem; we establish a specific mathematical model, and introduce algorithm optimization for nonlinear problems with many variables and large amounts of calculations. …”
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Measuring and estimation of suspended sediment variation using sediment rating curve approach in Mereg River by Sohila Aghabeigi Amin, Heidar Mirzaei

“…Therefore, recognizing the variability of rivers is essential to manage water resources and environmental issues. …”
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Optimum System Design Using Rough Interval Multi-Objective De Novo Programming by Iftikhar Hussein, Hegazy Zaher, Naglaa Ragaa Saeid, Hebaa Sayed Roshdy

“…This paper suggested a new approach for solving uncertainty of De novo programming problems (DNP) using a combination model consisting of a rough interval multi-objective programming (RIMOP) and DNP, where coefficients of decision variables of objective functions and constraints are rough intervals (RIC). …”
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The Effect of Working Capital on Investment: Evidence from the Tehran Stock Exchange by Ali Ebrahimnejad, Ali Zakizade, Fardin Razmjooei

“…The inclusion of working capital variables reveals higher cash flow coefficients, indicating that conventional models systematically underestimate internal financing's contribution to investment. …”
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Optimization of ultrasound assisted extraction of sappan (Caesalpinia sappan L) wood for preparation of high quality extract by Moh Djaeni, Setia Budi Sasongko, Devi Yuni Susanti, F Widhi Mahatmanti, Andri Cahyo Kumoro, Laeli Kurniasari

“…High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) confirmed the presence of brazilin, while Fourier Transform InfraRed (FTIR) analysis indicated the retention of functional groups. UAE was shown to enhance extraction efficiency and preserve phenolic compounds. …”
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Solid-state analog of gravitational redshift: Transport signatures of massless Dirac fermions in tilted Dirac cone heterostructures by Marziyeh Karmand, Mohsen Amini, Morteza Soltani, Ebrahim Ghanbari-Adivi, Seyed Akbar Jafari

“…A Dirac electron passing through a heterojunction with spatially variable tilt experiences an effective curved spacetime. …”
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Fault localization for automatic train operation based on the adaptive error locating array algorithm by Yanpeng Zhang, Yuxiang Cao

“…To begin with, according to the characteristics of ATO, the adaptive fault localization model is designed and the test parameter table is constructed. Then the Partial Variable Intensity Covering Array (PVICA) algorithm is used to generate the initial set of test cases, and the cases are executed sequentially. …”
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Integrating UAV-Based RGB Imagery with Semi-Supervised Learning for Tree Species Identification in Heterogeneous Forests by Bingru Hou, Chenfeng Lin, Mengyuan Chen, Mostafa M. Gouda, Yunpeng Zhao, Yuefeng Chen, Fei Liu, Xuping Feng

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