Dual-Stream Enhanced Deep Network for Transmission Near-Infrared Dorsal Hand Vein Age Estimation with Attention Mechanisms by Zhenghua Shu, Zhihua Xie, Xiaowei Zou

“…Simultaneously, another deep residual network is leveraged to strengthen the representation ability on subtle dorsal vein textures. Moreover, variable activation functions and pooling layers are integrated into the respective streams to enhance the nonlinearity modeling of the dual-stream model. …”
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A Novel Technique for Transmission of M-Ary Signal through Wireless Fading Channel Using Wavelet Denoising by Md. Zahangir Alam, Charles Chittaranjan Patra, Colin Patra, M. Abdus Sobhan

“…The result of the simulation study reveals that the BER performance can be increased using an appropriate control variable to force the mean of each detail coefficient to zero.…”
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UNFOLDING FACTORS INFLUENCING PINEAPPLE PRODUCTION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM BAGAMOYO IN TANZANIA by Isaka Kasyupa, Bahati Ilembo

“…The coefficient of determination 𝑅 ଶ = 0.81 showed that the explanatory variables were fit for the model as 81% of the variation in the production of pineapples is explained by the selected seven factors. …”
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Peroral endoscopic myotomy for complex achalasia and the POEM difficulty score: An update by Carmen Ching Hui Yee, Michael Youssef, Matthew Woo, Robert Bechara

“…PDS correlates moderately with procedural efficiency with a correlation coefficient of 0.595 (Spearman's p < 0.001). …”
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Investigating factors affecting the quality of water resources by multivariate analysis and soft computing approaches by Bing Cheng, Xinyu Liu, Keke Guo, Ahmad Rastegarnia

“…Abstract This study used data from a large dam site to model changes in groundwater quality variables. Several indicators were investigated to check the quality of water sources for the site for different purposes. …”
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Analyzing Worn-Out Texture Regeneration from Urban Branding Perspective Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) (Case Study: Worn-Out Texture of Shahr-e-Kord) by Dvood Mahdavi, Ali Mohammadi Gojani, Waliullah Nazari

“…Furthermore, the findings demonstrated a strong, positive, and significant influence of the branding variable on the regeneration of the worn-out urban fabric with an impact coefficient of 0.833. …”
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Modal Analysis of QP and LP Solution in Steady-state Optimization Layer of Two-layer Structure MPC by WANG Hongrui, ZHANG Xin, LIU Bowen, LIN Na, ZOU Tao

“…Simulation results prove that QP had better continuity than LP when the weight coefficient of decision variables are changed, and the weight coefficient of QP can more accurately adjust the bias of decision variables. …”
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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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A Semantic Generalization of Shannon’s Information Theory and Applications by Chenguang Lu

“…The improvements in machine learning methods involve multi-label learning and classification, maximum mutual information classification, mixture models, and solving latent variables. Furthermore, insights from statistical physics are discussed: Shannon information is similar to free energy; semantic information to free energy in local equilibrium systems; and information efficiency to the efficiency of free energy in performing work. …”
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Prediction of Expected Fouling Time During Transmembrane Transition in Reverse Osmosis Systems by Jozsef Lakner, Gabor Lakner

“…However, due to the porous structure of membranes, they are prone to fouling, which reduces their efficiency and can eventually render the membranes incapable of functioning. …”
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Development of a Plant-Based Beverage with Tarwi (<i>Lupinus mutabilis</i>) Milk, Polysaccharides from Cushuro (<i>Nostoc sphaericum</i>), and Blueberry Extract by Santos Calderón, Renzo Bañón

“…The response variables were protein (%) content and viscosity coefficient (mPa·s). …”
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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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Crystalloid Liberal or Vasopressors Early Resuscitation in Sepsis-Study of Treatment’s Echocardiographic Mechanisms (CLOVERS-STEM) by Michael J. Lanspa, MD, Akram Khan, MD, Patrick G. Lyons, MD, Michelle N. Gong, MD, Ali A. Naqvi, MD, Siddharth Dugar, MD, Abhijit Duggal, MD, Nicholas J. Johnson, MD, Jacob H. Schoeneck, MD, Lane Smith, MD, PhD, Somnath Bose, MD, MPH, Nathan I. Shapiro, MD, Tatyana Shvilkina, DO, Danielle Groat, MStat, Jason R. Jacobs, PhD, Troy D. Olsen, RCDS, Steven Cannavina, RCDS, Daniel B. Knox, MD, Eliotte L. Hirshberg, MD, Wesley H. Self, MD, Samuel M. Brown, MD

“…Receipt of fluid and vasopressors, common treatments in septic shock, may affect cardiac function. OBJECTIVES:. We sought to determine whether a liberal or restrictive fluid resuscitation strategy was associated with changes in cardiac function. …”
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Non-Iterative Estimation of Multiscale Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression Model by Ya-Di Dai, Hui-Guo Zhang

“…The results demonstrate that the non-iterative estimation method for MGTWR significantly enhances computational efficiency while effectively capturing the scale effects of spatiotemporal variation in the regression coefficient functions for each predictor.…”
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Soil moisture and precipitation intensity jointly control the transit time distribution of quick flow in a flashy headwater catchment by H. Türk, C. Stumpp, M. Hrachowitz, K. Schulz, P. Strauss, G. Blöschl, M. Stockinger

“…The results showed that accounting for both soil moisture and precipitation intensity to define the shape of SAS functions for preferential flow improved the tracer simulation in streamflow (increasing the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency from 0.31 to 0.51). …”
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Effects of shading on photosynthetic characteristics and shade-tolerance evaluation of three Ranunculaceae plants by HAN Ruiting, ZHAO Dandan, WANG Weiyi, ZHANG Gexiang*

“…The light saturation point(LSP), light compensation point(LCP)and dark respiration rate(Rd)of the three plants decreased gradually.(3)The original fluorescence(Fo)decreased first and then increased, while the maximum fluorescence(Fm), variable fluorescence(Fv), maximum photochemical efficiency of PS Ⅱ(Fv/Fm)and potential activity of PS Ⅱ(Fv/Fo)values increased first and then decreased; the quantum ratio of heat dissipation(φDo)and the energy dissipated per unit reaction center(DIo/RC)decreased first and then increased, while electron transport quantum yield(φEo), light energy absorbed per unit reaction center(ABS/RC), light energy captured per unit reaction center(TRo/RC), energy used to transfer electrons per unit reaction center(ETo/RC), photosynthetic performance index(PIabs)and comprehensive performance index(PItotal)increased first and then decreased.(4)Comprehensive analysis on 20 single indicators by using analysis methods such as principal component analysis and membership function method showed that the shade-tolerance of the three plants ranked as Thalictrum fortunei > Delphinium anthriscifolium var. savatieri > R. japonicus. …”
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Calculation and Forecast of Glacial Feeding in River Basins by V. G. Konovalov

“…Index δ for the upper reaches of the Rhone River turned out to be not only a representative characteristic of changes in the vegetation period and annual runoff of the river, but also an efficient argument for the super-long-range prediction of these variables for 2025–2054 years.…”
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On the Nonlinear Forced Vibration of the Magnetostrictive Laminated Beam in a Complex Environment by Nicolae Herisanu, Bogdan Marinca, Vasile Marinca

“…The nonlinear differential equations were studied using an original, explicit, and very efficient technique, namely the optimal auxiliary functions method (OAFM). …”
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An FPGA-accelerated multi-level AI-integrated simulation framework for multi-time domain power systems with high penetration of power converters by Chen Liu, Peng Su, Hao Bai, Xizheng Guo, Alber Filbà Martínez, Jose Luis Dominguez Garcia

“…By integrating AI techniques, such as back propagation neural networks, the framework predicts variables with high computational complexity, improving accuracy and simulation efficiency. …”
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Research and Development Expenditures and Economic Growth in the EU: A Panel Data Analysis by Freimane Rita, Bāliņa Signe

“…The estimated model is the production function type standard growth model extended with R&D stock variable. …”
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