Study on GPR Image Restoration for Urban Complex Road Surfaces Using an Improved CycleGAN by Xinxin Huang, Jialin Liu, Feng Yang, Xu Qiao, Liang Gao, Tingyang Fu, Jianshe Zhao

“…These unstable factors decrease GPR detection signal strength and cause signal shape distortion, negatively affecting detection accuracy. This reduces the interpretive accuracy of GPR images, impacting precise diagnosis of underground structures and hidden defects in urban roads. …”
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Evaluating sago palm (Metroxylon sagu Rottb.) photosynthetic performance in waterlogged conditions: utilizing pulse-amplitude-modulated (PAM) fluorometry as a waterlogging stress i... by A. Azhar, D. Makihara, H. Naito, H. Ehara

“…However, prolonged waterlogging (more than two months) negatively affected sago palm photosynthetic capacity. …”
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Population dynamics, economic growth, energy mix, and environmental pollution in ASEAN: Exploring the role of renewable, nuclear, and nonrenewable energy using the CCEMG approach by Lilik Sugiharti, Sharmin Akter, Mihir Kumar Das, Dulal Chandra Pattak, Miguel Angel Esquivias, Salma Akter

“…The findings suggest that expanding renewable energy consumption and increasing the role of nuclear energy in electricity generation, are significant strategies for reducing CO₂ in ASEAN countries. …”
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EXAMINING THE CAUSALITY OF CAPITAL TOWARDS LIQUIDITY CREATION BY INVOLVING THE CONTRIBUTION OF EFFECTIVE MANAGERIAL ABILITY by Sri Lestari, Imam Ghozali, Najmudin Najmudin

“…It confirms that when the effective managerial ability in providing credit is higher, a manager could arrange the capital to create higher liquidity and generate greater revenue. The other results report that the creation of liquidity is influenced positively by the risk of credit and influenced negatively by the volatility of earning and reserve requirements. …”
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Wear Prediction and Mechanism Study of Tunnel Boring Machine Disc Cutter Breaking in Hard–Soft Rock Considering Thermal Effect by Xiongfei Lyu, Youliang Chen, Shaoming Liao, Tomas Manuel Fernandez-Steeger

“…The amount of abrasive wear is negatively correlated with the hardness of the cutter ring. …”
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Fume behavior in drainage chamber for underwater local dry welding by Jiaxin REN, Jiqiang HUANG, Liwei GUO, Long XUE, Ruiying ZHANG

“…Underwater local dry welding technology has significant potential for applications in marine engineering, ship repair, and subsea pipeline maintenance. However, the fumes generated during the welding process substantially reduce visibility inside the drainage chamber and negatively influence weld pool observation and visual weld tracking. …”
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Circular economy as a foundation for sustainable enterprise development: accounting aspect by O.V. Oliinyk, S.F. Lehenchuk, O.D. Yurkivska

“…The main drivers for shifting from a linear to a circular economy include inefficient and declining resource use, low production efficiency, increased environmental emissions, and growing concerns over waste generation. …”
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Resource utilization of high aluminum alkaline waste solution to prepare active alumina carrier by LI Qian, HAN Yuqi, ZHANG Yan, YANG Yongbin, DONG Haigang, DU Anrui

“…The recycling of precious metals from spent aluminum-based catalysts generates a large amount of high-Al alkaline waste solutions, which not only cause a serious waste of aluminum resources, but also may have a negative impact on the environment due to their strong alkalinity. …”
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A Comparison Between Artificial Intelligence and Radiologists’ Ability to Detect Lung Nodules by Cristina Mihaela CIOFIAC, Rossy Vlăduţ TEICĂ, Lucian Mihai FLORESCU, Ioana Andreea GHEONEA

“…Artificial Intelligence also improved detection sensitivity from 80% to 99% and significantly lowered false negatives from 938 to 34, enhancing both diagnostic accuracy and efficiency. …”
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Unknown power quality disturbances classification based on transfer learning approach with imbalanced data considerations by Mohammad Mosayebi, Sasan Azad, Mohammad Taghi Ameli

“…In practical scenarios, disturbance occurrences are inherently unpredictable, and the operational conditions of the power system further contribute to their uneven distribution. This imbalance negatively impacts model efficiency. While a well-trained model can achieve high accuracy for a specific set of disturbances, its performance often deteriorates when exposed to unknown ones, necessitating continuous updates. …”
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Optimal expenditure decentralization for sustainable development: evidence from a 52-country panel analysis by Hui Jin, Fu-Sheng Tsai, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

“…Sustainable development is the coordination of economic, social, and environmental development to balance intergenerational welfare and maximize the total welfare of all generations. Excessive and insufficient expenditure decentralization can potentially negatively affect the efficiency of public goods provision and residents’ utility, thereby adversely impacting total welfare and sustainable development. …”
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Key players inducing skin diseases and skin aging and potential preventive or therapeutic strategies using phytochemicals by Hamid Mostafavi Abdolmaleky, Jinrong Zhou

“…As we age, the regenerative capacity of skin stem cells is reduced, and skin wound healing and hair generation efficiency is compromised. At the same time, the production of collagen that supports the skin's structure, elasticity, texture, and appearance is reduced, leading to signs of skin aging such as wrinkles, sagging, and loss of skin firmness, which make skin vulnerable to hazardous environmental perturbations. …”
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The effectiveness of graphene and polyurethane multilayer coating on minimizing the leading-edge erosion of wind turbine blades by Abdullah F. Alajmi, M. Ramulu

“…The leading-edge erosion of wind turbine blades has been shown to negatively affect the turbines’ aerodynamic efficiency and power generation. …”
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PENIAPHOBIA AS A COMPONENT OF THE DESTRUCTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA DISCOURSE IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION by Margarita D. Lagutkina, Zhang Yi, Chang Thi Thu Huong

“…Modern hybrid linguistic-mental and information warfare massively uses the promotion of destruction in the mass media as a tool of negative ‘soft power’ media discourse directed against China, Vietnam and Russia owing to their being the key players in the geopolitical arena of Southeast Asia. …”
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Optimization of the Offshore Wind Turbines Layout Using Cuckoo Search Algorithm by Ibrahim Abdulwahab, Solomon Andrew Onazi, Gideon Rimamfate, Akande Abdulwasiu, Abubakar Umar, N.A Iliyasu

“… Wind turbines have gained popularity as one of the efficient micro grid energy generation sources over the years. …”
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The Reflection That Connects Us with Ourselves, with the Present, and with our Future Perspectives by Gabriella GORBAI

“…This generation will probably have a hard time believing that those horrible times can never re-turn. …”
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Evaluation of advanced extraction techniques to obtain bioactive enriched extracts from garlic (Allium sativum L.) by-products by Ignacio Jiménez-Amezcua, Ana Cristina Soria, Marina Díez-Municio, María Luz Sanz, Ana Isabel Ruiz-Matute

“…Garlic (Allium sativum L.) residues generated during its production are very abundant and their disposal can have a negative impact on the environment, in addition to entailing high management costs for producers. …”
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Managing Arsenic Pollution from Soil–Plant Systems: Insights into the Role of Biochar by Qitao Su, Zhixuan Du, Xinyi Huang, Muhammad Umair Hassan, Faizah Amer Altihani

“…Biochar (BC) is a very effective amendment to remediate polluted soils and it received great attention owing to its appreciable results. Arsenic toxicity negatively affects plant morph-physiological and biochemical functioning and upsurges the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which negatively affect cellular structures. …”
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ShF5H1 overexpression increases syringyl lignin and improves saccharification in sugarcane leaves by Juan Pablo Portilla Llerena, Eduardo Kiyota, Fernanda Raquel Camilo dos Santos, Julio C. Garcia, Rodrigo Faleiro de Lima, Juliana Lischka Sampaio Mayer, Michael dos Santos Brito, Paulo Mazzafera, Silvana Creste, Paula Macedo Nobile

“…We have generated transgenic lines overexpressing ShF5H1 under the control of the C4H (cinnamate 4-hydroxylase) rice promoter, which led to a significant increase of up to 160% in the S/G ratio and 63% in the saccharification efficiency in leaves. …”
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Culture of Bacillus subtilis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae from byproducts of the enzymatic extraction of Atlantoraja castelnaui oil by Andrea L. Salomone †, Daniela L. Lamas

“… The growing trend in global fish consumption has led to the generation of a large amount of waste and byproducts with negative economic and environmental impacts. …”
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