Highways and Wildlife: Problems and Solutions by Joe Schaefer, Frank J. Mazzotti, Craig Huegel

“… The expanding network of highways built to transport Florida's residents and visitors has a severe impact on our wildlife resources. Information on this topic is currently in great demand by conservationists, planners, and road builders. …”
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Enhancing Stock Price Forecasting Accuracy Using LSTM and Bi-LSTM Models by Wang Hao

“…This research introduces an innovative approach to predicting stock prices, employing two sophisticated models: Long Short-Tenn Memory (LSTM) and Bidirectional Long Short-Tenn Memory (Bi-LSTM) networks. …”
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Digitalization Directions within Financial Audit Missions by Dragos Ovidiu TOFAN, Dinu AIRINEI

“…The financial auditor has the necessary expertise to respond to such a desire, but he must rely on new tools dedicated to data processing in order to overcome certain barriers determined by the current information complexity. The paper captures some of the directions of digitalization in carrying out audit missions by revealing advantages and also challenges specific to such innovations. …”
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DeepGolf: A fine-grained perception framework for golf course distribution in the real world based on multi-source remote sensing data by Ning Li, Yingchao Feng, Wenhui Diao, Xian Sun, Liang Cheng, Kun Fu

“…Golf courses, while primarily serving as recreational spaces for high-income populations, occupy significant land areas and thus require precise spatial mapping to support land use planning and environmental management. …”
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Real world perspectives on endometriosis disease phenotyping through surgery, omics, health data, and artificial intelligence by Camran R. Nezhat, Tomiko T. Oskotsky, Joshua F. Robinson, Susan J. Fisher, Angie Tsuei, Binya Liu, Juan C. Irwin, Brice Gaudilliere, Marina Sirota, David K. Stevenson, Linda C. Giudice

“…Abstract Endometriosis is an enigmatic disease whose diagnosis and management are being transformed through innovative surgical, molecular, and computational technologies. …”
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CR-DEQ-SAR: A Deep Equilibrium Sparse SAR Imaging Method for Compound Regularization by Guoru Zhou, Yixin Zuo, Zhe Zhang, Bingchen Zhang, Yirong Wu

“…The rising demand for high precision and real-time processing under complex conditions in resource-constrained environments has spurred interest in deep network-based SAR imaging, which combines traditional sparse SAR imaging methods with deep learning to optimize parameters and scene features while retaining physical model interpretability and enabling fast inference. However, the single regularization cannot entirely capture the features of complex observation scenes, and network architectures based on iterative unfolding often face memory and numerical precision constraints during training. …”
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Enhancing Smart City Maturity Through Digital Transformation: A Success Factors Analysis by Widya Listianingsih, Tony Dwi Susanto

“…The study results reveal six factors influencing Smart City maturity: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure, data integration, government policies and strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, environmental sustainability, and innovation and human resource development. …”
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Using Fabric Cutoffs to Create Branding Patchwork Designs Around Kabale Town. by Amutuheire, Anold

“…Additionally, the study explored the role of fashion designers in mitigating environmental pollution by innovatively reusing fabric waste while increasing their income through such practices. …”
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Highways and Wildlife: Problems and Solutions by Joe Schaefer, Frank J. Mazzotti, Craig Huegel

“… The expanding network of highways built to transport Florida's residents and visitors has a severe impact on our wildlife resources. Information on this topic is currently in great demand by conservationists, planners, and road builders. …”
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Applied aspects of modern non-blind image deconvolution methods by O.B. Chaganova, A.S. Grigoryev, D.P. Nikolaev, I.P. Nikolaev

“…Our experimental results show that those neural network models lacking any pre-optimization, such as quantization or knowledge distillation, fall short of classical methods in several key properties, such as inference speed or the ability to handle different types of blur. …”
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Robust adaptive optimization for sustainable water demand prediction in water distribution systems by Ke Wang, Jiayang Meng, Zhangquan Wang, Kehua Zhao, Banteng Liu

“…To further enhance the model’s robustness, an innovative optimization algorithm is incorporated within the CEEMD process to minimize the variance in multi-scale arrangement entropy among the decomposed components, thereby improving the model’s generalization capabilities. …”
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Roof renewal disparities widen the equity gap in residential wildfire protection by Sebastian Reining, Moritz Wussow, Chad Zanocco, Dirk Neumann

“…Notably, in California, over half of wildfire-destroyed homes (54%) are in low-income areas. We investigate the relationship between social vulnerability and wildfire community preparedness using building permits from 16 counties in California with 2.9 million buildings (2013–2021) and the U.S. government’s designation of disadvantaged communities (DACs), which classifies a census tract as a DAC if it meets a threshold for certain burdens, such as climate, environmental, and socio-economic. …”
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Full-space trifunctional metasurface with independent control of amplitude and phase for circularly polarized waves by Li Xi Ming, Zhao Yuan, Lu Ren Pan, Sun Xiao Feng, Yang Zhao, He Hai Dan, Liu Yan Hui, Du Guo Hong

“…However, it remains challenging to achieve independent amplitude and phase control, which seriously hinder the real-world applications. Herein, an innovative strategy of trifunctional metasurface is proposed to independently and simultaneously manipulate the amplitude and phase of circular polarized waves in full space. …”
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The Effect of Group Savings on the Household Welfare in Uganda: A Case Study of Bataka Abamwe Group in Butogota Town Council, Kanungu District. by Akancungura, Sheila

“…In the findings, it was established that savings groups improve overall income or livelihoods. People's savings are not only used for consumption but also it's invested in businesses like agriculture that later will be harvested hence increasing the overall income or livelihood and this makes people to send their children to good schools to attain good levels of education. …”
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Impact of Smallholder Tea Production in Buhunga Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Kyarisiima, Leticia

“…Pearson correlation analysis revealed a strong positive correlation (r = 0.78, p < 0.01) between income levels and investments in education, as well as a moderate positive correlation (r = 0.65, p < 0.01) between income levels and healthcare investments. …”
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Exploiting question-answer framework with multi-GRU to detect adverse drug reaction on social media by Jiao-huang Luo, Ai-hua Yang

“…To solve the problem, we regard ADR detection as a question-answer problem and introduces an innovative neural network framework with multiple GRU layers designed for extracting ADR-related information from tweets. …”
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Effects of the Covid-19 and natural agricultural shocks on preferences of farmers by Hamza Umer, Takashi Kurosaki

“…Overall, these results offer new information about the relative impacts of the Covid-19 and natural shocks on preferences and help us understand the wealth and age-based heterogeneous effects of these shocks.…”
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PostGraduate Prospectus by Kabale University

“…You can take part in a busy programme of events throughout the academic year, such as the Annual International Conference, grants writing and communicating with the public in innovative and creative ways. The Directorate of Graduate Training will give you formal and informal opportunities to raise your profile, network with peers and colleagues, apply transferable skills and help you make the most of your time here. …”
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Village Savings and loan associations and socio-economic empowerment of vulnerable people in Kamuganguzi Sub-County Kabale, District, Uganda. by Deus, Mwijukye, Moses, Agaba

“…The recommendations were; need to improving the health status of women in families as well as children since they are regarded vulnerable in order to let them live happily; there should be improved nutrition and food supply to all families to let children and other members grow healthy and live a happy life; increased household income should be the ultimate goal fostered by credit accessibility in the area which must be done with ease through the start of small and medium enterprises especially women; it is recommended that the vulnerable groups of people have the replacement of the damaged property in case of any loss aiming at keeping standards of living at household level; achieving flexibility to immense development of social capital required the development of the saving culture that promotes regular income to help the community solve their personal problems; the social fund should be a unifying factor that enhances development through increased social networking to allow information flow since information is power.…”
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Evaluation of taste quality of Keemun congou black tea during ripening and the effect of this quality on antioxidant capacity and in vitro inhibition of α-amylase and α-glucosidase... by Wenjing Huang, Zhibin Ye, Yida Wu, Tianzi Yu, Wei Zhao, Zihao Qi, Yanqun Jiang, Qiuyan Liu, Guofu Lu, Jingming Ning

“…The results revealed that the content of polyphenols was greatly affected by ripening, catechins and flavonoids reduced by 63.5 % and 9.2 %, respectively, and theaflavins increased by 14.6 %, thereby attenuating the bitterness and astringency of the tea infusion while enhancing its sweetness and mellowness. …”
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