Ray tracing design-optimization & experimental validation of water based optical filter to reduce solar PV module heating by Satish Kumar Yadav, K.S. Vishnu Varma, Sidra Khatoon, Vishwadeep Chakraborty, Jyotsna Singh, Rajendra Bahadur Singh, S.M. Mozammil Hasnain, Rustem Zairov

“…Increased temperatures reduce the efficiency due to a negative thermal coefficient, which decreases its power above standard test conditions (25 °C, 1000 W/m2). This research targets the reduction of thermal load on PV modules through the incorporation of a water-based optical filter, designed and optimized using ray tracing techniques. …”
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Absolute Quantitative Photoacoustic Imaging for Contrast Agents Concentration Estimation Using a Spectral Decomposition Approach by Shang Gao PhD, Liudmila Serebrennikova MS, Ryo Murakami MS, Srikanth Boinapally PhD, Sangeeta Ray PhD, Martin G. Pomper MD, PhD, Haichong K. Zhang PhD

“…The method achieved significantly lower concentration estimation errors, with average absolute errors of 1.80 µM in saline and 3.34 µM in blood. …”
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Optimising Farm Area Allocations Based on Soil Moisture Thresholds: A Comparative Study of Two Dairy Farms with Distinct Soil and Topographic Features by Rumia Basu, Owen Fenton, Gourav Misra, Patrick Tuohy

“…Soil moisture thresholds for optimal conditions and corresponding farm area proportions were calculated, identifying areas for targeted farm management. This study addresses the knowledge gap of including high-resolution satellite derived soil moisture as a variable in designing farm management systems targeted towards precision agriculture. …”
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Characterisation of Bambara groundnut landraces: Nutritional and proximate composition by Mosima M. Mabitsela, Sydney Mavengahama, Marthinus J. Booysen, Ethel E. Phiri

“… • Identifying specific landraces with superior nutritional profiles offers practical insights for targeted cultivation efforts. • Targeted cultivation can maximise the nutritional benefits of BGN…”
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Financial protection and universal health coverage in Georgia: an analysis of impoverishing healthcare costs using household income and expenditure surveys  by Akaki Zoidze, George Gotsadze, Tsotne Gorgodze, Jolly Mae Catalan

“…From 2014 to 2023, the average probability of impoverishment was around 0.34, compared with 0.28 in 2013.Discussion The findings suggest that targeted benefits before UHCP may have offered stronger protection than the broader, less targeted approach post-2013. …”
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Optimizing BFloat16 Deployment of Tiny Transformers on Ultra-Low Power Extreme Edge SoCs by Alberto Dequino, Luca Bompani, Luca Benini, Francesco Conti

“…However, most ML applications targeting low-power, low-cost SoCs (TinyML apps) do not employ Transformers as these models are thought to be challenging to quantize and deploy on small devices. …”
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Double cropping detection in the moderate continental climate region of Serbia using machine learning and Sentinel-2 data by Miljana Marković, Predrag Lugonja, Sanja Brdar, Ioannis Athanasiadis, Mirjana Radulović, Branislav Pejak, Minučer Mesaroš, Vladimir Crnojević

“…While most studies focus on regions with higher cropping intenisity, this study targets Vojvodina in northern Serbia, where double cropping is less prevalent. …”
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Integrating machine learning and spatial clustering for malaria case prediction in Brazil’s Legal Amazon by Kayo Henrique de Carvalho Monteiro, Élisson da Silva Rocha, Luis Augusto Morais, Elton Gino Santos, Sebastião Rogerio da S. Neto, Vanderson Sampaio, Patricia Takako Endo

“…Traditional control measures have shown limited effectiveness, emphasizing the need for better predictive approaches to support timely and targeted public health interventions. This study evaluates the performance of six computational models—Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Gated Recurrent Units (GRU), Support Vector Regression (SVR), Random Forest (RF), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA)—for forecasting weekly malaria cases across multiple states in the Legal Amazon. …”
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Geomagnetically Induced Current Mitigation in New Zealand: Operational Mitigation Method Development With Industry Input by D. H. Mac Manus, C. J. Rodger, A. Renton, J. Ronald, D. Harper, C. Taylor, M. Dalzell, T. Divett, M. A. Clilverd

“…Under this mitigation plan, the average 60‐min mean GIC decreased for 27 of the top 30 at‐risk transformers, and the total network GIC was reduced by 16%. …”
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Occupational Therapy in Complex Patients: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial by Martina Pellegrini, Debora Formisano, Veronica Bucciarelli, Margherita Schiavi, Stefania Fugazzaro, Stefania Costi

“…Method. 40 complex patients admitted to the rehabilitation ward of the Local Health Authority-Research Institute of Reggio Emilia (Italy) were randomized in a parallel-group, open-label controlled trial. Experimental OT targeting occupational needs in the areas of self-care, productivity, and leisure was delivered by occupational therapists. …”
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Analysis of Parent and F1 Progeny Verification in African Yam Bean (<i>Sphenostylis stenocarpa</i> Hochst, Ex. A. Rich. Harms) Using Cowpea SSR Markers by Abimbola O. Adefiranye, Liasu A. Ogunkanmi, Oyenike A. Adeyemo, Temitope E. Shonde Olatunde, Rajneesh Paliwal, Michael T. Abberton, Olaniyi A. Oyatomi

“…These were validated using 120 cowpea primers targeting SSRs under optimal PCR conditions, and the size of the PCR-amplified DNA fragments was checked using gel electrophoresis. …”
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Keypoint-based modeling reveals fine-grained body pose tuning in superior temporal sulcus neurons by Rajani Raman, Anna Bognár, Ghazaleh Ghamkhari Nejad, Albert Mukovskiy, Lucas Martini, Martin Giese, Rufin Vogels

“…Leveraging deep learning algorithms that extract body poses from videos of behaving monkeys, applied to a monkey avatar, we investigated neural tuning for pose and viewpoint, targeting fMRI-defined mid and anterior Superior Temporal Sulcus (STS) body patches. …”
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Disparities of healthcare utilization in sexually transmitted diseases management: focusing on racial/regional variances with U.S. national inpatient sample in 2016–2019 by Jeong-Hui Park, Ji Eun Kim, Seohyun Woo, Sun Jung Kim, Sun Jung Kim

“…The number of inpatients with STDs, ER visits, and average hospital charges continuously increased during the study period. …”
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Aggregate distributional cost-effectiveness analysis: a novel tool for health economic evaluation to inform resource allocation by Shan Jiang, Boyang Li, Bonny Parkinson, Shunping Li, Yuanyuan Gu

“…Conventional cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), commonly used in evaluating health interventions, primarily focuses on the average and aggregate health outcomes in the targeted population, neglecting the distributional impacts on health equity. …”
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Stack and Structure: Ultrafast Lasers for Additive Manufacturing of Thin Polymer Films for Medical Applications by Dominic Bartels, Yvonne Reg, Mahboobeh Borandegi, Maximilian Marschall, Alexander Sommereyns, Michael Schmidt

“…These structures can be helpful to obtain progressive part properties or a targeted stress flow, as well as a specified release of secondary phases (e.g., hydrogels) upon load. …”
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Analysis and validation of hub genes for atherosclerosis and AIDS and immune infiltration characteristics based on bioinformatics and machine learning by Qirui Zheng, Yupeng Wu, Xiaojiao Zhang, Yuzhu Zhang, Zaihan Zhu, Bo Luan, Peizhuo Zang, Dandan Sun

“…The Robust Multichip Average was performed for data preprocessing, and the limma package was used for screening differentially expressed genes. …”
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Combining Ability of Maize Landraces for Yield and Basic Chemical Composition of Grain by Aleksandar Popović, Vojka Babić, Zoran Čamdžija, Srboljub Živanov, Dragana Branković-Radojčić, Jelena Golijan Pantović, Vesna Perić

“…The launch of a successful quality-oriented breeding program requires both mining the residual diversity in grain quality parameters contained in the elite, high-yielding breeding material with good agronomic performance and introgression of new germplasm, such as local landraces, with a high level of targeted quality parameters per se. This study analyzed the combining abilities of 31 maize landraces and two divergent inbred lines–testers (ZPL217 and ZPL-255/75-5) regarding the yield and protein, starch, and lipid content, assessed by Near Infrared Reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy as a fast, non-destructive, and cost-effective method. …”
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Molecular Composition of Stream Dissolved Organic Matter in Cool-Temperate Forest Headwaters with Landslides, Northern Japan by Jun’ichiro Ide, Kenta Hara, Yohei Arata, Izuki Endo, Mizue Ohashi, Hiroshi Nishimura, Takashi Gomi

“…The peak-intensity-weighted average aromaticity index (AI_wa) increased with DOC concentration. …”
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Steel Surface Defect Detection Technology Based on YOLOv8-MGVS by Kai Zeng, Zibo Xia, Junlei Qian, Xueqiang Du, Pengcheng Xiao, Liguang Zhu

“…The self-attention mechanism is exploited into the detection network to improve the detection ability of small targets. Defect detection experiments were carried out on the NEU-DET dataset. …”
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Long Time-Series Monitoring and Drivers of Eco-Quality in the Upper-Middle Fen River Basin of the Eastern Loess Plateau: An Analysis Based on a Remote Sensing Ecological Index and... by Yanan He, Baoying Ye, Juan He, Hongyu Wang, Wei Zhou

“…These results provide valuable guidance for formulating targeted ecological restoration measures, protection policies, and engineering solutions.…”
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