MSOAR-YOLOv10: Multi-Scale Occluded Apple Detection for Enhanced Harvest Robotics by Heng Fu, Zhengwei Guo, Qingchun Feng, Feng Xie, Yijing Zuo, Tao Li

“…Furthermore, a Normalized Wasserstein Distance (NWD) loss function is proposed to effectively reduce missed detections of densely packed and overlapping targets. Experimental results in orchards indicate that the proposed improved YOLOv10 model achieves precision, recall, and mean average precision rates of 89.3%, 89.8%, and 92.8%, respectively, representing increases of 3.1%, 2.2%, and 3.0% compared to the original YOLOv10 model. …”
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Investigating the Relationship between Political Intelligence and Communication Skills among Managers and Officials of Teaching Hospitals in Yazd City in 2024 by Hasan Jafari, Mohammad Kazem Rahimi, Farnoosh Ghomi, Atiye Dehghan niri

“…In particular, the lower scores in the sub-dimensions of social games (within political intelligence) and feedback skills (within communication skills) indicate a need for targeted improvement programs. These enhancements could contribute to better managerial performance and overall organizational effectiveness.…”
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Heavy Metal Contamination in Surface Sediments of Wanfeng Lake, Southwest China: Spatial Distribution Patterns and Ecological Risk Assessment by Fengyi Chang, Meng Zhou, Yifei Leng, Xi Zou, Yihan Dai, Chao Ke, Wen Xiong, Zhu Li

“…These findings provide a scientific basis for developing targeted pollution control measures in Wanfeng Lake.…”
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The incidence, mortality, and survival rate of colorectal cancer in Xiamen, China, from 2011 to 2020 by Lingxian Qiu, Wenting Luo, Youlan Chen, Zhinan Guo, Jiali Quan, Jiahuang Chi, Yingying Guan, Yue Huang, Yilan Lin

“…This underscores the urgent need for targeted strategies to address this public health challenges.…”
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Phenological responses of six native Quercus species in Korea under elevated CO2 and temperature treatment by Jung-min Lee, Eui-Joo Kim, Ji-won Park, Yeo-bin Park, Jae-hoon Park, Young-Han You

“…These findings emphasize the need for adaptive, non-linear modeling and species- targeted strategies in forest management under climate change.…”
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An innovative approach to advanced voice classification of sacred Quranic recitations through multimodal fusion by Esraa Hassan, Abeer Saber, Omar Alqahtani, Nora El-Rashidy, Samar Elbedwehy

“…The Fusion Layer proves to be an important layer that combines the ResNet50 model’s final layer with the Global Average Pooling of the raw MFCC features of the audios. …”
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Distribution and source of nutrients and dissolved organic matter in the Dagang river sediments in southeast Hubei, China by Wenwen Xia, Xiaowen Lin, Xiaodong Wu, Xuguang Ge, Zhenni Gao, Zhenhua Sun, Rukeye Wushuer, Yeqing Liu

“…N may have been derived from organic N components in the OM. Targeted measures should be implemented to control the nutrient input and reduce nutrient pollution, and the focus should be on OM pollution sources.…”
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A 3D Superposition Approximation for Gamma Knife Dose Calculation by Payton H. Stone, Lam M. Lay, Raymi Ramirez, Daniel Neck, Connel Chu, Joyoni Dey, David Solis

“…The average differences for the coverage, selectivity, and gradient index were 0.014, 0.008, and 0.118, respectively. …”
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Low-carbon economic dispatch of an integrated energy system considering carbon trading cost-sharing among multiple principals by Songtao HUANG, Jinxing DONG, Xuenan ZHAO, Jiakun HAN, Kuiliang YANG, Junjie LIU

“…In response to the difficulties in carbon trading cost-sharing and the insufficient motivation for emission reduction in the integrated energy system under the dual-carbon targets, a low-carbon economic scheduling strategy based on a multi-principal carbon trading cost-sharing mechanism is proposed. …”
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Development of the Composition and Technology for Obtaining Paclitaxel Nanoscale Formulation Consisting of a Conjugate of Polymer Particles with a Protein Vector Molecule by M. B. Sokol, N. G. Yabbarov, M. R. Mollaeva, M. V. Chirkina (Fomicheva), V. Yu. Balaban'yan, E. D. Nikolskaya

“…A new polymer composition of paclitaxel has been proposed, which provides targeted transport of the drug into tumor cells and improves its safety.Aim. …”
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Deciphering dengue: novel RNA barcoding segments for enhanced serotype-specific identification and global surveillance of dengue viruses by Shuai Jiang, Gaili Zhao, Yunyun Ding, Shunxing Ye, Zeqi Li, Changqiao You, Yan Yin, Xinhong Guo

“…We also established an online database called “Barcodes” for storing and preparing barcode segments.ConclusionThis work established a standard framework for DENV identification and barcode segment selection, promising significant advancements in the real-time management and control of DENVs, thereby enhancing surveillance capabilities and facilitating targeted interventions in dengue outbreak-prone regions.…”
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Green financing for cutting emissions and simultaneous economic upturn in the European Union: Myth or reality? by Kaja Primc, Darja Zabavnik, Miha Dominko, Renata Slabe-Erker

“…The ex-post analysis implies that GHG emissions can be reduced even with lower-than-average green recovery budgets when investments are strategically targeted, while a disconnect between investment size and emission reductions in some newer member states underscores the need for more tailored policy measures. …”
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3D reconstruction of fruit trees and fruit semantic segmentation based on NeRF and improved RandLA-Net by Dacheng YANG, Jun GUO, Jing YANG, Yali ZHANG, Yubin LAN

“…Then, the improved random local point cloud feature aggregation network (RandLA-Net) was adopted to conduct end-to-end semantic segmentation of the fruit tree point cloud, accurately extracting the fruit point cloud. In this study, targeted improvements were made to RandLA-Net. A bilateral enhancement module was added after the encoder layer, and a loss function more suitable for the fruit point cloud segmentation task was adopted. …”
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The Coordinated Development and Identification of Obstacles in the Manufacturing Industry Based on Economy–Society–Resource–Environment Goals by Jiaojiao Yang, Ting Wang, Min Zhang, Yujie Hu, Xinran Liu

“…Given the deficiencies in the definition of connotation, the construction of index systems, and the coordination of targets within the research on sustainable development in the manufacturing industry, an evaluation index system for sustainable development has been established. …”
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Prevalence of dental caries and influence factors among students in Beijing: A cross-sectional study. by Youhan Wen, Yu Liu, Ning Ning, Huiyu Xu, Jingshu Zhang, Hai Zhao, Ran Qin, Lu Wang, Xin Guo, Liyuan Tao

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 21,403 students (average age 12.8 ± 2.5 years old) were included in this cross-sectional survey. …”
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Turkish suicide patterns: Longitudinal analysis of suicide trends in Turkiye (2000 -2022) by Ayhan Tabur, Feruza Turan Sonmez

“…Men accounted for 71.6% of suicides, with an average rate of 6.12/100,000, compared to 2.35/100,000 for women. …”
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Disease burden and trends in gout for adolescents from 1990 to 2021, with projections to 2050 globally, in East Asia and China: results from the Global Burden of Disease study 2021 by Lu Yang, Zhenyu Wang, Ligang Cui

“…Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models projected future trends, while smoothing splines explored associations between sociodemographic index (SDI) and DALYs. …”
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Utility of repeated praziquantel dosing in the treatment of schistosomiasis in high-risk communities in Africa: a systematic review. by Charles H King, Stephanie K Olbrych, Margaret Soon, Mendel E Singer, Jen Carter, Daniel G Colley

“…More rapid reduction of infection-related disease may improve program adherence, and if, as an externality of the program, transmission can be reduced through more effective coverage, significant additional benefits are expected to accrue in the targeted communities.…”
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Developing Interprofessional Immigrant Health Education for Emergency Physicians by Leonardo Garcia Heglund, Katrin Jaradeh, Carolina Ornelas-Dorian, Nicholas Stark, Theresa Cheng, Christopher R. Peabody

“…To evaluate the success of these interventions we administered a pre- and post-survey to 64 EPs (36% of 178 targeted learners) Results: We found a significant increase in confidence and knowledge, with an average 5-point Likert scale score improvement of 1.47 ( P < .001) in all responses and 1.40 (P < .001) in paired responses, and an improvement in test scores on the three knowledge-based questions of 30.66% ( P < .001) in all responses and 33% ( P = .02) in paired responses. …”
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The Tax Policy of the State in the System of Regulation of Economic Development by Poliakov Mykhailo Yo.

“…In addition to the regulation of tax rates, targeted tax incentives are an important tool for tax regulation of economic development. …”
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