LEVEL OF COMPLIANCE OF CORE CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS TO ETHICAL STANDARDS IN NIGERIA by B.A Adeyinka, G.O. Jagboro, G.K. Ojo, S.J. Odediran

“…The study area was Lagos State and the target respondents were the registered professionals including architects, quantity surveyors, builders and engineers. …”
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SGD-TripleQNet: An Integrated Deep Reinforcement Learning Model for Vehicle Lane-Change Decision by Yang Liu, Tianxing Yang, Liwei Tian, Jianbiao Pei

“…This dynamic weight adjustment process fine-tunes the weights based on gradient information to minimize the target loss function. The approach effectively addresses key challenges in autonomous driving lane-change decisions, including slow convergence, low accuracy, and unstable decision-making. …”
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Empirical Modification of Force Fields for the Development of Peptide‐Based Gas Sensors by Thuc Anh Ngo, Tanju Yildirim, Meng‐Qun Feng, Kosuke Minami, Kota Shiba, Genki Yoshikawa

“…This study introduces an empirical modification method to adjust peptide interaction models for a gas phase, aiming to better accommodate the interaction between pentapeptides and target gas molecules. By adapting the weights of terms in the Gibbs free energy equation given in an empirical force field model, we demonstrate a significant increase in the absolute value of coefficient of determination (R02) , from an average of 0.05 with conventional liquid phase models to 0.90 with proposed gas phase models. …”
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Performance of a CTBB bioreactor for the treatment of waste gas: A case study from a sulfur mine in Poland by Damian Kasperczyk, Krzysztof Urbaniec, Eldon R. Rene, Ramon Fernando Colmenares-Quintero

“…The bed was inoculated with a bacterial consortium, including microorganism strains naturally present in the sulfur mine and adapted to the target gaseous pollutants. H2S concentrations in the exhaust gas were 30 −100 mg/m3, but short-lived increases to higher concentrations > 800 mg/m3 were also detected. …”
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Substantiation of Typical Agricultural Areas As a Methodological Basis for the Development of Regional Machine Systems by E. V. Zhalnin, V. A. Zubina

“…It was shown that when developing regional systems of technologies and machines, it is important to take into account all natural agro-climatic conditions and production capabilities in each region’s agricultural sector.Research purpose To develop a methodology for substantiating typical agricultural territories in each agricultural region so that the calculation results obtained for this territory are then generalized for the entire region.Materials and methods The production potential of the region was monitored, the basic assessment criteria were statistically processed and typical agricultural territories were selected according to the minimum deviation of the criteria particular values for the individual regions from the average weighted values for the whole region. All target territories within the region were grouped into homogeneous samples according to the minimum criteria variance. …”
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UAV-based inspection of wind turbine blade surface defects detection technology by TAN Xingguo, ZHANG Gaoming

“…According to the characteristics of images collected by UAV, this paper adopts the weighted average method to realize gray processing, and then, the median filtering is applied to realize image noise reduction; the image enhancement is realized by CLAHE algorithm, which makes the details of target area and defect more clear and complete, and improves the detection efficiency. …”
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A density-based MS disease diagnosis model using the capuchin search algorithm and an ensemble of deep neural networks by LiJuan Bai, Jiao Wu, Li Chen, Xin Jiang, ZhuYin Song

“…The implementation results showed that our method was successful in achieving 100% precision compared to other comparative methods. Also, in the average accuracy criterion, it showed a performance of 99.51%, which shows the high performance of our method in diagnosing patients.…”
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KDDC: a new framework that integrates kmers, dataset filtering, dimension reduction and classification algorithms to achieve immune cell heterogeneity classification by Nan Zhang, Nan Zhang, Shishun Zhao, Runze Wu, Xizi Luo, Ming Yang, Zecheng Chang, Jianting Xu

“…This study aims to uncoverthe potential biological significance of immune prediction, target antigens, andeffective evaluation by analyzing the immune characteristics of specific cellsubsets at the cellular level. …”
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Mycotoxins in oilseeds and vegetable edible oils: an overview of toxicity, occurrence and exposure☆ by Durant Aurore, Pinton Philippe, Puel Olivier, Oswald Isabelle P.

“…These toxins have various effects and target multiple organs (kidneys, liver, nervous system, digestive system, etc.) and some of them, such as aflatoxin B1, ochratoxin A and fumonisins, are carcinogenic or possibly carcinogenic to humans. …”
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Reduced contribution of sulfur to the mass extinction associated with the Chicxulub impact event by Katerina Rodiouchkina, Steven Goderis, Cem Berk Senel, Pim Kaskes, Özgür Karatekin, Michael Ernst Böttcher, Ilia Rodushkin, Johan Vellekoop, Philippe Claeys, Frank Vanhaecke

“…Short-term cooling due to massive release of climate-active agents is hypothesized to have been crucial, with S-bearing gases originating from the target rock vaporization considered an important driving force. …”
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Analysis of specialized care for patients with diabetic foot syndrome in St. Petersburg for 2010–2021 by V. B. Bregovskiy, I. A. Karpova

“…Despite significant quantitative indicators, the outpatient service seems to be insufficiently effective in reaching the target population. The negative impact of the epidemic has led to a significant increase in the frequency of high amputations and mortality.…”
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Efficacy of Fluorinated Nematicides for Management of Root-knot Nematodes in California Processing Tomatoes by Ploeg Antoon T., Edwards Scott, Loffredo Angelo, Becker Jörn Ole

“…The tested compounds have a very low acute mammalian toxicity and are more target-specific than previous generations of nematicides. …”
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Research on Improved Bridge Surface Disease Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOv7-Tiny-DBB by Haichao An, Ying Fan, Zhuobin Jiao, Meiqin Liu

“…In response to the diverse target types, variable morphological characteristics, and the prevalence of small sample targets that are prone to missed detections in the bridge surface disease identification, this paper proposes an improved algorithm for detecting bridge surface diseases based on YOLOv7-Tiny-DBB. …”
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Addressing the challenge of assessing physician-level screening performance: mammography as an example. by Elizabeth S Burnside, Yunzhi Lin, Alejandro Munoz del Rio, Perry J Pickhardt, Yirong Wu, Roberta M Strigel, Mai A Elezaby, Eve A Kerr, Diana L Miglioretti

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>For individual physician quality assessment in cancer screening programs that target low incidence populations, considering imprecision in observed performance metrics due to small numbers of patients with cancer is important.…”
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A directed greybox fuzzer for windows applications by Xin Ren, Peng-fei Wang, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu

“…WinDGF also successfully reproduces 11 known crash points, highlighting its targeted fuzzing capabilities.…”
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Verification of 235U mass content in some nuclear fuel fabrication for CANDU reactors by an absolute method by Ahmed G. Mostafa, Sayed A. Makhlouf, Elham El-Hakim, Morsy S. El-Tahawy, Abdel Fatah A. Hamed, Atef El-Taher

“…These results are found to be acceptable within the limits of the International Target Values.…”
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Review of Network Meta-Analyses on the Efficacy of Chemopreventive Agents on Colorectal Adenomas and Cancer by Yibing Ruan PhD, Chantelle Carbonell BHSc, Karen Brown PhD, Robert J. Hilsden MD, PhD, Darren R. Brenner PhD

“…Colorectal adenomas (CRAs) are a crucial precursor for CRC and a target for preventive strategies. Recent network meta-analyses (NMAs) of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) suggest that chemopreventive agents (CPAs) are associated with reductions in CRC incidence. …”
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Automatic Reading and Reporting Weather Information from Surface Fax Charts for Ships Sailing in Actual Northern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans by Jun Jian, Yingxiang Zhang, Ke Xu, Peter J. Webster

“…This study employed many artificial intelligent (AI) methods including a vectorization approach and target recognition algorithm to automatically detect the severe weather information from Japanese and US weather charts. …”
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Use of Electrofishing to Limit the Spread of a Non-Indigenous Fish Species in the Impoundment of Aoos Springs (Greece) by Athina Ziou, Alexandra S. Douligeri, Nikolaos Kiriazis, Athanasios Korakis, Nikolaos Petsis, Dimitrios K. Moutopoulos, George Katselis

“…The results also indicate that a significant percentage of the target species (71.6% of the total number of species) was removed, with an average time per sampling of 1.2 ± 1 h, whereas the impact on the other native species was minimal. …”
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The Effect of Hydraulic-Natural Fracture Networks on the Waterflooding Development in a Multilayer Tight Reservoir: Case Study by Gang Hui, Shengnan Chen, Youjing Wang, Fei Gu

“…It is found that the six sand layers could be further divided within the target oil layers. These sand layers have a variety of physical and mechanical properties, leading to the asymmetric spatial distribution of hydraulic fractures after performing the integrated fracturing of whole oil layers. …”
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