A structural health monitoring data reconstruction method based on VMD and SSA-optimized GRU model by Xiaoliang Jia, Guoyan Zhang, Zhiqiang Wang, Huacong Li, Jing Hu, Songlin Zhu, Caiwei Liu

“…The methodology initially employs Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD) to preprocess and decompose the existing data from the target sensor into Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) and residuals. …”
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Inversion of interlayer scale using dynamic data of production wells in bottom water reservoirs: Sangtamu Oilfield, Tarim basin by Mengjiao Dou, Shaohua Li, Wanjiang Bian, Huan Wang, Lunjie Chang, Zhengjun Zhu, Jun Li

“…Abstract The target reservoir is a typical blocky bottom water reservoir. …”
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Research on Intelligent Diagnosis of Corrosion in the Operation and Maintenance Stage of Steel Structure Engineering Based on U-Net Attention by Zhen Duan, Xinghong Huang, Jia Hou, Wei Chen, Lixiong Cai

“…Transfer learning techniques are then applied to determine the corrosion grade of each filtered window, culminating in a weighted average to estimate the overall corrosion grade of the target component. …”
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Neural network method of the decision Of the nonlinear problem of optimum distribution of the non-uniform resource by A. A. Zhuk, V. M. Buloichyk

“…This signal by means of nonlinear function will be transformed to the discrete target signal characterizing values quasi-optimal of the decision of the mentioned problem which size changes from 0 to 1. …”
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Spatial inequities in COVID-19 vaccination in Philadelphia by race and income by Angela D'Adamo, Alina Schnake-Mahl, Usama Bilal, Jane Miller

“…We estimated and compared average vaccination coverage by neighborhood-level income and racial-ethnic composition. …”
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SD-YOLOv5: a rapid detection method for personal protective equipment on construction sites by ChunYa Li, ChunYa Li, Jianhua Wang, Jianhua Wang, Bingfeng Luo, Tubing Yin, Baohua Liu, Baohua Liu, Jianfei Lu

“…The proposed model incorporates a dedicated feature layer for small target detection and integrates the DilateFormer attention mechanism to balance detection performance and computational efficiency. …”
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Sustainable Hybrid Cooling: Integrating Indirect Evaporative and Split Air Conditioning for Improved Indoor Air Quality in Tropical Climates by Tassanu Ruangsuwan, Wantanee Phanprasit, Witaya Yoosook, Vorakamol Boonyayothin, Pajaree Konthonbut, John W. Cherrie, Noppanun Nankongnab

“…Temperature, humidity, and pollutant levels were continuously monitored under varying tropical conditions. The IEC achieved an average cooling capacity of 1430 W, substantially exceeding the target of 566 W, and reduced the fresh air dry-bulb temperature by up to 8.79 °C, maintaining primary air near 25.2 °C, with energy efficiency ratios varying between 30% and 100%. …”
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Automation of flow cytometry data analysis with elastic image registration by Allison Irvine, Mohamed Mahmoud Moustafa, Sahul Patel, Aniket Patel, Lilja Hardardottir, Francesca Delvecchio, Taylor Foreman, Jean Oak, Scott J. Bornheimer, Raffaello Cimbro

“…ElastiGate converts histograms and two-dimensional plots into images, then uses elastic B-spline image registration to transform pre-gated training plot images and their gates to corresponding ungated target plot images, thereby adjusting for local variations. …”
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Study of the Mental Health of the Elderly and Related Factors by Sakineh Gerayllo, Najmeh Shahini, Somayeh Ghorbani, Behzad ghabel

“…Conclusion: Although the prevalence of depression in the elderly is lower than the average of the whole country in this study, they are in a better condition. …”
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Design and Experiment of Orchard Air-Assisted Sprayer with Airflow Graded Control by Fan Feng, Hanjie Dou, Changyuan Zhai, Yanlong Zhang, Wei Zou, Jianjun Hao

“…The results showed that the average airflow attenuation rates in the canopy were 63.0%, 71.8%, and 82.5% for the leaf areas and canopy thicknesses of 826.5 cm², 1409.8 cm², and 1931.1 cm², and 1.5 m, 2.0 m, and 2.5 m, respectively. …”
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Very Low‐Intensity Ultrasound Facilitates Glymphatic Influx and Clearance via Modulation of the TRPV4‐AQP4 Pathway by Chueh‐Hung Wu, Wei‐Hao Liao, Ya‐Cherng Chu, Ming‐Yen Hsiao, Yi Kung, Jaw‐Lin Wang, Wen‐Shiang Chen

“…As such, it may serve as an important target for therapeutic interventions. In the present study, very low‐intensity ultrasound (VLIUS) (center frequency, 1 MHz; pulse repetition frequency, 1 kHz; duty factor, 1%; spatial peak temporal average intensity [Ispta] = 3.68 mW cm2; and duration, 5 min) is found to significantly enhance the influx of cerebrospinal fluid tracers into the paravascular spaces of the brain, and further facilitate interstitial substance clearance from the brain parenchyma, including exogenous β‐amyloid. …”
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An efficient 3D column-only P300 speller paradigm utilizing few numbers of electrodes and flashings for practical BCI implementation. by Onur Erdem Korkmaz, Onder Aydemir, Emin Argun Oral, Ibrahim Yucel Ozbek

“…The experimental results, including statistical significance tests, are presented for single and multiple EEG electrode usage combinations in 1, 3 and 15 flashing repetitions to detect P300 waves as well as to recognize target characters. Using the proposed paradigm, the best average classification accuracy rates on the test data are improved from 89.97% to 93.90% (an improvement of 4.36%) for 1 flashing, from 97.11% to 98.10% (an improvement of 1.01%) for 3 flashings and from 99.70% to 99.81% (an improvement of 0.11%) for 15 flashings when all electrodes, included in the study, are utilized. …”
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A Hidden Surveillant Transmission Line Protection Layer for Cyber-Attack Resilience of Power Systems by Hossein Ebrahimi, Sajjad Golshannavaz, Amin Yazdaninejadi, Edris Pouresmaeil

“…The established framework is applied to the CPPS through the evaluation based on distance from average solution (EDAS) method. The EDAS method allows for dynamic adjustments to the integration level of FDCUs based on an analysis of potential cascading failures from various cyber-attack target sets. …”
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Automatic Acne Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv7 by Delong Zhang, Chunyang Jin, Zhidong Zhang, Xiyuan Cao, Chenyang Xue

“…And the concat node of Neck layer is adjusted to strengthen the feature fusion capability, thus improving the accuracy of target detection. Moreover, the activation function is replaced with ELU to improve the robustness of the model. …”
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StratLearn-z: Improved photo-$z$ estimation from spectroscopic data subject to selection effects by Chiara Moretti, Maximilian Autenrieth, Riccardo Serra, Roberto Trotta, David A. van Dyk, Andrei Mesinger

“…StratLearn is a statistically principled approach which relies on splitting the combined source and target datasets into strata, based on estimated propensity scores. …”
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Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) clamps reduce amplification of host chloroplast and mitochondria rRNA gene sequences and increase detected diversity in 16S rRNA gene profiling analysis... by Usman Hussain, Jim Downie, Amy Ellison, Sandra Denman, James McDonald, Marine C. Cambon

“…Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) clamps prevent this by blocking PCR primer binding or binding within the amplified region of non-target DNA to stop the function of DNA polymerase. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward cervical cancer among market women in the Nigerian federal capital territory, Abuja by Samuel O Azubuike, Patricia Azuh

“…Although several studies on the subject exist in Nigeria, most of these studies targeted women seen in health and other governmental institutions. …”
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Cognitive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Aided Human Bond Communication System: Modeling and Performance Analysis by Saifur Rahman Sabuj, Ashiqur Rahman Rahul, Yeongi Cho, Han-Shin Jo

“…To maximise this system’s energy efficiency, we formulate an optimisation problem to minimise the transmission power and satisfy the target performance in terms of throughput for SUs. …”
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Optimization of commercial SNP arrays and the generation of a high-efficiency GenoBaits Peanut 10K panel by Yaran Zhao, Y. M. Nevame Adedze, Jiahui Dong, Renxu Zhang, Songan Zheng, Haofa Lan, Yurong Li, Song Liu, Yanfen Xu, Jianan Zhang

“…Moreover, the cost of genotyping by target sequencing (GBTS) using this panel is less than $9 per sample, making it more affordable. …”
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The Intelligent Sizing Method for Renewable Energy Integrated Distribution Networks by Zhichun Yang, Fan Yang, Yu Liu, Huaidong Min, Zhiqiang Zhou, Bin Zhou, Yang Lei, Wei Hu

“…To address the problem of balancing investment costs and reliability benefits, as well as to establish the target network structure, firstly, the investment cost of the distribution network is calculated based on the determined number of network structure units. …”
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