A Copula Function–Monte Carlo Method-Based Assessment of the Risk of Agricultural Water Demand in Xinjiang, China by Xianli Wang, Zhigang Zhao, Feilong Jie, Jingjing Xu, Sheng Li, Kun Hao, Youliang Peng

“…The findings are crucial for guiding the regulation and efficient use of agricultural water resources in Xinjiang.…”
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Attitudes to the Green Transition and Willingness to Pay in Emerging Markets: Concerned but Not Paying by Pablo García Guzmán, Zsóka Kóczán

“…Our results thus suggest that measures that increase people’s incomes, build trust in government, reduce corruption and increase the transparency and efficiency of government spending could help boost support for green policies. …”
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An Evaluation of Illicit Stimulants and Metabolites in Wastewa ter Effluent and the Wisconsin River Along the Central Wisconsin River Basin by Erik S. Hendrickson, Isaiah J. Robertson

“…The goals of the study were to develop a method for extracting and quantifying illicit stimulants and metabolites, methamphetamine, amphetamine, cocaine, and benzoylecogonine from wastewater effluent and surface water grab samples, and evaluate Central Wisconsin wastewater treatment plant’s (WWTP) removal efficiency of compounds of interest. The method created used HLB solid-phase extraction (SPE) cartridges to extract substances of interest and High Performance Liquid Chromatography tandem Mass Spectrometry (HPLC/MS/MS) for quantification and qualification. …”
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Role of polymers in encapsulation and shape-stabilization of phase change materials (PCMs) for thermal energy storage applications: an overview by Surya Tanwar, Raminder Kaur

“…To improve the performance efficiency and proper handling of PCMs, they are often encapsulated or confined within a shape-stabilized supporting material of an inorganic or organic origin. …”
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The Way-Finding in Educational Modular Buildings: The Case of the Male Engineering Building at Qatar University by Simona Azzali, Eman Abdel Sabour

“…Way-finding is the ability of people to perceive routes, flow patterns, or passageways inside and/or around a building. …”
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Multimodal and Explainable Android Adware Classification Techniques by Momoreoluwa Ayinde, Sheikh Rabiul Islam, Iman Dehzangi, Fahmida Tasnim Lisa

“…Additionally, we incorporate Explainable AI (XAI) to enhance the interpretability of the results. The efficiency of our proposed approach is showcased through its ability to classify adware instances in an explainable manner, highlighting its significance not only in adware classification but also in fortifying against the evolving challenges posed by adware.…”
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A Study of 1-Benzyl-3-phenyl-2-thiourea as an Effective Steel Corrosion Inhibitor in 1.0 M HCl Solution by Quy Huong Dinh, Tran Duong, Nam Pham Cam

“…The results showed that BPTU with the concentration of 2 × 10−4 M and at the temperature of 30°C could protect the steel surface with the highest inhibition efficiency of 94.99% and 94.30% according to EIS and PPM, respectively. …”
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Medical rehabilitation in the combination treatment of rheumatic diseases: a review by A. E. Karateev, M. V. Sukhareva, A. M. Lila

“…Medical rehabilitation is a set of non-drug methods aimed at reducing pain and functional disorders, restoring working ability, social activity, and mental stability in patients. …”
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Review of Cyber-Physical Systems Modeling With UML, SysML, and MARTE by Veronica Opranescu, Anca Daniela Ionita

“…In an era marked by the swift progress of technology, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) conquer one of the top places, standing out through the ability to integrate physical components and processes with software capabilities to improve efficiency and adeptness across diverse domains. …”
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Enhancing Resiliency in Distribution Power Grids with Distributed Generation Through Application of Visualisation Techniques by Yasmin Nigar Abdul Rasheed, Ashish P. Agalgaonkar, Kashem Muttaqi

“…Visualisation offers a means to reveal patterns, trends and connections in data that speed up and present information to a power system operator in a way that can be well understood topographically and provide an ability to accommodate increasing DG resources. Hence, this paper presents a comprehensive literature review of several visualisation techniques that can be embedded for improving operational efficiency and resiliency in modern power grids embedded with distributed and renewable energy resources.…”
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Trajectory planning of seven-degree-of-freedom redundant manipulator in narrow space by Lin Zhang, Yangfan Li, Yingjie Zhang

“…Results demonstrate that I-RRT* outperforms these methods in path length, time efficiency, and overall optimization. In addition, the manipulator’s ability to safely and successfully reach target points in narrow spaces is confirmed. …”
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Using muscle homing peptide CyPep10 to deliver phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers in the mdx mouse by Anne-Fleur E. Schneider, Christa L. Tanganyika-de Winter, Silvana M.G. Jirka, Xuyu Tan, Emily G. Thompson, Kristen Ha, Anindita Mitra, Stephanie Garcia, Marleen Luimes, Ryan A. Oliver, Vincent Guerlavais, Annemieke Aartsma-Rus

“…Here, we explore the effect of using peptide CP10 as a conjugate to phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers (PMOs) ASOs to improve muscle delivery, thereby hoping to achieve increased treatment efficiency. Overall, we confirmed the homing ability of CP10 and observed significantly increased muscle tissue concentration levels of PMO when CP10 was conjugated. …”
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Fusion of Deep Features of Wavelet Transform for Wildfire Detection by Akbar Asgharzadeh-Bonab, Salar Ghamati, Farid Ahmadi, Hashem Kalbkhani

“…The proposed method reaches an accuracy and F1 score of 0.9684 and 0.9672, respectively, from the images of the FLAME dataset, indicating its efficiency in detecting the presence of wildfire locations. …”
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SiAkif-Bots: Gemini AI for Academic Service Chatbots by Bunga Laelatul Muna, Sudianto Sudianto, Muhammad Lulu Latif Usman

“…At Telkom University Purwokerto, there are obstacles to the efficiency of academic services, especially due to information delays and the high burden of onsite services. …”
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APLIKASI TEKNOLOGI TRICHO-KOMPOS DAN PUPUK ORGANIK CAIR UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PRODUKSI SELADA ORGANIK by Purwanto Purwanto, Tarjoko Tarjoko, Agus Haryanto

“…The application of tricho-compost technology combined with POC can increase the production of lettuce plants by 20 percent with a profit of Rp. 150,000.00 per 100 polybags and farming efficiency of 1.88.…”
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Region sampling NeRF-SLAM based on Kolmogorov-Arnold network. by Zhanrong Li, Jiajie Han, Chao Jiang, Haosheng Su

“…Experiments on three different types of datasets show that our approach reduces the trajectory error accuracy of indoor datasets from centimeter-level to millimeter-level compared to existing NeRF-based SLAM and achieves stable reconstruction in complex outdoor environments, considering the performance while ensuring efficiency.…”
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Addis Ababa online home rental management system, Ethiopia by Zerihun Gadisa Obse

“…The current manual record-keeping system is slated for replacement to enhance efficiency in calculations and data storage. The system’s database backend operates on MySQL server, with C# and PHP serving as the front-end programming languages. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of English Speech Rationality Optimization Recognition Based on Improved Particle Filter Algorithm by Hui Dong

“…The improved particle filter algorithm was used for online parameter identification and compared with the standard particle filter algorithm, extended Kalman particle filter algorithm, and traceless particle filter algorithm for parameter identification accuracy and calculation efficiency. The topic model is used to extract the semantic space vector representation of English phonetic text and to sequentially predict the emotional information of different scales at the chapter level, paragraph level, and sentence level. …”
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Quantum capacities of transducers by Chiao-Hsuan Wang, Fangxin Li, Liang Jiang

“…Different figures of merit, including efficiency, bandwidth, and added noise, are typically used to characterize the transducers’ ability to transfer quantum information. …”
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Tuning-Free Universally-Supervised Semantic Segmentation by Xiaobo Yang, Xiaojin Gong

“…Extensive experiments validate the efficiency and effectiveness of our method, and we achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) or competitive performance across various datasets and supervision types. …”
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