Machine Learning for the estimation of foliar nitrogen content in pineapple crops using multispectral images and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms by Jorge Enrique Chaparro, José Edinson Aedo, Felipe Lumbreras Ruiz

“…To introduce nitrogen variability, a complete randomized block experimental design was implemented, applying five different treatments in five blocks, each with 12 replications, during a 6-month period in a pineapple crop located in Tauramena, Colombia. …”
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Physiological characteristics of IRR 400 series rubber clones (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg.) under drought stress [version 4; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservation... by Mohammad Basyuni, Yaya Hasanah, Syarifah Aini Pasaribu, Edison Purba

“…The present study aimed to identify drought tolerant traits in order to select or identify drought-tolerant clones at juvenile stage. …”
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Floral Preferences of Butterflies Based on Plant Traits: A Case Study in the National Botanical Garden, Godawari, Nepal by Ujjawala KC, Shailendra Sharma, Asmit Subba, Naresh Pandey, Ankit Kumar Singh, Narayan Prasad Koju, Laxman Khanal

“…Data were collected from 10 blocks (each 5 × 5 m²) through direct observation during the spring and autumn seasons, from March to October 2022. …”
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Magnetized Saline Water Modulates Soil Salinization and Enhances Forage Productivity: Genotype-Specific Responses of <i>Lotus corniculatus</i> L. by Aurelio Pedroza-Sandoval, Luis Ángel González-Espíndola, María del Rosario Jacobo-Salcedo, Isaac Gramillo-Ávila, José Antonio Miranda-Rojas

“…A split-plot randomized block design with three replicates assigned saline water treatments (magnetized [MWT] vs. non-magnetized [NMWT]) to main plots and genotypes to subplots. …”
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Effect of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) varieties on leaf bud sprouting for rapid multiplication of planting materials by Ngakwi Masai Meibuko, Hosea Dunstan Mtui, Anna Baltazari

“…The design used was randomized complete block design (RCBD) in a split–split plot arrangement with three replications. …”
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Research on sealing performance evaluation of CO2 storage in salt-gypsum caprocks of depleted gas reservoirs by JIANG Beibei, LIU Jiabo, ZHANG Guoqiang, WANG Dong, LI Ying, LUO Hongwen, ZHOU Lang

“…The research results can provide technical guidance for site selection and storage safety evaluation of CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs with salt-gypsum caprocks.…”
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Evaluation of dry matter yield and essential oil production in 84 accessions of Tanacetum polycephalum Sch.Bip. through multivariate analyses by Mohammad Ali Alizadeh, Fatemeh Zehtabchi, Ali Ashraf Jafari

“…In order to investigate diversity and explain the relationships of essential oil yield with morphological traits, 84 populations T. polycephalum, were sown in the field using randomized complete blocks design (RCBD) with three replicates in Research Institute of Forest and Rangeland, Tehran, Iran in 2013-2014. …”
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High-entropy alloys: Electrochemical Nanoarchitectonics toward high-performance Water splitting by Christian Iffelsberger, Katarina A. Novčić, Eva Kolíbalová, Frank-Michael Matysik, Martin Pumera

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YOLO-LSD: A Lightweight Object Detection Model for Small Targets at Long Distances to Secure Pedestrian Safety by Ming-An Chung, Sung-Yun Chai, Ming-Chun Hsieh, Chia-Wei Lin, Kai-Xiang Chen, Shang-Jui Huang, Jun-Hao Zhang

“…The CBAM module improves feature selection by incorporating channel and spatial attention mechanisms, thereby enhancing the robustness of small-object detection under complex urban conditions. …”
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Plant pre-breeding for increased protein content in soybean Glycine max (L.) Merrill by Josiane Isabela da Silva Rodrigues, Klever Márcio Antunes Arruda, Newton Deniz Piovesan, Everaldo Gonçalves de Barros

“…These pairs of genotypes when crossed should produce populations with higher means and genetic variances and greater gains with selection.…”
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Correlaciones fenotípicas, ambientales y genéticas en berenjena Phenotypic, genotypic and environmental correlations in eggplant by Hermes Araméndiz Tatis, Carlos Enrique Cardona Ayala, Miguel Mariano Espitia Camacho

“…A completely randomized block design was used with three repetitions and experimental units of 10 m2. …”
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Employment, labor and social protection in a hybrid enforcement regime by S. Yu. Chucha

“…The traditional systematic approach to legal regulation using blocks of legislation formed in advance as a reaction to the situation changing in one direction or another often does not justify itself and each time requires a creative and individual, rather than template, approach from the law enforcement officer to the selection of used tools and norms of different legal regimes , which requires active rule-making to fill emerging gaps. …”
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Study on the Wettability and Spontaneous Imbibition Characteristics of Lacustrine Shale by Haitao Xue, Guozhi Ding, Zhentao Dong, Rixin Zhao, Ce An, Boheng Li, Yuan Zhou, Penglei Yan, Jinliang Yan, Chunlei Li, Yuxi Jin

“…The wettability affects the oil enrichment and restricts the selection of fracturing fluids. Shale is composed of complex minerals and organic matter. …”
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Deep Attention Networks With Multi-Temporal Information Fusion for Sleep Apnea Detection by Meng Jiao, Changyue Song, Xiaochen Xian, Shihao Yang, Feng Liu

“…Traditional machine learning methods for SA detection depend on hand-crafted features, making feature selection pivotal for downstream classification tasks. …”
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Bottom-up construction of chiral metal-peptide assemblies from metal cluster motifs by Pei-Ming Cheng, Tao Jia, Chong-Yang Li, Ming-Qiang Qi, Ming-Hao Du, Hai-Feng Su, Qing-Fu Sun, La-Sheng Long, Lan-Sun Zheng, Xiang-Jian Kong

“…Moreover, we demonstrate that a structure transformation from Ni18L12 to Ni9L6 in the presence of benzopyrone molecules depends on the peptide conformational selection in crystallization. This work reveals that a metal-cluster building block approach enables facile bottom-up construction of artificial metal-peptide assemblies.…”
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Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of thermo-sensitive genic male sterile (TGMS) rice lines using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers and population structure analysis by B Nagendra Naidu, Manonmani Swaminathan, Pushpam Ramamoorthy, Kumaresan Dharmalingam, Raveendran Muthurajan, Selvi Duraisamy, Nivedha Rakkimuthu, Abirami Subramanian, Rithesh Natarajan, Bonipas Antony John

“…These findings support the selective use of parent lines for hybrid rice breeding.…”
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Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in patients undergoing nasal surgeries for prevention of emergence agitation: a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Gustavo R.M. Wegner, Bruno F.M. Wegner, Henrik G. Oliveira, Luis A. Costa, Luigi W. Spagnol, Valentine W. Spagnol, Gilberto T.F. de Oliveira Filho

“…Two independent reviewers selected studies, and data extraction was performed using standardized tables. …”
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Health Workforce related challenges for Emergency Obstetric Care at peripheral health facilities: Providers’ Perspective by Sarika Dakhode, Abhay Gaidhane, Pramita Muntode, Sonali Choudhari, Quazi Syed Zahiruddin, Ajay Dawale

“…Materials and Methods: A descriptive phenomenological type of qualitative research study was done in all peripheral health facilities (seven) in Deoli block of Wardha District (Maharashtra, India) from February-July 2014. …”
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A Retrospective Machine Learning Analysis to Predict 3-Month Nonunion of Unstable Distal Clavicle Fracture Patients Treated with Open Reduction and Internal Fixation by Ma C, Lu W, Liang L, Huang K, Zou J

“…Conversely, the application of nerve blocks, including postoperative block, was correlated with a reduced risk. …”
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Apple Yield Estimation Method Based on CBAM-ECA-Deeplabv3+ Image Segmentation and Multi-Source Feature Fusion by Wenhao Cui, Yubin Lan, Jingqian Li, Lei Yang, Qi Zhou, Guotao Han, Xiao Xiao, Jing Zhao, Yongliang Qiao

“…The DeepLabv3+ network, optimized with Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) and Efficient Channel Attention (ECA), improved fruit tree image segmentation accuracy. …”
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