Enhanced leukemia prediction using hybrid ant colony and ant lion optimization for gene selection and classification by Santhakumar D, Gnanajeyaraman Rajaram, Elankavi R, Viswanath J, Govindharaj I, Raja J

“…Gene selection plays a crucial role in the pre-processing of microarray data, aiming to identify a small set of genes that enhances classification accuracy and reduces costs. …”
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Biomaterial-Assisted Self-Healing for Crack Reduction in High-Performance Centrifugal Concrete Piles by Arian Adibinia, Hesam Dehghan Khalili, Mohammad Mehdi Mohebbi, Mohammad Momeni, Pezhman Moradi, Soleiman Ghouhestani, Ali Poorkarimi

“…Thereafter, a series of compressive strength tests, 30 min water absorption tests (BS 1881), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) combined with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), and EDS mapping (MAP) were conducted to evaluate self-healing efficiency. …”
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FCDNet: A Lightweight Network for Real-Time Wildfire Core Detection in Drone Thermal Imaging by Linfeng Wang, Oualid Doukhi, Deok Jin Lee

“…However, as the demand for higher accuracy in detection algorithms grows, the detection model’s size and computational costs increase, making it challenging to deploy high-precision detection algorithms on edge computing devices onboard drones for real-time fire detection. …”
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Quasi-Uniform Density Non-Solid Infill Strategy for Axisymmetric Non-Planar Additive Manufacturing by Alvaro Guzman-Bautista, Adrián López-Arrabal, Elio Sanchez-Oro-Aguado, Andrea Fernández Gorgojo, Ramiro García-Galán, Francisco J. Badesa, Antonio Vizan-Idoipe

“…This is due to mathematical complexities from curvature distortion, as well as bridging limitations inherent in some NPAM processes. Providing solutions to this problem may result in significant energy, build cycle time, and cost savings. …”
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iYOLOV7-TPE-SS: Leveraging Improved YOLO Model With Multilevel Hyperparameter Optimization for Road Damage Detection on Edge Devices by Haniah Mahmudah, Aulia Siti Aisjah, Syamsul Arifin, Catur Arif Prastyantyo

“…The iYOLOV7 provides real-time processing on edge devices that have limited storage, low-speed processors, and memory. …”
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Multi-Task Water Quality Colorimetric Detection Method Based on Deep Learning by Shenlan Zhang, Shaojie Wu, Liqiang Chen, Pengxin Guo, Xincheng Jiang, Hongcheng Pan, Yuhong Li

“…The colorimetric method, due to its rapid and low-cost characteristics, demonstrates a wide range of application prospects in on-site water quality testing. …”
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Multiclock Constraint System Modelling and Verification for Ensuring Cooperative Autonomous Driving Safety by Jinyong Wang, Zhiqiu Huang, Xiaowei Huang, Yi Zhu, Fei Wang

“…In this paper, we propose a method to combine the requirement modelling process with analysis process together for CADS safety and reliability guarantee. …”
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Novel Technique for Backside Alignment Using Direct Laser Writing by Melissa Mitchell, Siva Sivaraya, Simon J. Bending, Ali Mohammadi

“…This new approach provides a route towards low-cost microfabrication process development.…”
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Operationalising participatory action research to evaluate early years’ population health services by Katie Chadd, Mariam Malik, Anuj Kapilashrami

“…Health professionals especially highlighted poor-quality housing, poor public transport, the cost-of-living crisis and harmful commercial marketing practices as key barriers to promoting good early childhood development. …”
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Progressive Conditional Diffusion Model for Multistage Spectral Restoration of Remote Sensing Image by Jinfeng Gao, Gangqiang Li, Ruxian Yao, Qiang Liu, Junming Zhang

“…Due to the high cost and relatively low image quality of hyperspectral sensors, spectral super-resolution seeks to explore the mapping mechanisms between multispectral and hyperspectral images (HSIs), with the goal of reconstructing high-quality HSIs. …”
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A mobile strategy for water participatory monitoring by Marcelo Nepomoceno Kapp, Bruna Baldasso, Giovanna Juliana Ghellere, Tassius Nicholas Santos Porfirio, Sílvia Sônia da Silva, Wagner Ferreira, Marcela Boroski

“…The increase in industrialization and urbanization processes has directly affected the quality of water resources worldwide, generating impacts on public health and aggravating the availability of clean water. …”
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Progress and Trends in Forage Cactus Silage Research: A Bibliometric Perspective by Stéfani A. Santos, Hortência E. P. Santana, Meirielly S. Jesus, Iran Alves Torquato, Joana Santos, Preciosa Pires, Denise Santos Ruzene, Daniel Pereira Silva

“…Due to its resistance to drought, forage cactus has become an important least-cost ingredient for formulating balanced rations for ruminants during times of scarcity. …”
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Preparation of ultramarine green pigments by recycling of the discarded molecular sieves for green vegetation spectral simulation by Haoyan Zhou, Mei Zu, Xinxuan Tang, Yuanxi Chang, Shiquan Li, Hongrui Yang, Chenglong Lv, Haifeng Cheng

“…At a threshold below 98.5%, the camouflage coating still be misidentified as leaves, this method can recycle massive solid waste resources and significantly reduce the preparation cost of imitation green vegetation camouflage pigments.…”
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Ultrasonically-enhanced leaching: correlating acoustic spectra and solid particle properties in NMC cathode extraction by Chiara Canciani, Varaha P. Sarvothaman, Gianmaria Viciconte, Elia Colleoni, Paolo Guida, William L. Roberts

“…In particular, when applied to the leaching of battery cathode material in hydrometallurgical recycling, it paves the way to the utilization of organic acids in place of mineral acids, lowering the hazardousness and cost of recycling. In this framework, mapping the cavitation activity and understanding the relation between acoustic cavitation and the action of the acid is fundamental for the design and control of the intensified process. …”
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Proceedings of essential health care package development, in Botswana and Sierra Leone, November 2022 by Humphrey Cyprian Karamagi, Solyana Ngusbrhan Kidane, Pierre Claver Kariyo, Araia Berhane Mesfin, Isabella Maina, Gertrude Avortri, Hyppolite Kalambay Ntembwa

“…The concept of health packages has evolved from basic packages (focusing on limited high-burden conditions), to benefit- (cost-effective interventions) and essential packages (what people need, with benefits as sub-packages). …”
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Deprescribing vitamin B6 in a Singapore community hospital by Alvin Shao Qiang Ong, Keith Zhong Hui Lee, Yee Shiang Wong, Eng Fui Lim, Dalvin Wan Hong Koh, Hui Yun Soh, Tsui Pik Chan, Gabriel Gerald Wenjun Yee, Yu Xian Loo, Cheryl Yan Fang Tan

“…The Singapore Health Science Authority released a safety alert on high-dose vitamin B6 and the risk of peripheral neuropathy in May 2023.Methods Patient case notes were reviewed at the beginning of the project, revealing that vitamin B6 was successfully deprescribed in 15.2% of eligible patients at our hospital.We used a swimlane diagram to map processes and cause-and-effect diagrams to identify root causes. …”
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Sustainability Drivers and Sustainable Development Goals-Based Indicator System for Prefabricated Construction Adoption—A Case of Developing Economies by Janappriya Jayawardana, Malindu Sandanayake, J. A. S. C. Jayasinghe, Asela K. Kulatunga, Guomin Zhang

“…The research methodology comprised a literature search, a pilot study, a questionnaire survey targeting PFC stakeholders, statistical analysis, an SDG mapping process, and a case study-based demonstration. …”
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A Lightweight YOLOv8s Algorithm for Ceiling Fan Blade Defect Detection With Optimized Pruning and Knowledge Distillation by Qinyuan Huang, Chen Fan, Yuqi Sun, Jiaxiong Huang, Wengziyang Jiang

“…Using our extensively built dataset, the training process yields a YOLOv8s network capable of reliably identifying the surface defects, functioning as the teacher network for knowledge distillation. …”
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A robust adaptive meta-sample generation method for few-shot time series prediction by Chao Zhang, Defu Jiang, Kanghui Jiang, Jialin Yang, Yan Han, Ling Zhu, Libo Tao

“…The advantage is to realize fast adaptive convergence of samples to new tasks at lower cost, effectively control the overall generalization error, and improve the robustness and non-Gaussian generalization of sample posterior reasoning. …”
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Sensitivity analysis on protein-protein interaction networks through deep graph networks by Alessandro Dipalma, Michele Fontanesi, Alessio Micheli, Paolo Milazzo, Marco Podda

“…In contrast, the time-dependent characteristics of cellular processes are described in Biochemical Pathways (BP), which frame complex networks of chemical reactions as dynamical systems. …”
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