Green promises or greenwashing? Unveiling the impact of China's low-carbon city pilot policy by Mengjuan Ling, Xiaoting Wang, Kalybek Zh. Abdykadyrov

“…Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the policy's effects are stronger in small-scale, low-finance constrain, low-emission firms, and industries with low competition and pollution, particularly in the central and western regions. …”
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Feasibility of Low-Code Development Platforms in Precision Agriculture: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions by Emin Guresci, Bedir Tekinerdogan, Önder Babur, Qingzhi Liu

“…Our findings suggest that LCDPs can enable farmers and agricultural professionals to create tailored applications for real-time monitoring, data analysis, and automation, enhancing farming efficiency. …”
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The effectiveness of Pilates exercise in people with chronic low back pain: a systematic review. by Cherie Wells, Gregory S Kolt, Paul Marshall, Bridget Hill, Andrea Bialocerkowski

“…<h4>Data sources</h4>A search for RCTs was undertaken using Medical Search Terms and synonyms for "Pilates" and "low back pain" within the maximal date range of 10 databases. …”
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DEFORMATION REGIMES AND LOW-RANK PALEOTECTONIC STRESSES OF THE WESTERN TIAN SHAN IN THE MESOZOIC – CENOZOIC by R. A. Umurzakov

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Evaluating low back pain through electrodermal activity: a systematic review protocol by Sergio Hernandez-Sanchez, Sergio Sebastia-Amat, Juan Tortosa-Martinez, Gema Sanchis-Soler, Juan Manuel Cortell-Tormo

“…Adhering to Spanish guidelines, ethical approval is deemed unnecessary for our secondary analyses, given the de-identification and anonymous analysis of all data.PROSPERO registration number CRD42023464812.…”
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Therapeutic itinerary of patients with chronic low-back pain attending outpatient physiotherapy clinic by Chidozie Emmanuel Mbada, Samuel Olaniyi Oladapo, Chizoba Favour Igwe, Olufemi Oyeleye Oyewole, Clara Fatoye, Abiola Oladele Ogundele, Francis Fatoye

“…Data was analysed using thematic content analysis. …”
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Therapeutic itinerary of patients with chronic low-back pain attending outpatient physiotherapy clinic by Chidozie Emmanuel Mbada, Samuel Olaniyi Oladapo, Chizoba Favour Igwe, Olufemi Oyeleye Oyewole, Clara Fatoye, Abiola Oladele Ogundele, Francis Fatoye

“…Data was analysed using thematic content analysis. …”
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Low-Complexity Timing Correction Methods for Heart Rate Estimation Using Remote Photoplethysmography by Chun-Chi Chen, Song-Xian Lin, Hyundoo Jeong

“…This study addresses these issues by introducing low-complexity timing correction methods, including linear, cubic, and filter interpolation, to improve HR estimation from rPPG signals under conditions of irregular sampling and data loss. …”
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Low-overhead routing algorithm for opportunistic networks based on immunity information piggybacked by SV by Zhi REN, Cong CHEN, Ya-nan CAO, Chen PENG, Qian-bin CHEN

“…A novel routing algorithm,LRPI (low-overhead routing with piggybacked immunity information) was proposed.LRPI contains the following four new mechanisms:piggybacking the immune information with SV(summary vectors),fast generation of the immune information through a cross-layer method,an improved exchange mechanism of SV,and adaptive compression of SV.Based on the above new mechanism,LRPI not only avoids using special data structure but also can achieve the same immune function more quickly.Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that LRPI outperforms the classical epidemic routing algorithm and a few of its improvements in terms of control overhead,the number of saved packets,and average end-to-end delay.…”
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES IN THE TRANSITION TO A LOW-CARBON ECONOMY AT REGIONAL LEVEL IN BULGARIA by Violetka ZHELEVA, Nedelin MARKOV

“…The analysis of the available data shows that the sustainable dimensions of the three coal mining regions is highly threatened.…”
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Transfusion Risk Factors in Low-Energy Pelvic Fractures: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Hieronim Kołodziejczyk MD, Filip Brzeszczyński MB, BCh, BAO, Oktawiusz Bończak MD, PhD

“…The area under curve analysis for ROC showed good predictive accuracy for blood transfusion in patients with low haemoglobin level on first assessment (AUC = 0.9) and for first control haemoglobin (AUC = 0.88). …”
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Development pathways for low carbon cities in China: A dual perspective of effectiveness and efficiency by Xiangrui Xu, Lu Chen, Xiaoyun Du, Qiaojing Chen, Renpeng Yuan

“…To address this gap, this study employs Back Propagation (BP) Neural Network and three-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models to conduct an empirical assessment of LCC performance in 35 mega-cities in China from both effectiveness and efficiency dimensions. …”
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Human activity recognition system based on low-cost IoT chip ESP32 by Chao HU, Bangyan LU, Yanbing YANG, Zhe CHEN, Lei ZHANG, Liangyin CHEN

“…Human activity recognition widely exists in applications such as sports management and activity classification.The current human activity recognition applications are mainly divided into three types: camera-based, wearable device-based, and Wi-Fi awareness-based.Among them, the camera-based human activity recognition application has the risk of privacy leakage, and the wearable device-based human activity recognition application has problems such as short battery life and poor accuracy.Human activity recognition based on Wi-Fi sensing generally uses Wi-Fi network cards or software-defined radio devices to identify the rules of channel state information changes, so as to infer user activity.It does not have the problems of privacy leakage and short battery life.But Wi-Fi network cards need to rely on computers and software-defined radio platforms are expensive, which greatly limit the application scenarios of Wi-Fi sensing.Aiming at the above problems, a human activity recognition system based on the low-cost IoT chip ESP32 was proposed.Specifically, the Hampel filter and Gaussian filter were used to preprocess the channel state information obtained by ESP32.Then, the principal component analysis and discrete wavelet transform were utilized to reduce the dimension of the data.Finally, the K-nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm was applied to classify data.The experimental results show that the system can achieve a recognition accuracy which close to the current mainstream Wi-Fi perception system (Intel 5300 network card) when only two ESP32 nodes are deployed, and the average accuracy rate for the six activities is 98.6%.…”
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Eye training games for children with low vision: A design-based research study by Mehmet Donmez, Kursat Cagiltay

“…This study investigated the design processes for developing eye training materials for children with low vision (CLV) using computer game applications based on eye movement tracking to enhance their vision skills. …”
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Improving the assessment of medication adherence: Challenges and considerations with a focus on low-resource settings by Saurav Basu, Suneela Garg, Nandini Sharma, M Meghachandra Singh

“…Methods based on the secondary database analysis are mostly ineffectual in low-resource settings lacking electronic pharmacy and insurance databases and allowing refills without updated, valid prescriptions from private pharmacies. …”
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Women entrepreneurs and sustainable development: Promoting business performance from the low-income groups by Nurul Hidayana Mohd Noor, Ibraheem Saleh Al Koliby, Abdullah Kaid Al-Swidi, Mohammed A. Al-Hakimi

“…The study provides the latest insights by delivering the analysis from the three broad analysis levels: micro, meso, and macro, and by examining the enablers from individual, societal, and institutional perspectives. …”
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Observations of Relativistic Electron Enhancement and Butterfly Pitch Angle Distributions at Low L (<3) by D. O'Brien, X. Li, L. Khoo, R. S. Selesnick, B. Hogan, H. Zhao, Y. Mei, V. Hoxie, D. N. Baker, S. G. Kanekal

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Insights into Low-Resource Language Modelling: Improving Model Performances for South African Languages by Ruan Visser, Trieko Grobler, Marcel Dunaiski

“…To address the gap in natural language processing for Southern African languages, our paper presents an in-depth analysis of language model development under resource-constrained conditions. …”
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NEW METHOD TO PREDICT THE LIFE OF HIGH AND LOW CYCLE COMPOSITE FATIGUE LIFE (MT) by SHI HongMei, CUI Lu, HOU Wei, WANG Peng

“…A new method by the curves of strain ratio(ε_HCF/ε_LCF)-life ratio(N_LCF/HCF/N_LCF) to predict the life of high and low cycle composite fatigue was advanced. The analysis of experimental data of three different materials showed that this method had certain versatility. …”
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Low-hit frequency-hopping communication systems for power Internet of things random access by Shu DU, Mei MA, Bo ZHAO, Qi ZENG, Xing LIU

“…The communication network is an essential component of the data acquisition and information transmission in power Internet of things (IoT).To meet the development requirements of multiple power service in the future, the wireless communication technique with flexible-access and high scalability is one of the development directions for power IoT.Due to the features of large-scale access, random access time, high security and reliability for information transmission of power IoT, a frequency-hopping (FH) technique with low-hit rate for random access was proposed.The construction algorithm of such FH pattern was based upon the combination and shift operation of conventional FH sequences.By the theoretical arithmetic and numerical simulation, the properties of the proposed FH pattern and the error-rate of the FH-based power IoT were evaluated.The analysis reveals that the new class of FH sequences and the system can meet the requirements of large-scale access and highly reliable communication for the power IoT, which has good application prospects.…”
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