Comparative analysis of fuel wood consumption of improved mud stove and three stone fire stove: a case study by Junejo, Awais, Kumar, Sanjay, Harijan, Khanji, Jeguirim, Mejdi

“…Meeting the energy requirements for daily cooking and heating in rural population using biomass as a fuel in traditional cookstoves (TCS) is an energy consuming and inefficient method. Moreover, the use of biomass in TCS causes serious health and environmental problems. …”
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The Design and Experimentation of a Wheeled-Chassis Potato Combine Harvester with Integrated Bagging and Ton Bag-Lifting Systems by Hucun Wang, Wuyun Zhao, Wei Sun, Xiaolong Liu, Ruijie Shi, Hua Zhang, Pengfei Chen, Kuizeng Gao

“…The mechanized harvesting level of potatoes in the arid areas of Northwest China is low and mainly relies on simple machinery to dig the soil surface, and then people manually pick up and bag the potatoes. This harvesting method has the problems of a high labor intensity, low operation efficiency, and high labor cost. …”
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Design, fabrication and performance test of an integrated exploding foil initiator system by Zehao Wang, Pengfei Xue, Qingxuan Zeng, Mingyu Li

“…The integration method of exploding foil initiator system (EFIs) used to be researched to broaden its application range in military and aerospace in the last few decades. …”
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Performance Analysis and Operation Parameter Optimization of Shaker-Type Harvesting for Camellia Fruits by Qiaoming Gao, Jianfeng Han, Shan Zeng, Yu Wang, Wei Wei, Dongxue Wang, Hang Ye, Jing Lu, Haoxiang Zeng

“…Meanwhile, under these operational parameters, the harvesting efficiency reached 96.97%, while the flower bud damage rate was only 6%.…”
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A power-distribution joint optimization arrangement for multi-point source jamming system by Zhihao Cai, Shiqi Xing, Sinong Quan, Xinyuan Su, Junpeng Wang

“…Comparative experiments show that the proposed method improves the uniformity of the solution set distribution by 40.84% on average and the computational efficiency by 85.02% on average.…”
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CORRECTION OF HYPODINAMY AS A FACTOR OF THE RISK OF OBESITY DEVELOPMENT IN FIRE-RESCUERS by E. V. BURDYUKOVA, A. N. ARKHANGELSKAYA, S. N. ALEKSEENKO, I. A. YAKIREVICH, E. A. DMITRIEVA, O. P. KARAZHELYASKOV, M. V. IVKINA, K. G. GUREVICH

“…We used a comparison of the means of the Student method. To compare the values expressed in percent, the method of inverse trigonometric Fisher transformations was used.Results. …”
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SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL FUNDAMENTALS OF THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGIES OF SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENTS by Volodymir Rasevych, Iryna Rasevych

“…It was determined methods and tools for stimulating the innovative activity of agricultural enterprises. …”
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Parameter Optimization Design and Experimental Validation of a Header for Electric Rice Reaper Binders Employed in Hilly Regions by Jinbo Ren, Difa Bao, Zhi Liang, Chongsheng Yan, Junbo Wu, Xinhui Wu, Shuhe Zheng

“…In this study, we propose a multiparameter collaborative optimization method for improving header structure in an effort to address these challenges. …”
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Reconstructing historical forest fire risk in the non-satellite era using the improved forest fire danger index and long short-term memory deep learning-a case study in Sichuan Pro... by Yuwen Peng, Huiyi Su, Min Sun, Mingshi Li

“…The results revealed LSTM as the most accurate in fitting and predicting the historical MFFDI, with a fitting determination coefficient (R2) of 0.709, mean square error (MSE) of 0.047, and validation R2 and MSE of 0.508 and 0.11, respectively. …”
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Evaluation of the physical, chemical, antioxidant, and antibacterial properties of Camellia oleifera Abel. seed oil by Pham My Hao, Luu Thao Nguyen, Tran Thi Mai Anh, Le Pham Tan Quoc

“…Physical properties of the seeds, including 1000-seed weight, density, moisture content, specific gravity, and angle of repose, were determined. Camellia seed oil was extracted using the pressing method, and various physicochemical and biological properties of the oil—such as density, color, acid, peroxide, and saponification values, as well as antioxidant and antibacterial activities—were assessed. …”
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Estimation of Generated and Retained Gas Volume of the Besa River Formation in Liard Basin through 3-Dimensional Static Geochemical Modeling by Kwang Hyun Kim, Sung Kyung Hong, Jiyoung Choi, Kyungbook Lee, Andy Mort, Hyun Suk Lee

“…To validate the static model, the gas-in-place (GIP) (496 Bcf/section) of the production well in this study area was compared with GIP (262 Bcf/section) in the static model. Expulsion efficiency was considered as 0.6. The result implies that this model has a method of informative assessment with regard to undeveloped shale gas resources. …”
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Analysis of Hydration Strength and CO₂ Emissions of Cement–Quartz Powder Binary Blends Considering the Effects of Water/Binder Ratios and Quartz Contents by Bo Yang, Xiao-Yong Wang

“…The water availability coefficient, derived from hydration product measurements with a ratio of 0.2, shows that lower water-to-binder ratios slow hydration as the coefficient exceeds 1. …”
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Validity and reliability of the Dietary Sodium Restriction Questionnaire in peritoneal dialysis patients. by Yunyao Lin, Ruolin Li, Zhihao Chen, Yingxin Xie, Junyan Fang, Pu Li, Mingzi Chu, Yingli Liu

“…The reliability of the questionnaire was determined by assessing the internal consistency. Content validity was evaluated using the expert evaluation method, and construct validity was assessed via exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses.…”
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Direct Calculation of Band-Pass Filters by E. N. Chervinskiy

“…When calculating band-pass filters (BPF), the circuit elements can be determined by converting the parameters of prototype low-pass filters (LPF). …”
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A scale for measuring graduate nursing students’ academic resilience: a development and psychometric testing study by Yang Shen, Hanbo Feng, Xiaohan Li

“…Confirmatory factor analysis showed that all the fitting indices met the standard. The Cronbach’s α coefficient of the scale was 0.933, and the test-retest reliability coefficient was 0.910. …”
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Rasch Model Analysis of the Psychometric Properties of the Positive Mental Health Scale in Students by Noorellah Yousefi, Alireza Pirkhaefi

“…The aim of the present study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Positive Mental Health Scale based on the Rasch model.Method: This study was quantitative and descriptive, focusing on the analysis of students' responses to the Positive Mental Health Scale, which is based on the Rasch model. …”
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Development and initial validation of a scale to measure attitudes and beliefs of pharmacists toward their work with patients by Jocić Dragana, Krajnović Dušanka

“…The reliability of the scale was determined by the method of internal consistency, on a convenient sample of 123 community pharmacists. …”
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Gas permeability of films based on low-density polyethylene–ethylene-vinyl acetate blends with cellulosic fillers by P. G. Shelenkov, P. V. Pantyukhov, A. A. Olkhov, A. A. Popov

“…The coefficients of gas permeability, diffusion, and oxygen solubility were determined in the obtained composites using the manometric method. …”
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Optimizing Small Cell Performance: A New MIMO Paradigm With Distributed ASTAR-RISs by Shakil Ahmed, Ahmed E. Kamal, Mohamed Y. Selim, Md Akbar Hossain, Saifur Rahman Sabuj

“…Additionally, we use the dual method to determine the optimal ON/OFF status of the ASTAR-RIS. …”
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Autonomous walking path planning of underground handling robot based on improved A* and DWA algorithm by Kekun ZHANG, Jiusheng BAO, Junwei AI, Xiaoming YUAN, Yan YIN, Maosen WANG, Shirong GE

“…In view of the problems of many labors and low efficiency in the underground handling process, as well as the difficulties of many transport links, difficult transport operation and slow manual transport, the handling robot is taken as the research object, and the path planning method of underground roadway is studied through simulation and experiment. …”
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