Location Research and Picking Experiment of an Apple-Picking Robot Based on Improved Mask R-CNN and Binocular Vision by Tianzhong Fang, Wei Chen, Lu Han

“…This work presents a novel high-precision visual positioning method for apple-harvesting robots.…”
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Relationships between Animal Welfare Scores and Milk Somatic Cell Count in Anatolian Buffaloes by Savaş Atasever

“…The relations of all parameters with each other were calculated by Kendall rank correlation method and the statistical analyses were carried out by SPSS 17.0. …”
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Continuity Quality of Power Supply in Detectors Powered by Renewable Energy Sources by Marek Stawowy, Jacek Paś, Krzysztof Perlicki, Stanisław Duer, Mirosław Siergiejczyk, Marta Harničárová

“…This article discusses the continuity quality of power supply (CQoPS), which takes into account numerous quality-related aspects, more than just the ones described in the standard. The method for determining CQoPS coefficients has been based on estimating uncertainty; therefore, it is devoid of such statistical evaluation disadvantages as the requirement for full knowledge of the system that is assessed. …”
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Developments in Sensitivity Methodologies and the Validation of Reactor Physics Calculations by Giuseppe Palmiotti, Massimo Salvatores

“…The sensitivity methodologies have been a remarkable story when adopted in the reactor physics field. Sensitivity coefficients can be used for different objectives like uncertainty estimates, design optimization, determination of target accuracy requirements, adjustment of input parameters, and evaluations of the representativity of an experiment with respect to a reference design configuration. …”
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Impact of Climate Change on Groundwater in Cham Anjir Aquifer by Maryam Aryasadr, Dariush Rahimi, Hadi Amiri, Mehran Zand

“…Pettitt's Test was utilized for homogenization to determine the turning points in the data. We used correlation coefficients and regression models to identify the most…”
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Stability analysis of grid-connected hydropower plant considering turbine nonlinearity and parameter-varying penstock model by Chen Feng, Na sun, Chuang Zheng, Yongqi Zhu, Nan Zhang, Yahui Shan, Liping Shi, Xiaoming Xue

“…The NN-based differentiation method (NND) is adopted to obtain the transfer coefficients of the linear hydro-turbine model under full operating conditions (FOC). …”
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ENHANCING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMES) THROUGH LEADERSHIP, COMPENSATION AND APPRAISALS by Arti Awasthi, Farhina Sardar Khan, Syed Shahid Mazhar, Tariq Fayez M Aldhamadi, Ehsanul Haque, Ritesh Kumar Chaudhary

“…Consequently, employee engagement is a critical determinant of success for SMEs, where each employee's contribution is important. …”
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INCREASING THE INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN RUSSIA by V. A. Tsvetkov, A. A. Shut’kov, M. N. Dudin, N. V. Lyasnikov

“…The purpose of the article is to determine the main directions of increasing the investment attractiveness of the agricultural sector in the Russian Federation.We used the following methods: a content analysis of the legal framework and scientific publications on the investment attractiveness of the agricultural sector, economic, statistical, and econometric analysis of the dynamics of the industry using special software applications (STATISTICA package).Over the past three years, the dynamics of investment in fixed capital in the agricultural sector is steadily increasing, but the volume of loans attracted is almost twice as high as the volume of investment (hence, loans are attracted to solve current problems). …”
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Correlation between self-concept and academic achievement of students by Zohre Salmalian, Ehsan Kazemnezhad Leili

“…Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive – analytical study. …”
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Application of Topology Optimization as a Tool for the Design of Bracing Systems of High-Rise Buildings by Paulo Ulisses da Silva, Gustavo Bono, Marcelo Greco

“…Additionally, topology optimization via the Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) method was applied to determine the optimal bracing system under wind-induced loads. …”
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Processing of orthogonal frequency-compensated signals transmitted via communication channels with fading by V. P. Tuzlukov

“…Thus, the classical methods for determining the generating function of moments can be directly used to determine the exact mathematical representation of the probability of error receiving signals for various types of modulation and diversity of signals.…”
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Rational Possibility of Generating Power Laws in the Synthesis of Cam Mechanisms by B. I. Paleva-Kadiyska, R. А. Roussev, V. В. Galabov

“…Introduction.The generation of polynomial power laws of motion for the synthesis of cam mechanisms is complicated by the need to determine the coefficients of power polynomials. The study objective is to discover a rational capability of generating рower law swith arbitrary terms number under s with an rbitrary number of terms under the synthesis of cam mechanisms.Materials and Methods.A unified formula for determining the values of coefficients of power polynomials with any number of integers and/or non-integer exponents is derived through the so-called transfinite mathematical induction.  …”
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Development and validation of a risk prediction model for premenopausal breast cancer in 19 cohorts by Kristen D. Brantley, Michael E. Jones, Rulla M. Tamimi, Bernard A. Rosner, Peter Kraft, Hazel B. Nichols, Katie M. O’Brien, Hans-Olov Adami, Amaia Aizpurua, Amy Berrington de González, William J. Blot, Tonje Braaten, Yu Chen, Jessica Clague DeHart, Laure Dossus, Sjoerd Elias, Renée T. Fortner, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Inger T. Gram, Niclas Håkansson, Susan E. Hankinson, Cari M. Kitahara, Woon-Puay Koh, Martha S. Linet, Robert J. MacInnis, Giovanna Masala, Lene Mellemkjær, Roger L. Milne, David C. Muller, Hannah Lui Park, Kathryn J. Ruddy, Sven Sandin, Xiao-Ou Shu, Sandar Tin Tin, Thérèse Truong, Celine M. Vachon, Lars J. Vatten, Kala Visvanathan, Elisabete Weiderpass, Walter Willett, Alicja Wolk, Jian-Min Yuan, Wei Zheng, Dale P. Sandler, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Anthony J. Swerdlow, A. Heather Eliassen

“…Abstract Background Incidence of premenopausal breast cancer (BC) has risen in recent years, though most existing BC prediction models are not generalizable to young women due to underrepresentation of this age group in model development. Methods Using questionnaire-based data from 19 prospective studies harmonized within the Premenopausal Breast Cancer Collaborative Group (PBCCG), representing 783,830 women, we developed a premenopausal BC risk prediction model. …”
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Ups and Downs of Business Activity in the Waves of Crises, the Coronavirus Pandemic and Unprecedented Western Sanctions by A. A. Frenkel, B. I. Tikhomirov, A. A. Surkov

“…To calculate the IE RAS Index, the method of construction of integral estimates of macroeconomic dynamics, correlation analysis, as well as a matrix of coefficients of pair correlation for determination of index weights are used, which is a convincing justification of scientific novelty of the proposed methodology of construction and practical use of the IE RAS Index. …”
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Construction of a model for the rapid detection of acids in strong-flavor original Baijiu based on mid-infrared spectroscopy technology by PENG Houbo, LIAO Li, GAN Qiao, XU Jia, JING Xiong, QIAN Yu, ZOU Yongfang

“…The results showed that the coefficients of determination R² of the quantitative models for total acid, caproic acid, acetic acid and butyric acid were more than 0.90, the root-mean-square error (RMSE) of both the calibration set and the prediction set was less than 0.041 g/L, the optimal numbers of principal component were 9, 19, 8 and 9, respectively, and the relative errors of the quantitative models were less than 10% for total acid, caproic acid and acetic acid and less than 51% for butyric acid. …”
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Monitoring Water Level Fluctuations of Reservoirs in the Krishna River Basin Using Sentinel-3 and ICESat-2 Altimetry Data by Ahalya Nalluri, H. Ramesh, Pankaj Ramji Dhote

“…This study employs Sentinel-3 and ICESat-2 sensors to examine six major reservoirs in the Krishna River basin in India, each intersected by at least two altimetry tracks. A two-way retrieval method for Sentinel analysis, including individual wet tropospheric correction and back-substitution, determines water levels. …”
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Two-Timescale Cross-Layer Design for URLLC Over Parallel Fading Channels With Imperfect CSI by Hongsen Peng, Meixia Tao

“…In the large timescale, the pilot length and pilot power are optimized while in the small timescale, the data transmit power and decoding error probability are optimized according to the estimated channel coefficients and queueing information. As a starting step in our small timescale solution, we train a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agent employing the Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (TD3) algorithm to allocate the data transmit power on each sub-channel and determine the decoding error probability to satisfy the URLLC constraints in an ideal environment with perfect instantaneous CSI. …”
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Applying Acoustic Signals to Monitor Hybrid Electrical Discharge-Turning with Artificial Neural Networks by Mehdi Soleymani, Mohammadjafar Hadad

“…The parameters investigated included sample rate, length of the FFT window, hop length, and the number of mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC). The study aimed to determine the optimal preprocessing parameters considering the highest precision, recall, and F1 scores. …”
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Investigation of Inlet Guide Vane Efficiency in Centrifugal Compressors for the Turbo Refrigeration Machines by Danilishin A.M., Kozhukhov Y. V., Fateeva E.S., Aksenov A.A.

“…The study provides theoretical foundations of how in-let swirl affects the aerodynamic characteristics of centrifugal compressor stages. The research method was numerical optimization by computational gas dynamics of the IGV blade profile. …”
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Preparation of Ampicillin Surface Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Its Selective Recognition of Ampicillin in Eggs Samples by Yang Tian, Yue Wang, Shanshan Wu, Zhian Sun, Bolin Gong

“…This work presents a sensitive, fast, and convenient method for the determination of trace ampicillin in food samples.…”
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