A power analysis framework to aid the design of robust semi-field vector control experiments by Andrea M. Kipingu, Dickson W. Lwetoijera, Kija R. Ng’habi, Samson S. Kiware, Mafalda Viana, Paul C. D. Johnson

“…As compared to a single intervention, an additional intervention required an increase in the number of chambers, while short and long experiments were similar in terms of key aspects such as the number of chambers per treatment. Conclusion Determining the most efficient experimental design for a semi-field experiment will depend on a balance of design choices and resource constraints. …”
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Advanced microfluidic strategies for core-shell nanoparticles: the next-generation of polymeric and lipid-based drug nanocarriers by Giuseppe Nunziata, Alessandro Borroni, Filippo Rossi

“…This review critically evaluates recent advancements, highlighting the superiority of microfluidic methods over conventional batch techniques, which often suffer from variability and scalability issues. …”
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Electric vehicle sharing based “energy sponge” service interfacing transportation and power systems by Qianwen Li, Dongfang Zhao, Xiaopeng Li, Xin Wang

“…A Markov decision model is proposed to determine the optimal policy on time allocation of the EV fleet over the two systems. …”
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Study on the Stiffness of Rail Support for Some Lines of Urban Railway in Vietnam by Tran Anh DUNG, Le Trung HIEU, Le Hai HA, Pham Van KY

“…These values are associated with bearing stiffness values of 23.1x106 N/mm, 30.8x106 N/mm, and 27.5x106 N/mm, respectively. Proper determination of rail support stiffness is crucial for efficient railway operations and maintenance. …”
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Intelligent controller design of an autonomous system using a social spider optimizer for path navigation and obstacle avoidance by Naimul Hasan, Huma Khan, Shahida Khatoon, Mohammad Sajid

“…The performance of the proposed method is compared with FLC and methods like PSO and CSO. …”
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Learning the fine-grained code representation for log-level prediction by Zhiyong Zhao, Guodong Fan, Jing Li, Ming Zhu, Haotian Zhang, Hongli Su

“…Abstract Log levels are crucial to distinguish the severity of logs and directly reflecting the urgency of transactions in software systems. Automatically and efficiently determining log levels is a crucial and challenging task in log management. …”
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An Improved Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for Disease Detection and Diagnosis for Multi-crop Plants by Florence Choong Chiao Mei, Bryan Ng Jan Hong

“…This paper proposes a convolutional neural network to determine multi-class plant diseases that is memory efficient, has a small trainable parameter number, and is compact enough to work even on mobile devices. …”
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Tools of preventive police activity in the field of combating cruelty to animals by V. S. Seliukov, А. І. Potikhenskyi

“…It is noted that the forms and methods of police activity at the current stage of combining theory and practice should be considered as tools of police activity. …”
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Image processing for microprocessors TIM voids detection by Ting Ying Jiang, Mei-Hui Song, Zi-Ying Oh, Tong Liu

“…Histogram curve analysis is applied to automatically determine the threshold for the Niblack algorithm's test value, with manual adjustments available for fine-tuning. …”
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Systematic Reviews Comparing Direct and Indirect Restorations: An Umbrella Review That Examines Restoration Type and Confidence in Results by Mona Kimmel, Clovis Mariano Faggion Jr.

“…Direct restoration was more cost and production‐efficient, but indirect restoration offered better long‐term results for larger defects. …”
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Data-driven protease engineering by DNA-recording and epistasis-aware machine learning by Lukas Huber, Tim Kucera, Simon Höllerer, Karsten Borgwardt, Sven Panke, Markus Jeschek

“…The resulting sequence-activity data on approximately 600,000 protease-substrate pairs does not only reveal key sequence determinants governing protease specificity, but allows to build a data-efficient deep learning model that accurately predicts protease sequences with desired on- and off-target activities. …”
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Care guide for patients with class II malocclusion with actively growing permanent dentition by Félix Adjei Tannor, Olga Lidia Véliz Concepción, Waldo Pérez Garcia, Armando San Miguel Pentòn

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> The reviewed documentation provided valuable information to determine the current state of care for malocclusion under study. …”
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Impact of Green Initiatives on the Financial Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises: The Case of Manufacturing Firm in Central Luzon by Mª Teresa B. Alfaro, Rowell Agliones Diaz

“…The descriptive survey method used to gather data to determine the green initiative's implementation of small and medium (S.M.E.s) manufacturing enterprises. …”
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Barriers to Respect Professional Ethics Standards: Insights from Iranian Nurses by Fatemehalsadat Hosseini Baghdadabad, MohammadKazem Rahimi, Roohollah Askari, Hasan Jafari, Hossein Fallahzadeh

“…Materials and Methods: This study was quantitative cross-sectional. …”
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Validation of the Thai short form of the Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire. by Nattapat Khongsirisombat, Nareudee Limpuangthip, Pagaporn Pantuwadee Pisarnturakit

“…<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 224 Thai community-dwelling older people aged 60 years or older were included. …”
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Breath Detection from a Microphone Using Machine Learning by Tomasz Sankowski, Piotr Sulewski, Jan Walczak, Aleksandra Bruska

“…The primary objective is to develop and compare methodologies to identify distinct phases of breathing, namely inhalation, exhalation, and the silent intervals between breaths, in order to determine the most accurate, efficient, and practical approach. …”
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Enhanced Grey Wolf Optimization (EGWO) and random forest based mechanism for intrusion detection in IoT networks by Saad Said Alqahtany, Asadullah Shaikh, Ali Alqazzaz

“…The experimental outcomes against the most recent procedures demonstrate the capacity of the recommended FS and classification methods to determine attacks in the IDS. Analysis of the results presents that the recommended approach performs more effectively than the other recent techniques with optimized features (i.e., 23 out of 43 features), high accuracy of 99.93% and improved convergence.…”
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Analyzing the Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs) among Motorcyclists in Bangladesh by Md. Mamun Miah, Biton Chakma, Kabir Hossain

“…The chi-square test was applied in bivariate analysis, and binary multivariable logistic regression was performed to determine the risk factors of road traffic crashes. …”
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Metagenomic source tracking after microbiota transplant therapy by Susan L. Hoops, Daphne Moutsoglou, Byron P. Vaughn, Alexander Khoruts, Dan Knights

“…The pipeline uses Bayesian statistics to determine the likely sources of ambiguous reads that align with both the donor and pre-treatment samples. …”
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Incident duration prediction through integration of uncertainty and risk factor evaluation: A San Francisco incidents case study. by Amirreza Salehi, Ardavan Babaei, Majid Khedmati

“…Precise predictions enable the efficient deployment of response teams and strategic traffic rerouting, leading to reduced congestion and enhanced safety. …”
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