Setup Accuracy and Efficiency of Real-Time Video Assistance for Surface-Guided Positioning in Radiation Therapy of Right-Sided Locoregional Breast Cancer by Jørund Graadal Svestad, MA, Stine Gyland Mikalsen, PhD, Mojgan Heydari, MA, Regine Hjort Francke, BA, Maziar Hervani, BA, Taran Paulsen Hellebust, PhD

“…No other metrics regarding setup accuracy were significantly different. Setup efficiency was significantly improved using SG with real-time video assistance. …”
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Acute effects of motor learning models on technical efficiency in strength-coordination exercises: a comparative analysis of Olympic snatch biomechanics in beginners by Achraf Ammar, Atef Salem, Marvin Simak, Fabian Horst, Wolfgang Schöllhorn

“…This study aims to examine the acute effects of various motor learning models on technical efficiency and force production during the Olympic snatch movement. …”
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Effect of Nitrogen Regimes on Grain Yield, Nitrogen Utilization, Radiation Use Efficiency, and Sheath Blight Disease Intensity in Super Hybrid Rice by Di-qin LI, Qi-yuan TANG, Yun-bo ZHANG, Jian-quan QIN, Hu LI, Li-jun CHEN, Sheng-hai YANG, Ying-bin ZOU, Shao-bing PENG

“…The results showed that RTNM and SSNM have great potential for improving agronomic-nitrogen use efficiency without sacrificing the grain yield. There were significant differences in light interception rate, sheath blight disease incidence (DI) and the disease index (ShBI), and total dry matter among the different nitrogen management methods. …”
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Assessment of Photovoltaic-Based Controlled Environment Agriculture as a Viable Solution for Enhancing Energy efficiency, Profitability, and Environmental Sustainability in Major C... by Guoqing Hu, Fengqi You

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A Supramolecular Wire Able to Self‐Assemble on Gold Surface: Controlling the Film Length to Optimize the Device Lifetime and Electron Transfer Efficiency by Sascha Kubitzky, Raffaella Lettieri, Elena Passaretti, Mariano Venanzi, Marta De Zotti, Claudia Mazzuca, Ernesto Placidi, Emanuela Gatto

“…Abstract A chemical “lego nanoset” has been used to realize different structures on gold surfaces. Three building blocks have been designed, in order to chemically link the surface and self‐assemble in an ordered manner. …”
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Enhancing Energy Use Efficiency of Wireless Sensor Networks Using Newly Proposed Fault Tolerance Multipath Routing Protocol (Mrp-Ft) by Gagandeep Kaur

“…The present study compared the newly proposed fault tolerance multipath routing protocol (MRP-FT) under the particle swarm optimization-based fault tolerant routing (PSO-FT) technique to the existing low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) protocol applied in different combinations of inter-node numbers (N ) ranging from 100 to 300 nodes (N100-300) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with different area sizes (Xm × Ym) of 100-1000 m2 (W SN100-1000) to enhance energy efficiency and reliability of WSNs. …”
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Assessing the impact of nutrient management on productivity, economics, soil quality, energy efficiency, and life cycle assessment in rice-based farming systems by Venkatesh Paramesha, Parveen Kumar, M. Prabhakar, K.A. Gopinath, N. Ravisankar, R. Mohan Kumar, Arun Jyoti Nath, Dinesh Jinger, Subhradip Bhattacharjee

“…The organic rice + azolla + fish + poultry-cowpea system recorded the highest energy output and efficiency. The organic rice + azolla + fish + poultry-cowpea system recorded the lowest specific energy consumption, indicating its efficient energy utilization. …”
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Optimize nitrogen fertilization location in root-growing zone to increase grain yield and nitrogen use efficiency of transplanted rice in subtropical China by Meng WU, Ming LIU, Jia LIU, Wei-tao LI, Chun-yu JIANG, Zhong-pei LI

“…Field plot experiments were conducted over two years (2014–2015) in a double-rice cropping system to evaluate the effects of nitrogen (N) fertilizer location on grain yield and N use efficiency (NUE). Four different nitrogen deep-point application methods (DN) were compared with traditional broadcast application (BN) using granular urea. …”
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Effects of nitrogen application and tillage on maize (Zea mays L.) yield, nitrogen use efficiency, and nutrient stocks under contrasting soils by Ashenafi Nigussie

“…The findings highlight the beneficial impact of MT and integrated nutrient management on enhancing nutrient stocks, yields, and nitrogen utilization efficiency across different STs, thereby supporting sustainable maize production.…”
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Efficiency of radiation and water use of four contrasting soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merril) cultivars grown in the rainfed area of northern Argentina by Salvador Prieto-Angueira, María-Auxiliadora Soriano, María-Clara Berton, Elías Fereres

“…Soybean production in water-limited environments is affected by both water supply and resource use efficiency. However, their impact on different soybean maturity groups (MGs) remains unclear. …”
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STANDARDS AND INDICATORS USED TO INCREASE EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY IN MANAGEMENT OF CRISIS (COVID-19) AND ITS IMPACT ON AGRICULTURAL FARM/INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING by Mirela Daniela NICOLA, Dorina Nicoleta MOCUTA

“…For this reason, the paper represents a systemic review of recent information on different management indicators developed - epidemiological/economic etc in order to assist managers (politically, authorities, farmers, all the people involved) to prevent, survey and control such diseases, to develop best practices for benchmarking their country health systems/farm management system etc, and finally to led to an effective and efficient management of infectious disease in livestock during crisis. …”
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4E analysis of productivity and efficiency enhancements in pyramid solar distillation: Innovations in tray design, water heating, and forced condensation integration by Sattam Alharbi, Ali Alshamrani

“…The study also examined MPSD's performance with an external condenser, aided by a fan operating at different speeds (0.25–1.5 rpm). Results showed that the MPSD, with a water depth of 1 cm and 12.4 L in the basin, achieved a 33 % yield improvement and 50.2 % efficiency. …”
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Effect of access cavity design on canal instrumentation efficiency and fracture resistance in mandibular molars: A cone-beam computed tomography study by Dalia Al-Harith, Rawan Meshal AlOtaibi

“…Introduction: This study evaluated the impact of access cavity designs on canal instrumentation efficiency and fracture resistance in mandibular molars using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). …”
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Acceleration of Image Classification and Object Tracking by the Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 with Power Efficiency Evaluation on Raspberry Pi 4B by Tianyu Gao, Jozsef Suto

“…This work investigates the efficiency and power consumption of using the Intel^® (Santa Clara, CA, USA) Neural Compute Stick 2 (NCS2) on the Raspberry Pi 4B platform to accelerate image classification and object tracking. …”
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MT-EfficientNetV2: A Multi-Temporal Scale Fusion EEG Emotion Recognition Method Based on Recurrence Plots by Zihan Zhang, Zhiyong Zhou, Jun Wang, Hao Hu, Jing Zhao

“…Additionally, a three-branch input feature fusion module has been designed to effectively integrate features across different scales within the same temporal domain. The model architecture incorporates DEconv and the SimAM attention mechanism with EfficientNetV2. …”
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Enhancing efficiency of a laboratory-scale hybrid cooling tower using Fe3O4-water nanofluid and spiral coils by Danial Fallah Heravi, Hamid Reza Goshayeshi, Reza Saleh

“…This study presents an in-depth investigation into improving the efficiency of a laboratory scale hybrid cooling tower by utilizing Fe₃O₄-water nanofluid at varying mass fractions, ranging from 0.015 % to 0.15 %, along with different coaxial spiral coil configurations. …”
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MRI for measuring therapy efficiency after revascularisation in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis by Peter Schlattmann, Marc Dewey, Benjamin Kendziora, Heli Stier

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Artificial intelligence prediction the desirable moisture content of dried oyster mushroom (Pleurotus sajor-caju) for enhancing the cellulase-assisted extraction efficiency by Nguyen Thi Ngoc Giang, Nguyen Duy Tan, Ho Thi Ngan Ha, Dao Van Thanh, Le Thi Thuy Diem, Tran Van Khai, Le Thi Diem Mi, Diep Kim Quyen

“…This study was aimed at investigating the effect of different drying methods (conventional dryer, sun drying, and solar drying) and moisture content of dried mushrooms on the cellulase-assisted extraction efficiency. …”
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Transport of Fe‐Based Nanoparticles in Porous Media Facilitated by Xanthan Gum: Non‐Monotonic Relation Between Transport Efficiency and Flow Velocity by Guansheng Liu, Lili Huo, Yongming Wu, Zhibing Yang, Jiacheng Xia, Hua Zhong

“…We observed a novel non‐monotonic relation between transport efficiency and flow velocity, where the transport of both Fe‐NPs initially weakened and then enhanced as pore‐water velocity rose within a certain range. …”
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[225Ac]Ac-PSMA-617 production method: development of an efficient and reproducible radiolabelling process for establish a clinical routine production by Michela Aurilio, Aureliana Esposito, Monica Buonanno, Anna Morisco, Costantina Maisto, Stefania Scala, Secondo Lastoria

“…Results different radiolabeling conditions and different reaction times have been used and compared. …”
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