Cluster or tree? Toward a hybrid topology for sensor networks by Hassan Harb, Kassem Danach, Mouhammad AlAkkoumi, Ali Jaber, Chady Abou Jaoude, Abbass Nasser

“…Typically, CLEE topology takes several parameters into consideration; among those are network dimension, number of sensors, sink position, and transmission range for efficient application surveillance. Through extensive simulations, this paper analyzes the performance of all network topologies, e.g. cluster, tree and CLEE, while evaluating their effect on different performance metrics.…”
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Improvement of Aerodynamic Performance of Bilaterally Symmetrical Airfoil by Co-Flow Jet and Adaptive Morphing Technology by Zeyu Lu, Hongming Cai

“…Overall, choosing a CFJ and adaptive morphing parameters by considering different factors can enhance the aerodynamic performance of the bilaterally symmetric airfoil.…”
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Insect Bio-inspired Neural Network Provides New Evidence on How Simple Feature Detectors Can Enable Complex Visual Generalization and Stimulus Location Invariance in the Miniature... by Mark Roper, Chrisantha Fernando, Lars Chittka

“…The ability to generalize over naturally occurring variation in cues indicating food or predation risk is highly useful for efficient decision-making in many animals. Honeybees have remarkable visual cognitive abilities, allowing them to classify visual patterns by common features despite having a relatively miniature brain. …”
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Studying the influence of correction codes on coherent reception of M-PSK signals in the presence of noise and harmonic interference by V. D. Nguyen

“…These results can provide important guidance in designing the reliable and energy efficient system.…”
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Research and application of nozzles with inclined inlet channels for jet sulphitators in the sugar industry by V. Ponomarenko, D. Liulka, V. Vasyliv, R. Yakobchuk, Ye. Babko, Y. Slyva

“…Liquid sprayers play a major role in ensuring efficient operation of heat and mass transfer equipment due to the creation of a significant contact surface. …”
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Viral Inactivation with Emphasis on SARS-CoV-2 Using Physical and Chemical Disinfectants by Abdolmajid Fadaei

“…The analysis of 62 studies shows that human coronaviruses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus or endemic human coronaviruses (HCoV), canine coronavirus (CCV), transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), and mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) can be efficiently inactivated by physical and chemical disinfectants at different concentrations (70, 80, 85, and 95%) of 2-propanol (70 and 80%) in less than or equal to 60 s and 0.5% hydrogen peroxide or 0.1% sodium hypochlorite within 1 minute. …”
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An Evaluation on Five Dimensions of a Mobile Health Application for Patient Counseling in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy: A Single-center Cross-sectional Survey Based on Pediatric Caregi... by Qing-Qing Liu, Min Wang, Feng Chen, Xing Ji, Jin Xu, Zhi-Yu Wang

“…The mean scores for transmission, accuracy, accessibility, and completeness were more than 3.5 when the experience was 2.1. Caregivers of different ages agreed that their accuracy was satisfactory; however, their experience was not. …”
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Leveraging artificial intelligence for diagnosis of children autism through facial expressions by Mahmood A. Mahmood, Leila Jamel, Nazik Alturki, Medhat A. Tawfeek

“…Using autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosed child RGB images data, researchers evaluated six prevalent deep learning structures: DenseNet201, ResNet152, VGG16, VGG19, MobileNetV2, and EfficientNet-B0. ResNet152 reached the highest accuracy rate of 89% when functioning independently. …”
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Lifting Techniques: Why Are We Not Using Evidence To Optimize Movement? by Nicholas B. Washmuth, Abby D. McAfee, C. Scott Bickel

“…For example, stoop lifting is more metabolically efficient and less challenging to the cardiopulmonary system. …”
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Evaluating the impact of mulching and fertilizer combinations in maximizing cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) growth and production by Milan Acharya, Sudip Ghimire, Nabin Gautam

“…Efficient cucumber cultivation requires a thorough understanding of the interplay between cultivation practices and crop productivity. …”
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Effect of percentage of polyvinyl alcohol on the properties of econazole nitrate polymeric micelles eye drop by Ali Hameed, Athmar Dh. H. Al-Shohani, Safar M. Alqahtani

“…Polymeric micelles loaded with econazole nitrate eye drops were prepared with different polyvinyl alcohol concentrations and evaluated for particle size, polydispersity index, zeta potential, and drug content. …”
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The Interspinous Spacer: A New Posterior Dynamic Stabilization Concept for Prevention of Adjacent Segment Disease by Antoine Nachanakian, Antonios El Helou, Moussa Alaywan

“…The interspinous spacer is safe and efficient modality to be used not only as a treatment of adjacent segment disease but also as a preventive measure in patients necessitating rigid fusion.…”
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Offshore Optical-wireless Integrated Access Network Deployment Algorithm based on MHA-MAD by LI Xuehua, XI Tong, WANG Xin, HUANG Xiang

“…【Methods】This study proposes a Multi-Head Attention enhanced Multi-Agent Deep Q-Network (MHA-MAD) algorithm. It efficiently extracts key features of the network environment using multi-head attention mechanism and assigns dynamic weights to different features, thereby improving modeling accuracy. …”
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Construction of Legal Knowledge Graph Based on Knowledge-Enhanced Large Language Models by Jun Li, Lu Qian, Peifeng Liu, Taoxiong Liu

“…The knowledge graph technology, which is a knowledge organization form with triples as the basic unit, is able to efficiently transform multisource heterogeneous information into a knowledge representation form close to human cognition. …”
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Machine learning provides reconnaissance-type estimates of carbon dioxide storage resources in oil and gas reservoirs by Emil Attanasi, Philip Freeman, Timothy Coburn

“…ML algorithms are computationally efficient because they do not impose the strong assumptions on the data-generating process that standard statistical or engineering procedures require. …”
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Analysis of the Characteristics and Agglomeration Effect of the Rural Element Spatial Correlation Network in Northeast China by Yu Sun, Jing Ning, Yongxin Piao

“…In the face of the urgent need for the coordinated development of regional rural functions and the orderly and efficient integration of urban and rural areas, the problem of how to accurately identify the spatial correlation relationships and characteristics of rural elements among regions in Northeast China has become a key issue that urgently needs to be resolved. …”
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A multi-scale small object detection algorithm SMA-YOLO for UAV remote sensing images by Shilong Zhou, Haijin Zhou, Lei Qian

“…First, we introduce the Non-Semantic Sparse Attention (NSSA) mechanism in the backbone network, which efficiently extracts non-semantic features related to the task, thus improving the model’s sensitivity to small objects. …”
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Estimation of maximum lower limb muscle strength from vertical jumps. by Chuan-Fang Hou, Chin-Wei Hsu, Philip X Fuchs, Tzyy-Yuang Shiang

“…Estimation errors ranged from 7.4% to 10.7% of mean measured 1RM, with no differences between estimated and measured values (d <  0.01, p = .96-1.00). …”
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Progress in devulcanization of waste tire rubber: Upcycling towards a circular economy by Zaheer ul Haq, Teng Ren, Xinyan Yue, Krzysztof Formela, Denis Rodrigue, Xavier Colom Fajula, Tony McNally, Dong Dawei, Yong Zhang, Shifeng Wang

“…It explores the intricacies of ground tire rubber as a starting material, structural evolution of ground tire rubber during the devulcanization process and the associated challenges in achieving efficient devulcanization while retaining desirable mechanical properties. …”
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A Combined Method for Localizing Two Overlapping Acoustic Sources Based on Deep Learning by Alexander Lyapin, Ghiath Shahoud, Evgeny Agafonov

“…The modeling results show that the proposed localization methodology is efficient in determining the directions for two overlapping sources simultaneously, with an average localization accuracy of 86.1% for the test dataset containing short-term signals of 500 ms duration with different signal-to-signal ratio values.…”
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