Technical and agronomic efficiency of nitrogen use on the yield and quality of oat grains by Rubia D. Mantai, José A. G. da Silva, Roberto Carbonera, Ivan R. Carvalho, Francine Lautenchleger, Laura M. Pereira

“…The objectives of this study were to define the agronomic efficiency of nitrogen by the ratio of the dose provided and product obtained, estimate the maximum technical efficiency of the nutrient on grain yield; and for the optimum dose, simulate the expression of the straw and industry yields, protein and total fiber in different conditions of the agricultural year in a soybean/oat system. …”
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TOPSIS inspired cost-efficient concurrent workflow scheduling algorithm in cloud by K. Kalyan Chakravarthi, L. Shyamala, V. Vaidehi

“…Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed T-CCWSA outperforms current state-of-the-art heuristics with the criteria of achieving the deadline constraint, minimizing the cost of execution and resource efficiency.…”
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Assessing the agronomic efficiency of rock dust as a nutrient source in agriculture by Caroline de Figueiredo Oliveira, Gutierres Nelson Silva, Nericlenes Chaves Marcante, Vinicius Vasconcelos, Mathaus Antonio Elias Mandro, Elcio Ferreira Santos

“…This study aimed to assess the agronomic efficiency of using siltstone powder in controlled environments. …”
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Marketing System and Efficiency of Egg in Selected Areas of Mymensingh District in Bangladesh by Md. Shahidul Haque Bir

“…Two villages from each Upazila were selected for survey and data were collect-ed from the traders for the study. Five different channels were identified accord-ing to present egg marketing system. …”
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Efficient CNN architecture with image sensing and algorithmic channeling for dataset harmonization by Khadija Kanwal, Khawaja Tehseen Ahmad, Aiza Shabir, Li Jing, Helena Garay, Luis Eduardo Prado Gonzalez, Hanen Karamti, Imran Ashraf

“…The goal targets compact efficient image feature vectors that process data in parallel regardless of input color or grayscale consistency and work across different datasets and semantic categories. …”
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A novel approach to assess acid diversion efficiency in horizontal wells by Abdulameer Almalichy, Murtada Saleh Aljawad, Zoltan Turzo, Ahmed Al-Yaseri

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Energy-efficient microwave heating for rapid fabrication of porous carbon nanofibers by Haoyue Zhao, Xinyu Li, Fangqin Su, Ning Qi, Jian Fang

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Assessing the Inbound Tourism Efficiency of European Countries in China: 2006-2019 by Liudan Wu, Lili Hao, Lingzhi Wu, Ruize Gao, Ji Chen

“…The results show that (1) the inbound tourism efficiency of European countries in China is jointly affected by many core factors, such as economic scale, geographic distance, and population size on both sides; (2) the inefficiency factors that affect the inbound tourism efficiency of European countries in China are diversified;(3) the inbound tourism efficiency of European countries in China generally shows an upward trend during the sample period, but there are significant differences in the gap between the frontier level of inbound tourism flow in China and the actual inbound tourism flow. …”
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Efficient decellularization for tissue engineering of the tendon-bone interface with preservation of biomechanics. by Kai Xu, Lara A Kuntz, Peter Foehr, Katharina Kuempel, Alexandra Wagner, Jutta Tuebel, Constantin V Deimling, Rainer H Burgkart

“…A two-phase approach was employed: study 1 investigated the effect of various concentrations of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and t-octylphenoxypolyethoxy-ethanol (Triton X-100) as decellularization agents. The most efficient combination of SDS and Triton was then carried forward into study 2, where different physical methods, including freeze-thaw cycles, ultrasound, perfusion, and hydrostatic washing were used to enhance the decellularization effect. …”
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Energy-Efficient model for integrated berth allocation and quay crane management by Saeedeh Khalilpoor, Mehdi A. Kamran, Reza Babazadeh, Reza Kia

“…Several numerical experiments in different dimensions are defined and implemented with both algorithms. …”
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Enhanced Ventilation and Energy Efficiency of an Optimized Double-Channel Solar Chimney by Chenle Ye, Yanfei Zhang, Qinming Lv, Shaoyang Lou, Xiaojun Luo, Zhonggou Chen, Guoyi Zhang

“…Through numerical simulations, we analyze how different deflector installation conditions affect the ventilation performance of the optimized system. …”
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An efficient numerical scheme for fractional host–parasite hyperparasite interaction model by Parveen Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Badr Saad T Alkahtani, Sara Salem Alzaid

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ANTIHYPERTENSIVE, ORGAN PROTECTIVE, AND METABOLIC EFFICIENCY OF SPIRAPRIL IN PATIENTS WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION by M. V. Leonova, M. A. Demidova, A. V. Tarasov, Y. V. Belousov

“…To estimate antihypertensive, organ protective and metabolic efficiency of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor spirapril in patients with arterial hypertension (AH).Material and methods. 30 patients with AH of I-II grade with different cardiovascular risk were included into the study. …”
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An Efficient and Secure Session Key Management Scheme in Wireless Sensor Network by Gulzar Mehmood, Muhammad Sohail Khan, Abdul Waheed, Mahdi Zareei, Muhammad Fayaz, Tariq Sadad, Nazri Kama, Azri Azmi

“…The proposed scheme is implemented, and their analysis is performed using different parameters with benchmark schemes. We concluded that the proposed scheme is energy-efficient and outperforms the available benchmark schemes. …”
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ECOPS: Energy-Efficient Collaborative Opportunistic Positioning for Heterogeneous Mobile Devices by Kaustubh Dhondge, Hyungbae Park, Baek-Young Choi, Sejun Song

“…However, those positioning methods have different characteristics of energy-efficiency, accuracy, and service availability. …”
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Towards optimal energy efficiency: analysing generalized and tailored retrofitting decisions by Wilamy Castro, Joana Barrelas, Maria Paula Mendes, Christoph Reinhart, Ana Silva

“…Abstract A building’s energy performance, in terms of thermal comfort, energy demand, cost and CO2 emissions, is considerably affected by its envelope. Enhancing energy efficiency through maintenance and retrofitting is essential to reduce consumption and emissions, thereby mitigating climate change. …”
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Improving the Efficiency and Quality of Sustainable Industrial CT by Optimizing Scanning Parameters by Íñigo Fonfría, Ibon Holgado, Naiara Ortega, Ainhoa Castrillo, Soraya Plaza

“…The results presented support the optimization of CT scan parameters by providing quantitative guidelines to balance efficiency, image quality, and sustainability. Additionally, deviations in dimensional measurements obtained through CT scans were compared against reference data from a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM), with differences up to ±45 μm. …”
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Spatial Correlation Network Characteristics of Comprehensive Transportation Green Efficiency in China by Qifei Ma, Sujuan Li, Zhenchao Zhang

“…Accurately characterizing the structural features of the spatial correlation network of comprehensive transportation green efficiency (CTGE) is essential for achieving balanced regional transportation development and eliminating regional disparities. …”
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Urban-aspects aspects of organization of energy-efficient underground space for protection by Тetyana Zhidkova, Yana Selikhova, Vladislav Kazachenko

“…To achieve this goal, the following tasks are considered in the course of work: identification of the main ways of development of underground spaces, research of types of organization of storages of different purpose for temporary and long-term stay; disclosure of aspects of energy efficient technologies that will contribute to the energy saving use and provision of resources to residents for a comfortable stay in the underground space. …”
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Research on Supply Chain Efficiency in COVID-19: The Role of Information and Communications by R. S. Rogulin, R. S. Pavlyuk, N. R. Talitskikh

“…The following are considered as basic indicators: Gross domestic product as a characteristic of the country's economic development level before the crisis; logistics efficiency index; digital life index. The authors have chosen few countries from different categories for the comparative analysis in the context of the selected assessment indicators The obtained study results confirmed the significant role of ICT in the efficiency improving and restoration of SC which had been destroyed in COVID-19. …”
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