Efficient physical embedding of topologically complex information processing networks in brains and computer circuits. by Danielle S Bassett, Daniel L Greenfield, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Daniel R Weinberger, Simon W Moore, Edward T Bullmore

“…This relatively high complexity entailed extra cost in physical wiring: although all networks were economically or cost-efficiently wired they did not strictly minimize wiring costs. …”
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OPTIMIZING PROCESSOR WORKLOADS AND SYSTEM EFFICIENCY THROUGH GAME-THEORETIC MODELS IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS by Merlan Telmanov, Zukhra Abdiakhmetova, Amandyk Kartbayev

“…The primary goal of this research is to examine how different strategic behaviors adopted by processors affect the workload management and overall efficiency of the system. …”
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Sparse connectivity enables efficient information processing in cortex-like artificial neural networks by Rieke Fruengel, Rieke Fruengel, Marcel Oberlaender, Marcel Oberlaender

“…Although ANNs were originally inspired by the brain, conventional ANNs differ substantially in their structural network architecture from cortical networks. …”
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Impact of contract farming participation on the economic efficiency of malt barley farmers in northwestern Ethiopia by Abebe Dagnew, Degye Goshu, Lemma Zemedu, Million Sileshi

“…Hence, this study evaluated the production efficiency impact of malt barley CF in northwestern Ethiopia. …”
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THERMAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICIENT and SUSTAINABILITY SHELL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER SYSTEM by Raghulkumar CHANDRASEKARAN, Xuejun QIAN, Seong LEE

“…The constructed STHE model has meshed and analyzed under two mediums (water and biogas) with different thermal conditions. Besides, the experiment results from the STHE prototype were used to investigate conversion efficiency and analyze heat transfer. …”
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Scalable and Sustainable Blockchain: Architecting Infrastructure and Developing a Platform for Efficient Management and Exploration by Pedro Silva, Tiago Guimaraes, Ricardo Duarte, Manuel Filipe Santos

“…The ability to be as lightweight as possible, while being able to quickly expand the infrastructure and seamlessly integrate new functionalities, maintaining operational efficiency. The research developed involves a review of the literature, the development of three different blockchain implementations/architectures: one based on Docker, another based on Kubernetes and, finally, one based on Kubernetes with a load balancer. …”
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Luminescence Efficiency Enhanced by Simple Substitutions on Donor and Acceptor in Radicals with Donor–Acceptor Structure by Shuang Gao, Jiahao Guan, Lintao Zhang, Xin Ai

“…In this study, two [4-(N-Carbazolyl)-2,6-dichlorophenyl] bis(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)methyl (Cz-TTM) radical derivatives (Mes₂Cz-TTM, Mes₂Cz-Mes₂TTM) were synthesized and characterized by modifying the carbazole (donor) and tris-2,4,6-trichlorophenylmethyl radical (acceptor) units with 2,4,6-trimethylphenyl groups. The different substitutions showed varying influences on photoluminescence quantum efficiency (PLQE) compared to the Cz-TTM parent radical. …”
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Assessing the Efficiency of Fully Two-Dimensional Hydraulic HEC-RAS Models in Rivers of Cyprus by Georgia Siakara, Nikolaos Gourgouletis, Evangelos Baltas

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An efficient ECC and fuzzy verifier based user authentication protocol for IoT enabled WSNs by T. Sudhakar, R. Praveen, V. Natarajan

“…Also, the design tackles the inherent constraints of WSNs, such as their constrained processing resources and susceptibility to different types of attacks. To substantiate the efficacy of our approach, we formally validate its security using the Real-or-Random model. …”
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Enhancement of the transfection efficiency of DNA into Crocus sativus L. cells via PEI nanoparticles by Behnam Firoozi, Zare Nasser, Omid Sofalian, Parisa Sheikhzade-Mosadegh

“…The results also indicated that the combined utilization of ultrasound and PEI nanoparticles increased the transfection efficiency of saffron cells up to two times higher than those obtained by PEI or ultrasound separately.…”
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Integrated Physical–Mechanical Characterization of Fruits for Enhancing Post-Harvest Quality and Handling Efficiency by Mohamed Ghonimy, Raed Alayouni, Garsa Alshehry, Hassan Barakat, Mohamed M. Ibrahim

“…The results indicated significant differences among the various categories of fruits; apples and pears were most suitable for mechanical harvesting and long storage periods, whereas cherries and apricots were least resistant and susceptible to injury. …”
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Memory Efficient Local Features Descriptor for Identity Document Detection on Mobile and Embedded Devices by Daniil P. Matalov, Elena E. Limonova, Natalya S. Skoryukina, Vladimir V. Arlazarov

“…We train a binary descriptor using the retrieved dataset of patches, each bit of the descriptor relies on a single computationally-efficient feature. To estimate the influence of different feature spaces on the descriptor performance, we perform descriptor training experiments using gradient-based and intensity-based features. …”
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Energy Efficiency, Consumption, and Economic Growth: A Causal Analysis in the South African Economy by Enock Gava, Molepa Seabela, Kanayo Ogujiuba

“…Several studies find different conclusions on the short-run and long-run relationship and the direction of causality, and none of the studies have considered energy efficiency in their model. …”
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Spatial temporal trends and inequality in agricultural eco-efficiency under carbon constraints in China by Shuaibang Fan, Hongyu Lin, Na Luo, Herbert Sima, Yanping Liu

“…The key findings include (1) The Songhua River Basin shows significantly higher eco-efficiency (mean: 0.718) than the Yellow River (mean: 0.559) and Yangtze River Basins (mean: 0.587), with distinct evolutionary patterns; (2) Long-term evolution reflects a bipolar pattern with spatial agglomeration disparities; (3) Positive spatial spillover effects are evident in regions with efficiency levels between 0.4 and 0.9, with inter-regional differences and super-variable density as significant spatial variation sources. …”
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Synthesizing Efficiency Tools in Radiotherapy to Increase Patient Flow: A Comprehensive Literature Review by Duvern Ramiah, Daniel Mmereki

“…Therefore, in radiotherapy, research on more efficient tools pioneers the development and implementation of high-precision radiotherapy for cancer patients.…”
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Transfer learning based EfficientNet method for transmission line insulator flaw detection by Aleena Swetapadma, Anamika Yadav

“…A comparative study of different EfficientNet models, such as EfficientNetB0, EfficientNetB1, EfficientNetB3, and EfficientNetB5, has been carried out. …”
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Research on the Operation Strategy of Rural Logistics Network with Comprehensive Consideration of Cost, Efficiency and Benefit by Panqian DAI, Chenglin LU, Jing XU

“…Finally, for the scenarios of dealing with general commodities and fresh agricultural products, the simulation of rural logistics network operation is carried out, which reveals the feedback mechanism between network operation efficiency, logistics cost and operating enterprise benefits, and simulates the implementation effects of different operation strategies from both endogenous and exogenous levels to explore how to build a rural logistics network with high efficiency, low cost and increased benefits. …”
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Energy efficient multi hop clustering using Artificial Bee Colony metaheuristic in WSN by Shiwei Zhang, Xinghan Liu, Mohammad Trik

“…This paper introduces EEM-LEACH-ABC, a novel energy-efficient clustering and routing protocol for WSNs using the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm. …”
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An Efficient Tourism Path Approach Based on Improved Ant Colony Optimization in Hilly Areas by Mohamed A. Damos, Wenbo Xu, Jun Zhu, Ali Ahmed, Abdolraheem Khader

“…It presents a method for efficiently optimizing tourism paths in hilly areas based on an improved version of the ACO algorithm. …”
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Efficiency of capture of inertia aerosol particles in a periodic cell with a porous cylinder by A.R. Khaziev, Sh.Kh. Zaripov, R.F. Mardanov, A.G. Pilyugin

“…In the determined velocity fields of the carrier medium, the Lagrangian equations of motion of suspended particles are integrated, and the dependence of the particle capture efficiency as a result of the inertial impact and the interception mechanism on the Stokes number at different cell density and the Darcy number of a porous cylinder is calculated. …”
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