177Lu-FA-DOTA-PEG-PLGA Nanoparticles Show Antitumor Efficiency in Targeting Ovarian Cancer by Ziming Guo, Yi Du, Jun Zhao, Sha Sha, Jian Wang

“…Tumor growth inhibition (TGI) and ascitic fluid volume were calculated to investigate antitumor efficiency. Hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining was performed to evaluate the safety of nanoparticles. …”
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Increase in yield and nitrogen use efficiency of double rice with long-term application of controlled-release urea by Chang TIAN, Ming-xue SUN, Xuan ZHOU, Juan LI, Gui-xian XIE, Xiang-dong YANG, Jian-wei PENG

“…Understanding the effects of CRU on crop yield and N use efficiency (NUE) has long been the key to evaluate the performance of CRU. …”
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The effects of incorporating sprouted barley in diets of high-yielding dairy cows on production, efficiency, and nutrient digestibility by U. Moallem, J. Shpirer, L. Livshits, T. Alon, Y. Shaani, H. Kamer, Y. Portnik, H. Leibovich

“…The milk-to-DMI ratio was 6.3% higher in the SB cows (P < 0.001), with no differences in other efficiency calculations. The rumen ammonia concentration was 21% lower in the SB cows (P = 0.006), and rumen acetate, propionate, and total volatile fatty acids were higher in the CTL cows. …”
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Effects of energy source on growth and body composition of Holstein calves fed only milk replacer or whole milk by K.S. Bartlett, F.K. McKeith, R.A. Molano, M.E. Van Amburgh, M.J. VandeHaar, G.E. Dahl, J.K. Drackley

“…Composition of gain behaved similarly to results for whole-body composition. Efficiency of ME use for gain was similar among treatments, whereas efficiency of use of dietary CP for gain was greater for milk than for HFMR. …”
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A semi-empirical relation based on temperature difference and filling ratio in a closed loop pulsating heat pipe: A numerical study. by Vasanth Balamurugan, Shahid Mian P, Md Jahid Hasan, Natteri M Sudharsan

“…This study investigates the heat transfer efficiency of a CLPHP using water as the working fluid. …”
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Fast Analysis of Multi-Layered Anisotropic Electromagnetic Propagation Based on Z-Transform Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method with Scale-Compressed Technique by Yuxian Zhang, Yilin Kang, Xiaoli Feng, Lixia Yang, Zhixiang Huang

“…In this work, we develop a novel computational method, referred to as SCT-Z-FDTD, which integrates the Z-transform finite-difference time-domain algorithm with a scale-compressed technique incorporating wave vectors. …”
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Effects of increasing levels of dietary cation–anion difference on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, rumen fermentation, and rumen microbiota in fattening Hu sheep by Yu Wang, Wenjin Zheng, Hongwei Duan, Jiazhi Luo, Yuyang Yin, Junshi Shen, Shengyong Mao, Weiyun Zhu, Zhongtang Yu

“…The dietary cation–anion difference (DCAD) has the potential to influence the physiological functions of animals. …”
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Evaluation of a Direct Ion Storage dosimeter efficiency to measure dose during interventional cardiology procedures by Bergman Nelson Sanchez Munoz, Carla Daruich de Souza, Silvio Ricardo Pires, Adriano Henrique Pereira Barbosa, Regina Bitelli Medeiros

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Annual Energy Efficiency Analysis and Experiment Research on Variable Speed Air-Conditioner Based on Climatic Factors by Li Tang, Wang Fang, Qu Yan, Meng Zhaofeng, Wang Yu, Zhao Yale, Guo Chao

“…The running time cumulative rate of temperature range was introduced and relationships between SEER, HSPF and TAS were analyzed, the results show enhancing the air conditioner energy efficiency should focus on improving the different temperature range segment. …”
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Distinguishing patients with Parkinson's disease subtypes from normal controls based on functional network regional efficiencies. by Delong Zhang, Xian Liu, Jun Chen, Bo Liu

“…These findings provide new evidence for the neurological basis of differences between PD subtypes and suggest that the cerebellum may play different roles in the pathologies of different PD subtypes. …”
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Purification efficiency of constructed wetland system withLolium perenne, Coix lacryma-jobi and Canna edulis by XU Qing-shan, CHANG Jie, JIANG Yue-ping, NIU Xiao-yin, GE Ying

“…In this paper, the purification efficiencies of constructed wetland system located in Hangzhou with effluent ultimately flowing into the West Lake were studied and the purification efficiency of this system under condition of different hydraulic loadings and at different seasons was examined. …”
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An Efficient Text-Mining Framework of Automatic Essay Grading Using Discourse Macrostructural and Statistical Lexical Features by Husam M. Alawadh, Talha Meraj, Lama Aldosari, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf

“…The proposed study chose the Kaggle dataset of the Hewlett Foundation competition to cover this gap. It contains eight different essay sets based on student-written essays and their different range-based scores. …”
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Spectral Efficiency Analysis for Uplink Multicell Massive MIMO Cellular Communication System under Fading Channels by Yibeltal Abebaw, Rajeev K. Shakya, Demissie Jobir Gelmecha, Eshetu Tessema Ware

“…The multicell scenarios with uplink (UL) massive MIMO has been analyzed using the proposed model under different cases such as pilot reuse factor, coherence block length, different number of antennas, and different estimators. …”
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Analysis on Working Time Coefficient and Energy Efficiency Evaluation of Small Assembly Cold Storage for Fruit and Vegetables by Zhang Qiuyu, Zang Runqing

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EEG theta and alpha oscillations during tactical decision-making: An examination of the neural efficiency hypothesis in volleyball. by Thomas Kanatschnig, Norbert Schrapf, Lisa Leitner, Guilherme Wood, Christof Körner, Markus Tilp, Silvia Erika Kober

“…According to the neural efficiency hypothesis (NEH), individuals with higher expertise in a domain use their brain more efficiently when processing domain-specific tasks and show more efficient brain activity than individuals with lower expertise. …”
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AutoPVPrimer: A comprehensive AI-Enhanced pipeline for efficient plant virus primer design and assessment. by Abozar Ghorbani, Mahsa Rostami, Elham Ashrafi-Dehkordi, Pietro Hiram Guzzi

“…Primer specificity is validated via primer BLAST, which contributes to the overall efficiency of the pipeline. AutoPVPrimer has been successfully applied to the tomato mosaic virus, proving its adaptability and efficiency. …”
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Evaluating the effect of organization and context on technical efficiency: a second-stage DEA analysis of Italian hospitals by Domenica Matranga, Filippa Bono, Alessandra Casuccio, Alberto Firenze, Laura Marsala, Rosa Giaimo, Francesca Sapienza, Francesco Vitale

“…<p><strong>Objective:</strong> the purpose of this study was to compare the technical efficiency of Italian hospitals at a regional level and to examine if differences could be explained by organisational and contextual factors. …”
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THE EFFICIENCY OF COMBINED-CYCLE CHP PLANT WITH VARIABLE ELECTRIC LOADS, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE WEAR AND TEAR OF EQUIPMENT by R. Z. Aminov, M. V. Garievsky

“…The economic efficiency of attracting CHPPs to cover the variable zone of daily electrical load schedules was investigated. …”
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Benchmarking three DNA metabarcoding technologies for efficient detection of non-native cerambycid beetles in trapping collections by Loïs Veillat, Stéphane Boyer, Marina Querejeta, Emmanuelle Magnoux, Alain Roques, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, Geraldine Roux

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BlueRecording: A pipeline for the efficient calculation of extracellular recordings in large-scale neural circuit models. by Joseph James Tharayil, Jorge Blanco Alonso, Silvia Farcito, Bryn Lloyd, Armando Romani, Elvis Boci, Antonino Cassara, Felix Schürmann, Esra Neufeld, Niels Kuster, Michael Reimann

“…Biophysically detailed simulations permit the identification of the biological origins of the different components of recorded signals, the evaluation of signal sensitivity to different anatomical, physiological, and geometric factors, and selection of recording parameters to maximize the signal information content. …”
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