Effectiveness, safety, and efficiency of a drive‐through care model as a response to the COVID‐19 testing demand in the United States by Shashank Ravi, Anna Graber‐Naidich, Stefanie S. Sebok‐Syer, Ian Brown, Patrice Callagy, Karen Stuart, Ryan Ribeira, Laleh Gharahbaghian, Sam Shen, Vandana Sundaram, Maame Yaa A. B. Yiadom

“…We also compared main ED efficiency versus drive‐through care using ED length of stay (EDLOS). …”
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Efficiency of therapy for acute promyelocytic leukemia in children, by using all-trance retinoic acid, cytosine arabinoside, and smaller-dose anthracyclines by E. V. Samochatova, D. D. Baidildina, M. A. Maschan, N. N. Savva, O. P. Khlebnikova, A. V. Shamardina, Yu. E. Mareiko, G. A. Tsaur, T. O. Riger, M. M. Shneider, Yu. V. Rumyantseva, T. V. Nasedkina, T. V. Savitskaya, A. A. Maschan

“…The use of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) drastically improved the results of therapy for acute promyelocytic leukeimia (APL). The high efficiency of the Russian protocol APL-93—98 applied to 62 children and adolescents with APL (event-free and overall survival (EFS and OS) were 84±5% respectively with a relapse rate of 7%) was achieved, by administering the high cumulative dose of daunoruicin (495 mg/m2) and single doses of АТRА (45 mg/m2). …”
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Quality-Aware PPG-Based Blood Pressure Classification for Energy-Efficient Trustworthy BP Monitoring Devices With Reduced False Alarms by Yalagala Sivanjaneyulu, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, Srinivas Boppu, Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi

“…The proposed QA-BP method had energy saving of 8.1% - 85.6% for the 10% - 90% noisy portions in 24-hour recordings and has great potential in the development of affordable, energy-efficient cuffless BP monitoring devices with reduced false alarms.…”
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Multi‐Objective Evaluation Method for Efficient Water Energy Utilization in Multistage Hydraulic Turbines With Ultrahigh Water Head and Low Flow Rate by Zichao Zhang, Sanya Zhao, Yanpin Li

“…ABSTRACT In this article, a multi‐objective comprehensive evaluation method is established by comprehensively considering the power and shaft diameter of a multistage hydraulic turbine with an ultrahigh water head and low flow rate to utilize water energy efficiently. Using this method, several schemes for calculating the runner's geometric parameters are attained through the scheme design of different maximum numbers of stages and rotational speeds under different operating conditions of water pressure and flow rate. …”
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Agro-meteorological indices in relation to cotton yield in a Mediterranean environment by Vassilis ENGONOPOULOS, Panayiota PAPASTYLIANOU, Ioanna KAKABOUKI, Dimitrios BILALIS

“…This was evidenced by ‘Elsa’ having the highest values for heat use efficiency, heliothermal use efficiency and yield traits. …”
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Study on the spatiotemporal differentiation and influencing factors of regional industrial carbon emission efficiency under the background of green development—a case study of Sich... by Runjia Yang, Tingting Feng, Tingting Feng, Shuang Zhao

“…The average industrial carbon emission efficiency in Sichuan is 0.740, and the difference in industrial carbon emission efficiency is mainly due to the difference in pure technical efficiency. …”
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Deep-EFNet: An Optimized EfficientNetB0 Architecture With Dual Regularization for Scalable Multi-Class Brain Tumor Classification in MRI by Hussein Alshaari, Saeed Alqahtani

“…We presented Deep-EFNet, a novel architecture based on EfficientNetB0 with transfer learning. The proposed model leverages the powerful feature extraction capabilities of EfficientNetB0 while incorporating strategic enhancements for improved performance. …”
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Desenvolvimento da alface Elisa em diferentes sistemas de irrigação com água residuária Development of the lettuce Elisa in different irrigation systems with wastewater by Delvio Sandri, Edson E. Matsura, Roberto Testezlaf

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Screw pull-out force predictions in porcine radii using efficient nonlinear µFE models including contact and pre-damage by Pia Stefanek, J. D. Silva-Henao, J. D. Silva-Henao, Victoria Fiedler, A. G. Reisinger, A. G. Reisinger, Dieter H. Pahr, Alexander Synek

“…In conclusion, screw pull-out forces predicted with computationally efficient, materially nonlinear µFE models showed strong correlations with experimental measurements. …”
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Investigation of the Impact of the Pumping Beam Waist Size and Position on the Efficiency of YVO4/Nd : YVO4/YVO4 Laser Generation by Jaroslaw Mlynczak, Maciej Zyskowski

“…This article presents the results of the investigation of the generation efficiency for different sizes and positions of the pumping beam waist inside the active medium of the YVO4/Nd : YVO4/YVO4 lasers. …”
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Highly efficient synthesis of pyrimidine-5-carbonitrile derivatives over a robust biowaste bone char-Bronsted solid acid catalyst by Zahra Siahpour, Maryam Hajjami

“…The bone char catalyst can be reused several times without reducing catalyst efficiency. In addition to the various reported benefits, the first use of bone char as a catalyst support for organic synthesis is an important novelty of this study.…”
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Palladium‐Catalyzed Selectivity Controlled Highly Efficient Carbonylative Synthesis of Isoquinoline‐1,3(2H,4H)‐diones and Indanones by Ren‐Rui Xu, Chang‐Sheng Kuai, Prof. Dr. Xiao‐Feng Wu

“…Abstract Compared to the methods that rely on complex and structurally unique substrates for the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds through intra‐ and intermolecular cyclization, strategies starting from simple and readily available substrates, combined with finely tuned catalytic system to achieve different chemoselectivity, offer significant advantages in terms of efficiency, cost‐effectiveness, and versatility. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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