Enhancing Airport Resource Efficiency Through Statistical Modeling of Heavy-Tailed Service Durations: A Case Study on Potable Water Trucks by Changcheng Li, Minghua Hu, Yuxin Hu, Zheng Zhao, Yanjun Wang

“…In airport operations management, accurately estimating the service durations of ground support equipment such as Potable Water Trucks (PWTs) is essential for improving resource allocation efficiency and ensuring timely aircraft turnaround. …”
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SMART-FL: Single-Shot Merged Adaptive Resource-Aware Tensor-Fusion for Efficient Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Cross-Silo Environments by Vineetha Pais, Santhosha Rao, Balachandra Muniyal

“…Current Federated Learning techniques have challenges managing different data distributions, communication overhead between participating institutions, and computational resources. …”
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A Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Model for Addressing Efficient Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Automatic Guided Vehicles Consideration by Dekun Wang, Hongxu Wu, Wengang Zheng, Yuhao Zhao, Guangdong Tian, Wenjie Wang, Dong Chen

“…By using the adjacent sequence modeling idea, a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model is established, which takes into account the constraints of the production process and AGV transportation task conflicts with the aim of minimizing the makespan and improving overall operational efficiency. Systematic evaluations are carried out on multiple test instances of different scales using the CPLEX solver. …”
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Efficient Screening in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using Sequential Machine Learning Models, Questionnaires, and Pulse Oximetry Signals: Mixed Methods Study by Nai-Yu Kuo, Hsin-Jung Tsai, Shih-Jen Tsai, Albert C Yang

“…Polysomnography, the gold standard for OSA assessment, is time consuming and labor intensive, thus limiting diagnostic efficiency. ObjectiveThis study aims to develop 2 sequential machine learning models to efficiently screen and differentiate OSA. …”
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Effects of irrigation type and fertilizer application rate on growth, yield, and water and fertilizer use efficiency of silage corn in the North China Plain by Yuchun Liu, Ning Wang, Changsong Jiang, Yao Wang

“…Methods Field experiments were conducted in 2017 and 2018 in the NCP to investigate the effects of border and furrow irrigation under different fertilizer application rates on the growth, yield, and water and fertilizer use efficiencies of silage corn. …”
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Developing a multi-modular assembled prime editing (mPE) system improved precise multi-base insertion efficiency in dicots by Pengjun Lu, Erwei Zuo, Jianbin Yan

“…Split PE improved PE efficiency extensively and was in favor of introducing small insertions in dicot plants, indicating that different PE variants might have their own expertise.…”
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Exploring the efficiency of employing Fe3O4-MWCNT Nanofluids in a heat sink equipped with circular micro pin-fins by Ali Basem, Marwan Abdeldayem, Dheyaa J. Jasim, Hossein Nabi

“…This work investigates the effects of adding different turbulence-inducing elements and varying the concentration of Fe3O4-MWCNT hybrid nanofluid to evaluate the efficiency of a micro pin-fin heat sink. …”
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Enhancing Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Efficiency Through Advanced Model Identification Using Differential Evolutionary Mutation Fennec Fox Algorithm by Manish Kumar Singla, Jyoti Gupta, Ramesh Kumar, Pradeep Jangir, Mohamed Louzazni, Nimay Chandra Giri, Ahmed Jamal Abdullah Al-Gburi, E. I.-Sayed M. EI-Kenawy, Amal H. Alharbi

“…Their high efficiency and versatility make them a promising technology across various applications. …”
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Efficiency and heat transport processes of low-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage systems: new insights from global sensitivity analyses by Luka Tas, Niels Hartog, Martin Bloemendal, David Simpson, Tanguy Robert, Robin Thibaut, Le Zhang, Thomas Hermans

“…The method also advances the state of the art in both settings. It efficiently identifies most informative field data ahead of carrying out the field work itself. …”
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Efficient methylene blue dye degradation via visible light-activated g-C3N4/CuO nanocomposites by A. Muthuganesh, S. Mohamed Rafi, I. Davis Jacob, J.P. Soundranayagam, S. Surender, P. Elangovan, X. Helan Flora

“…The increased degradation efficiency of g-C3N4/CuO is due to its lower energy bandgap, enhanced charge transport, and lower charge recombination compared to pure CuO and g-C3N4. …”
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Efficient Machine Learning Models for Solar Radiation Prediction Using Ensemble Techniques: A Case Study in Low-Rainfall Arid Climates by Jimmy Aurelio Rosales Huamani, Uwe Rojas Villanueva, Christian Leonardo Rosales Ventocilla, Jose Luis Castillo Sequera, Jose Manuel Gomez Pulido

“…To address this problem, we have designed an efficient model capable of forecasting hourly solar radiation a climate with a combination of arid and humid conditions using real-time data from meteorological variables measured by a Meteorological Station located in a university area isolated from the central city. …”
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Efficiency of Penicillium sp. and Aspergillus sp. for bioleaching lithium cobalt oxide from battery wastes in potato dextrose broth and sucrose medium by Thanapon Chandakhiaw, Neung Teaumroong, Pongdet Piromyou, Pongpan Songwattana, Waraporn Tanthanuch, Somchai Tancharakorn, Sakhob Khumkoa

“…Bioleaching, a process utilizing microbial activity, was used in this study to investigate the cobalt and lithium leaching efficiency from battery wastes. Two fungal strains, Aspergillus sp. strain JMET 15 and Penicillium sp. strain JMET 24 were used with different organic carbon sources (sucrose medium and potato dextrose broth) at 1 % pulp density. …”
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The impact of price limit system on the comprehensive quality of the stock market: Research on long-term and short-term effects based on submarkets by Zhuwei Li, Xiaoshan Wang, Chenyang Kang

“…We construct a difference-in-differences simultaneous equation to study the long-term impact of price limit system on the comprehensive quality of the stock market. …”
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Efficient Formaldehyde Gas Sensing Performance via Promotion of Oxygen Vacancy on In-Doped LaFeO₃ Nanofibers by Lei Zhu, Jiaxin Zhang, Jianan Wang, Jianwei Liu, Wei Zhao, Wei Yan

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LiDGS: An efficient 3D reconstruction framework integrating lidar point clouds and multi-view images for enhanced geometric fidelity by Li Yan, Jiang Song, Hong Xie, Pengcheng Wei, Gang Li, Longze Zhu, Zhongli Fan, Shucheng Gong

“…Finally, this paper introduces a depth regularization method to correct the depth estimation of each Gaussian, ensuring the consistency of depth information from different viewpoints, which, in turn, improves the reconstruction quality. …”
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A Blend of natural phytobiotics enhances growth performance, feed efficiency, and the immuno-health status of fingerlings of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) by Shreifa G. Mabrouk, Asmaa M. El-Nokrashy, Nahla A. Ebied, Bahaa H. Abdella, Mohamed M. Zayed, Sayed M. Aboleila, Radi A. Mohamed

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Ultrasonic-prepared porous CuGa2 alloy for efficiently removing undesired room-temperature liquid metals from various substrates by Xu Bi, Xiaotong Guo, Miao Sun, Shuyue Tan, Wencheng Song, Hao Liu, Dandan Shi, Shutao Wen, Haitao Li, Han Dai

“…By regulating the pore density and volume of hydrochloric acid, PCA exhibits high RTLM removal efficiencies on different material surfaces, namely wood, nitrile gloves, plastic, and glass. …”
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Evaluation of urea loaded nano clay biopolymer composites and nitrification inhibitors on nitrogen use efficiency under maize-wheat cropping system by Premlata Meena, K. M. Manjaiah, Kapil Atmaram Chobhe, Vinod Kumar Sharma, Hanuman Singh Jatav, Mamta, Ajit Kumar Meena

“…Abstract Across the globe, cereal crops have only < 30% nitrogen (N) use efficiency (NUE) due to significant loss of N.During previous decade nitrification inhibitors (NI) were promoted for better N management and utilization. …”
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Real time intelligent garbage monitoring and efficient collection using Yolov8 and Yolov5 deep learning models for environmental sustainability by Mohammed M. Abo-Zahhad, Mohammed Abo-Zahhad

“…Additionally, this paper addresses the need for efficient garbage classification while reducing computing costs to improve resource utilization. …”
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Efficiency of radiation and water use of four contrasting soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merril) cultivars grown in the rainfed area of northern Argentina by Salvador Prieto-Angueira, María-Auxiliadora Soriano, María-Clara Berton, Elías Fereres

“…Soybean production in water-limited environments is affected by both water supply and resource use efficiency. However, their impact on different soybean maturity groups (MGs) remains unclear. …”
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