Assessing the Success of Ferula assa-foetida L. Plantation Restoration Operations in Semi-Steppe Rangelands by Linking Plant Functional Traits to Species Diversity by Esfandiar Jahantab, Azam Khosravi Mashizi, Mohsen Sharafatmandrad

“…The success of Assafoetida plantation in restoring semi-steppe rangelands can be determined by both species’ diversity and plant functional traits.…”
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A Semi-Analytical Model for Pressure Transient Analysis of Multiple Fractured Horizontal Wells in Irregular Heterogeneous Reservoirs by Cheng Chang, Xuefeng Yang, Weiyang Xie, Dan Dai, Yizhao Chen, Xiaojing Ji, Yanzhong Liang, Bailu Teng

“…The model integrates Green’s function solutions for matrix flow with finite difference methods to simulate fluid flow within complex fracture networks, capturing the heterogeneity of the reservoir and the irregularity of its boundaries. …”
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Differences in the Relative External Load Demands of Pre-Competitive Warm-Ups and Official Matches in Semi-Professional Football Players: A Pilot Study Considering Specific Positio... by José María Escudero-Ferrer, Luis Manuel Martínez-Aranda, Manuel Sanz-Matesanz, Konstantinos Spyrou, Pedro E. Alcaraz, Javier Raya-González

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Usability Evaluation of Foods with Function Claims Labelling as Health Information in Japan: A User-Testing Study by Yamamoto M, Yamamoto K, Takano-Ohmuro H, Yamamoto R, Saruwatari J

“…It is important to explore ways to evaluate and improve labelling usability from the consumers’ perspective to ensure safe usage.Patients and Methods: We conducted user testing from the consumers’ perspective on labels of five different FFCs, utilizing semi-structured interviews with 50 participants of diverse ages and sexes. …”
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Trust in the chatbot: a semi-human relationship by Moez Ltifi

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Energy levels of nuclei 40Sc and 40K as a function of semi-classical coupling angle θ1,2 within the modified surface delta-interaction by Dalal Naji Hameed, Ali Khalaf Hasan

“…We notice the energy levels seem to follow two universal functions which depend on the semi-classical coupling angles θ1,2. …”
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Hindgut microbiota profiling and functional prediction of sheep (Ovis aries) fed with different dietary calcium levels by Muhammad Khan, Xiaoqi Zhao, Xiaojun Ni, Baiji Danzeng, Sikandar Ali, Maida Mushtaq, Hongyuan Yang, Jiachong Liang, Syed Khurram Fareed, Bai Xue, Guobo Quan

“…This study aimed to investigate the hindgut microbiota profile and functional prediction in sheep fed with different dietary calcium levels. …”
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Acute health effects of ambient air pollution including ultrafine particles in a semi-experimental setting in young, healthy individuals by Elisabeth Folwarczny, Felix Forster, Rudolf A. Jörres, Stefan Rakete, Sheng Ye, Mark Wenig, Nadine Gawlitta, Jürgen Schnelle-Kreis, Richard Winterhalter, Alexander Müller, Dennis Nowak, Stefan Karrasch

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Carbon Metabolism Characteristics of Rhizosphere Soil Microbial Communities in Different-Aged Alfalfa (<i>Medicago sativa</i> L.) and Their Covarying Soil Factors in the Semi-Arid... by Xianzhi Wang, Bingxue Zhou, Qian Yang

“…This study used Biolog EcoPlates to evaluate the carbon metabolism activity, functional diversity, and carbon-source utilization preferences of rhizosphere soil microbial communities in 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old alfalfa grasslands on the semi-arid Loess Plateau of western China. …”
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SegMatch: semi-supervised surgical instrument segmentation by Meng Wei, Charlie Budd, Luis C. Garcia-Peraza-Herrera, Reuben Dorent, Miaojing Shi, Tom Vercauteren

“…Our results show that SegMatch outperforms fully-supervised approaches by incorporating unlabelled data, and surpasses a range of state-of-the-art semi-supervised models across different labelled to unlabelled data ratios.…”
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Types of Insects in Organic and Semi-Organic Citrus Plantation by Misykat Sulthana Pora, Amin Setyo Leksono, Aminudin Afandhi

“…The purpose of the study is to describe the structure and function of insect composition in organic and semi-organic orange plantation. …”
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Some Spectral Properties of Schrödinger Operators on Semi Axis by İbrahim Erdal

“…The main aim of this work is to investigate some spectral properties of Schrödinger operators on semi axis. We first present the Schrödinger equation with a piecewise continuous potential function q so that the problem differs from the classical Schrödinger problems. …”
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Influence of livelihood functional diversity on agro-food systems in rural communities from different macro regions of Brazil by Rodrigo Jesus Silva, Gabriela Bielefeld Nardoto, Luiz Antônio Martinelli

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Evolution of the Soil Bacterial Community as a Function of Crop Management: A Metagenomic Study in Orange Tree (<i>Citrus sinensis</i>) Plantations by Carlos Giménez-Valero, Alejandro Andy Maciá-Vázquez, Dámaris Núñez-Gómez, Agustín Conesa, Vicente Lidón, Pablo Melgarejo

“…Soil management significantly influences the structure and diversity of soil bacterial communities, affecting biodiversity and ecosystem functions. In semi-arid regions, water efficiency strategies like anti-weed netting are implemented, but their impact on soil microbial communities remains underexplored. …”
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Segmentation Studies on Al‐Si‐Mg Metallographic Images Using Various Different Deep Learning Algorithms and Loss Functions by Abeyram M. Nithin, Murukessan Perumal, M. J. Davidson, M. Srinivas, C. S. P. Rao, Katika Harikrishna, Jayant Jagtap, Abhijit Bhowmik, A. Johnson Santhosh

“…Additional comparisons have been made using the Dice score (0.85), IOU score (0.74), F1 (0.85), and recall (0.96) measures. Different loss functions were also compared, including binary, SS loss, and Tversky. …”
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Neurotechnology for enhancing human operation of robotic and semi-autonomous systems by William J. Tyler, William J. Tyler, Anusha Adavikottu, Christian Lopez Blanco, Archana Mysore, Archana Mysore, Christopher Blais, Marco Santello, Avinash Unnikrishnan

“…Human operators of remote and semi-autonomous systems must have a high level of executive function to safely and efficiently conduct operations. …”
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Semi-Automated PCR Method for Quantitating MDR1 Expression by S. Zhao, U. Consoli, R. Arceci, J. Pfeifer, W.S. Dalton, M. Andreeff

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Understanding family functioning in mothers and daughters with obesity by Becky Marquez, Florencia Lebensohn-Chialvo, Tala Al-Rousan

“…Methods Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with mothers and adult daughters (N = 116). …”
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Non-uniform Porosity Distribution on a Hollow Cylinder with Thermo-magnetic Mechanical Loading by Rania Tantawy, Mohammed Alghamdi, Ashraf Zenkour

“…Currently, with the tremendous development in manufacturing composite materials, porous functionally graded materials have attracted many engineering, thermal, and electrical studies and applications on porous structures as most recent applications in functionally graded (FG) materials. …”
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Dimuons from neutrino-nucleus collisions in the semi-inclusive DIS approach by Ilkka Helenius, Hannu Paukkunen, Sami Yrjänheikki

“…Here, we instead compute the dimuon production cross section directly as a convolution of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering to produce charmed hadrons, and a decay function fitted to e + e − data to produce a muon from the charmed hadrons. …”
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