The Impact of Natural Resources on the Development of Countries by Mohammad Javad Barbari, Abdolhosain Kalantari, Hosain Raghfar, Gholamreza Ghafari

“…The data were selected for the 12 targeted countries, with the distribution of the appropriate size and area of the planet, as well as cultural, political and economic varieties. 3-Results and Discussion The results of the first period (1900-1850) show that a combination of democracy, GDP per capita, literacy, high agricultural potential, forest per capita (low), renewable water per capita (low) and agricultural land per capita (low), the basis for development The United States and the United Kingdom. …”
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Brain Structure Segmentation From MRI by Geometric Surface Flow

“…The deformation will stop when an equilibrium state is achieved. To overcome the low contrast of the original image data, a nonparametric kernel-based method is applied to simultaneously update the interior probability distribution during the model evolution. …”
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Infection and biogeographical characteristics of Paragonimus westermani and P. skrjabini in humans and animal hosts in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Kai Liu, Yuan-Chao Sun, Rui-Tai Pan, Ao-Long Xu, Han Xue, Na Tian, Jin-Xin Zheng, Fu-Yan Shi, Yan Lu, Lan-Hua Li

“…Paragonimus are primarily distributed in regions with low altitude, high temperature, and high precipitation. …”
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Fostering entrepreneurship: analyzing the influence of access to finance, innovation investment, educational attainment, infrastructure development, and regulatory environment by Mushab Rashid, Muhammad Khalid Anser, Syed Tahir Hussain Shah, Agha Amad Nabi, Ishfaq Ahmad, Khalid Zaman

“…The study uses the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model to detect short-term and long-term correlations in time-series data. …”
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Phase-Controlled Closing Strategy for UHV Circuit Breakers with Arc-Chamber Insulation Deterioration Consideration by Hao Li, Qi Long, Xu Yang, Xiang Ju, Haitao Li, Zhongming Liu, Dehua Xiong, Xiongying Duan, Minfu Liao

“…Compared with the least squares fitting, this algorithm achieves a reasonable balance between goodness of fit and complexity, with prediction deviations tending to be randomly distributed, no obvious systematic offset, and low dispersion degree. …”
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Characterization and Expression Analysis of PUB Gene Family Involved in Drought Stress Response in Trifoliate Orange (<i>Poncirus trifoliata</i>) by Bobo Song, Sanpeng Jin, Xuchen Gong, Yong Liu, Dechun Liu, Li Yang, Wei Hu, Liuqing Kuang, Jie Song

“…Cis-acting analysis indicated that the promoters of <i>PtrPUB</i> genes harbor elements related to hormone signaling (ABA, MeJA), drought stress, and low-temperature responses. Transcriptomic data and qRT-PCR results suggested that <i>PtrPUB</i> genes are responsive to ABA and dehydration treatments. …”
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Zero Trust Strategies for Cyber-Physical Systems in 6G Networks by Abdulrahman K. Alnaim, Ahmed M. Alwakeel

“…As 6G networks facilitate massive device connectivity and low-latency communication, traditional perimeter-based security models are inadequate against evolving cyber threats such as Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), and data breaches. …”
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Fault diagnosis method for underground coal mining equipment audio signals based on improved transfer learning by QIU Ji'er, WANG Qi, WANG Peng

“…Factors such as sudden changes in equipment operating conditions or equipment reconfiguration may cause data distribution changes, leading to decreased model performance. …”
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Coastal Storm – Surge Combination Risk Identification and Resilience Planning Based on Supply and Demand Assessment of Flood Regulation Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Fujian D... by Jian TIAN, Tianyu XIU, Suiping ZENG

“…On the supply side, the InVEST model — a spatially explicit ecosystem service assessment tool — is employed to quantify FRES provisioning capacity by simulating hydrological processes and revealing spatial distribution patterns. …”
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Evaluating the Effects of Mitigating Urban Heat Islands of Green Infrastructure on Increasing the Productivity of Light and Heavy Work (Case Study: Tabriz Metropolitan) by Mahdi Herischian, Hassan Mahmoudzadeh, Rasoul Ghorbani

“…The analysis employed Geographic Information System (GIS) and the urban cooling model of InVEST software. The results indicated that in 1984, Lost productivity for heavy work in Tabriz was distributed as follows: 14.15% in the 0% class, 3.53% in the 25% class, 58.25% in the 50% class, and 24.06% in the 75% class. …”
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Enabling Secure and Scalable GDPR-Compliant Blockchain-Based e-KYC With Efficient Redaction by Somchart Fugkeaw, Surabordin Sungchai, Supawit Nakprame, Piphattra Sreekongpan

“…Our solution introduces three key innovations: 1) ZK-Rollup-based authentication integrated with sharded blockchain architecture, enabling off-chain proof batching and distributed verification across shards for high-throughput, low-latency validation; 2) adaptive proxy re-encryption to support secure and dynamic customer data portability between host and requesting FIs; and 3) an optimized redactable blockchain protocol using off-chain Chameleon Hash collision generation and threshold cryptography-based key rotation to enable efficient, secure, and verifiable data updates in compliance with GDPR. …”
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Geoelectric Joint Inversion for 3D Imaging of Vineyard Ground by Nicola Lopane, Matteo Albéri, Alessio Barbagli, Enrico Chiarelli, Tommaso Colonna, Fabio Gallorini, Enrico Guastaldi, Fabio Mantovani, Dario Petrone, Silvio Pierini, Kassandra Giulia Cristina Raptis, Virginia Strati

“…This approach combines data sensitive to different depths and spatial resolutions, resulting in a comprehensive analysis of soil resistivity variations and moisture distribution, thus providing a detailed and coherent subsurface model. …”
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Neural Network for Underwater Fish Image Segmentation Using an Enhanced Feature Pyramid Convolutional Architecture by Guang Yang, Junyi Yang, Wenyao Fan, Donghe Yang

“…To further enhance the model’s robustness, the Mix-up and CutMix data augmentation techniques were employed. …”
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Towards enhancing security for upcoming 6G-ready smart grids through federated learning and cloud solutions by J. Jithish, Nagarajan Mahalingam, Bo Wang, Kiat Seng Yeo

“…However, training DL models with sensitive user data may violate data privacy regulations, necessitating novel approaches. …”
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Reservoir parameter prediction technology based on deep learning and its application in the Panyu 4 Sag, Pearl river mouth Bain by Yingwei Li, Yanhui Zhu, Zhenshen Li, Xiaozhao Zhang, Guofu Cai

“…The application of this method in the deltaic sediments of the Panyu 4 Sag in the Pearl River Mouth Basin shows that the deep learning-based predictions of facies distribution and porosity are consistent with well data and geological understanding. …”
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Associations of greenhouse gases, air pollutants and dynamics of scrub typhus incidence in China: a nationwide time-series study by Haoyue Cao, Jianqiang Han, Weiming Hou, Juxiang Yuan

“…The Weighted Quantile Sum (WQS) model revealed a significant risk effect of NOx on scrub typhus during periods of low risk, which are often overlooked (OR (95% CI) = 0.40 (0.23, 0.58)). …”
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Homotopy Perturbation Method for Investigating Population Dynamics in Oxygen-Depleted Environments by V. Sreelatha Devi, Sathiyaraj Thambiayya, Gowri Senthil, K. Saranya

“…Solving some of the issues in biogas energy usage, this paper is interested in modeling H2S photodegradation, simulation of parameters that influence degradation rate, and testing the model through experimental data. …”
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Analysis of Passenger Flow Characteristics and Origin–Destination Passenger Flow Prediction in Urban Rail Transit Based on Deep Learning by Zhongwei Hou, Jin Han, Guang Yang

“…To simultaneously consider the spatiotemporal characteristics of passenger flow distribution and achieve high precision estimation of origin and destination (OD) passenger flow quickly, a predictive model based on a temporal convolutional network and a long short-term memory network (TCN–LSTM) combined with an attention mechanism was established to process passenger flow data in urban rail transit. …”
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GraphFedAI framework for DDoS attack detection in IoT systems using federated learning and graph based artificial intelligence by Mohd Anjum, Ashit Kumar Dutta, Ali Elrashidi, Sana Shahab, Asma Aldrees, Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh, Abeer Aljohani

“…Federated learning is incorporated to maintain data privacy by training models locally on each device without sharing raw data. …”
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Représentations de la vieillesse et orientation professionnelle by Hélène Geurts, Marie-Claire Haelewyck

“…Several theories justify this trend and are frequently associated with the principle of ageism, discrimination based on age criteria (Butler, 1969), widespread in our hypermodern societies (Adam, Joubert & Missotten, 2013).Referring to Abric modeling (1976, 1994, 2005), a questionnaire focusing on the representations of students with regard to old age has been distributed to an occasional sample of 228 subjects of the faculty. …”
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