Multimethod Analysis of Heavy Metal Pollution and Source Apportionment in a Southeastern Chinese Region by Dingwei Qi, Haiyang Chen, Litang Hu, Jianchong Sun

“…This study investigates the status of heavy metal pollution in a southeastern region of China and aims to identify its sources using data from the first national soil pollution survey, which includes 282 sampling points. …”
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Comparative Performance of Four Single Extreme Outlier Discordancy Tests from Monte Carlo Simulations by Surendra P. Verma, Lorena Díaz-González, Mauricio Rosales-Rivera, Alfredo Quiroz-Ruiz

“…Because of the use of precise and accurate random and normally distributed simulated data, very large replications, and a large number of independent experiments, this paper presents a novel approach for precise and accurate estimations of power functions of four popular discordancy tests and, therefore, should not be considered as a simple simulation exercise unrelated to probability and statistics. …”
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2D Particle Filter Accelerator for Mobile Robot Indoor Localization and Pose Estimation by Omer Tariq, Dongsoo Han

“…Particle filtering is a reliable Monte Carlo algorithm for estimating the state of a system in modeling non-linear, non-gaussian elements for estimation and tracking applications in various fields, including robotics, navigation, and computer vision. …”
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Deformation prediction in innovative implant design with machine learning approaches by Mehmet Onur Yağır, Muhammed Fatih Pekşen, Şaduman Şen, Uğur Şen

“…The data obtained were modeled using a finite element analysis system (ANSYS), and instantaneous deformation data were collected during the modeling process. …”
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Epidemiological and demographic drivers of ischemic stroke attributed to high fasting plasma glucose from 1990 to 2021: findings from the 2021 global burden of disease study by Yanwen Dong, Yangyang Wang, Yangyang Wang, Xiaomei Lan, Xiaomei Lan, Huiyan Zeng

“…The APC model indicates that age is the primary source of burden in High, High-middle, and Middle SDI regions, with ASMR trends improving over the last 5 years, contrary to trends in Low-middle and Low SDI regions. …”
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Non-parametric feature selection and machine learning based seasonal GHI prediction for SAPV systems in India by Aadyasha Patel, Gnana Swathika O․V․

“…Kurtosis and Skewness meters suggests normal data distribution, but further tests directed using Cramer-von Mises, Anderson-Darling and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests indicates non-normality of the data distribution. …”
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Altitude Extension of the NCAR‐TIEGCM (TIEGCM‐X) and Evaluation by Yihui Cai, Xinan Yue, Wenbin Wang, Shun‐Rong Zhang, Huixin Liu, Dong Lin, Haonan Wu, Jia Yue, Sean L. Bruinsma, Feng Ding, Zhipeng Ren, Libo Liu

“…Abstract The upper boundary height of the traditional community general circulation model of the ionosphere‐thermosphere system is too low to be applied to the topside ionosphere/thermosphere study. …”
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Investigation on Melting Process of Ice Cold-plate with Porous Material by Jiang Yulong, Zhang Sujun, Li Juxiang

“…The principles of the melting rates, temperature distributions, interface movements were analyzed. Comparisons were made between the model predictions and experimental data. …”
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Hate Speech Detection and Online Public Opinion Regulation Using Support Vector Machine Algorithm: Application and Impact on Social Media by Siyuan Li, Zhi Li

“…By maximizing the category interval to locate the optimal hyperplane and combining nuclear techniques to implicitly adjust the data distribution, the classification accuracy of hate speech detection is significantly improved. …”
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A systematic analysis and prediction of the disease burden of ischemic heart disease caused by hyperglycemia by Jianxing Chen, Wenlinng Zeng, Dandan Dai, Yujin Tang, Yangwen Dong, Zilan Zhong, Miao Zhou, Jianhong Ye

“…Conclusion Global HFPG‐induced IHD health presents significant imbalances. In low SDI regions with larger populations and more unbalanced healthcare distribution, there is a need to strengthen the construction of medical levels.…”
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Oil Content Prediction Method Based on the TOC and Porosity of Organic-Rich Shales from Wireline Logs: A Case Study of Lacustrine Intersalt Shale Plays in Qianjiang Sag, Jianghan B... by Xin Nie, Jing Lu, Jingyuan Chi, Peilin Wang, Chaomo Zhang

“…The calculated oil content results are coherent with the core experimental data, which indicates the efficiency of this model. …”
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Coupling and Coordination Between Water Poverty and High-quality Economic Development in Yellow River Basin by Wang Shuhe, Wang Lijun

“…[Results] ① The water poverty index of the provinces in the Yellow River basin generally increased over time, and the level of high-quality economic development was generally low, with obvious regional differences. ② The degree of coupling coordination showed a fluctuating upward trend, with a general spatial distribution pattern of “high in the east and low in the west”. ③ The gray correlation coefficients between the indicators of the two systems of water poverty and high-quality economic development were both greater than 0.5, which was in a relatively high level of correlation. …”
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The influence and lag-effect of temperature and precipitation on the incidence and mortality of tuberculosis, 2000–2021: an observational study by Qiao Liu, Qiao Liu, Yaping Wang, Min Liu, Min Liu, Yanlin Zhao, Jue Liu, Jue Liu, Jue Liu, Jue Liu

“…BackgroundTuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health concern, particularly in low-and middle-income countries. Climate change may influence TB burden through effects on human health, living conditions, and pathogen transmission, yet its long-term impact remains underexplored.MethodsThis observational study integrated data on temperature and precipitation obtained from NCEI/NOAA, TB burden from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, and socio-economic covariates from the World Bank open data platform. …”
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Genomic epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Wales by Nicole Pacchiarini, Felicity Simkin, Mark Postans, George Ahern, Jiao Song, Clare Brown, Josie Smith, Catie Williams, Matthijs Backx, Daniel Thomas, Thomas R. Connor, Christopher Williams

“…We describe Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain diversity, drug-resistance, and ongoing transmission in Wales using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP)-based typing to infer lineage and clusters. TB cohort data on isolates from Welsh residents from 2012 to 2022, patient level data from the National TB Surveillance System and SNP-based data, were merged. …”
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Adapting Cross-Sensor High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery for Land Use Classification by Wangbin Li, Kaimin Sun, Jinjiang Wei

“…Additionally, we integrate convolutional neural networks and Transformers to enhance the model’s feature extraction capabilities, and employ a fine-tuning strategy with dynamic pseudo-labels to reduce the reliance on annotated data from the target domain. …”
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Multiscale excitations in the diluted two-dimensional S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet by Liuyun Dao, Hui Shao, Anders W. Sandvik

“…We study the excitation spectrum of the S=1/2 Heisenberg model on the randomly diluted square lattice by stochastic analytic continuation of imaginary-time correlations obtained by quantum Monte Carlo simulations in the low-temperature limit. …”
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Sustainable Membrane-Based Acoustic Metamaterials Using Cork and Honeycomb Structures: Experimental and Numerical Characterization by Giuseppe Ciaburro, Virginia Puyana-Romero

“…Numerical simulations were performed to predict pressure field distributions. The numerical model showed good agreement with the experimental data, validating the underlying physical model of coupled mass–spring resonators. …”
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Improving antibiotic utilization in West Africa: enhancing interventions through systematic review and evidence synthesis by Eric S. Donkor, Abdul-Halim Osman, Bill Clinton Aglomasa, Aaron Awere-Duodu, Alex Odoom, Bismark Opoku-Asare, Gilbert Lazarus

“…Five key domains of antibiotic use were focused on: (1) antibiotic consumption; (2) appropriate antibiotic prescription; (3) indicators or key drivers of antibiotic use; (4) antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) interventions; (5) knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of antibiotic consumers and providers. Data were extracted from eligible papers for all the five domains under consideration and random-effects model meta-analysis was carried out for antibiotic consumption. …”
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The Floristic Composition and Phytoecological Characterization of Plant Communities in the M’Goun Geopark, High Atlas, Morocco by Aboubakre Outourakhte, Youssef Gharnit, Abdelaziz Moujane, Khalid El Haddany, Aziz Hasib, Abdelali Boulli

“…Phytoecological studies and species assessments are implemented using vegetation sampling, analysis of climate data, geological substrate maps, and the Digital Elevation Model (DEM). …”
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Twig age 2.0: A novel and reliable method to track variation in ungulate browsing over species, sites and time by Donald M. Waller

“…Here, I here extend the method using twig age data from 12 tree species distributed across 60 sites in the Upper Midwest, USA to assess its efficiency and compare how deer browse impacts vary across an exclosure fence, among species, across sites, and over time. …”
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