Self-Organizing Neighbor Discovery and Ranging for Battery-Powered Ultra-Wideband Anchors by Davide Vecchia, Pablo Corbalan, Timofei Istomin, Gian Pietro Picco, Enrico Varriale

“…Since most available solutions require anchors to be connected to the power grid, infrastructures turn up to be extremely expensive when not simply unfeasible. We address these issues with SONAR, an UWB localization system based on battery-powered anchors. …”
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Cell typing of biological heart valves prosthesis explanated due to the development of calcium-associated dysfunctions by R. A. Mukhamadiyarov, N. V. Rutkovskaya, S. G. Rutkovskaya, Yu. N. Odarenko, I. V. Mil’to, L. S. Barbarash

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Assessment of SLAM Methods Applied in Monochromatic Environments by Rudolf Krecht, Áron Ballagi

“…Additionally, this study seeks to identify performance issues in such applications.…”
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Inc-DLOM: Incremental Direct LiDAR Odometry and Mapping by Kaiduo Fang, Rui Song, Ivan Wang-Hei Ho

“…Intelligent Vehicle (IV) research is gaining popularity due to the convergence of technological advancements and societal demands, which also leads to the fundamental demand for precise localization. However, the localization accuracy of most existing LiDAR Odometry methods is limited by the complex environment and high-frequency motion, leading to unsatisfactory performance. …”
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LittleFaceNet: A Small-Sized Face Recognition Method Based on RetinaFace and AdaFace by Zhengwei Ren, Xinyu Liu, Jing Xu, Yongsheng Zhang, Ming Fang

“…For surveillance video management in university laboratories, issues such as occlusion and low-resolution face capture often arise. …”
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Optimizing Public Policy Evaluation Using Data and Evidence-Based Approaches for Sunan Kuning Semarang, Indonesia Closure by Isnaeni Yuliani, Amrizarois Ismail, Ainun Nazriah, Robe'ah Yusuf

“…Since the closure of the Sunan Kuning (Argorejo) localization area in Semarang in 2019, a range of secondary issues have emerged, including not only morality concerns but also impacts on economic cycles, public health, and social structures. …”
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Accurate Detection and Tracking of Small-Scale Vehicles in High-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Bird-View Imagery by Heshan Zhang, Xin Tan, Mengwei Fan, Cunshu Pan, Zhanji Zheng, Shuang Luo, Jin Xu

“…Especially in tasks with long distances, extensive backgrounds, and small objects, it increases the difficulty of localization and regression, which can easily lead to missed detections and false positives. …”
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Toward Effective Monitoring of Diffuse VOC Emissions: A Critical Discussion and Review of the Applications of EN 17628:2022 by Luca Carrera, Selena Sironi, Marzio Invernizzi

“…Recently, the technical standard EN 17628:2022 has been published, which provides a framework to address this issue, proposing five different techniques for the localization, identification, and quantification of diffuse emissions. …”
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HSF-YOLO: A Multi-Scale and Gradient-Aware Network for Small Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images by Fujun Wang, Xing Wang

“…Small object detection (SOD) in remote sensing images (RSIs) is a challenging task due to scale variation, severe occlusion, and complex backgrounds, often leading to high miss and false detection rates. To address these issues, this paper proposes a novel detection framework named HSF-YOLO, which is designed to jointly enhance feature encoding, attention interaction, and localization precision within the YOLOv8 backbone. …”
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Techniques for Accelerometer Reading Processing on Railway Transport Using Wavelet Transform by A. M. Boronakhin, A. V. Bolshakova, D.  M. Klionskiy, D. Yu. Larionov, R. V. Shalymov

“…Introduction. Safety issues of railway transport are inevitably connected with the condition of railway tracks and railway wheels. …”
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Design and development of full self-service smart shopping system for unmanned supermarket by Xiao Liang, Yu Qi, Shuo Xi, Guanglei Meng, Zhujun Wang

“…By integrating Mask R-CNN and UWB (Ultra Wide Band) into SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) framework, we construct MU-SLAM (Mask R-CNN UWB SLAM), which enables precise localization and robust obstacle avoidance in unknown supermarket environments. …”
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Unveiling innovation imperatives in agriculture: A data-driven framework for identifying latent needs and regional priorities by Andrea Bonfiglio

“…This methodology is based on critical issues emerging from comparing economic, environmental, and social sustainability indicators of farms. …”
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In-Service Power Transformer Life Time Prospects: Review and Prospects by Edwell. T. Mharakurwa

“…Hence, it is necessary to investigate transformer life time issues so as to fully grasp the operational and performance status in order to reduce failures and operating costs. …”
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Socio-Economic Policy of Russia on Black Sea Coast of Caucasus in Second Half of 19th Century by I. M. Fedina

“…The relevance of scientific research is explained not only by the growing public interest in the processes of regional history, but also by the need for scientific understanding and study of the development of the strategically important South Russian region. The localization of creative research was carried out, first of all, on insufficiently covered issues in the scientific literature, and often on historical subjects that were practically not considered by researchers. …”
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Ultrastructural pathology of bioprosthetic heart valves with infectious endocarditis by R. A. Mukhamadiyarov, I. V. Milto, A. G. Kutikhin

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Cost and Schedule Performance in Higher Education Construction Projects in Saudi Arabia by Khaled Medath Aldossari

“…The interviews revealed several factors affecting project performance, including owner-related issues such as change orders, payment delays, design errors, and inaccurate quantity estimates; contractor-related issues such as delays in material approvals and inadequate planning; labor-related challenges such as shortages of workers and unavailability of skilled laborers; and government-related challenges such as taxes, visa restrictions, and localization requirements. …”
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The clinical case of ectopic thymoma by M.G. Fedorova, E.V. Komarova, V.S. Sokolova, D.A. Troshin

“…Only 4% of patients have thymoma in ectopic localization. Only a few such clinical cases have been described in Russia. …”

Performance Degradation Evaluation of Rolling Bearing based on Improved Fuzzy Entropy and Grey Relation by Li Cheng, Wensuo Ma, Xintao Xia, Liangwen Wang

“…In light of low sensitivity of fuzzy entropy in extracting degraded features of rolling bearing，an improved fuzzy entropy based on the sigmoid-like function is proposed. Aiming at the localization issues of assessment methods for traditional rolling bearing performance degradation，a novel performance degradation evaluation method based on grey relation is proposed. …”
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Challenges and strategies in post-editing English into Arabic Neural Machine Translations of movie subtitles by H. S. M Al Sammarraie

“…By adopting a descriptive-qualitative approach, this study identified issues related to linguistic fidelity, cultural adaptation, and technical constraints. …”
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Microsatellite instability as an expert biomarker in cancer diseases by O. Bondar

“…An analysis of the results obtained are given which outlined the issues of oncopathology of various localization genetic diagnostics efficacy by determining the level of damaged loci with a typical structure – microsatellites onside the genome of tumour cells. …”
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