Spatiotemporal Variation Characteristics of Vegetative PUE in China from 2000 to 2015 by Haitao Xu, Peng Hou, Zhengwei He, A. Duo, Bing Zhang

“…Vegetative precipitation-use efficiency (PUE) is a key indicator for evaluating the dynamic response of vegetation productivity to the spatiotemporal variation in precipitation. …”
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Optimization of Thermal Insulation Parameters for Vertical Perimeters in Buildings with Single-Layer Walls by Walery Jezierski, Paula Szczepaniak, Cezary Leszczyński

“…Optimal parameter values were determined based on energy efficiency criteria. This information may be useful for researchers, designers, engineers, and decision-makers when making informed decisions during the design phase of heated buildings.…”
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SOME SAMPLE TEST RESULTS FOR ABRASIVE WEAR by Valeri A. Petrovsky, Anatoliy R. Ruban, Ali Salamekh

“…The dependences of the mass Δm and the linear Δl abrasions, as well as the relative wear resistance Im, Il on the hardness, are plotted. …”
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LCCDMamba: Visual State Space Model for Land Cover Change Detection of VHR Remote Sensing Images by Junqing Huang, Xiaochen Yuan, Chan-Tong Lam, Yapeng Wang, Min Xia

“…Recently, with the advent of Mamba, which maintains linear time complexity and high efficiency in processing long-range data, it offers a new solution to address feature-fusion challenges in LCCD. …”
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Immunoinformatics method to design universal multi-epitope nanoparticle vaccine for TGEV S protein by Shinian Li, Jingjing Yu, Chencheng Xiao, Yaling Li

“…Additionally, the model predicted 6 Linear Epitopes and 6 Discontinuous Epitopes for B-cell conformational epitopes. …”
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Patient-centered evaluation of integrated care and health equity: evidence from county medical alliances in Henan province by Hengkui Cao, Gang Yin, Xinyu Bao, Hongbing Tao

“…It finds progress in resource integration and efficiency but identifies limitations in implementation, particularly in balancing equity. …”
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Electrochemical Determination of Creatinine Based on Multienzyme Cascade-Modified Nafion/Gold Nanoparticles/Screen-Printed Carbon Composite Biosensors by Jialin Yang, Ruizhi Yu, Wanxin Zhang, Yijia Wang, Zejun Deng

“…Both non-enzymatic and enzymatic creatinine sensors could detect the lowest concentrations of less than or equal to 10 μM. In addition, the efficiency and reproducibility of the proposed composite biosensor were also confirmed by repetitive electrochemical measurements in human serum, which showed a positive linear calibration relation of peak currents versus the logarithm of the concentration between 10 μM and 1000 μM, namely, i_p (μA) = −7.06 lgC (μM) −5.30, R² = 0.996. …”
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FinSafeNet: securing digital transactions using optimized deep learning and multi-kernel PCA(MKPCA) with Nyström approximation by Ahmad Raza Khan, Shaik Shakeel Ahamad, Shailendra Mishra, Mohd Abdul Rahim Khan, Sunil Kumar Sharma, Abdullah AlEnizi, Osama Alfarraj, Majed Alowaidi, Manoj Kumar

“…MKPCA seeks to analyze and understand a non-linear structure of data whereas, Nyström Approximation reduces the burden on computational power hence allows the model to work in situations where large sizes of datasets are available but with no loss of efficiency of the model. …”
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Generation and Evolution of Cnoidal Waves in a Two-Dimensional Numerical Viscous Wave Flume by Chih-Ming Dong, Ching-Jer Huang, Hui-Ching Huang

“…The generated waves included small-amplitude, finite-amplitude, cnoidal, and solitary waves. For computational efficiency, the Jacobi elliptic function representing the surface elevation of a cnoidal wave was expressed as a Fourier series expansion. …”
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Adjusting primary-care funding by deprivation: a cross-sectional study of Lower layer Super Output Areas in England by Ian Holdroyd, Cameron Appel, Efthalia Massou, John Ford

“…For both CHI and total funding, four sets of generalised linear models were calculated for each outcome measure: unadjusted; adjusted for age; adjusted for IMD; and adjusted for age and IMD. …”
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Nystromformer based cross-modality transformer for visible-infrared person re-identification by Ranjit Kumar Mishra, Arijit Mondal, Jimson Mathew

“…These features are then processed by parallel Nyströmformer encoders, which efficiently capture long-range dependencies in linear time using lightweight self-attention mechanisms. …”
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Network-based intrusion detection using deep learning technique by Muhammad Farhan, Hafiz Waheed ud din, Saadat Ullah, Muhammad Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Amir Khan, Tehseen Mazhar, Umar Farooq Khattak, Ines Hilali Jaghdam

“…To overcome the mentioned constraints, the current research presents a new deep learning solution that combines Sequential Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) activation unit with an Extra Tree Classifier feature selection procedure. …”
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Improving Surgical Site Infection Prediction Using Machine Learning: Addressing Challenges of Highly Imbalanced Data by Salha Al-Ahmari, Farrukh Nadeem

“…LR struggles with class imbalance due to its linear assumptions and bias toward the majority class, while GNB’s reliance on feature independence and Gaussian distribution make it unreliable for under-represented minority classes. …”
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Kinetics of Sludge Superheated Steam Drying and Optimization of Process Parameters by Xukun Zhang, Pu Xing, Shengping Liu, Chengzhen Zhang, Weiliang Fu

“…The quadratic polynomials, linear equation, and logarithmic model can better fit the change law of water variation of the sludge of superheated steam condensation section, recovery section, and drying section. …”
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Enhancing sintering of kaolinitic clay from DRC using cassava waste ash: A novel aid for optimizing ceramic performance by Aboubakar Moustapha, Youssef Arkame, Ayoub Imgirne, Ahmed Manni, Tarik Tamri, Achraf Harrati, Fahd Oudrhiri Hassani, Laila Laasri, Chaouki Sadik

“…Mechanical properties (flexural strength), technological properties (apparent porosity, apparent density, linear shrinkage, and water absorption), and chemical resistance to acidic and alkaline conditions were assessed. …”
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Dimming Control Systems Based on Low-PAPR SCFDM for Visible Light Communications by Tiantian Zhang, Ji Zhou, Zhenshan Zhang, Yueming Lu, Fei Su, Yaojun Qiao

“…In this paper, the efficient dimming control systems based on single-carrier frequency-division multiplexing (SCFDM) are proposed for visible light communications (VLC). …”
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Relationship Between Short Video Addiction Tendency and Depression Among Rural Older Adults: Cross-Sectional Study by Ping Dong, Xianqi Zhang, Wenqiang Yin, Yongli Shi, Mengyuan Xu, Haoqi Li, Xianglan Zhuge, Ziyuan Li, Kui Sun, Zhongming Chen

“…Linear regression analyses were performed using model 6 of the PROCESS 4.1 macro in SPSS 26.0 to assess the relationship between short video addiction tendency and depression and to examine the mediating roles of asthenopia and sleep efficiency in this relationship, adjusting for sex, age, education, and marital status. …”
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Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Feed Conversion Ratio: A Feasibility Study of Using Short-Term FCR Data for Long-Term Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) Prediction by Xidi Yang, Liangyu Zhu, Wenyu Jiang, Yiting Yang, Mailin Gan, Linyuan Shen, Li Zhu

“…Feed conversion ratio (FCR) is a critical indicator of production efficiency in livestock husbandry. Improving FCR is essential for optimizing resource utilization and enhancing productivity. …”
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Rapid Mental Stress Evaluation Based on Non-Invasive, Wearable Cortisol Detection with the Self-Assembly of Nanomagnetic Beads by Junjie Li, Qian Chen, Weixia Li, Shuang Li, Cherie S. Tan, Shuai Ma, Shike Hou, Bin Fan, Zetao Chen

“…With the rapid attraction of magnets to nanomagnetic beads, the sensing element can be rapidly replaced on the electrode uniformly, which can lead to extreme improvements in detection efficiency. The detected linear response to cortisol was 0–32 ng/mL. …”
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Four Novel <i>Caudoviricetes</i> Bacteriophages Isolated from Baltic Sea Water Infect Colonizers of <i>Aurelia aurita</i> by Melissa Stante, Nancy Weiland-Bräuer, Urska Repnik, Almut Werner, Marc Bramkamp, Cynthia M. Chibani, Ruth A. Schmitz

“…All phages showed an up to 99% adsorption to host cells within 5 min, short latent periods (around 30 min), large burst sizes (mean of 128 pfu/cell), and high efficiency of plating (EOP > 0.5), demonstrating decent virulence, efficiency, and infectivity. …”
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