Enhancing Connected Health Ecosystems Through IoT-Enabled Monitoring Technologies: A Case Study of the Monit4Healthy System by Marilena Ianculescu, Victor-Ștefan Constantin, Andreea-Maria Gușatu, Mihail-Cristian Petrache, Alina-Georgiana Mihăescu, Ovidiu Bica, Adriana Alexandru

“…In order to decrease network load and enable the quick identification of abnormalities, edge computing is used for real-time signal filtering and feature extraction. …”
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Classifying Power Quality Issues in Railway Electrification Systems Using a Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform Approach by Pampa Sinha, Kaushik Paul, I. M. Elzein, Mohamed Metwally Mahmoud, Ali M. El‐Rifaie, Wulfran Fendzi Mbasso, Ahmed M. Ewais

“…NSCT's shift‐invariant, multiscale, and multidirectional capabilities allow for precise separation of oscillatory and transient components, while the split augmented Lagrangian shrinkage algorithm enhances decomposition efficiency. Features such as signal energy, entropy, and trend energy were extracted and visualized in a 3D feature space, demonstrating clear clustering for different PQ events. …”
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Multi-Strategy Improvement of Coal Gangue Recognition Method of YOLOv11 by Hongjing Tao, Lei Zhang, Zhipeng Sun, Xinchao Cui, Weixun Yi

“…It exhibits a slight increase in computational load, despite an almost unchanged number of parameters, and demonstrates the best overall detection performance. …”
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Precision Weed Management for Straw-Mulched Maize Field: Advanced Weed Detection and Targeted Spraying Based on Enhanced YOLO v5s by Xiuhong Wang, Qingjie Wang, Yichen Qiao, Xinyue Zhang, Caiyun Lu, Chao Wang

“…Secondly, we proposed an improved YOLO v5s network, incorporating a Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM), FasterNet feature extraction network, and a loss function to optimize the network structure and training strategy. …”
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The Extension Arm Design Method Based on a Two-Bar Tension Stretchable Mechanism by Song Gao, GuoFu Zhang, Yue Zhao, XiaoHui Yu, JianWei Sun

“…In comparison to existing space deployable masts, the new deployable masts incorporate a tensegrity structure feature that enables them to recover autonomously to their initial state in a contracted state. …”
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Thermal Management for Electric Motorcycles—Multi-Scale Modelling and Battery Thermal Design Evaluation by Tao Zhu, Mehmet Kirca, Shilei Zhou, Truong Dinh, Andrew McGordon

“…Electric motorcycles feature a smaller size and lower weight than electric cars, meaning they have greater manoeuvrability and energy efficiency, which translate to a dynamic riding experience and reduced environmental footprint. …”
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Multi-objective optimization of wear parameters of hybrid composites (LM6/B4C/fly ash) using grey relational analysis. by Charles Sarala Rubi, Jayavelu Udaya Prakash, Sunder Jebarose Juliyana, Sachin Salunkhe, Robert Cep, Emad Abouel Nasr

“…The wear was examined with various Sliding Speed, S (1 m/s, 1.5 m/s and 2 m/s), Sliding Distance, D (500 m, 1000 m and 1500 m), applied load, L (15 N, 30N and 45 N) and reinforcement %, R (3, 6 and 9%). …”
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Computer-Vision-Aided Deflection Influences Line Identification of Concrete Bridge Enhanced by Edge Detection and Time-Domain Forward Inference by Jianfeng Chen, Long Zhao, Yuliang Feng, Zhiwei Chen

“…To mitigate the limitations of the Lucas–Kanade (LK) optical flow method, such as unclear feature points within the camera’s field of view and occasional point loss in certain video frames, an edge detection technique is employed to identify maximum values in the first-order derivatives of the image, creating virtual tracking points at the bridge edges through image processing. …”
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Wearable co-thinking device to assist strawberry packaging task by Osamu Fukuda, Wen Liang Yeoh, Yuta Esaki, Jin Yien Lee, Mitsuru Higashimori, Makoto Kaneko, Satoshi Muraki

“…The most significant feature of this system is its ability to seamlessly integrate system-generated decisions with human input, resulting in optimal task performance. …”
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Design of an Intelligent Pear Bagging End-Effector Based on Yolov8 and SGBM Algorithm by Jing Ruijun, Liu JingKai, LiXin, ZhiguoZhao

“…To address the computational limitations of embedded devices in agricultural intelligent equipment, we improve the YOLOv8 model by replacing its neck component with the Asymptotic Feature Pyramid Network (AFPN) and incorporating Context Guided (CG) blocks into the C2f module. …”
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Lightweight coal mine conveyor belt foreign object detection based on improved Yolov8n by Jierui Ling, Zhibo Fu, Xinpeng Yuan

“…-EIEM module is proposed and embedded into the Backbone section to enhance the feature learning capability for image recognition tasks. …”
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Agility in Handball: Position- and Age-Specific Insights in Performance and Kinematics Using Proximity and Wearable Inertial Sensors by Pieter Heuvelmans, Alli Gokeler, Anne Benjaminse, Jochen Baumeister, Daniel Büchel

“…Furthermore, high motor–cognitive load is associated with risk of lower limb injury. …”
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Determination of Heavy Metals, Arsenic, and Aluminum Content in Pumpkin Seed Herbal Substance and Native Products, by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry by S. V. Ovsienko, V. M. Shchukin, E. A. Blinkova, N. E. Kuz’mina

“…Their characteristic feature is that they can be consumed directly, without prior extraction of the starting material. …”
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Enhanced Models for Wind, Solar Power Generation, and Battery Energy Storage Systems Considering Power Electronic Converter Precise Efficiency Behavior by Binxin Zhu, Junliang Liu, Shusheng Wang, Zhe Li

“…The large-scale integration of wind, solar, and battery energy storage is a key feature of the new power system based on renewable energy sources. …”
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High accuracy identification of maize seed varieties based on a lightweight improved YOLOv8 by Siqi Niu, Xiaolin Xu, Ao Liang, Yuliang Yun, Fengqi Hao, Jinqiang Bai, Wenyi Sheng, Dexin Ma

“…Firstly, the backbone was replaced with FasterNet, which reduced redundant computation and memory access, allowing more efficient extraction of spatial features. Secondly, the Content-Aware ReAssembly of FEatures (CARAFE) was introduced, offering a larger receptive field and adaptive convolution kernels, which better aggregated contextual information, prevented feature loss, and improved the quality of upsampling and the accuracy of dense prediction tasks. …”
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Toward Sustainable Agriculture: DPA-UNet for Semantic Segmentation of Landscapes Using Remote Sensing Imagery by J. Kavipriya, G. Vadivu

“…While keeping a lower computational load, the proposed model efficiently lowers segmentation mistakes in heterogeneous agricultural areas. …”
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LWheatNet: a lightweight convolutional neural network with mixed attention mechanism for wheat seed classification by Xiaojuan Guo, Jianping Wang, Guohong Gao, Zihao Cheng, Zongjie Qiao, Ranran Zhang, Zhanpeng Ma, Xing Wang

“…This approach enhances the feature representation of wheat seed images. Secondly, we design stacked inverted residual networks to extract features from wheat seed images. …”
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Examining attentional avoidance in post-traumatic stress disorder: an exploratory ‘Face in the Crowd’ paradigm using eye-tracking by Wivine Blekic, Mandy Rossignol, Fabien D’Hondt

“…This study allows raising the question of cognitive load on the emergence of differential attentional strategies presented by PTSD participants. …”
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Fault Detection in Induction Machines Using Learning Models and Fourier Spectrum Image Analysis by Kevin Barrera-Llanga, Jordi Burriel-Valencia, Angel Sapena-Bano, Javier Martinez-Roman

“…This analysis introduces a new approach by demonstrating how different convolutional blocks capture particular features: the first convolutional block captures signal shape, while the second identifies background features. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF COMPOSITION AND TECHNOLOGY FOR PRODUCTION OF NONALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONCENTRATE TABLET by Shkolnikova M.N., Averyanova E.V., Donya D.V., Khlopotov I.V.

“…The formulation and technology of the concentrate of non-alcoholic thirst-quenching beverage in the form of tablets has been developed, the distinguishing feature of which is the use, as a flavor component, of the dry extract of cowberry berries obtained by vacuum-pulse extraction. …”
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