Explainable Reinforcement and Causal Learning for Improving Trust to 6G Stakeholders by Miguel Arana-Catania, Amir Sonee, Abdul-Manan Khan, Kavan Fatehi, Yun Tang, Bailu Jin, Anna Soligo, David Boyle, Radu Calinescu, Poonam Yadav, Hamed Ahmadi, Antonios Tsourdos, Weisi Guo, Alessandra Russo

“…The machine learning systems orchestrating these advanced services will widely rely on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to process multi-modal requirements datasets and make semantically modulated decisions, introducing three major challenges: (1) First, we acknowledge that most explainable AI research is stakeholder-agnostic while, in reality, the explanations must cater for diverse telecommunications stakeholders, including network service providers, legal authorities, and end users, each with unique goals and operational practices; (2) Second, DRL lacks prior models or established frameworks to guide the creation of meaningful long-term explanations of the agent’s behaviour in a goal-oriented RL task, and we introduce state-of-the-art approaches such as reward machine and sub-goal automata that can be universally represented and easily manipulated by logic programs and verifiably learned by inductive logic programming of answer set programs; (3) Third, most explainability approaches focus on correlation rather than causation, and we emphasise that understanding causal learning can further enhance 6G network optimisation. …”
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Assessing burn severity and vegetation restoration in Alberta’s boreal forests following the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire – a remote sensing time-series study by Eric Xu, Mary Wei, Tiffany Li, Victor Lei, Jennifer Gao, Nathan Wang, Yuhong He

“…Forests’ NDVI decreased from 0.72 to 0.51 in 2016, with a gradual recovery to 0.67 by 2023, suggesting a slower recovery process. While NDVI values indicate a fast vegetation recovery for most land cover types, a deeper analysis suggests a transitional phase where past forests are now dominated by other vegetation types. …”
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Advancing Breast Cancer Detection: SE-Conformer Framework for Malignancy Detection in Histopathology Images by Lekha S. Nair, K. R. Amarnath, Jyothisha J. Nair

“…The extracted features are then processed by a Conformer block, which further refines them by emphasizing the most relevant regions in the input feature map. …”
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Mapeamento da evolução histórica do uso e ocupação do solo no município de João Pessoa-PB, de 1985 a 2022 by JoãoVictorAraújodaSilva, Luana Ramos de Oliveira, NadjaCecíliadeFreitasSilva, ChristianneMariadaSilvaMoura, SauloRoberto deOliveiraVital

“…The suppression of vegetation and soil sealing are the most recurrent problems in this process of urban expansion…”
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Custom YOLO Object Detection Model for COVID-19 Diagnosis by Noor Najah Ali, Aseel Hameed, Asanka G. Perera, Ali Al_Naji

“…These tools also help to better understand the course of the disease. In most cases, medical staff and healthcare facilities would be more equipped to promptly diagnose COVID-19 for patients with improved flexibility. …”
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Design of efficient generalized digital fractional order differentiators using an improved whale optimization algorithm by Mohammed Ali Mohammed Moqbel, Talal Ahmed Ali Ali, Zhu Xiao, Amani Ali Ahmed Ali

“…Therefore, our method can be utilized in real-world digital signal processing applications.…”
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Exploring Dynamic Hierarchical Fusion for Multi-View Clustering by Zhenshan Chen, Xuran Tian, Lizhen Gao, Gengbin Liao, Yang Shen, Kainan Zheng, Jianglin Fang

“…This weighted fusion produces a unified clustering representation that captures the most relevant information for the clustering task. …”
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The latest diagnostic methods for esophageal and gastric examinations. High-resolution manometry is now available in Ukraine by Yu.M. Stepanov, N.V. Prolom, S.O. Tarabarov

“…This allows you to create detailed topographic maps of pressure in the esophagus, which show the contraction of its muscles in real time. …”
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Site selection for seaweed culture at Gerupuk Bay - West Nusa Tenggara using remote sensing and GIS by Kukuh Nirmala, Arlina Ratnasari, Syarif Budiman

“…Each parameters were processed using Er Mapper 7.0 software and then Arcview GIS 3.2 software to create the thematic GIS map. …”
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Spatial Change of Dominant Baltic Sea Demersal Fish Across Two Decades by Liam MacNeil, Frane Madiraca, Saskia Otto, Marco Scotti

“…Local densities drive differences in species contributions to ecological processes and ecosystem function rather than through presence alone. …”
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Synthesis of parallel adders from if-decision diagrams by A. A. Prihozhy

“…Addition is one of the timing critical operations in most of modern processing units. For decades, extensive research has been done devoted to designing higher speed and less complex adder architectures, and to developing advanced adder implementation technologies. …”
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Determination of the amount of infiltration supply according to the data of low-water runoff in a tailing storage area by I. A. Lyamin

“…The relevance of the study lies in predicting the hydrogeological regime in the process of construction and operation of tailing storage areas. …”
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VNet: An End-to-End Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Road Extraction From High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data by Arnick Abdollahi, Biswajeet Pradhan, Abdullah Alamri

“…Recently, deep learning-based techniques have presented a notable enhancement in the image segmentation results, however, most of them still cannot preserve boundary information and obtain high-resolution road segmentation map when processing the remote sensing imagery. …”
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Geolocation Android Mobile Phones Using GSM/UMTS by Jafaar et al.

“…Mobile stored data location information in the database (SQLite), then transfer it into location API to obtain locations result implemented in Google Maps. Track a smartphone with fixed identifiers mostly SSN (SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) Serial Number) and IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) derived from an identifying string unique to the user's device. …”
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KDELR1 regulates chondrosarcoma drug resistance and malignant behavior through Intergrin-Hippo-YAP1 axis by Huabin Yin, Dongjie Jiang, Yongai Li, Wenjun Chen, Jie Zhang, Xinghai Yang, Jinbo Hu, Haifeng Wei

“…Abstract Chondrosarcoma (CS) is the second most common primary bone malignancy, known for its unique transcriptional landscape that renders most CS subtypes resistant to chemotherapy, including neoadjuvant chemotherapy commonly used in osteosarcoma (OS) treatment. …”
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Arsenic contamination of natural waters, soils and food products in Georgia by L. Shavliashvili, G. Kuchava, Mariam Tabatadze, E. Shubladze, n. Buachidze

“…Based on the received data, a map of arsenic contamination of the soils of the Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti regions was compiled in the GIS system. …”
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Transcriptome atlas of Striga germination: Implications for managing an intractable parasitic plant by Gilles Irafasha, Sylvia Mutinda, Fredrick Mobegi, Brett Hale, George Omwenga, Asela J. Wijeratne, Susann Wicke, Emily S. Bellis, Steven Runo

“…Results showed that germination proceeds immediately after SL perception and is marked by a wave of transcriptional reprogramming to allow for metabolic processes of energy mobilization. Cluster analysis using self‐organizing maps revealed a time‐phased and genotype‐differentiated response to germination stimulation. …”
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BREATHE: A GeoAI-Powered Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting System for Urban Sustainability by S. D. Adduri, T. Ali

“…Air pollution is one of the most important environmental and public health challenges of our time, and it uniquely impacts urban areas, especially in the rapidly developing countries of the UAE. …”
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Marketing Efficiency Analysis of Robusta Coffee Commodity in Dampit District, Malang Regency by Titania Audi Pristiani, Pawana Nur Indah, Fatchur Rozci

“…Pattern II proved to be the most efficient, with a total margin of IDR 20,000 and the highest farmer's share at 76.4%. …”
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HOW TO CREATE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (BPM) SYSTEM by B. Ye. Odintsov, A. N. Romanov

“…Particular attention is paid to processing of indicators measured in different scales and the transformation of network structures that reflect the causal relationships between the objectives of the enterprise into treelike ones.The paper discusses the following functions BPM-systems: modeling and development of the balanced scorecard and strategy map of company’s operation; forecasting strategic indicators of the company and key performance indicators; adjusting the company’s goals and calculation of the planned values; monitoring the activities of company and performing financial and economic analysis of the company’s operation.…”
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