Multiparameter Collaborative Optimization and Analysis of the Non-Penetrating Tunnel Thruster by Jinyu Guo, Yi Yang, Chao Wang, Zhiqiang Hu, Quan Zheng, Chuanzhi Fan

“…First, the design and function of the NPT thruster are introduced. Second, the computational fluid dynamics method is used to calculate the hydrodynamic performance of the NPT thruster and to analyze the static mooring thrust performance. …”
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Multilane Spatiotemporal Trajectory Optimization Method (MSTTOM) for Connected Vehicles by Pangwei Wang, Yunfeng Wang, Hui Deng, Mingfang Zhang, Juan Zhang

“…In this MSTTOM, the dynamic characteristics of connected vehicles, the vehicular state vector, the optimized objective function, and the constraints are formulated. The method for solving the trajectory problem is optimized based on Pontryagin’s maximum principle and reinforcement learning (RL). …”
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SSA-GAN: Singular Spectrum Analysis-Enhanced Generative Adversarial Network for Multispectral Pansharpening by Lanfa Liu, Jinian Zhang, Baitao Zhou, Peilun Lyu, Zhanchuan Cai

“…Additionally, we introduce Pareto optimization to the nonreference loss function to improve the overall performance. We conducted comparative experiments on two representative datasets, QuickBird and Gaofen-2 (GF-2). …”
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Biologics as well as inhaled anti-asthmatic therapy achieve clinical remission: Evidence from the Severe Asthma Network in Italy (SANI) by Giorgio Walter Canonica, MD, Francesco Blasi, PhD, Pierluigi Paggiaro, MD, Enrico Heffler, PhD, Fulvio Braido, MD, Luisa Brussino, PhD, Giulia Scioscia, PhD, Cristina Cardini, MsC, Chiara Oriecuia, MsC, Isabella Sala, MsC, Vincenzo Bagnardi, PhD, Cecilia Calabrese, PhD, Gianna Camiciottoli, MD, Giovanna Elisiana Carpagnano, PhD, Stefano Centanni, PhD, Angelo Guido Corsico, PhD, Maria Teresa Costantino, MD, Claudia Crimi, PhD, Alice D'Adda, MD, Simona D’Alò, MD, Maria D'Amato, PhD, Corrado D'Andria, MD, Stefano Del Giacco, MD, Fabiano Di Marco, PhD, Nicola Cosimo Facciolongo, MD, Alessandro Farsi, MD, Manuela Latorre, PhD, Manlio Milanese, PhD, Eustachio Nettis, MD, Eleonora Nucera, MD, Giovanni Passalacqua, MD, Girolamo Pelaia, MD, Laura Pini, MD, Luisa Ricciardi, PhD, Fabio Luigi Massimo Ricciardolo, PhD, Luca Richeldi, PhD, Erminia Ridolo, PhD, Pierachille Santus, PhD, Nicola Scichilone, PhD, Gianenrico Senna, MD, Giuseppe Spadaro, MD, Antonio Spanevello, MD, Paolo Tarsia, MD

“…Interesting results were found when assessing the inhaled therapy (ICS/LABA/LAMA and no biologics) effectiveness: 34.5% patients reached complete CR, 34.5% partial CR, and 31.0% did not reach CR. …”
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Research on sinusoidal load identification method under structural natural frequency excitation based on LSTM-CNN by HE Wenbo, SUN Hanyu, XIE Jiang, ZHANG Xiaoqiang

“…This model combines the feature extraction capabilities of the convolutional neural network（CNN）with the long-term memory function of the long short-term memory network（LSTM）. …”
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Reducing Compressibility of the Expansive Soil by Microbiological-Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation by Xiaobing Li, Chunshun Zhang, Hongbin Xiao, Weichang Jiang, Junfeng Qian, Zixiang Li

“…The significant effect of different microbial concentrations (achieved by different number of treatments) on the compression deformation is revealed with the hyperbolic function that involves two parameters with clear physical meanings. …”
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Study on non-destructive extraction methods of ancient ceramic cultural elements ornamentation by Danyu Wu, Liangyu Zhu, Ao Peng, Hong Jiang, Xiaoling Zhou, Zhijuan Deng

“…Experimental results indicate that the filtered image PSNR of this paper’s method is 32.4720, the precision of the pattern extraction reached 0.910 15, and the effects of noise and ornament complexity on the accurate extraction of ornamentation are effectively addressed.…”
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Entity Model Test and Analysis of Local Scour of Three Different Structures of Artificial Reefs by Shishi Zhu, Yongqi Yao, Zheng Li, Shuo Zhang, Shike Gao

“…In conclusion, this study provides an essential basis for the design, deployment, and later management and maintenance of artificial reefs, which can help to improve their stability, better fulfill their ecological function, and promote the sustainable development of marine fisheries.…”
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The Design and Experiment of a Motion Control System for the Whole-Row Reciprocating Seedling Picking Mechanism of an Automatic Transplanter by Jiawei Shi, Jianping Hu, Wei Liu, Junpeng Lv, Yongwang Jin, Mengjiao Yao, Che Wang

“…A fuzzy PID positioning control system is designed, the control system transfer function is constructed, and fuzzy rules are formulated to dynamically compensate for the error and its rate of change to meet the requirements of fast response and no overshoot oscillation of the positioning control system. …”
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The impact of early vs. delayed surgery on outcomes in cervical spinal cord injury without fracture or dislocation by Sirui Xiao, Hui Yan, Beixi Bao, Yuxuan Wu, Xiaokang Cheng, Chunyang Xu, Jiaguang Tang

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to retrospectively analyze 104 patients diagnosed with cervical spinal cord injury without fracture or dislocation (CSCIwoFD) who underwent surgical treatment, in order to compare the effects of early vs. delayed surgical intervention on neurological functional recovery.MethodsPatients diagnosed with CSCIwoFD and treated surgically at our institution between August 2020 and January 2023 were retrospectively reviewed. …”
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Study on the vibration prediction model of step group hole blasting considering non-stationarity by LI Hongchao, ZHANG Qipeng, HUANG Guoquan, SHI Yulian, HUANG Yonghui, HAN Haoxuan, YI Jiaxin, QU Chenliang

“…The residual similarity of the simulated waveforms output from the model reaches 0.5195, which verifies its effectiveness and superiority. …”
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Multiple Effects of Energy Substitution, Technology Development and Growth Rate in Agricultural Sector by fatemeh taei, Sadegh Khalilian

“…Methodology Translog cost function has been used to investigate the multiple effects of energy substitution from technology development on the growth rate of economic-environmental indicators in Iran's agricultural sector. …”
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Periaural Music Player Daily Use Does Not Significantly Influence the Hearing Thresholds by Saralidze N., Sharashenidze N., Tushishvili M., Kevanishvili Z.

“…The maximal sound intensity in players reaches 100-120 dB. The users mostly use these devices in the noisy environments: while walking through the streets, transporting over, etc. …”
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Ischemia–reperfusion injury after spinal cord decompressive surgery—An in vivo rat model by Boyu Zhang, Zhefeng Jin, Pengren Luo, He Yin, Xin Chen, Bowen Yang, Xiaokuan Qin, LiGuo Zhu, Bo Xu, Guoliang Ma, Dian Zhang

“…Abstract Background Although decompression surgery is the optimal treatment for patients with severe degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM), some individuals experience no improvement or even a decline in neurological function after surgery, with spinal cord ischemia–reperfusion injury (SCII) identified as the primary cause. …”
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Influence of BmNPV orf98 on DNA replication, transcription and virus package of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus by Shi Lili, Jiang Caiying, Yu Wei, Chen Chen, Jiang Lei, Gong Chengjian, Tong Fudan

“…However, the BmNPV expression reaches a higher level over other systems, because BmNPV can infect silkworm larva or pupa. …”
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Non-Fragile Estimation for Nonlinear Delayed Complex Networks with Random Couplings Using Binary Encoding Schemes by Nan Hou, Weijian Li, Yanhua Song, Mengdi Chang, Xianye Bu

“…The random couplings are represented by using the Kronecker delta function as well as a Markov chain. This paper aims to conduct a non-fragile state estimation such that, in the presence of some variations/perturbations in the gain parameter of the estimator, the estimation error dynamics will reach exponential ultimate boundedness in mean square and the ultimate bound will be minimized. …”
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Severe Left Ventricular Hypertrophy, Small Pericardial Effusion, and Diffuse Late Gadolinium Enhancement by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Suspecting Cardiac Amyloidosis: Endomyocardia... by Nina P. Hofmann, Sorin Giusca, Karin Klingel, Peter Nunninger, Grigorios Korosoglou

“…The diagnostic process with LV hypertrophy requires the integration of clinical evaluation, electrocardiography (ECG), echocardiography, biochemical markers, and if required CMR and endomyocardial biopsy in order to reach the correct diagnosis. Here, we present a case of a patient with severe LV hypertrophy (septal wall thickness of 23 mm, LV mass of 264 g, and LV mass index of 147 g/m2), severely impaired longitudinal function, and preserved radial contractility (ejection fraction = 55%), accompanied by small pericardial effusion and diffuse late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR). …”
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Projectile Explosion Weak Firelight Image Recognition Method Using Multi-Scale Adaptive Enhancement Network by Xuebin Liu, Hanshan Li, Shaopeng Liang

“…The Focal-Dice Loss is used as the joint supervision loss function of the network model, which can effectively solve the problem of sample imbalance and improve the recognition accuracy of the network. …”
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A Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Multiple Cooperative Agents by Zhen Zhang, Dongqing Wang, Dongbin Zhao, Qiaoni Han, Tingting Song

“…Furthermore, we apply the Q-value function to estimate the gradient and derive the probability of maximal reward based on estimated gradient ascent (PMR-EGA) algorithm. …”
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Corn variety identification based on improved EfficientNet lightweight neural network by Jinpu Xu, Jinpu Xu, Jinhao Lan, Guangjie Lv, Dexin Ma

“…Finally, the Swish activation function was used to improve the stability of gradient transfer, and the SCD_EFTNet model was proposed. …”
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