Comparative Analysis of Novice, Moderately Experienced, and Highly Experienced Iranian EFL Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Focusing on Their Cognition, Metacognition, Affection, and Behavi... by Maryam Azizi, Hossein Heidari Tabrizi, Ahmadreza Lotfi

“…According to the results, the groups differed significantly on a linear combination of the five variables. The discriminant function analysis (DFA) results showed that pedagogical knowledge and motivational needs satisfaction acted as a concordant pair and explained the heaviest load of the overall between-group differences. …”
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Feasibility Study of New Geothermal System for Heating Premises and Thermal Complexes: Experimental Investigation of Water-Air Heat Exchanger in the East of Algeria by Chettir Abderrahmane, Labed Adnane, Moummi Noureddine, Sayad Achraf

“…The experimental results obtained showed that the energy gain is a function of the length of the exchanger and the air flow rate. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Selexipag Treatment in Connective Tissue Disease-Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension with Concomitant Interstitial Lung Disease by Chebly Dagher, Maria Akiki, Kristen Swanson, Brett Carollo, Harrison W. Farber, Raj Parikh

“…Mean N-terminal pro b-type natriuretic peptide levels declined by 63%, though this reduction did not reach statistical significance. Importantly, supplemental oxygen requirements trended downward (<i>p</i> < 0.05) and pulmonary function tests remained stable. …”
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Holographic tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing by Maria Isabel Álvarez-Castaño, Andreas Gejl Madsen, Jorge Madrid-Wolff, Viola Sgarminato, Antoine Boniface, Jesper Glückstad, Christophe Moser

“…This method works by projecting intensity patterns, computed via a reverse tomography algorithm, into a photocurable resin from different angles to produce a desired 3D shape when the resin reaches the polymerization threshold. Printing using incoherent light patterning has been previously demonstrated. …”
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Ship heading and trajectory control method based on L1-GPR by Shijie LI, Jiawei HE, Jialun LIU, Taixu LIU, Chengqi XU

“…The effects of environmental disturbances can be cancelled out faster and a stable state reached more rapidly than in cases without added disturbances. …”
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Distinguishing Difficulty Imbalances in Strawberry Ripeness Instances in a Complex Farmland Environment by Yang Gan, Xuefeng Ren, Huan Liu, Yongming Chen, Ping Lin

“…Finally, a Focaler-shape-IoU loss function is proposed to effectively solve the problem of the difficulty imbalance between strawberry samples and the influence of the shape and size of the bounding box on the regression. …”
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Threshold-Optimized Swarm Decomposition Using Grey Wolf Optimizer for the Acoustic-Based Internal Defect Detection of Arc Magnets by Qinyuan Huang, Qiang Li, Maoxia Ran, Xin Liu, Ying Zhou

“…In this method, a fitness function is designed to indicate the relationship between the SWD thresholds and the overall decomposition effect of similar signals. …”
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DOG: An Object Detection Adversarial Attack Method by Jinpeng Li, Xiaoyu Ji, Wenyuan Xu, Yushi Cheng

“…By constructing a specialized loss function, the algorithm can iteratively generate adversarial noise, enabling the rapid production of adversarial examples with high attack and transfer rates. …”
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TCE-YOLOv5: Lightweight Automatic Driving Object Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOv5 by Han Wang, Zhenwei Yang, Qiaoshou Liu, Qiang Zhang, Honggang Wang

“…Finally, the EIOU loss function is introduced to measure the overlap between the predicted box and the real box more accurately and improve the detection accuracy. …”
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Sleeping and Eating Behavior Recognition of Horses Based on an Improved SlowFast Network by Yanhong Liu, Fang Zhou, Wenxin Zheng, Tao Bai, Xinwen Chen, Leifeng Guo

“…To recognize horse behaviors in stalls, this study builds on the SlowFast algorithm, introducing a novel loss function to address data imbalance and integrating an SE attention module in the SlowFast algorithm’s slow pathway to enhance behavior recognition accuracy. …”
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Synergistic Closed‐Loop Supply Chain Network Design by Considering Robustness, Risk: An Automotive Case Study by Reza Lotfi, Mansour Bazregar, Sadia Samar Ali, Ebrahim Farbod, Sina Aghakhani, Zahra Roshan Meymandi

“…Different access level functions determine the model's risk‐seeking or risk‐averse nature. …”
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Demand Prediction of Emergency Supplies under Fuzzy and Missing Partial Data by Ming Zhang, Hanlin Wu, Zhifeng Qiu, Yifan Zhang, Boquan Li

“…The main contributions of this study are summarized as follows. (1) In view that it is difficult for the turning point of the whitenization weight function to determine fuzzy data, two computational formulas solving “core” of fuzzy interval grey numbers were proposed, and the obtained “core” replaced primary fuzzy information so as to reach the goal of transforming uncertain information into certain information. (2) For partial data missing, the improved grey k-nearest neighbor (GKNN) algorithm was put forward based on grey relation degree and K-nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm. …”
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Quantitative Estimation of Organic Matter Content in Arid Soil Using Vis-NIR Spectroscopy Preprocessed by Fractional Derivative by Jingzhe Wang, Tashpolat Tiyip, Jianli Ding, Dong Zhang, Wei Liu, Fei Wang

“…Soil organic matter (SOM) content is an important index to measure the level of soil function and soil quality. However, conventional studies on estimation of SOM content concerned about the classic integer derivative of spectral data, while the fractional derivative information was ignored. …”
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Exploring vector-like top quark pair production via charged Higgs decays in multi-b-jet and opposite-sign dilepton final state at the LHC by R. Benbrik, M. Berrouj, M. Boukidi, K. Kahime

“…We evaluate the discovery significance as a function of the VLT and charged Higgs masses, integrated luminosity, and background systematic uncertainties. …”
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Surface Defect Detection Algorithm for Wind Turbine Blades Based on HSCA-YOLOv7 by Bing LI, Yunshan BAI, Kuan ZHAO, Congbin GUO, Yongjie ZHAI

“…The focal EIoU loss function is used to solve the problem that the length and width of the prediction box are wrongly amplified and improve the positioning ability of the model for blade defects. …”
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A Transformer-Based Symmetric Diffusion Segmentation Network for Wheat Growth Monitoring and Yield Counting by Ziyang Jin, Wenjie Hong, Yuru Wang, Chenlu Jiang, Boming Zhang, Zhengxi Sun, Shijie Liu, Chunli Lv

“…By introducing an aggregated loss function, the model effectively optimizes both segmentation accuracy and growth measurement performance. …”
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Three-Band Spectral Camera Structure Design Based on the Topology Optimization Method by Kai Hu, Yuzhu Wan, Jialong Guo, Chunbo Zou, Xiangtao Zheng

“…The analysis demonstrates that the optimized housing and bracket exhibit excellent dynamic and static performance, meeting all testing requirements, and, under gravitational conditions, the spot diagram and modulation transfer function effect are negligible. Furthermore, in a static environment, the detection range across all spectral bands reaches 18.5 km, satisfying the mission requirements. …”
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One-Pot Synthesis of CuS/Co₃S₄@MWCNT Composite as a High-Efficiency Catalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction by Xinyuan Zhang, Meng Sun, Haibo Guo, Ming Su

“…Notably, thiourea serves a dual function in this synthesis, acting both as a reducing agent and as a sulfur source for the formation of metal sulfides. …”
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ENERGY PROTECTORS IN TREATMENT OF ANGINA AND HEART FAILURE FOLLLOWING A LONG TERM AFTER CABG by V. E. Malikov, S. V. Rogov, L. V. Petrunina, A. S. Yusifov, E. S. Serova, G. V. Sukoyan, N. V. Karsanov

“…We performed a comparative evaluation of effectiveness of Energostim and refracterin in 58 coronary patients following 5 to 7 years after CABG and/or resection of post-MI LV aneurysm in which angina at effort or rest had recurred, heart failure NYHA I-IV had developed, with atherosclerosis progressing.A 10-days course of Energostim in patients with NYHA I-II and LV EF of 45% (once the maximal effect of nifedipine, nitrates and aspirin has been reached) clearly decreases angina and heart failure severity, almost eliminates angina at rest, decreases by 50% the incidence of ST depression and results in a marked decrease of ventricular extrasystoles, accompanied by LV EF increased by 6.5% (p&lt;0.01) and increased heart resistance to stress and improved life quality.A 10-days course of Refracterin combined with diuretics, ACE inhibitors, nitrates and aspirin, performed in 31 coronary patients with NYHA III-IV and EF&lt;45%, decreases the functional class of angina to a greater extent than traditional treatment, promotes deremodeling and increases pump function, decreases creatinine and urea levels, as well as atherogenity index, markedly improves life quality.We therefore recommend Refracterin and Energostim as drugs of choice in the remote floow-up after CABG in patients with heart failure and arrhythmias.…”
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Damage Detection Method for High-Strength Aramid Conveyor Belts by Ling Yang, Yimin Wang, Di Miao, Xiaoxian Duan

“…Meanwhile, the Adaptive Threshold Focal Loss Function (ATFL) is applied to address the imbalance between the background and the target in images of the aramid conveyor belt. …”
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