High efficiency wideband printed monopole antenna with enhanced gain using artificial magnetic conductor surface by A. E. Farahat, May AboEl-Hassan, K. F. A. Hussein

“…This integration allows the radiating structure to achieve both high gain and wideband functionality in a single design. In this research, a wideband planar monopole printed antenna is developed to function as an omnidirectional radiator, delivering excellent impedance matching and radiation efficiency across the frequency range of 3.9–7.2 GHz (60% bandwidth) in free space. …”
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Multi-heat keypoint incorporation in deep learning model to tropical cyclone centering and intensity classifying from geostationary satellite images by Thanh-Ha Do, Son-The Phan, Duc-Tien Du, Dinh-Quan Dang, Khanh-Hung Mai, Lars R. Hole

“…In addition, the new loss function is employed with an Euclidean distance to guide centers of heatmaps from lower decoder layers toward higher ones, thereby refining keypoints during the early decoding stage. …”
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Multi-Step Prediction of TBM Tunneling Speed Based on Advanced Hybrid Model by Defu Liu, Yaohong Yang, Shuwen Yang, Zhixiao Zhang, Xiaohu Sun

“…Of the four datasets, the average accuracy from the first step prediction to the fifth step prediction reached 99.06%, 98.99%, 99.07%, and 99.03%, respectively, indicating that the proposed method has high multi-step prediction performance and generalization ability. …”
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Surface Subsidence Prediction Method for Coal Mines with Ultrathick and Hard Stratum by Hongkai Han, Jialin Xu, Xiaozhen Wang, Jianlin Xie, Yantuan Xing

“…The movement of UTHS has a strong impact on surface subsidence and has a controlling function for it. It was proposed that surface subsidence could be approximately predicted by calculating the UTHS subsidence. …”
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Randomization-Driven Hybrid Deep Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection by A. M. Mutawa, G. R. Hemalakshmi, N. B. Prakash, M. Murugappan

“…Specifically, our precision reached 96.10%, sensitivity was 95.35%, specificity achieved 97.06%, and accuracy was 96.10%. …”
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VARIATION OF EMBRYO WEIGHT IN BREEDING ACCESSIONS OF CARROT by A. F. Bukharov, D. N. Baleev, M. I. Ivanova

“…The coefficient of variation for embryo weight varied in the  range  from  10.4  to  14.2  and  reached  25.1  %  in ‘Rogneda’. The method of maximum likelihood was used to  reveal correspondences  of  experimental function  of distribution in embryo weight in seed population of accessions studied  and  normal  distribution.  …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Protein-Based Hydrogel: Cottonseed Protein Grafted with 2-Acrylamido-2-Methylpropanesulfonic Acid (AMPS) by Dehenenet Flatie Tassw, Tamrat Tesfaye, Murugesh Babu K.

“…The research reveals that the hydrogel reaches its maximum swelling capacity (195.7 g/g) with 0.03 g of MBA, 0.01 g of PPS, 0.01 g of SBS, and a 1wt% AMPS to CSP ratio. …”
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GES-YOLO: A Light-Weight and Efficient Method for Conveyor Belt Deviation Detection in Mining Environments by Hongwei Wang, Ziming Kou, Yandong Wang

“…Finally, to improve the detection capability for small objects such as conveyor rollers, we introduce the Scaled Intersection over Union (SIoU) loss function, enabling the algorithm to sensitively detect rollers and provide a precise localization for deviation detection. …”
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Underwater target depth estimation: A shallow-water broadband acoustic source depth estimation method based on corrected warping transformation. by Du Siqi, Han Dong, Liu Cong, Li Sidi

“…After that, the modal energies are extracted, and the depth estimation function is constructed based on the matched modal energies to achieve the depth estimation of the pulsed signal target under the non-ideal waveguide conditions with a variable speed of sound profile. …”
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Relationship between preoperative body mass index and overall mortality in patients who have undergone lobectomy for lung cancer by Dan Su, Xianning Wu, Ting Zhang, Hong Zhang

“…Fully adjusted models were stratified by and adjusted for sex, age, disease stage, respiratory function, and adjuvant chemotherapy. Results Of 3307 patients identified to have undergone radical resection of lung cancer between November 2009 and July 2019, 2365 underwent lobectomy and 558 died. …”
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Oleic Acid and Succinic Acid: A Potent Nutritional Supplement in Improving Hepatic Glycaemic Control in Type 2 Diabetic Sprague–Dawley Rats by Kemmoy G. Lattibeaudiere, Ruby Lisa Alexander-Lindo

“…Here, we investigate the effects of the supplement (OA and SA) on hepatic and pancreatic function in T2D S-D rats. Eighteen (18) S-D rats were rendered diabetic and were divided into three equal groups: diabetic control, diabetic treatment, and diabetic glibenclamide. …”
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Effects of liver-specific LCMT1 gene knockout on glycolipid metabolism, learning and memory in mice by CHEN Sihong, TANG Tingting, CAI Haiqing, WANG Xinhang, WANG Minghong, PENG Yang, ZHANG Minhua, WEI Meifang, ZHU Congrui, ZHANG Jing, LI Xiaoying, LU Cailing, TANG Shen, LI Xiyi

“…HE staining of the liver tissue and serum liver function tests showed that, compared with WT mice, the liver-specific LCMT1 knockout had no effect on liver tissue morphology, serum AST and ALT levels (P > 0.05), and did not impair liver function. …”
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Improved Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Underwater Localization Algorithm by Logistic Chaos Mapping and Differential Evolution by Jiaxing CHEN, Yang LIU, Xiaoqian LIU, Zhihua LIU

“…The chaotic sequence generated by the mapping function was employed as a replacement for the random number generator, with the objective of achieving a more uniform distribution of the population during the initial distribution phase. …”
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Palaeo-bioinspiration draws on the fossil record to advance innovation by Annabelle Aish, Chris Broeckhoven, Valentin Buffa, Tom Challands, Anton Du Plessis, Tom Fletcher, Eberhard Frey, Romain Garrouste, Alexandra Houssaye, Guillaume Lecointre, Valentina Perricone, Luce-Marie Petit, Vikram Shyam, Thomas Speck, Michael Habib

“…To reach its full potential, palaeo-bioinspiration has to overcome the misconception that fossils are “failures” or “primitive”, and temper the widespread belief that extant biodiversity is inherently “optimised”. …”
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Quality of life of patients with end-stage renal disease during initial treatment by LV Qing-na, ZHANG Xin-yu, HAN Wei, ZHANG Yan-yun, LI Yan-yan, LIU Qi-gui, REN Xian-long, YIN An-chun, SHI Tie-ying, LI Ping, XING Wei, YANG Yue

“…Objective To explore and compare the effects of hemodialysis（HD） vs.peritoneal dialysis（PD） of the quality of life of patients with end-stage renal disease（ESRD）.Methods Sixty cases of ESRD receiving initial PD（PD group,n = 30） or HD（HD group,n = 30） were surveyed by the questionnaire procedure.Kidney disease quality of life short form(KDQQL SF^TM Version 1.3 was used.The forms were distributed per month for consecutive 8 months.There were 480 questionnaires in total,in which valid questionnaires were 480,with the effective rate being was 100%.Results（1）SPL was continuously increased with time with the correlation being statistically significant（P =0.0000）.HD group got the maximum value for 2 groups at the sixth and seventh month after constant increases,and thereafter the value basically remained unchanged.PD group reached the maximum value at the eighth month after stable increases.（2） Effects of kidney disease（EKD） varied with the time with the correlation being statistically significant（P = 0.018）.PD group got the maximum value for 2groups at the third and fifth month after constant increases and the value was basically the same after that HD group reached the maximum value at the eighth month after stable increases.（3） Sleep patterns increased over time with the correlation being statistically significant（P = 0.029）.HD group got the maximum value for 2 groups at the sixth month after constant increased,and the value was basically the same after that PD group got the maximum value at the third month after stable increases.（4） Physical function（PF） increased over time with the correlation being statistically significant（P =0.0000）.HD group reached the maximum value for 2 groups at the sixth and eighth month after constant increases.PD group got the maximum value at the sixth,seventh and eighth month after significant increases.（5） Vitality（VT） changed over time with the correlation being statistically significant（P = 0.0000）.The VT values in both groups were constantly increased,and got the maximum at the third month and then decreased significantly after that Conclusions In the initial treatment,we can provide the correct guidance and help patients with ESRD to choose the more reasonable and feasible methods of dialysis,according to the patient’s personal situation and family social condition.…”
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A greening Earth has reversed the trend of decreasing carbonate weathering under a warming climate by Sibo Zeng, Zaihua Liu, Yongjun Jiang, Nico Goldscheider, Yan Yang, Min Zhao, Hailong Sun, Haibo He, Mingyu Shao, Liangxing Shi

“…By contrast, the [HCO3 −] in global carbonate areas decreases by −1.3% without a vegetation function due to the warming. Moreover, we estimated that the carbonate weathering enhancements due to vegetation restoration at the global scale could reach 43.8%. …”
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Rough-and-Refine Model for Scene Graph Generation by Li Junliang, Lv Shirong, Li Wei

“…The mR@K metrics exceed those of FCSGG, HOTR, RelTR, and most two-stage methods, reaching mR@20 = 7.7, mR@50 = 11.0, and mR@100 = 12.4. …”
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Multi-layer feature fusion and attention-enhanced YOLOv9 for rapid field detection of greenhouse blueberry maturity at long and short distances by Ziwei Pan, Lei Xu, Wanjin Zhao, Cong Fan, Xihao Zhang, Weihui Chen, Yonglin Shen, Nengcheng Chen

“…In addition, a novel upsampling and downsampling module and the ShapeIoU loss function are employed. The experimental results demonstrate that the mean average precision (mAP) of the YOLOv9-MSAS network reached 85.8%, which was 4.6% higher than that of the YOLOv9 model, and that the FPS reached 56.4. …”
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Corrosion fatigue crack delayed mechanism of 60 mm Ti alloy welded joints based on the plastic and deformation coordination by Bo Li, Tao Yang, Long Lin, Jiang Yu, Yuan Zhuang, Lin Li, Xijian Su

“…The relevant research results are indicated as follows: there was high plastic deformation work in the weld bottom layer (BL) under the function of fine grain strengthening and network dislocation distribution. …”
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The polarographic and corrosion inhibition performance of some Schiff base compounds derived from 2-amino-3-hydroxypyridine in aqueous media by M. Abdallah, M. Alfakeer, H.M. Altass, Ahmed M. Alharbi, Isamil Althagafi, N.F. Hasan, E.M. Mabrouk

“…These compounds act as good inhibitors as the inhibition efficiency reached 89.5%. The inhibition efficiency of the studied SBs is found to be a function of substituent group. …”
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