The Use of Speech Technology in Foreign Language Pronunciation Training by Grażyna DEMENKO, Agnieszka WAGNER, Natalia CYLWIK

“…The paper presents the design of the speech corpus for the purpose of the tutoring system and the analysis of pronunciation errors. The results of the latter provide information which is important for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) training on the one hand, and for automatic error detection and feedback generation on the other hand. …”
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Research on dynamic modeling and control strategy of motor driven operating mechanism for 126 kV high voltage vacuum circuit breaker by Yifei Wang, Jianyuan Xu, Wei Li, Jinming Liu

“…Furthermore, comparative control experiments have been conducted in the motor-breaker integrated experimental platform to assess the reduction in the motor’s position tracking error, contact bouncing duration, and mechanical collision duration under the optimized motor control strategy. …”
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Analysis of the fresnel breakdown and diffraction losses across a hilly terrain region by Thaisa Jawhly

“…The proposed breakdown across the hillslope showed a reduction in breakdown distance compared to the standard breakdown estimates, which occur at 178 m away from the transmitter. …”
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Multi-Level Feature Fusion Attention Generative Adversarial Network for Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Image Denoising by Yiming Qian, Yichao Meng

“…<b>Results</b>: MFFA-GAN achieved good performance (PSNR:30.107 dB, SSIM:0.727, CNR:3.927, ENL:529.161) on smaller datasets, outperforming benchmarks and further enhanced interpretability through pixel error maps. It preserved retinal layers and textures while suppressing noise. …”
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A Systematic Method for the Calibration of FEA Model of Synchronous Reluctance Machines Considering Manufacturing Effects by Andrea Credo, Paolo Pescetto

“…This approach led to a reduction in torque estimation error from 18% to 4%, and an improvement of the flux maps evaluation, thus enhancing and validating the design procedure and permitting further optimization steps of machines with similar geometry and dimensions. …”
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ALS+PDR: Indoor Pedestrian Dead Reckoning Using a Smartphone Ambient Light Sensor by Sosuke Otsuka, Yusei Onishi, Mananari Nakamura, Hiromichi Hashizume, Masanori Sugimoto

“…The results indicated an average error of 11.30 m when only PDR was used, with a substantial reduction to 2.03 m when the proposed method was used. …”
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Model based multi-loop predictive control scheme for multivariable processes by Arun Ramaveerapathiran, Muniraj Rathinam, Karuppiah Natarajan, Muthiah Athi, Patil Mounica

“…Simulation results show that the proposed method gives better response in terms of Integral Absolute Error value compared to multi-loop PI controller tuned by other methods. …”
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Designing a new optimal controller for a PEMFC by an improved design of the Coot Optimizer by Zheng Wang, Mehrdad Rezaie, Gholamreza Fathi

“…Comparative analyses against three other control techniques confirm a wide system enhancement, evidenced by a substantial reduction in both current and overshoot ripples. Algorithm verification using benchmark functions shows the ICOA achieves lower mean values and standard deviations, with p-values indicating statistically significant improvements (p < 0.05) in Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) compared to COA, MVO, EPO, and LOA algorithms, validating its enhanced optimization capabilities for PEMFC control.…”
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Influence of ultrasonication during soaking on water absorption and Softness characteristics in the cooking process of cowpea by Sholeh Rostamirad, K.G. Duodu, J.P. Meyer, M. Sharifpur

“…Saunder cowpea’s water absorption, hardness, and cooking time reduction with and without ultrasonication. Samples of Dr. …”
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Predicting Nitrous Oxide Emissions from China’s Upland Fields Under Climate Change Scenarios with Machine Learning by Tong Li, Yunpeng Li, Wenxin Cheng, Jufeng Zheng, Lianqing Li, Kun Cheng

“…Comparative analysis revealed that the RF algorithm performed the best, with the highest R² at 0.66 and the lowest root mean square error at 0.008 kg N₂O ha⁻¹ day⁻¹. …”
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Polyphenol-Containing Feed Additive Polygain™ Reduces Methane Production and Intensity from Grazing Dairy Cows Measured Using an Inverse-Dispersion Technique by Mei Bai, Pragna Prathap, Muhammed Elayadeth-Meethal, Matthew Flavel, Richard Eckard, Frank R. Dunshea, Richard Osei-Amponsah, Mohammad Javed Ashar, Deli Chen, Surinder Chauhan

“…This potential CH₄ reduction extrapolated across Australia contributes to a 2.63% reduction in national agricultural emissions. …”
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Deep-Learning-Based Approach in Imaging Radiometry by Aperture Synthesis: Application to Real SMOS Data by Ali Khazaal, Richard Faucheron, Nemesio J. Rodriguez-Fernandez, Eric Anterrieu

“…Globally, the results demonstrate a significant improvement in image quality, with a reduction in reconstruction error, better handling of residual foreign sources, such as radio frequency interference and direct solar radiation, and a notable reduction in land-sea and sea-ice contamination. …”
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Video-Based Assessment of Surgical Skill in Orthopaedic Surgery by Jillian McNally, MD, David Wilson, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Emma E. Jones, BScH, Neyousha Shahisavandi, MPH, Caroline King, PhD, Chad Coles, MD, FRCSC, Raymond Andrew Glennie, MD, MSc, FRCSC

“…The final data set had 61 observations, with a range of 13 to 17 observations per participant. There was a 19.7% error rate, meaning the videos were generally 80% accurate in predicting the year of training. …”
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Corneal characteristics in children with Marfan syndrome with or without ectopia lentis by Marisa O'Brien, Lawrence Tychsen

“…Over the follow‐up interval, EL children had a progressive increase in CCT (P = 0.02) and a reduction in ECD (P = 0.02). EL children also showed: progressive flattening of corneal curvature (P = 0.01); reduction of corneal cylinder (P = 0.02); and increase in axial length (P < 0.01). …”
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Radar-equivalent snowpack: reducing the number of snow layers while retaining their microwave properties and bulk snow mass by J. Meloche, N. R. Leroux, B. Montpetit, V. Vionnet, C. Derksen

“…Using this methodology in SWE retrieval applications, this method can be used to simplify snowpacks and reduce the number of variables to optimize while maintaining similar scattering behavior without compromising the modeled snowpack properties. A reduction in the mathematical complexity of SWE retrieval cost functions and a reduction in computation of up to 80 % can be gained by using fewer layers in the SWE retrieval.…”
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Examining the impact of probiotic Lactiplantibacillus pentosus 6MMI on inhibiting biofilm formation, adhesion, and virulence gene expression in Listeria monocytogenes ATCC 19115 by Behrooz Alizadeh Behbahani, Mostafa Rahmati-Joneidabad, Morteza Taki

“…The residual errors showed a normal distribution, indicating reliable and consistent predictions. …”
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Design of nonlinear gradient sheet-based TPMS-lattice using artificial neural networks by Zhou Li, Junhao Li, Jiahao Tian, Shiqi Xia, Kai Li, Guanqiao Su, Yao Lu, Mengyuan Ren, Zhengyi Jiang

“…The thin regions of the gradient structure align with those geometrically removed in regular topology optimization scheme, achieving up to 65.45 % weight reduction, a 28.72 % improvement over the regular scheme, along with uniform structural stress transition and maximum stress reduction. …”
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Quasi-Optimal Path Convergence-Aided Automorphism Ensemble Decoding of Reed–Muller Codes by Kairui Tian, He Sun, Yukai Liu, Rongke Liu

“…Meanwhile, it achieved a complexity reduction that ranged from 35.9% to 47.4% at a target block error rate (BLER) of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>, where it consistently outperformed a state-of-the-art path metric threshold (PMT)-aided ET method. …”
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Study on Photovoltaic Plant Site Selection Models Based on Geographic and Environmental Features by RAO Zhi, YANG Zaimin, YANG Xiongping, LI Jiaming, YANG Ping, WEI Zhichu

“…Compared with the second-best performing informer model， the proposed model achieved reductions of 24.0%， 23.1%， and 28.5% in the mean absolute error， mean absolute percentage error， and root mean square error， respectively. …”
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Investigation of DC-Biased Optical OFDM With Precoding Matrix for Visible Light Communications: Theory, Simulations, and Experiments by Tao Jiang, Ming Tang, Rui Lin, Zhenhua Feng, Xi Chen, Lei Deng, Songnian Fu, Xiang Li, Wu Liu, Deming Liu

“…To figure out the intrinsic laws of a PM method, we investigate the principles of PAPR reduction, clipping distortion optimization, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) distribution equalization. …”
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