Harmonizing remote sensing and ground data for forest aboveground biomass estimation by Ying Su, Zhifeng Wu, Xiaoman Zheng, Yue Qiu, Zhuo Ma, Yin Ren, Yanfeng Bai

“…The effectiveness of this approach was demonstrated by a 0.67 increase in the correlation coefficient R2, a 43.57 % reduction in the root mean square error (RMSE), and a 68.00 % reduction in the mean square error (MSE) achieved through the optimal combination of data sources. …”
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Benefits of electronic charts in intensive care and during a world health pandemic: advantages of the technology age by Simon Ball, Felicity Evison, Laurie Lucas, Tanya Pankhurst, Richard Baker, Suzy Gallier, Jamie J Coleman, Ian Young, Anwar Shah, Steve Ryan, Helen Gyves, David Rosser, Chris Ragdale, Louise Denner, Laura Rathbone, Deborah McKee, Jolene Atia, Mark Garrick

“…This was an extension to the existing hospital wide digital health system. We evaluated error reduction, time-savings and the costs associated with conversion from paper to digital records. …”
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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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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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Secular trends in types of cardiovascular disease in the West of Scotland by Naveed Sattar, Colin Berry, Daniel F Mackay, Christian Delles, Ruth Dundas, Frederick K Ho, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Claudia Geue, Michael Fleming, Denise Brown, Clea du Toit, Jill Pell, Claire E Hastie, Anna Kamdar, Jocelyn M Friday, Tran Q B Tran, Alan Stevenson, Jim D Lewsey

“…Objective Historical reductions in cardiovascular disease (CVD) due to lifestyle and treatment improvements are now threatened by factors such as increasing obesity and diabetes, but the relative importance of different risk factors varies by CVD condition. …”
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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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Spatial Decoupling Method for a Novel Dual-Orthogonal Induction MEMS Three-Dimensional Electric Field Sensor by Jiacheng Li, Junpeng Wang, Chunrong Peng, Wenjie Liu, Jiahao Luo, Zhengwei Wu, Ren Ren, Yao Lv

“…Experimental results showed that within an electric field range of 0–50 kV/m, the linearity of the three decoupled electric field components was 2.60%, 1.20%, and 1.78%, respectively, while the synthesized electric field achieved a linearity of 0.74% with a maximum full-scale error of 0.80%. Under varying angles and field intensities, the maximum and average relative errors of the decoupled synthesized electric field were 1.20% and 0.43%, respectively, representing reductions of 61.8% and 56.1% compared to the conventional matrix inversion method. …”
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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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Remaining useful life prediction of Lithium-ion batteries based on data preprocessing and CNN-LSSVR algorithm by Ti Dong, Yiming Sun, Jia Liu, Qiang Gao, Chunrong Zhao, Wenjiong Cao

“…In this work, the feasibility of the method is verified using publicly available datasets and compared with other common noise reduction and prediction algorithms after noise reduction and prediction experiments. …”
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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

“…The scenario analysis demonstrated that the proposed nitrogen reduction strategies fail to counteract climate-driven emission amplification. …”
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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 videos were shortened on average 65 minutes for critical steps to be represented in the final production (i.e., Bone reduction, dissection of neurovascular structures, radiographic images, etc.) …”
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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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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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Assessment of an intervention to optimise antenatal management of women admitted with preterm labour and intact membranes using amniocentesis-based predictive risk models: study pr... by Maria Goya, Carmen Garrido, Anna Peguero, Francesc Figueras, Eduard Gratacos, Cristina Paules, Eva Meler, Teresa Cobo, Victoria Aldecoa, Jose Luis Bartha, Fernando Bugatto, María Paz Carrillo-Badillo, Carmina Comas, Vicente Diago-Almeda, Silvia Ferrero, Ignacio Herraiz, Laia Martí-Malgosa, Anna Olivella, Àngels Vives, Montse Palacio, David Boada, Sara Ruiz-Martínez, Alberto Galindo, Laura Forcén, Patricia M Brañas, Itziar Garcia, Mirea Vargas, Alicia Martínez-Varea, Laia PratCorona, Marcos Cuerva, Tamara Illescas, Miguel Angel López-Guerrero, MºCarmen Facio, Carmen Medina, Cecilia Vilalain González

“…A cost analysis will be undertaken. To observe a reduction from 90% to 70% in corticosteroid doses, a reduction in 1 day of hospital stay (SD of 2) and a reduction from 24% to 12% of clinical chorioamnionitis, a total of 340 eligible patients randomised 1 to 1 to each study arm is required (power of 80%, with type I error α=0.05 and two-sided test, considering a dropout rate of 20%). …”
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Advances in the pilot point inverse method: Où En Sommes-Nous maintenant? by White, Jeremy, Lavenue, Marsh

“…This paper will review the advancements and adaptations of the PPM over the last two decades which have led to its ubiquity. Significant reductions in inversion time are transforming the way in which practitioners are deploying the PPM to improve their understanding of hydrogeologic systems, and, ultimately, to provide decision support for water resource management. …”
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Maximizing multi-source data integration and minimizing the parameters for greenhouse tomato crop water requirement prediction by Xinyue Lv, Youli Li, Lili Zhangzhong, Chaoyang Tong, Yibo Wei, Guangwei Li, Yingru Yang

“…The feature combination of Tmax, Ts, and CC, filtered using Spearman and RandomForest, demonstrated the lowest prediction errors, with reductions in MSE, MAE, and RMSE of over 4%, 14%, and 3%, respectively, compared to other parameter combinations. …”
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LSTM-Enhanced Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robust Trajectory Tracking Control of Skid-Steer Mobile Robots Under Terra-Mechanical Constraints by Jose Manuel Alcayaga, Oswaldo Anibal Menéndez, Miguel Attilio Torres-Torriti, Juan Pablo Vásconez, Tito Arévalo-Ramirez, Alvaro Javier Prado Romo

“…In particular, LSTM-based controllers achieved reductions in tracking errors of 10%, 74%, 21%, and 37% for DDPG-LSTM, PPO-LSTM, TD3-LSTM, and SAC-LSTM, respectively, compared with their non-recurrent counterparts. …”
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Highlight Removal From Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Images by Shaojie Zhang, Yinghui Wang, Peixuan Liu, Wei Li, Jinlong Yang, Tao Yan, Liangyi Huang, Yukai Wang, Ibragim R. Atadjanov

“…Additionally, compared to the DeepGin method in deep learning, reductions of 4.22% and 10.50% are observed in these metrics, respectively. …”
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On the Optimum Linear Soft Fusion of Classifiers by Luis Vergara, Addisson Salazar

“…This allows us to predict the reduction in the post-fusion error probability relative to that of the best classifier. …”
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