Recent trends in combinative defect engineering and hybridization approach to develop efficient energy-functional layered double hydroxide-based materials by Yeon Hu Park, Yiyang Sun, Dong Wook Lee, In Young Kim, Xiaoyan Jin, Seong-Ju Hwang

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Voltage-based prediction technique for efficient MPPT method for SPV systems under non-uniform insolation and partial shading conditions by Haider A. Mohamed-Kazim, Ahmed Hussein Shatti, Ahmed Aldhahab, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Sarmad K. Ibrahim, Rusul Noori Saraj

“…The combination of different modules of photovoltaic (PV) cells produces many peaks under partial shading conditions. …”
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Preparation of a novel economically efficient and environment friendly controlled release urea from liquefied corn straw and castor oil by Hao Lu, Yuan Chen, Canping Dun, Xi Hu, Rui Wang, Peiyuan Cui, Haipeng Zhang, Hongcheng Zhang

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An Objective and Subjective Evaluation of Masticatory Efficiency in Periodontal Patients Before and After Basic Periodontal Therapy: A Case Series Study by María José Moya-Villaescusa, Claudia López-Lisón, José María Montoya-Carralero, Alfonso Jornet-García, Arturo Sánchez-Pérez

“…In addition, significant differences were found in post-treatment QMFQ scores related to parafunctional habits (<i>p</i> = 0.046) and facial patterns, especially in meat consumption <i>(p</i> = 0.042) fruit and vegetable consumption (<i>p</i> = 0.007, <i>p</i> = 0.044). …”
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Sustainable innovations in digital twin technology: a systematic review about energy efficiency and indoor environment quality in built environment by Natakarani Venkateswarlu, Mahenthiran Sathiyamoorthy

“…In the contemporary digital age, the built environment undergoes significant changes because of technological innovations that improve building management, optimize building efficiency, and enhance overall productivity. Digital Twin technology has emerged as an indispensable tool for enhancing indoor environmental quality and optimizing energy efficiency in existing buildings. …”
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A Rotational Cultivation System for Indoor-Grown Lettuce: Feasibility in Terms of Yields, Resource Efficiency, Quality, and Postharvest Storage Capacity by Cédric Dresch, Véronique Vidal, Séverine Suchail, Olivier Chevallier, Huguette Sallanon, Vincent Truffault, Florence Charles

“…No significant differences were observed in yields, water use efficiency, light use efficiency, or postharvest storage capacity between the systems. …”
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New Approaches to Developing the Integral Indicator Methodology for Estimating the Financial Efficiency of Agricultural Entities in Poland, the Republic of Moldova, and EU Countrie... by Mariusz Trojak, Barbara Kiełbasa, Daniela Popa, Aliona Sargo

“…Economic literature pays a great deal of attention to economic and financial efficiency, expressed in terms of competition, concentration, productivity and profitability. …”
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The influence of individual genetic and paratypic factors on the duration and efficiency of lifetime use of cows of Holstein and Ukrainian Black-and-White dairy breeds by Yu. M. Pavlenko, I. O. Kompanets

“…From the genetic factors, a relatively higher degree of influence on the phenotypic variability of investigated traits of the duration and efficiency of the lifelong use of Holstein cows is due to paternal origin (heritability). …”
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LIU-NET: lightweight Inception U-Net for efficient brain tumor segmentation from multimodal 3D MRI images by Gul e Sehar Shahid, Jameel Ahmad, Chaudary Atif Raza Warraich, Amel Ksibi, Shrooq Alsenan, Arfan Arshad, Rehan Raza, Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh

“…LIU-Net balances model complexity and computational load to provide consistent performance and uses Inception blocks to capture features at different scales, which makes it relatively lightweight. …”
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Single-variant genome-wide association study and regional heritability mapping of protein efficiency and performance traits in Large White pigs by Esther Oluwada Ewaoluwagbemiga, Audald Lloret-Villas, Adéla Nosková, Hubert Pausch, Claudia Kasper

“…Our apparent difficulty in detecting significant regions for these traits probably reflects the relatively small sample size, differences in genetic architecture across study designs and experimental conditions, and that polymorphisms explaining large proportions of the trait variation may not segregate in this population. …”
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Sociological variety and the transmission efficiency of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a secondary analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from 15 communities in Zambia by Richard G White, Virginia Bond, Peter J Dodd, Ben Marais, Helen Ayles, Emma J Murray, Kwame Shanaube, Albertus Schaap

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Effects of Irrigation Amounts and Fertilizer Types on Seed Yield and Water-Use Efficiency of <i>Lespedeza potaninii</i> in Northwest China by Lijun Chen, Fan Wu, Fukang Guo, Jingze Liu, Wanli Guo, Boyu Chu, Yuncan Qu, Jiyu Zhang

“…The results revealed that irrigation amounts and fertilizer types significantly affected <i>L. potaninii</i> yield components, total seed yield, CH seed yield, CL seed yield, and water-use efficiency (WUE). The application of P fertilizer significantly (<i>p</i> < 0.05) enhanced CH seed yield by 7–11% compared with control or organic fertilizer. …”
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Improved whole-brain reconfiguration efficiency reveals mechanisms of speech rehabilitation in cleft lip and palate patients: an fMRI study by Wenjing Zhang, Qian Si, Zhongtian Guan, Lei Cao, Mengyue Wang, Cui Zhao, Liwei Sun, Xu Zhang, Zhixi Zhang, Chunlin Li, Weiqun Song

“…We compared behavioral data and task activation levels between participants for between-group differences and calculated reconfiguration efficiencies for each task based on each participant. …”
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Efficient detection of specific volatile organic compounds using functionalized titanium carbide (Ti3C2Tx) MXenes by Narender Kumar, Tanveer Hussain, Lei Shen, Yuan Ping Feng, Nacir Tit

“…Towards this end, one amongst the pathologies is to consider the efficient detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) related, for instance, to the pancreatic cancer existing in exhaled breath, bile, or urine of patients. …”
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A semi-empirical relation based on temperature difference and filling ratio in a closed loop pulsating heat pipe: A numerical study. by Vasanth Balamurugan, Shahid Mian P, Md Jahid Hasan, Natteri M Sudharsan

“…From the computed results, a regression analysis is performed to generate a semi-empirical equation. The empirical relation for heat transfer rate (Q) as a function of the temperature difference and filling ratio was found to match the CFD results. …”
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Muscle Fat and Volume Differences in People With Hip‐Related Pain Compared With Controls: A Machine Learning Approach by Chris Stewart, Evert O. Wesselink, Zuzana Perraton, Kenneth A. Weber II, Matthew G. King, Joanne L. Kemp, Benjamin F. Mentiplay, Kay M. Crossley, James M. Elliott, Joshua J. Heerey, Mark J. Scholes, Peter R. Lawrenson, Chris Calabrese, Adam I. Semciw

“…ABSTRACT Background Hip‐related pain (HRP) affects young to middle‐aged active adults and impacts physical activity, finances and quality of life. …”
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How do different approaches to collective activity in service relations call into question the plurality of ergonomic activity models? by Sandrine Caroly, Annie Weill-Fassina

“…In order to take action about health and efficiency, they can often require passing beyond a behavioral analysis which describes effective task or its observable components, according to work conditions. …”
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Intestinal microbiota composition and bile salt hydrolase activity in fast and slow growing broiler chickens: implications for growth performance and production efficiency by Hye Won Kim, Na Kyung Kim, Patricia G. Wolf, Kristoffer Brandvold, Joshua M. Rehberger, Tom G. Rehberger, Ryan N. Dilger, Alexandra H. Smith, Roderick I. Mackie

“…The 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing revealed higher relative abundance of E. coli-Shigella (71.3%−79.8%) at day of arrival, while the most abundant microorganisms at d 25 was Candidatus Arthromitus (slow: 44.5%; fast: 27.4%) in small intestine. qPCR results indicated significant differences in bacterial populations between the slow and fast growing chickens, especially higher total bacteria, Enterococcus, and Clostridium cluster I in the slow growing chickens at d 25. …”
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The Efficiency of Using Ozone Gas and Heat to Control Larvae and Adult Stage of Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) by Baghdad Science Journal

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Climate adaptive energy efficiency modeling using a generalized additive approach to optimize building performance across Chinese climate zones by Jian Yang, Mu He, Xingzhu Zhang, Qimeng Ning, Yu Chen, Maryam Alsadat Ziaei Mazinan

“…Abstract Accurate measurement and verification (M&V) of energy efficiency measures (EEM) in commercial buildings is a key requirement to improve energy performance and meet sustainability goals. …”
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