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

“…It develops both chasmogamous (CH) and cleistogamous (CL) flowers with different morphologies and attachment positions. However, the manner in which the amount of irrigation and the fertilizer type affect the reproductive allocation of <i>L. potaninii</i> is not well known. …”
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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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Synthesis, Characterization, and Relative Study on the Catalytic Activity of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Doped MnCO3, –MnO2, and –Mn2O3 Nanocomposites for Aerial Oxidation of Alcohols... by Mohamed E. Assal, Mufsir Kuniyil, Mohammed Rafi Shaik, Mujeeb Khan, Abdulrahman Al-Warthan, Mohammed Rafiq H. Siddiqui, Syed Farooq Adil

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Influence of riboflavin and ultraviolet-light treatment on plasma proteins – protein S and alpha 2-antiplasmin – in relation to the time of administration by Gojkov Dragana, Balint Bela, Dejanović Bratislav, Vučetić Dušan

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The role of environment-related and climate adaptation technologies in sustainable energy use: a dynamic quantile regression approach by Ismail Aremu Muhammed, Gamini Premaratne, Norulazidah H. Omar, Ahmed M. Khalid

“…Specifically, it investigates how environment-related and climate change adaptation technologies influence renewable energy consumption and energy efficiency for 77 developed and developing countries between 1990 and 2021. …”
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Nelder-Mead algorithm optimization and Galerkin’s method thermal performance analysis of circular porous fins with various profiles in fully wet conditions by M. r. Talaghat, F. Shafiei

“…In this study, the effect of different parameters including relative humidity, Darcy number and Rayleigh number and porosity on temperature distribution, fin efficiency, and fin effectiveness was investigated. …”
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Effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia compared with controls among cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials by Joshua T. Cooper, Ellie Svoboda, Allan V. Prochazka, Duc M. Ha

“…We designated the primary outcome as end-of-intervention Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) and secondary outcomes included sleep diary parameters, fatigue, and health-related quality of life (HRQL). We analyzed between-group mean differences (MD’s), standardized-mean-differences (SMD’s), and interpreted results using minimal clinically important difference (MCID) thresholds as endorsed by the American College of Physicians (ACP) or SMD thresholds. …”
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Comparison Among Modified Continual Reassessment Methods with Different Dose Allocation Methods for Phase I Clinical Trials by Jiacheng Xiao, Weijia Zhang, Rong Li, Conghua Wen

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Distributive Politics of Medical Commodities: An Overview of Transaction Costs and State-Center Relations During India’s Second Wave by Arnav Mahurkar

“…In this background, it argues for transparency in allocative decision making of health related commodities. Through process tracing methodology, it focuses on the case of the oxygen crisis in Delhi at a time when different governments within India’s federal set-up accused each other of mismanagement of this commodity. …”
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Water Relations and Physiological Traits Associated with the Yield Components of Winter Wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.) by Katarzyna Juzoń-Sikora, Kamila Laskoś, Marzena Warchoł, Ilona Mieczysława Czyczyło-Mysza, Kinga Dziurka, Maciej Grzesiak, Edyta Skrzypek

“…The higher values of the yield components were accompanied by 20–30% lower leaf water content, 39–52% lower osmotic potential, and 4–39% lower water use efficiency. The principal component analysis revealed that the wheat genotypes had noticeable differences in a few physiological parameters that depended on the sowing date. …”
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Exploring the rumen microbial function in Angus bulls with divergent residual feed intake by Taylor Sidney, Emily Treon, Godstime Taiwo, Eugene Felton, Peixin Fan, Ibukun M. Ogunade

“…This study leverages Shotgun metagenomics to assess the rumen microbial community and functionality in Angus bulls with differing residual feed intake-expected progeny difference (RFI-EPD) values, aiming to elucidate the microbial contributions to feed efficiency. …”
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Поведенческие финансы и неоклассическая экономическая теория. Основные различия и точки соприкосновения... by V. M. Rusakov

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