YOLO-WAD for Small-Defect Detection Boost in Photovoltaic Modules by Yin Wang, Wang Yun, Gang Xie, Zhicheng Zhao

“…Subsequently, an additional detection layer is added to the neck, and C2f is replaced by C2f-EMA (CSP bottleneck with two convolutions–efficient multi-scale attention mechanism), which can redistribute feature weights and prioritize relevant features and spatial details across image channels to improve feature extraction. …”
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YOLOv8-CBSE: An Enhanced Computer Vision Model for Detecting the Maturity of Chili Pepper in the Natural Environment by Yane Ma, Shujuan Zhang

“…This study provides an efficient and accurate method for detecting chili peppers in natural environments, which is of great significance for promoting intelligent and precise agricultural management.…”
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Potentials and effects of electricity cogeneration via ORC integration in small-scale biomass district heating system by Truong Nguyen, Leteng Lin

“…From a broader energy system perspective, this efficient integration could potentially reduce CO2 emissions by 234–454 tons per year when the saved energy locally is used to replace fossil fuels in the energy system, depending on how biomass is utilized and what type of fossil fuels are replaced. …”
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Irrigated agricultural production dynamics in response to rainfall variability and water policy reforms in the southern Murray-Darling Basin of Australia by Ketema Zeleke, David J. Luckett

“…The introduction of innovative water policies such as interregional water trading and intertemporal water transfers via the carryover of unused water allocations (in public dams) from one year to the next were found to be key interventions to manage the Basin’s water resources efficiently and sustainably. Cotton is replacing rice as an alternative annual broadacre crop in the Murrumbidgee catchment. …”
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Temperature Effects on Rheological Properties of Fresh Thickened Copper Tailings that Contain Cement by Yong Wang, Aixiang Wu, Zhuen Ruan, Hongjiang Wang, Yiming Wang, Fei Jin

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GPC-YOLO: An Improved Lightweight YOLOv8n Network for the Detection of Tomato Maturity in Unstructured Natural Environments by Yaolin Dong, Jinwei Qiao, Na Liu, Yunze He, Shuzan Li, Xucai Hu, Chengyan Yu, Chengyu Zhang

“…The regular convolution was replaced with the lightweight Grouped Spatial Convolution (GSConv) by downsampling to reduce the computational burden. …”
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Challenges: From Standards to Implementation for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks by Jian Ma, Hongchao Wang, Dong Yang, Yujun Cheng

“…The goal of this paper is to make the design and implementation of IWSNs more efficient and applicable.…”
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LS-YOLO: A Novel Model for Detecting Multiscale Landslides With Remote Sensing Images by Wenjie Zhang, Zhiheng Liu, Suiping Zhou, Wenjuan Qi, Xinjun Wu, Tianyu Zhang, Ling Han

“…Specifically, the context enhancement module consisting of dilation convolutions is added to the decoupled head regression task branch, and then the improved decoupled head is to replace the coupled head in YOLOv5s. Extensive experiments show that our proposed model has high performance for multiscale landslide detection and outperforms other object detection models (faster RCNN, SSD, EfficientDet-D0, YOLOv5s, YOLOv7, and YOLOX). …”
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Potent immune-dependent anticancer effects of the non-cardiotoxic anthracycline aclarubicin by Giulia Cerrato, Allan Sauvat, Mahmoud Abdellatif, Guido Kroemer

“…As a result, we advocate for clinical studies seeking to replace the anthracyclines used in Western medicine by aclarubicin-like compounds. …”
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A Hybrid Authenticated Group Key Agreement Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks by Yue Li, Dehua Chen, Wei Li, Gaoli Wang, Paul Smith

“…The AGKA protocol reduces the high cost public-key operations at the sensor side and replaces them with efficient symmetric-key based operations. …”
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SRFACS: A secure and robust framework for anonymous communication systems. by Daxin Zhu, Jiazhi Tu, Danlin Cai, Tianyu Jiang, Jianbing Xiahou, Yusi Chen, Chao Liu

“…To mitigate the risks associated with leader failures, we have implemented an efficient leader change protocol that promptly replaces defective leaders, ensuring uninterrupted system performance. …”
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Narrowband thermal emitter based on quasi-Tamm phonon polaritons in uniaxial hyperbolic materials by Biyuan Wu, Xiqiao Huang, Xiaohu Wu

“…The structure replaces traditional one-dimensional symmetric photonic crystals with two pairs of asymmetric Ge/SiO2 thin films, enabling enhanced reflection. …”
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Green synthesis of bimetallic and trimetallic nanoparticles on glass granules for lead removal by Teeba Salih Merjan, Ziad Tark Abd Ali

“…This work highlights the potential of green synthesis and practical methods for producing efficient nanomaterials for environmental remediation without adverse effects.…”
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PLASMA GASIFICATION – THE WASTE-to-ENERGY SOLUTION FOR THE FUTURE by Birsan N.

“…The WPC technology makes landfills obsolete and replaces Incineration as the primary process for WtE. …”
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Small target detection of bearing surface defects based on improved YOLOv5s. by Haisong Xu, Xiaolin Shi, Han Zhang, Fan Yang, Yun Chen

“…Based on this, an improved YOLOv5s small target detection method ECN-YOLOv5s for bearing surface defects is proposed. First, an efficient channel attention mechanism (ECA) is inserted in the layer before the SPPF in the backbone network, which realizes efficient computation of channel attention and reduces redundant computation while decreasing the model complication. …”
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Well Production Forecasting in Volve Field Using Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks by Xingyu Lu, Jing Cao, Jian Zou

“…Accurate oil production forecasting is essential for optimizing field development and supporting efficient decision-making. However, traditional methods often struggle to capture the complex dynamics of reservoirs, and existing machine learning models rely on large parameter sets, resulting in high computational costs and limited scalability. …”
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Self-Amplifying RNA: Advantages and Challenges of a Versatile Platform for Vaccine Development by Thomas Vallet, Marco Vignuzzi

“…Derived from alphavirus genomes, saRNA retains the non-structural elements essential for replication while replacing the structural elements with an antigen of interest. …”
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A New System Reliability Optimization Model Based on Swapping Existing Components by Yuxiong Li, Xianzhen Huang, Xinong En, Pengfei Ding

“…Complex systems contain a large number of components, and in some cases, failure of one or more of these components can cause the entire system to fail. Replacing failed components with other functioning components properly in the original system can be an attractive way for improving system reliability. …”
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Image Segmentation Based on New Modification on Normalized-Cut Algorithm by Khalil Alsaif

“…In this paper <span style="text-decoration: underline;">wavelet transformation</span>, and high-high frequency components which hold the edges of the image will be used to replace classical high frequency filters of  the old techniques achieved by the normalized cut algorithm ( which  used CANNY filter for edge detection).           …”
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Experimental Demonstration of 16-QAM DD-SEFDM With Cascaded BPSK Iterative Detection by Jun Huang, Qi Sui, Zhaohui Li, Fei Ji

“…For 16-QAM SEFDM, the decoding complexity of FSD can be reduced to 1/4 with CBID-FSD replacing the iterative detection FSD algorithm to keep the same bit error rate. …”
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