Crack Detection on Road Surfaces Based on Improved YOLOv8 by Haiyang Wu, Lingyun Kong, Denghui Liu

“…The loss function is replaced with WIoU to better balance bounding box regression. …”
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A Novel Approach in Number Theory for Representing Large Numbers: The Arrow-Free Notation by Laith H. M. Al-Ossmi

“…The aim was to develop a more efficient method, arrow-free notation, reducing the complexity and steps necessary with previous notations. …”
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Assessing the Effects of Bioenergy Cropping Scenarios on the Surface Water and Groundwater of an Intensively Agricultural Basin in Central Greece by Maria Sismanidi, Lamprini Kokkinaki, Sofia Kavalieratou, Haralampos Georgoussis, Kyriakos D. Giannoulis, Elias Dimitriou, Yiannis Panagopoulos

“…Bioenergy crops implemented as part of the existing cropping systems could be a novel and efficient mitigation strategy against water degradation, contributing to the production of energy through renewable sources. …”
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RSM-YOLOv11: Lightweight Steel Surface Defect Segmentation Algorithm Research Based on YOLOv11 Improvement by Zenghai Shan, Hu Haoyan, Changjian Zhu, Shaowen Du, Hongtao Jing, Wang Haibin

“…Finally, the Multi-scale Channel Attention and Spatial Attention Module (MCASAM) is introduced to replace the original C2PSA module. This module optimizes the channel attention mechanism by replacing the channel attention mechanism in the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) with the efficient Multi-Scale Convolutional Attention (MSCA). …”
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Detection of egg appreance based on Fasternet and YOLOv5 model by WEI Jingxin, CHEN Zhongju, XU Haoran

“…ObjectiveEfficiently identify eggs with defects on their appearance in the automatic production process.MethodsDesigned a detection model based on fusing Fasternet module and YOLOv5s. …”
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Overview of the key technology of photonic firewall at high speed by Shanguo HUANG, Xin LI, Ying TANG, Junfeng GUO

“…In order to maintain the security of optical network,it is urgent to research and deploy photonic firewall which can effectively process high-speed optical signals to replace existing electronic firewall which consumes high energy.After a brief review of the principle of photonic firewall,the pattern matching technology based on correlation operation and all-optical logic gates were summarized,and the matching systems was compared according to their advantages and disadvantages.Besides,the realization methods of all-optical logic gates were introduced.Finally,the next research direction and development trend of all-optical pattern matching were prospected:more efficient system structure or non-linear devices with faster response speed.The survey shows that photonic firewall based on all-optical pattern matching has a good application prospect in network security.…”
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Mise en œuvre opérationnelle d’un projet de compensation carbone de foyers améliorés au Niger by Fanny Joubert, Milena Begovic

“…The carbon offset improved cookstoves project presented here aims to replace these traditional cookstoves with more efficient cookstoves (called Kiva-Hybrid) in order to reduce wood consumption. …”
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Standardization of Journal Title Information from Interlibrary Loan Data: A Customized Python Code Approach by Jennifer Ye Moon-Chung

“…By adopting this approach, librarians can make well-informed decisions and conduct thorough analysis, resulting in more efficient and effective management of library resources.…”
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Preparation of Media for Growth and Isolation of Lactic Acid Bacteria by Using the Starch-Industry by- Products by Baghdad Science Journal

“…The results showed that it was possible to replace the peptone and meat extract by gluten extract in MRS medium. …”
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YOLO-I3D: Optimizing Inflated 3D Models for Real-Time Human Activity Recognition by Ruikang Luo, Aman Anand, Farhana Zulkernine, Francois Rivest

“…Second, we incorporate YOLOv5, an efficient object detector, to further optimize the RGB branch for faster real-time performance. …”
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A novel dual-functional catalyst-stirrer system based on modified galvanized mesh for the Biginelli reaction by Mojtaba Nouri, Reza Dadashi, Karim Akbari Dilmaghani, Morteza Bahram, Masoud Faraji

“…The Cu/AGM facilitated the efficient synthesis of Dihydropyrimidinones (DHPMs) under mild reaction conditions, while its magnetic properties allowed it to replace conventional stirring equipment. …”
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LI-YOLOv8: Lightweight small target detection algorithm for remote sensing images that combines GSConv and PConv. by Pingping Yan, Xiangming Qi, Liang Jiang

“…Using YOLOv8n as the baseline algorithm, the activation function SiLU in the CBS at the backbone network's SPPF is replaced with ReLU, which reduces interdependencies among parameters. …”
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Fitting Penalized Estimator for Sparse Covariance Matrix with Left-Censored Data by the EM Algorithm by Shanyi Lin, Qian-Zhen Zheng, Laixu Shang, Ping-Feng Xu, Man-Lai Tang

“…To address this issue, we treat censored data as a special case of incomplete data and employ the Expectation Maximization algorithm combined with the coordinate descent algorithm to efficiently fit the two penalized estimators. Through simulation studies, we demonstrate that both penalized estimators achieve greater estimation accuracy compared to methods that replace censored values with constants. …”
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A growth posture identification method of immature peaches in natural environments by Jidong Lv, Liangliang Niu, Ying Han, Xiaoqin Sun, Lingyun Wang, Hailong Rong, Ling Zou

“…Firstly, the self-training method and data enhancement in semi-supervised learning were used to generate efficient pseudo-label data. A tremendous labeling workload was solved. …”
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A Novel Approach to Speed Up Hampel Filter for Outlier Detection by Mario Roos-Hoefgeest Toribio, Alejandro Garnung Menéndez, Sara Roos-Hoefgeest Toribio, Ignacio Álvarez García

“…This paper proposes a novel Hampel filter variant that replaces the MAD with an original estimator (mMAD) that retains statistical robustness but is computationally more efficient. …”
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Pear Fruit Detection Model in Natural Environment Based on Lightweight Transformer Architecture by Zheng Huang, Xiuhua Zhang, Hongsen Wang, Huajie Wei, Yi Zhang, Guihong Zhou

“…First, based on the original model, the backbone was replaced with a lightweight FasterNet network. Secondly, HiLo, an improved and efficient attention mechanism with high and low-frequency information extraction, was used to make the model lightweight and improve the feature extraction ability of Xinli No. 7 in complex environments. …”
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YOLO-CBD: Classroom Behavior Detection Method Based on Behavior Feature Extraction and Aggregation by Shuyun Peng, Xiaopei Zhang, Luoyu Zhou, Peng Wang

“…Additionally, a feature pyramid network with efficient feature fusion is constructed to address inconsistencies among features of different scales. …”
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A lightweight object detection approach based on edge computing for mining industry by Muhammad Wahab Hanif, Zhanli Li, Zhenhua Yu, Rehmat Bashir

“…Abstract Coal Mining enterprises deploy numerous monitoring devices to ensure safe and efficient production using target detection technologies. …”
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Lightweight wavelet-CNN tea leaf disease detection. by Jing Yang, GaoJian Xu, MengDao Yang, ZhengPei Lin

“…A focal loss function also replaces traditional cross-entropy loss to mitigate sample category imbalance, improving recognition accuracy across varying distributions. …”
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YOLOv8-DBW: An Improved YOLOv8-Based Algorithm for Maize Leaf Diseases and Pests Detection by Xiang Gan, Shukun Cao, Jin Wang, Yu Wang, Xu Hou

“…Based on the original YOLOv8n, the algorithm replaced the Conv module with the DSConv module in the backbone network, which reduced the backbone network parameters and computational load and improved the detection accuracy at the same time. …”
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