Dual-Stream Enhanced Deep Network for Transmission Near-Infrared Dorsal Hand Vein Age Estimation with Attention Mechanisms by Zhenghua Shu, Zhihua Xie, Xiaowei Zou

“…Simultaneously, another deep residual network is leveraged to strengthen the representation ability on subtle dorsal vein textures. Moreover, variable activation functions and pooling layers are integrated into the respective streams to enhance the nonlinearity modeling of the dual-stream model. …”
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GDP per capita vs foreign direct investment: key drivers of a country's technological leadership by Aleksy Kwilinski

“…A true fixed-effects stochastic frontier model was applied to panel data, based on the Cobb-Doug- las production function and the translogarithmic function, to evaluate the determinants of technological development and identify technical efficiency. …”
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Numerical and Experimental Study of a Hydrodynamic Analysis of the Periodical Fluctuation of Bio-Inspired Banded Fins by Chonglei Wang, Qihang Liu, Junhao Yang, Chunyu Guo

“…By using a method of controlling variables, such as wave number, swing angle, and frequency, where only one independent variable is changed at a time while the others remain constant, the impact on thrust coefficient function and the obtained periodic variation laws governing hydrodynamic performance are studied. …”
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Inference of Impulse Responses via Bayesian Graphical Structural VAR Models by Daniel Felix Ahelegbey

“…Impulse response functions (IRFs) are crucial for analyzing the dynamic interactions of macroeconomic variables in vector autoregressive (VAR) models. …”
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Path following control of underground mining articulated vehicle based on the preview control method by MENG Yu, GAN Xin, BAI Guo-xing

“…By considering the relationship between the position and situation of the vehicle, the objective function of the predictive control was optimized by minimizing the lateral deviation of the following path and the heading angle deviation of the vehicle. …”
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ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF QUICK-RETURN CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BEATING⁃UP SLEY BASED ON MULTIVARIABLE DESIGN by QIU HaiFei

“…For improving the quick‑return characteristics of the sley movement,an optimal mathematical model for maximum curve displacement Sm of the connectingarm pin was proposed through beating‑up principle analysis and mechanism deduction.A multivariable design space was constructed by use of the component length(lc,lh,lr,lf)and crankangleα.The parametric functional model development of the four‑bar beating‑up with short connecting rod was realized,and its kinematic posture and centroid trajectory were analyzed and verified through mechanism simulation.The results of the case study indicate that the variable lc andαhave more greater influence on the sensitivity of the objective function F(X),and multivariable(DV_1,DV_2,DV_3)coupling can effectively enhance the design plasticity of the quick‑return characteristics of the sley.When the maximum curve displacement Sm of the connectingarm pin increases to 71.41 mm,the extreme position angleθand the travel speed ratio coefficient K are increased by 10.96°and 0.131 respectively,and the quick-return motion effect of the sley is obviously improved.The optimization results accord with the conditions of rod length and mechanism transmission requirement,which are conductive to the design innovation and performance improvement of the four‑bar beating‑up system.…”
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Faktor-Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Pertumbuhan Ekonomi Di Jawa Timur Dengan Pendekatan Spatial Regression by Rendra Erdkhadifa

“…The research results show that the weighting function used is fixed gaussian, and the spatial model has a coefficient of determination of 92.97%. …”
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Skin Lesion Image Segmentation Algorithm Based on MC-UNet by Guihua Yang, Bingxing Pan

“…Finally, the network’s segmentation accuracy is improved through the use of a new loss function called MixLoss, which combines BceLoss and DiceLoss. …”
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Path integral for multiplicative noise: Generalized Fokker-Planck equation  and entropy production rate in stochastic processes with threshold by F. S. Abril-Bermúdez, C. J. Quimbay, J. E. Trinidad-Segovia, M. A. Sánchez-Granero

“…Then, using the Parisi-Sourlas method, we estimate the transition probability between states of a stochastic variable [X(t)] based on the cumulant-generating function (K_{η}) of the noise. …”
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Economics production buffalo breeding farms in the province of Nineveh (Badush area a case stady) by Salim AL- Nuaimy, Zwaid, F. Abd, Mahasen, M, Sultan

“…Results of the estimation showed that the double logarithmic formula is the best formula for the representation of production function and that the function and all the explanatory variables are statistically significant except for green feed and veterinary services.The most significant effect of the employment variable was on the production process، with  elasticity of 0.277 and  positive indication، and the results of the cost function estimate the best formulas to represent the relationship. …”
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Research on Fuzzy Decision-Making Method of Task Allocation for Ship Multiagent Collaborative Design by Jinghua Li, Yiying Wang, Boxin Yang, Qinghua Zhou, Feihui Yuan

“…In this paper, the task attributes and designers’ attributes are introduced into the task allocation strategy model, and the fuzzy linguistic variable method is used to build the evaluation index matrix of the design agent, and the task timeliness function is established. …”
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Sap flow simulation of Cunninghamia lanceolata in degraded red soil region based on back propagation neural network by Tu Jie, Liu Qijing, Wei Jun, Hu Liang

“…Therefore, quantitative research on tree water consumption characteristics by transpiration has become a hot issue in the field of tree physiological ecology in recent years.Taking the C. lanceolata plantation in degraded red soil of Jiangxi Province as the research object, the log-sigmoid type function (tansig) of MATLAB toolbox was selected as the transmission function for the role of neurons. …”
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Evaluation of the Wind-Resistant Performance of Long-Span Cable-Stayed Bridge Using the Monitoring Correlation between the Static Cross Wind and Its Displacement Response by Gaoxin Wang, Youliang Ding, Dongming Feng, Jihong Ye

“…Third, considering that the traditional function cannot match the monitoring correlation very well, some new fitting functions are thoroughly studied to determine the best function for fitting the monitoring correlation. …”
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Application of marine bacterial alginate lyases in wastewater treatment, biofilm removal and green technology by M.U.K. Anjung, H. Nursyam, A.A. Prihanto, E. Chasanah

“…Despite notable progress, challenges remain in achieving efficient large-scale production, enhancing enzyme robustness, and fine-tuning catalytic properties. …”
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Physics-augmented deep learning models for improving evapotranspiration estimation in global land regions by Binrui Liu, Xinguang He, Wenkai Lyu, Lizhi Tao

“…A Physics-Data Learning (PDL) model is first formed by adding a complementary physical variable generated by Penman–Monteith (PM) equation to a deep learning (DL) model along with driving variables to regress latent heat flux. …”
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Ammonia Gas Adsorption in Fixed Bed and Fluidized Bed Using Bentonite Particles by Gabriela Muntianu, Ana-Maria Georgescu, Ana-Maria Rosu, Nicoleta Platon, Vasilica Alisa Arus, Cosmin Valeriu Jinescu, Ileana Denisa Nistor

“…Fluidized bed adsorption can be an efficient technique to accelerate mass transfer between ammonia from air and adsorbent particles.…”
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Anomalous Behavior in Weather Forecast Uncertainty: Implications for Ship Weather Routing by Marijana Marjanović, Jasna Prpić-Oršić, Anton Turk, Marko Valčić

“…This allows uncertainty to be quantified not as a static estimate, but as a function sensitive to both variable type and prediction horizon. …”
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Four-Dimensional Path Planning Methodology for Collaborative Robots Application in Industry 5.0 by Ilias Chouridis, Gabriel Mansour, Vasileios Papageorgiou, Michel Theodor Mansour, Apostolos Tsagaris

“…The safety value of dynamic obstacles, the coefficients of the importance of the terms of the agent’s distance to the ending point, and the safety value of dynamic obstacles were introduced in the objective function. …”
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Farm-Specific Risk Analysis in Dairy Farming: A Case Study from Turkey by Hatice Kizilay, Handan Akçaöz

“…The relationship of mean risk aversion coefficient, calculated by using negative exponential function, with both average gross margin and gross margin standard deviation values determined for each farm was examined. …”
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Rapid global fitting of large fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy datasets. by Sean C Warren, Anca Margineanu, Dominic Alibhai, Douglas J Kelly, Clifford Talbot, Yuriy Alexandrov, Ian Munro, Matilda Katan, Chris Dunsby, Paul M W French

“…This approach is often considered to be prohibitively slow and/or computationally expensive but we present here a computationally efficient global analysis algorithm for the analysis of time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) or time-gated FLIM data based on variable projection. …”
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