IrrigApp: An Online Tool for Determining Crop Water Use and Evaluating Irrigation Scheduling Options by José O. Payero

“…., county, crop, soil type, start date, end date, irrigation applications, and irrigation efficiency). IrrigApp calculates daily crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and conducts a daily soil water balance to estimate several daily and seasonal variables, such as ETc under dryland and irrigated conditions, soil water content in the crop root zone, and water losses by runoff and deep percolation. …”
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FVPNet: A Fuzzy Visual Positioning Perception Network for Small Object Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images by Yu Yan, Jindong Xu, Qianpeng Chong, Guangyi Wei, Zhixiang Wang

“…Furthermore, grayscale variability intensifies boundary uncertainty, complicating accurate segmentation. …”
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Optimizing Load Frequency Control of Multi-Area Power Renewable and Thermal Systems Using Advanced Proportional–Integral–Derivative Controllers and Catch Fish Algorithm by Saleh A. Alnefaie, Abdulaziz Alkuhayli, Abdullah M. Al-Shaalan

“…Additionally, by contrasting the performance of the PID, PI, cascaded PI(PDN), and FOPID, PI(1+DD) controllers, the efficiency of the CFA is confirmed. Additionally, a sensitivity analysis that considers simultaneous modifications of the frequency bias coefficient (B) and speed regulation (R) within a range of ±25% validates the efficacy and dependability of the suggested CFA-tuned PI(1+DD). …”
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Assessing service quality and its impact on patient experience and satisfaction in prosthetics and orthotics: a SERVQUAL-based cross-sectional study by Mahmoud Alfatafta, Nizar Alsubahi, Huda Alfatafta, Amneh Alshawabka, Anthony McGarry, Alaeddin Ahmad, Evelin Derkacs, Dorottya Varga, Bálint Molics

“…Reliability significantly influenced PS (p < 0.001) but had no impact on PE (p = 0.386), while Empathy did not significantly affect PS (p = 0.311), suggesting that practical aspects such as device functionality and efficiency may be prioritized over emotional considerations in P&O care. …”
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Risk Assessment Approach of Toll Road Operator by A. Yu. Talavirya, M. B. Laskin

“…All such factors are modeled in the AnyLogic environment as random variables with a rich choice of distribution functions and their parameters.Results. …”
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Genome‐wide screening of abberant methylated drivers combined with relative risk loci in bladder cancer by Chuanjie Zhang, Kangjie Shen, Yuxiao Zheng, Feng Qi, Jun Luo

“…MethylMix package was used for identifying methylation‐driven genes and functional analysis was mainly performed based on ConsensusPathDB database. …”
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ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AS CATALYSTS FOR SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS by Emmanuel Temitope Adedoyin, Peters Ade Sanni, Ibrahim T. Lawal, Mohammed Nezifi Ibrahim

“…Findings reveal that environmental factors significantly affect educational investment (e.g., CO₂ emissions: β = -205.7, p < .001), while CSR variables did not directly predict development outcomes. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of Tuberculosis among HIV infected patients in south Ethiopia by Sintayehu Fekadu, Wondu Teshome, Getnet Alemu

“…In multivariate logistic regression being female (AOR=0.39; 95% CI:0.20-0.77), WHO clinical stage 3 (AOR=5.66; 95%CI:1.79-17.94); WHO clinical stage 4 (AOR=7.89;95%CI:2.01-30.96); and functional status being ambulatory (AOR=2.22; 95%CI:1.06-4.64) were independently associated with tuberculosis-HIV co-infection with p value <0.05. …”
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The Relationship Between Supply Environment, Supply Chain Integration and Performance Considering Opportunistic Behaviors by Abbas َAsadi, safanaz Heidari

“…Then, inferential statistics are employed to explain the relationships between variables and generalize the results to the society. …”
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Sociodemographic, Clinical, and Epidemiological Characteristics of Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment by Naifi Hierrezuelo Rojas, Alfredo Hernández Magdariaga, Rolando Bonal Ruiz

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A versatile genetic toolkit for engineering Wickerhamomyces ciferrii for tetraacetyl phytosphingosine production by Seong-Rae Lee, Jun Su Kang, Pyung Cheon Lee

“…To demonstrate the functional application of this toolkit, we overexpressed a phosphorylation-insensitive mutant of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC1S26A-S1161A), resulting in a 2.4-fold increase in TAPS production. …”
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Imbalanced Power Spectral Generation for Respiratory Rate and Uncertainty Estimations Based on Photoplethysmography Signal by Soojeong Lee, Mugahed A. Al-antari, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi, Yeong Hyeon Gu

“…Thus, accurate estimation of RRs for cardiopulmonary function is essential for home health monitoring systems. …”
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Combined Surfactant and Enzyme-Assisted Extraction of Pectin from Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) Fruits by Anastasia E. Novikova, Liubov N. Skrypnik

“…The hawthorn pectin can be used to develop new functional products.…”
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Life Cycle Assessment of Key Mediterranean Agricultural Products at the Farm Level Using GHG Measurements by Georgios Bartzas, Maria Doula, Konstantinos Komnitsas

“…The uncertainty analysis indicates that among the LCI-based scenarios evaluated, the IS scenario exhibits the lowest variability, with coefficient of variation (CV) values ranging from 0.5% to 7.3%. …”
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Predictive model for the therapeutic effect of bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on the freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease by Qi Limuge, Yuqing Zhang, Xiaofei Jia, Fang Wang, Dongsheng Yu, Lixia Chen, Li Zhang, Yongqiang Jiang, Yongqiang Jiang

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Deep Reinforcement Learning With Dueling DQN for Partial Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing by Ehzaz Mustafa, Junaid Shuja, Faisal Rehman, Abdallah Namoun, Mazhar Ali, Abdullah Alourani

“…The Dueling DQN alleviates the complexity of simultaneous offloading and resource allocation decisions, with each branch independently controlling a subset of the decision variables to scale efficiently with an increasing number of IoT devices, thereby avoiding the combinatorial explosion of potential actions. …”
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Investigating Whether AI Will Replace Human Physicians and Understanding the Interplay of the Source of Consultation, Health-Related Stigma, and Explanations of Diagnoses on Patien... by Weiqi Guo, Yang Chen

“…The main effects and interaction effects of the variables were examined on individuals’ functional, relational, and emotional evaluations of the medical consultation. …”
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Factors Influencing Telemedicine Adoption Among Health Care Professionals: Qualitative Interview Study by Fiona Schürmann, Daniel Westmattelmann, Gerhard Schewe

“…Perceived benefits encompassed convenience through reduced travel time (5/14, 36%), improved care quality due to higher accessibility (8/14, 57%), and operational efficiency (7/14, 50%). Trust referents played a pivotal role; trust in technology was linked to functionality (6/14, 43%) and reliability (5/14, 36%), while trust in treatment depended on effective collaboration (9/14, 64%). …”
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Conformational landscape of soluble α-klotho revealed by cryogenic electron microscopy by Nicholas J. Schnicker, Zhen Xu, Mohammad Amir, Lokesh Gakhar, Chou-Long Huang

“…Abstract α-Klotho (KLA) is a type-1 membranous protein that can associate with fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) to form co-receptor for FGF23. The ectodomain of unassociated KLA is shed as soluble KLA (sKLA) to exert FGFR/FGF23-independent pleiotropic functions. …”
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REALITIES AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE UKRAINIAN BANKING SYSTEM by Maryna Korol, Olena Bazhenova, Ihor Korol, Grygoriy Starchenko, Volodymyr Bazhenov, Oksana Banna

“…The simulation results (mainly the analysis of impulse response functions) allow concluding that interbank lending in post-crisis conditions recovers relatively rapidly (with a lag of two years). …”
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