A Gradient Grating Period Guided-Mode Resonance Spectrometer by Hsin-Yun Hsu, Yi-Hsuan Lan, Cheng-Sheng Huang

“…The GMR is specially designed to exhibit gradient grating periods (GPPs) laterally to ensure that the GMR functions as a linear-variable bandstop filter. Each period corresponds to a resonant wavelength such that this wavelength is reflected back at its corresponding resonant period and transmitted to all other periods. …”
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Flow Characteristics of Distinctly Viscous Multilayered Intestinal Fluid Motion by S. K. Pandey, M. K. Chaube, Dharmendra Tripathi

“…The effects of power law index and viscosities on pressure across one wavelength, mechanical efficiency, and trapping are discussed numerically. …”
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Research and Design of an Active Light Source System for UAVs Based on Light Intensity Matching Model by Rui Ming, Tao Wu, Zhiyan Zhou, Haibo Luo, Shahbaz Gul Hassan

“…Extensive qualitative and quantitative experiments confirm that the UAV active light source system based on light intensity matching proposed in this paper effectively enhances the effectiveness and robustness of vision-based tracking for multi-UAVs, particularly in complex and variable environments. This research provides an efficient and computationally effective solution for vision-based multi-UAV systems, further enhancing the visual tracking capabilities of multi-UAVs under complex conditions.…”
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Economic and environmental power dispatch for energy management systems applied to microgrids with wind energy resources and battery energy storage systems by Jhon Montano, John E. Candelo-Becerra, Cristian Escudero-Quintero, Juan Pablo Guzmán

“…The results show that the approach ensures technical efficiency while minimizing economic and environmental requirements. …”
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Stability and vibration analyses of tapered columns resting on one or two-parameter elastic foundations by Masoumeh Soltani, Foudil Mohri

“…Then, the shape functions are obtained exactly by deriving the deformation shape of the column as power series form. …”
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A Novel Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Regression Analysis by Zhiming Song, Maocai Wang, Guangming Dai, Massimiliano Vasile

“…The result shows that MMEA-RA outperforms RM-MEDA and NSGA-II on the test instances with variable linkages. At the same time, MMEA-RA has higher efficiency than the other two algorithms. …”
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Nonparametric Test for Logistic Regression with Application to Italian Enterprises’ Propensity for Innovation by Stefano Bonnini, Michela Borghesi

“…In this work, a nonparametric method is proposed to jointly test the significance of the regression coefficient estimates in a logistic regression model and identify which explanatory variables are effective in predicting the binary response. …”
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An inclusive solution based on grey water footprint for performance evaluation of industrial wastewater treatment systems by Keivan Arastou, Ali Dehnavi, Shervin Jamshidi

“…These advantages are critical for assessing an industrial WWTP treating complex wastewater, with hazardous pollutants and variable inflow. Moreover, we introduced four innovative criteria based on GWF and improved it as a multi-functional index. …”
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Characterization and treatment monitoring of ureagenesis disorders using stable isotopes by Gabriella Allegri, Martin Poms, Nadia Zürcher, Véronique Rüfenacht, Nicole Rimann, Déborah Mathis, Beat Thöny, Matthias Gautschi, Ralf A. Husain, Daniela Karall, Karolina Orchel-Szastak, Francesco Porta, Dominique Roland, Barbara Siri, Carlo Dionisi-Vici, René Santer, Johannes Häberle

“…Thus, the method proved to be safe and efficient to monitor UCD patients of variable severity pre- and post-therapy, being suitable as physiological endpoint for development of therapies.…”
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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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Revolutionizing proton exchange membrane fuel cell modeling through hybrid aquila optimizer and arithmetic algorithm optimization by Manish Kumar Singla, S. A. Muhammed Ali, Ramesh Kumar, Pradeep Jangir, Mohammad Khishe, G. Gulothungan, Haitham A. Mahmoud

“…These parameters function as decision variables, and the objective function aimed for minimization is the sum square error (SSE) between the predicted and actual measured cell voltages. …”
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Soil moisture and precipitation intensity jointly control the transit time distribution of quick flow in a flashy headwater catchment by H. Türk, C. Stumpp, M. Hrachowitz, K. Schulz, P. Strauss, G. Blöschl, M. Stockinger

“…The results showed that accounting for both soil moisture and precipitation intensity to define the shape of SAS functions for preferential flow improved the tracer simulation in streamflow (increasing the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency from 0.31 to 0.51). …”
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Open real-time, non-invasive fish detection and size estimation utilizing binocular camera system in a Portuguese river affected by hydropeaking by Jürgen Soom, Isabel Boavida, Renan Leite, Maria João Costa, Gert Toming, Mairo Leier, Jeffrey A. Tuhtan

“…Nonetheless, employing an automated camera system for underwater monitoring requires that the algorithms function under highly variable environmental conditions, which affect the ability to detect and assess fish size. …”
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Explaining the COVID19 mortality growth rate: an empirical analysis of Israeli cities by Yuval Arbel, Yifat Arbel, Amichai Kerner, Miryam Kerner, Miryam Kerner

“…These include population size, median age, a socio-economic ranking at a city level, a date variable and a dummy variable that equals 1 for post-vaccination and 0 for pre-vaccination era.MethodRegression analysis, where each variable is converted to the standard normal distribution function. …”
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LNT-YOLO: A Lightweight Nighttime Traffic Light Detection Model by Syahrul Munir, Huei-Yung Lin

“…A novel SEAM attention module is proposed to refine the features that represent both the spatial and channel information by leveraging the features from the Simple Attention Module (SimAM) and Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) mechanism. The HSM-EIoU loss function is also proposed to accurately detect a small traffic light by amplifying the loss for hard-sample objects. …”
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Sinc-Chebyshev Collocation Method for a Class of Fractional Diffusion-Wave Equations by Zhi Mao, Aiguo Xiao, Zuguo Yu, Long Shi

“…This paper is devoted to investigating the numerical solution for a class of fractional diffusion-wave equations with a variable coefficient where the fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. …”
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Research on Ship Heave Motion Compensation Control Under Complex Sea State Environment Based on Improved Reinforcement Learning by ZHANG Qin, ZHOU Jingyi, WANG Xingyue, HU Xiong

“…Thus, in the quest to address these concerns and bolster the efficiency and safety of maritime endeavors, researchers actively explore and pioneer diverse techniques aimed at compensating for the vertical motion of vessels. …”
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Design of Reinforcement Learning Guidance Law for Antitorpedo Torpedoes by Zhong Wang, Zhiwen Wen, Weitong Cui, Daming Zhou, Pei Wang

“…Integrating engineering design, the intelligent guidance law for antitorpedo torpedoes proposed in this article selects the rate of change in the line-of-sight angle as the state variable, designs a reward function based on interception results, and designs a discretized behavior space based on the commonly used proportional guidance coefficient selection range. …”
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Effects of shading on photosynthetic characteristics and shade-tolerance evaluation of three Ranunculaceae plants by HAN Ruiting, ZHAO Dandan, WANG Weiyi, ZHANG Gexiang*

“…The light saturation point(LSP), light compensation point(LCP)and dark respiration rate(Rd)of the three plants decreased gradually.(3)The original fluorescence(Fo)decreased first and then increased, while the maximum fluorescence(Fm), variable fluorescence(Fv), maximum photochemical efficiency of PS Ⅱ(Fv/Fm)and potential activity of PS Ⅱ(Fv/Fo)values increased first and then decreased; the quantum ratio of heat dissipation(φDo)and the energy dissipated per unit reaction center(DIo/RC)decreased first and then increased, while electron transport quantum yield(φEo), light energy absorbed per unit reaction center(ABS/RC), light energy captured per unit reaction center(TRo/RC), energy used to transfer electrons per unit reaction center(ETo/RC), photosynthetic performance index(PIabs)and comprehensive performance index(PItotal)increased first and then decreased.(4)Comprehensive analysis on 20 single indicators by using analysis methods such as principal component analysis and membership function method showed that the shade-tolerance of the three plants ranked as Thalictrum fortunei > Delphinium anthriscifolium var. savatieri > R. japonicus. …”
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A non-dominated sorting based multi-objective neural network algorithm of ethylene glycol hydrogenation reactor in energy reduction by Fakhrony Sholahudin Rohman, Sharifah Rafidah Wan Alwi, Dinie Muhammad, Muhamad Nazri Murat, Ashraf Azmi

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to various ethylene glycol (EG) production aspects to improve efficiency, quality, and overall process optimization. …”
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