Effects of irrigation amount and frequency on soil water and salt dynamics and water use efficiency of mulched drip-irrigated cotton in Southern Xinjiang by NING Huifeng, CAO Zhenxi, LI Songmin, SHI Lujian, SHEN Xiaojun, LI Yong, HAN Qisheng, ZHANG Xianbo, YANG Guang

“…Optimizing irrigation is essential for improving water use efficiency (WUE) and maintaining stable production of cotton in these regions. …”
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Method based on contrastive incremental learning for fine-grained malicious traffic classification by Yifeng WANG, Yuanbo GUO, Qingli CHEN, Chen FANG, Renhao LIN, Yongliang ZHOU, Jiali MA

“…In order to protect against continuously emerging unknown threats, a new method based on contrastive incremental learning for fine-grained malicious traffic classification was proposed.The proposed method was based on variational auto-encoder (VAE) and extreme value theory (EVT), and the high accuracy could be achieved in known, few-shot and unknown malicious classes and new classes were also identified without using a large number of old task samples, which met the demand of storage and time cost in incremental learning scenarios.Specifically, the contrastive learning was integrated into the encoder of VAE, and the A-Softmax was used for known and few-shot malicious traffic classification, EVT and the decoder of VAE were used for unknown malicious traffic recognition, all classes could be recognized without a lot of old samples when learning new tasks by using VAE reconstruction and knowledge distillation methods.Experimental results indicate that the proposed method is efficient in known, few-shot and unknown malicious classes, and has greatly reduced the forgetting speed of old knowledge in incremental learning scenarios.…”
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Convergence Analysis for System of Cayley Generalized Variational Inclusion on <i>q</i>-Uniformly Banach Space by Mohd Falahat Khan, Syed Shakaib Irfan, Iqbal Ahmad

“…To validate the effectiveness of the proposed iterative method, we provide a numerical result supported by a computational graph and a convergence plot, illustrating its performance and efficiency.…”
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Two-Dimensional Spatial Variation Analysis and Correction Method for High-Resolution Wide-Swath Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging by Zhenyu Hou, Pin Li, Zehua Zhang, Zhuo Yun, Feng He, Zhen Dong

“…In previous studies on the correction of two-dimensional spatial variation in spaceborne SAR, either the models were not accurate enough or the computational efficiency was low, limiting the application of corresponding algorithms. …”
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Automated Dead Chicken Detection in Poultry Farms Using Knowledge Distillation and Vision Transformers by Ridip Khanal, Wenqin Wu, Joonwhoan Lee

“…A dynamic frame selection strategy optimizes resource usage by adjusting monitoring intervals based on the chickens’ age, ensuring real-time performance in resource-constrained environments. This method addresses key challenges such as the lack of explicit annotations for dead chickens, along with common farm issues like lighting variations, occlusions, cluttered backgrounds, chicken growth, and camera distortions. …”
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Spatial attention-guided pre-trained networks for accurate identification of crop diseases by Satrughan Kumar, S. S. Aravinth, Sreedhar Kollem, Munish Kumar, Quadri Noorulhasan Naveed, Azath Mubarakali, Abhishek Bhattacherjee, Addisu Frinjo Emma

“…Additionally, the integration of ancillary convolutional layer to this architecture enhances the ability of the model to detect subtle disease variations. To further improve the adaptability, the proposed method incorporates a preprocessing and data augmentation techniques. …”
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Methodology for determining temperature dependences of the diffraction efficiency of two-layer two-relief microstructures in the framework of a rigorous coupled-wave analysis by A.I. Antonov, G.I. Greisukh

“…We show that due to variations in the operating temperature (from –40°C to + 60°C), the diffraction efficiency drops by no more than 7% over the entire operating spectral range (3.5 – 5.2 μm; 7.5 – 11.4 μm) with permissible angles of light incidence on the microstucture ranging from –14° to +14°.…”
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Efficient and sustainable conversion of CO₂ and propylene oxide to propylene carbonate using MgO-enhanced MgCo₂O₄ heterostructure catalyst by Tahani Saad Algarni, Naaser A. Y. Abduh, Saad Mohammed Alqahtani

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Application of a sEMG hand motion recognition method based on variational mode decomposition and ReliefF algorithm in rehabilitation medicine. by Yue Yuan

“…To achieve this goal, this paper proposes a novel hand motion recognition method based on variational mode decomposition (VMD) and ReliefF. …”
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Methodology of expert evaluation of effectiveness of methods of organizational diagnostics by T. V. CHIBIKOVA

“…The technique of an estimation of efficiency of methods of organizational diagnostics is offered. …”
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Approximate methods for solving local fractional integral equations by Hassan Kamil Jassim

“…Some examples are presented to illustrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed methods. The obtained results reveal that the proposed methods are very efficient and simple tools for solving local fractional integral equations.…”
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Classification and Recognition Method for Bearing Fault based on IFOA-SVM by Wei Zhang, Zhihua Ma

“…Finally， the experimental results show that the method can realize accurate and efficient identification of the fault features of bearing.…”
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High variation in Eastern Whip-poor-will home-range size and shape limits the effectiveness of one-size-fits-all habitat protection methods by Alicia M Korpach, Valerie von Zuben, Kevin C Fraser, Christina M. Davy

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Enhancing Air Conditioning System Efficiency Through Load Prediction and Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study of Ground Source Heat Pumps by Zhitao Wang, Yubin Qiu, Shiyu Zhou, Yanfa Tian, Xiangyuan Zhu, Jiying Liu, Shengze Lu

“…This study proposes a control method that integrates deep reinforcement learning with load forecasting, to enhance the energy efficiency of ground source heat pump systems. …”
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Skill and Strategy: How Managerial Ability Drives Working Capital Efficiency [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Sagar Bhatt, Prasenjit Roy, Asokan Vasudevan, Elangbam Nixon Singh, Premendra Kumar Singh, Rakesh Dani

“…Background The study investigates the impact of Managerial Ability (MA) on Working Capital Management Efficiency (WCME), focusing on how skilled management influences working capital practices. …”
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Analysis of Cauchy reaction-diffusion equations involving Atangana-Baleanu fractional operator by Hassan Kamil Jassim, Ali Latif Arif

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Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Nutrient in Principal Paddy and Cereal Production Landscapes of Fengtai County within the Huai River Basin, Eastern China by Zhiyang Jiang, Zheng Yin, Xinbin Li, Daokun Chen, Meiqin Huang, Yuzhi Zhou, Tingsen Wu, Mingze Zhao, Wenshuo Wang, Yupeng Zhang

“…How to accurately and quantitatively evaluate the soil quality of regional cultivated land and realize its efficient use has become an urgent problem. In order to explore the spatial autocorrelation and variation in soil nutrients in cultivated land in the plain of Fengtai County in the Huaihe River Basin, a total of 306 soil samples and mature wheat samples were collected in the study area to analyze soil pH, total nitrogen (TN), available nitrogen (AN), available phosphorus (AP), available potassium (AK) and slow-release potassium (SK) content and wheat biomass, and combined with geostatistical methods and GIS technology. …”
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A Fast MPPT Method Based on Improved Water Cycle Optimization Algorithm for Photovoltaic Systems Under Partial Shading Conditions and Load Variations by Rafah Ibraheem Jabbar, Saad Mekhilef, Marizan Mubin, Obaid Alshammari, Ahmed Kazaili

“…The comparison showed that the proposed method performed better than the other MPPT methods in terms of tracking efficiency, convergence speed, and ease of implementation. …”
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Experimental Validation of a Novel CO₂ Refrigeration System for Cold Storage: Achieving Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emission Reductions by Yi-Zhou Wang, Yu-Wei Fan, Xiao-Long Li, Jian-Guo Yang, Xin-Rong Zhang

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Efficiently Learning an Encoder That Classifies Token Replacements and Masked Permuted Network-Based BIGRU Attention Classifier for Enhancing Sentiment Classification of Scientific... by Muhammad Inaam Ul Haq, Khalid Mahmood, Qianmu Li, Ashok Kumar Das, Sachin Shetty, Majid Hussain

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