Time-course analysis of chemical and physical properties of organic fertilizer from Tithonia diversifolia leaves by Bakari Chaka, Suter Kiplagat, Olal Wyclife, Osano Aloys, Magu Martin, Marjan Abdallah, Kehongo Moses, Geoffrey Mwendwa, Fredrick Omondi

“…Method The fertilizer was synthesized from T. diversifolia leaves. …”
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Design of an Active Axis Wind Turbine (AAWT) That Can Balance Centrifugal and Aerodynamic Forces to Reduce Support Infrastructure While Maintaining a Stable Flight Path by Jawad Mezaal, Jonathan Whale, Kim Schlunke, Parisa Arabzadeh Bahri, David Parlevliet

“…The design of a laboratory prototype rotor assembly is optimised by varying the masses and lengths in a lumped mass model to achieve equilibrium between centrifugal and lift forces acting on the turbine’s rotor assembly. The method involves an investigation of the variation of blade pitch angle to provide a balance between centrifugal and aerodynamic forces, thereby facilitating the cost advantages and opening the opportunity to improve the turbine efficiency across a range of operation conditions. …”
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A hybrid framework: singular value decomposition and kernel ridge regression optimized using mathematical-based fine-tuning for enhancing river water level forecasting by Iman Ahmadianfar, Aitazaz Ahsan Farooque, Mumtaz Ali, Mehdi Jamei, Mozhdeh Jamei, Zaher Mundher Yaseen

“…Hence, a novel hybrid model is provided, incorporating singular value decomposition (SVD) in conjunction with kernel-based ridge regression (SKRidge), multivariate variational mode decomposition (MVMD), and the light gradient boosting machine (LGBM) as a feature selection method, along with the Runge–Kutta optimization (RUN) algorithm for parameter optimization. …”
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Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Compound Eye Structural Feature Weighting and Regularized Tensor by Linhan Li, Xiaoyu Wang, Shijing Hao, Yang Yu, Sili Gao, Juan Yue

“…Our model is efficiently solved using the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). …”
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Novelty 3D processing maps of GH4175 superalloy to predict the instability deformation and optimal processing parameters by Yueqian Li, Jiao Luo, Zhigang Zhang, Hong Li

“…In this paper, a novel 3D processing map is developed by the three-dimensional cubic spline interpolation method. This 3D processing map is capable of reflecting the continuous variation of the efficiency of power dissipation and instability parameter as the processing parameters change. …”
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A Dual Band Slotted Patch Antenna on Dielectric Material Substrate by M. Habib Ullah, M. T. Islam, M. R. Ahsan, J. S. Mandeep, N. Misran

“…A low profile, compact dual band slotted patch antenna has been designed using finite element method-based high frequency full-wave electromagnetic simulator. …”
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A Dynamic Stackelberg–Cournot Duopoly Model with Heterogeneous Strategies through One-Way Spillovers by Jianjun Long, Hui Huang

“…It is also shown that the chaotic behaviors can be controlled with the state variables feedback and parameter variation method.…”
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ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT FOR ASSESSMENT OF ACCURACY POSITIONING SYSTEMS GLONASS/GPS WITH DIFFERENTIATED APPLICATION OF FERTILIZERS by G. I. Lichman, V. A. Kolesnikova, N. M. Marchenko, A. N. Marchenko

“…One of the directions of increase in fertilizers efficiency is reduction of nonuniformity of their distribution across the field. …”
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Traffic Equilibrium for Mixed Traffic Flows of Human-Driven Vehicles and Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in Transportation Networks under Tradable Credit Scheme by Fang Zhang, Jian Lu, Xiaojian Hu

“…A modified Lagrangian dual (MLD) method embedded with a revised Smith’s route-swapping (RSRS) algorithm is proposed to solve the problems. …”
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CEEMDAN-IHO-SVM: A Machine Learning Research Model for Valve Leak Diagnosis by Ruixue Wang, Ning Zhao

“…To address this problem, this paper proposes a feature extraction method based on the combination of Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise (CEEMDAN) and Fuzzy Entropy (FN). …”
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Location Research and Picking Experiment of an Apple-Picking Robot Based on Improved Mask R-CNN and Binocular Vision by Tianzhong Fang, Wei Chen, Lu Han

“…This work presents a novel high-precision visual positioning method for apple-harvesting robots.…”
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Model reference adaptive system and pseudo-sliding mode control with exponential reaching law for sensorless-speed control of PMSM. by Djaloul Karboua, Toufik Mebkhouta, Said Benkaihoul, Youcef Chouiha, Belgacem Toual, Zuhair A Alqarni, Ahmad F Tazay, Mohamed I Mosaad

“…The MRAS is implemented as a robust sensorless observation method that efficiently handles uncertainties, adapts to dynamic conditions, and aims to achieve dependable performance by having the controlled system mimic a reference model. …”
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Ionic buffer layer design for stabilizing Zn electrodes in aqueous Zn-based batteries by Yifan Cui, Yanyi Ma, Zhongxi Zhao, Jianwen Yu, Yongtang Chen, Yi He, Peng Tan

“…Finally, a full battery composed of Zn-LiMn2O4 is assembled to evaluate the practical applicability of the EZIBL in real battery cycles, which shows great enhancement in capacity retention and coulombic efficiency. This work proposes the design of the EZIBL used to regulate the ZEDP and provides a simple, low-cost regulation method for the development of high-performance AZBs.…”
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Comparative Analysis of the Major Phenotypic Characters of 23 Kenaf Cultivars by Ziyi Zhu, Xiahong Luo, Xia An, Changli Chen, Tingting Liu, Lina Zou, Shaocui Li

“…In order to explore the level of genetic diversity of different varieties of kenaf germplasm, and to improve the efficiency of comprehensive use of kenaf germplasm, the present study used randomized group test to examine and analyze a number of agronomic traits of 23 kenaf germplasms collected. …”
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Enhancing deep learning-based landslide detection from open satellite imagery via multisource data fusion of spectral, textural, and topographical features: a case study of old lan... by Zhiyuan Ren, Junwei Ma, Jiayu Liu, Xin Deng, Guangcheng Zhang, Haixiang Guo

“…Grad-CAM visualizations confirm the model accurately identifies landslide boundaries of various shapes. The proposed method offers improved performance, visual explanations, cost efficiency, and accessibility, making it suitable for detecting old landslides from open satellite imagery.…”
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Combining diffusion and transformer models for enhanced promoter synthesis and strength prediction in deep learning by Xin Lei, Xing Wang, Guanlin Chen, Ce Liang, Quhuan Li, Huaiguang Jiang, Wei Xiong

“…The effectiveness of our method was validated using data sets of Escherichia coli and cyanobacteria promoters, showing more stable and prompt convergence and more natural-like promoters than the variational autoencoder model. …”
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Effect of drought stress on characteristics of water consumption and photosynthesis for main arbor species in semi-arid valley of Lhasa by XIN Fumei, YANG Xiaolin, ZHAO Kentian, Luosangzhuoma

“…Investigation on the actual transpiration water consumption of main afforestation tree species can provide important guidance and theoretical basis for density control, water use, forest stability, woodland water balance and environmental capacity estimation of water resources of artificial vegetation.In this paper, four arbor species Populus szechuanica var. tibetica, Populus alba, Salix paraplesia var. subintegra and Ulmus pumila of three years old were selected in semi-arid valley of Lhasa, water consumptions of which were measured by pot seedling weight method, and net photosynthetic rate (Pn), transpiration rate (Tr) and water use efficiency (WUE) of them were investigated by Li-6400 photosynthetic system measuring method under different drought stresses. …”
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Distant Excitation of Rotating Surface Waves in Bodies with Cylindrical and Spherical Surface as Applied to Ultrasonic Control by A. R. Baev, A. V. Vorobei, A. L. Mayorov, M. V. Asadchaya, N. V. Delenkovsky

“…Increasing the efficiency of ultrasonic diagnostics and objects with curved surfaces, including cylindrical, spherical, etc., is an important scientific and technical task. …”
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Automatic Precision Planting Mechanism of Garlic Seeder by Guilin Chen, Yifan Yao, Lili Yi, Xiang Yin, Juan Du, Jun Chong

“…A timing sequential control method was adopted to accurately control the periodic motion of the insertion planting mechanism. …”
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Polarization Multiplexing Dammann Grating Based on All-Dielectric Metasurface by Chenyang Wu, Xuanlun Huang, Yipeng Ji, Jiaxing Wang, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain

“…The utilization of orthogonal polarization states becomes crucial for information reuse and hiding, where independent coding information is applied to orthogonally polarized light, enabling applications such as secure information reuse and hiding. Simultaneously, the method maintains exemplary performance metrics, with efficiencies and uniformities of 75% and 77%, respectively. …”
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