Medium-term load forecasting with Power Market Survey: GEPCO case study by Sheeza Mariam Nawaz, Ubaid Ahmed, Adil Amin, Syed Afraz Hussain Shah, Anzar Mahmood

“…The deep-learning networks (DLNs), proposed in recent years, have a black-box nature, which reduces the interpretability of the results. …”
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OCT-based diagnosis of glaucoma and glaucoma stages using explainable machine learning by Md Mahmudul Hasan, Jack Phu, Henrietta Wang, Arcot Sowmya, Michael Kalloniatis, Erik Meijering

“…However, current automated diagnostic approaches on Glaucoma diagnosis solely rely on black-box deep learning models, lacking explainability and trustworthiness. …”
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Genome Sequencing of a Mung Bean Plant Growth Promoting Strain of P. aeruginosa with Biocontrol Ability by Devaraj Illakkiam, Manoharan Shankar, Paramasivan Ponraj, Jeyaprakash Rajendhran, Paramasamy Gunasekaran

“…In addition, niche-specific genes such as phosphate solubilising 3-phytase, adhesins, pathway-specific transcriptional regulators, a diguanylate cyclase involved in cellulose synthesis, a receptor for ferrienterochelin, a DEAD/DEAH-box helicase involved in stress tolerance, chemotaxis/motility determinants, an HtpX protease, and enzymes involved in the production of a chromanone derivative with potent antifungal activity were identified.…”
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Design and Optimization Application of Cut Blasting Parameters for One-Time Completion of Blind Shaft by Yifeng Zhang, Yongsheng Jia, Nan Jiang, Quanming Xie, Lin Yuan, Yongbo Wu, Zehui Xu

“…Quantitative description of the distribution pattern of blasting-induced cracks in the simulation results of three cutting methods using the box-counting fractal dimension method are presented. …”
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Investigating Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fluctuations on PCB Surfaces: A Near-Field Analysis of CBCPW Transmission Lines up to 15.2 MHz by Mariusz Zubert, Mariusz Jankowski, Zbigniew Kulesza

“…Advanced statistical methods, including the Hurst exponent and Ljung-Box tests, are integrated with traditional near-field measurements to quantify electromagnetic noise persistence and independence across frequencies. …”
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InSAR-YOLOv8 for wide-area landslide detection in InSAR measurements by Ruopu Ma, Haiyang Yu, Xuejie Liu, Xinru Yuan, Tingting Geng, Pengao Li

“…Finally, the SIoU loss function replaces the CIoU loss function to improve the bounding box regression and enhance detection accuracy. Our results show that the proposed algorithm achieves a 97.41% mAP50, a 66.47% mAP50:95, and a 92.06% F1 score on the InSAR landslide dataset, while reducing the number of parameters by 25%. …”
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Anti-HMGB1 Neutralizing Antibody Ameliorates Neutrophilic Airway Inflammation by Suppressing Dendritic Cell-Mediated Th17 Polarization by Fang Zhang, Gang Huang, Bo Hu, Li-Ping Fang, E-Hong Cao, Xiao-Feng Xin, Yong Song, Yi Shi

“…We demonstrate that high mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1) directs Th17 skewing by regulating dendritic cell (DC) function. …”
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The role of insulin signaling with FOXO and FOXK transcription factors by Masaji Sakaguchi

“…Recent studies demonstrated that two types of forkhead-box family transcription factors, FOXOs and FOXKs, are related to the switching of insulin signals during fasting and feeding states. …”
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Optimization of Quantitative Evaluation Method for Urban Waterfront Building Cluster Skyline by Jian Zhang, Wenlei Luan, Jieshuai Zhang

“…The evaluation method for the skyline of architectural groups has evolved from a subjective approach to a quantitative one. In recent years, the box-counting dimension method based on fractal theory has been widely used for this evaluation. …”
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Safety-Critical Oracles for Metamorphic Testing of Deep Learning LiDAR Point Cloud Object Detectors by Simon Speth, Maximilian Trien, Dominik Kufer, Alexander Pretschner

“…We address this by introducing novel egocentric test oracles based on traffic participants’ bounding boxes shifted into or out of the ego vehicle’s expected lane. …”
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Ultrasonication-assisted lipase-catalyzed esterification of chlorogenic acid: A comparative study using fatty alcohol and acids in solvent and solvent-free conditions by Chia-Hung Kuo, Parushi Nargotra, Tsung-Han Lin, Chwen-Jen Shieh, Yung-Chuan Liu

“…Catalytic factors such as reaction time (12 h ∼ 36 h), enzyme dosage (10 ∼ 50 mg), and ultrasonication power (90 ∼ 150 W) were optimized using Box-Behnken design (BBD) while temperature (60 ℃) and molar ration (chlorogenic acid/octanol, 1:500) were kept constant. …”
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FF-YOLO: Fashion Fabric Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOv8 by Caixia Chen

“…Last, we replace the original loss function with Wise-IoU to improve the localization ability of the detection box. The experimental results show that FF-YOLO achives an average accuracy of 75.5% and a frames per second (FPS) of 105 for fashion fabric detection. …”
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On Explainability of Reinforcement Learning-Based Machine Learning Agents Trained with Proximal Policy Optimization That Utilizes Visual Sensor Data by Tomasz Hachaj, Marcin Piekarczyk

“…Depending on the convolutional feature extractor of the PPO-trained neural network, our method obtains 0.945 to 0.968 accuracy of approximation of the black-box model. The proposed method has important application aspects. …”
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Extracting chemical food safety hazards from the scientific literature automatically using large language models by Neris Özen, Wenjuan Mu, Esther D. van Asselt, Leonieke M. van den Bulk

“…The large language model was used out-of-the-box and applied on scientific abstracts; no extra training of the models or a large computing cluster was required. …”
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Sox6 and ALDH1A1 Truncation by Asparagine Endopeptidase Defines Selective Neuronal Vulnerability in Parkinson's Disease by Shuke Nie, Bowei Li, Mengmeng Wang, Zijun Chen, Jiayan Ren, Zixuan Li, Xinli Xu, Zhengjiang Qian, Zhongyun Xie, Jianxin Han, Zhentao Zhang, Zhaohui Zhang, Yingjie Zhu, Zuxin Chen, Xifei Yang, Keqiang Ye

“…Here, it is shown that Legumain, also known as asparagine endopeptidase (AEP), is activated in a subgroup of SRY‐box transcription factor 6 /Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 family member A1, (Sox6+/ALDH1A1+) neurons in the ventral tier of the SNpc and cleaves Sox6 and ALDH1A1, leading to repression of Special AT‐rich sequence binding protein 1 (Satb1) that is a dimeric/tetrameric transcription factor specifically binding to AT‐rich DNA sequences, and toxic dopamine metabolite accumulation. …”
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YOLOv8s-Longan: a lightweight detection method for the longan fruit-picking UAV by Jun Li, Jun Li, Jun Li, Kaixuan Wu, Meiqi Zhang, Hengxu Chen, Hengyi Lin, Yuju Mai, Linlin Shi

“…Meanwhile, the novel Inner-SIoU loss function is proposed as the loss function of the target bounding box.Results and discussionThe experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has good detection ability for densely distributed and mutually occluded longan string fruit under complex backgrounds with a mAP@0.5 of 84.3%. …”
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The present study answers the research question: A corpus-based analysis of collocate directionality in academic English writing by Abdulaziz B. Sanosi

“…It analyzed the corpus using two software: AntConc and #LancsBox. The results showed variation in the positioning of the shared collocates of the two nodes, nevertheless, these patterns were not exclusive when it comes to formulaic expressions common in academic writing. …”
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Microwave irradiation-induced deterioration of rock mechanical properties and implications for mechanized hard rock excavation by Zheng Yang, Ming Tao, Muhammad Burhan Memon, Dengdeng Zhuang, Yan Zhao

“…The roughness of the fracture surfaces of the specimens was quantified using the box-counting method. The damage mechanisms of microwave heating and water cooling on sandstone were discussed from both macroscopic and microscopic perspectives. …”
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Sustainable lightweight self-compacting concrete with coal bottom ash as aggregate and cement replacement by Ibtissam Boulahya, Abdelkadir Makani, Ahmed Tafraoui

“…To evaluate the workability of the LWSCC mixtures, slump flow, L-box, and sieve segregation tests were performed. …”
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Optimization of Acid Protease Production by Aspergillus niger I1 on Shrimp Peptone Using Statistical Experimental Design by Rayda Siala, Fakher Frikha, Samiha Mhamdi, Moncef Nasri, Alya Sellami Kamoun

“…These factors were further optimized using Box-Behnken design and RSM. Under the proposed optimized conditions, the experimental protease production (183.13 U mL−1) closely matched the yield predicted by the statistical model (172.57 U mL−1) with R2=0.914. …”
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