On Explainability of Reinforcement Learning-Based Machine Learning Agents Trained with Proximal Policy Optimization That Utilizes Visual Sensor Data by Tomasz Hachaj, Marcin Piekarczyk

“…This estimation makes it possible to determine whether the network makes decisions as expected (decision-making is related to the model’s observation of objects belonging to different semantic classes in the environment) and to detect unexpected, seemingly chaotic behavior that might be, for example, the result of data bias, bad design of the reward function or insufficient generalization abilities of the model. We publish all source codes so our experiments can be reproduced.…”
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Sequence-variable attention temporal convolutional network for volcanic lithology identification based on well logs by Hanlin Feng, Zitong Zhang, Chunlei Zhang, Chengcheng Zhong, Qiaoyu Ma

“…It provides more reliable prediction results and exhibits good stability and generalization, offering a new avenue to volcanic lithology identification.…”
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Systematic screening and dynamic profiling of germline regulatory pathways and spermatogonial surface markers in a bivalve mollusc by Liangjie Liu, Ya Shu, Tian Liu, Huilan Wei, Yaxin Yang, Lijing Zhang, Xiaohui Ma, Guoqing Li, Yajuan Li, Shi Wang, Lingling Zhang

“…However, research on spermatogonial cells is generally limited by the paucity of cell surface markers, which are not universal among species. …”
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Study of miRNA Based Gene Regulation, Involved in Solid Cancer, by the Assistance of Argonaute Protein by Surya Narayan Rath, Debasrita Das, V Badireenath Konkimalla, Sukanta Kumar Pradhan

“…Solid tumor is generally observed in tissues of epithelial or endothelial cells of lung, breast, prostate, pancreases, colorectal, stomach, and bladder, where several genes transcription is regulated by the microRNAs (miRNAs). …”
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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

“…To make the network lightweight and improve its generalization performance, the Average and Max pooling attention (AMA) attention module is designed and integrated into the DenseAMA and C2f-Faster-AMA modules on the proposed backbone network. …”
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Masking Ability of Various Metal Complexing Ligands at 1.0 mM Concentrations on the Potentiometric Determination of Fluoride in Aqueous Samples by Sakuni M. De Silva, Samitha Deraniyagala, Janitha K. Walpita, Indira Jayaweera, Saranga Diyabalanage, Asitha T. Cooray

“…In most of the reported literature, higher concentrations of strong metal chelating ligands are used as masking agents generally in the concentration range of 1.0 to 0.01 M. …”
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Design and Evaluation of Hybrid Drivetrain Damper Considering the Influence of Engine Misfire on Torsional Shock by Guogeng Zhang, Tao Liu, Lingran Xie, Pengcheng Huang, Weilin Zhang, Xiaoxiang Yu, Xiaowen Song

“…However, previous studies on engine misfire have generally focused on the engine rather than the drivetrain. …”
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FACTORS RELATED TO UNSAFE BEHAVIOR OF PILE WORK AT PT WASKITA KARYA (PERSERO) HIGHWAY PROJECT KLBM SECTION 2 WADUK BUNDER AREA by Putri Dianawati, Erwin Dyah Nawawinetu

“…Background: Occupational accidents are generally caused by 2 main points of unsafe action and unsafe condition. …”
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Physicochemical Study of Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Supported Palygorskite Clay Mineral by Lahcen Bouna, Benaissa Rhouta, Francis Maury

“…This amount is interestingly lower than the 2.5 g·L−1 generally reported when using pure unsupported TiO2 powder. …”
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MicroRNA-132 Interact with p250GAP/Cdc42 Pathway in the Hippocampal Neuronal Culture Model of Acquired Epilepsy and Associated with Epileptogenesis Process by Jinxian Yuan, Hao Huang, Xin Zhou, Xi Liu, Shu Ou, Tao Xu, Ruohan Li, Limin Ma, Yangmei Chen

“…Finally, we confirmed that silencing miR-132 has a neuroprotective effect on cultured epileptic neurons; however, this effect did not occur through the p250GAP pathway. Generally, silencing miR-132 may suppress spontaneous seizure activity through the miR-132/p250GAP/Cdc42 pathway by regulating the morphology and electrophysiology of dendritic spines; therefore, miR-132 may serve as a potential target for the development of antiepileptic drugs.…”
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Bias in Discontinuous Elevational Transects for Tracking Species Range Shifts by Shixuan Li, Jiannan Yao, Yang Lin, Siyu Wu, Zhongjie Yang, Chao Jin, Yuhan Zhang, Zhen Wang, Jinliang Liu, Guochun Shen, Mingjian Yu

“…Wider quadrat spacing increased these error rates, while longer survey intervals generally reduced them. Moreover, discontinuous transects consistently underestimated species shift distances, with this underestimation becoming more pronounced over longer survey periods. …”
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Supplementation with serine-enriched non-essential amino acids from minimum essential medium promotes blastocyst development of in vitro-fertilized bovine embryos by Nobuhiko ITAMI, Yuji HIRAO

“…DNA methylation is a critical event for blastocyst formation in bovines, and serine is a common NEAA that serves as a methyl donor and participates in DNA methylation. Serine is generally added at a concentration of 100 µM in bovine embryo culture medium. …”
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Image Quality Assessment Based on Multi-Scale Representation and Shifting Transformer by Geng Fu, Ziyu Wang, Cuijuan Zhang, Zerong Qi, Mingzheng Hu, Shujun Fu, Yunfeng Zhang

“…The outstanding performance demonstrates that Swin-MIQ possesses robust learning and generalization capabilities across all referenced distorted databases.…”
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Life satisfaction of Palestinian and Polish students after pandemic COVID-19 by Krzysztof Zdziarski, Anna Knyszyńska, Katarzyna Karakiewicz-Krawczyk, Mariam Awad, Salam Awad, Narmeen Qumsieh, Marek Landowski, Beata Karakiewicz

“…The results indicate a generally positive assessment of students’ life satisfaction after the pandemic. …”
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Strawberry Germplasm Influences Fruit Physicochemical Composition More than Harvest Date or Location by Brianna Haynes, Gina Fernandez, Guoying Ma, Hsuan Chen, Penelope Perkins-Veazie

“…As harvest dates advanced, pH, TAC, P3G, P3R, and pelargonidin-3-O-(6″-malonylglucoside) (P3MG) generally decreased, while Tacid, SSC, and cyanidin-3-O-glucoside (C3G) increased. …”
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How to Achieve Efficiency and Accuracy in Discrete Element Simulation of Asphalt Mixture: A DRF-Based Equivalent Model for Asphalt Sand Mortar by Yu Liu, Peifeng Su, Miaomiao Li, Hui Yao, Junfu Liu, Mei Xu, Xiaodong Zhou, Zhanping You

“…Larger-sized balls (generally 2.0–2.36 mm) were usually used to model the smaller particles and asphalt binder, but this replacement may result in the mixture’s unrealistic volumetric features. …”
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Determinants of UK companies’ dividend policy by Munther Momany, Khaled Bataineh, Omar Al-Bataineh

“…The outcomes of a wide range of panel data analysis regressions, such as Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) regressions, clearly show that the catering dividend significantly impacts UK firms' dividend policy. …”
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Is It Possible to Observe Society in Its Totality? Niklas Luhmann as Perseus and Medusa as Society by A. Yu. Antonovskiy

“…This circumstance gives rise to the paradox of self-applicability or self-reference in their social specification, since generalizing statements about society, if they claim to be universal in description, are always applicable to the statements themselves. …”
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Investigation on Fluid Flow Heat Transfer and Frictional Properties of Al2O3 Nanofluids Used in Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger by Debabrata Barik, Sreejesh S. R. Chandran, Milon Selvam Dennison, T. G. Ansalam Raj, K. E. Reby Roy

“…Nanofluids are generally utilized in providing cooling, lubrication phenomenon, and controlling the thermophysical properties of the working fluid. …”
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Preference learning based deep reinforcement learning for flexible job shop scheduling problem by Xinning Liu, Li Han, Ling Kang, Jiannan Liu, Huadong Miao

“…Given the complexity and diversity of FJSP, improving the generalization and quality of scheduling methods has become a hot topic of interest in both industry and academia. …”
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