Process Optimization for Development of Guar Gum-Based Biodegradable Hydrogel Film Using Response Surface Methodology by Junaid Aman, Navin Chandra Shahi, Umesh Chandra Lohani, Divya Balodhi, Rajat Singh, Naveen Kumar, Mohd Ishfaq Bhat, Avvaru Praveen Kumar

“…The effect of independent variables (initiator, crosslinker, and plasticizer) on the biodegradation (% wt. loss), color difference (ΔE), hardness (N), swelling index (%), and transparency (%) of the film was studied using Box–Behnken design, random surface methodology (RSM). …”
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A STUDY ON FORECASTING THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON EMERGENCY SERVICE IN A PUBLIC HOSPITAL by Şeyma Çelik Eroğlu, Fatma Gül Altın

“…While the data set for the period January 2012- June 2021 (114 months) is used in the analyses, two different data sets were created for the Box- Jenkins (B-J) and Gray Prediction approaches. …”
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Developing a Travel Time Estimation Method of Freeway Based on Floating Car Using Random Forests by Juan Cheng, Gen Li, Xianhua Chen

“…Different from other machine learning algorithm as black boxes, Random Forests can provide interpretable results through variable importance. …”
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Determination of Cell Permeabilization and Beta-Galactosidase Extraction from Aspergillus oryzae CCT 0977 Grown in Cheese Whey by Caroline dos Santos Viana, Denise Renata Pedrinho, Luiz Rodrigo Ito Morioka, Hélio Hiroshi Suguimoto

“…The objective of this work was to define the parameters for the determination of cell permeabilization and extraction of the enzyme from Aspergillus oryzae CCT 0977 biomass, with high enzymatic activity. The Box–Behnken design was used to determine cell permeabilization and extraction of beta-galactosidase conditions. …”
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Simulation on the Self-Compacting Concrete by an Enhanced Lagrangian Particle Method by Jun Wu, Xuemei Liu, Haihua Xu, Hongjian Du

“…The improved SPH method is tested by a typical 2D slump flow problem and also applied to L-box test. The capability and results obtained from this method are discussed.…”
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MEVDT: Multi-modal event-based vehicle detection and tracking datasetDeep Blue Data by Zaid A. El Shair, Samir A. Rawashdeh

“…Additionally, MEVDT includes manually annotated ground truth labels — consisting of object classifications, pixel-precise bounding boxes, and unique object IDs — which are provided at a labeling frequency of 24 Hz. …”
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Low-Shot Wall Defect Detection for Autonomous Decoration Robots Using Deep Reinforcement Learning by Fanyu Zeng, Xi Cai, Shuzhi Sam Ge

“…Object detection methods based on deep neural networks require a large number of images with the handcrafted bounding box for training. Nonetheless, building large datasets manually is impractical, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. …”
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Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis for Energy Consumption of Medium and Heavy Plate: A Novel Method Based on Bayesian Neural Network with Adam Variational Inference by Qiang Guo, Fenghe Li, Hengwen Liu, Jin Guo

“…First, a two-stage anomaly detection method based on box plot analysis is developed to identify energy consumption irregularities. …”
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Enhancing economics education: the impact of upside-down drawing exercises on cognitive and analytical skills by Alexandra-Codruța Bîzoi, Cristian-Gabriel Bîzoi

“…Specifically, the study focused on creativity, creative thinking, decision-making processes, thinking outside the box (innovative thinking), and brain functions in the hemispheres. …”
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LEAF-Net: A Unified Framework for Leaf Extraction and Analysis in Multi-Crop Phenotyping Using YOLOv11 by Ameer Tamoor Khan, Signe Marie Jensen

“…Results show that the unified model achieves superior performance in bounding box tasks, with mAP@50 exceeding 0.85 for spring crops and 0.7 for winter crops. …”
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Film routes in Basilicata by Delio Colangelo

“…In the last years, Basilicata has been the location of some worldwide box office hits: The Passion, Ben Hur, Wonder Woman. …”
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Microscopic parametrizations for gate set tomography under coloured noise by P. Viñas, A. Bermudez

“…The standard approach treats QIPs as black boxes only constrained by the laws of physics, attaining full generality at a considerable resource cost: numerous circuits must be run in order to amplify each of the gate set parameters. …”
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Macronutrient-Based Predictive Modelling of Bioconversion Efficiency in Black Soldier Fly Larvae (<i>Hermetia illucens</i>) Through Artificial Substrates by Laurens Broeckx, Lotte Frooninckx, Siebe Berrens, Sarah Goossens, Carmen ter Heide, Ann Wuyts, Mariève Dallaire-Lamontagne, Sabine Van Miert

“…Using these hydrated artificial substrates, fractional factorial designs based on central composite and Box–Behnken designs were employed to assess the impact of macronutrient composition on bioconversion efficiency. …”
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Effects of Clay and Moisture Content on Direct Shear Tests for Clay-Sand Mixtures by Muawia A. Dafalla

“…The direct shear test using shear box is commonly recommended by practicing geotechnical engineers to obtain the cohesion and angle of internal friction for granular soils. …”
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The Initial Months of Antiretroviral Therapy and Its Influence on AGEs, HMGB1, and sRAGE Levels in Asymptomatic HIV-Infected Individuals by Karen Ingrid Tasca, Juliana Trindade Caleffi, Camila Renata Correa, Mariana Gatto, Caio Cavassan de Camargo, Monica Bannwart Mendes, Marjorie de Assis Golim, Mara Biasin, Lenice do Rosário de Souza

“…The aim of this study was to analyze the effect exerted by combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) administration on plasma levels of HMGB1 (high mobility group box protein-1), AGEs (advanced glycation end products), their soluble receptor sRAGE, cytokines, C-reactive protein (CRP), and some metabolic markers in asymptomatic PLWHA. …”
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High-Gain Quad Array of Nonuniform Helical Antennas by Jelena Lj. Dinkić, Dragan I. Olćan, Antonije R. Djordjević, Alenka G. Zajić

“…The resulting quad array fits into a box whose dimensions are 2.5×3.3×3.3 wavelengths, and the gain in the main radiating direction is about 20.5 dBi in the frequency range from 0.9 GHz to 1.1 GHz. …”
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A Framework for Sharing and Integrating Remote Sensing and GIS Models Based on Web Service by Zeqiang Chen, Hui Lin, Min Chen, Deer Liu, Ying Bao, Yulin Ding

“…For the former, a “black box” and a visual method are employed to facilitate the publishing of the models as Web services. …”
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Dynamic Property Analysis of Orthotropic Bridge Deck with Local Fatigue Crack by Zhao Li, Jiarui Zhang, Yaoyang Zhu, Jianwei Tu

“…In this paper, the steel box-girder segment model and deck substructure model considering several typical fatigue cracks were established to reveal the variation law of fatigue cracks on vibration frequency and deflection under vehicle traveling load. …”
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Geospatial data science i Power BI: hvorfor det er vigtigt og hvad kan lade sig gøre by Hasse Kampp Davidsen

“…Med fokus på både de indbyggede og specialiserede kortfunktionaliteter, basiskort, IconMaps, MapBox og ArcGIS, vejleder artiklen om, hvordan man importerer, forbereder og visualiserer geospatial data. …”
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A new computational method for sparse optimal control of cyber-physical systems with varying delay by Sida Lin, Dongyao Yang, Jinlong Yuan, Changzhi Wu, Tao Zhou, An Li, Chuanye Gu, Jun Xie, Kuikui Gao

“…A penalty method was utilized to transform the SOC problem into a form that was constrained solely by box constraints. A smoothing technique was used to approximate the nonsmooth element in the resulting problem, and an analysis of the errors introduced by this technique was subsequently conducted. …”
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