Book review: A review of chaos, catastrophe, and human affairs: Applications of nonlinear dynamics to work, organizations, and social evolution by Stephen J. Guastello by Frederick David Abraham, Stephen J. Guastello

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Contribution of flood early warning response measures in reducing flood effects in Kilosa District, Tanzania by Japhet Ringo, Shadrack Sabai, Anesi Mahenge

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Evaluation of the WRF-Chem performance for the air pollutants over the United Arab Emirates by Y. Yarragunta, D. Francis, R. Fonseca, N. Nelli

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Applying auxiliary supervised depth-assisted transformer and cross modal attention fusion in monocular 3D object detection by Zhijian Wang, Jie Liu, Yixiao Sun, Xiang Zhou, Boyan Sun, Dehong Kong, Jay Xu, Xiaoping Yue, Wenyu Zhang

“…Two depth encoders are supervised by ground truth depth and bounding box respectively, working independently to complement each other’s limitations and predicting more accurate target distances. …”
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Development and performance evaluation of a precision seeder for sustainable rice cultivation by Prabhat Kumar Guru, Atul Kumar Shrivastava, Suryakanta Khandai, Rabe Yahaya, Sudhanshu Singh, Virender Kumar, Priyanka Tiwari, Manoj Kumar

“…The self-propelled machine features a 4 hp air-cooled diesel engine, adjustable seed and fertilizer boxes, an inclined seed plate metering unit, and a float-and-furrow system, enabling precise seeding with consistent hill-to-hill spacing and simultaneous deep fertilizer placement. …”
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Prediction of buckling damage of steel equal angle structural members using hybrid machine learning techniques by Nang Xuan Ho, Tien-Thinh Le, The-Hung Dinh, Van-Hai Nguyen

“…Moreover, a Partial Dependence (PD) investigation was performed to interpret the “black-box” PSOANN model.…”
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LittleFaceNet: A Small-Sized Face Recognition Method Based on RetinaFace and AdaFace by Zhengwei Ren, Xinyu Liu, Jing Xu, Yongsheng Zhang, Ming Fang

“…This paper aims to solve Retinaface’s weak face recognition capability in low-resolution scenarios and its potential inaccuracies in face bounding box localization when faces are at extreme angles or partially occluded. …”
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Synergistic Meta-Heuristic Adaptive Real-Time Power System Stabilizer (SMART-PSS) by Khaled Aleikish, Jonas Kristiansen Noland, Thomas Oyvang

“…This paper presents a novel hybrid gray-box modeling approach for real-time adaptation of PSS parameters during operation, thereby enabling the PSS to effectively handle a broader range of operating conditions. …”
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Anxiolytic, Antidepressant, and Anticholinesterase Effects of Essential Oil from <i>Myrcia sylvatica</i> (G.Mey.) DC by Antônio Quaresma da Silva Júnior, Mariana Maciel Garcia, Wanderson da Silva Farias, Deise Juliane dos Anjos de Sousa, Adenilson de Sousa Barroso, Pablo Luis Baia Figueiredo, Gabriela B. dos Santos, Ricardo Bezerra de Oliveira, Rosa Helena Veras Mourão

“…The anxiolytic activity was assessed using the elevated plus maze and light–dark box tests, while antidepressant activity was evaluated using the tail suspension and forced swimming tests. …”
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Theoretical Analysis of Mining Induced Overburden Subsidence Boundary with the Horizontal Coal Seam Mining by Weitao Yan, Junjie Chen, Yi Tan, Wenzhi Zhang, Lailiang Cai

“…This study is helpful to reveal the black box of rock subsidence and can provide theoretical support for the establishment of overburden subsidence prediction model and transparent mine in the later stage.…”
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Internet of things-driven approach integrated with explainable machine learning models for ship fuel consumption prediction by Van Nhanh Nguyen, Nghia Chung, G.N. Balaji, Krzysztof Rudzki, Anh Tuan Hoang

“…More importantly, these findings highlighted the importance of engine power, torque, and speed in driving model predictions for ship SFC, thus helping in a comprehensive understanding of the black-box model.…”
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Localisation of Abundant and Organ-Specific Genes Expressed in Rosa hybrida Leaves and Flower Buds by Direct In Situ RT-PCR by Agata Jedrzejuk, Heiko Mibus, Margrethe Serek

“…In plants, in situ RT-PCR is widely used in the expression localisation of specific genes, including MADS-box and other function-specific genes or housekeeping genes in floral buds and other organs. …”
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Effect of Equal Channel Angular Pressing on the Surface Roughness of Solid State Recycled Aluminum Alloy 6061 Chips by Adel Taha Abbas, Mohamed Adel Taha, Adham Ezzat Ragab, Ehab Adel El-Danaf, Mohamed Ibrahim Abd El Aal

“…Surface roughness (Ra and Rz) of the processed recycled billets machined by turning was investigated. Box-Behnken experimental design was used to investigate the effect of three machining parameters (cutting speed, feed rate, and depth of cut) on the surface roughness of the machined specimens for four materials conditions, namely, extruded billet and postextrusion ECAP processed billets to one, two, and three passes. …”
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The Effect of Clove Leave Essential Oil (Syzigium aromaticum, L) on Mortality Level of Aedes aegypty Mosquitos by Iva Ariska

“…Based on the results of research that has been carried out on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes for 20 minutes of exposure and 24 hours holding with the treatment of 60 ml and 100 ml of clove leaf essential oil in two different chamber boxes, it can be concluded that clove leaf essential oil is Syzygium aromaticum, Linous. …”
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Dual Inhibition of CDK4/6 and CDK7 Suppresses Triple‐Negative Breast Cancer Progression via Epigenetic Modulation of SREBP1‐Regulated Cholesterol Metabolism by Yilan Yang, Jiatao Liao, Zhe Pan, Jin Meng, Li Zhang, Wei Shi, Xiaofang Wang, Xiaomeng Zhang, Zhirui Zhou, Jurui Luo, Xingxing Chen, Zhaozhi Yang, Xin Mei, Jinli Ma, Zhen Zhang, Yi‐Zhou Jiang, Zhi‐Min Shao, Fei Xavier Chen, Xiaoli Yu, Xiaomao Guo

“…This effect is achieved through reduced activity of the transcription factor forkhead box M1 (FOXM1), which normally increases cholesterol production by inducing SREBF1 expression. …”
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Unit costs and cost-effectiveness of a device to improve TB treatment adherence in China by S. Sweeney, K. Fielding, X. Liu, J.A. Thompson, H. Dong, S. Jiang, Y. Zhao, S. Huan, A. Vassall

“…CONCLUSIONS: Although the incremental cost of the MERM box was low, current evidence does not indicate that the intervention would be cost-effective. …”
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Virtual Node-Driven Cloud–Edge Collaborative Resource Scheduling for Surveillance with Visual Sensors by Xinyang Gu, Zhansheng Duan, Guangyuan Ye, Zhenjun Chang

“…These systems comprise visual sensors, edge computing boxes, and cloud servers. Resource scheduling algorithms are critical to ensure such systems’ robustness and efficiency. …”
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Impact of Citrus Greening on Citrus Operations in Florida by Ariel Singerman, Pilar Useche

“…Orange production dropped from 242 million to 104.6 million boxes in 2014. Even though the industry acknowledges that HLB has reached epidemic proportions across the state, estimates of the level of infection and its impact on citrus operations are scarce. …”
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Automation of historical weather data rescue by Y. Zhang, R. E. Sieber

“…This workflow is composed of five steps: (1) image pre‐processing, (2) text line segmentation, (3) bounding boxes detection, (4) AI‐enabled optical character recognition (OCR) and (5) layout re‐arrangement. …”
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Design of Bacteria Bottle Clamping Elements Based on Regression Models by Wenshuo Gao, Weidong Song, Tianhang Ding, Jiaoling Wang

“…A single-factor test was conducted by using these clamping elements, and three levels of every factor were selected to obtain the desired values of clamping elements. Then, a Box–Behnken test was performed by selected levels. …”
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