Enhancing the estimation of cadmium content in rice leaves by integrating vegetation indices and color indices using machine learning by Xiaoyun Huang, Shengxi Chen, Tianling Fu, Chengwu Fan, Hongxing Chen, Song Zhang, Hui Chen, Song Qin, Zhenran Gao

“…This study presents an accurate, reliable, and generalized method to estimate LCd, providing valuable insights for assessing the large-scale heavy metal pollution status of rice using unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing technology.…”
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Diffusion Partition Consensus: Diffusion-Aided Time-of-Flight Estimates, Anomaly Detection, and Localization for Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation Data by Nick Torenvliet, John S. Zelek

“…The main advantages of the technique are that it is unsupervised—in that it does not require labeled datasets or significant data preprocessing, does not rely on out-of-distribution generalization, provides means for fault diagnosis without recourse to ground truth, converges with stability, and naturally includes a human in the loop. …”
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Estimation Model of Global Ionospheric Irregularities: An Artificial Intelligence Approach by Penghao Tian, Bingkun Yu, Hailun Ye, Xianghui Xue, Jianfei Wu, Tingdi Chen

“…The results show that the model can learn complex relevance as bridges connecting the input and the desired output and obtain excellent performance and generalization capability by applying multiple evaluation criteria. …”
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Vehicle Emission Factors for Particulate and Gaseous Pollutants in an Urban Tunnel in Xi’an, China by Danting Zhao, Hong Chen, Haipeng Shao, Xiaoke Sun

“…Urban tunnels are generally used to measure traffic-related particles and gas pollutant concentrations. …”
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Intellectual Capital and Bank Profitability: Evidence from Serbia by Isidora Ljumović, Jelena Minović, Slavica Stevanović

“…Based on the test results, we used the system generalized method of moments (GMM) to assess the relationship between IC components and bank profitability. …”
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The relationship between prenatal drought exposure and the diversity and composition of gut microbiome in pregnant women and neonates by Qingbo Fang, Tianlai Qiu, Fenglan Chen, Xuqi Tian, Zijun Feng, Yanan Cao, Jinbing Bai, Jing Huang, Yanqun Liu

“…KEGG pathway level 3 was employed for functional analysis. Generalized linear models were used to explore the effect of drought on the gut microbiome. …”
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Type 2 Cytokine–Dependent Skin Barrier Regulation in Personalized 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional Skin Models of Atopic Dermatitis: A Pilot Study by Hila Emmert, Franziska Rademacher, Matthias Hübenthal, Regine Gläser, Hanne Norsgaard, Stephan Weidinger, Jürgen Harder

“…The combination of IL-4 and IL-13 generally induced highest expression changes, but IL-13 alone also induced significant changes of AD-specific markers. …”
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Giant and flexible toroidal circular dichroism from planar chiral metasurface by Shijie Kang, Haitao Li, Jiayu Fan, Jiusi Yu, Boyang Qu, Peng Chen, Xiaoxiao Wu

“…Facing corresponding challenges in fabrication, integration, and application, it is generally difficult to employ toroidal circular dichroism in compact metasurfaces for flexible modulation of chiral interactions between electromagnetic waves and matter. …”
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Liver Transplantation for Alcohol-Related Liver Disease (ARLD): An Update on Controversies and Considerations by Dipesh Kumar Yadav, Qi Zhang, Xueli Bai, Enliang Li, Tingbo Liang

“…Early LT for ARLD refers for a patient with severe AH undergoing LT who are non-responder to medical treatments. These patients are generally on the existing waiting list but usually followed by 6-month duration of alcohol abstinence. …”
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Physical Activity and cardiovascular function in 9-year-old schoolchildren: implications for health and well-being by Irina Masliak, Margarita Mameshina, Marina Jagiello

“…The results of this study suggest that the functional capabilities of the cardiovascular system of 9-year-old students are generally at an average level and that there are no significant differences between boys and girls in terms of heart rate, blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure. …”
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Evaluating renewable energy adoption in G7 countries: a TOPSIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis by Abtin Tabrizi, Hossein Yousefi, Mahmood Abdoos, Roghayeh Ghasempour

“…Notably European countries, which rely less on fossil resources, generally outperformed other G7 nations, which rely less on fossil resources, outperformed other G7 nations.…”
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Cannabis use and heart transplant listing: A survey of clinician practices. by Onyedika J Ilonze, Shannon M Knapp, Yelena Chernyak, Robert L Page, LaKeisha J Boyd, Sula Mazimba, Subha V Raman, Chioma O Enyi, Larry A Allen, Khadijah Breathett

“…Health care providers generally agreed that a validated cannabis use disorder screening questionnaire would be useful and that 6 months of abstinence from cannabis is sufficient prior to HT listing. …”
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Assessing the Hydraulic Performance of Ntungamo Town Piped Water Distribution System. by Ahimbisibwe, James

“…The findings demonstrated that the pressures at junctions and the flow rates and velocities in pipes were generally feasible for providing adequate water to the area. …”
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VRU-YOLO: A Small Object Detection Algorithm for Vulnerable Road Users in Complex Scenes by Yunxiang Liu, Yuqing Shi

“…Experimental results on a custom-built multi-source VRU dataset show that the proposed model enhances precision, recall, mAP50, and mAP50:95 by 1.3%, 3.4%, 3.3%, and 1.8%, respectively, in comparison to the baseline model. Moreover, in a generalization test conducted on the remote sensing small target dataset VisDrone2019, the VRU-YOLO model achieved an mAP50 of 31%. …”
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Boost pressure influence on combustion, emission characteristics, and performance of diesel engines with various fuel types by Hüseyin Söyler

“…The results show that increasing boost pressure generally enhances engine performance by raising in-cylinder pressure and heat release rates. …”
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Design of an Evolutionary Approach for Intrusion Detection by Gulshan Kumar, Krishan Kumar

“…In addition, the proposed approach is a generalized classification approach that is applicable to the problem of any field having multiple conflicting objectives, and a dataset can be represented in the form of labelled instances in terms of its features.…”
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Uruguay: Incentivos e instituciones en una década de reformas by Mario Bergara, Sergio Milnitsky

“…El cúmulo de reformas implementadas y en proceso desde el año 2005 en Uruguay tiene un carácter estructural y conforma un cambio sustancial de las reglas de juego generales de la economía y de la sociedad uruguaya. …”
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Hackathon: Definition, Practice and Perspectives of Use in Higher Education by N. V. Grechushkina, E. A. Arefieva

“…In the article there are represented results of generalization and systematization of scientific and practical information about hackathons as an educational technology that is used in higher education and is of great interest to researchers and practitioners. …”
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Is neutropenic fever an obstacle to effective stem cell harvesting? by Semih Başcı, Ersin Bozan, Samet Yaman, Bahar Uncu Ulu, Mehmet Bakırtaş, Tuğçe Nur Yiğenoğlu, Ali Kılınç, Nurgül Özcan, Mehmet Sinan Dal, Merih Kızıl Çakar, Fevzi Altuntaş

“…A subset of patients’ adequate stem cell harvest is not achievable with a solitary use of granulocyte colony-stimulating agents (G-CSF). Generally, chemomobilization is employed for patients failing G-CSF and its most feared complication febrile neutropenia (FN). …”
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CUENCA SUPERIOR DEL ARROYO COVUNCO: FISIOGRAFÍA Y USOS DEL SUELO by Marcos Mare

“…En este sentido, se toman como base los lincamientos generales de la metodología australiana Land System o su equivalente holandesa de estudios integrados y ecología del paisaje1, con la introducción de modificaciones en función del grado de complejidad territorial del área de estudio y de los alcances y limitaciones propios de un trabajo de tesis de licenciatura. …”
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