Iterative optimization annotation pipeline and ALSS-YOLO-Seg for efficient banana plantation segmentation in UAV imagery by Ang He, Ang He, Ximei Wu, Ximei Wu, Xing Xu, Xing Xu, Jing Chen, Jing Chen, Xiaobin Guo, Xiaobin Guo, Sheng Xu, Sheng Xu

“…Second, we developed ALSS-YOLO-Seg, an efficient lightweight segmentation model optimized for UAV imagery. …”
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Attention to Monkeypox: An Interpretable Monkeypox Detection Technique Using Attention Mechanism by Avi Deb Raha, Mrityunjoy Gain, Rameswar Debnath, Apurba Adhikary, Yu Qiao, Md. Mehedi Hassan, Anupam Kumar Bairagi, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam

“…To this end, an attention-based MobileNetV2 model for monkeypox detection, capitalizing on the inherent lightweight design of MobileNetV2 for effective deployment on edge devices, is proposed. …”
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Investigation of functionally graded triply periodic minimal surfaces with graphene-reinforced AlSi10Mg powder: Design, fabrication and impact resistance by Mengyuan Hu, Xueqing Wu, Yangyang Xu, Xin Huang, Da Lu, Baoqing Pei

“…The triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) are regarded as potential impact resistance structures due to the lightweight and outstanding energy absorption. Graphene is an ideal reinforcing phase material for the high strength and excellent ductility. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Load-Carrying Capacity of GFRP-Reinforced Rectangular Concrete Members Using CDP Model in ABAQUS by Ali Raza, Qaiser uz Zaman Khan, Afaq Ahmad

“…The present work demonstrates the nonlinear finite element analysis (NLFEA) of 13 concentrically and eccentrically loaded short rectangular concrete column specimens reinforced with GFRP and conventional steel bars. GFRP bars are lightweight having the high tensile strength and high corrosion resistance. …”
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Influence of the Geometric Parameters on the Densification Onset Strain of Double-Walled Honeycomb Aluminum under Out-of-Plane Compression by Jian Wang, Ying Cao

“…As a material widely used in various lightweight structures and energy absorbing devices, honeycomb aluminum has high specific stiffness and specific strength, excellent energy absorption capacity, and vibration damping. …”
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Material choice to optimise the performance index of isogrid structures by C. Bellini, V. Di Cocco, F. Iacoviello, L. P. Mocanu, F. Berto

“…These goals can be met by selecting lightweight, high-performance materials like titanium alloy or composites, but careful structural design is also crucial to improve mechanical performance. …”
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Chinese herbal medicine recognition network based on knowledge distillation and cross-attention by Qinggang Hou, Wanshuai Yang, Guizhuang Liu

“…This cross-attention model replaces Conv5 in ShuffleNet to achieve the goal of lightweight design while maintaining accuracy. Finally, experiments on the public dataset NB-TCM-CHM showed that the accuracy (ACC) and F1_score of the proposed ShuffleCANet model reached 98.8%, with only 128.66M model parameters. …”
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THE EFFECT OF VARIATIONS IN PVC FOAM CORE THICKNESS ON THE FAILURE ANALYSIS OF BENDING TEST IN SANDWICH COMPOSITE by Afiko Rodian, Fajar Paundra, Lathifa Putri Afisna, Fajar Perdana Nurullah, Eko Pujiyulianto

“…Despite the thinner core, it should produce a stiff, strong, and lightweight composite, and the higher the bending strength value obtained. …”
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Buckling Knockdown Factors for Hemispherical Foam Core Sandwich Shells With Single Dimple by Chang-Hoon Sim, Chang-Min Lee, Gi-Seop Kim, Jae-Sang Park, Jun-Seong Lee

“…Therefore, the present KDFs provide a lightweight design for hemispherical foam core sandwich shells.…”
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Low Mismatch Key Agreement Based on Wavelet-Transform Trend and Fuzzy Vault in Body Area Network by Yang Wu, Yongmei Sun, Lei Zhan, Yuefeng Ji

“…With limitations of power and computation capabilities, one of the main challenges to ensure security in BAN is how to generate or distribute a shared key between nodes for lightweight symmetric cryptography. The current research almost exploits the randomness and distinctiveness (characteristics) of physiological signals to solve the key generation problem. …”
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Structural Design of Catenary Equipment Inspection Robots by Tao Zhutong, Wang Guozhi, Li Rongduo

“…The designed robot in this study reduces the workload of workers; using lightweight materials and joint modular design makes the mass be reduced by 25%; its terminal multi-degree-of-freedom structure makes the shooting angle and range be increased by 2 times compared with the traditional way; the telescopic structure enables the robot to obtain a larger working space to meet the work requirements.…”
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MQTT in Action: Building Reliable and Scalable Home Automation Systems by Bilal Raslen, Maysaa Salama

“…The system integrates the ESP8266 microcontroller with various sensors, including IR, temperature, DHT11, sound, and vibration sensors. Leveraging the lightweight MQTT protocol for real-time data transmission and PostgreSQL for robust data storage, the system monitors environmental conditions, detects specific events, and performs appropriate actions. …”
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In-situ measurement of residential buildings with hempcrete walls: a case study by Ali M. Memari, Nadia Mirzai, Mahsa Hashemi, Xinrui Lu, Corey Gracie-Griffin, Hojae Yi, Sarah Klinetob Lowe

“…Hempcrete, composed of hemp hurd and fibers mixed with lime and water, is currently used for thermal insulation and lightweight building blocks, intended for use in constructing non-load-bearing walls. …”
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Design and Performance Analysis of Compliant Actuator Mechanism with Variable Stiffness by Liu Rong, Zheng Zhizhen, Qin Huibin, Li Zhongyi, Bai Shaoping

“…Compared with other similar designs, the compliant actuator mechanism proposed has the characteristics of miniaturization and lightweight with strong applicability. It can be used as a single module and integrated into the exoskeleton system.…”
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A pilot study of Telco’s next generation IT architecture evolution: business function virtualization (BFV) by Wen QIAO, Xiaozheng WANG, Zhenqiang SUN, Gan REN, Yunxin LIU, Aidong YANG, Peng WANG, Da WANG, Xiaozhou YE, Ye OUYANG

“…With the development of information and communication technologies, traditional telecom business support systems (BSS) are facing the challenge of agilely meeting the flexible needs from business.Application scenarization, service standardization, technology componentization and resource sharing have gradually become the consensual features among the evolution of telecom BSS architectures.A business function virtualization (BFV)-based BSS architecture, which is based on cloud-native, micro-services, containers, and DevOps technologies, was proposed.By embedding four components into the architecture, including standardized virtual network functions, modular design orchestrator, micro-service management framework, and multi-plane elastic computing controller, the system is able to deploy unitized system and distributed cloud.Therefore, the requirements of flexible telecom business development and frequent evolution of the system could be satisfied by the proposed BFV-based BSS architecture.In other words, the lightweight delivery of IT technologies and agile business support could be fulfilled by using the proposed BFV-based BSS architecture, and the proposed architecture will eventually become the standard architecture of next generation telecom BSS.…”
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TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION DESIGN OF HIGH SPEED EMU GEARBOX by GAO Yang, QUE HongBo, BIAN Xiang, WEI YuZhou

“…As the core component of high-speed EMU bogie, gearbox should meet the requirements of lightweight and high reliability in order to ensure the safety and comfort of vehicle operation. …”
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OPTIMIZATION DESIGN OF CABIN STRUT BASED ON ISIGHT AND PYTHON FOR CIVIL AIRCRAFT by FANG Yang, ZHANG WeiWen, ZHANG YangYang

“…In order to achieve lightweight and high efficient load transfer requirements an well as cost reduction in the strut design process of civil aircraft. …”
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Target Recognition Technology of Multimedia Platform Based on a Convolutional Neural Network by Jie Liu, Jiamin Zhang

“…In view of the slow feature extraction speed of VGG model, a lightweight mobile network model is proposed to replace the original VGG model on the mobile phone to reduce the retrieval time and realize the recognition of specific targets on the multimedia platform, and it is applied to the verification of image recognition on the multimedia platform. …”
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Bioinspired Blockchain Framework for Secure and Scalable Wireless Sensor Network Integration in Fog–Cloud Ecosystems by Abdul Rehman, Omar Alharbi

“…In this work, we propose a bioinspired blockchain framework aimed at addressing those challenges through the emulation of biological immune adaptation mechanisms, such as the self-recovery of swarm intelligence. It integrates lightweight blockchain technology with bioinspired algorithms, including an AIS for anomaly detection and a Proof of Adaptive Immunity Consensus mechanism for secure resource-efficient blockchain validation. …”
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Optimization and Regression Analysis of Friction Stir Processing Parameters of AA5083/Coal Composites for Marine Applications by Oritonda Muribwathoho, Velaphi Msomi, Sipokazi Mabuwa

“…This research contributes to the advancement of FSP for producing high-performance, lightweight, and corrosion-resistant aluminum composites, particularly for marine applications.…”
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