Fuzzy Nonbalanced Hedonic Scale (F-NBHS): A New Method for Treatments of Food Preference Data Collected with Hedonic Scales of Points by Katieli Tives Micene, Pedro Miguel Ferreira Martins Arezes, Fernanda Gomes de Andrade, Bengie Omar Vazquez Reyes, Marcia Danieli Szeremeta Spak, Airton Kist, João Carlos Colmenero

“…However, in this type of scale, the symmetrical distribution of categories and inaccuracy of the responses may interfere with the results of the research. This paper proposes the fuzzy nonbalanced hedonic scale (F-NBHS) as a new method for treatments of food preference data collected with hedonic scales of 9 points and can be generalized to scales with a different number of points. …”
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A Massively Parallel SMC Sampler for Decision Trees by Efthyvoulos Drousiotis, Alessandro Varsi, Alexander M. Phillips, Simon Maskell, Paul G. Spirakis

“…For both computer architectures, the experimental results show that our approach has comparable or better accuracy than MCMC but runs up to 51 times faster on SM and 640 times faster on DM. In this paper, we share the GitHub link to the source code.…”
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A new maturity recognition algorithm for Xinhui citrus based on improved YOLOv8 by Fuqin Deng, Zhenghong He, Lanhui Fu, Jianle Chen, Nannan Li, Weibiao Chen, Jialong Luo, Weilai Qiao, Jianfeng Hou, Yongkang Lu

“…Compared to the original model, the improved YOLOv8 achieved increases of 16.5%, 20.2%, and 14.7%, respectively, and the parameter volume was reduced by 0.57%. This paper aims to improve the model for detecting Xinhui citrus maturity in complex orchards, supporting automated fruit-picking systems.…”
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Seasonal Changes in Climate Variables in Rainfed Crop Areas in the Lerma-Chapala-Santiago Basin, Mexico by Raymundo Ordoñez-Sierra, Miguel A. Gómez-Albores, Carlos Díaz-Delgado, Luis Ricardo Manzano-Solís, Angel Rolando Endara-Agramont, Carlos Alberto Mastachi-Loza

“…This paper shows the effects of changes in the spatial-temporal behavior and phase shift of climate variables on rainfed agriculture in the Lerma-Chapala-Santiago Basin in central Mexico. …”
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Balanced Performance Merit on Wind and Solar Energy Contact With Clean Environment Enrichment by Priyan Malarvizhi Kumar, M. M. Kamruzzaman, Badria Sulaiman Alfurhood, Bakri Hossain, Harikumar Nagarajan, Surendar Rama Sitaraman

“…One technique used in this paper is the Artificial neural networks-based expert system and the crop production system. …”
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ALTRIRAS: A Computer Game for Training Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Recognition of Basic Emotions by Leandro M. Almeida, Diego P. da Silva, Daieny P. Theodório, Wolley W. Silva, Silvia Cristina M. Rodrigues, Terigi A. Scardovelli, Alessandro P. da Silva, Marcia Aparecida S. Bissaco

“…This paper presents a computer game developed to assist children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to recognize facial expressions associated with the four basic emotions: joy, sadness, anger, and surprise. …”
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Overweight, Obesity, and Neighborhood Characteristics among Postpartum Latinas by Colleen Keller, Michael Todd, Barbara Ainsworth, Kathryn Records, Sonia Vega-Lopez, Paska Permana, Dean Coonrod, Allison Nagle Williams

“…Madres para la Salud (Mothers for Health) is a 12-month prospective, randomized controlled trial exploring a social support intervention with moderate-intensity physical activity to effect changes in body fat, systemic and fat tissue inflammation, and depression symptoms in sedentary postpartum Latinas. This paper describes the initial body composition of the sample, social support, and neighborhood contextual correlations of overweight and obese Latina mothers within the first 6 months after birth. …”
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Review of the Urban Carbon Flux and Energy Balance Based on the Eddy Covariance Technique by Yuxuan Li, Xinli Cai, Mingjun Li, Zhen Jiang, Feifei Tang, Shaojie Zhang, Taotao Shui, Shuguang Zhu

“…Therefore, to better summarize and describe relevant research, this paper was based on all 127 studies in the Web of Science (WOS) that employed the EC technique to observe urban CO2 and energy fluxes and related auxiliary research from 2009 to 2022, and we further selected other classic studies to provide theoretical support to analyze CO2 fluxes, radiation, sensible heat, latent heat, anthropogenic heat and storage heat, which from the two aspects of the CO2 fluxes and surface energy balance (SEB). …”
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Colostral immunity as an analytical factor in predicting the development of acute respiratory viral infections in calves by E. N. Shilova, A. P. Poryvaeva, E. V. Pechura, L. V. Khalturina

“…There is a direct dependence of the passive immunity level in calves on the vaccination efficacy in cows. The paper presents the results of a study of colostral immunity in calves and post-vaccination immunity in cows against the agents of acute respiratory viral infections in agricultural facilities located on the territory of the Ural and Volga Federal Districts. …”
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GS-DTA: integrating graph and sequence models for predicting drug-target binding affinity by Junwei Luo, Ziguang Zhu, Zhenhan Xu, Chuanle Xiao, Jingjing Wei, Jiquan Shen

“…In addition, when dealing with protein structures, some methods ignore the connections between amino acid fragments that are far apart in sequence but may work synergistically in function. Results In this paper, we propose a new method, called GS-DTA, for predicting DTA based on graph and sequence models. …”
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Morphological, Morphometrical and Radiological Features of the Pelvic Limb Skeleton in African Green Monkeys (<i>Chlorocebus sabaeus</i>) from Saint Kitts and Nevis Islands by Cristian Olimpiu Martonos, Alexandru Ion Gudea, Gilda Rawlins, Florin Gheorghe Stan, Calin Lațiu, Cristian Constantin Dezdrobitu

“…The paper presents a detailed gross anatomical description of the elements of the pelvic limb in the African green monkey and provides comparative and differential elements on pelvic limb monkey osteology. …”
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Cutting tool feed drive of wafer background milling machine by E. S. Gebel, A. Yu. Popov, I. N. Drozdov

“…The paper describes the process of designing the cutting tool feed drive of a special metalworking machine, which due to the circuit solution and automatic control system will increase the productivity of processing one cell of wafer background on sheet material up to 10–15 seconds. …”
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Influence of recycled electronic waste fiber on the mechanical and durability characteristics of eco-friendly self-consolidating mortar incorporating recycled glass aggregate by Panumas Saingam, Burachat Chatveera, Jutatip Roopchalaem, Qudeer Hussain, Ali Ejaz, Wasim Khaliq, Natt Makul, Preeda Chaimahawan, Gritsada Sua-iam

“…In the paper, the sustainable production of eco-friendly self-consolidating mortar (SCM) is explored with waste glass as a partial and complete substitution for fine aggregate owing to crucial environmental concerns. …”
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A proposal to measure the resilience of the Andalusian Commnunity Social Services by Elena Ferri-Fuentevilla, Ana Vallejo-Andrada, Aleix Morilla-Luchena, Rocío Muñoz Moreno

“…A novel methodology, the HVCRA (Hazard, Vulnerability, Risk, and Capacity Analysis), is introduced in this paper. Though traditionally used to assess natural disasters, HVCRA was applied here to gauge the pandemic's impact on social services. …”
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Millimetre-Wave Metamaterial-Based Sensor for Characterisation of Cooking Oils by Suhail Asghar Qureshi, Zuhairiah Zainal Abidin, Adel Yahya Isa Ashyap, Huda A. Majid, Muhammad Ramlee Kamarudin, Ma Yue, Mohd Syis Zulkipli, Jamel Nebhen

“…The characterisation of the cooking oils presents a significant challenge due to minor changes in their dielectric behaviour. In this paper, a new metamaterial-based sensor incorporating a split-ring resonator (SRR) with a microstrip transmission line is presented to characterise cooking oils. …”
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Frequent Glacial Hazard Deformation Detection Based on POT-SBAS InSAR in the Sedongpu Basin in the Himalayan Region by Haoliang Li, Yinghui Yang, Xiujun Dong, Qiang Xu, Pengfei Li, Jingjing Zhao, Qiang Chen, Jyr-Ching Hu

“…Glaciers SDP3, SDP4, and SDP5 have been relatively stable until now; however, ice cracks are well developed in SDP4 and SDP5, and ice avalanche events may occur if these ice cracks continue to expand under extreme natural conditions in the future. Therefore, this paper emphasizes the seriousness of the ice avalanche event in Sedongpu Basin and provides data support for local disaster management and disaster prevention and reduction.…”
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Boards' strategic involvement models: Past, present, and future by Bozhinovska Tihona, Eftimov Ljupcho

“…Findings/conclusions: This paper contributes to research by identifying the models of boards' strategic involvement, classifying them in three competing groups of models that represent the foundation in this research area, by identifying the most investigated topics in the past five years and finally, by drafting the future research agenda. …”
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Advancing precision agriculture with deep learning enhanced SIS-YOLOv8 for Solanaceae crop monitoring by Ruiqian Qin, Yiming Wang, Xiaoyan Liu, Xiaoyan Liu, Helong Yu

“…However, complex climatic conditions in real agricultural environments challenge model robustness, and current mainstream models struggle with accurate recognition of the same diseases across different plant species.MethodsThis paper proposes the SIS-YOLOv8 model, which enhances adaptability to complex agricultural climates by improving the YOLOv8 network structure. …”
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PAI-1: An Integrator of Cell Signaling and Migration by Ralf-Peter Czekay, Cynthia E. Wilkins-Port, Stephen P. Higgins, Jennifer Freytag, Jessica M. Overstreet, R. Matthew Klein, Craig E. Higgins, Rohan Samarakoon, Paul J. Higgins

“…., vitronectin), the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-1 (LRP1), and the uPA/uPA receptor complex have dramatic consequences on the migratory phenotype and may underlie the pathophysiologic sequalae of PAI-1 deficiency and overexpression. This paper focuses on the increasingly intricate role of PAI-1 as a major mechanistic determinant of the cellular migratory phenotype.…”
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A Research on the Effect of Heterogeneities on Sandstone Matrix Acidizing Performance by Jianye Mou, Lei Wang, Shicheng Zhang, Xinfang Ma, Boyang Li

“…However, sandstone formations inevitably have small-scale heterogeneities of minerals and flow properties that may give rise to acid propagation in a manner much different from what is predicted based on homogeneous assumptions. In this paper, we conduct a research to numerically investigate how the heterogeneities affect acidizing performance under in situ conditions. …”
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