Possibility-Based Sizing Method for Hybrid Electric Aircraft by Zin Win Thu, Maxim Tyan, Yong-Hyeon Choi, Mohammad Irfan Alam, Jae-Woo Lee

“…The results demonstrate design feasibility through trade-offs between conservative and optimistic designs, with possibility indices from 0.75 to 1, identifying maximum and stall speeds as key limiting factors. …”
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Floods’ Impact on Cities’ Critical Infrastructure: A Case Study on Dubai by Diaa Addeen Abuhani, Raghad Aldamani, Imran Zualkernan, Reem Alali, Himanshu Grover

“…On the other hand, the Airport and Trade Center areas show a high reachability and low travel time delays as per the results obtained.…”
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Bovine mycoplasmosis occurrence on livestock farms in the Russian Federation for 2015–2018 by Mohammad Abed Alhussen, A. A. Nesterov, V. V. Kirpichenko, S. P. Yatsentyuk, A. V. Sprygin, O. P. Byadovskaya, A. V. Kononov

“…Mycoplasmosis control remains urgent in view of wide spread of bovine mycoplasmoses in the countries with intensive animal farming and trade relations between the Russian Federation and foreign partners including import of pedigree livestock and stud bull semen. …”
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Diversity and Conservation of Carnivores in Saudi Arabia by Ali Al Ahmari, Farah Neyaz, Faisal Shuraim, Abdul Rahman Al Ghamdi, Ahmad Al Boug, Mesfer Alhlafi, Sharif Al Jbour, Francesco M. Angelici, Saleh Alaamri, Khalid Al Masabi, Zuhair Sami Amr

“…Major threats affecting carnivores include killing and animal trade. The status of the critically endangered species, <i>Panthera pardus nimr</i>, was discussed. …”
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Towards neuromorphic compression based neural sensing for next-generation wireless implantable brain machine interface by Vivek Mohan, Wee Peng Tay, Arindam Basu

“…This work introduces a neuromorphic compression based neural sensing architecture with address-event representation inspired readout protocol for massively parallel, next-gen wireless implantable brain machine interface (iBMI). The architectural trade-offs and implications of the proposed method are quantitatively analyzed in terms of compression ratio (CR) and spike information preservation. …”
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Dendritic growth and synaptic organization from activity-independent cues and local activity-dependent plasticity by Jan H Kirchner, Lucas Euler, Ingo Fritz, André Ferreira Castro, Julijana Gjorgjieva

“…We demonstrate that a trade-off between activity-dependent and -independent factors influences dendritic growth and synaptic location throughout development, suggesting that early developmental variability can affect mature morphology and synaptic function. …”
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Data-driven Dynamics with Orbital Torus Imaging: A Flexible Model of the Vertical Phase Space of the Galaxy by Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Jason A. S. Hunt, Danny Horta, Micah Oeur, David W. Hogg, Kathryn Johnston, Lawrence Widrow

“…We discuss the approximations and limitations of the OTI framework, which currently trades dynamical interpretability for flexibility in representing the data in some regimes, and which also presently separates the vertical and radial dynamics. …”
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Application of the ESTARFM algorithm for fusing Sentinel-2 and MODIS NDSI series in the eastern Qilian Mountains by Hui Guo, Xiaoyan Wang, Zhiqi Ouyang, Siyong Chen, Tao Che, Zhaojun Zheng

“…Study region: Eastern Qilian Mountains, China Study focus: It is important to monitor snow cover via high-spatiotemporal-resolution remote sensing data. However, there is a trade-off between the high/low spatial resolution and low/high temporal resolution of available sensors. …”
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Advantages of N-Type Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Silicon Oxide Films for Micromorph Silicon Solar Cells by Amornrat Limmanee, Songkiate Kittisontirak, Sorapong Inthisang, Taweewat Krajangsang, Jaran Sritharathikhun, Kobsak Sriprapha

“…The n μc-SiO:H films with high optical bandgap and low refractive index could be obtained when a ratio of carbon dioxide (CO2) to silane (SiH4) flow rate was raised; however, a trade-off against electrical property was observed. …”
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Predicting Low-Risk Prostate Cancer from Transperineal Saturation Biopsies by Pim J. van Leeuwen, Amila Siriwardana, Monique Roobol, Francis Ting, Daan Nieboer, James Thompson, Warick Delprado, Anne-Marie Haynes, Phillip Brenner, Phillip Stricker

“…Gleason score 6 disease demonstrated a superior trade-off between sensitivity and specificity for clarifying low-risk PC that can guide treatment and be used as reference test in diagnostic studies.…”
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Characterization and simulation of AlGaN barrier structure effects in normally-off recessed gate AlGaN/GaN MISHEMTs by An-Chen Liu, Hsin-Chu Chen, Po-Tsung Tu, Yan-Lin Chen, Yan-Chieh Chen, Po-Chun Yeh, Chih-I Wu, Shu-Tong Chang, Tsung-Sheng Kao, Hao-Chung Kuo

“…The objective of this study is to optimize the trade-off between threshold voltage (V _TH ) and maximum drain current (I _D,max ) in recessed gate AlGaN/GaN metal insulator semiconductor high electron mobility transistor (MISHEMT) using atomic layer etching (ALE) technology, with technical computer-aided design (TCAD) simulations assisting in the analysis of the underlying mechanisms to demonstrate the high performance and reliability of GaN-based power application. …”
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A twinning initiative between midwife associations in Ghana and Sweden -A process evaluation study by Hanna Fjellström, Emelie Sandberg, Johanna Blomgren, Malin Grahn, Fredrica Hanson, Netta Ackon, Gifty Baidoo, Louise Nordström, Malin Bogren

“…Midwives from both associations benefitted from sharing best practices and mutual support in their roles as newly formed labour trade unions. These findings could benefit other midwife associations in future twinning initiatives.…”
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Risk versus Benefit of Using Hydroxychloroquine to Treat Patients with COVID-19 by George G. Zhanel, Michael A. Zhanel, Kevin F. Boreskie, Joseph P. Lynch, James A. Karlowsky

“…Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), also known by its trade name Plaquenil®, has been used for over 50 years as a treatment for malaria, systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis. …”
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Simultaneously Enhanced Permeability and Selectivity of Pebax-1074-Based Mixed-Matrix Membrane for CO₂ Separation by Rujing Hou, Junwei Xie, Yawei Gu, Lei Wang, Yichang Pan

“…Membrane technology is a promising methodology for carbon dioxide separation due to its benefit of a small carbon footprint. However, the trade-off relationship between gas permeability and selectivity is one obstacle to limiting its application. …”
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Balancing Explainability and Privacy in Bank Failure Prediction: A Differentially Private Glass-Box Approach by Junyoung Byun, Jaewook Lee, Hyeongyeong Lee, Bumho Son

“…By applying Differential Privacy (DP) to these models, we aimed to protect sensitive financial data while evaluating the trade-offs between privacy, accuracy, and explainability. …”
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Divergent Adsorption Regulation in Metal–Organic Frameworks for Highly Efficient CF4/C2F6 Separation by Guihong Xu, Tian Ke, Rongrong Fan, Kaiyuan Tan, Wenjun Zhang, Baogen Su, Zhiguo Zhang, Zongbi Bao, Qilong Ren, Qiwei Yang

“…Abstract The efficient removal of low‐concentration components from homologous mixtures is often hampered by the co‐directional effect of traditional thermodynamic regulation approaches, typically leading to a trade‐off between adsorption capacity and selectivity. …”
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Preferences of melanoma patients to accept adjuvant therapy and toxicity – a qualitative substudy of the GerMelaTox-A project by Toni Maria Janke, Laura Moysig, Christine Blome, Katharina C. Kähler

“…Methods We conducted semi-structured interviews with a subsample of patients to investigate the underlying reasons for treatment decisions in a quantitative treatment-trade off study. Categorisation was conducted using qualitative content analysis. …”
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Heterogeneity of Ecosystem Service Interactions Through Scale Effects and Time Effects and Their Social-Ecological Determinants in the Tuo River Basin by Simin He, Yusong Xie, Jing Zhang, Yanyun Luo, Qianna Wang

“…Currently, a major challenge lies in precisely evaluating trade-offs and synergies among ESs across different spatial and temporal scales, particularly in capturing their dynamic evolution and determinants. …”
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Synergistical effect of CoIn alloy and oxygen vacancies over Co-In-Zr ternary catalysts boosting CO2 hydrogenation to methanol by Xueyang Jiang, Xiaoshen Li, Shaohui Xiong, Wei Liu, Jiayan Yan, Xiang Duan, Song Song, Qingpeng Cheng, Ye Tian, Xingang Li

“…Unfortunately, how to obtain both high activity and methanol selectivity is still a trade-off challenge for catalyst development. Herein, we synthesize Co-In-Zr ternary metal oxide precursors via a simple hydrothermal method for hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol. …”
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Measurement of Seed Cotton Color Using RGB Imaging and Color-Unet by Hao Li, Qingxu Li, Wanhuai Zhou, Ruoyu Zhang, Shicheng Hong, Mengyun Zhang, Zhiqiang Zhai

“…Accurate and rapid detection of seed cotton color is essential for its storage, processing, and trade. In this study, an RGB imaging and semantic segmentation-based method was proposed for seed cotton color detection. …”
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