Project Design Implementation and Sustainability of Donor Funded Potato Projects in Kabale District South Western Uganda by Turyasingura, John Bosco, Moses, Agaba, Meza, Orach, Zombeire, Regis

“…Conclusion and recommendations: Participatoryproject stakeholder mapping, involving the setting up of problem and objective tree analysis, as well as project logical framework allows beneficiaries the beneficiaries to own the potato projects and hence the sustainability of donor-funded potato projects in Kabale District. …”
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AICpred: Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Potential Anti-Inflammatory Compounds Targeting TLR4-MyD88 Binding Mechanism by Lucindah N. Fry-Nartey, Cyril Akafia, Ursula S. Nkonu, Spencer B. Baiden, Ignatus Nunana Dorvi, Kwasi Agyenkwa-Mawuli, Odame Agyapong, Claude Fiifi Hayford, Michael D. Wilson, Whelton A. Miller, Samuel K. Kwofie

“…The AdaBoost and decision tree models also excelled with accuracies ranging from 0.981 to 0.992, balanced accuracies between 0.921 and 0.944, and recall scores between 0.845 and 0.891 on both training and test datasets. …”
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Proteomic Analysis Reveals Growth Inhibition of Coriolus versicolor by Methanol Extracts of Cinnamomum camphora Xylem by Quan Li, Xiangyang Li, Hui Lin

“…The extracts of decay-resistant tree species are important research objects for the future development of wood preservatives. …”
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Use of artificial intelligence to study the hospitalization of women undergoing caesarean section by Arianna Scala, Giuseppe Bifulco, Anna Borrelli, Rosanna Egidio, Maria Triassi, Giovanni Improta

“…In terms of classification models, the decision tree yielded the highest accuracy (75%). Conclusions The study concluded that certain comorbidities, such as cardiovascular disease and preeclampsia, significantly impact LOS following a CS. …”
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Climate Change Adaptation: An Ecosystem-Based Approach for Livelihood Improvement of Fringe Communities around Worobong South Forest Reserve in Ghana by Samuel Adu-Acheampong, Conrad Kyei-Mensah, Rosina Kyerematen

“…Our results show that respondents perceived variation in average annual temperature and rainfall over the past few decades as the main reasons for the decline in the supply of bush meat, freshwater, tree barks, and leaves in the study area. The results of the questionnaire corroborated those of the data for the time series obtained from the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMeT) which is correlated with changes in the structure of (WSFR). …”
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Assessing the Influence of Summer Organic Fertilization Combined with Nitrogen Inhibitor on a Short Rotation Woody Crop in Mediterranean Environment by Anita Maienza, Giovanni Mughini, Luca Salvati, Anna Benedetti, Maria Teresa Dell'Abate

“…Results of the field experiment carried out in a Mediterranean dry environment indicated that the proposed strategy could improve tree growth with indirect, beneficial effects for agroforestry systems.…”
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Woody Species Composition, Structure, and Carbon Stock of Coffee-Based Agroforestry System along an Elevation Gradient in the Moist Mid-Highlands of Southern Ethiopia by Fikrey Tesfay, Yitebitu Moges, Zebene Asfaw

“…Woody plant diversity indices appear to have a slight variation with increasing elevation gradient. Shade tree and coffee shrub density, DBH, and height showed significant variations along the elevation gradient. …”
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Enhancing Heart Attack Prediction with Machine Learning: A Study at Jordan University Hospital by Mohammad Alshraideh, Najwan Alshraideh, Abedalrahman Alshraideh, Yara Alkayed, Yasmin Al Trabsheh, Bahaaldeen Alshraideh

“…Various artificial intelligence techniques, namely, random forest, SVM, decision tree, naive Bayes, and K-nearest neighbours (KNN) were explored with particle swarm optimization (PSO) for feature selection. …”
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Translation Invariance-Based Deep Learning for Rotating Machinery Diagnosis by Wenliao Du, Shuangyuan Wang, Xiaoyun Gong, Hongchao Wang, Xingyan Yao, Michael Pecht

“…The autoencoder takes advantage of the multiscale normalized frequency spectrum information obtained by dual-tree complex wavelet transform as input. Accordingly, the multiscale normalized features guarantee the translational invariance for signal characteristics, and the stacked sparse autoencoder benefits the unsupervised feature learning and ensures accurate and stable diagnosis performance. …”
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A lumped model for blood flow and pressure in the systemic arteriesbased on an approximate velocity profile function by Wouter Huberts, E. Marielle H. Bosboom, Frans N. van de Vosse

“…Because the time dependent shape of the velocity profile in this boundary layer model depends on the size of the inviscid core and the boundary layer, and thus on the Womersley number, it differs along the arterial tree. In this study we evaluated a lumped model for a vessel segment in which the element configuration is based on physical phenomena described by the boundary layer model and for which all parameters have a physically based quantitative value dependent on the Womersley number. …”
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Data-Driven Method for Predicting Soil Pressure of Foot Blades within a Large Underwater Caisson by Can Huang, Hao Zhu, Kunyao Li, Jianxin Zheng, Hao Li, Jiaming Li, Yao Xiao

“…Furthermore, by improving the splitting method of the original Classification and Regression Tree (CART) algorithm, a single model’s numerical prediction of 80-foot blades soil pressures is realized. …”
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Antegrade Therapy for Management of Choledocholithiasis through Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Hepaticogastrostomy in a Patient with Surgically Altered Gastrointestinal Anatomy by Robert Dorrell, Katelyn Madigan, Swati Pawa, Rishi Pawa

“…Endoscopic ultrasound-guided hepaticogastrostomy (EUS-HG) is a technique used to access the biliary tree in patients with surgically altered anatomy. …”
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A Decision-Making Model for the Transportation of Municipal Solid Wastes by Fatih Kamaoğlu, Nesli Aydın

“…The results of this study show that, depending on the scoring of the criteria in the decision tree, Alternative 4 or 3 could be a better option than the other alternatives, by reducing the number of alternatives and highlighting the good performers. …”
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Ethnopharmacology, Biological Evaluation, and Chemical Composition of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf.: A Review by Mahmoud Dogara Abdulrahman, Ali Muhammad Zakariya, Harmand A. Hama, Saber W. Hamad, Sawsan S. Al-Rawi, Sarwan W. Bradosty, Ahmad H. Ibrahim

“…As a result, more study on plants with therapeutic potential is required. The tropical tree Ziziphus spina belongs to the Rhamnaceae family. …”
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Car Purchase Intention Modeling in the Context of COVID-19: An Integrated Analysis of Impact Range and Impact Asymmetry by Xiaoyu Zhang, Chunfu Shao, Bobin Wang, Shichen Huang, Xiong Yang

“…The contributions of influencing factors are derived from the gradient boosting decision tree model and the asymmetric effects of attitudinal factors are further analyzed based on the three-factor theory. …”
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Implications of Prevalence and Intensity of Soil-Transmitted Helminthes (STHs) on Rural Farmers’ Productivity in Selected Districts of Sierra Leone by Mohamed Ngegba, Emmanuel Hinckley, Muctar Koroma, Alfred Ngegba, Oladimeji Oladele

“…A total of 625 individuals were included, among whom 172 (27.0%) were vegetable farmers, 224 (35.8%) were tree-crop farmers and 226 (36.2%) were rice farmers. …”
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Distribution and new hosts of the parasitic fungus Inonotus nidus-pici in Serbia by Ivan Milenković, Zlatan Radulović, Michal Tomšovský, Katarzyna Sikora, Vesna Golubović Ćurguz, Dušan Jovanović, Dragan Karadžić

“… Since 2013, symptoms indicative of I. nidus-pici infections were recorded in various stands in the central part of Serbia and several tree species from Fagaceae family were affected. …”
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Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Sensitive Feature Transfer Learning and Local Maximum Margin Criterion under Variable Working Condition by Shiyuan Liu, Xiao Yu, Xu Qian, Fei Dong

“…To enhance the performance of the fault diagnosis of bearings under different working conditions, a novel diagnosis framework inspired by feature extraction, transfer learning (TL), and feature dimensionality reduction is proposed in this work, and dual-tree complex wavelet packet transform (DTCWPT) is used for signal processing. …”
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Mobility as a Service (MaaS) bundle uptake: a case study in Milan, Italy by Fulvio Silvestri, Federico Silvestri, Pierluigi Coppola

“…The willingness to pay (WTP) for different MaaS bundles was estimated based on users’ responses to stated preference choice tree experiments. Results reveal that 45.2% of respondents showed no interest in any proposed MaaS bundle, 29.5% towards only one specific MaaS bundle. …”
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Transmission Power Controlled Localization with Topology Building for NLOS Environments by Jin-Ho You, Jong-Hyeok Jeon, Tae-Hyung Lee, Young-Goo Kwon

“…Firstly, we propose minimum spanning tree (MST) based topology control with location error compensation algorithm to improve location accuracy and prevent target nodes from connecting to unstable links in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) condition. …”
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