Study of tactics and personal security measures of the dialogue police during the protection of public order at mass events by O. A. Morhunov, I. V. Vlasenko

“…The tactics and personal security measures of the dialogue police are based on the basic principles of the Scandinavian model, the capabilities of the National Police, the theory of the crowd, the features of mass events, the differentiation of dangers and the “tree of events”. The actions and location of the dialogue police personnel have been proposed depending on the color of the “barometer of the situation” (green, yellow, red), the location in relation to other units of the National Police has been established. …”
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Monitoring Sea Ice in Liaodong Bay of Bohai Sea during the Freezing Period of 2017/2018 Using Sentinel-2 Remote Sensing Data by Zhiyong Wang, Peilei Sun, Lihua Wang, Mengyue Zhang, Zihao Wang

“…Based on the comprehensive analysis of the spectral characteristics of seawater and sea ice in visible bands, supplemented by the Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), we proposed a new method based on decision tree classification for extracting sea ice types in Liaodong Bay of Bohai Sea. …”
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Predicting the shield effectiveness of carbon fiber reinforced mortars utilizing metaheuristic algorithms by Mana Alyami, Irfan Ullah, Furqan Ahmad, Hisham Alabduljabbar

“…Conventional ML techniques like random forest (RF) and decision tree (DT) were also employed for comparison. A dataset of 346 experimental data sets from existing literature was used to evaluate model performance. …”
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Effects of Banditry and Illegal Logging on Conservation in Kainji Lake National Park, Nigeria by S. M. Ayeni, P. N. Meduna, A. A. Babatunde

“…The respondent’s monthly income of the majority (55.1%) respondents is between N50, 000-99,000. The species of tree and animals that are mostly affected by illegal logging includes; Adansoniadigitata, Afzelia africana, Milicia excels etc. …”
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Changes in Tolaki People Burial in Southeast Sulawesi: From Boat-Shaped Grave Coffin (Soronga) to Boat-Shaped Islamic Tomb (Koburu Bangga) by Syahrun Syahrun, Basrin Melamba

“…It was made of stone, river stone, mountain stone, wood, and even tree was also used as a tomb marker. The boat-typed tomb still maintained because a faith that the deceased need vehicles to go to their destination. …”
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Citrus Irrigation Management by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Mongi Zekri, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Arnold Schumann, Thomas A. Obreza

“…Any degree of water stress or imbalance can produce a deleterious change in physiological activity of growth and production of citrus trees.  The number of fruit, fruit size, and tree canopy are reduced and premature fruit drop is increased with water stress.  …”
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Reliability Evaluation of NPP’s Power Supply System Based on Improved GO-FLOW Method by Jie Zhao, Tian Liu, Yu Zhao, Dichen Liu, Xiaodong Yang, Yi Lin, Zhangsui Lin, Yong Lei

“…Compared with calculation results of dynamic fault tree analysis method, the validity and the simplicity of the improved GO-FLOW method are verified. …”
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Shell colour luminance of Cuban painted snails, Polymita picta and Polymita muscarum (Gastropoda: Cepolidae). by Mario Juan Gordillo-Pérez, Natalie Beenaerts, Dunia L Sánchez, Karen Smeets, Yaumel Calixto Arias-Sosa, Bernardo Reyes-Tur

“…The variation in shell colour luminance is characterized in the threatened endemic Eastern Cuban tree snails Polymita picta and Polymita muscarum using digital tools; being able to discriminate shell luminance between colour morphs for both species, under different image-taking conditions. …”
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Improvement in Explicit Prediction of Water Quality Using Wavelet-Based LSSVR and M5pRT by Rashmi Bhardwaj, Aashima Bangia

“…It can be observed that wavelet denoised signals fed into the least squares support vector regression (LSSVR) and M5 prime regression tree (M5pRT) predicted more accurately on the basis of the performance errors that are as follows: (a) root mean squared error (RMSE); (b) mean squared error (MSE); (c) mean absolute error (MAE). …”
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Heavy metal elimination from industrial wastewater using natural substrate on pitcher irrigation by Negar Nourmahnad, Kamran Asgari, Najmeh Samadi

“…For this purpose, an experiment was conducted with three treatments [clay pitcher included natural zeolite Clinoptilolite (NZ), perlite (P) and vermiculite (V)] which filled half of the volume of a clay pitcher with five replications for each treatments. Beside each tree, one pitcher was placed at 50 cm depth. The soil of each hole was initially sampled, sealed, and transported to the laboratory. …”
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A Survey of Alien Dendroflora of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Neđad Bašić, Fatima Pustahija, Aldin Boškailo, Edina Muratović

“…The accessible literature sources do not give an integrated register of non-native tree species in Bosnia and Herzegovina and western Balkans floras. …”
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Predictive modelling of hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets yield through machine and deep learning: An ultrasonic exfoliation parametric evaluation by Jerrin Joy Varughese, Sreekanth M․S․

“…A suite of machine learning regression models including Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost) Regressor, Random Forest (RF) Regressor, Linear Regressor (LR), and Classification and Regression Tree (CART) Regressor, was employed alongside a deep neural network (DNN) architecture optimized using various algorithms such as Adaptive Moment Estimation (Adam), Root Mean Square Propagation (RMS Prop), Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), and Limited-memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (L-BFGS). …”
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Enhanced Bug Priority Prediction via Priority-Sensitive Long Short-Term Memory–Attention Mechanism by Geunseok Yang, Jinfeng Ji, Jaehee Kim

“…Compared to baseline models such as Naïve Bayes, Random Forest, Decision Tree, SVM, CNN, LSTM, and CNN-LSTM, the proposed model achieved a superior performance. …”
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Improving 1-year liver allograft survival hazard ratios by Resham­ Ramkissoon, Ashley Rosier, Savitha Iyengar, Timucin Taner, William Sanchez

“…Our balance measure was maintaining similar liver transplant volumes and avoiding limiting access to transplant. Using a causality tree, we identified there was no ‘real time’ assessment of programme risk or objective metric to assess this. …”
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Effects of forest age and stand density on the growth, soil moisture content, and soil carbon content of Populus simoni plantations in the sandy area of western Liaoning, Northeast... by Hao Chen, Zhaowei Zhang, Xiangyu Yang, Xin Ai, Yutao Wang, Ping Liu

“…We established 75 standard plots across various age groups and stand densities in Fuxin City, measuring poplar diameter at breast height (DBH), tree height (TH), soil moisture content, and soil carbon content. …”
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Studies on Modeling and Physicochemical Properties of Oil Extracted from Moringa stenopetala Seed by Lema Deme Shumi, Ebise Getacho Bacha

“…Moringa stenopetala, locally known as Shiferraw, is an indigenous vegetable tree native to southern Ethiopia and grown mainly for its food value. …”
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Tool Used to Assess Co-Benefits of Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Ecosystems for Human Wellbeing: Second Validation via Measurement Application by Karmele Herranz-Pascual, Paula Anchustegui, Carolina Cantergiani, Ioseba Iraurgi

“…The most relevant contextual variables to explain the psychosocial co-benefits are openness, the surfaces covered by tree branches, the water surface area, and naturalisation.…”
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Survey to Evaluate Escape of Eucalyptus spp. Seedlings from Plantations in Southeastern USA by Mac A. Callaham, John A. Stanturf, William J. Hammond, Donald L. Rockwood, Evelyn S. Wenk, Joseph J. O'Brien

“…Interest in biomass-based energy in the southeastern Unites States has led to increased need for fast-growing tree species. Several Eucalyptus species exhibit characteristics that make them attractive in the bioenergy context. …”
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Assessment of Machine Learning Algorithms in Short-term Forecasting of PM10 and PM2.5 Concentrations in Selected Polish Agglomerations by Bartosz Czernecki, Michał Marosz, Joanna Jędruszkiewicz

“…We tested four ML models: AIC-based stepwise regression, two tree-based algorithms (random forests and XGBoost), and neural networks. …”
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Offshore Wind Farm Layout Optimization Considering the Power Collection System Cost by S. G. Obukhov, D. Y. Davydov

“…To solve this problem, a heuristic algorithm was used to search for a minimum spanning tree with a restriction on the conductivity of connections, which made it possible to build realistic schemes and more adequately assess their technical and economic characteristics. …”
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