Urban Traffic State Sensing and Analysis Based on ETC Data: A Survey by Yizhe Wang, Ruifa Luo, Xiaoguang Yang

“…The construction of multi-source data fusion frameworks enables effective complementarity between ETC data, floating car data, and video detection data, significantly improving traffic state estimation accuracy. …”
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(Too) many policies under one roof? About the integration of competition law enforcement and sectoral regulation within one authority by Anna Piszcz

“…It will attempt at the identification of advantages and disadvantages of entrusting competition authorities with additional sectoral regulation functions and discuss whether Directive 2019/1 (“ECN+ Directive”) may serve as a cure for disadvantages of adding not related objectives, such as overwhelming numbers of tasks and lacking resources, including human resources or a relatively small part of budget dedicated to competition enforcement. …”
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Genome-wide identification and functional characterization of GPCR family genes reveal their key roles in the vitellarium development and egg production in Schistosoma japonicum by Xiaoxu Wang, Chuantao Fang, Guofeng Cheng

“…Selected GPCRs were functionally characterized using whole-mount in situ hybridization, double fluorescence in situ hybridization, and RNA interference. …”
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Evaluating Cognitive Function and Brain Activity Patterns via Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent Transformer in N-Back Working Memory Tasks by Zhenming Zhang, Yaojing Chen, Aidong Men, Zhuqing Jiang

“…(1) Background: Working memory, which involves temporary storage, information processing, and regulating attention resources, is a fundamental cognitive process and constitutes a significant component of neuroscience research. …”
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The complexity of aquatic macrophytes and environmental variables as a filter of functional traits of aquatic invertebrates from a subtropical stream in southern Brazil by Bárbara Oleinski, Mikael L. Pereira Morales, Edélti Faria Albertoni

“… Aquatic macrophytes play a key role in structuring aquatic ecosystems due to their varying degrees of structural complexity and perform diverse functions for different organisms (e.g., refuge and food resources). …”
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Optimizing Fall Risk Diagnosis in Older Adults Using a Bayesian Classifier and Simulated Annealing by Enrique Hernandez-Laredo, Ángel Gabriel Estévez-Pedraza, Laura Mercedes Santiago-Fuentes, Lorena Parra-Rodríguez

“…The wrapper method of feature selection using the SA algorithm was applied to optimize the cost function based on the difference of the mean minus the standard deviation of the Area Under the Curve (AUC) of the fall risk classifiers across multiple dimensions. …”
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Shifts in fungal community diversity and potential function under natural forest succession and planted forest restoration in the Kunyu Mountains, East China by Ping Zhu, Xinyu Hu, Qiang Zou, Xiaoyan Yang, Bohan Jiang, Jincheng Zuo, Xinfu Bai, Jianqiang Song, Nan Wu, Yuping Hou

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Antioxidant Peptides from the Fruit Source of the Oil Crop <i>Litsea cubeba</i> Ameliorate FFA-Induced Oxidative Stress Injury: Based on Nrf2/Keap1 Pathway and Molecular Dynamics S... by Li Li, Ying Hu, Yu-Mei Wang, Xiao-Xue Wu, Si-Tong Lin, Hang Li, Ji Zhang, Guo-Rong Fan, Zong-De Wang, Bin Wang, Shang-Xing Chen

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Assessing variability and detecting the effective traits on yield of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) promising lines under drought stress condition by Sayyed Saeed Moosavi, Mohammad Reza Abdollahi, Fatemeh Abdi, Homayoun Kanouni

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Respiratory Rate Estimation from Thermal Video Data Using Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning by Mohsen Mozafari, Andrew J. Law, Rafik A. Goubran, James R. Green

“…Thermal videos provide a privacy-preserving yet information-rich data source for remote health monitoring, especially for respiration rate (RR) estimation. …”
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Automatic Road Extraction from Historical Maps Using Transformer-Based SegFormers by Elif Sertel, Can Michael Hucko, Mustafa Erdem Kabadayı

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An Economic and Econometric Comparative Study of Some Local Wheat Varieties with Imported Ones Planted in Salah al-Din Governorate for the Agricultural Season 2022/2023 (Tikrit Dis... by Nahedh N. Issa, Abdul Khaleq A. Rashid, Khaled Q. Abboud, Muhammad M. Saleh, Wissam A. Qasim

“…As for the average net profit per dunum, it was around (310,567.9) dinars/dunum for local varieties and around (547,781.1) dinars/dunum for varieties. imported, the research results also showed that the estimated production function for local wheat varieties and imported varieties to the total capacity returns are (0.576, 0.805) respectively, and this indicates decreasing capacity returns, which means that increasing the use of production resources by 1% leads to an increase in wheat production for the varieties. local by (0.576) and to increase wheat production for imported varieties by (0.805), And all producers work in the second stage of the production stages of the law of diminishing returns, which is the rational production area. …”
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Do capture and survey methods influence whether marked animals are representative of unmarked animals? by John R. Fieberg, Kurt Jenkins, Scott McCorquodale, Clifford G. Rice, Gary C. White, Kevin White

“…The lone exception to this rule was for the cohort of radiocollared moose in Minnesota, which exhibited a slight decrease in detection probabilities over time. Differences in detection probabilities for marked and unmarked animals may not be a significant problem for sightability models, provided that the source of the variability can be captured by model covariates (e.g., heterogeneity is tied to an individual's propensity to be in heavy cover). …”
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Enhanced selectivity of carbon quantum dots for metal ion detection through surface modification by heteroatom doping: A study on optical properties and theoretical approach by María Belén Cánchig, Floralba López, Zaillmar Morales-Navarro, Alexis Debut, Karla Vizuete, Thibault Terencio, Manuel Caetano, Juan Pablo Saucedo-Vázquez

“…The study also demonstrated that functionalization with sulfur could modulate emission frequencies, enhancing the detection capabilities for specific ions. …”
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Machine Learning Aided Resilient Spectrum Surveillance for Cognitive Tactical Wireless Networks: Design and Proof-of-Concept by Eli Garlick, Nourhan Hesham, MD. Zoheb Hassan, Imtiaz Ahmed, Anas Chaaban, MD. Jahangir Hossain

“…Due to the vast nature of interference signals in the frequency bands used by cognitive TWNs, it is non-trivial to acquire manually labeled data sets of all interference signals. Detecting the presence of an unknown and remote interference source in a frequency band from the transmitter end is also challenging, especially when the received interference power remains at or below the noise floor. …”
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An Ecological Risk Assessment of the Dianchi Basin Based on Multi-Scenario Land Use Change Under the Constraint of an Ecological Defense Zone by Shu Wang, Quanli Xu, Junhua Yi, Qinghong Wang, Qihong Ren, Youyou Li, Zhenheng Gao, You Li, Huishan Wu

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Effect of Coefficient of Variation on Variable Sampling Scheme Indexed in AQL and AOQL under Measurement Error by Uttama Mishra

“…We present procedures and tables for selecting appropriate variable sampling plans based on specified AQL and AOQL values. …”
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Infrastructure for the deployment of Large Language Models: challenges and solutions by Tomasz Walkowiak, Bartosz Walkowiak

“…As a result, the ability to perform efficient and scalable inferences on these models is becoming crucial to maximize the utilization of valuable resources such as GPUs and CPUs. This thesis outlines a process for selecting the most effective tools for efficient inference, supported by the results of experiments. …”
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BRDF Correction in Landsat Directional Reflectance Data by Combining Optimal BRDF Archetype With Spectral Characteristics by Aojie Shen, Jie Shao, Xin Qi, Zhongzheng Zhu, Yujie Dai, Qi Zeng

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Functional and Genomic Evidence of L-Arginine-Dependent Bacterial Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity in <i>Paenibacillus nitricinens</i> sp. nov. by Diego Saavedra-Tralma, Alexis Gaete, Carolina Merino-Guzmán, Maribel Parada-Ibáñez, Francisco Nájera-de Ferrari, Ignacio Jofré-Fernández

“…Extracellular and intracellular NO measurements under aerobic conditions showed a dose-dependent response, with detectable production at 0.1 µM L-arginine and saturation at 100 µM. …”
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