Water Productivity, Farmers Satisfaction, and Sustainability of Selected Small Scale Irrigation Schemes in Salale Zone, Ethiopia by Habtamu Adenew Ulatu, Tolossa Lemma Tola, Shewadinber Mekonnin Meskelu

“…In order to assess the potential, farmers satisfaction, and operation and maintenance issues of selected small scale irrigation schemes in Salale Zone Ethiopia, the study was designed with key objectives of evaluating the current status of irrigation water productivity of the schemes; irrigation water users satisfaction, and structures, function, and power of water users association in sustainable operation and maintenance of irrigation schemes. …”
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Presenting A Model for Managing Agricultural, Industrial, And Household Water Consumption in Iran by Combining System Dynamics and Genetic Algorithm by Maryam Movaseghi Gilani, Mohammad Ali Afshar Kazemi, Mohamad Ali Keramati

“…<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> In this study, the country's water resources management system has been modeled using a system dynamics approach. …”
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Assessing Water Resource Planning Policies in the Sefidroud Irrigation and Drainage Network Using the Water-Land-Food Nexus Approach by S. Ashkevari, S. Janatrostami, A. Ashrafzadeh

“…Various management scenarios were implemented through the weighting of the objective functions. The results showed that selecting the best response from multi-objective optimization models depends on the weighted values of the objective functions, and by changing these values, decision-makers can provide various responses to complex optimization problems. …”
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Allocation analysis of natural and cultivated grassland resources of eco-family pasture based on the theory of grassland agro-ecosystem discordance by FU Li, XIE Yingzhong, MA Hongbin, XING Ende, TIAN Xiumin

“…In order to achieve sustainable development in pastoral areas, based on the theory of grassland agroe-cosystem discordance, we selected the meteorological factors in the study area of Otog Front Banner in recent 30 years and the water, soil, grass, and livestock in the area in recent years as the objects of study to discuss how to make a grassland resource allocation plan. …”
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Prevalence and contributing factors of depression among women with infertility in low-resource settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Shimelis Tadesse, Henok Kumsa, Gemeda Wakgari Kitil, Alex Ayenew Chereka, Getnet Gedefaw, Fiker Chane, Esuyawkal Mislu

“…Good functioning family {OR 0.71 [95% CI (0.51, 0.97), I2: 0.00%]}, good husband support {OR 0.52 [95% CI (0.34, 0.79), I2: 0.00%]}, primary infertility {OR 2.55 [95% CI (1.36, 4.79), I2: 68.53%]}, history of divorce {OR 4.41 [95% CI (2.11, 9.24), I2: 0.00%]}, and duration of infertility lasting more than 10 years {OR 6.27 [95% CI (2.74, 14.34), I2: 15.26%]} were statistically significant.ConclusionDepression was high among women with infertility in low-resource settings such as Africa compared to those in high-income countries, men, and pregnant mothers. …”
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Vulnerability detection method for blockchain smart contracts based on metamorphic testing by Jinfu CHEN, Zhenxin WANG, Saihua CAI, Qiaowei FENG, Yuhao CHEN, Rongtian XU, KwakuKudjo Patrick

“…Aimed at the defects of existing test methods, a vulnerability detection method for blockchain smart contracts based on metamorphic testing was proposed, which could generate test cases for specific functions in blockchain smart contracts to detect possible vulnerabilities.According to the possible security vulnerabilities, different metamorphosis relationships were designed and then metamorphic testing was performed.Through verifying whether the metamorphic relationship between the source test case and the subsequent test case was satisfied, whether the smart contract had related security vulnerabilities was judged.The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively detect the security vulnerabilities in the smart contracts.…”
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Impairment of chaperone‐mediated autophagy leads to selective lysosomal degradation defects in the lysosomal storage disease cystinosis by Gennaro Napolitano, Jennifer L Johnson, Jing He, Celine J Rocca, Jlenia Monfregola, Kersi Pestonjamasp, Stephanie Cherqui, Sergio D Catz

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Neural Posterior Estimation for Cataloging Astronomical Images with Spatially Varying Backgrounds and Point Spread Functions by Aakash Patel, Tianqing Zhang, Camille Avestruz, Jeffrey Regier, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

“…In experiments with semisynthetic images, we evaluate the method on key cataloging tasks: light source detection, star/galaxy separation, and flux measurement. …”
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Automated quantification reveals hyperglycemia inhibits endothelial angiogenic function. by Anthony R Prisco, John D Bukowy, Brian R Hoffmann, Jamie R Karcher, Eric C Exner, Andrew S Greene

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Deviance from truth: Telemetry location errors erode both precision and accuracy of habitat‐selection models by Andrea T. Morehouse, Mark S. Boyce

“…Specifically, we compare how differences in precision between GPS and Argos satellite technologies affect the estimation of resource selection functions (RSFs). We estimated RSF models from GPS and Argos satellite radiocollar data collected in December 2008 through April 2009 from wolves within the same pack in southwestern Alberta, Canada, and used Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) to identify the most parsimonious models. …”
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Biphoton Waveforms of Photon Pair from Velocity‐Selective Atoms in a Doppler‐Broadened Atomic Ensemble by Hansol Jeong, Heewoo Kim, Danbi Kim, Han Seb Moon

“…Here, the beat phenomenon in the autocorrelation function of the telecom‐wavelength photon due to the velocity‐selective classes of the atoms in a Doppler‐broadened atomic ensemble of the cascade‐type 5S1/2–5P3/2–4D5/2 transition of 87Rb is reported. …”
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Enhancing the power quality in radial electrical systems using optimal sizing and selective allocation of distributed generations. by Bachirou Bogno, Deli Goron, Nisso Nicodem, S Shanmugan, Dieudonné Kidmo Kaoga, Kitmo, Akhlaque Ahmad Khan, Yasser Fouad, Michel Aillerie

“…Optimizing energy resources is a major priority these days. Increasing household energy demand often leads to the deterioration of poorly sized distribution networks. …”
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Current Directions of Selected Plant-Origin Wastes’ Valorization in Biotechnology of Food Additives and Other Important Chemicals by Dominika Popielarz, Pavol Farkaš, Anna Bzducha-Wróbel

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Prediction of Genes Related to Positive Selection Using Whole-Genome Resequencing in Three Commercial Pig Breeds by HyoYoung Kim, Kelsey Caetano-Anolles, Minseok Seo, Young-jun Kwon, Seoae Cho, Kangseok Seo, Heebal Kim

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Exploring genomic loci and candidate genes associated with drought tolerance indices in spring wheat evaluated under two levels of drought by Mohamed Mosalam, Rahma A. Nemr, Maha Aljabri, Alaa A. Said, Mohamed El-Soda

“…Several novel and known genes, previously reported to have functions related to biotic and abiotic stresses response were linked to significant SNPs. …”
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Enhanced object detection in low-visibility haze conditions with YOLOv9s. by Yang Zhang, Bin Zhou, Xue Zhao, Xiaomeng Song

“…Furthermore, the implementation of a nonmonotonic strategy for dynamically adjusting the loss function weights significantly boosts the model's detection precision and training efficiency. …”
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PA-YOLO-Based Multifault Defect Detection Algorithm for PV Panels by Wang Yin, Zhao Jingyong, Xie Gang, Zhao Zhicheng, Hu Xiao

“…For the occlusion problem of dense targets in the dataset, we introduce a repulsive loss function, which successfully reduces the occurrence of false detection situations. …”
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The Bright Feature Transform for Prominent Point Scatterer Detection and Tone Mapping by Gregory D. Vetaw, Suren Jayasuriya

“…We then modify the BFT to present a difference of trigonometric functions to mitigate speckle scatterers and other random noise sources found in the imagery. …”
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Synthesis and properties of carbon quantum dots as an antimicrobial agent and detection of ciprofloxacin by Fangzhou Shen, Zhaoyang Lu, Kangli Yan, Kang Luo, Shuchen Pei, Pu Xiang

“…This study introduces a novel approach for the fabrication of N-CQDs derived from natural botanical sources, underscoring their potential dual functionality as fluorescent sensors and antimicrobial materials.…”
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Realizing depth measurement and edge detection based on a single metasurface by Yang Siwen, Wei Qunshuo, Zhao Ruizhe, Li Xin, Zhang Xue, Li Yao, Li Junjie, Jing Xiaoli, Li Xiaowei, Wang Yongtian, Huang Lingling

“…Double helix point source function is utilized, and three verification experiments are carried out, including double-helix beam calibration, 2D object and 3D object detection, respectively. …”
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