A study on pollen characteristics of bisexual and functionally male flowers in pomegranate by DUAN Shuyun, CHEN Lina, ZHU Juanli, LIU Ruitao, LI Haoxian, YAN Qiong, LI Songkai, YANG Qinghua, LU Zhenhua

“…[Methods] Pollen samples were collected from the National Horticultural Germplasm Resource Center. The number of anthers of bisexual flowers and functionally male flowers were collected in cultivars including Suanmeiren, Mollar, Tianshihong, Zhongshiliu 4, Huaguang and Turkmenistan. …”
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Quantifying Truthfulness: A Probabilistic Framework for Atomic Claim-Based Misinformation Detection by Fahim Sufi, Musleh Alsulami

“…This paper addresses this gap by proposing a novel probabilistic framework that decomposes complex assertions into semantically atomic claims and computes their veracity through a structured evaluation of source credibility and evidence frequency. Each atomic unit is matched against a curated corpus of 11,928 cyber-related news entries using a binary alignment function, and its truthfulness is quantified via a composite score integrating both source reliability and support density. …”
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Optimizing Pre-Trained Code Embeddings With Triplet Loss for Code Smell Detection by Ali Nizam, Ertugrul Islamoglu, Omer Kerem Adali, Musa Aydin

“…Although code embedding-based systems have been successfully applied to various source code analysis tasks, further research is required to enhance code embedding for better code analysis capabilities, aiming to surpass the performance and functionality of static code analysis tools. …”
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Social Network Community Detection by Combining Self-Organizing Maps and Genetic Algorithms by Mehdi Ellouze

“…To this end, many research works in the literature offer users some tools that can help them take advantage of this mine of information. Community detection is one of these tools and aims to detect a set of entities that share some features within a social network. …”
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YOLOX-LS: Strong Gravitational Lenses Detection in the DECaLS with Deep Learning by Yangyang Liu, Liangping Tu, Jianxi Li, Jiawei Miao, Gengqi Lin, Chenying Zhao

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Application of VGG16 in Automated Detection of Bone Fractures in X-Ray Images by Resky Adhyaksa, Bedy Purnama

“…The training and testing phases utilized an 80:20 split of the data, employing binary cross-entropy as the loss function and the Adam optimizer for efficient weight updates. …”
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Video Analysis and Frame Prediction Based on Improved Object Detection and ConvGRU by Xijuan Wang, Ru Chen

“…The loss function and average accuracy mean have been improved, with a maximum detection accuracy of 0.947. …”
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Principals’ Classroom Observation Practices and their Influence on Teaching and Learning in Public Secondary Schools in Machakos Sub-County, Kenya by J. Baryarma Kolako

“…The research recommended that the Ministry of Education, along with the relevant educational agencies, should provide in-service training for principals on their roles as instructional leaders to enable them to proficiently discharge their functions; there should be an increase in the provision of the necessary learning resources to help enhance teaching and learning.…”
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First Detection of Low-frequency Striae in Interplanetary Type III Radio Bursts by Vratislav Krupar, Eduard P. Kontar, Jan Soucek, Lynn B. Wilson III, Adam Szabo, Oksana Kruparova, Hamish A. S. Reid, Mychajlo Hajos, David Pisa, Ondrej Santolik, Milan Maksimovic, Jolene S. Pickett

“…By combining high-resolution radio observations with well-calibrated in situ electron velocity distribution function data from the Wind spacecraft, we characterized the plasma properties of the burst source region near 0.32 au. …”
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A Comprehensive Approach for Detecting and Handling MitM-ARP Spoofing Attacks by Standy Oei, Yohanes Suyanto, Reza Pulungan

“…In the host, we employ a combination of ping Round-Trip Time (RTT) anomaly detection, the SendARP function, static entry, and ping confirmation to detect and mitigate attacks. …”
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STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS BASED ON AN IMPROVEMENT OF THE RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD by ZHANG XueGang

“…Then the sample points near the failure boundary from all sample points were selected after convergence, the limit state function was built by a quadratic polynomial response surface with mixed terms and square terms, and finally the structural reliability was calculated by the Monte Carlo method. …”
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Near-source wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2, norovirus, influenza virus and RSV across five different sites in the UK. by Jay C Bullen, Mina Mohaghegh, Fatima Tahir, Charlotte Hammer, Jacob Sims, Frederico Myers, Lucas Eisinger, Ali Reza Kasmati, Claire F Trant

“…The key findings are (1) near-source wastewater detections were linked to local events (staff sickness, enhanced cleaning, changing populations); (2) wastewater detections decreased in the order norovirus GII > norovirus GI > SARS-CoV-2 ≈ influenza A ≈ RSV A > influenza B ≈ RSV B; (3) correlation between near-source wastewater data and national surveillance data increases as a function of catchment size and viral prevalence (examples include the SARS-CoV-2 BA.4/BA.5 variant peak at a museum and wastewater tracking the winter norovirus season); (4) strong weekday periodicity in near-source wastewater SARS-CoV-2 detections, with the correlation against COVID-19 case numbers increasing when modelling variable lag times between faecal shedding onset and clinical diagnosis (R2 = 0.45 increases to 0.84-0.86); (5) a log-linear relationship between the frequency of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 detection and log(catchment size⋅viral prevalence) (R2 = 0.6914-0.9066). …”
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All-optical nonlinear activation function based on stimulated Brillouin scattering by Slinkov Grigorii, Becker Steven, Englund Dirk, Stiller Birgit

“…However, their development towards high-performing computing alternatives is hindered by one of the optical neural networks’ key components: the activation function. Most of the reported activation functions rely on opto-electronic conversion, sacrificing the unique advantages of photonics, such as resource-efficient coherent and frequency-multiplexed information encoding. …”
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Sustainable Valorization of Jackfruit Peel Waste: Bio‐Functional and Structural Characterization by Rangina Brahma, Subhajit Ray, Prakash Kumar Nayak, Kandi Shridhar

“…Therefore, this study aimed at the bio‐functional and structural characterization of A. heterophyllus peel waste for unlocking its potential for food applications. …”
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Selective hydrogenation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural triggered bya high Lewis acidic Ni-based transition metal carbide catalyst by Rulu Huang, Jianchun Jiang, Jie Liang, Shanyong Wang, Yuwei Chen, Xianhai Zeng, Kui Wang

“…Corresponding to the adsorption configuration of Ni/WC and substrate determined by in-situ FTIR characterization, this study provides a novel insight into the selective conversion of HMF process for functional biofuel and bio-chemicals.…”
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Optimal selection of tree species for ecological protection forests on the riverbank side of the lower Yellow River flood control dikes by Xiaolei Zhang, Kexin Li, Zhiheng Xu, Chaoqun Li, Zhengxiong Bai, Chen Yang

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Detecting and routing of dust event using remote sensing and numerical modeling in Isfahan Province by Mehdii Jafari, Gholamreza Zehtabian, Hasan Ahmadi, Tayebeh Mesbahzadeh, Ali Akbar Norouzi

“…In addition, numerical weather models alone are not capable of storm detection, which requires the use of dust detection methods based on data remote sensing. …”
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Novel electrochemical sensor for the determination of potassium ions based on silver diethyldithiocarbamate as sensor material by Oguz Özbek, Mehmet Alperen Şahin

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Failure Law of Sandstone and Identification of Premonitory Deterioration Information Based on Digital Image Correlation–Acoustic Emission Multi-Source Information Fusion by Zhaohui Chong, Guanzhong Qiu, Xuehua Li, Qiangling Yao

“…Additionally, by introducing the derivative functions of the multi-source information function for quantitative analysis, a comprehensive evaluation method was proposed based on the multi-source information fusion monitoring to forewarn red sandstone failure by levels during loading. …”
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A spatial matrix factorization method to characterize ecological assemblages as a mixture of unobserved sources: An application to fish eDNA surveys by Letizia Lamperti, Olivier François, David Mouillot, Laëtitia Mathon, Théophile Sanchez, Camille Albouy, Loïc Pellissier, Stéphanie Manel

“…We present a spatial matrix factorization method that identifies optimal eDNA sample assemblages—called pools—assuming that taxonomic unit composition is based on a fixed number of unknown sources. These sources, in turn, represent taxonomic units sharing similar habitat properties or characteristics. …”
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