Saline-alkali soil reclamation and utilization in China: progress and prospects by Guangzhou WANG, Gang NI, Gu FENG, Haley M. BURRILL, Jianfang LI, Junling ZHANG, Fusuo ZHANG

“… ● Saline-alkali land is an important underutilized resource in China that could complement arable land and maintain the food security. ● China has made great progress in saline-alkali soil reclamation and utilization, and developed customized technologies for these soils. ● In the future, comprehensive management strategies should be implemented by integrating traditional saline-alkali soil management practices and new technologies to increase crop tolerance. …”
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Performance Study of Untrusted Relay Network Utilizing Cooperative Jammer by Ali kuhestani, Abbas Mohammadi, Mohammad Javad Emadi

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Trait‐Based Life History Strategies Shape Bacterial Niche Breadth by Ziheng Peng, Yiran Zhang, Xiaomeng Li, Hang Gao, Yu Liu, Yining An, Xun Qian, Gehong Wei, Shuo Jiao

“…Abstract The ecological niche represents a fundamental property of organisms, reflecting their diversity of utilized resources or environmental tolerances across space and time. …”
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Does Intellectual Capital Influence Sustainability Reporting in Indonesia’s Energy and Mining Industry? Moderating Role of Audit Committee by Suwarno Suwarno, Syaiful Syaiful

“…Method: This research employs a quantitative approach, utilizing secondary data from 32 energy and mining companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for the period of 2020–2023. …”
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THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF APPLICATION OF AGENT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO MODELING PROCESSES OF LOCAL HROMADAS by Yevgen Kotukh, Maryna Riabokin

“…Particular attention is paid to the development of a budget auction model based on game theory, where economic actors - including local government, enterprises, and residents - engage in a structured competition for resource distribution. The auction mechanism identifies production functions and utility values for each actor, enabling iterative optimization based on predefined efficiency criteria. …”
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Extracellular polymeric substances as paper coating biomaterials derived from anaerobic granular sludge by Cuijie Feng, Lorenzo Bonetti, Hui Lu, Zhongbo Zhou, Tommaso Lotti, Mingsheng Jia, Giacomo Rizzardi, Luigi De Nardo, Francesca Malpei

“…The enhanced water-barrier and grease resistance of EPS-coated paper can be attributed to its non-porous, fine surface structure and the functional groups in EPS, particularly the high protein content and hydrophobic humic-like substances. …”
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Efficiency evaluation of product oil pipeline under transportation market by Hao ZHANG, Renfu TU, Xu ZHANG, Xinyi YANG, Yiwei SU, Yuheng XIA, Jun YAN, Rui QIU

“…Subsequently, the functions of pipelines within the entire product oil logistics system were evaluated in typical and extreme weather scenarios utilizing two key metrics: total transportation cost and the share of pipeline transportation. …”
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Utilization of waste lignin to prepare controlled-slow release urea by Jamshid Behin, Nader Sadeghi

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Healthcare utilization and disease burden in children with metachromatic leukodystrophy in Germany by Christiane Kehrer, Andrea Bevot, Pascal Martin, Christa Raabe, Saskia Gregor, Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann, Samuel Groeschel

“…General well-being did not strongly correlate with motor function, whereas pain was associated with reduced well-being. …”
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Ivacaftor–tezacaftor–elexacaftor, tezacaftor–ivacaftor and lumacaftor–ivacaftor for treating cystic fibrosis: a systematic review and economic evaluation by Steven J Edwards, Benjamin G Farrar, Kate Ennis, Nicole Downes, Victoria Wakefield, Isaac Mackenzie, Archie Walters, Tracey Jhita

“…Most people with CF experience progressive lung function loss over their lifetime, and lung disease is the primary cause of death for people with CF. …”
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FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD OF ROLLING BEARING BASED ON ICEEMD-FastICA by MA WeiPing, HONG KunYue, AN Ning, SONG YuZhou

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Production chain and COVID-19 disruption: Sustainability via flexibility framework a case of the beverage industry by Adedugba Adebayo, Adeyemo Felicia, Oreagba Oluwakemi

“…A purposive method was utilized as an information-gathering source from 200 participants. …”
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Plug-and-Play PRNU Enhancement Algorithm with Guided Filtering by Yufei Liu, Yanhui Xiao, Huawei Tian

“…Previous studies have not successfully identified the effective frequency band of PRNU, leaving low-frequency interference insufficiently suppressed and impacting PRNU’s utility in scenarios such as source camera identification, image integrity verification, and identity verification. …”
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A Strategy for Enhanced Post-FRT Active Power Recovery in Expandable Point-to-Point VSC-HVdc Links by Arcadio Perilla, Jose Luis Rueda Torres

“…The proposed strategy is developed by defining exponentially decaying functions, which, depending on the HVDC network configuration of the expandable HVDC system, alter the active current reference in a voltage source converter (VSC) affected by an AC network’s disturbance, without utilizing proportional-integral (PI) controllers. …”
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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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To Hunt or Patrol? Social Composition and Location Mediate Scent Marking Decisions of a Large Carnivore by K. Whitney Hansen, Neil R. Jordan, Megan J. Claase, J. W. McNutt, Alan Wilson, Christopher C. Wilmers

“…Specifically, we used resource selection function frameworks to determine how and whether conspecifics influenced habitat selection and behavior at multiple orders of selection. …”
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An Adaptive Harmony Search Part-of-Speech tagger for Square Hmong Corpus by Di-Wen Kang, Shao-Qiang Ye, Sharifah Zarith Rahmah Syed Ahmad, Li-Ping Mo, Feng Qin, Pan Zhou

“… Data-driven models perform poorly on part-of-speech tagging problems with the square Hmong language, a low-resource corpus. This paper designs a weight evaluation function to reduce the influence of unknown words. …”
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Optimal allocation of STATCOM for multi-objective ORPD problem on thermal wind solar hydro scheduling using driving training based optimization by Tushnik Sarkar, Sabyasachi Gupta, Chandan Paul, Susanta Dutta, Provas Kumar Roy, Anagha Bhattacharya, Ghanshyam G. Tejani, Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad

“…Appropriate probability density functions (PDF) are employed to estimate the uncertain WP, PV source, HP, and load demand. …”
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Utilization Patterns and Optimization Suggestions for Wildlife Passages in Xinjiang Nature Reserves by Mengdi Fu, Jun Wang, Shuang Li, Le Qin, Junsheng Li, Shichao Jin

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Optimal Computation Offloading Decisions Based on System Utility and Cost Balance by Bingxue Zhang, Xisheng Li, Jia You

“…Based on the new evaluation model, an objective function is constructed to minimize the system’s cost-utility ratio, and an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm with enhanced search capabilities is proposed to solve it by designing a computation offloading strategy. …”
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