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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Research on site selection and capacity determination problem based on improved particle swarm algorithm by Xiaotong Mi, Qinyang Liu, Bo Geng, Yong Zhu

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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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Signal Processing in Passive Radar Systems Using 5G: A Simulation Study by Van Tuan Nguyen, V. M. Kutuzov, E. N. Vorobev

“…The calculation of the cross-ambiguity function of the passive radar using the 5G signal was carried out by computer simulation.Results. …”
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Probing atomic-scale processes at the ferrihydrite-water interface with reactive molecular dynamics by Ardalan Hayatifar, Simon Gravelle, Beatriz D. Moreno, Valerie A. Schoepfer, Matthew B. J. Lindsay

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Network slicing resource allocation strategy based on joint optimization by Zaijian WANG, Huimin GU

“…To improve network resource utilization that was decreased by different applications with different requirements in 5G networks, a network slicing resource allocation strategy based on joint optimization was proposed, which was utilized to maximize both network resource utilization and network revenue by comprehensively considering in tra-slice and inter-slice resource schedule.Firstly, the user’s average satisfaction function was defined in the inter-slicing resource allocation problem.Furthermore, in terms of the number of users, slicing schedule delay and priority, a proportional fair resource allocation algorithm based on quality of service (QoS) was proposed, which was employed to achieve the best tradeoff between fairness and the users’ requirements among slices.Secondly, after two functions (service degradation and resource migration) were introduced in the inter-slice resource schedule problem, two price models were established for internal access users and external access users respectively, where congestion and non-congestion conditions were analyzed.According to the proposed price models, a Stackelberg game between the base station and users was constructed, and a global search algorithm with low complexity was leveraged to obtain the best response of the game, where the best tradeoff between the base station revenue and user utility was obtained.Simulation results show that the proposed strategy can effectively improve resource utilization and network revenue while reducing network congestion.Therefore, it can better realize fairness in resource allocation.…”
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Multi-View Cluster Structure Guided One-Class BLS-Autoencoder for Intrusion Detection by Qifan Yang, Yu-Ang Chen, Yifan Shi

“…Network traffic data originate from diverse terminal sources, exhibiting multi-view feature spaces, while the collection of unknown intrusion data is costly. …”
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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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Natural Teleology in Hume's "Sceptical Solution" by Jonathan Cottrell

“…However, it's hard to tell what account he means to offer: the text suggests various ideas about the source of induction's "authority", including utility, unavoidability, and reliability; it's not clear how to fit them together. …”
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Weak-Lensing Shear-Selected Galaxy Clusters from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: I. Cluster Catalog, Selection Function and Mass--Observable Relation by Kai-Feng Chen, I-Non Chiu, Masamune Oguri, Yen-Ting Lin, Hironao Miyatake, Satoshi Miyazaki, Surhud More, Takashi Hamana, Markus M. Rau, Tomomi Sunayama, Sunao Sugiyama, Masahiro Takada

“…We use semi-analytical injection simulations to derive the selection function and the mass--observable relation of our sample. …”
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Enhancing the quality of kinesthetic motor imagery for complex motor skills through simulated muscle activation color visualization: Evidence from time-frequency and functional con... by Xiaogang Ma, Bing Shi

“…Conversely, alpha event-related synchronization (ERS) in the parietal and occipital regions, as well as ERS in the frontal, central, and temporal regions, were significantly lower in the experimental group compared to the control group. The source-functional connectivity results revealed that the primary differences between the experimental and control groups were concentrated between the left V1 and right V1, as well as among the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and primary motor cortex (M1). …”
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Recent trends in industrial resource manufacturing processes using biocatalysts by Sudip Regmi, Jin Cheol Yoo

“…These enzymes play crucial functions in different array of industrial resources and form the backbone for a large number of industrial productions. …”
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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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Uncertainty management in multiobjective electric vehicle integrated optimal power flow based hydrothermal scheduling of renewable power system for environmental sustainability by Susanta Dutta, Siddhartha Ghosh, Tushnik Sarkar, Provas Kumar Roy, Chandan Paul, Ruba Abu Khurma, Mohd Asif Shah, Saurav Mallik

“…Secondly, renewable energy sources such as wind-solar-EV are integrated with the aforesaid systems for lowering fuel cost, emission, active power loss (APL), aggregated voltage deviation (AVD), voltage stability index (VSI) and also cost, emision, APL, AVD, VSI are reduced simultaneously considering different cases for multi-objective functions.Proposed sine-cosine algorithm (SCA) embedded with quasi-oppositional based learning (QOBL), known as QOSCA is used to balance the exploration and exploitation ability in order to overcome shortcomings and provide global optimal solutions. …”
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NSGA-II-based load resource management for frequency and voltage support by Yaxin Wang, Zhihang Zhu, Zhihong Yu, Zigan Wang

“…This is primarily due to the fluctuating and intermittent nature of renewable energy sources and the uncertain electricity demand. To address these issues, this study proposes a load resource management (LRM) method to cope with the sudden power disturbances. …”
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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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Zinc Glycine supplementation improves bone quality in meat geese by modulating gut microbiota, SCFA's, and gut barrier function through Wnt10b/NF-κB axis by Zeshan Zulfiqar, Muhammad Arslan Asif, Mengqi Liu, Shuhang Zhang, Hamid reza Rafieian Naeini, Yalei Cui, Boshuai Liu, Yinghua Shi

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An Embodied Intelligence System for Coal Mine Safety Assessment Based on Multi-Level Large Language Models by Yi Sun, Faxiu Ji

“…Furthermore, its memory functionality ensures the learning and utilization of historical experiences, providing a solid foundation for continuous assessment processes. …”
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The Impact of Differences in Renovation Models of Abandoned Boiler Rooms on Community Vitality—A Case Study of Shenyang, China by Lei Chen, Yahang Cheng, Zixi Zhou, Yibo Wen

“…Unlike prior studies that rely on single data sources or unidimensional metrics, our multi-source approach enhances spatiotemporal resolution, improves the accuracy of subjective perceptions, and enables cross-validation between objective behavioral trajectories and residents’ self-reports, thereby significantly strengthening the comprehensiveness and reliability of community vitality measurement. …”
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Assessment of Fresh Water Reallocation by Treated Wastewater for Irrigation by Mohammad A. Tabieh, Emad K. Al-Karablieh, Tala H. Qtaishat, Amer Z. Salman, Nael H. Thaher, Nehaya K. Al-Karablieh, Madi T. Al-Jaghbir, Tharaa M. Al-Zghoul, Ahmad I. Jamrah

“…Despite its potential to mitigate water scarcity, concerns about soil health, crop yield, and land utilization hinder widespread adoption. The research measures farm profitability and farmers' willingness to embrace TWW through various blending scenarios with traditional surface water sources, incorporating a yield response function to salinity within the profit function. …”
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