Impact of municipal wastewater use on urban and peri‑urban agricultural productivity: the endogenous treatment-effects approach by Mohammed Abdulai, Mohammed Tanko, Alhassan Andani

“…Using survey data from 416 vegetable farmers, we employed a semi-log production function augmented with an endogenous binary-treatment effect equation to estimate the drivers and impact of MWW use on value of vegetable output, accounting for selection bias and omitted variable problem. …”
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Smart IoT-driven precision agriculture: Land mapping, crop prediction, and irrigation system. by Gourab Saha, Fariha Shahrin, Farhan Hasin Khan, Mashook Mohammad Meshkat, Akm Abdul Malek Azad

“…These findings highlight the effectiveness of advanced computational techniques in enhancing agricultural practices and resource management.…”
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Fuzzy Modeling to Predict Severely Depressed Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction following Admission to the Intensive Care Unit Using Clinical Physiology by Rúben Duarte M. A. Pereira, Cátia M. Salgado, Andre Dejam, Shane R. Reti, Susana M. Vieira, João M. C. Sousa, Leo A. Celi, Stan N. Finkelstein

“…Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) constitutes an important physiological parameter for the assessment of cardiac function, particularly in the settings of coronary artery disease and heart failure. …”
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Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade by Özgün Emre Can

“…Trafficked wild animals and wildlife products are moving between source and demand regions in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. …”
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Baseline levels of microplastics in agricultural soils obscure the effects of additional microplastics from recycled fertilizers by Collin J. Weber, Dominika Kundel, Andreas Fliessbach, Else K. Bünemann, Moritz Bigalke

“…Whilst it was observed from the fluxes that digestate can be a substantial source of microplastics to soils, the comparatively short time of application and the high background at our investigated sites leads to a obscured effect where digestate inputs serve a limited function.…”
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An Improved Fitting Method for Predicting the Zernike Coefficient–Wavelength Curves by Fang Wang, Qiyuan Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Dayong Zhu, Huaikang Zhu, Wenxin Jia, Sen Han

“…Broadband transmitted wavefront measurement is a detection method that uses transmitted wavefronts at a few specific wavelengths though a function of Zernike coefficients and wavelength to predict other transmitted wavefronts at any wavelength within a certain range. …”
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Feature Extraction and Classification of Power Quality Disturbances Using Optimized Tunable-Q Wavelet Transform and Incremental Support Vector Machine by Indu Sekhar Samanta, Pravat Kumar Rout, Kunjabihari Swain, Satyasis Mishra, Murthy Cherukuri

“…The widespread integration of renewable energy sources (RESs) into power systems using power electronics-based interface devices has led to a substantial rise in power quality (PQ) issues. …”
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The influence of genetics on the endocannabinoid system gene expression and relevance for targeting reproductive conditions by Keisuke Tanaka, Akwasi A. Amoako, Sally Mortlock, Peter A. W. Rogers, Sarah J. Holdsworth-Carson, Jacqueline F. Donoghue, Wan Tinn Teh, Grant W. Montgomery, Brett McKinnon

“…Abstract Background Endocannabinoids are small lipid molecules that have critical roles in cellular proliferation and function. They are produced locally with their concentrations controlled via the endocannabinoid system (ECS). …”
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Diverse vegetation responses to solar farm installation are also driven by climate change by Chuandong Wu, Hu Liu, Lemin Wei, Yang Yu, Wenzhi Zhao, Li Guo, Zhibin He, Omer Yetemen, Dawen Yang

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Multiwavelength Constraints on the Local Black Hole Occupation Fraction by Colin J. Burke, Priyamvada Natarajan, Vivienne F. Baldassare, Marla Geha

“…We also constrain the extremely low-luminosity end ( L _bol ≲ 10 ^40 erg s ^−1 ) of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) luminosity functions at z = 0. Our AGN luminosity functions are broadly consistent with an extrapolation of the shallow slope of the AGN luminosity functions from previous work.…”
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THE POSSIBILITY OF USING INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN MICRO-CREDIT FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES by I. N. Klyukin

“…At the same time, the main focus of the use of public resources should not be the selection of direct investments, and insurance and the provision of state guarantees for loan repayment.The article is addressed to specialists in the field of financial and credit relations, persons engaged in entrepreneurial activities, as well as everyone who is interested in this subject.…”
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Routing algorithm for heterogeneous computing force requests based on computing first network by ZHANG Gang, LI Xi

“…By constructing a solution matrix and utilizing evaluation functions, random selection of feasible solutions, and the principle of low demand priority avoidance, a set of feasible solution sets was ultimately found. …”
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pytom-match-pick: A tophat-transform constraint for automated classification in template matching by Marten L. Chaillet, Sander Roet, Remco C. Veltkamp, Friedrich Förster

“…However, TM faces challenges of weak signal of the macromolecules and interfering features with a high signal-to-noise ratio, which are often addressed by time-consuming, subjective manual curation of results. To improve the detection performance we introduce pytom-match-pick, a GPU-accelerated, open-source command line interface for enhanced TM in cryo-ET. …”
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Using Landscape Metrics of Pixel Scale Land Cover Extracted from High Spatial Resolution Images to Classify Block-Level Urban Land Use by Haofeng Luo, Xiaomei Yang, Zhihua Wang, Yueming Liu, Huifang Zhang, Ku Gao, Qingyang Zhang

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MergeBot: A platform of semi-structured merge conflict resolution for C/C++ code by Hua He, Xiaofan Liu, Lei Xu, Guanghui Mei, Jifeng Xuan

“…In software version control systems, like Git, merge conflicts typically arise when multiple developers edit the same segment of a source file from different branches. Detecting merge conflicts can be automated; however, resolving merge conflicts is tedious and demanding. …”
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Genome-wide identification, characterization and expression analysis of CNGC Genes in moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) by Jiaqi Tan, Xueyun Xuan, Shiying Su, Hui Guo, Yang Jiao, Zhijun Zhang

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Identification of multiple power quality disturbances in hybrid microgrid using deep stacked auto-encoder based bi-directional LSTM classifier by Ravi Kumar Jalli, Lipsa Priyadarshini, P.K. Dash, Ranjeeta Bisoi

“…In recent years microgrid technology has created widespread interest for the integration of renewable energy sources into main utility grid to supply clean energy to the end users. …”
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Power Communication Network Recovery from Large-Scale Failures Based on Reinforcement Learning by Huibin JIA, Yonghe GAI, Baogang LI, Hongda ZHENG

“…Regarding this model, a heuristic algorithm based on reinforcement learning is proposed, in which the link recovery resources and the degree of importance of the damaged link in the failed service are taken into account to set the reward and penalty functions as well as the selection rules. …”
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An Empirical Framework Characterizing the Metallicity and Star-formation History Dependence of X-Ray Binary Population Formation and Emission in Galaxies by Bret D. Lehmer, Erik B. Monson, Rafael T. Eufrasio, Amirnezam Amiri, Keith Doore, Antara Basu-Zych, Kristen Garofali, Lidia Oskinova, Jeff J. Andrews, Vallia Antoniou, Robel Geda, Jenny E. Greene, Konstantinos Kovlakas, Margaret Lazzarini, Chris T. Richardson

“…We present a new empirical framework modeling the metallicity and star formation history (SFH) dependence of X-ray luminous ( L ≳ 10 ^36 erg s ^−1 ) point-source population X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) in normal galaxies. …”
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Allelic differences in the key genes of betalain biosynthesis in table beet accessions with contrasting root color from the VIR collection by A. S. Mikhailova, D. V. Sokolova, N. A. Shvachko, V. S. Popov, E. K. Khlestkina

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