HE ASSESSMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FACTORS IN THE RURAL AREAS - A CASE STUDY FROM AZERBAIJAN by Fariz ALAKBAROV, Sait ENGINDENIZ, Ramina MUSTAFAYEVA, Muhammad ALAKBAROV

“…Simple statistical methods were applied in the evaluation of the data obtained, and average and percentage calculations were performed. …”
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Prediction of electricity production by small wind power using artificial neural networks by Justyna Zalewska-Lesiak, Mateusz Oszczypała, Jerzy Małachowski

“…In this article, an artificial neural network method is used to evaluate the forecasting of wind energy production from a small wind turbine (SWT) installed in central Poland, reflecting inland wind conditions.MethodsA comprehensive set of algorithms and results from simulations are presented. …”
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Human as AI mentor: Enhanced human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for safe and efficient autonomous driving by Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Chengyuan Ma, Sikai Chen

“…On the other hand, the agent could be guided to minimize traffic flow disturbance, thereby optimizing traffic flow efficiency. In detail, HAIM-DRL leverages data collected from free exploration and partial human demonstrations as its two training sources. …”
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Neural network approach to ensuring visual coherence in augmented reality flight simulators by A. L. Gorbunov, Yunhan Li

“…Recently, VC has been increasingly provided by neural network methods, thereby, the most important aspects of VC are lighting conditions, so the major share of research is focused on transferring these conditions (location of light sources and their color tone) from the real world to the virtual one, but the great body of the known approaches are characterized by the lack of versatility and the need to perform manual procedures. …”
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Determination of G2 Erosion Model Parameters With Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Data by Edyta Kruk, Przemyslaw Klapa, Marek Ryczek, Tomasz Kowalik

“…They are popular data sources for various purposes, including spatial analysis, site and object surveys, and environmental studies. …”
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A Distributed Privacy Preserved Federated Learning Approach for Revolutionizing Pneumonia Detection in Isolated Heterogenous Data Silos by Shagun Sharma, Kalpna Guleria

“…The analysis of tomographic images is the most significant method of pneumonia detection. The image analysis requires expertise and proficiency to diagnose the disease correctly. …”
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Robust Expansion Planning of Distribution Network in Presence of Electric Vehicles to Improve Economic Parameters and Reduce Energy Consumption by Mahyar Abasi, Javad Ebrahimi, Shirin Besati

“…Thus, this paper utilizes a convex solution method based on integer linear programming to effectively plan the expansion of the distribution network considering the availability of EV charging stations, compensators, substations, resources, and new lines. …”
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A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Estimation of Abundance and Spatial Density of Aedes aegypti. by Daniel A M Villela, Claudia T Codeço, Felipe Figueiredo, Gabriela A Garcia, Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas, Claudio J Struchiner

“…The hierarchical model also performed better than the commonly used Fisher-Ford's method, when using simulated data. The proposed model provides a formal treatment of the sources of uncertainty associated with the estimation of mosquito abundance imposed by the sampling design. …”
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Mother's Knowledge Levels on Baby Massage for 0-12 Months Old Babies at PMB Ni Kadek Kurniati, A.Md., Pemogan South Denpasar by Made Pradnyawati Chania, Kadek Lisanita Dewi Swantari, Ni Wayan Sukma Adnyani

“…In order to increase the baby's growth and development optimally, performing the baby massage activities needs good knowledge of the mother. …”
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Modern possibilities of minimally invasive biliary drainage techniques for patients with malignant jaundice by E. V. Didenko, V. O. Hubka

“…However, despite technological progress and accumulated clinical experience, a number of unresolved issues remain, in particular, related to choosing the optimal drainage method for a particular patient, and assessing the effectiveness and safety of a specific technique. …”
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Management of biofuel production in Ukraine: the role of accounting for achieving sustainable development by I.V. Zamula, V.V. Travin, O.D. Yurkivska

“…Global biofuel production is growing rapidly due to the demand for alternative energy sources and the desire to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. …”
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CLEAR: Multimodal Human Activity Recognition via Contrastive Learning Based Feature Extraction Refinement by Mingming Cao, Jie Wan, Xiang Gu

“…Relying solely on existing labeled data may not adequately address the challenge of ensuring the model’s generalization ability to new data. The ’CLEAR’ method is designed to improve the accuracy of multimodal human activity recognition. …”
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SUSPECTED MEASLES AND IMMUNIZATION TRENDS BEFORE AND DURING COVID-19 IN EAST JAVA, INDONESIA by Munif Arifin, Meilinda Alya' Putri Haryanik, Irma Prasetyowati

“…Purpose: This study aims to analyze measles suspects' epidemiological characteristics before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: This study used a cross-sectional approach. …”
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Thermal Profile of a Low-Concentrator Photovoltaic: A COMSOL Simulation by Maryam M. Alqurashi, Reem M. Altuwirqi, Entesar A. Ganash

“…With the gradual reduction of fossil fuels, it is essential to find alternative renewable sources of energy. It is important to take advantage of substitutes that are less expensive and more efficient in energy production. …”
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Visible-light deep reduction of low concentration CO2 over composite catalyst Ru/CoAl-LDH and the performance enhancement mechanism by Jun DAI, Fengting JIA, Juan YANG, Zhixiang FENG, Dazhao WANG, Chongchong LENG

“…By using Ru/CoAl-LDH as photocatalysts, H2O as electron donor and hydrogen source, and 10% CO2/N2 mixture as simulated flue gas, the effect of Ru loading amount on the productivity of CO2 reduction products and the selectivity of deep reduction products were investigated under visible light irradiation. 1.6% Ru/CoAl-LDH exhibited the optimal CO2 photoreduction performance. …”
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Diversity of Anaplasmataceae Transmitted by Ticks (Ixodidae) and the First Molecular Evidence of <i>Anaplasma phagocytophilum</i> and <i>Candidatus</i> Anaplasma boleense in Paragu... by Oscar Daniel Salvioni Recalde, Miriam Soledad Rolón, Myriam Celeste Velázquez, Martin M. Kowalewski, Jorge Javier Alfonso Ruiz Diaz, Antonieta Rojas de Arias, Milton Ozório Moraes, Harrison Magdinier Gomes, Bruna de Azevedo Baêta, Matheus Dias Cordeiro, María Celeste Vega Gómez

“…The bacteria were identified using PCR-HRM, a method optimized for this purpose, while the identification of ticks and their blood meal was performed using conventional PCR. …”
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Outage Analysis in SWIPT-Based Decode-and-Forward Relay Networks with Partial Relay Selection by Phu Tran Tin, Van-Duc Phan, Phu X. Nguyen, Thanh-Long Nguyen, Dong-Si Thien Chau, Tan N. Nguyen

“…This work studies the SWIPT-based half-duplex (HD) decode-and-forward (DF) relay network, wherein the relay user can scavenge power from the source’s radio-frequency (RF) signals and then utilize it to convey the information to the destination. …”
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Modeling Marine Geoid in the China Seas and Its Adjacent Ocean Based on Satellite Altimeter-Derived Gravity Anomaly Model by Huiying Zhang, Xin Liu, Zhen Li, Xiaotao Chang, Heping Sun, Hui Li, Jinyun Guo

“…The model optimizes the deflection of the vertical accuracy imbalance. …”
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Synthesis and Application of Calcium-Alginate-Chitosan as a Seawater Desalination Product by Cahyani Hety Setia, Syah Alif Alfarisyi, Wijaya Anugrah Ricky, Utomo Yudhi, Pramesti Indah Nur

“…The method used in this study is a cross-linking reaction between polymers with variations of CaCh, namely 0.5 M, 1 M, and 2 M for the formation of calcium-alginate-chitosan. …”
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Cross-Layer Stream Allocation of mMIMO-OFDM Hybrid Beamforming Video Communications by You-Ting Chen, Shu-Ming Tseng, Yung-Fang Chen, Chao Fang

“…A key distinction of our approach is the integration of cross-layer resource allocation, which jointly considers both the physical layer channel state information (CSI) and the application layer video rate-distortion (RD) function. While traditional methods optimize for spectral efficiency (SE), our proposed method directly maximizes the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) to enhance video quality, aligning with the growing demand for high-quality video communication. …”
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