Development and evaluation of a sensor enabled smart herbicide applicator for inter row crops by Pankaj Malkani, Indra Mani, Pramod Kumar Sahoo, Roaf Ahmad Parray, Sidhartha Sekhar Swain, Asha K．R．, Dharmender, Manojit Chowdhury, Sunil Kumar Rathod, Wahidah H․ Al-Qahtani, Ali Salem, Ahmed Elbeltagi, Abdallah Elshawadfy Elwakeel

“…The microcontroller regulates herbicide flow by controlling the flow control valve with a servo motor, following an algorithm based on green area percentage. Field tests demonstrated a 40 % reduction in herbicide use, 91.26 % weeding efficiency, and 63.4 % field efficiency. …”
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Clinical diagnosis of partial or complete anterior cruciate ligament tears using patients' history elements and physical examination tests. by Simon Décary, Michel Fallaha, Sylvain Belzile, Johanne Martel-Pelletier, Jean-Pierre Pelletier, Debbie Feldman, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, Pascal-André Vendittoli, François Desmeules

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Optimization study of dynamic emergency feeder bus paths with the sudden interruption of urban railway traffic by Dejie Xu, Huilin Geng, Changwu Hui, Liang Gong, Hang Yuan, Qian Liu

“…Results indicate a 1.7-hour reduction in total passenger travel time and an 84.7% decrease in computation time compared to the Gurobi exact algorithm. …”
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The Milky Way Radial Metallicity Gradient as an Equilibrium Phenomenon: Why Old Stars Are Metal Rich by James W. Johnson, David H. Weinberg, Guillermo A. Blanc, Ana Bonaca, Gwen C. Rudie, Yuxi (Lucy) Lu, Bronwyn Reichardt Chu, Emily J. Griffith, Tawny Sit, Jennifer A. Johnson, Liam O. Dubay, Miqaela K. Weller, Daniel A. Boyea, Jonathan C. Bird

“…This constancy challenges current models of Galactic chemical evolution, which typically predict lower metallicities for older stellar populations. …”
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Biosample collection in a biobank to solve problems of personalized medicine by O. V. Kopylova, A. I. Ershova, A. N. Meshkov, M. S. Pokrovskaya, I. A. Efimova, A. S. Limonova, A. V. Blokhina, Z. Z. Serebryanskaya, S. A. Smetnev, V. I. Mikhailina, R. P. Myasnikov, A. V. Kiseleva, E. V. Garbuzova, V. A. Metelskaya, A. L. Borisova, O. M. Drapkina

“…The proposed approach to the collection and preservation of biosamples and related clinical, socio-demographic, genetic and other types of data in patients with rare clinical cases of scientific interest is important and effective for solving practical and research problems of personalized medicine. The algorithm is well developed, standardized and easily implemented within the clinics, regardless of their size. …”
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Digital innovation in healthcare: quantifying the impact of digital sepsis screening tools on patient outcomes—a multi-site natural experiment by Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Graham Cooke, Anthony C Gordon, Anthony Gordon, Shashank Patil, Runa Lazzarino, Andrew Brent, Kate Honeyford, Céire E Costelloe, Anne Kinderlerer, John Welch, Peter Ghazal, Claire Burnett, Alf Timney, Andrew Jonathan Brent, Cerie Costelloe, Pippa Goodman Ben Glampson

“…After adjustment for existing trends, there was a significant reduction in mortality in two of the three Trusts which introduced sepsis screening tools. …”
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Improved YOLO-Goose-Based Method for Individual Identification of Lion-Head Geese and Egg Matching: Methods and Experimental Study by Hengyuan Zhang, Zhenlong Wu, Tiemin Zhang, Canhuan Lu, Zhaohui Zhang, Jianzhou Ye, Jikang Yang, Degui Yang, Cheng Fang

“…Experimental results show that the model achieves an <i>F1 score</i> of 93.8% and <i>mAP50</i> of 96.4% on the self-built dataset, representing increases of 10.1% and 5% compared to the original YOLOv8s, with a 27.1% reduction in computational load. The dynamic matching algorithm, incorporating spatiotemporal trajectories and egg positional data, achieves a 95% matching rate, a 94.7% matching accuracy, and a 5.3% mismatching rate. …”
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Remote Sensing of Particle Absorption Coefficient of Pigments Using a Two-Stage Framework Integrating Optical Classification and Machine Learning by Xietian Xia, Shaohua Lei, Hui Lu, Zenghui Xu, Xiang Li, Xing Chen, Niancheng Hong, Jie Xu, Kun Shi, Jiacong Huang

“…Focusing on inland waters—key areas for eutrophication monitoring—we first developed an intelligent clustering method combining Kernel Principal Angle-based Component (KPAC) dimensionality reduction and Chameleon Swarm Algorithm (CSA)-optimized k-medoids to classify water bodies into four optical types based on hyperspectral reflectance features. …”
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A Fusion XGBoost Approach for Large-Scale Monitoring of Soil Heavy Metal in Farmland Using Hyperspectral Imagery by Xuqing Li, Huitao Gu, Ruiyin Tang, Bin Zou, Xiangnan Liu, Huiping Ou, Xuying Chen, Yubin Song, Wei Luo, Bin Wen

“…We took Xiong’an New Area, Hebei Province, as the study area, and acquired heavy metal content using chemical analysis. The XGB-Boruta-PCC algorithm was used for precise feature selection to obtain the final modeled spectral response features. …”
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Reinforcement learning energy management control strategy of electric tractor based on condition identification by Liqiao Li, Jiangchun Chen, Jing Nie, Zongyu Gao

“…Compared with the state machine control strategy, the Q-network RL reduction the totle energy consumption 13.28 % and achieved 94.3 % performance compared with DP. …”
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Hepatocentric approach to achieving compensation of diabetes mellitus in people with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis by N.M. Protas, I.O. Kostitska, M.V. Bielinskyi

“…A hepatocentric approach to the safe and effective management of T2DM in individuals with NASH is justified by the timely use of an updated treatment algorithm with an emphasis on sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors.…”
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Three-dimensional visualization of maize roots based on magnetic resonance imaging by Fang Xiaorong, Wang Nanfei, Zhang Jianfeng, Gong Xiangyang, Liu Fei, He Yong

“…Radiant DICOM viewer and Matlab r2009b were employed to preprocess the original slice images, including: 1) gray level transformation of the original gray level images; 2) contourlet transform filtering for noise reduction and image quality enhancement; 3) segmentation through Otsu threshold segmentation algorithm. …”
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Addressing ORPD problem in a standard IEEE power network accompanied with RESs and FACTs appliances by COMMKE under volatile load scenarios by Susanta Dutta, Tushnik Sarkar, Chandan Paul, Sabbir Reza Tarafdar, Provas Kumar Roy, Ghanshyam G. Tejani, Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad

“…These are, both alone and together, a drop in aggregated voltage deviation (AVD) over buses and a reduction in active power loss (APL). Twenty one cases in all have been looked at using three test frameworks. …”
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Formation of myofаscial pain syndrome and its correction in patients with tension headache by A.V. Vesnin, O.L. Tovazhnianska

“…Purpose – to improve the algorithm for diagnosing and treating tension-type headache, taking into account the condition of the muscles of the body and face and adding an osteopathic method of therapy. …”
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CoNfasTT: A Configurable, Scalable, and Fast Dual Mode Logic-Based NTT Design by Eldar Cohen, Leonid Yavits, Benjamin M. Zaidel, Alexander Fish, Itamar Levi

“…Our implementation offers several potential optimizations, including a unique, fully-combinational, and low-cost modular reduction technique within the K-RED algorithm. Furthermore, it eliminates memory access penalties and control overhead. …”
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THE PERCENTAGE AND STRUCTURE OF PERODONT TISSUE DISEASES IN PATIENTS OF LVIV REGIONAL STATIONARY CLINICAL HOSPITAL DEPENDING ON AGE by M. М. Shevchuk

“…To study the prevalence and structure of periodontal tissue lesions in patients with general - somatic diseases in order to develop a therapeutic algorithm in a hospital setting. Materials and methods. …”
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Framework Construction and Dynamic Characteristics of Spring Low-Temperature Disasters Affecting Winter Wheat in the Huang-Huai-Hai Region, China by Meixuan Li, Zhiguo Huo, Qianchuan Mi, Lei Zhang, Yi Wang, Rui Kong, Mengyuan Jiang, Fengyin Zhang

“…Based on CHI, we found that as the intensity of low temperatures and the amplitude of cooling rise, along with an extended duration of stress and a reduction in relative humidity, the severity of spring LTDs in winter wheat get worse. …”
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Neuro-fuzzy controller based adaptive control for enhancing the frequency response of two-area power system by M.S. Elborlsy, Samir A. Hamad, Fayez F.M. El-Sousy, R.M. Mostafa, H.E. Keshta, Mohamed A. Ghalib

“…FPI and PI controllers' parameters are optimally tuned using a recent optimization technique known as the Coati Optimization Algorithm (COA). The results obtained from various operational scenarios indicate that the proposed MR-ANFIS controller exhibits superior dynamic performance in regulating system frequency compared to traditional FPI and PI controllers. in scenarios involving minor disturbances, the MR-ANFIS controller demonstrates remarkable agility, achieving a reduction in overshoot by 95 %, undershoot by 96.97 %, settling time by 85.1 %, and ITAE by 73.22 %. …”
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Enhancing Port Energy Autonomy Through Hybrid Renewables and Optimized Energy Storage Management by Dimitrios Cholidis, Nikolaos Sifakis, Nikolaos Savvakis, George Tsinarakis, Avraam Kartalidis, George Arampatzis

“…The paper adopts a genetic algorithm (GA)-based optimization framework to assess four energy management scenarios that embed wind turbines (WTs), photovoltaic energy (PV), an energy storage system (ESS), and an energy management system (EMS). …”
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Collaborative governance model for spoil disposal and gully infill land creation near open-pit coal mines by Shaogang LEI, Jianying ZHANG, Chang LIU, Liang WANG, Zhenwang JIA

“…The results show that the total area of natural gullies around the open-pit mine treated by this model is 2.588 × 105 m2, reducing the amount of earthwork discharge in the mining area by about 1.536 × 107 m3; By combining the CLiDE geomorphic evolution and soil erosion assessment model, we simulated and evaluated a 66.53% reduction in regional soil erosion after collaborative treatment of surrounding gullies over a 30-year period. …”
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