Smart estimation of protective antioxidant enzymes’ activity in savory (Satureja rechingeri L.) under drought stress and soil amendments by Amin Taheri-Garavand, Mojgan Beiranvandi, Abdolreza Ahmadi, Nikolaos Nikoloudakis

“…Abstract Savory (Satureja rechingeri L.) is one of Iran’s most important medicinal plants, having low irrigation needs, and thus is considered one of the most valuable plants for cultivation in arid and semi-arid regions, especially under drought conditions. …”
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Global Feature Focusing and Information Enhancement Network for Occluded Pedestrian Detection by ZHENG Kaikui, JI Kangyou, LI Jun, LI Qiming

“…Existing methods, including post-processing optimization, specific model based improvements, and body part feature based methods, have limitations such as inaccurate handling of heavily occluded positive samples, high computational complexity, and susceptible to background noise. …”
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Strategies and Challenges in Detecting XSS Vulnerabilities Using an Innovative Cookie Collector by Germán Rodríguez-Galán, Eduardo Benavides-Astudillo, Daniel Nuñez-Agurto, Pablo Puente-Ponce, Sonia Cárdenas-Delgado, Mauricio Loachamín-Valencia

“…Additionally, clustering algorithms enabled user segmentation based on cookie data, identification of behavioral patterns, enhanced personalized web recommendations, and browsing experience optimization. …”
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Effects of the lavage through fistula in treatment of spontaneous esophageal rupture by combined thoracoscopic and gastroscopic management by Zhao Huang, Penglong Zhao, Bingmei Qiu, Chuan Gao, Zhao Chen, Nan Yang, Yang Xu, Zhiqiang Zou, Yi Shen, Liwen Hu

“…Conclusions The Lavage-Drainage approach enhanced the drainage efficiency, reduced the inflammation level, and improved the prognosis of SER. However, this study has some limitations, and further multi-center prospective studies are needed to optimize the treatment and reduce costs.…”
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On the Choice of System Strength Metrics for the Allocation and Sizing of Synchronous Condensers in Power Grids by Shereefdeen Oladapo Sanni, Olatunji Obalowu Mohammed, Suprava Chakraborty, Ayodele Isqeel Abdullateef, Abdulrahaman Okino Otuoze, Olumoroti Ikotun, Ephraim Bonah Agyekum

“…Although the NRSCR-based method significantly improved system performance during faults—offering faster voltage recovery post-fault and higher fault current contributions—it resulted in a cost increase of approximately 7 times. …”
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“Bias Correction Method” for Regional Correction Experiment of Warm Season Rainstorm in Zhejiang by Chengyan Mao, Xin Pan, Haowen Li, Weibiao Li, Haoya Liu

“…The correction has the most significant impact in northwestern Zhejiang, while its effects are less pronounced in the northeastern coastal areas. (2) Both overall correction and regional correction improve forecast accuracy across various precipitation thresholds. …”
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Rice Growth Parameter Estimation Based on Remote Satellite and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Image Fusion by Jiaqi Duan, Hong Wang, Yuhang Yang, Mingwang Cheng, Dan Li

“…The results indicate the following: (1) The fusion of satellite and UAV images, combined with spectral information and textural features, can significantly improve the estimation accuracy of LAI and SPAD compared to using only spectral information or textural features. (2) Sparrow search algorithm-optimized extreme gradient boosting (SSA-XGBoost) regression achieved the highest accuracy, with R² and RMSE of 0.904 and 0.183 in LAI estimation and 0.857 and 0.882 in SPAD estimation, respectively. …”
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Beyond Linearity: Uncovering the Complex Spatiotemporal Drivers of New-Type Urbanization and Eco-Environmental Resilience Coupling in China’s Chengdu–Chongqing Economic Circle with... by Caoxin Chen, Shiyi Wang, Meixi Liu, Ke Huang, Qiuyi Guo, Wei Xie, Jiangjun Wan

“…The results reveal the following: (1) NTU and EER levels steadily improved from 2004 to 2022, although coordination between cities still requires enhancement; (2) CCD exhibited a temporal pattern of “progressive escalation and continuous optimization,” and a spatial pattern of “dual-core leadership and regional diffusion,” with most cities shifting from NTU-lagged to synchronized development; (3) environmental regulations (MAR) and fixed asset investment (FIX) emerged as the most influential CCD drivers, and significant nonlinear interactions were observed, particularly those involving population size (HUM); (4) CCD drivers exhibited complex spatiotemporal heterogeneity, characterized by “stage dominance—marginal variation—spatial mismatch.” …”
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Energy-efficient power control for two-tier femtocell networks with block-fading channels by Zhixin Liu, Jieshuai Wu, Yang Liu, Hongjiu Yang, Jianfeng Guan, Yu Wang

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Elastic net with Bayesian Density Estimation model for feature selection for photovoltaic energy prediction by Venkatachalam Mohanasundaram, Balamurugan Rangaswamy

“…Research investigations demonstrate that the ELNET-BDE model attains significantly lower Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) than contesting Machine Learning (ML) algorithms like Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), and Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM). …”
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Minding the gap. Drug-related problems among breastfeeding women by Karolina Morze, Edyta Szałek, Magdalena Waszyk-Nowaczyk

“…Future research should focus on developing evidence-based guidelines for medication use during lactation and improving healthcare provider education to optimize maternal and infant health.…”
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PATH PLANNING AND OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS by Ihor Berizka

“…Research at the time of writing focuses on optimizing existing algorithms and hybridization to improve efficiency. …”
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Building Up a Robust Risk Mathematical Platform to Predict Colorectal Cancer by Le Zhang, Chunqiu Zheng, Tian Li, Lei Xing, Han Zeng, Tingting Li, Huan Yang, Jia Cao, Badong Chen, Ziyuan Zhou

“…Colorectal cancer (CRC), as a result of a multistep process and under multiple factors, is one of the most common life-threatening cancers worldwide. To identify the “high risk” populations is critical for early diagnosis and improvement of overall survival rate. …”
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DAG-based swarm learning: A secure asynchronous learning framework for Internet of Vehicles by Xiaoge Huang, Hongbo Yin, Qianbin Chen, Yu Zeng, Jianfeng Yao

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Electrophysiological changes in the acute phase after deep brain stimulation surgery by Lucia K. Feldmann, Diogo Coutinho Soriano, Jeroen Habets, Valentina D'Onofrio, Jonathan Kaplan, Varvara Mathiopoulou, Katharina Faust, Gerd-Helge Schneider, Doreen Gruber, Georg Ebersbach, Hayriye Cagnan, Andrea A. Kühn

“…Background: With the introduction of sensing-enabled deep brain stimulation devices, characterization of long-term biomarker dynamics is of growing importance for treatment optimization. The microlesion effect is a well-known phenomenon of transient clinical improvement in the acute post-operative phase. …”
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Combined unstable damage to the pelvis and abdominal organs. Justification of treatment tactics by O.A. Burianov, V.Р. Kvasha, V.M. Diomin, V.M. Lianskorunskyi, D.V. Miasnikov

“…The mortality rate for pelvic fractures and abdominal trauma is approximately 5–10 %, which is attributed to hemodynamic instabi­lity in this cohort. The purpose was to improve treatment outcomes in patients with combined pelvic and abdominal organ injuries by optimizing treatment strategy. …”
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Unsupervised Anomaly Detection on Metal Surfaces Based on Frequency Domain Information Fusion by Wenfei Wu, Tao Tao, Jinsheng Xiao, Yichu Yao, Jianfeng Yang

“…In addition, a feature selection module is designed to improve the anomaly detection capability and reduce the computational redundancy by selecting the most representative subset of features. …”
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Spatiotemporal Correlation Based Fault-Tolerant Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks by Kezhong Liu, Yang Zhuang, Zhibo Wang, Jie Ma

“…Reliable event detection is one of the most important objectives in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), especially in the presence of faulty nodes. …”
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High precision water quality retrieval in Dianchi Lake using Gaofen 5 data and machine learning methods by Yuewen Feng, Jun Zhang, Sanjie Guo, Yunbai Zhang, Zhongwei Zhang

“…The Back Propagation Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (BP-NGA) model consistently yielded positive results for most WQI. (2) Water quality in Dianchi varied significantly by region and season. (3) It was recommended to build wetlands and ecological parks on the southwest side of Dianchi and improve sewage interception pipelines on the northeast side to lessen the risk of eutrophication by reducing the inflow of nitrogen and phosphorus.…”
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Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Dynamic Embedding and Scheduling of Service Function Chains for Future SDN/NFV-Enabled Networks by Haotong Cao, Hongbo Zhu, Longxiang Yang

“…If the resource and QoS requirements of the VNFs are not satisfied, a re-embedding and re-scheduling scheme will be triggered in order to optimize certain existing VNFs. The dynamic embedding and scheduling algorithm has flexible network function placement and improves the underlying resource utilization. …”
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