Integrating Intrinsic and Eccentric Seismic Vulnerability Indices to Prioritize Road Network Accessibility by Ahmad Mohamad El Maissi, Sotirios A. Argyroudis, Moustafa Moufid Kassem, Lee Vien Leong, Fadzli Mohamed Nazri

“…Furthermore, the eccentric seismic vulnerability index is calculated, by following different steps such as assessing the calculated debris width resulting from the collapsed buildings and extracting the accessibility rates through concluding the effective width values. Subsequently, the variation between the accessibility rates is investigated and the integrated seismic risk assessment for a road system is developed with a focus on the integration between asset damage and functionality by generating integrated heat maps that take into consideration the correlation between all the developed vulnerability indices.…”
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) in crop production, case study: apple and grape by Elham Ebrahimi, Laleh Ebrahimi

“…Insufficient attention to the pattern of consumption of production inputs in the agricultural sector as the primary consumer of water in Iran can exacerbate environmental challenges. …”
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Exploring Mortality and Prognostic Factors of Heart Failure with In-Hospital and Emergency Patients by Electronic Medical Records: A Machine Learning Approach by Yu CS, Wu JL, Shih CM, Chiu KL, Chen YD, Chang TH

“…Random forest, support vector machine (SVM), Adaboost, and logistic regression had better overall performances with areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROCs) of > 0.87. …”
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Improving the Energy Efficiency of the Use of Oil Jet Pumps by D. A. Panevnyk

“…In the course of experimental studies, the inverse dependence of the maximum value of the efficiency of a borehole jet pump on the value of its main geometric parameter represented as a power function, has been established. …”
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Estimating Future Costs for Infrastructure in the Proposed Canadian Northern Corridor at Risk From Climate Change by Nathan S. Debortoli, Tristan Pearce, James D. Ford

“…In terms of infrastructure costs, we investigate investment costs and the useful life of nine sectors within transportation, energy and buildings infrastructures. …”
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The Impact of Audit Quality on Organizational Capital and Financing Capacity by Somaye Fathi, Mahdi Bahar Moghadam, Kazem Shamsadini

“…These results collectively advance our understanding of audit quality's dual function as both an organizational capital enhancer and financial constraint moderator. …”
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An Integrated Fault Diagnosis Method for Rotating Machinery Based on Improved Multivariate Multiscale Amplitude-Aware Permutation Entropy and Uniform Phase Empirical Mode Decomposi... by Jiancheng Gong, Xiaoqiang Yang, Fan Pan, Wuqiang Liu, Fuming Zhou

“…The ImvMAAPE values of the reconstructed signals are calculated to generate the initial high-dimensional fault features, and the t-SNE method with excellent nonlinear dimensionality reduction performance is then used to reduce the dimensionality of the initial high-dimensional fault feature vectors. …”
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A New Dynamic Path Planning Approach for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Chenxi Huang, Yisha Lan, Yuchen Liu, Wen Zhou, Hongbin Pei, Longzhi Yang, Yongqiang Cheng, Yongtao Hao, Yonghong Peng

“…To enhance the path searching efficiency, a coordinate transformation is applied to move the origin of the map to the starting point of the path and in line with the source-destination direction. Cost functions are established to represent the dynamically changing threats, and the cost value is considered as a scalar value of mobile threats which are vectors actually. …”
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Analysis of Factors Influencing the Development of Community-Based Tourism in Rural Areas, Case Study: Villages Targeted by Tourism in the Markazi Province by Hamid Afshari, Behrouz Mohammadi Yeganeh, Hossein Farahani, Mehdi Cheraghi

“…But despite the great role it has played in community-based tourism, it has not been able to function as it should. But regarding the environmental dimension, it should be said that this sector has a significant impact on community-based tourism. …”
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Development of an interpretable machine learning model for frailty risk prediction in older adult care institutions: a mixed-methods, cross-sectional study in China by Weizi Wu, Li Jing, Qing Peng, Peng Hua, Zeng Shumei, Luofang Lv, Liqing Yue, Hu Jian zhong, Huang Weihong

“…Five machine learning models were developed and evaluated: logistic regression, support vector machines (SVM), random forest, extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) and a multimodel ensemble approach. …”
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STRUCTURE OF PERIODONTAL TISSUE DISEASES IN WORKERS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN THE OPEN AND COVERED SOIL by V.T. Dyryk

“…Practically no one economy is not functioning without pesticides, which grows industrial and food crops, regardless of the form of ownership and land use system. …”
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Sustainability index analysis of microalgae cultivated in biorefinery palm oil mill effluent by A. Santoso, T. Handayani, D. Pinardi, K. Kusrestuwardani, N. Widyastuti, I. Djarot, J. Haryanti, A. Sitomurni, H. Apriyanto

“…However, palm oil mill effluent as a nutrient for the growth of microalgae has the potential for pollutant removal as well as algae biorefinery products such as biofuel, functional food and many others. This research objectives to analyze the sustainability of the microalgae biomass production for bio-refinery based on the sustainability index assessment. …”
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An Experimental Comparison of Self-Adaptive Differential Evolution Algorithms to Induce Oblique Decision Trees by Rafael Rivera-López, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Juana Canul-Reich, Marco-Antonio Cruz-Chávez

“…In particular, we evaluate the use of self-adaptive differential evolution variants to evolve a population of oblique decision trees encoded as real-valued vectors. Our proposal includes (1) an alternative initialization strategy that reduces redundant nodes and (2) a fitness function that penalizes excessive leaf nodes, promoting smaller and more accurate decision trees. …”
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Research on action matching of skeletal point coordinates and sports teaching application based on Open-pose by Shunmin Su

“…The k-means algorithm is used to quantize the features of the skeletal point coordinates and the residual operations are concatenated to obtain the skeletal point feature vectors, which are probabilistically weighted to improve the accuracy of matching the skeletal point coordinates with the postural movements. …”
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Exploration of the ecology and ex-situ conservation of Betula utilis D. Don: Insights from topography, edaphic factors, and nursery management practices by P.A. Sofi, T.H. Masoodi, Nazir A. Pala, Muhammad Waheed, Saud Alamri, Shaista Khan, Khaled A. Alakeel, Shiekh Marifatul Haq, Rainer W. Bussmann

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Exploring family physicians’ mental health referrals via centralized referral systems in Quebec, Canada: a qualitative descriptive study by Jessica Spagnolo, Marie Beauséjour, Marie-Josée Fleury, Jean-François Clément, Claire Gamache, Lyne Couture, Carine Sauvé, Shane Knight, Christine Gilbert, Richard Fleet, Helen-Maria Vasiliadis

“…Factors identified as influencing referral mechanisms' use and functioning included: 1) challenges related to the communication of ministerial directives on the use/functioning of centralized referral systems; 2) stakeholders' perceptions on the regionally centralized system's objectives for service access; 3) collaborations between clinicians and the regionally centralized system; 4) perceived added value of the regionally centralized system compared to pre-existing centralized local referral systems; and 5) key organizational/system-level mental health challenges and facilitators. …”
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Beyond Laelius. The Orthopraxy of Friendship in the Late Republic by Christian Rollinger

“…This paper attempts to show the importance and function of amicitia in Roman aristocratic society by analyzing its influence on a variety of individual sectors of private and public day-to-day life. …”
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MRI-based intra-tumoral ecological diversity features and temporal characteristics for predicting microvascular invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma by Yuli Zeng, Huiqin Wu, Yanqiu Zhu, Chao Li, Dongyang Du, Yang Song, Sulian Su, Jie Qin, Guihua Jiang, Guihua Jiang, Guihua Jiang

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A Swap-Integrated Procurement Model for Supply Chains: Coordinating with Long-Term Wholesale Contracts by Min-Yeong Ryu, Pyung-Hoi Koo

“…These findings highlight the potential of swap-integrated procurement strategies as practical coordination mechanisms across both private and public sectors, offering strategic value in contexts such as vaccine distribution, fresh produce, and other critical products.…”
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Climate Change and Outdoor Workers: A Narrative Review by Mehdi Asghari, Mohammad Javad Ghanadzadeh, Razieh Soltani Gerdfaramarzi

“…Heat strain, volume depletion and kidney function in California agricultural workers. Occupational and environmental medicine. 2017;74(6):402-9. …”
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