Precise application of water and fertilizer to crops: challenges and opportunities by Yingying Xing, Xiukang Wang

“…Precision water and fertilizer application technologies have emerged as crucial innovations in sustainable agriculture, addressing the pressing need to enhance crop yield and quality while optimizing resource use and minimizing environmental impacts. …”
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Fraud Detection in Privacy Preserving Health Insurance System Using Blockchain Technology by Md. Mazharul Islam, Mubasshir Ahmed, Rajesh Palit, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, Salekul Islam

“…Privacy is preserved using cryptographic techniques such as secure hashing and anonymous credentials, which ensure that sensitive patient information remains confidential throughout the claim process. Smart contract algorithms are utilized in two scenarios: patient‐submitted claims and healthcare provider‐submitted claims, ensuring accurate processing and validation while detecting fraudulent activities such as duplicate claims, inflated medical bills, billing for unprovided services, falsifying patient records, and submitting claims for nonexistent treatments. …”
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A novel Hadamard matrix based hybrid compressive sensing technique for enhancing energy efficiency and network longevity by Balamurali S, Kathirvelu M, SatheeshKumar Palanisamy, Tagrid Abdullah N. Alshalali

“…Such issues complicating protocol design and reducing network efficiency. While various clustering protocols exist, a critical gap still remains in effectively balancing these limitations, to optimize energy consumption, memory efficiency, data accuracy, and network longevity. …”
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Leveraging machine learning techniques to analyze nutritional content in processed foods by K. A. Muthukumar, Soumya Gupta, Doli Saikia

“…The SVR model was optimized to identify the best-fitting hyperplane in high-dimensional space, while the RF model utilized GridSearchCV for hyperparameter tuning and performed a “Feature Importance Analysis” to identify key factors influencing the outcomes. …”
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YOLORM: An Advanced Key Point Detection Method for Accurate and Efficient Rotameter Reading in Low Flow Environments by Huang Yong, Xia Xing, Xiao Shengwang

“…Moreover, YOLORM exhibited significant reductions in parameter count and computational cost while maintaining or enhancing detection performance relative to state-of-the-art algorithms. …”
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DRACO: Decentralized Asynchronous Federated Learning Over Row-Stochastic Wireless Networks by Eunjeong Jeong, Marios Kountouris

“…Through a thorough convergence analysis, we show that DRACO achieves high performance in decentralized optimization while maintaining low variance across users even without predefined scheduling policies. …”
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Distance Estimation with a Stereo Camera and Accuracy Determination by Arnold Zaremba, Szymon Nitkiewicz

“…These results provide valuable information on the capabilities and limitations of the measurement system used, while pointing out directions for its further optimization.…”
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Neural Network-Based Imitation Learning for Approximating Stochastic Battery Management Systems by Andrea Pozzi, Alessandro Incremona, Daniele Toti

“…Traditional predictive control methods are limited by their reliance on precise models, which are often hindered by uncertainties in battery parameters due to aging, production variability, and operational conditions. While stochastic predictive control policies can address these uncertainties by incorporating them directly into the optimization process, they typically introduce considerable computational complexity. …”
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Artificial Neural Network Prediction on negative and positive activation energy of magnetohydrodynamic nanofluid flow with multiple slips by Shovan Sarkar, Hiranmoy Mondal, Prabir Kumar Kundu

“…Another important matter to discuss here that we have used feed-forward back-propagation multilayer perceptron artificial neural network with Levenberg-Marquard algorithm as the training algorithm to predict the Sherwood number for both activation energy values 1 and -1. …”
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PV<i>k</i>NN: A Publicly Verifiable and Privacy-Preserving Exact <i>k</i>NN Query Scheme for Cloud-Based Location Services by Jingyi Li, Yuqi Song, Chengliang Tian, Weizhong Tian

“…Leveraging Paillier’s homomorphic cryptosystem and public-key signature techniques, our design achieves heightened security by safeguarding databases, query access patterns, and result integrity while enabling public verification. Additionally, our scheme enhances computational efficiency through optimized data-packing techniques and simplified Voronoi diagram-based ciphertext index construction, leading to substantial savings in computational and communication overheads. …”
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Low-Power Portable System for Power Grid Foreign Object Detection Based on the Lightweight Model of Improved YOLOv7 by Yonghuan He, Rong Wu, Chao Dang

“…Foreign objects caught and entangled on power grid transmission lines, power towers and other equipment can pose potential threats to the power system. The detection algorithm for foreign objects in the power grid cannot achieve the optimal balance in terms of accuracy and efficiency. …”
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Multi-Objective-Based Multi-Heterogeneous- Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Minimization of Voltage Deviation and Operation Cost in Active Distribution System by Anurak Deanseekeaw, Watcharakorn Pinthurat, Boonruang Marungsri

“…Furthermore, the MATD3 algorithm reduces operational costs to 56,837.85 THB/day while generating the highest net profit of 725,943.71 THB/day from energy trading. …”
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Artificial intelligence-empowered functional design of semi-transparent optoelectronic and photonic devices via deep Q-learning by Caglar Cetinkaya, Erman Cokduygulular, Muhammed Yusuf Aykut, Okan Erkal, Fatma Aydogmus, Baris Kinaci

“…The deep Q-learning algorithm successfully identified configurations yielding a maximum photo-current density (Jph) while effectively maintaining average visible transmittance (AVT), balancing transparency, and photon harvesting by learning Maxwell’s equations. …”
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The complex treatment of acute pancreatitis using miniinvasive surgical treatment by G. I. Ohrimenko, N. G. Golovko, V. A. Grushka, T. S. Gavrilenko, P. G. Kocherov

“…Aim. In order to develop optimal diagnostic and treatment algorithm 316 patients took part in the study. …”
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Energy-efficient cooperative sensing and transmission in relay-assisted cognitive radio network by Li FENG, Yu-jun KUANG, Bin-wei WU, Xin-chuan FU

“…An innovative EE-oriented cooperative sensing and transmission scheme in relay-assisted cognitive radio networks,called energy-efficient best-relay cooperative transmission (BCT) was proposed.Based on the BCT scheme,mean energy efficiency (MEE) maximization problem with sensing duration and transmitting power as optimization variables was modeled for fading channels under constraint of minimal secondary outage probability.By virtue of Jensen’s inequality,the original optimization problem was decomposed into two relatively independent subproblems which solved sensing duration and power allocation respectively.And for the two subproblems,an efficient cross iteration based algorithm was proposed to obtain the suboptimal solutions.Both analytical and simulation results demonstrate that the proposals can achieve significantly higher EE while enhancing reliability of secondary transmission remarkably compared to non-cooperation single cognitive transmission schemesin high QoS requirement.…”
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Energy-efficient cooperative sensing and transmission in relay-assisted cognitive radio network by Li FENG, Yu-jun KUANG, Bin-wei WU, Xin-chuan FU

“…An innovative EE-oriented cooperative sensing and transmission scheme in relay-assisted cognitive radio networks,called energy-efficient best-relay cooperative transmission (BCT) was proposed.Based on the BCT scheme,mean energy efficiency (MEE) maximization problem with sensing duration and transmitting power as optimization variables was modeled for fading channels under constraint of minimal secondary outage probability.By virtue of Jensen’s inequality,the original optimization problem was decomposed into two relatively independent subproblems which solved sensing duration and power allocation respectively.And for the two subproblems,an efficient cross iteration based algorithm was proposed to obtain the suboptimal solutions.Both analytical and simulation results demonstrate that the proposals can achieve significantly higher EE while enhancing reliability of secondary transmission remarkably compared to non-cooperation single cognitive transmission schemesin high QoS requirement.…”
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Similar Instances Reuse Based Numerical Control Process Decision Method for Prismatic Parts by Changhong XU, Shusheng ZHANG, Jiachen LIANG, Rui HUANG, Rong BIAN

“…The PSD-based ant colony algorithm is proposed and described in detail to generate several locally optimal paths. …”
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Design of Nonlinear PID and FOPID Controllers for Electronic Throttle Valve Plate’s Position by Mohamed Jasim Mohamed, Luay Thamir Rasheed

“…However, all these control schemes above have been studied with and without considering the technique of manipulating the windup problem or antiwindup. A metaheuristic optimization technique, namely, the grey wolf optimization (GWO) algorithm, is introduced for optimizing the controllers’ parameters while minimizing the integral of the cube time square error (IT^3SE) cost function. …”
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Research on SeaTreasure Target Detection Technology Based on Improved YOLOv7-Tiny by Xiang Shi, Yunli Zhao, Jinrong Guo, Yan Liu, Yongqi Zhang

“…Experimental results demonstrate that our optimized algorithm achieves a mAP0.5 of 79.5%, representing a 2.0 percentage point improvement over the baseline YOLOv7-tiny model (77.5%) while maintaining computational efficiency at 45.2 GFLOPs. …”
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Real-time temperature prediction of large-scale lithium battery module driven by data based on few measurement points by Jiajie HAN, Qingyang YUAN, Yu LI, Bo ZHANG, Ke XUE, Tian LAN

“…This database captures essential thermal characteristics of the battery module, allowing for accurate temperature predictions without exhaustive simulations. The Gappy POD algorithm is further enhanced by incorporating a correlation coefficient filtering technique, which identifies a minimal set of optimal measurement points to ensure high accuracy in the reconstructed temperature field while reducing sensor requirements. …”
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