Selection of Superior Sugar Beet Genotypes using the Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Traits by Mahdi Hassani, Ali Saremirad, Hamed Mansouri

“…Breeders have effectively cultivated sugar beet varieties boasting elevated quantitative and qualitative yields, alongside enhanced disease resistance, achieved through the meticulous selection and crossbreeding of diverse sugar beet lines. …”
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The Comparison of Cost-Effectiveness Between Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Provocative Discography in the Identification of Chronic Low Back Pain Surgery Candidates by Wilson L, Beall DP, Eastlack RK, Berven S, Lotz JC

“…MRS-based diagnosis showed 78% surgical success, whereas PD achieved 68%. MRS was the dominant diagnostic strategy, with better clinical outcomes and cost savings. …”
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Stage actor tracking method based on infrared ink marking(基于红外油墨标记的舞台演员跟踪算法) by 李平(LI Ping), 陈书界(CHEN Shujie), 王登辉(WANG Denghui), 刘钟淋(LIU Zhonglin), 王勋(WANG Xun), 周迪(ZHOU Di), 丁勇(DING Yong)

“…However, in the case of stage performance where extreme illumination and severe occlusion always happen, it is a great challenge to achieve comparable performance. Due to the characteristics of similar appearance of actors, drastic changes in illumination, and frequent occlusions that always happen on the stage performance, direct use of existing tracking algorithms will cause a problem of frequent actor identities switching, making the related downstream tasks such as actor action recognition and virtual reality based projection difficult to be carried out. …”
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Image Segmentation Method of Chinese Yam Leaves in Complex Background Based on Improved ENet by LU Bibo, LIANG Di, YANG Jie, SONG Aiqing, HUANGFU Shangwei

“…The experimental results showed that the improved model achieved a mIoU of 98.61%. Compared with the original model, the number of parameters and FLOPs significantly decreased. …”
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“Restoration of the Past Scenery-Realm”: A Research on the Scenery-Realm Restoration of Jiang’s Fu Garden During Qing Dynasty in the Historical Revolution of the Humble Administrat... by Qian BIAN

“…In terms of scenery construction, the research reveals the “Chi Shang Shan Lin” (hills and groves above the pool) as the core characteristic of the garden’s scenery, and the interaction between and transformation of various scenes within this core scenery provide the key basis for achieving the garden’s realm experience of “Shan Lin Zhi Xing” (nature of hills and groves) and “Xian Kuang Zhi Yu” (leisurely and spacious domain). …”
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and spread of New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase (NDM) in Italy: A call for policymakers by Gabriella Nucera

“…As AMR undermines the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the World Health Organization (WHO) called for a coordinated action among all countries worldwide, giving a special role to their governments [2, 4]. …”

Crack of a helicopter main rotor actuator attachment: failure analysis and lessons learned by L. Allegrucci, F. De Paolis, A. Coletta, M. Bernabei

“…Microscopic fracture features of both the investigated surfaces were not coherent to the hypothesis of an impact of the main rotor to the soil. Further achieved evidences, such as grain boundary fracture propagation, the presence of corrosion products, were all in accordance with a Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) progressive fracture mechanism. …”
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Éloge de l’inauthenticité: le dix-huitième siècle à l’écran, autour de 'Barry Lyndon' de Stanley Kubrick by Alexis Tadié

“…I focus on the question of authenticity, such as Stanley Kubrick strove to achieve in Barry Lyndon (1975). Kubrick’s quest for authenticity defined a new aesthetic in the representation of the Enlightenment that is now more or less accepted by proponents of heritage cinema. …”
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Evaluation of Urban Composite Carbon Sink Value: A Case Study of Shenyang by Tiemao SHI, Di WANG, Yu TANG, Peiying LI

“…ObjectiveIn view of the urgent necessity to achieve the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals and establish an effective ecological compensation system, it is of crucial significance to evaluate the carbon sink value. …”
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Visual Environment Factors Influencing Staying Behaviors During Cycling on Countryside Greenways by Ting WEN, Yun ZHANG, Ming DU

“…At the node level, strategies should focus on broadening the visual field and prolonging the duration of stays. This can be achieved through strategic optimization of plant layouts and reduction of physical obstructions, which collectively serve to enhance the perceivability of the surrounding natural scenery. …”
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[Translated article] Thrombotic event prevention in patients undergoing posterior lumbar arthrodesis: Our experience. A retrospective case series study by M. Desviat Ruiz, P. Jordà Gómez, K. Ramón López, J.M. Romero Martínez, J.J. Valls Vilalta, N. Fernández Fernández, Á. Chulvi Gimeno, L. Cuñat Navarro, J. Poyatos Campos

“…Conclusions: By applying the fore mentioned protocol, adequate prevention of thromboembolic events was achieved in this study population of patients undergoing posterior spinal surgery. …”
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Power calculation of novel single-piece aspheric diffractive trifocal intraocular lens by K.B. Pershin, N.F. Pashinova, M.M. Konovalova, A.Yu. Tsygankov, M.E. Konovalov

“…</i> </p> <p> <i><b>Conclusions</b>: the lowest mean absolute error and the greatest rate of target refraction achievement were in Barrett Universal II and Olsen groups. …”
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Effect of different 1-methylcyclopropene formulations and dosing on the ripening profile of Tommy Atkins mango fruits by Geoffrey Chomba, Jane Ambuko, Cecilia Onyango, John Robert Ouko

“…SmartFresh™–SmartTabs™ applied at 2.0ppm for 24 hours achieved an increased shelf life of 12 days compared to the control in stage 1. …”
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Deteksi Covid-19 pada Citra Sinar-X Dada Menggunakan Deep Learning yang Efisien by Novanto Yudistira, Agus Wahyu Widodo, Bayu Rahayudi

“…We used 1125 x-ray images and achieved an accuracy of 86.93% with a number of model parameters of 18.55 times less than EfficientNet and 22.36 times less than ResNet50 to detect 3 categories namely Covid-19, Pneumonia, and normal through the 5-fold cross validation. …”
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Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…“Ritual Archives”, the climatic conclusion of the account in The Toyin Falola Reader ( Austin: Pan African University, 2018), of the efforts of Africa and its Americas Diaspora to achieve political, economic, intellectual and cultural individuality, is a deeply intriguing, ideationally, structurally and stylistically powerful and inspiring work, rich with ideas and arresting verbal and visual images. …”
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Predicting Insemination Outcome in Holstein Dairy Cattle using Deep Learning by Mohammad Alishahi, Mahdi Ravakhah

“…Then, the sequences were aligned and stacked to achieve a constant length of 20. In total, about 168,000 training sequences, 23,000 validation sequences, and about 46,000 test sequences were generated. …”
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Benchmarking data-driven inversion methods for the estimation of local CO₂ emissions from synthetic satellite images of XCO₂ and NO₂ by D. Santaren, J. Hakkarainen, G. Kuhlmann, E. Koene, F. Chevallier, I. Ialongo, H. Lindqvist, J. Nurmela, J. Tamminen, L. Amorós, D. Brunner, G. Broquet

“…Due to a reliable estimation of uncertainty and, thus, a suitable<span id="page212"/> selection of estimates, the CSF method achieves similar, if not better, accuracy statistics for instant estimates compared to the GP and LCSF methods after filtering. …”
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Application of narrative education in curriculum ideology and politics focusing on job competencies in clinical teaching of nursing students (叙事教育在以岗位胜任力为核心的全日制护生思政教育带教模式中的应用研究)... by DENG Lijun (邓丽君), TANG Biying (唐碧英), YU Qiuhua (余秋花), LIU Yuanyuan (刘圆圆), HUANG Tianwen (黄天雯)

“…Students in the observation group achieved higher outcomes of assessment of theoretical knowledge and practical skills compared with those in the control group (P＜0. 05). …”
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ADMINISTRATIVE PREREQUISITES FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING OF SMALL BUSINESSES AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL by Natalia Koval, Oksana Kubai, Natalia Germaniuk

“…Thus, after analysing the main financial indicators of PE activity, it can be stated that the company achieves maximum financial results, increases its own capital and strengthens its position on the competitive market with the help of financial policy and financial instruments. …”
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Addressing Shortcomings in Contingency Standards of Care by Alexander Quan

“…There are multiple ways of achieving equity during contingency allocation, ranging from hospital-level to state-level policy changes. …”
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