PMDNet: An Improved Object Detection Model for Wheat Field Weed by Zhengyuan Qi, Jun Wang

“…PMDNet incorporates the Poly Kernel Inception Network (PKINet) as the backbone, the self-designed Multi-Scale Feature Pyramid Network (MSFPN) for multi-scale feature fusion, and Dynamic Head (DyHead) as the detection head, resulting in significant performance improvements. …”
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Sustainability analysis of urban neighborhoods with emphasis on spatial and social justice Case Study: Maragheh City by Ali Movahed, Hasan Ahar, Ayub manouchehri, hadiseh gheysari, Abdolbaset Bozorgzadeh

“…In areas such as Jahangir, Daneshghah, Sahand, Valiasr, Azadegan, new structures have been built as residential settlements over the past two decades. …”
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Perbudakan dan Konflik di Kesultanan Palembang by Farida Ratu Wargadalem

“…Hal yang sama terjadi ketika menjelang perang antara Belanda dan Palembang juga dibuat perjanjian antara Sultan Ahmad Najamuddin III (Prabu Anom) pada April 1821, isinya  memuat permasalahan penghapusan perbudakan, tentang  pengangkatannya sebagai Sultan Palembang, dan menjadi sultan jika bersedia membantu Belanda melawan Kesultanan Palembang di bawah Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Segmented Traffic Flow Prediction with ANPRS Data Based on Improved XGBoost by Bo Sun, Tuo Sun, Pengpeng Jiao

“…The prediction accuracy of XGBoost-I-lag is generally higher than XGBoost-I, XGBoost-S-lag, XGBoost-S, and other baseline methods for short-term and long-term multistep ahead. Additionally, the accuracy of the XGBoost-I-lag is evaluated well in nonrecurrent conditions and missing cases with considerable running time. …”
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Ulama's Role in Addressing Public Health Needs: The Case for or Against Breast Milk Banks? by Misbachussurur, ‪Luqman Rico Khashogi

“…Both scholars share a common educational background under Sheikh Ahmad Surkati, yet they arrive at divergent conclusions regarding the operational framework of breast milk banks. …”
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Bacterial aetiology of chronic otitis media with effusion in children - risk factors by Izabela Korona-Glowniak, Agata Wisniewska, Marek Juda, Karolina Kielbik, Grazyna Niedzielska, Anna Malm

“…Conclusions Overall we found OME predominantly a single otopathogen infection caused mainly by A. otitidis, which is difficult in identification using standard culture method, ahead to S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae. However, one third of MEF samples had multiple bacterial pathogens.…”
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An Investigation of Ionospheric TEC Prediction Maps Over China Using Bidirectional Long Short‐Term Memory Method by Shuangshuang Shi, Kefei Zhang, Suqin Wu, Jiaqi Shi, Andong Hu, Huajing Wu, Yu Li

“…The root mean square errors of the bi‐LSTM‐based model’s 1 and 2 hr ahead predictions on the test data set (from June 2021 to December 2021) are 1.12 and 1.68 TECU, respectively, which are 75/50/32% and 72/48/22% smaller than those of the IRI‐2016, artificial neural network and LSTM‐based models, correspondingly. …”
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Study on Law of Overlying Strata Breakage and Migration in Downward Mining of Extremely Close Coal Seams by Physical Similarity Simulation by Xiaobin Li, Wenrui He, Zhuhe Xu

“…The roof collapse of the lower coal seam occurs 2.5 m ahead of that of the upper coal seam. The hydraulic value of the support, roof fall height, and sloughing depth in the entire working face reach the maximum at the coal pillar, and the extreme points at the coal pillar are relatively concentrated. …”
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Blockchain-Assisted Generation Rescheduling in Imperfect Market Environments by Salman Tariq, Mohamed Shaaban, Hazlie Mokhlis, Nurulafiqah N. Mansor, Hasmaini Mohamad

“…The proposed BC-based structure allows generators to participate in the short-term scheduling mechanism (such as day-ahead) in a trust-free environment without sharing their vital data yet achieving efficient, market-grade solutions. …”
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Volunteering in Ukraine: historical and legal aspects by O. V. Holovko

“…The uniqueness and difference of the Ukrainian volunteer movement from global practices is that the development of volunteer activity was far ahead of the process of developing a legislative framework that regulates this phenomenon. …”
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Overcoming Data Scarcity in Wind Power Forecasting: A Deep Learning Approach With Bidirectional Generative Adversarial Network and Neighborhood Search PSO Algorithm by Shiyu Liu, Fei Chen, Zhendong Liu, Hongyan Qiao

“…Extensive experimental results in two scenarios demonstrate that the proposed approach surpasses other advanced methods to a certain extent, achieving one-step-ahead prediction accuracy rates of 0.9775 and 0.9810, respectively. …”
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Shear Stress Analysis and Crack Prevention Measures for a Concrete-Face Rockfill Dam, Advanced Construction of a First-Stage Face Slab, and a First-Stage Face Slab in Advanced Rese... by Kongzhong Hu, Jiankang Chen, Dong Wang

“…Due to the demand in flood season for power generation, the first-stage face slab of a high concrete-face rockfill dam often must be constructed ahead of schedule, and advanced water storage is needed for the reservoir. …”
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Advancing biomonitoring of eDNA studies with the Anaconda R package: Integrating soil and One Health perspectives in the face of evolving traditional agriculture practices. by Pierre-Louis Stenger, Audrey Léopold, Kelly Dinh, Pierre Mournet, Nadia Robert, Julien Drouin, Jacques Wamejonengo, Sylvie Russet, Thomas Ibanez, Laurent Maggia, Fabian Carriconde

“…Importantly, the advanced analytical and statistical methods offered by this package should be harnessed to comprehensively investigate the effects of agricultural practice changes on soil health within the One Health framework. Looking ahead, the application of this method extends beyond the realm of One Health, offering valuable insights into various ecological scenarios. …”
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THEOLOGY, INSECURITY AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD by U.N DURUJI

“…It begins by clarification of key concepts used in the study. It then goes ahead to briefly survey the problem of insecurity in Nigeria; Nigeria’s national integration travail, the place of theology in finding solution to the problem of insecurity in Nigeria, and theology and national integration in Nigeria.’ …”
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Artificial Intelligence-Based Classification of Chest X-Ray Images into COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases by Arun Sharma, Sheeba Rani, Dinesh Gupta

“…Our method is more efficient than previously published methods. It is one step ahead towards the implementation of AI-based methods for classification problems in biomedical imaging related to COVID-19.…”
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Application and prospect of blockchain in Metaverse by Xiaoling SONG, Yong LIU, Jingnan DONG, Yongfei HUANG

“…The metaverse is a new ecology that seamlessly integrates the virtual digital world and the real physical world, and has recently attracted widespread attention from all walks of life.With the maturity of various new IT technologies such as blockchain technology, artificial intelligence technology, VR/AR and sensing technology, mobile communication technology and ubiquitous computing technology, the further development of the Metaverse is possible.At present, research on the Metaverse mainly involves industrial projects, infrastructure, key technologies, privacy and security, etc.Although blockchain technology is covered in these studies, the specific points about the advantages of blockchain applied to the Metaverse are still lacked.Blockchain technology can not only provide an open and free decentralized environment for the Metaverse, but also act as a fair and reasonable digital asset distribution mechanism.The digital identity and digital asset management in the Metaverse empowered by blockchain was studied.The development process and characteristics of the Metaverse were analyzed.And the core technologies and challenges faced by the development of the Metaverse were discussed.Meanwhile, the key technologies of the blockchain were studied, and the feasibility of applying the blockchain to the Metaverse was analyzed from two aspects: the essential characteristics of the blockchain and the advantages of other technology integration.The Metaverse ecosystem architecture was further proposed, and the blockchain-based self-sovereign identity management model, blockchain-NFT workflow and its application in the Metaverse were analyzed in detail.Furthermore, combining the latest research progress of blockchain and the Metaverse, it was pointed out that the application of blockchain to the Metaverse will be from four aspects: infrastructure, communication and computing resource management mechanisms, regulation and privacy protection, and blockchain scalability and interoperability.Then the related challenges ahead and future research directions were presented at last.…”
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Formation Mechanism and the Height of the Water-Conducting Fractured Zone Induced by Middle Deep Coal Seam Mining in a Sandy Region: A Case Study from the Xiaobaodang Coal Mine by Xiaoshen Xie, Enke Hou, Shuangming Wang, Xueyang Sun, Pengfei Hou, Shibin Wang, Yongli Xie, Yongan Huang

“…Also, through analyzing the results of similar simulations, we found that, in the process of mining, separation cracks and the beam structure were the main forms of overburden disturbance transmitting upward and ahead of mining, respectively. The main cause of the increase in height of the WCFZ was the connection of the separation cracks and vertical cracks caused by fractures of beam structures. …”
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Transforming monosaccharides: Recent advances in rare sugar production and future exploration by Shin-ichi Nakakita, Jun Hirabayashi

“…After briefly giving an overview of the origin of elementary hexoses and the current state of the rare sugar production, we will look ahead to the next generation of monosaccharide research which also targets glycosides including disaccharides.…”
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Study on Test‐Mass Charging for Taiji Gravitational Wave Observatory by Ruilong Han, Minghui Cai, Tao Yang, Liangliang Xu, Qing Xia, Xinyu Jia, Dawei Gao, Mengyao Li, Longlong Zhang, Hongwei Li, Jianwei Han

“…Abstract Taiji is proposed as a space‐based gravitational wave (GW) observatory consisting of three spacecraft in a heliocentric orbit meanwhile with the distance of 3 million kilometers ahead of the Earth at about 20°. Free‐falling test masses (TMs) are a key component of the interferometer for space‐based GW detection in the 0.1mHz–1 Hz frequency range. …”
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A hybrid stochastic-interval Mean–CVaR model for the wind-storage system offering strategy under uncertainties by Ziang Wang, Xiuli Wang, Zhicheng Wang, Jing Huang, Xiancheng Ren, Mengfu Tu

“…The integration of wind-storage systems into the day-ahead market (DAM) is challenged by the multiple uncertainties associated with wind power and electricity prices. …”
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