Relationship of Maize Yield to Climatic and Environmental Factors under Deficit Irrigation: A Quantitative Review by M. Gloriose B. Allakonon, P. B. Irénikatché Akponikpè

“…Mild stress below 20% of optimal irrigation led to 0.5% to 17.45% of yield loss in the vegetative stage (VS) but resulted in 46% yield loss at the reproductive stage (RS). …”
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Cisplatin-Associated Ototoxicity: A Review for the Health Professional by Jessica Paken, Cyril D. Govender, Mershen Pillay, Vikash Sewram

“…Cisplatin is an effective drug used in the treatment of many cancers, yet its ototoxic potential places cancer patients, exposed to this drug, at risk of hearing loss, thus negatively impacting further on a patient’s quality of life. …”
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Work productivity (absenteeism and presenteeism) in persons with common mental disorders: An observational study from South India by Manjunatha B. Kondapura, Narayana Manjunatha, Anil Kumar M. Nagaraj, Samir K. Praharaj, Channaveeraachari N. Kumar, Suresh B. Math, Girish N. Rao

“…Loss of work productivity appears to be transdiagnostic across all CMDs. …”
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Metode Drive Test sebagai Monitoring Unjuk Kerja Jaringan Nirkabel pada Gedung - Gedung di Lingkungan Universitas Papua by Rantika Tri Septyani Simanjuntak, Parma Hadi Rantelinggi, Kristia Yuliawan

“…Dalam penelitian ini cara melakukan pengukuran kualitas jaringan nirkabel ini menggunakan metode Drive Test, dimana metode ini mengukur secara manual dan menghimpun data secara waktu nyata menggunakan beberapa parameter antara lain  Bandwidth, Delay dan Packet Loss. Dalam penelitian ini pengumpulan data dengan menggunakan dua aplikasi jaringan yaitu Nagios XI dan Wireshark. …”
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A detector based on a multiscale fusion pyramid focus network for catenary support components by Xinyu ZHU, Haorui CUI, Yang SONG

“…The proposed SPRAM effectively mitigates information loss and improves feature extraction performance, whereas the proposed PA-BFPN obtains more comprehensive feature information. …”
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Modeling the hydraulic roughness of a movable flatbed in a sand channel while considering the effects of water temperature by Junzheng Liu, Jinliang Zhang, Zhe Huang, Haijue Xu, Yuchuan Bai, Gang Wang

“…Bedload motion on a movable flatbed causes additional energy loss and increases hydraulic roughness. Several theoretical and empirical predictors for characterizing this phenomenon have been proposed, but the accuracy and physical basis of these models should be improved. …”
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Multiscale regional calibration network for crowd counting by Jiamao Yu, Hexuan Hu

“…Additionally, we improve the loss function by combining L2 loss and binary cross-entropy loss to help MRCNet achieve excellent results. …”
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STUDY ON TWO STATE ENERGY-SAVING VANE PUMP by ZHAI JianHua, LI YiFan, WEI XiaoHua

“…The axial clearance model was established to calculate the leakage power loss and the shear loss of the oil film. The relationship between the total power loss and the axial clearance was set up to obtain the optimal axial clearance.Furthermore,the condition of blade retraction under unloaded state was concluded and the temperature increase caused by oil film shear was calculated based on the theory of hot wedge oil film. …”
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Late and Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection: Main Barrier to Long Term Graft Survival by Qiquan Sun, Yang Yang

“…Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is an important cause of graft loss after organ transplantation. It is caused by anti-donor-specific antibodies especially anti-HLA antibodies. …”
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Estimations in a Constant-Stress Partially Accelerated Life Test for Generalized Rayleigh Distribution under Type-II Hybrid Censoring Scheme by Abdalla Rabie, Eslam Hussam, Abdisalam Hassan Muse, Ramy Abdelhamid Aldallal, Amirah Saeed Alharthi, Hassan M. Aljohani

“…Bayesian and E-Bayesian estimates are derived by applying two of the loss functions, mainly the squared error loss (SEL) and LINEX loss functions. …”
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A Bandpass Filter Based on Half Mode Substrate Integrated Waveguide-to-Defected Ground Structure Cells by Yong Mao Huang, Zhenhai Shao, Zhaosheng He, Chang Jiang You, Di Jiang

“…Both cells can purchase wideband frequency response and low insertion loss, as well as simple and easy fabrication. By cascading two of them according to design requirement, an X-band bandpass filter is designed and measured to meet compact size, low insertion loss, good return loss, second harmonic suppression, and linear phase.…”
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Pathogenesis and regenerative therapy in vitiligo and alopecia areata: focus on hair follicle by Yuan Zhou, Yu-Xuan Zhang, Yu-Yun Xiong, Yu-Mei Li

“…Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease characterized by the loss of functional melanocytes in the hair follicles and epidermis, leading to white patches on the skin and mucous membranes. …”
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Enhancing the effectiveness of immunotherapy in rheumatoid arthritis by delaying immunosenescence triggered by fibroblast-like synoviocytes by Li Zhang, Yang Luo, Hai-Li Shen

“…During the progression of RA, fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs) exhibit tumor-like behavior, including increased proliferation, inflammation mediation, and aggressive phenotypes, leading to bone erosion. …”
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Analysis of Factors Affecting Lubrication Performance of Crankshaft Main Bearing Considering Thermal Effect by Shao Kang, Wang Guangdong, Bi Fengrong

“…When the external load of the bearing increases, the maximum oil film pressure, minimum oil film thickness and maximum friction power loss will increase; when the bearing clearance becomes smaller, the maximum oil film pressure decreases and the bearing temperature increases; when the oil inlet temperature increases, the maximum oil film pressure increases, the minimum oil film thickness decreases and the maximum friction power loss decreases.…”
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INNOVATIVE LOGISTICS STRATEGY AS AN EFFECTIVE MEANS FOR OPTIMIZING THE BUSINESS PROCESSES OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES by Malahat Soltan Huseynova, Zulfiya Elman Hajiyeva, Zulfiya Mirza Gasimova, Saida Rahim Mammadova

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Portable UV-C device to treat high flow of infectious aerosols generated during clinical respiratory care by Richard Vincent, David Rapoport, Priti Balchandani, Joseph Borrello, Michael Schotsaert, Robert Karlicek, Gabriel Laghlali, Prajakta Warang, Seokchan Park, Gagandeep Singh, Isabella Morgan, James Paredes, Raveen Rathnasinghe, Jacob Wolf, Adolfo García-Sastre

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Magnetoelastic plane waves in rotating media in thermoelasticity of type II (G-N model) by S. K. Roychoudhuri, Manidipa Banerjee (Chattopadhyay)

“…However, to the second order of (1/χ), rotation does exert influence on both the phase velocity and the attenuation factor, and the specific energy loss is affected by rotation and depends on the thermal parameters cT and εT, electromagnetic parameter εH, and the transverse magnetic field RH, whereas the specific energy loss is independent of any field parameters to the first order of (1/χ).…”
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Extensions to Mean–Geometric Mean Linking by Alexander Robitzsch

“…To address this, alternative linking methods based on robust loss functions have been proposed. In this article, the conventional <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi>L</mi><mn>2</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> loss function is compared with the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi>L</mi><mrow><mn>0.5</mn></mrow></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi>L</mi><mn>0</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> loss functions in MGM linking. …”
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Explainable attention based breast tumor segmentation using a combination of UNet, ResNet, DenseNet, and EfficientNet models by Shokofeh Anari, Soroush Sadeghi, Ghazaal Sheikhi, Ramin Ranjbarzadeh, Malika Bendechache

“…Models incorporating attention mechanisms outperformed those without, as reflected in superior evaluation metrics. The effects of Dice Loss and Binary Cross-Entropy (BCE) Loss on the model’s performance were also analyzed. …”
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Longitudinal analysis of soil erosion dynamics using the RUSLE model in Ethiopia’s Lake Ziway watershed: implications for agricultural sustainability and food security by Degfie Teku, Melak Desta Workie

“…Mean soil loss rates for potential erosion increased from 42.91 t/ha/yr in 1993 to 43.73 t/ha/yr in 2023, while modeled actual erosion rates rose from 38.79 t/ha/yr to 41.01 t/ha/yr.DiscussionThese figures consistently exceed Ethiopia’s acceptable soil loss threshold of 10–15 t/ha/y, highlighting the need for targeted interventions, particularly in erosion-prone areas. …”
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