Trade-off strategies between drought resistance and growth rate of dominant tree species in karst forests within heterogeneous habitats by Jing Wang, Bin Wang, Denghui Wang, Yanping Dong, Jianxing Li, Fang Lu, Wanglan Tao, Yili Guo, Wusheng Xiang, Meilan Wen, Xiankun Li

“…Hilltop species employ an anisohydric strategy combining stomatal optimization (4.45% shorter length, 27.17% wider apertures achieving 33.10% increased opening) with 15.52% reduced upper epidermis cell width and cuticle thickening, enhancing hydraulic efficiency despite 111.63% elevated dark respiration rates. …”
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Freehand ventricular catheter placement in ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery is associated with higher rates of proximal catheter failure compared to image guidance by Nikhil Sharma, Jeffery R. Head, Regan M. Shanahan, Shovan Bhatia, Michael R. Kann, Sydney Scanlon, Amogh Vellore, Michael Raver, Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, Nicolas M. Kass, Fritz Steuer, Lucille Cheng, Stephen P. Canton, Arka N. Mallela, Peter C. Gerszten, Edward G. Andrews

“…VCs with TTF >2 cm had a significantly higher rate of proximal revision (30 % vs. 2.0 %, p = 0.001). …”
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Effects of autolytical fish protein hydrolysate on growth performance, survival rate, and hematological indices in farmed juvenile beluga, Huso huso by Ali Hosseinpour Zelaty

“…The experiment was carried out in 15 tanks (500-L), each containing 50 fish. The inflow water rate was 2 L/min, and the water exchange rate was 6 to 7 times per day in each tank. …”
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Simulation analysis and experimental study on R290 substituting for R134a electric vehicle compressor by CHEN Jianhong, TAO Leren, HUANG Lihao, WANG Xiaofei, LI Xingjiang, CHEN Haonan

“…The results showed that isentropic efficiency and volumetric efficiency of the compressor increase with the compressor speed, and the increase tends to be smooth after the rated speed. …”
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Determining the Effectiveness of the Bus Lines in Urban Transportation using Data Envelopment Analysis by Ahmet Atalay, Ömer Faruk Bircik

“…This study aims to determine the efficiency of urban public transport lines and to offer solutions for inefficient lines. …”
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Construction and application of the technical and tactical efficiency evaluation model for table tennis matches based on grey correlation by Huagen Yin, Yanxiang Zhou, Xia Chen, Lin Zhou

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Joint Adaptive Modulation and Power Control Scheme for Energy Efficient FSO-based Non-Terrestrial Networks by Thang V. Nguyen, Hien T. T. Pham, Ngoc T. Dang

“…Our proposed JAMPC algorithm aims to enhance energy efficiency while guaranteeing the targeted outage probability, bit-error rate, and the required data rate. …”
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The Safety and Efficiency of Surgery with Colonic Stents in Left-Sided Malignant Colonic Obstruction: A Meta-Analysis by Xiang Zhao, Bo Liu, Ende Zhao, Jiliang Wang, Ming Cai, Zefeng Xia, Qinghua Xia, Xiaoming Shuai, Kaixiong Tao, Guobin Wang, Kailin Cai

“…SEMS intervention resulted in significantly lower overall colostomy rate (41.9% versus 56.2%, P=0.02), surgical site infection rate (10.2% versus 19.7%, P=0.03), and overall complication rate (29.2% versus 60.5%, P=0.05). …”
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Deep Learning-Based Efficient Model Development for Phishing Detection Using Random Forest and BLSTM Classifiers by Shan Wang, Sulaiman Khan, Chuyi Xu, Shah Nazir, Abdul Hafeez

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A comprehensive review on powder mixed electrical discharge machining: advances in dielectric enhancement and machining efficiency by Dharmendra Kumar, Vimal Kumar Pathak, Ramanpreet Singh, Mithilesh K. Dikshit

“…In conventional EDM, common issues include a low material removal rate (MRR), poor surface finish, excessive tool wear rate (TWR), and defects such as micropores, micromoles, and thick recast layers. …”
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Convergent Evolution towards High Net Carbon Gain Efficiency Contributes to the Shade Tolerance of Palms (Arecaceae). by Ren-Yi Ma, Jiao-Lin Zhang, Molly A Cavaleri, Frank Sterck, Joeri S Strijk, Kun-Fang Cao

“…We hypothesized that palms are adapted to the shade of their native habitats by convergent evolution towards high net carbon gain efficiency (CGEn), which is given by the maximum photosynthetic rate to dark respiration rate ratio. …”
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Experimental investigation of thermal efficiency, heat losses, and economic feasibility of glazed and unglazed solar air heaters by Afaq Jasim Mahmood

“…The ΔT closely followed the solar intensity profile, peaking at midday and declining thereafter. Thermal efficiency increased with airflow rate, ranging from 41 % to 60 % for the glazed collector and 33 % to 44 % for the unglazed. …”
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A Safe and Efficient Brain–Computer Interface Using Moving Object Trajectories and LED-Controlled Activation by Sefa Aydin, Mesut Melek, Levent Gökrem

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DFPS: An Efficient Downsampling Algorithm Designed for the Global Feature Preservation of Large-Scale Point Cloud Data by Jiahui Dong, Maoyi Tian, Jiayong Yu, Guoyu Li, Yunfei Wang, Yuxin Su

“…As the sampling rate decreases, the performance advantage becomes more pronounced: at a 3.125% sampling rate, the efficiency improves by nearly 10,000 times. …”
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Thermal optimization and exergy efficiency of two new parabolic solar collectors using response surface methodology by Samaneh Baharloui, Mohammad Mohsen Peiravi, Mofid Gorji bandpy

“…The results illustrate the new design using circular collectors integrate with Nano particle increases the pressure drop but significantly improves the heat rate up to q=1075.6w/m2. Also, the performance of exergy efficiency improved for the collector mounted circular baffle by 30.45%. …”
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A DCT Regularized Matrix Completion Algorithm for Energy Efficient Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks by Kefu Yi, Jiangwen Wan, Tianyue Bao, Lei Yao

“…This paper presents a novel matrix completion algorithm to enable energy efficient data gathering in wireless sensor networks. …”
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Efficient and variable viscosity fracturing fluid of deep coal rock gas and popularization in ultimate volume fracturing by Bo LIN, Shuai CHEN, Xiangyang YAN, Mengqi CHEN, Liangjun DU, Heng CHEN, Hongsheng LU, Shuai SUN

“…There is almost no residue in fracturing fluid gel breaker, the surface tension is as low as 26 mN/m or below, the gel breaker can effectively improve the wettability of coal rock surface, increase the contact angle up to 108.2°, reduce the desorption damage rate of coal rock as low as 13%. This technology has been applied more than 350 Wells (more than 2 000 stages/times in total) in the deep coal reservoir of Ordos Basin, with the advantages such as stable liquid performance, high construction efficiency, the real-time Drag reduction rate reachs 84.4%, highly sand completion rate, remarkable effect of increasing production,and so on, which provided power for realizing the scale benefit development of deep coal rock gas.…”
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Investigation of highly efficient CO2 hydrogenation at ambient conditions using dielectric barrier discharge plasma by Zhihao Zeng, Yujiao Li, Yunfei Ma, Xiaoqing Lin, Xiangbo Zou, Hao Zhang, Xiaodong Li, Qingyang Lin, Ming-Liang Qu, Zengyi Ma, Angjian Wu

“…The highest energy efficiency of 3771.9 μg/kJ for CO generation is obtained at the applied voltage of 5.5 kV and gas flow rate of 40 mL/min, respectively. …”
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The novel efficient protrusion-rib configuration for increasing the temperature uniformity in multiple jet microchannel heat sink by Ehsan Farsad, Mohammad Mahdi Heyhat, Mohammad Zabetian Targhi

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High Efficiency and Problems of Chemiluminescence Assay-Detected Aldosterone-To-Renin Ratio in Practical Primary Aldosteronism Screening by Wenbin Lin, Yuzhe Li, Dubo Chen, Zhenrong Yao, Hongxu Xu, Yonghong Chen, Jiahao Xiao, Pinning Feng, Wenjia Gan

“…We found it had 86.13% accuracy rate in the upright position compared with the final clinical diagnosis. …”
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