Analysis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of grassland carbon sinks in Xinjiang via the improved CASA model by Xuewei Liu, Renping Zhang, Jing Guo, Haoen Xu, Yuhao Miao, Feifei Niu, Zhengjie Gao, Xiaming Yang, Fengqin Xiong, Jianli Zhang

“…The analysis revealed that (1) the R2 value of the optimal CASA model was 0.70, and the RMSE was 22.30 gC·m−2. (2) The 23-year average NEP in Xinjiang grassland was 113.00 gC·m−2·a−1, with 82.20 % carbon sink areas and 17.80 % carbon source areas. (3) NEPs of meadows, steppes, and desert grasslands in the Xinjiang region tended to increase during spring, summer, and autumn. (4) During the 23-year period, 15.77 % of the Xinjiang grassland area transitioned from carbon sources to carbon sinks. (5) Relative humidity and soil pH strongly influenced the NEP of Xinjiang grassland. …”
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Mathematical Dimensional Synthesis of Four-Bar Linkages Based on Cognate Mechanisms by Enrique Soriano-Heras, Carlos Pérez-Carrera, Higinio Rubio

“…Studying four-bar mechanisms offers a strong foundation for grasping more complex mechanical systems. …”
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NLP neural network copyright protection based on black box watermark by Long DAI, Jing ZHANG, Xuefeng FAN, Xiaoyi ZHOU

“…With the rapid development of natural language processing techniques, the use of language models in text classification and sentiment analysis has been increasing.However, language models are susceptible to piracy and redistribution by adversaries, posing a serious threat to the intellectual property of model owners.Therefore, researchers have been working on designing protection mechanisms to identify the copyright information of language models.However, existing watermarking of language models for text classification tasks cannot be associated with the owner’s identity, and they are not robust enough and cannot regenerate trigger sets.To solve these problems, a new model, namely black-box watermarking scheme for text classification tasks, was proposed.It was a scheme that can remotely and quickly verify model ownership.The copyright message and the key of the model owner were obtained through the Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC), and the message digest obtained by HMAC can prevent forgery and had high security.A certain amount of text data was randomly selected from each category of the original training set and the digest was combined with the text data to construct the trigger set, then the watermark was embedded on the language model during the training process.To evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme, watermarks were embedded on three common language models on the IMDB’s movie reviews and CNews text classification datasets.The experimental results show that the accuracy of the proposed watermarking verification scheme can reach 100% without affecting the original model.Even under common attacks such as model fine-tuning and pruning, the proposed watermarking scheme shows strong robustness and resistance to forgery attacks.Meanwhile, the embedding of the watermark does not affect the convergence time of the model and has high embedding efficiency.…”
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Zdekonstruować króla pikowego. Recenzja książki: Emilia Kledzik, Perspektywa poety. Cyganologia Jerzego Ficowskiego, Poznań 2023 by Paulina Czwordon-Lis

“…Autorka recenzji odnosi się także do ambiwalencji, jaką wywołuje zderzenie postawy twórcy afirmującego bogactwo różnych kultur i stającego po stronie prześladowanych mniejszości z wynikami analizy jego tekstów, w których nowe teorie pozwalają zobaczyć efekty zbytniego przywiązania do własnego konstruktu. …”
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Samotność na ekranie. Filmowe życie obrazów Edwarda Hoppera by Maria Pokora

“… Twórczość Edwarda Hoppera doskonale oddaje specyfikę obustronnych relacji malarstwa i filmu. Z jednej strony malarz zapożyczał i przekładał na swoje płótna filmowe środki wyrazu, zbliżając tym samym swoje prace do zatrzymanych kadrów. …”
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Dinâmica da cobertura da terra e carbono em 55 assentamentos na Amazônia Legal entre 2008 e 2016: implicações para políticas de mudanças climáticas by Iris Roitman, Rômulo José da Costa Ribeiro, Tamiel Khan Baiocchi Jacobson, Luciana Silva Estevam, Nívea Jorgia Silva Marcondes, Reinaldo José de Miranda Filho, Ludgero Cardoso Galli Vieira, Sílvia Starling Assad, Mário Lúcio Ávila

“…The deforested area per settlement by 2008 was strongly related to the deforestation per settlement between 2008 and 2016. …”
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Methodological Approach for Optimizing Production of Oxygen by Adsorption of Nitrogen from Air using Zeolite Li-LSX by Marwa Al-Yousuf, Raghad F. Almilly, Riyadh Kamil

“…The results confirmed the strong effects of the input pressure, the packing height, and to a lesser extent, the flowrate. …”
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ACCOUNTING FOR USERS' INFLATED ASSESSMENTS OF ONLINE CATALOG SEARCH PERFORMANCE AND USEFULNESS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY by Charles R. Hildreth

“…Web OPAC searchers outperformed Text OPAC searchers, but search task level of difficulty is a major determinant of search success. A strong positive correlation was found between perceptions of system ease of use and assessments of search results.…”
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Trace Metal Contamination Characteristics and Health Risks Assessment of Commelina africana L. and Psammitic Sandflats in the Niger Delta, Nigeria by Nsikak U. Benson, Paul A. Enyong, Omowunmi H. Fred-Ahmadu

“…Metal levels indicate strong variability with sampling sites. The order of trace metal concentrations in the Commelina africana L. samples is Zn>Ni>Cr>Pb>Cd. …”
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The Relationship Between Family Support and The Eating Culture Of Post Partum Mothers In The Work Area Of The Muncan Health Center by Eti Sumiati, Endy Bebasari Ardhana Putri, Dewi Ratna Wulan, Rosita Khaerina

“…Family support in assisting postpartum mothers to consume nutritious food has been proven to have a strong influence on the postpartum mother's recovery process. …”
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SET ESG ratings and firm value: The new sustainability performance assessment tool in Thailand. by Mongkhol Moolkham

“…Specifically, a single strong endorsement markedly enhances firm value, whereas evaluations from two to three third parties may introduce confusion, leading to increased information asymmetry. …”
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Pretransplant HbA1c Is a Useful Predictor for the Development of New-Onset Diabetes in Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving No or Low-Dose Erythropoietin by Kazuaki Tokodai, Noritoshi Amada, Izumi Haga, Atsushi Nakamura, Toshiaki Kashiwadate, Naoki Kawagishi, Noriaki Ohuchi

“…In the multivariate analysis, the association between pretransplant HbA1c and NODAT development did not reach statistical significance (P=0.07). To avoid the strong influence of high-dose erythropoietin on HbA1c levels, we performed subgroup analyses on 85 patients receiving no or low-dose (≤6000 IU/week) erythropoietin. …”
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Sudden Commencements and Geomagnetically Induced Currents in New Zealand: Correlations and Dependance by A. W. Smith, C. J. Rodger, D. H. Mac Manus, I. J. Rae, A. R. Fogg, C. Forsyth, P. Fisher, T. Petersen, M. Dalzell

“…We investigate the gradient of the relationship between H′ and GIC, finding a hot spot close to Dunedin: where a given H′ will drive the largest relative current (0.5 A nT−1 min). We observe strong intralocation variability, with the gradients varying by a factor of two or more at adjacent transformers. …”
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swaRmverse: An R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion by Marina Papadopoulou, Simon Garnier, Andrew J. King

“…The package allows the calculation and use of complex metrics for users without a strong quantitative background and will promote communication and data‐sharing across disciplines, standardising the quantification of collective motion across species and promoting comparative investigations.…”
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Integration of corporate technological foresight into the technological development management system in companies of oil and gas sector by A. O. Alekseev, V. Ya. Afanasev

“…The directions of the company’s management system, that have a particularly strong impact on the effectiveness of the results of foresight research have been highlighted, as well as methods for assessing the company’s readiness to conduct foresight have been proposed. …”
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Decisions taken by States with authoritarian governments: economic basis and perspectives on SDG 16 by Armando Alvares-Garcia Júnior

“…From there, the study is oriented more towards SDG 16 proposing, summarily, to denominate with the terms «horizontal» and «vertical» two different basic perceptions on its three main areas (peace, justice, and strong institutions) and tentatively uncovering their possible impacts on the rule of law and the rights and freedoms of specific groups (e.g., LGBTQIA+ community, immigrants, refugees, etc.). …”
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Research on a Novel Unsupervised-Learning-Based Pipeline Leak Detection Method Based on Temporal Kolmogorov–Arnold Network with Autoencoder Integration by Hengyu Wu, Zhu Jiang, Xiang Zhang, Jian Cheng

“…This model combines the Kolmogorov–Arnold Network (KAN) with an autoencoder (AE), forming a hybrid framework that effectively captures complex temporal dependencies in the data while exhibiting strong pattern modeling and reconstruction capabilities. …”
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Residential building in Čolak Antina Street in Belgrade by Miljković Dejan

“…The monumentality of the form is particularly emphasized through the design of the building, which is primarily characterized by a natural concrete shell and a brick cube positioned within the concrete shell, which gives it a strong visual identity. Through their mutual relationship, these two main spatial architectural elements defi ne an open, but intimate space within the plot - the courtyard, which is directly connected to the open interior facade and the part of the building where its constituent parts are located. …”
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Dynamic of seismic noise sources in the Mediterranean Sea: implication for monitoring using noise correlations by Stehly, Laurent, Delouche, Estelle, Tomasetto, Lisa, Ranjan, Pratul

“…Thus, the noise field is more stable in northern Europe where the influence of the Atlantic Ocean predominates, while along the Adriatic coast and around the Aegean Sea, micro-seismic events lasting several hours are regularly detected, especially in summer. This leads to strong lateral variation in the convergence velocity of the coda waves, and thus in the accuracy and temporal resolution of the velocity changes that can be detected in Europe.…”
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Evaluation of Antibiotic Resistance and Biofilm Production among Clinical Strain Isolated from Medical Devices by Veronica Folliero, Gianluigi Franci, Federica Dell’Annunziata, Rosa Giugliano, Francesco Foglia, Rossella Sperlongano, Anna De Filippis, Emiliana Finamore, Massimiliano Galdiero

“…All biofilm producing isolates were sensitive to a limited spectrum of antibiotic classes. All moderate and strong biofilm producers and 81% of weak biofilm producers were Multidrug Resistance (MDR) strains. …”
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