Feature Representations Using the Reflected Rectified Linear Unit (RReLU) Activation by Chaity Banerjee, Tathagata Mukherjee, Eduardo Pasiliao Jr.

“…Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become the tool of choice for machine learning practitioners today. …”
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Selection Path for Energy-Efficient Food Waste Management in Urban Areas: Scenario Analysis and Insights from Poland by Anna Rolewicz-Kalińska, Krystyna Lelicińska-Serafin, Piotr Manczarski

“…The problem of food being wasted in households has become an essential challenge in recent years. Food waste can be valorized in accordance with the principles of sustainable development, including as a source of energy. …”
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Potential Biomarkers of Insulin Resistance and Atherosclerosis in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients with Coronary Artery Disease by Sharifah Intan Qhadijah Syed Ikmal, Hasniza Zaman Huri, Shireene Ratna Vethakkan, Wan Azman Wan Ahmad

“…Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with coronary artery disease have become a major public health concern. The occurrence of insulin resistance accompanied with endothelial dysfunction worsens the state of atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. …”
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Surrogate-assisted global and distributed local collaborative optimization algorithm for expensive constrained optimization problems by Xiangyong Liu, Zan Yang, Jiansheng Liu, Junxing Xiong, Jihui Huang, Shuiyuan Huang, Xuedong Fu

“…As the complexity of optimization problems and the cost of solutions increase in practical applications, how to efficiently solve expensive constrained optimization problems with limited computational resources has become an important area of research. Traditional optimization algorithms often struggle to balance the efficiency of global and local searches, especially when dealing with high-dimensional and complex constraint conditions. …”
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Computer Vision-Based Fire–Ice Ion Algorithm for Rapid and Nondestructive Authentication of Ziziphi Spinosae Semen and Its Counterfeits by Peng Chen, Xutong Shao, Guangyu Wen, Yaowu Song, Rao Fu, Xiaoyan Xiao, Tulin Lu, Peina Zhou, Qiaosheng Guo, Hongzhuan Shi, Chenghao Fei

“…The authentication of Ziziphi Spinosae Semen (ZSS), Ziziphi Mauritianae Semen (ZMS), and Hovenia Acerba Semen (HAS) has become challenging. The chromatic and textural properties of ZSS, ZMS, and HAS are analyzed in this study. …”
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Quantum dots enhanced stability of in-situ fabricated perovskite nanocrystals based light-emitting diodes: Electrical field distribution effects by Xulan Xue, Menglin Li, Zhenjie Liu, Chenhui Wang, Jincheng Xu, Shuangpeng Wang, Hanzhuang Zhang, Haizheng Zhong, Wenyu Ji

“…With the development in fabricating efficient perovskite light emitting diodes (PeLEDs), improving the operating stability becomes an urgent task. Here we report quantum dot (QD) enhanced stability of PeLEDs by introducing CdSe/ZnS core-shell QDs in toluene anti-solvent during in-situ fabrication of FAPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) films. …”
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Comparative study on the weight loss and lipid metabolism by tea polyphenols in diet induced obese C57BL/6J pseudo germ free and conventionalized mice by Kashif Hussain, Yingying Yang, Jie Wang, Hengjuan Bian, Xi Lei, Junjie Chen, Qianying Li, Li Wang, Qingping Zhong, Xiang Fang, Yutao Wang, Hong Wei, Yigang Tong, Zhenlin Liao

“…The role of gut microbiota in terms of host health is becoming increasingly important. …”
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Benchmarking human face similarity using identical twins by Shoaib Meraj Sami, John McCauley, Sobhan Soleymani, Nasser Nasrabadi, Jeremy Dawson

“…Abstract The problem of distinguishing identical twins and non‐twin look‐alikes in automated facial recognition (FR) applications has become increasingly important with the widespread adoption of facial biometrics. …”
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Perceived greenwashing and employee non-green behavior: the roles of prevention-focused green crafting and work alienation by Ibrahim A. Elshaer, Alaa M. S. Azazz, Mahmoud A. Mansour, Sameh Fayyad

“…The study’s findings indicated that perceived greenwashing is positively correlated with non-green behavior. Consumers may become suspicious of a company or product, which reduces their inclination to purchase. …”
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Peripheral nerve regeneration using a bioresorbable silk fibroin-based artificial nerve conduit fabricated via a novel freeze–thaw process by Tomoki Matsuo, Hiroo Kimura, Takayuki Nishijima, Yasuhiro Kiyota, Taku Suzuki, Narihito Nagoshi, Shinsuke Shibata, Tomoko Shindo, Nobuko Moritoki, Makoto Sasaki, Sarara Noguchi, Yasushi Tamada, Masaya Nakamura, Takuji Iwamoto

“…Abstract While silk fibroin (SF) obtained from silkworm cocoons is expected to become a next-generation natural polymer, a fabrication method for SF-based artificial nerve conduits (SFCs) has not yet been established. …”
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Research progress in integrated groundwater-surface water models by Shuyan PENG, Zheng LU, Tingting WU, Xiaofan YANG

“…It is a crucial component of the hydrological cycle which has become a hot issue in hydrogeology in recent years. …”
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ImagTIDS: an internet of things intrusion detection framework utilizing GADF imaging encoding and improved Transformer by Peng Wang, Yafei Song, Xiaodan Wang, Xiangke Guo, Qian Xiang

“…Abstract As the Internet of Things (IoT) technology becomes extensively deployed, IoT security issues are increasingly prominent. …”
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High-quality instant black tea manufactured using fresh tea leaves by two-stage submerged enzymatic processing by Junhao Kong, Xiufang Yang, Xiaobo Zuo, Xiaoqin Su, Bing Hu, Xinle Liang

“…Utilization of fresh leaves as raw material in IBT manufacture at low temperature may become an alternative to conventional extraction methods. …”
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Competitiveness Evaluation Method of Supersonic Civil Aircraft Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process by Jiazheng He, Rui Pan, Wenyuan Cheng, Chenxin Guo, Zhijun Meng

“…As the demand for long-distance flights continues to increase, supersonic transport (SST) has once again become a hot research topic. However, in the conventional research on competitiveness of civil aircraft, because the flight speeds of various subsonic aircraft are relatively close, the influence of flight time on comfort is less considered. …”
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Deep learning for the classification of atrial fibrillation using wavelet transform-based visual images by Ling-Chun Sun, Chia-Chiang Lee, Hung-Yen Ke, Chih-Yuan Wei, Ke-Feng Lin, Shih-Sung Lin, Hsin Hsiu, Ping-Nan Chen

“…Abstract Background As the incidence and prevalence of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) proliferate worldwide, the condition has become the epicenter of a plethora of ECG diagnostic research. …”
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High tolerance of the superconducting current to large grain boundary angles in potassium-doped BaFe2As2 by Takafumi Hatano, Dongyi Qin, Kazumasa Iida, Hongye Gao, Zimeng Guo, Hikaru Saito, Satoshi Hata, Yusuke Shimada, Michio Naito, Akiyasu Yamamoto

“…Abstract Superconducting magnets based on high-temperature superconductors (HTSs) have become critical components in cutting-edge technologies such as advanced medical applications. …”
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Cuckoo Search with Lévy Flights for Weighted Bayesian Energy Functional Optimization in Global-Support Curve Data Fitting by Akemi Gálvez, Andrés Iglesias, Luis Cabellos

“…A major advantage of this method is its simplicity: cuckoo search requires only two parameters, many fewer than other metaheuristic approaches, so the parameter tuning becomes a very simple task. The paper shows that this new approach can be successfully used to solve our optimization problem. …”
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Mexiletine dosing and tolerability in refractory chronic migraine: Insights from post-lidocaine infusion treatment by Lucia Liao, Hsiangkuo Yuan, Dylan Selbst, Emily Casaletto, Jiangang Liao, Clinton G. Lauritsen

“…While mexiletine can be safely administered in outpatient settings, its use should be reserved for patients with the most refractory cases unless stronger evidence supporting its efficacy in migraine becomes available.…”
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Event Detection and Identification of Influential Spreaders in Social Media Data Streams by Leilei Shi, Yan Wu, Lu Liu, Xiang Sun, Liang Jiang

“…Microblogging, a popular social media service platform, has become a new information channel for users to receive and exchange the most up-to-date information on current events. …”
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Enhancing Hydrogen Diffusion in Silica Matrix by Using Metal Ion Implantation to Improve the Emission Properties of Silicon Nanocrystals by J. Bornacelli, J. A. Reyes-Esqueda, L. Rodríguez-Fernández, J. L. Ruvalcaba-Sil, F. J. Jaimes, A. Oliver

“…In this aspect silicon nanocrystals (Si-NCs) have become the main building block of silicon photonic (modulators, waveguide, source, and detectors). …”
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