Multi‐subband fusion algorithm based on autoencoder by Yilin Jiang, Liting Zhang, Li Li, Jinxin Li, Yaozu Yang

“…Then, the multi‐subband echo distance envelopes are used as training data, and the full‐band coding is used as labels, to train the multi‐subband encoder. Finally, the multi‐subband encoder and the full‐band decoder are combined to obtain the MSFAE. …”
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An Emphasis on the Critical Roles of Academic Simplified Material and its Influences on Learners' Boredom in Online Instruction, Attitudes to Electronic Learning, Self-regulated On... by Goodarz Shakibaei, Arash Hashemifardni, Maryam Amini

“…After the treatment sessions, both groups took the general English, boredom, and SRL post-tests. Finally, a questionnaire was administered to the participants of the simplified group to explore their general viewpoints about applying simplification and simplified materials. …”
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Deeply Learned Classifiers for Age and Gender Predictions of Unfiltered Faces by Olatunbosun Agbo-Ajala, Serestina Viriri

“…Technically, our network is pretrained on an IMDb-WIKI with noisy labels and then fine-tuned on MORPH-II and finally on the training set of the OIU-Adience (original) dataset. …”
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Fast Flexible Direct Power Flow for Unbalanced and Balanced Distribution Systems by Debasis Kumar Patel, Swapna Mansani, Arup Kumar Goswami

“…Moreover, the robustness of FFDPF and FFDWMPF is evaluated under various loading scenarios on balanced radial and weakly meshed distribution networks. Finally, to validate the proposed algorithm, the proposed strategy is applied to numerous balanced and unbalanced distribution systems.…”
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Identifying the Banking Challenges of Qard-Al-Hasan and Providing Solutions (Case Study of Qard-Al-Hasan Resalat Bank) by Mohammad Tohidi, Hossein Mofidikia, Milad Ansari

“…Also, in the second stage, in a qualitative way, by forming a focus group and conducting expert interviews, suitable solutions to solve the challenges are obtained, and finally, the correctness of the solutions to reduce the relevant challenges has been validated through a questionnaire. …”
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Direito da concorrência e supermercados: como essas plataformas de dois lados podem trazer riscos aos consumidores? by Amanda Athayde

“…Nos termos da teoria da plataforma de dois lados, propõe-se que os supermercados sejam analisados como prestadores de serviços para consumidores finais e para os fornecedores, ressaltando que esses dois grupos distintos dependem do supermercado para o intermédio de transações, o que faz com que existam externalidades indiretas entre os dois grupos e, consequentemente, confere poder de barganha à plataforma. …”
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Waste cooking oil pretreatment using microwave and ultrasound methods by Kerras, Halima, Outili, Nawel, Meniai, Abdeslam-Hassen

“…For the two non-chemical pretreatment methods, optimal conditions were as follows: for microwave irradiation, a power of 100 W, a residence time of 50 s, and an acid value reduced to 1.056 mg KOH/g; whereas, the US pretreatment reduced the AV to 1.014 mg KOH/g at 40 °C, 30 min and 100 W. Finally, the pretreated WCO under optimal conditions was used for biodiesel production using conventional transesterification. …”
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Point and Interval Predictions for Tanjiahe Landslide Displacement in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China by Yankun Wang, Huiming Tang, Tao Wen, Junwei Ma, Zongxing Zou, Chengren Xiong

“…Second, a new LSSVM model optimized by a genetic algorithm (GA) was implemented to estimate the noise variance. Finally, the point prediction was derived from the regression means, and the PIs were constructed by combining the regression mean, the model variance, and the noise variance. …”
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The Role of Environmental Factors on Grammatical Development in French–English Bilinguals Attending a Dual Language Programme in France by Cathy Cohen, Erin Quirk

“…Secondly, exposure showed a stronger relationship with grammatical accuracy in cL2 children; however, only in French, the language in which children made more errors overall. Finally, we found that both 2L1 and cL2 children made gender errors, an early-acquired structure in French. …”
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Model for Predicting Borderline Mental Disorders of Law Enforcement Officers – Participants of Anti-Terrorist Operation by O. V. Zemlianska, P. V. Makarenko

“…The obtained regression coefficients and the values of weighted odds ratios for each of the scales demonstrated that the variables “Dissimulation”, “Negativism”, “Distress and maladjustment”, “Indirect aggression” and “Symptom of hyperactivity” are the most significant indicators of personal qualities that predict the formation of borderline stress disorders of law enforcement officers – participants in the anti-terrorist operation; further significant are “The presence of features of post traumatic stress disorder”, “Resentment”, “Aggravation” and, finally, “Hostility”, “Physical aggression”, “Symptoms of invasion” and “Verbal aggression”. …”
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Indoor Deterministic Simulations and Statistical Modeling at Sub-THz Frequencies for Future Wireless Networks by Nektarios Moraitis, Konstantina S. Nikita

“…A faster channel decoherence is observed in NLOS locations. Finally, the temporal and spatial properties of the channel are modeled statistically, delivering its related features that include the ray and cluster decaying rates, the inter-arrival delays, the azimuth and elevation angle-of-arrivals, and the cluster and ray occurrence.…”
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On-demand prediction of low-frequency average sound absorption coefficient of underwater coating using machine learning by Nansha Gao, Mou Wang, Xiao Liang, Guang Pan

“…The overall loss function is derived by combining the mean square error between the expected average sound absorption coefficient and its predicted value and the network-optimized loss function to ensure that the 20 sensitive parameters that meet the acoustic performance can be predicted. Finally, two randomly selected sound absorption curves are used for prediction tests. …”
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Nonintrusive Industrial Load Identification Combined with Random Forests and Steady-State Waveform by Shuhui Yi, Hongxia Zhu, Junjie Liu, Junnan Li

“…Then, using the high-dimensional data of the steady-state waveform as the sample data, the bootstrap sampling method and the CART algorithm in the random forest algorithm are used to generate multiple decision trees. Finally, the industrial load types are identified by voting multiple decision trees. …”
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Neuroprotective Effects of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Bilateral Common Carotid Arteries Occlusion Model of Cerebral Ischemia in Rat by Bagher Pourheydar, Sara Soleimani Asl, Mostafa Azimzadeh, Adel Rezaei Moghadam, Asghar Marzban, Mehdi Mehdizadeh

“…We performed neuromuscular and vestibulomotor function tests to assess behavioral function and, finally, brains were subjected to hematoxylin and eosin (H&E), anti-Brdu immunohistochemistry, and TUNEL staining. …”
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Review on operation control of cold thermal energy storage in cooling systems by Huan Wang, Baoshan Xie, Chuanchang Li

“…Three aspects of economic costs are summarized in terms of initial equipment investment cost, operational cost, and life-cycle cost are summarized. Finally, an outlook on the development of cooling systems using CTES is given.…”
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Coordination of preventive, emergency and restorative trading strategies under uncertain sequential extreme weather events by Xuemei Dai, Jing Zhou, Xu Zhang, Kaifeng Zhang, Wei Feng

“…To address the uncertainty of SEWEs, a probability forecast-driven distributionally robust joint chance constraint (DRJCC) optimization method is proposed, which is efficiently solvable as a convex conic problem. Finally, case studies conducted on modified IEEE 141-bus and 300-bus systems validate the approach, showing reductions in load shedding and trading costs by up to 15.39% and 42.88%, respectively, compared to single-stage or two-stage strategies. …”
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An Infrared Small Moving Target Detection Method in Complex Scenes Based on Dual-Region Search by Huazhao Cao, Yuxin Hu, Ziming Wang, Jianwei Yang, Guangyao Zhou, Wenzhi Wang, Yuhan Liu

“…Then, several consecutive filtered feature maps are superimposed into one, where the moving target will leave a trajectory due to its motion characteristics. Finally, based on the trajectory, a dual-region search strategy is employed to pinpoint the exact location of the target. …”
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Palmprint recognition based on the line feature local tri‐directional patterns by Mengwen Li, Huabin Wang, Huaiyu Liu, Qianqian Meng

“…The tri‐directional patterns reflect the direction changes in the local area. Finally, the LFLTriDP features are constructed by the tri‐directional patterns, orientation and magnitude features. …”
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Landslide hazard assessment of an urban agglomeration in central Guizhou Province based on an information value method and SVM, bagging, DNN algorithm by Junhua Luo, Zulun Zhao, Wei Li, Liang Huang, Weiquan Zhao

“…However, the overall accuracy was SVM > DNN > Bagging; that is, SVM was more suitable for landslide hazard assessment of the urban agglomeration in central Guizhou. Finally, field surveys were used to validate multiple sites with historical landslides in extremely high-hazard areas and analyse their development characteristics. …”
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Assessment of the Excavation Damaged Zones in the Surrounding Rock of an Underground Powerhouse under High In Situ Stress Using an Acoustic Velocity Detecting Method by Liguo Zhang, Dong Wang, Jiaxing Dong

“…Generally, EDZs distribution was consistent with deformation and failure phenomena distribution; compared to the field failure phenomena, the assessment results were reliable and reasonable. Finally, EDZs formation mechanism was discussed, and it can be concluded that the relatively large intermediate principal stresses σ2 were a critical driving factor of the EDZs evolution.…”
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