How do cognitive biases influence farmers' participation in water conservation at Lake Urmia? Insights from social norms theory by Davood Amin Fanak, Rohollah Rezaei, Mukhtar Hashemi

“…The results of the survey indicated that the average age of the farmers was 44.4 years; the mean cultivated land area was 5.5 ha and the average number of land plots was 3.4. …”
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Conception, realization and testing of a novel solar collector by Kanré Bamogo, Thierry Sikoudouin Maurice Ky, Lareba Adélaïde Ouédraogo, Salifou Ouédraogo, Sié Kam, Dieudonné Joseph Bathiebo

“…So the proposed collector stands against usual collectors by canceling the black plate absorber and by assuming that the hot spots heating process is a better way of heating a fluid in natural convection while keeping the permanent positioning advantage. …”
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Women cassava processors’ livelihood; implications for improved processing technology usage in Nigeria by Victoria A. ADENIYI, Jones A. AKANGBE, Ayorinde E. KOLAWOLE, Matthew D. AYENI, David O. OLORUNFEMI

“…Majority of ITU (89.2%) and CTU (97.1%) were educated. A little above average (ITU - 53.7% and CTU - 50.2%) had medium household sizes and average annual income of ITU: N = 528,654 and CTU: N = 294,610. …”
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Optimized Dual-Battery System with Intelligent Auto-Switching for Reliable Soil Nutrient Monitoring in Remote IoT Applications by Doan Perdana, Pascal Lorenz, Bagus Aditya

“…A baseline single-battery system sustains 28 h of operation with 31.2% average reliability, while a conventional dual-battery configuration extends operation to 45 h with 42.6% reliability. …”
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Exploration of multi-scale ecological regulation pathways in the arid northwest region of China from the perspective of ecosystem health by Wenyue Hai, Jianghua Zheng, Wei Li, Chuqiao Han, Yang Yan, Feifei Zhang

“…The medium-value areas expanded, while the proportion of the lowest-value areas declined. …”
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Evaluating urban network efficiency and safety impacts of connected and autonomous vehicles in complex city environments by Nick Sauciur, Amirarsalan Mehrara Molan, Soheil Sajjadi, Bernice Liu, Anurag Pande

“…The key evaluation metrics include average travel times, delays, and speeds, alongside surrogate safety assessments to quantify simulated conflict types.Notably, the findings indicate significant improvements in roadway performance and safety correlating with increased CAV penetration, with average stop delays and overall vehicle delays decreasing by up to 11% and 7%, respectively. …”
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DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICAL FITNESS AND BODY MEASURES BETWEEN CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT OLDER SIBLINGS by Ivan Šerbetar, Patricija Peharda, Anamarija Plečko

“…The level of physical fitness was on average modest, children with older siblings outperformed children without older siblings in pull-ups and shuttle run, while the endurance test was near statistical significance. …”
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Predicting Trip Duration and Distance in Bike-Sharing Systems Using Dynamic Time Warping by Ahmed Ali, Ahmad Salah, Mahmoud Bekhit, Ahmed Fathalla

“…Accurate prediction of ride duration allows a better estimate of bike availability at stations, while distance predictions assist in maintenance planning based on bike usage patterns. …”
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Clinical significance of bcl-2 protein in the progress of patients with follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma. by ELENI GOVA

“…Of these, 51% were male, while 49% were women, with an average age of 62.4. …”
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Climate change in the Ak-Shiyrak massive area and its impact on glaciers by Yu. A. Podrezova, I. A. Pavlova

“…It was revealed that the average annual temperatures in the region rose over the years at the rate of 0,188 °C/10 years, while in 1930–1975 years this rate was 3,5 times smaller (b1 = 0,110 °C/10 years) than in 1976–2015 years (b2 = 0,375 °C/10 years). …”
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Integrating hydrological impacts for cost-effective dryland ecological restoration by Fengyu Fu, Shuai Wang, Xutong Wu, Shiyin Chen, Zimin Tan, ChongChong Ye, José M. Grünzweig

“…Our proposed integrated pathway minimizes water cost while ensuring cost-effectiveness, on average, achieving 81.0% of the maximum potential biomass carbon sequestration and 88.1% of the maximum potential habitat area increases. …”
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Tunable Energy-Efficient Approximate Circuits for Self-Powered AI and Autonomous Edge Computing Systems by Shubham Garg, Kanika Monga, Nitin Chaturvedi, S. Gurunarayanan

“…Moreover, this problem becomes more complex while deploying computationally intensive heavy machine learning (ML) models on energy-constrained edge devices. …”
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Stochastic Control for Sustainable Hydrogen Generation in Standalone PV–Battery–PEM Electrolyzer Systems by Mohamed Aatabe, Wissam Jenkal, Mohamed I. Mosaad, Shimaa A. Hussien

“…Standalone photovoltaic (PV) systems offer a viable path to decentralized energy access but face limitations during periods of low solar irradiance. While batteries provide short-term storage, their capacity constraints often restrict the use of surplus energy, highlighting the need for long-duration solutions. …”
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Perceptions and Attitudes of Chinese Oncologists Toward Endorsing AI-Driven Chatbots for Health Information Seeking Among Patients with Cancer: Phenomenological Qualitative Study by Lijuan Zeng, Qiaoqi Li, Yan Zuo, Ying Zhang, Zhaojun Li

“…ResultsThe participants were aged 42.0 (range 29‐53) years on average, including 9 (37%) female and 15 (62%) male participants. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Diversification of per Capita Carbon Emissions in China: 2000–2020 by Xuewei Zhang, Yi Zeng, Wanxu Chen, Sipei Pan, Fenglian Du, Gang Zong

“…A regression analysis revealed that the urbanization level and latitude had negative effects on PCEs, while the regional economic development level, average elevation, average slope, and longitude showed positive effects on PCEs. …”
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Exothermic thermosolutal convection in a nanofluid-filled square cavity with a rotating Z-Fin: ISPH and AI integration by Kuiyu Cheng, Abdelraheem M. Aly, Nghia Nguyen Ho, Sang-Wook Lee, Andaç Batur Çolak, Weaam Alhejaili

“…An artificial neural network (ANN) model, trained on ISPH simulation data, predicted the average Nusselt number ($ {\text{Nu}}_{\text{avg}} $) and average Sherwood number ($ {\text{Sh}}_{\text{avg}} $) with high accuracy. …”
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Optimized energy management and small cell activation in ultra-dense networks through a data-driven approach by Amna Shabbir, Safdar Rizvi, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, Mazliham Mohd Su’ud

“…Leveraging data-driven methodologies, operators can optimize small cell deployment locations and configurations based on real-time traffic patterns and environmental conditions, thereby maximizing network performance while minimizing energy consumption. This research investigates the effectiveness of a data-driven mechanism in enhancing the average achievable data rate of small cells within Heterogeneous UDNs. …”
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Effects of laser beam offsets on the microstructures and properties of Ta10W/Nb521 dissimilar joints by Li-Ang Chen, Jie Ning, Lin-Jie Zhang, Feng Wang, Sheng Wang

“…As LBO increases from −0.2 mm to +0.2 mm, the average FZ width and hardness rise, while the average grain size in the joints first decreases and then increases. …”
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Comparative analysis of femoral component rotational accuracy in robotic-assisted versus navigation-assisted total knee arthroplasty by Azlina Amir Abbas, Kwong Weng Loh, Santhi Varatharaja Pillai, Mohd Amin Sulaiman, Chong Meng Lee

“…Results The NA-TKA group had a higher proportion of female patients (80%) and was younger on average (64.9 ± 18.4 years), while the RA-TKA group had 65% female patients with an average age of 68.4 ± 8.1 years. …”
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Static Voltage Stability Evaluation and Correction Strategy Based on Stage Solving Strategy and SIFT by Yan Wen, Xiaoming Liu, Yongzhi Zhou, Huiwen Zhang, Donglei Sun

“…Aiming at the static voltage instability problem of the power grid caused by large-scale access of renewable energy sources, the study adopts the scale invariant feature transform algorithm for boundary feature extraction, while optimizing the traditional generalized resilience index of the power grid. …”
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