Educational leadership in Portugal:navigating ethics, morality, and future trends by Maria de Lurdes Neves, Maria de Lurdes Neves, Maria de Lurdes Neves

“…This study goal is to identify in 30 educational directors of school groups, their leadership perceptions and practices. As a method to achieve this goal, a mix study has been carried out using semi-structured interviews and three leadership scales (ethical, moral and transformational). …”
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Measurement report: Optical and structural properties of atmospheric water-soluble organic carbon in China – insights from multi-site spectroscopic measurements by H. Chen, C. Yan, C. Yan, C. Yan, L. Huang, L. Huang, L. Du, L. Du, Y. Yue, X. Wang, Q. Chen, M. Xie, J. Liu, F. Wang, S. Fang, Q. Yang, H. Niu, M. Zheng, Y. Wu, L. Xue

“…<p>To understand the spatial variation of optical and structural properties of water-soluble brown carbon and its influencing factors in China, the light absorption, fluorescence, and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrum of water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) in different regions of China are measured following the same analytical methods. …”
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Human–AI Co-Drawing: Studying Creative Efficacy and Eye Tracking in Observation and Cooperation by Yuying Pei, Linlin Wang, Chengqi Xue

“…Adopting a mixed design, it examines the influence of different cooperation modes and visual search methods on creative efficacy and visual perception through eye-tracking data and creativity performance scales. …”
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A High-Precision Defect Detection Approach Based on BiFDRep-YOLOv8n for Small Target Defects in Photovoltaic Modules by Yi Lu, Chunsong Du, Xu Li, Shaowei Liang, Qian Zhang, Zhenghui Zhao

“…The existing EL detection methods in PV plants face challenges including grain boundary interference, probe band artifacts, non-uniform luminescence, and complex backgrounds, which elevate the risk of missing small defects. …”
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GRIN lens implantation strategies for in vivo calcium imaging using miniature microscopy. by Pingping Zhao, Daniel Aharoni, Peyman Golshani

“…Miniscope in vivo calcium imaging during freely moving behavior has led to a number of transformative discoveries about neural coding across a large range of behaviors. …”
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EFINet: Efficient Feature Interaction Network for Real-Time RGB-D Semantic Segmentation by Zhe Yang, Baozhong Mu, Mingxun Wang, Xin Wang, Jie Xu, Baolu Yang, Cheng Yang, Hong Li, Rongqi Lv

“…Currently, although convolutional neural network (CNN) methods are less accurate than Transformer-based methods, they offer stronger real-time performance under the same computational load. …”
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AI-Driven Consensus: Modeling Multi-Agent Networks with Long-Range Interactions Through Path-Laplacian Matrices by Yusef Ahsini, Belén Reverte, J. Alberto Conejero

“…We highlight how different <i>k</i>-hop interactions affect the performance of the tested methods. …”
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Analytical Solutions for Unsteady Thin Film Flow with Internal Heating and Radiation by Ahsan Ali Naseer, Muhammad Safdar, Safia Taj, Muhammad Umair Ali, Amad Zafar, Kwang Su Kim, Jong Hyuk Byun

“…The homotopy analysis method is employed to analytically solve the reduced system of equations. …”
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Advancements in Efficient Underwater Image Restoration Using ETransMapNet for Enhanced Dehazing by C. P. Indumathi, Haya Mesfer Alshahrani, N. A. Natraj, C. H. Sarada Devi

“…ETransMapNet extracts features using three convolution kernels of different sizes (3 × 3, 5 × 5, and 7 × 7). The method suppresses noise in the estimated transmittance map, while local extremum values maintain local consistency within the transmittance map. …”
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Energy Stealth Evaluation of Radar Systems with a Space–Time Modulated Probing Signal by V. M. Kutuzov, V. P. Ipatov, S. S. Sokolov

“…The advantage of the proposed method of spatial modulation of a signal based on a pseudo-random sequence with the property of an additive cyclic shift consists in the absence of transformation of the uncertainty function, which ensures the preservation of its correlation properties.Conclusion. …”
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Perspectives of guardians/parents in Portugal: interpreting the inclusive education policy through lived school practices by Ana Eloisa Carvalho, Amélia Veiga

“…The impact of these changes remains insufficiently particularly from the perspectives of guardians/parents.MethodsThe article analyses how the changes mentioned are interpreted and translated in practice, following the theoretical-methodological proposal of Stephen Ball’s policy cycle and the thematic analysis method. …”
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Molten Salt Reactor Technology: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects by Fan ZHANG, Bolong GUO

“…By analyzing the development history, technical classification, and research and development progress in various countries, the study provides valuable references for the future development of MSR technology. [Method] Using the research methods of literature review and comparative analysis, the development history of MSR technology was reviewed, the different types of MSR technology were classified in detail, and the latest progress in MSR technology research and development in countries such as the United States, China, Russia, France, and Canada was deeply analyzed. …”
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Research on Landscape Perception of Urban Parks Based on User-Generated Data by Wei Ren, Kaiyuan Zhan, Zhu Chen, Xin-Chen Hong

“…The analysis methods of FCN, LDA, and LSTM were incorporated into the workflow. …”
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Constructing formal models of cryptographic protocols from Alice&Bob style specifications via LLM by Qiang Li, Jihong Han, Lin Yuan, Xiangcheng Li, Xiaoyu Wang

“…Abstract Automated formal analysis is a fundamental method for ensuring the security of cryptographic protocol design. …”
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A pharmacokinetic comparison of three pharmaceutical formulations of nimesulide in healthy volunteers by Jovanović Dušan, Kilibarda Vesna, Todorović Veljko, Potrebić Olivera

“…Only a 90% confidence interval for the relative differences of log-transformed AUC0- ∝ values of nimesulide absorbed from mouth dissolving tablets vs. suspension was included in the 80% to 125% interval proposed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). …”
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Resources, Potentials and Academic Achievements of Students. Part 2. From Differentiation to Integration of Resources, Potentials and Academic Achievements of Students by L. Ya. Dorfman, A. Yu. Kalugin

“…However, the opposite trend - their systemic integration - remains inadequately investigated.The aims of the present publication are the following: to reveal similarities and differences in resources and potentials of individual-professional development of university students; on this basis, to develop the contours of the corresponding empirical model.Methodology and research methods. …”
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Deep Learning Ensemble Approach for Predicting Expected and Confidence Levels of Signal Phase and Timing Information at Actuated Traffic Signals by Seifeldeen Eteifa, Amr Shafik, Hoda Eldardiry, Hesham A. Rakha

“…The experiments show that the proposed transformer-based architecture outperforms all the previously used deep learning methods for the first two prediction tasks. …”
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Integration of large-scale community-developed causal loop diagrams: a Natural Language Processing approach to merging factors based on semantic similarity by Melissa Valdivia Cabrera, Michael Johnstone, Joshua Hayward, Kristy A. Bolton, Douglas Creighton

“…This study aimed to explore the feasibility of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in simplifying and enhancing CLD merging processes, avoiding manual merging of factors, utilizing different semantic textual similarity models. Methods The factors of thirteen CLDs from different communities in Victoria, Australia regarding the health and wellbeing of children and young people were merged using NLP with the following process: (1) extracting and preprocessing of unique factor names; (2) assessing factor similarity using various language models; (3) determining optimal merging threshold maximising the F1-score; (4) merging the factors of the 13 CLDs based on the selected threshold. …”
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Cybersecurity of smart grids: Comparison of machine learning approaches training for anomaly detection by S. V. Kochergin, S. V. Artemova, A. A. Bakaev, E. S. Mityakov, Zh. G. Vegera, E. A. Maksimova

“…The purpose of this work is to conduct research and analysis into the effectiveness of different machine-learning methods for identifying anomalies in decentralized smart networks, including cyberattacks and emergency modes, as well as to develop recommendations on the optimal combination of these methods for ensuring effective cybersecurity under conditions of changing electrical loads.Methods. …”
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Correlation of cross-linking as measured by the trans-vinylene index and in vitro wear of polyethylene from various acetabular liner brands by Peter Wahl, Roman Heuberger, Andrea Pascucci, Thomas Imwinkelried, Markus Fürstner, Niels Icken, Michel Schläppi, Robin Pourzal, Emanuel Gautier

“…This study aimed to compare the degree of cross-linking and in vitro wear rates across a cohort of retrieved and unused polyethylene cups/liners from various brands. Methods: Polyethylene acetabular cups/liners were collected at one centre from 1 April 2021 to 30 April 2022. …”
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