Workbench for a Parabolic Trough Solar Collector with a Tracking System by Luciano A. Fiamonzini, Gustavo A. R. Rivas, Oswaldo H. Ando Junior

“…The second one evaluated the collector efficiency for different flows, subjecting the collector to flows from 0.002 to 0.030 kg/s. …”
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Development of a clinical decision support tool for Primary care Management of lower Urinary tract Symptoms in men: the PriMUS study by Adrian Edwards, Ridhi Agarwal, Janine Bates, Alison Bray, Sarah Milosevic, Emma Thomas-Jones, Michael Drinnan, Marcus Drake, Peter Michell, Bethan Pell, Haroon Ahmed, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Kerenza Hood, Yemisi Takwoingi, Chris Harding

“…A process evaluation will provide valuable information for wider implementation. …”
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Formal Verification of Multi-Thread Minimax Behavior Using mCRL2 in the Connect 4 by Diego Escobar, Jesus Insuasti

“…The parallel version of minimax distributes computations across multiple threads, with each thread evaluating different successor states concurrently. …”
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Study on the Influence of MnO2 Crystal Phases on Low-Temperature Microwave Catalytic Mineralization of Toluene by Bo YUAN, Xiaomeng ZUO, Yujia WANG, Runlong HAO

“…The catalytic oxidation activity and microwave utilization potential of the different catalysts were evaluated quantitatively, considering both physicochemical and microwave properties. …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Olmesartan Medoxomil-Loaded Polymeric Mixed Micelle Nanocarrier by Halah Talal Sulaiman, Nawal A. Rajab

“…The preparation of F4 by the direct dissolution method was also established at different stirring periods (3,12, and 24 hours) and by two techniques, to evaluate the effect of the preparation method on particle size, PDI, EE%, and DL%. …”
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SwinConvNeXt: a fused deep learning architecture for Real-time garbage image classification by B. Madhavi, Mohan Mahanty, Chia-Chen Lin, B. Omkar Lakshmi Jagan, Hari Mohan Rai, Saurabh Agarwal, Neha Agarwal

“…In contrast, the hierarchical feature extraction captures long-range dependencies within the image to effectively identify different types of garbage. The improved ConvNext block with optimized parameterization extracts the local features of the image. …”
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A MultiScale Coordinate Attention Feature Fusion Network for Province-Scale Aquatic Vegetation Mapping From High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery by Yuzhe Wang, Yunfei Sun, Peng Zhang, Yanlan Wu, Hui Yang

“…This model uses an attention mechanism to fuse expert features with deep features, dynamically adjusting and optimizing the weight allocation between them. This enables the model to better capture the subtle differences among various types of aquatic vegetation and environmental changes. …”
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Development of novel thoracic retractor for resuscitative thoracotomy by Shoichiro Urabe, Junya Shimazaki, Tomohisa Izutani, Tsuyoshi Hata, Mamoru Uemura, Hidetoshi Eguchi, Yuichiro Doki, Kiyokazu Nakajima

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Comparative analysis of ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT 4 obstetric and gynecological knowledge by Franciszek Ługowski, Julia Babińska, Artur Ludwin, Paweł Jan Stanirowski

“…Although the use of ChatGPT has been evaluated in different medical specialties, sufficient evidence in the field of obstetrics and gynecology is still lacking. …”
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of detailed anomaly ultrasound screening in the first trimester: a mixed-methods study by Jehan N Karim, Helen Campbell, Pranav Pandya, Edward C F Wilson, Zarko Alfirevic, Trish Chudleigh, Elizabeth Duff, Jane Fisher, Hilary Goodman, Lisa Hinton, Christos Ioannou, Edmund Juszczak, Louise Linsell, Heather L Longworth, Kypros H Nicolaides, Anne Rhodes, Gordon Smith, Basky Thilaganathan, Jim Thornton, Gillian Yaz, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Aris T Papageorghiou

“…There were important differences seen between the services offered across different geographical regions of the UK, resulting in inequity of care. …”
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Fine-Tuning Network Slicing in 5G: Unveiling Mathematical Equations for Precision Classification by Nikola Anđelić, Sandi Baressi Šegota, Vedran Mrzljak

“…In this study, we present the application of a genetic programming symbolic classifier to a dedicated network slicing dataset, resulting in the generation of accurate symbolic expressions for classifying different network slice types. …”
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Parametric study of various configurations for thermally hybrid gas turbine-integrated desalination system by Seyyed Ehsan Shakib, Amirhossein Joveini, Mohammad Derayatifar

“…This research provides a practical framework for optimizing hybrid desalination systems, promoting their role in sustainable and cost-efficient freshwater generation.…”
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TCCM: Trajectory Converged Chaff-Based Mix-Zone Strategy for Enhancing Location Privacy in VANET by Yunheng Wu

“…Conventional strategies attempt to preserve location privacy through different privacy enhancing techniques such as encryption, silent periods, and chaff messages. …”
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Simulation of Sugarcane Bagasse Pyrolysis using COCO Simulator by Glendha Aryelli Carvalho De Sousa, Nahieh Toscano Miranda, Andrei Bavaresco Rezende, Ulisses Magalhaes Nascimento, Rubens Maciel Filho, Maria Regina Wolf Maciel

“…In this context, kinetic parameters obtained from the literature on thermal degradation of biomass were used to evaluate the behaviour of the operating conditions of the process, aiming to obtain optimal product distributions. …”
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Framing ‘rural health equity’ and implications for governance: thematic analysis of 51 expert narratives from a global webinar series by Theadora Koller, Alan Chater

“…In framing the equity dimension of rural health equity, there was a clear acknowledgement in expert narratives that the concept comprises inequitable differences both between urban and rural areas and within rural areas. …”
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Pathway for Renewable Energy Application in Urban Green Space under the Low Carbon Perspective by Kailun WANG, Tonggang NIU, Lian LIU, Zhongjie WANG

“…Regarding energy management, the research identifies several adaptive strategies, including self-generation and consumption, energy storage system, grid-connected solution, and microgrid model, all tailored to the energy consumption characteristics of different types of green spaces. …”
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Integrating UAV multispectral imaging and proximal sensing for high-precision cereal crop monitoring. by Željana Grbović, Bojana Ivošević, Maša Budjen, Rana Waqar, Nina Pajević, Natasa Ljubičić, Vesna Kandić, Miloš Pajić, Marko Panić

“…Three vegetation indices, GRDVI, NDVI and SAVI demonstrated a very strong average positive correlation: 0.957, 0.954 and 0.944 across the selected genotypes from different performance levels. The combined dataset supports improved fertilization strategies, optimized seeding cycles, and identification of genotypes with stable agronomic traits. …”
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Volume of Fluid (VOF) Method as a Suitable Method for Studying Droplet Formation in a Microchannel by Felipe Santos Paes da Silva, Paulo Noronha Lisboa-Filho

“…However, the influence of different numerical methods on the analysis of physical parameters in problems involving droplet generation in microchannels remains an area of ongoing research. …”
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Mobile Secured IoT Sensors-Driven Network Using Efficient QoS Management by Mohammad Siraj, Majid Altamimi, Zeeshan Ahmad Abbasi

“…Furthermore, the routes are optimized by integrating energy and resource constraints. …”
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A Classifier Model Using Fine-Tuned Convolutional Neural Network and Transfer Learning Approaches for Prostate Cancer Detection by Murat Sarıateş, Erdal Özbay

“…Additionally, a pyramid-type CNN architecture was designed to simultaneously evaluate both fine details and broader structures by combining low- and high-resolution information through feature maps extracted from different CNN layers. …”
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